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I'm also having a problem downloading this file... The others work seamlessly.

SC, SC2, Warefare, now Global Conflict... ordered it today. Never been disappointed so looking foward to next week.

Great AAR. I keep refreshing hoping for further updates. Please post some screenshots after the game when able. Roman

Being an american living in europe the reflex anti-americanism is silly. But the US has small minded people as well. Europe is a great place to visit, especially if history is your thing. Unfortunately for you, the dollar definnitely does not buy what it used to. Roman

Im sorry to interrupt... Im having trouble logging in to cmmods. Is there any where else mods can be obtained? These mods sound really good. Cheers Roman

The 'grand strategy scope' is my preferred game genre. you can edit to make scenarios at the divisional or tactical level. SC2 is very a very versatile engine IMO. The amphibious landeing rule needs to be adapted. The idea of an amphibious landing coming to its coast hex, delayed a turn to allow Navy and air to exert influence (if not previously passified by invader) then disembarking at the same sea-coast hex, and fighting its way ashore seems a good solution. Would take away blocking coast w/ a row of corps, and also allow storming of 1 hex islands (aka malta). This would increase adaptability of the engine.

good ideas. Something has to be done, as IMO, the fact that RN and RAF are such a limitted factor in a sea lion operation is not believable. Understandably, the current setup is simple and makes for a liquid game. Hitler and Raeder would have been overjoyed if they could land unlimitted divisions of wehrmacht with the Rhine barges available w/o the RN or RAF to send them to the bottom of the channel. Sea Lion should be exceptional, not an easy excersize for the german player. option: ZOC of Navy Amphibious tech SC1 delay before disembarking If you could have SC1 type rules but then have units disembark without being blocked, e.g. land on the 'coast' (possibly adjoing sea hex/tile) and fight their way inland w/o possibity of simply being blocked seems to be ideal solution. Allows air nad navy interdiction while allowing marine assaults on defended isle. Would be an excellent solution for pacific scenario as well.

Both good ideas: 1. no scorched earth and/or partisans if city captured w/o garrison. 2. USSR readiness is effected if no frontline troops. I think the Soviet early losses of Barbarossa despite huge theatre (if not local) superiority in men and material (e.g.: 20,000 soviet tanks to 3000 wehrmacht tanks) are usually acreditted to: 1. the purge of the officer core 2. surprise- the organization and disposition of forces were not organized to face mobile war 3. loss of the near total air superiority to the luftwaffe despite masive numerical, if not qualitative, superiority 4. stalin's inflexibility of response, rather than foward disposition of forces anyway of scripting into the game?

Sombra, I think that is a very good point. Pulling troops to leningrad-moscow-stalingrad/kharkov line is extremely gamey. even Stalin would of been overthrown for engifting such a vital area (population/industry/resources)without so much as a fight. The Russians did stand and fight and perished in huge numbers, thus slowing the german advance until the winter of 1941. The scorched earth practiced by the russians was brutal and directed, killing those thought 'unreliable' by the commisars. Giving time, not always successfully, of transfering industry east. I think historical games should not tie the player in to the same mistakes, but should also not remove the sense your are directing the war in a specific context, rather than on a game board.

Martin, Strange, I have 25.3 MB free... I have just re-checked and have just received it. Thankyou for your quick assistance! Roman

moon, I also preordered a while ago (march 3) yet have as of yet to receive an email with a download code. Any chance of a little timely aid? Cheers, Roman

pzgndr, "What CD? SC2 will ship with 12 floppy disks, each one having separate StarForce protection." I hope you are not serious about SC2 being shipped on 12 flops. I no longer purchase the 3.5" floppy drive as a standard config for most of my systems. I have already preordered SC2, however, I hope your are simply attempting to amuse us with this reply!? I do not mind copy protection as a rule as otherwise many seek the easiest (aka "least expensive") path... thanks

apples and oranges they say. It boggles the mind how Hitler's Barbarossa w/ 3million men and 3000 tanks could destroy 10,000+ tanks, 10,000+ planes, and take captive approx 3 million soldiers in 1941 alone. Though much of that hardware was absolete, the Wehrmacht main battletank was the pzIII, and yet more than half of the armored forces was made up of pzt38, jpz-I, pzIImodels (hardly contemporary). The Soviets without doubt had the technology lead in tank design throughout the war, yet were losing huge number of machines. Their soldiers bravery is easily attested to by the casualty counts sustained while continuing the fight. Overall population losses of 28 million (some say this is a lowball figure); how many countries would have stayed in the fight? IMHO It was the Soviet's to lose all along. They almost achieved this feat partly due to poor generalship. In the game The Axis formations must get a qualitative edge to demonstrate their success against superior numbers, even at the 'point of attack'.

Dont you think that there should be some added bonus for surrounded units that are destroyed, 'eliminated'. I completely agree with a unit that is not surrounded, as you say, would simply become ineffectual, and survivors absorbed in other formations. IMHO the game should really reward surround and destroy, and I dont think SC1 really did. Roman

'Come on Japinard this is the Nazi regime we're speculating on, run by the supreme racist, Adolf 'Hitler. Remember what he said in "Mein Kampf" about the Slavs of the East. His rise to power was based on the theology of superior beings, it is unthinkable of his ideology to liberate a "degenerate" ethnic population represented by the Eastern European peoples. They were little more than slaves for the "supreme race" to use in their rise to world domination. This "what if" is what if the Nazis weren't Nazis and hence no WW2.' In fact the Germans did garner support and were initially greeted as liberators w/ bread and salt. I think most forget how truly evil and despicable the soviets were, first under Lenin, then under Stalin. do not forget Lenin and trotsky's subjugation of eastern bloc country's, the NKVD, and famines in the early 20s. Do not forget forced collectivization (one was termed a 'kulak', or rich peasant, a class enemy, for owning one cow. For that crime you were shot and your family was sent to siberia) Do not forget the forced famines of 1933 killing 8 million Ukrainians in one year while wheat rotted in fields and the borders were held by 'shock' troops. The same year the New York Times won the pulitzer for printing how great the communits were and the famine was a lie created by right wing extremists ('conspiracy')(all the news fit to print), and the same year the US recognized the USSR officially. Do not forget the forced destruction of christianity: churches, the priest class and the intelligentsia in the 20s and 30s. It surprises some, but many in the occuppied soviet union welcomed any force capable of overthrowing the Soviets.