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Originally Posted by Joe1960
As much as it pains an old infantryman (U.S.M.C. 1980-88) to say...
I am now on my second campaign...11 battles in on the Eastern Front playing the Germans. It is now December, 1941.
In my first campaign I played a "historical" force of balanced infantry and tanks. Not much arty because I didn't now how to play it in this game. Tough battles...many draws as the Russian arty pounded my PBI's and ATG's without pity. Also I didn't now that the AI would perform "counter-battery" fire. And the constant flow of Russian heavy tanks would walk over my force.
In my second campaign I have a unrealistic force of just tanks and 4 (or is it 5?) batteries of (IIRC) 170mm arty. Several missions in I added some tracked 88's to deal with the plethora of KV-1's, Matilda's, and Valentines the AI likes to choose for it's OPFOR selection.
This (granted non-historical force - I guess) is quite potent. The heavy arty is a real killer and deals with almost all OPFOR threats. Especially their PBI.
Bottom line: I do not have any infantry, am doing quite well, and am not missing them.
Is there a way (or through OOB manipulation) to force the AI to choose a "realistic" force so that I can play with a "realistic" one?
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Artillery is
expensive. Each 170mm battery you have in your core will be worth a platoon of tanks and a rifle company to the soviets, but cannot take or hold V-hexes. You have nearly 2 regiments of the rarest big guns.
And an armoured core is worth a lot of points as well.
You seem to want a tank heavy opponent, so try the AI Tank Heavy preference. It will still buy infantry and arty though!.
You are seeing the cheap and cheerful lend lease tanks - so you are probably still in late 41 and early 42 - so try waiting till 1942+ when the T34s come on line for AI fleet buy. You will also have 75L43 long guns available (and the long 50) then that deal with the enemy armour much better than 50mm short.
You
will miss infantry support when you get round to Stalingrad and any other city battles though...
Andy