husky65

I routinely get Sweden, France, Vichy and England in the demo - getting Ireland is a bonus. I tend to set up to hold Russia at the border until Britain has surrendered and am busy redeploying for Barbarossa when the demo ends. I think you need to be looking at buying more air fleets, they are the key to getting cities - bash the entrenchment down with air fleets and then damage (or destroy) the defender with air fleets before the ground troops attack. [ July 02, 2002, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: husky65 ]

Simple answer, beat the child. Parents these days!, they want software fixes where simple violence will do the trick - what is the world coming too...

Yes Ted, tell us when you bet it will come out.

I'm not being testy, read exactly what I said and take it at face value. You will note that I do not refer to you re the insulting part (in fact it is a general comment and not directed at anyone on this board).

I'm not being testy, read exactly what I said and take it at face value. You will note that I do not refer to you re the insulting part (in fact it is a general comment and not directed at anyone on this board).

Keep in mind that with text based communications people cant really tell, its best to just say what you mean. emoticons don't help as it is not uncommon for people to put them after an insult to pretend that it isn't an insult.

Keep in mind that with text based communications people cant really tell, its best to just say what you mean. emoticons don't help as it is not uncommon for people to put them after an insult to pretend that it isn't an insult.

Yes, but you haven't told us what you think it will add to the game, at the scale of SC there will be little or no movement, just a steady stream of broken Soviet units. Doesn't sound to me like it adds much play value.

You don't get it - I know all about the winter war, I just don't care if its in or out - it will add about as much to the game as adding the Kokoda Trail battles.

Yes thanks, that was what I was after.

Personally, I don't care if its in or not.

I don't doubt that it makes a difference, I just want to know how? Does it give more MPPs?, better AI? I'm curious as to what is the mechanism.

A great many very Brave and very dead Brit aircew would disagree. Remember in the demos timeframe the Brits were still doing daylight bombing - in Hampdens, Whitleys and Wellingtons, of those the Wellington was the only one that had adequate guns and then only for night ops (where the attacker had to come in close). Frequently daylight raids in this period were utter disasters (Such as the 14 Dec 1939 shipping raid off wilhelmshaven), the air defences of the time were doing a great job - frankly unescorted bombers should get flogged.

When I set a new game up, I get the option to 'set difficulty' - what does that change? Does it give the AI more MPPs?

I like the idea of the zones/lanes being a lighter shade of blue. I also like the idea of 'once its dived it stays down'.

And its got a mean streak a mile wide!

To get the full value of subs you have to remember that WW2 subs were more of an economic weapon than a military one, that is they were far more effective at disrupting trade than they were at sinking warships. In game terms that means avoid combat and try to put your subs in the convoy lanes to eat up enemy MPPs.

Ask the North Vietnamese... Airpower is not the be all and end all, combined arms is far more important.

Try the existing Anti Tank tech

The Soviets had the Tech to build the T-34 in 1940, hence their tech was that high. By 22 Jun 1941, 967 T-34s were available in the west.

The answer is the Luftwaffe (boy, Fat Hermann would have loved to hear that!) - pound London with 8 or so Luftflottes, take it the turn you land troops and then ship in a HQ. Rebuild your most damaged luftflottes and use the others to pave the way for the advance on Manchester, rebuild as required. At about this point, Spain will see which way the war is going and sign up for a share of Lebensraum. Surround, then hit Manchester with every plane you've got, then every Inf, or Tank army that can reach it. UK will fall, giving you Gib, Malta + Egypt as well, so don't waste troops on them earlier. Use the points the UK gives you to put in place a reasonable Ostwall with a good leader, move some planes and ship some panzers via Baltic. You should be in pretty good shape for the Yugo coup and any Soviet treachery against the peace loving 1000 year reich! [ June 29, 2002, 01:29 AM: Message edited by: husky65 ]