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[Marquo]

Guys,

I think you are changing the supply is an ahistorical manner. The Soviets supply situaton was robust whereas the Axis situation dwindled by the day; the charts of air dropped tonnage corroborate this.

If fact, historical accounts of plans of the never executed breakout paint the picture of a mob of otherwise doomed men striking out across the steppes on foot to link up with Winterstorm - without supporting vehicles because of no gas.

Maybe another solution would be to increase the vehicle breakdown parameter for the Axis tanks to simulate mice chewing on the electrical harnesses and the tanks running out of gas.

This will require a OOB trick - the armored units in the pocket will have to be named differently from those arriving as reinforcement i.e Winterstorm; so a Pz IV in the Stalingrad Pocket will be called Pz IVp whereas the Winterstorm Pz IV will be called Pz IVw - that way the all the parameters could be the same except vehicle breakdown.

Of course the above would cease to be a work around if Winterstorm succeeded...and the Pz IVps broke out or the Pz IVws got trapped in the pocket...in which case the players could change the OOB at that point to reflect the different status of the unit.... :whis:

Marquo :stir: