Several Moscow 42 Questions

[Strela]

I am most impressed by the well-done designer notes for Moscow 42 but have a couple of questions about some of its statements about features of the OOB. In particular:

--"All values have used an updated McNamara system that was standardized across Ed William’s alternate mods of all Panzer Campaign games." Huh? What does this mean?

--"The replacement flag in the OB is used in place of the recovery loss parameter. This is to allow more equivalent replacements in scenarios while having an impact from low supply." Same question...

Hi, as the guy who wrote the notes, I am probably best to answer these :)

The McNamara system is a standardized set of values for firepower, movement and assault values for units and vehicles in the PzC world. They were originally determined by Ed Williams and distributed in a set of mods that covered the first 18 games that were released. From Kharkov '43, John Tiller decided that these values should become the standard for all future releases. Prior to that units in the officially released games were different from game to game. So, in summary the game uses the same values as the very popular mod that most of the community plays.

For the replacement question there is two different systems in game. The one used is very simple with all units using a percentage that is in the order of battle and tied to the individual formations. It only has one modifier, is the unit have supply above 50%? If below 50% then it is reduced. The other system has more modifiers, but is particularly impacted by the units morale and hence favors the Germans. This is not appropriate that the Germans receive more reinforcements than the Soviets in the winter scenarios - yet that was what was happening....

You can find all this in the User manual in game, but I would happily post the detailed passages if required.

David