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[ComradeP]

Achieving attrition is difficult in this game. I can only think of a few times when I have hurt him badly.

A campaign game requires a different mindset than a smaller scenario, as the large number of turns means even small amounts of casualties each turn add up over time. I'd say you're still doing fairly well from what I can see.

It's easy to feel defeated after the initial frontline units take a beating, but in a scenario like this, or any other scenario where you get substantial reinforcements as the defender (like Smolensk '41 as the Soviets), you're mostly playing for time. It can be difficult to think in terms of "how much ground can I give?" but it's always a balancing act. I've noticed many wargamers play a campaign game like a smaller scenario, where they want to hold the frontline.

In a PzC campaign game, the state of your units after 100 or so turns is more relevant than their state after 40 turns (well, unless they really took a beating). Obviously, it does depend on how long the campaign scenario is.

However it is tanks that worry me. I wish that this scenario used the special breakdown option, so that certain models of tanks were more likely to breakdown. eg Panthers/Tigers/King Tigers.

Well, A/B quality or not, the Germans do have to drive around a lot in costly (in terms of MP's) weather conditions, so they're likely to suffer from breakdowns even though it may not look like it. What are the parameter data breakdown values for the campaign?

I also wish that US artillery was made a bit more lethal. I realise that the artillery stats for both sides are based on McNamarra and can't be changed, but maybe increasing US artillery to A morale would give them an edge?

Artillery is never truly strong in PzC, aside from high calibre rocket artillery. Artillery units are good for trying to disrupt units through small numbers of losses, but they're unlikely to kill anything by themselves. The historical situation of artillery causing most losses will generally not occur. Direct fire and assaults are more costly to both attacker and defender than artillery fire.

It's surprising how well air units perform, they must be using a different calculation of defender strength because a Stuka unit causes far more losses than a Nebelwerfer unit even though they have similar soft attack values (at least in Panzer Battles, not all OOB's based on the McNamara values actually use the same unit values for some reason). A good 6 plane A quality Stuka strike on defenders in clear terrain can kill 20-30 men, a 6 Nebelwerfer barrage can be considered good if it kills 6 men or so.