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P39 Question for Arkan and Akilpio
09-26-2025, 08:39 AM,
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RE: P39 Question for Arkan and Akilpio
I really enjoy these sorts of thread and just want to add my little bit. I'm 98 turns into the B version playing the Poles against a highly skilled Axis opponent (this campaign was started in testing before release). Currently the Axis sits on 27000 plus VP points but I have no doubt the game will result in a major Axis win. My Poles are wrecked Lvov and Krakow will fall soon and only Warsaw a bit of the Poznan Army and a few other smaller islands remain for me to cling to so there are lots of VP points available to get the score up to the required amount.
   However even though my Poles will loose I do not feel they were doomed from the start. Yes the mobilisation is poor and part of the game within the game is to get them organised as quick as possible but I made mistakes in my current game and didn't wake up to some of the Polish advantages till turn 50 or so. 
 Mistake one was I tried too hard to hold to as many of the limited victory locations as possible. I should have run faster and sooner.
Mistake two I used the Prussy Army mainly in the North attracted to that area by a gallant defence of a bridge that I never quite managed to blow at Grudiaz. The hope was to destroy Corp Wodrig and much of the German Northern forces that never happened either but it seemed like it was oh so close.
Mistake Three I never really did anything useful with the Poznan Army it should have run fast east but it stayed and though its still fighting a stubborn kind of fight its not doing anything useful.
   Anyway enough of my mistakes here's what's good for the Poles or at least good in my opinion. 
1) and I think this is a big one rail capacity use it use it early use it well it can save your bacon the Germans have no rail capacity the Polish Rail helps them keep up with the Panzers and they can shift units really quickly
2) C quality units use them where possible to pick on the German D quality units once you find them it works.
3) Use the supply sources in the cities you can hold them for a long time if you dig hard and dig fast
There's probably more I could write but I think the Campaigns great as the Campaigns go No over 300 turns it wont last that long but I find most finish long before they are supposed to so this is not unusual there and I feel that this makes playing the Poles much more fun than playing the Soviets in the 41 Campaigns where isolation and casualties account for most German victories. 
  As a P.S just to show the bloody nature of how bad my defeat will be I have suffered over 300 thousand casualties all be it getting about 90 thousand Germans in return. I wont give up till Warsaw falls which is some way off yet. But opponent beware it is defended and yes they are dug in and you cannot isolate them because of its supply source so it will get messy.
P.P.S as Tolkien would say Steel God My German divisions even in this test version started at 100% So I cannot help with what happened there.
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P39 Question for Arkan and Akilpio - by Steel God - 09-24-2025, 02:04 AM
RE: P39 Question for Arkan and Akilpio - by Arkan - 09-24-2025, 04:44 AM
RE: P39 Question for Arkan and Akilpio - by Arkan - 09-24-2025, 06:23 AM
RE: P39 Question for Arkan and Akilpio - by typhoon - 09-26-2025, 08:39 AM

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