Scheldt 44 comments

[Mike Prucha]

Hi Phoenix,

Thanks for your feedback and thanks for picking up a copy of Scheldt '44!

Morale values were decided after extensive testing. If we loaded the OOB up with Quality A & B Allied troops, this game would not work. Quality D and C ratings force the Allied player to take a more cautious approach and rely on the firepower of the Royal Artillery.

It is very possible to achieve a historic result in the Antwerp scenario  (I have done it multiple times), but it will require a good game out of the Allied player (even against the AI), the German player to recreate Stolberg-Stolberg's order to withdraw north of the canal, and a little bit of luck. It is harder in PBEM and hotseat as your opponent will probably take more aggressive action than Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg did historically. Also remember that not all of Antwerp was liberated on the 4th - there was still fighting in the city when the British tanks arrived that continued into the night and the northern suburbs and much of the port remained in German hands on the 5th.

In testing Overloon, I will say that we got a range of results, everything from the Americans getting absolutely stonewalled and making zero progress  to actually capturing the village on the last day of the scenario. The historic result is somewhere in the middle of all that. Also, for clarification, the only Quality D troops at Overloon are the Belgian Peel Detachment. The rest of the Allied forces in that scenario are Quality C.

-Mike P