Wut? Afrika Korps spawns in Southern Germany?

[Lampros]

What's the point?

[Hubert Cater]

The Afrika Korps spawns either in Southern Italy or Southern Germany, depending upon the in game situation, which then requires the German player to transport them to North Africa after that.

This allows the Allied player to either attempt to prevent the transport of the Afrika Korps to North Africa or to intercept and damage the transport of these troops.

[Lampros]

Originally posted by Hubert Cater:

The Afrika Korps spawns either in Southern Italy or Southern Germany, depending upon the in game situation, which then requires the German player to transport them to North Africa after that.

This allows the Allied player to either attempt to prevent the transport of the Afrika Korps to North Africa or to intercept and damage the transport of these troops.

Ah, okay; it gets even harder than I thought for the Axis :(

[Hubert Cater]

And as Bill mentioned in the other thread, often an Axis player can lose the required space for all of these units in North Africa depending upon the in game situation at that point, e.g. it could be all, none, or a partial deployment depending upon remaining space, and with the current method you will not lose any of these units. e.g. they will still fully deploy, but as mentioned you'll have to bring them over yourself as the compromise.

[GoldenTalon]

I still liked the WiE system where they deployed in N. Africa. Have never seen situation where Alliies had advanced far enough to prevent AC deployment.

[Bill Runacre]

We had a lot of reports of that on the Matrix forums, some players were even sacrificing Allied units to prevent elements of the Afrika Korps from spawning.

Fortunately script adjustments and an engine change meant we could put an end to that happening in War in Europe, but the different scale in this game makes it harder to guarantee that we could 100% do the same here.