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  1. Originally posted by Flash Gordon:

    ...the Battle of Britain was won by radar which acted as a force multiplier for the British. Basically, they were able to put their planes where and when they were the most needed. It was also won by the fact that the Luftwaffe switched from striking airfields to London, itself. Had they continued their attacks on the airfields, they would have achieved air superiority over Southern England.

    However, all that would have been moot because Germany did not have the naval resources at the time to pull off a cross-channel invasion.

    Flash[/QB]

    Amen to that.
  2. Well the question in the bloody chaos of the eastern front should be wether or not it will be a fighting retreat or just a run. I believe more and more that retreating slowly and fighting back to be the correct strategy. Partly because you can keep up the MMP for a while but above all that the destruction of some russian armies are important. Go for destruction not reducing units.

    If you play the 1943 scenario you can destroy the bulk of the red army before you reach christmas. This is not the case here.

  3. Have tried to play the AI a couple of times in the 1944 campaign trying to hold out as the Axis. I seem to very difficult, usually I can drag the war in to autumn/winter 1945 before surrendering.

    Now I want to hear from you guys. What is your exzperience of this scenario, have you managed to hold out to end date? Where to you place your defence-line in the east(warzaw) and what else should you do.

    In the War in russia forum someone once thought of the 1944-eastfront as trying to stop a steamroller with bare hands. I find this to be true. If the AI maximise damage on many diffrent units there is no way that germany can maintain replacements so eventuallt they drown.

    What I try to do against the AI is blocking D-day with corps so the allies withdraw back to England. Then I move the remnants of the heeren ost back to Warzaw-konigsberg line. Often disband armies and airfleets to have corps as the mainstand of the line which will make more replacements available.

    However this works...at least for half year or something. Then the russians breakthrough and you give up the Balkans which only make your downfall come more quickly. Meantime the western allies again unleashes their forces on a by now empty France.

    What to do guys?

    So...what do you do...

  4. The AI in SC has a problem that is very similar to the AI in Clash of Steel; It has a tendency to withdraw troops from the frontline which leaves huge gaps in the line.

    For example; Lets say you play the Barbarossa scenario with AI as Axis. Every time on the first move it withdraws airfleets and armies away from the russian toward the central parts of Germany motivated by "protective movement". At the same time some of the panzer groups start reinforcing from 10 to 11 strength points which in turn makes Barbarossa a failure from the start.

    I am very annoyed by this. Hubert; You got to program the AI to act accordingly and above all stribe to have a continues front as often as possible.

  5. One thing I really HATE about the Axis AI is that it totally suck on the matter of having a continuing front. I would like to call this the Clash of Steel Axis AI syndrome. Especially on the eastern front this is very annoying.

    Every scenario I faced the AI they pull back some of their forces and leaves big holes in the front so I just surround the axis units left their. Talking of bad strategy.

    It´s so unchallenging. If the AI would go for a continuing front that pulls back just some hexes once broken through the war would last much longer.

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