Should I pillage roads in RED FRONT?

[President Clark]

It has always been my thing of pillaging the roads, hopefully to stem the tide of the Nazi onslaught, but when I turn the tide, I find it hard to capture cities and me, being a bit of a historical buff like to reach the western Ukraine by mid august 1944, but without roads it takes much longer and this dissapoints me. Do I need to pillage the roads? Does it really matter?

 

[Smash]

Yes you do or it is wise to do so.You want to to try and "herd" them to your strongholds.

Later,when its time to go on the offensive you can rebuild roads.All those refugees will become tractors(engineers) later if you so choose.

You can also build minefeilds but it takes too long(imo) to build wholesale minefeild defenses.But a couple anti tank guns just this side of a minefeild can be most effective and economical to your units lost/kill ratio.

 

[Andrew Livings]

For one of the later versions (1.3 or 1.4) the author addressed the issue and said you should not pillage roads as a house rule. But, yes, it is a good delaying tactic.

 

[Smash]

I have 1.4 and nowhere is no road pillaging mentioned.I have never seen Nemo say this was a house rule either.Its also historically accurate to do

 

[voltar]

I only pillage roads in one area. From the Riga-Talinn road. This way the city is significantly easier to hold, and I always do unless of a grave error.

 

[Kubz]

When I play Red Front I always pillage all the roads in the Crimea, the roads leading into Moscow from Kaluga and Vitebsk? and the roads leading to (sp?) Semafavich (the city on the Don right under Voronezh) and finally most of the roads heading west from Stalingrad. That way most of the roads are intact and I was able to conquer most of East Europe save Denmark and Norway.

 

[DarthVeda]

I found that pillaging roads only made my counter-attacks a lot slower. So I didn't pillage any roads one game, built like 105 refugees or whatever they are, and captured Berlin in early 1944.

 

[Field Marshal Klesh]

Eh, sometimes I might pillage roads in the forests in the Baltic States, but not usually wholesale, as Darth said, they will slow down your offensives.

The only place I usually build the minefields are west of Stalingrad, along the east bank of the Don. Start this project asap, and you might get it done in time. It puts a hurt on Stalingrad itself, as they cause unhappiness within city limits, but it virtually cancels out the seige of Stalingrad events. The AI will just not move units onto the wire, and the few that do, just kill them.

-FMK.