A BETA-preview Barbarossa AAR

**Singleton Mosby** · 15-07-2009 10:39

Originally Posted by hendriks

OK, you stopped them at Riga. I hope the envelopment penalty goes up a bit, I find -10% rather small for such an important feat, when -20% is given to dig in.

Are there many areas of urban terrain? Riga should be one I believe...

I guess the envelopment penalty was for attacking from three provinces, would be more if you go in from four or five.

And I am perfectly confident more Urban areas will be added. As I wrote in my preview, with smaller provinces they just can't have Leningrad, Stalingrad, Moscow, Kiev and NY not being urban terrain.

Originally Posted by Dominik

I'm missing statistics, even the most basic ones from the top of the screen, which you ommit carefuly in your screenshots

As my screenshots are taken in rather quick succesion I cut out the interesting bit which does not include the top bar most of the time

**Erlend** · 15-07-2009 10:46

Originally Posted by Singleton Mosby

So, which chapter do you guys want next (later today); a Stavka report on the statistics or the first chapter of a bloody encirlment battle?

Um, statistics please.

**wolf1455** · 15-07-2009 10:48

Statistic

**Satyri-** · 15-07-2009 10:51

statistics

**Razor** · 15-07-2009 10:51

Originally Posted by stegosarus_army

go enterain yourself, i'll entertain myself with your post.

great AAR by the way. I've been looking forward to each update. School gets in the way though.

I like games and movies to be as historically accurate as possible. Just because i dont want things to happen exactly to a "t" like in a history book, and the fact that if the soviets do put up a good fight it doesnt bother me, doesnt mean i dont like history. I have a BC in history and i'm going for a masters in arts in military history from the Norwich University so dont get me started on history. I've been a fan since HoI1. Like you said, it is a game. If the game played out the same all of the time, then it wouldnt be much of a game. I'm not going to complain and be all

if i'm playing against the Russians and they put up a good fight and delay a fast German invasion. thats all.

That was a tad more polite

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Of course I agree with you that the game would not be very fun to play if every session turned out the same way all the time. Who would like that? I guess most of us like this game because it creates alternative history and I also belive that many of us would like that alternative history to be based on a historically fairly correct starting point (that's the reason for my question about balancing). This has also been an explicit ambition for the Paradox team. It's the uncertainty and variation during the rest of the trip that makes it worth while.

So I guess we share the same interest in this game and the AAR after all?

**Baneslave** · 15-07-2009 11:00

I am joining the statistics bandwagon.

**e_quality** · 15-07-2009 11:04

Originally Posted by Baneslave

I am joining the statistics bandwagon.

Is statistics winning over a bloody encirclement battle? In a Germany vs USSR AAR? Now, this can't be right...

**Alexus** · 15-07-2009 11:08

Statistics! I love statistics.

Great AAR, Singleton. I hope my bitching about the USSR's mobilising capability didn't make me seem like a hater

KUTGW!

**Bobb4** · 15-07-2009 11:09

Originally Posted by Singleton Mosby

So, which chapter do you guys want next (later today); a Stavka report on the statistics or the first chapter of a bloody encirlment battle?

Both of course...
Did the ai encircle your troops in Riga?
If they did, then I am a happy chappie

Because that is what i would have done

**alkomon** · 15-07-2009 11:18

Great AAR!

At least Estonia

But estonian province ALOJA is LATVIAN name/province http://www.hot.ee/pohmellimon//estonia.2.JPG!!!

Damn I knew, they will do something like that

**Razor** · 15-07-2009 11:27

Originally Posted by Singleton Mosby

So, which chapter do you guys want next (later today); a Stavka report on the statistics or the first chapter of a bloody encirlment battle?

Both both both

Let the Stavka report have the usual "modification of facts", please

**Phelan** · 15-07-2009 11:30

I also vote for the statistics. After all we are "numbercrunchers" in this forum.

**Singleton Mosby** · 15-07-2009 11:34

Originally Posted by Phelan

I also vote for the statistics. After all we are "numbercrunchers" in this forum.

Ok, here you go. I will just up the frequincy of updates a bit

**Singleton Mosby** · 15-07-2009 11:35

Chapter ten: STAVKA reporting

The second week of July, a Stavka meeting, Moscow.

And let's not forget an overview of the strength of my frontline:

**Baneslave** · 15-07-2009 11:42

Update! Technology! Laws!

**Phelan** · 15-07-2009 11:42

That was fast! My thanks to you Sir.

**Cpack** · 15-07-2009 11:47

Do you have to choose one after the other at "economic laws" or can you skip or freely choose one of these laws?

Seems there's only one possible which is listed below.
Or are there more than one active (some of them contrary to the other...?)

Is ther a time delay for switching laws?