More soviet tanks!
I will copy a post i made in another thread, please ignore the tone as I was responding to someone else on a different topic (please also forgive me if you addressed this already!:
Soviet and German GDP were actually relatively even throughout the war years with a large dip in 1942 for the SOV's. German GDP steadily rose from 1939 and peaked in 44. Soviet GDP after falling only recovered to 1938/39 levels in 1944 and were consistently outproduced by the germans in terms of GDP from 1941 onwards.
Generally speaking the game replicates this relatively well, with German IC reaching relative parity with the SU and gaining an edge as the germans drive deeper into russia, however the game does not reflect well is actual production.
As stated the Russians were much better suited for total war and produced more than the germans consistantly, at least until the end years, when the germans actually began to take the lead.
The soviets outproduced the Germans in most Key areas, tanks, fighters, bombers, artillery pieces, machine guns, mortars, self propelled guns.
Biggest year for production of *total* german tanks was 1944, with near 19,000, previous biggest year was 1943 with 13.500
Soviets produced 14,500 tanks in 1944 with an additional 12,000 sp guns, but produced roughly the same numbers in 1942 as they did in 1944, while the germans only produced 5500 total for all of 1942.
I almost think we need a historical SP game and a 'balanced' mp game, but a blend of the two causes a lot of problems.
In game the Germans get a lot of big bonus and reductions to ARM, LARM and SPART,
1937 (1) - LARM -2.0 IC
1937 (2) - LARM -1.0 IC, LA (light armour brigade) -0.3 IC, ARM -1.9!! IC
1939 - LARM -1.0 IC AG -0.4 IC and ARM -1.9!! IC
1941 - SP AT -0.4 IC
1943 Techs, 1 does SP ART -0.7 IC and SP AT -0.8 IC
Germans Receive total discounts:
LARM: -4.0 IC,
LA Brigade: -0.3 IC
SP ART: -0.7 IC
SP AT: -1.2 IC
ARM: -3.8 IC
Sov Discounts all come in 1943 (this date makes no sense, perhaps germans should recieve discounts in 1943 and soviets receive earlier??)
1943 (1) SP R ART -0.3 IC and ARM -0.9 IC
1943 (2) SP R ART -0.3 IC and ARM -0.9 IC
Soviet Total Discount
SP R ART -0.6 IC
ARM: -1.8 IC
Does not make sense to me.
Other than I still felt that the battle for the SUEZ was the most difficult one I had to do, far more difficult than any of the big 3 russian cities. Never did gibraltar but it may be even harder than the Suez due to the terrain. While I can understand why gibraltar would be horrible to take, I still cant get my head around the Suez!
Also an event to allow the germans to send men/divisions/materials to africa. I like other players had to cheat a abit to bring the afrika corps into play, but due to house rules the usual way via greece is unavailable.
an operation tracer event could be very interesting should the germans succeed in beating the british at gribaltar!
Love this mod, one of my favorites in quite some time, though I don't usually play as germany anymore this mod made it fun!