"Barbarossa redo using CD-ToB" Topic
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Joe Fish | 07 Sep 2013 4:48 a.m. PST |
A couple weeks ago locally we've revisited attempting a scaled down Barbarossa 25 campaign. I have posted one of the battles on my blog. There are a few shots of how the game looked. We play in 20mm-1/87-1/76-1/72. link |
myxemail | 07 Sep 2013 6:52 a.m. PST |
Great posting. I love playing CD:ToB as it plays reasonably quick and has a great feel of back and forth combat. |
alphus99 | 25 Mar 2014 3:19 p.m. PST |
Great to read about this – I'd love to do this one day. How did you scale things down? |
Ponder | 26 Mar 2014 7:05 a.m. PST |
Howdy, IIRC, the "25" in the title is the scale factor. Units, distance, time – all scaled by 25. Ponder on, JAS |
DavidinGlenreagh CoffsGrafton | 26 Mar 2014 11:55 p.m. PST |
as JAS said Barb 25 is scaled down by ~25, the maps for example (are the old Eurpoa series) and the units by 25..a month becomes a day etc.. with some amalgamation of Corps and Army assets to allow the players to have some of the big/unusual stuff.. even so.. it is a big campaign that requires lots of dedication
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DavidinGlenreagh CoffsGrafton | 27 Mar 2014 7:29 p.m. PST |
My hints to Soviet players of Barb-25.. 1/ Come up with a strategic plan – a series of stop lines is a good idea, but do not ignore the potential to launch forlorn hope incursions to cut Axis supply lines. Part of this is deciding what will be lost and what can be saved. Also look at making your Brigades very lean formations.. eg strip guns etc out of the Infantry Brigades such that they at most are Infantry, MMG and Mtr(see 2 below). 2/ As a priority in your planning – create a transport corps – this will mean stripping many units of their TO&E transport and organising it into "transport brigades" – tailored to transporting usints – eg a Heavy Tractor Brigade (HQ + 3 tractors companies) to move medium and heavy artillery units that would otherwise have virtualy no intrinsic transport. eg A Medium transport Brigade (HQ + medium trucks to carry a stripped back infantry brigade). 3/ Bulldozers are gold – never lose one if you can and never let one be idle.. |
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