@AndrewAAGamer Thanks for letting me know! :)
What is the Purpose of Minor Axis Infantry in Stalingrad.
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@Imperious-Leader Minor Axis Units – Strategic Use Guide
Note: AI was used only to enhance and correct my wording all ideas are from me.
- Utility Roles
Minor Axis infantry are perfect for jobs you don’t want to waste German troops on:
Blockers – delay Soviet advances while your main German force positions for an attack.
Gap fillers – plug holes in your line when you’re thin on units.
Meat shields – soak up hits in battles so your higher-value German units survive longer.
Rule of thumb: let them take the hits, not your Germans.
- Extra Artillery
Minor Axis artillery are identical in stats to German artillery.
If you run out of German artillery sculpts, you can buy Minor Axis artillery to keep your combined-arms firepower going.
- For Multiplier Preservation
German infantry are the only Axis Infantry that can Multiple in the Stalingrad City board.
If you run out of German infantry sculpts outside the city, you can’t use the Multiplier via purchase.
To prevent this:
When you need more infantry for the wider map and you’re low on German sculpts, buy Minor Axis infantry instead.
This keeps German infantry sculpts in reserve for sending into Stalingrad where they can become Multiplied.
This won’t happen every game, but when it does, it can save you from a late-game sniper shortage.
Final Takeaway
Minor Axis infantry: Don’t buy them unless you’re protecting German infantry sculpts for Force Multiplying. Use the starting ones for blocking, filling, and dying in place of Germans.
Minor Axis artillery: Worth buying if you need more guns or run out of German artillery sculpts.
Treat Minor Axis as expendable auxiliaries—freeing up German units for the real work.
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You don’t buy them, they represent the Minor Axis Divisions (Romanians/Italians/etc.) that were with the 6th Army at Stalingrad. You just use the ones you get at the start of the game.
@Imperious-Leader is correct in his assessment that they are meant to be useless nuisances. They are meant to impede Germany, not to help them.
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@DoManMacgee exactly! Long time no hear from. Welcome back if that’s the case
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@Imperious-Leader I’ve been in and out on the forums but always playing. Mostly holed up in game threads and answering random questions about stuff.
Hoping you’re doing good!
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They should have not included the minor axis powers as separate. It just complicates things unnecessarily. They don’t really serve a gameplay function.
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@Faramir Incorrect. They do not get the force multiplier bonus upon entering the city, which is a minor but relevant factor for the German player to consider when picking casualties/organizing his units.
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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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