Moscow '42 Released

[ComradeP]

It's enjoyable thus far, although the scale and some of the game mechanics take some getting used to.

At the moment, because the AI tends to just sit in place on objectives in the tutorial scenario (requiring me to kill every single defending soldier), I don't even come remotely close to the objectives on the western map edge.

One thing that, in particular, takes some getting used to is attacks from multiple hexsides seemingly not giving much, if any, benefit (the majority of the wargames I play do offer such benefits) and the fairly low stacking limit which doesn't seem to be adjusted when the attacks come from multiple hexsides. This makes putting numerical superiority (to nullify the Axis advantage in quality) to good use difficult and will make attacking full strength Axis battalions a major challenge. I think that will take by far the most "getting used to" : Soviets not necessarily being able to emply a significant numerical superiority to good effect and multiple hexside attacks seemingly being more or less the same as single hexsides ones.

I also currently tend to get stuck in "disrupted" loops, due to the low quality of the Soviets units and their less than stellar HQ's. The only way I'm currently dealing with Axis artillery fire is by using less important units to fire directly at the defender to draw in return fire. It feels gamey, but it will take some further understanding of the system before I figure out how to limit the chances of disruption when attacking with just 1 stack. D quality units in particular disrupt in droves, and as stacked units all have a chance to disrupt from return fire it seems, it's tricky to get an attack moving.

Back to learning the system.