imported_Rannug

Rannug reports a loss to The Real Deal? in the tournament. Russia surrenders in Sept 1945 and all futher resistence is pointless. Axis rockets, bombers and tac air won the battle. TRD played a very tactically clever game, taking very few losses and being in no rush. Slow but always moving forward making sure giving out more pain that he takes. At the end his key units where elite and killed at will.

As been said I was close to Alexandria for at least 2 or 3 turns and the Commonwealth forces never showed up so if Terif is right about the scripts(as he always is) then this must be a bug. I took a look at the scripts in the options and everthing looked normal. This is a WAW game...

I'm far from the best SC playaer around but when I read about how hard this scenario was I took it for a spin against the AI. Moskwa fell 1942, Russia surrenderd sept 1944 and The US surrenderd sunmmer 1946 and London fell the same turn. This was on zero experience and beginner difficulty. If it was against a human player it is probably hard to win as Axis but against the AI it will be a real challange first at experience +1 and almost impossible at +2. The AI is predictable and as a human you will sooner or later always beat it if you give it a few spins.

Hi Baron! I mailed you about to start the game, Did you get it?

It doesn't matter to me, put me where there is missing a player.

I'm in.

I just finished a game against the AI(allied) on the easiest level and the AI took me to the very end, May 1947. I got a minor victory and only France was knocked out. I went all out on the intel tech early in the game witch was fun but probably was one reason why I didn't have the strenght to go deep into Russia + that I took out Saudiarabia and since there is no railroad there it took ages for that battlegroup to get back to the frontlines. A weakness with the AI is the way it deals with enemy fortifications. It loves to attack them rather then help out the ground froces atempts to kill off units. Sometimes it can be the right thing to do but more often not. Overall the AI is very good and better then many new players will be at start. I won a few games with AI experience +1 but +2 is something I havent dared to try yet.

1876, The Battle of the Little Bighorn under Crazy Horse

Italy was allied to Germany and Austria before the war but the deal was that if any one of the 3 was DOW, the others would join in. Now since it was Germany and Austria that made the DOW's Italy was not "forced" to join the war. So the fact who DOWed who does matter a bit even if it's true the all the major nations are to blame why it turned out to be global conflict.

"-- Certainly not having troops in French territory, in both wars I believe it was France which first declared war on Germany. In WWI the sequence was something like -- Austria DOW Serbia Russia DOW Austria Germany DOW Russia France DOW Germany" This is not what happend...... Correct version without details.. Austria DOW Serbia Russia mobilizes Germany DOW Russia Germany DOW France(since they are allies with Russia) Germany DOW Belgium UK DOW Germany

1. Stalingrad 2. Band of Brothers 3. Das Boot 4. Cross of Iron 5. Patton 6. Der Untergang 7. Kellys Heros 8. Vinterkriget 9. Saving Private Ryan 10. The Dirty Dozen

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/aureview/1981/jul-aug/becker.htm http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=78524 The lack of oil and in both quality and quantity was a major cause to the Axis defeat. For more info take a look at the links....

This other game has dispite it's flaws some good ideas and I think the oil is one of them. If we want SC to get closer to the real thing oil should be part of the concept. If you just want a great and fun game it's not a must.

I'm just now trying it out with IM of 110% and a bit lower experience for a lot of Axis units. The russians are falling back at the center but are attacking Finland and in the south. 5-6 axis units has been destroyed and forces the Axis to rebuild rather then invest in tech. In the center the lack of supply slows down things more then any russian units ever can do but without any serious resistence experience does not go up much. Still Kuni is right about that the editor has to upgraded before this most exelent scenario will work as intended.

God Jul!