1942 DLC - Grozny bonus objective: a joke?

[Hercule Poirot]

Seems absolutely impossible to take. its not just on the harder end of bonus objectives, its the hardest of all in Panzer Corps 2. Bug, joke, meme? Has anybody tried paratroopers? I tried to flank it via desert and to frontally break through and its impossible even with meme OP units.

[R2G2]

Paratroopers got a heavy nerf in latest version. They would receive high damage before landing based on the amount of AA around Gronzy. What's your inventory of Lethal Attack heroes? Haven't played it yet, but that looks like a long range arty battle to break those defenses.

[Green Knight]

Originally posted by Fulgrim:

Seems absolutely impossible to take. its not just on the harder end of bonus objectives, its the hardest of all in Panzer Corps 2. Bug, joke, meme? Has anybody tried paratroopers? I tried to flank it via desert and to frontally break through and its impossible even with meme OP units.

You should by now have a range 5 artillery and Rudel with Double/Lighting attack. Capable of cleaning out Soviet 203mm artillery with ease.

[Hercule Poirot]

loaded a save from turn 14 and managed it comfortably. Knowing what to expect makes all the difference. Double attack no retailiation stuka takes out the heavy arty, elite infantry takes out the AT gun and the river is crossed. You need an elite fighter to counter that one soviet 15 strength fighter and 1-2 elite tank units to mob up the 4 star top notch armor standing between the river and Grozny. Grozny itself while heavily fortified can be flanked around the south through the desert. The whole thing makes the case for having at least one elite OP unit of each type really.

[Hercule Poirot]

Originally posted by R2G2:

Paratroopers got a heavy nerf in latest version. They would receive high damage before landing based on the amount of AA around Gronzy. What's your inventory of Lethal Attack heroes? Haven't played it yet, but that looks like a long range arty battle to break those defenses.

I was already wondering what happened to my beloved paras. :/

[BraveMustang]

is there any special reward or just commediation points?

[Vathek1]

Originally posted by R2G2:

Paratroopers got a heavy nerf in latest version. They would receive high damage before landing based on the amount of AA around Gronzy. What's your inventory of Lethal Attack heroes? Haven't played it yet, but that looks like a long range arty battle to break those defenses.

One other nerf I've noticed since the latest update seems to concern how paratroopers deploy. As I recall, deployment was based off the attack action of the transport (you could move, then drop paratroopers). Now, deploying paratroopers seems to be based off the movement action--the transport cannot move and deploy troops on the same turn.

At least that was my observation when doing another campaign with the paratroopers in Norway South. For the record, I am using your Naval AA mod, but I doubt that should affect paratroopers.

[JM]

Almost impossible

[Green Knight]

Originally posted by Vathek1:

Originally posted by R2G2:

Paratroopers got a heavy nerf in latest version. They would receive high damage before landing based on the amount of AA around Gronzy. What's your inventory of Lethal Attack heroes? Haven't played it yet, but that looks like a long range arty battle to break those defenses.

One other nerf I've noticed since the latest update seems to concern how paratroopers deploy. As I recall, deployment was based off the attack action of the transport (you could move, then drop paratroopers). Now, deploying paratroopers seems to be based off the movement action--the transport cannot move and deploy troops on the same turn.

At least that was my observation when doing another campaign with the paratroopers in Norway South. For the record, I am using your Naval AA mod, but I doubt that should affect paratroopers.

What you describe is an intentional change to paras in the latest patch.

[Boredflak]

A way around this would be to use double move heroes on your para ... That way the air move takes the move action but unit has a second move action to drop with. I am not sure how many double move heroes anyone may have however.

[ScarScream]

I have to say that Grozny is the hardest mission in the DLC by far when it comes to bonus objectives (I have just arrived to the Stalingrad ground battle scenario so I don't know how hard it is yet).
It's actually pretty easy to get the main objectives fast, but taking Grozny itself in time? Jeeeesus I lost a lot of prestige replenishing my troops with all the damage I took...

[BraveMustang]

whats the reward for taking grozny

[[★] Klaus von Reinherz]

tbh, I half assed the grozny capture through the desert the first time, which costed me a lot of material, but I eventually cracked it just with elite Tiger 1 P and some elite Infantry units + rudel air support. Went in blindly and brute forced it.

Second time, since I knew it was harder I comitted a lot more forces there and it was way easier, but it was probably the only map I couldnt clean out / was glad to leave behind x)