We have included the new Terrain Effects Chart especially for those folks who have put out their unfolded maps. This will be on a single chart in the game, front and back. As with most of the Total War charts, rules and errata, this will be available for download once the games go out. In addition, we will have some versions with color. The first of these will be the Master Terrain Key for those with a color printer.
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HMS/GRD returns Europa to its roots and revisits the best selling Europa title Fire in the East. The new game covers the same time period as the older ones (summer of 1941 to the spring of 1942) but uses a completely new Soviet OB, a new map, and the latest rules for the Europa system. Buyer's who preorder Total War will also receive the Red Army from September, 1939 to March, 1942 in preparation for Grand Europa. Total War gives the Axis player the opportunity to see if he can improve on the massive offensive that pocketed and captured millions of Soviet soldiers. Can you take Moscow or Leningrad? Or are you condemned to suffer the Soviet winter short of victory. The Soviet player must build a strategic reserve large enough to stop the advancing Axis forces and throw them out of Russia.The Soviet player is aided by massive reinforcements that allow him to form new defensive lines in an attempt to slow down or stop the Axis armor thrusts. Published counters will be the same high quality counters players expect from HMS/GRD. Total War is a historical game on the German invasion of the Soviet Union, from summer 1941 to spring 1942. It charts the titanic struggle of the largest ground campaign in World War II, from the Axis offensives that brought the Germans to the gates of Moscow to the Soviet winter counteroffensive that hurled them back. Total War is a two-player game. One side controls the forces of Germany and its allies while the other controls the forces of the Soviet Union. The maps cover Eastern Europe and the western USSR from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, from the plains of Poland to the steppes along the Volga River. Ground units represent corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, and battalions. Air units represent groups of 40 to 80 aircraft. Naval units represent task forces of warships.
Total War is a complete remake and updating of the classic Europa game, Fire in the East. The game's Soviet order of battle makes extensive use of formerly secret Kremlin information on the Red Army forces that fought the war. The game includes a Soviet order of battle for all of the USSR from 1939 to 1942 and is the most comprehensive game OB ever published on the Red Army in peace and war. The Axis order of battle also is updated, reflecting new research since the publication of Fire in the East. The rules for Total War incorporate the latest rules for the Europa system, with on-demand air power, armor effects, combined arms, and much more, recreating both the German blitzkrieg that captured entire Soviet armies and the Soviet deep operations that nearly splintered the invaders in the depth of the Russian winter. The price is $234. |
Should there be no additional effect for combat conducted in partial and full hex cities due to poor weather? That is the way I read the chart. Otherwise great job.
Happy to see a quick follow-up on your previous message.
Great news! Looking forward to the new info!!
Glad to hear Arthur is doing better and the TW project is resuming. Hopefully you’re on the downhill side of things and that those critics and doubters among us will soon be eating some crow. Am sure the waiting will be worth it.
Answers to:
Mr. Steeb – The wording on the TEC regarding partial/full (major/great) city hexes is same as was on previous TECs in Storm over Scandinavia and Second Front. Until now, no one had questioned this as confusing at all. Once you raised question, however, we asked around and found different groups have been interpreting this in two ways and playing differently accordingly.
Essentially: Full/partial (great/major) city hexes are the only hex types not listed on the front page of the TEC. Every other terrain is listed three times on the front page, once listing the hex type’s movement/combat effects during clear/frost weather, once for mud/rain weather, and once for snow/winter weather. Full/Partial city hexes, however, are listed on the back of the TEC under the “any weather” heading. This leads to two interpretations of the movement/combat effects of full/partial city hexes:
1) First interpretation: Since their effects are only listed on back of
TEC, under ‘any weather’ this implies that the overall general effects
of weather (-2 during mud, -1 during snow, -1 during winter, -1 during
snow) do NOT apply to these hex types. Logical Justification: A major
city is a built-up area with mostly paved or concreted roads (or at
least culverted, ditched, etc) and whose urban area retains heat
(melting snow), and whose drainage minimizes effects of precipation (as
mostly drained off into sewers/storm drains, etc); thus weather effects
do NOT apply to full/partial city hexes.
2) Second Interpretation: Of course, overall -1/-2 for various weather
types applies to full/partial city hexes as well. Front of TEC says
-1/-2 applies due to weather, not due to terrain type. Logical
Justification: The rain/snow still falls, even in a city, and it still
has an effect there.
I personally am inclined to interpret this per 1) above, but most people appear to have been playing in line with 2). We are still deciding on how to resolve the issue. I’ll have to give you a final answer later.