Lars

Could just apply AA tech to AF. Currently they get a freebie, which is rather odd.

Good find Stalin.

Eh, the tree is never far from the apple.

I'm more surprised you ran into AI subs! But as for subs sinking other subs, see USS Batfish.

I get your point Rolend but just how do you entrench a supply truck? I don't care how snug you are in your little foxhole hiding from the planes, but if lunch doesn't show up, your morale is going down.

And then the US just kills them with the high tech tanks and planes he wanted.

Turn soft builds on.

I had a bear in camp before. Do I get hospitality points? I should get something, because the damn bear got breakfast.

The Mother Of All Burritos.

This is why I find it important that a Soviet "surrender" in the game does not give ANY plunder. </font>

All the examples you give are in the north of Russia, where Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian railway workers enthusastically aided the advancing Germans. These areas also had a lot of standard guage tracks that did not need conversion!! Tthey are the BEST the Germans did, and I suspect are not typical of the rest of the country. </font>

Tsk tsk, you guys ignored the problem with that little alternate scenario. Small Royal Navy, much, much bigger British Army. I mean, if you're going to make the UK a continental power, you have to adjust the defense policy to suit.

Er, the Germans didn't even plan on forcing a peace. From der Fuhrer lips, "The final objective of the operation is to be the attainment of a line sealing off Asiatic Russia and running, in general, the Volga-Archangel. From such a line the one remaining Russian industrial area in the Urals can be eliminated by the Air Force should the need arise." Just wanted them militarily impotant. Didn't even care if they surrendered or not.

You'll find this highly interesting then. Deutsche Reichsbahn - The German State Railway in WWII A snippet.

LOL. It's the Germans who have no chance to deviate. At least, not in the major decisions. DOW on US and USSR.

Blashy, you're not seriously suggesting they blew up 1,000 km of railroad embankment, are you? Track, bridges, whatever, can be relatively easily replaced compared to the effort involved in laying out a whole new line. That can take decades.

Er, the Russian wad was pretty well shot at that point too. Moscow 1941 - Hitler’s first defeat

Btw, scorched earth doesn't hurt the Germans anywhere nearly as bad as the situation the Russians would have been in. There's a big difference between moving all that rail 6" to the left and putting in a whole new railroad.

Very true, but that would not cause the collapse of the Soviet union. If the rails don't work for Russia (scorched earth remember) they don't work for Germany and so the Russians keep falling back and eventually Germany has no choice but to stop because of a lack of manpower, simply over stretched. So a in "game surrender" of Russia with no plunder would IMHO represent Germany no longer chasing Russia due to lack of manpower and Russia being out of fighting because they have to rebuild their industries and lack of infrastructure past the Urals. Fair enough? </font>

Blashy, as was pointed out elsewhere, all roads led to Moscow. It's not really the loss of the capital that would be devestating, but the loss of the central hub of the rail network. No way to move resources from point A to point B anymore.

Invaded Denmark to try and save the cruisers, but mud made it impossible. Think the Kriegsmarine is finished for this game.

If you're willing to hand me $200 just for telling you you're crapping ok, I'm willing to consider it.

No, because that is unrealistic, another country would not drop in value just because. That is a "gamey" deterrent and not a historical one. </font>

Reduce the value of Egypt after England falls then, and the UK player won't wish so much.

Also, make sure to do the addresses on a few wrong so they "accidently" end up at the neighbors.