Executions? In the course of the war, 168,000 Soviet citizens were formally sentenced to death and executed for alleged cowardice or desertion; many more were shot out of hand, without a pretence of due process. A total of around 300,000 Russian soldiers are believed to have been killed by their own...

Below: Russian conscripts in action in 'Enemy at the Gates' charging the Germans at Stalingrad. Many don't even have rifles but are told to charge anyway, I don't know if that's just Hollywood nonsense or if it's historically accurate- https://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g64/PoorOldSpike/sub4/sub400...

That kind of makes the point doesn't it? :D If you have to take time to "count road wheels" to tell what a unit is, that is time you are not playing the game. I think we all acknowledge there are work-arounds, etc., but you shouldn't HAVE to. It is a distractor. It detracts from immersion....

I'm playing it right now, and it gives you the slots for immediate use. Thank goodness, because I'm getting swamped...

Not sure there is a fix, but my single biggest annoyance in PzC2 is like the screenshot above: I have an incredibly hard time picking out aircraft at times. Obviously the DEGREE of difficulty varies based on terrain, etc. There are some battles where I spend more time per turn squinting at the scree...

On your first & last screenshot, looks like there is a one-hex gap just southeast of Kiev between the major river and your infantry. If so, that will let the entire force trace supply to a map edge...

I only tried it through the second scenario (I think), and it didn't appear to cost *any* extra points. I was was 3-4 hexes away from a river, went over it and a couple more hexes on the other side. Just too much for me. Might as well play with no terrain if there is no penalty at all. Or, maybe the...

Well, I tried this on a new campaign and don't really care for it. It says it "reduces" cost for crossing minor rivers, but it seems to totally eliminate it instead. I expected to be able to cross, but not go through it like it wasn't even there-- seems very unfair. Oh well, easy enough to...

I enter the code, and it doesn't actually take effect. Combat log still reflects the previous setting. I've tried it at the start of the scenario, in the middle, etc. I'm reasonably sure I'm entering it properly, e.g, "setany randomness 40" for 40%. But it is not changing per the combat lo...

Agreed. I wasn't really advocating to change anything (I just don't typically split units). Just seemed the argument wasn't really aimed at the root cause of the issue. Lot's of talk about changing multiple traits, etc., to tone down captures, yet almost every example relied on splitting units to ac...

Generally, I side with "more options are better". Let us play the way we want. But if you read a lot of the prior comments about "perimeter control" & "power 4", many are REALLY focused on the impact of "splitting units". Sooo, if you just did away with sp...

Hmmm. Since combat takes place in defenders hex, it makes sense to me that is can't be directly attacked. Maybe a mechanism where the unit is "stuck" there as well & exerts no ZOC?

Great post! Pretty much agree with everything and I'm having similar experiences, although haven't quite finished the campaign yet. IMO, the two big takeaways are: - ALL unit classes are/can be very useful - Trait selection options can really drive how you play (so lots of replayability) I think the...

So I guess this doesn't work?

You underestimate "newbs", which has no real definition anyway. By that standard, any selection that is not absolutely maximizing capability (which is subjective) is a "trap". It's just a vague statement that doesn't really mean anything. Agree to disagree I guess. Unless you are...

no different then spending all your prestige on OS units This is different: all are allowed OS units, this is not an advantage. Auxiliary is supposed to be a good thing, as you spend points to have it. So, spending the more prestige in this trait appears a not so bad thing when we don't know the ga...

I too would like a Grand Campaign remake, possibly with some different battles than in PC1. I have no interest in a protracted campaign in early Poland, Spain, etc. Nor am I particularly interested in various "revisionist history" scenarios that some peddle. Frankly, I play through the ear...

I don't think it's really a "trap". You can't buy ANY aux units until you fill ALL your core slots. Then if you use all/most of your remaining prestige on aux units, without regard to the future, then you are not very smart (no different then spending all your prestige on OS units). Like a...

But I don't like to max them out and gear my entire game to using them. It's just nice to get a few now & then when you simply don't have enough core units to cover enough ground. My "security blankie" if you will (that's a technical term coined by von Rundstedt).

Picked this in a new campaign, and it is a lot more useful than I thought it would be. Several scenarios I am notably short on "unit density"-- I just can't cover certain areas I really need to. Since I typically have enough prestige to spare for a few aux units, it can be quite a "cr...