aesopo

A great tweak would be the development of HQ skills-promotions- such as desert combat/fox (15% defense and attack in desert area) blitz extra movement exploitation rugged defense, etc. guerilla warfare, trench warfare, ace, wolfpack, fleet operations, etc. HQs should be divided into army, air force, navy and corresponding units attached to the HQ. Air units can be attached to an army HQ in close air support role (Sounds complicated). If a HQ has a unit engaged in a particular operation repeatedly, it is given that the HQ would benefit from the experience learnt. There should be generals assigned to units that also earn these promotions. They can be reassigned to different units and promoted to HQs.

PLEASE PLEASE make the engine capable of taking advantage of multiple cores, faster hardrives, ram and video memory in order for complicated scenarios to run faster. SCROLLING ZOOM IN & OUT this would be very sweet HEXES please COORDINATED ATTACKS - please allow for coordinated attacks/defense of multiple units game attack/defense mechanics right now still feels like beer and pretzels type ALLOW FOR BREAKTHROUGH ATTACKS AND DEFENSIVE SUPPORT

this is easy to rectify- just script an increase of belligerence of Sweden, Spain, Turkey to the Axis side and it is done- no more exploits for the US player.

July 42 - Red lvl 3 tank destroyed- Germany almost at max fighting techs Panzrt 4s and jets are roaming around. Alexandria in trouble. USA declares war on japan- 3 carriers sunk, 3 allied carriers sunk in return. That is the drawback to focusing too much on china. Japan needs to hold as much as possible while Germany fights thru the reds and the mid-east to connect (hopefully). Stalin is crying about germany's uber-techs. Will a strong Germany compensate for a weak Japan?

June 42 - we are stalled in china. Weather-rain. USSR army unit pounded and disappears in a fort near lennignrad. Mid-east UK army reduced to one near Alexandria. UK start marching in troops into indochina. Yugoslavia falls.

April 42- Lenningrad falls-Ireland falls to Axis. DOW on Yugoslavia, it still holds. Japan is slow in China. Pounding Brit army in front of Alexandria. US massing in the Phil. not in war against Japan yet.

Still Mar 42-Lot of US Air in the Phil. China loses an army. Odessa falls. Mid-east- UK unit hammered to 3.

March 42 some sparring in China. US not in war with Japan. My bad-Kharkov is not taken-Odessa still barely holding. Mid-east quiet.

Feb 42 - Germany takes smolensk, kharkov, kursk, kiew, minsk, riga but Odessa still holding on. Winter strike hits German units. Norway falls to Axis. UK declares war on Japan. USA declares war on Germany but not Japan. Japan does not execute Pearl Harbor. Chungking fell to combined Tac-Bomber-carrier-army strike and defending armor vaporated. Some naval action off Iceland. UK lost corps in mideast and another unit reduced to 4. Lets see how this plays out with UK sorely missing its homebase. But in turn Barbie was delayed and Japan has not struck the USA.

August-December 1941 Barbie was weak as expected but axis makes inroads into Russia. Two front cities fell Odessa barely holds on. Action heating up around Tobruk. Russia takes Tehran. UK takes Syria. China capital barely holds on. US ready to enter. Japan invested too much in China.

July 1941- evrything slow-No barbi yet- Gibraltar is being crept up to. Malta is still being pounded. Chinese front had rain-could not use my air power.

April 1941 Spain faLLS, VICHY joins Axis- Japanese take pause-Malta still holding. Gibraltar touched by Axis unit. Vichy got real mad for allies occupation of it's Fort de France.

Japan can take-out china but the MPP invested takes away from needed naval strength to face the US. One train of thought is for Japan to just solely focus on China and delay naval operations so it can concentrate superior firepower with a smaller naval area to defend. It can not outstrip the US in production but it can buy time and delay until Germany makes good progress in Europe. If Germany is knocked out, that spells doom for Japan. Like for example with my game with Alex, I decided to focus on China as Germany is in an advantageous strategical situation.

Axis definitely has the advantage- but his Barbarossa will be weak. Japan is spending a lot of MPPs to subdue China. Maybe with the US help- UK can re-invade but it must make an all out stand in the mideast -naval and ground. Another strategy is to just fall back and wait for the US to pick up steam. UK would conserve units until ready to pounce back. But the drawback is that the axis would run amuck in the mideast-africa and invade India from the west to link with the Japanese. Clear advantage for axis for sure but the game is still far from over. I think Uk got carried away with it's med naval adventures and left the UK exposed to invasion after the fall of France. UK cant afford losing their biggest carrier. They need it badly for d-day and bombing. Germany now has more of a free hand. This game is great though with the different strategies. Alex does concentrate his forces well for counter-attack. January 41 - Madrid defender knocked to 4-Chengchow defender knocked to 2, Malta pounded.

I forgot that my airfleets have been pounding Malta.

Dec 22 1940- Hitler invades Spain- Spanish cruiser and army killed. UK mainland cleared. Nanning and Chengchow fell to the Japanese with the help of carriers and tac bombers. Now the Chinese are in trouble. Hungary and Romania joined earlier. UK not being agressive towards Tobruk and I am assuming if he is adopting defensive stance after fathoming Hitler's ingenious strategy. Churchill seen paddling a canoe all the way back to Canada he-he. However, big question will Germany be prepared for Barabarossa? Will Japan be ready for the US entry?

Oct 1940 -RN sunk a German sub. We destroyed a corps near Manchester. 3 units aligned against Manchester. Still slogging it through China- no progress. Abysinia falls to UK.

Aug 1940- Bristish navy catches an amphib- RN battleship sunk. No progress in china. indochina was conquered turn earlier. His HQ caught outside manchester. Units headed towards it. The drawback of his active RN strategy, but I executed the invasion sloppy.

Aug 4 1940 London falls! Surprise-surprise. It will cost me for Barbarossa for sure. Wanted to try this strategy since he was very active with his navy in the med. Still stalled in China. German cruiser sunk. Unit defending London bombed out of existence.

Thanks Bill got it!

They are really great - what program do you use to edit them? Can you send me your counters at aesop123@hotmail.com. I volunteer to be a playtester for you in your modern scenario.

Late May 1940- Nanning is still being pinged- gosh that is a lot of work! British navy pinging Italian ports.

May 1940 Germany repositions- British navy very active in the Med. Nanning defender is pinged down to 5.

April 14, 1940 -France falls. Italian cruiser sunk. Nanning is still being pounded. I don't understand the high morale Chinese units have-higher than the Japanese!

Does anyone have improved counters to share than the generic ones that we have?