nikivdd wrote:Finished Kiev South today. It went better than expected, despite i could not deploy my entire core.
At Cherkassy i crossed the river in round 2, at Kremenchug at round 3. From there pure blitzkrieg and encircling victory hexes.
I didn't commit any of my core units to take Kiev, there are plenty of auxiliaries to do the job.
I finished the mission in 10/23 DV. No units lost.
It is quite an easy scenario, I know. And it's supposed to be that too. But perhaps it's a tad too easy? Maybe I should remove some of the aux coming from the north?
And it is intentional that you are not able to deploy your entire core. It's a way to make the scenario (slightly) more difficult.
nikivdd wrote:And now Rostov.
A very entertaining scenario. Some frontline units to cut through, two frontline cities to capture, followed by the encirclement of Stalino (VH) and then a head-on assault of Rostov (VH).
The weather is the difficulty factor in this scenario, lots of rain, lots of mud and the few turns i could use my airforce i did make good use of them.
It feels pretty right with 18 core units + 3 SE units. I am satisfied that improper scouting might result in an unpleasant situation, like for example near the bridge of Taganrog.
An improvement might be to add a bomber and at least a T-34 (what! no T-34 on the map?
). Do you also have plans to upgrade your maps esthetically?
I got a MV at turn 21/24 with my knees in the mud
Very nice job Mick *handshake*
It's good that this scenario was a bit more difficult than KievSouth. It's supposed to be that way. In real real, the Germans just barely got to Rostov, hung onto it for a few days, before that had to make a tactical retreat behind the river Mius.
Actually, in the latest version I added two KV-tanks. After my own testing I felt it lacked heavy tanks. I opted for KV:s instead of T-34:s because I wanted some variety.
And sure, I guess adding a bomber would be reasonable.
I have no plans on upgrading the maps esthetically. I know there's a lot of custom tiles out there. It's just that I feel the vanilla graphics are good enough for me. I'm not really that into graphics I suppose.
Thanks for all the help testing this, nikivdd. I appreciate it a lot.
