@AndrewAAGamer Thanks for letting me know! :)
What is the Purpose of Minor Axis Infantry in Stalingrad.
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@DoManMacgee @Faramir @Imperious-Leader @SuperbattleshipYamato After playing the game more Germany is buying units much anyway. The pieces are really not needed they could have easily tweaked a few things to get them out of the game. Or personally what I would have done is make them more useful like the French units in North Africa. The French units in North Africa are actually worth buying any are every important. The Minor Axis not so much. I will say because they have no force multiplier I usually just use them on the region board or defend areas. If they were going to have made them useful to buy in specific situations. And added Mech’s to. The Minor’s Axis’s armor definitely should warrant for a Mech some where. Probably in the North. I guess you could use them for Pro-Axis Infantry in Global :D
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@DoManMacgee @Imperious-Leader @Faramir @SuperbattleshipYamato I’ll probably house rule it and make them useful and buyable.
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That’ll be historically inaccurate.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato For what?
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@SuperbattleshipYamato Which statement of mine are you talking about?
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That’ll be historically inaccurate.
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The second one of buffing the minor Axis units. They were inferior to German ones in the area in almost every way.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato I never said I would make them more “powerful”, I was just saying I would give them a reason to be bought. Beacuse they were “bought” historically. What I mean is way more of them came later in the battle.
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Really? I’m unaware of that.
On August 21st, 1942, it seems like all the Romanian, Hungarian, and Italian units were already in the vicinity. The Battle of Voronezh already ended by the beginning of August.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato Give me one moment then I will reply shortly.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato So there actually was a decent amount of Minor Axis reinforcements after your date, but 99.9% were all Romanian Reinforcements. One know actually after doing some research myself I could easily see the Romain’s warranting a plane. And a Mech as well in the Northern sector on the Don river.
Ground Forces3rd Romanian Army
Arrived early September 1942, transferred from Crimea and the Caucasus.
Took positions northwest of Stalingrad along the Don River.
By November, it had ~152,500 Romanians + 11,200 Germans.
Source: Wikipedia – Romanian armies in the Battle of Stalingrad
4th Romanian Army
Arrived late September 1942, deployed south of Stalingrad.
Fielded ~75,600 men.
Source: Wikipedia – Romanian armies in the Battle of Stalingrad
Both of these armies were reinforcements arriving after Aug 21.
Air Force Reinforcements
Sept 16, 1942: Romanian 7th Fighter Group arrived to support the 3rd Romanian & 6th German Armies.
Sept 25, 1942: Romanian 5th Bomber Group arrived.
Oct 4, 1942: Romanian 1st Bomber, 8th Fighter, 6th Fighter-Bomber, 3rd Bomber Groups all arrived.
Source: Wikipedia – Romanian armies in the Battle of Stalingrad
No Italian or Hungarian Reinforcements After Aug 21, 1942 in Stalingrad Area
Hungarian 2nd Army stayed far north (Voronezh).
Italian 8th Army deployed on the middle Don (northwest of Stalingrad), not in the city sector.
They did not reinforce Stalingrad itself after Aug 21 only the areas around it (which would be on the region board for A&A Stalingrad).
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@DoManMacgee they are different than the German infantry, but they are not a big enough factor that they should have been included. It complecates the game for no purpose.
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@Faramir Yeah that’s why when I have free time which currently I have very little I’m going to try to find some ways to house rule them and make them useful.
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Including them makes them more historically accurate.
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Oh, right. I forgot that the Romanian Third Army was attatched to Operation Case Blue from the start but wasn’t assigned to the Stalingrad initially.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato After doing some quick math and stuff here is what I came up with what they would represent, (AKA A&A units) btw I went with what went with he format: 2 Infantry, 1 Artillery, (roll a die, on a roll of 4-6 means you get 1 Fighter, a roll of 1-3 means you get one Bomber). Shocking like a good chunk of the Romanian air force was in Stalingrad, I’m not sure the best way to represent them. I would say a Tac but they don’t have a Tac so I came up with he formula above. Now I’m not sure why these pieces would be added but this is kind of what the reinforcements represent. This is not the best but a small picture of an idea of what they would represent.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato They had more Bomber than Fighter squadrons so I don’t know what that would mean.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato We should also be adding a Mech in the upper Don River.
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Makes sense. Given that they were “already there”, you can make them free and have them enter at a certain turn.
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@SuperbattleshipYamato This would mess up balance unless the game favors the Russians.
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