Josh Jansen wrote:
Thanks for the insight Paul. I agree with you on the War in the East to ACW. I think it would be great. Im going to fire up GG and check it out for myself, maybe try some CWII as well. Why not? I own them right?
I will let you know what my opinion is as well, see if either of them are worth playing PBEM. Wonder what War in the East would be like PBEM, feel like the Russians would probably always win.
I suspect PBEM would be difficult. The game is a big commitment in time against the AI. Yep, I think with two players of equal ability the Russians would almost always win.
Victory points are based around controlling cities:
Heavy Urban - 5
Light Urban - 3
City - 1
National Capital - +5 (Moscow, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Bratislava, Helsinki)
Victory Levels are:
Decisive Soviet Victory - If Germany surrenders in 1944 or earlier.
Major Soviet Victory - If Germany surrenders between 1/1/45 and 5/31/45.
Minor Soviet Victory - If Germany surrenders between 6/30/45 and 9/30/45.
Draw - Germany does not surrender by 10/01/45 and the Axis player has less than 142 points.
Minor Axis Victory - The Axis controls 142-199 points at the end of the game.
Major Axis Victory - The Axis controls 200-289 points at the end of the game.
Decisive Axis Victory - At any time the Axis controls 290 points.
The Axis force starts the game with 142 VPs so a Minor Axis Victory seems possible. [It really was a 'United Nations' on the Axis side with forces from many countries. There's even an Arab unit which is very useful against partisans which is true to history (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Arabian_Legion).]
At Turn 75 I had 64 VPs and have caused over 9 million Soviet casualties. I'm trying to break my record of Decisive Victory at Turn 99. [North and Centre has been a great success. Can I get Stalingrad in time and add in the cities in the south to get my win in time? I should know in a couple of weeks. As usual, weather will play a big part.]