Several Moscow 42 Questions

[Liebchen]

And I know, I know, I will play a PBEM game eventually but I tend to focus on the monster scenarios and am not sure that I want to commit the next five years of my life to playing one against a live opponent!

While I admire your enthusiasm, may I respectfully suggest that this is like trying to run a marathon before being able to complete a 10k run? As you say, this is a big commitment in time and energy. You're seeing a number of points where you lack clarity regarding the game mechanics that you would have were you to spend time on at least, say, five smaller scenarios.

And by all means, once you have mastered the mechanics you should play humans, because the AI sucks and all you'll really learn at that point is that you play better than the AI.

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I'm guessing France '40 has more units, because both sides have predominantly division sized units.

I had France '40 in mind when I said "one of the largest." It seems to me that the biggies are Stalingrad, Minsk, France, and the two Moscows.