MajorDomo
DM? Chuck H2O in his face
To echo an earlier post by Philippe, ASL"s time frame per turn makes it very difficult to portray a large urban battle like Stalingrad.
After the German 6th army was surrounded and cutoff, the Russians proposed surrender, which was refused from Berlin.
Russians then proceeded to reduce the Stalingrad pocket systematically. Their records show that they expended 9 million artillery shells, 9 million mortar rounds and projectiles and 89 million bullets to reduce the pocket.
This against a starving army, with huge ammo shortages, confined to buildings due to constant shelling, with wounded and dying in halls that doubled as toilet facilities.
After the eventual surrender and wounded eradication, there were still 100,000 German soldiers that were physically able to walk into capivity. Not that many made the trek to Moscow alive, by design.
The point is that it is very difficult to capture urban buildings from soldiers, no matter how depleted they are.
ASL would require a countless number of its small time lapsed scenarios to model just the reduction of the Stalingrad pocket and most would be very boring.
After the German 6th army was surrounded and cutoff, the Russians proposed surrender, which was refused from Berlin.
Russians then proceeded to reduce the Stalingrad pocket systematically. Their records show that they expended 9 million artillery shells, 9 million mortar rounds and projectiles and 89 million bullets to reduce the pocket.
This against a starving army, with huge ammo shortages, confined to buildings due to constant shelling, with wounded and dying in halls that doubled as toilet facilities.
After the eventual surrender and wounded eradication, there were still 100,000 German soldiers that were physically able to walk into capivity. Not that many made the trek to Moscow alive, by design.
The point is that it is very difficult to capture urban buildings from soldiers, no matter how depleted they are.
ASL would require a countless number of its small time lapsed scenarios to model just the reduction of the Stalingrad pocket and most would be very boring.