Several Moscow 42 Questions

[Strela]

ComradeP,

Firstly let's be clear, the notes in the OB were for me - not general consumption. In some cases as the SS Cavalry Brigade that you mention I was maybe not as diligent as I was with the Soviets. The Soviets had the vast majority of the reinforcements as well as transferring units between various armies. This prompted me to spend a lot of time adding additional data to the OB as there was so much change between each of the campaign scenarios.

The notes function in the editor is a fairly new feature and as you have pointed out was used by me in a fairly unstructured way. It's not something I am planning to go back and correct

As far as your other questions;

Defensive artillery is completely random unless the optional rule manual defensive fire is selected.


For Strength recovery, the manual says the following;

In addition to the strength recovery described above, it is possible for certain organizations in the order of battle to receive replacements. When this is defined for an organization, then each unit eligible to recover strength as specified above can also receive a variable number of replacements based on a specified percentage of the unit’s full strength value. Quality does not affect the replacement rate, however, Isolated units and Disrupted units cannot receive replacements. Detached units received one-fourth the usual replacement rate available to them.

Please note the eligibility rules for strength recovery apply;

Before a unit can recover losses, it must not move, fire, assault, be fired upon, or be assaulted during the previous turn. In addition, the unit cannot be Digging-In, be building a bridge, be Broken, or be in a minefield.

I believe that the comment 'variable number of replacements' indicates it is a random number up to the replacement percentage.

Artillery & supply. The manual does not call out any difference between firing once or twice in regards to supply checks. It clearly indicates that firing will trigger a supply check the following turn. My take is that there is no difference - so if you're going to fire, then fire twice.

No idea on why the formulas are called out in some cases and not in others. The manuals have been written over time and possibly by different people.

David