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:confused: Trying to figure out just how you recalled there were no Norwegian battles when you never got out of Poland :confused:
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The more recent games, I never got out of Poland.
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And I have just started a 40 battle German LC, 3 battles in Poland, 3 in France (2 French and 1 v Britain), 1 in Norway, and off to Africa now, and have a choice of Russia after 2 NA battles.
If you chose some really large battles number, you will have a large number of Polish and French battles, large number of NA battles etc etc. Time will pass really slowly per increment between battles if you chose a large number of battles, and you will skip through the war if you chose a smaller battle number.
Cheers
Andy
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I'm just playing the basic 60 battles. I would reason it more likely I spend more than one battle a month if I chose a much higher starting battle number. The East Front battles alone amount to almost 4 years of battles (48). 60 battles are close to not even being enough if you're playing Poland, France, NAfrica, and the USSR.
So even with a depleted starting battle number, you have tallied 6 battles (1/6 to 1/7 of your total - not including Norway) in places where Germany spent only 3-4 months total fighting. That seems to argue with the conclusion I had in the beginning, basically that the game "CAN", at least, spend way too much time in what ended up being early minor theatres (at least France was possibly a major combatant).
I have yet to go further with my current campaign, and perhaps that 4th battle will be in France (hurrah!), but to spend 3 in 9/39, knowing there's also a 10/39 slot, isn't too encouraging. From what people have been saying, it sounds very unlikely I will spend 6 battles in Poland (though somebody said 10), and that higher battle numbers totals drive that up, but do keep in mind that any other SP type game I played, didn't spend more than 2 battles in Poland, much less three in the first month, and I was always playing with the idea of playing with what amounted to a battle per fighting month. WWII Germany, for example, fought for roughly 4 1/2 to 5 years of ground fighting, so 60 battles would about cover that, and it's convenient that the default works well for them, too.
If the campaign were results driven, as indeed some of the prior SP's were (be that good or bad), you would never see more than 2 battles spent in a place where you already had two decisive victories in a place where very little time was spent, but apparently the Poles in this game are much more ferocious, as my slaughtering them in two consequetive battles brought them "advancing" on me in the 3rd. In the scheme of following what the battle types you get, might indicate (other than a complete random factor) what the next one will be, that puts me in real trouble because after all of that Germans are the ones being attacked. Maybe 6 battles in Poland isn't so far fetched afterall.
