(12-03-2018, 10:10 PM)plloyd1010 Wrote: Yup, that's the problem. I would have INF/HMG teams in the trenches, mortars/guns in the town with back-up INF. Of course, when you do that, your opponent is going to try to find a solution to that problem.
And that is pretty interesting issue when Russian facing Germans.....(I'm looking at you Dan Storm...)
If russians put up entrenchments withing 3 hexes (german Inf range and limited Terrain vis) of a town....you are libel to have a german force
overwhelm and occupy those entrenchments---taking advantage of all those modifiers...with HMG, INF and officers with +1 or +2 to moral...
and beat you to nothing
Thus---in a prospect of fighting back the German invaders---based on all kinds of things....I think Entrenchments put out in front of Russian
towns become a PROBLEM more then a SOLUTION....German Hvy ARt will disrupt the russians, they will be overrun, then Germans with great moral
will be near, or even next to your town---and you are proverbially screwed...you cannot keep the germans out---you can't hurt them in the trenches
where they can sit and just blast you to hell....
This provides a serious cognitive dissonance with reality, me thinks.....
That basically entrenching just outside a city against germans (arty and officers having significant impact) is ill-advised....
Better to let them approach in open and hit them from city, rather than putting up entrenchments which will block your fire, and provide cover when they are taken.
I'm troubled by this...
