Hi,
First off; what a great game! Brings me back to the
clash of steel days (which I still have on my hd-
and no my computer isnt 8 years old <g>)
anyways ...
I thought I would mention a few things for future patches etc ...
1. Just now when I tried to load a saved game it would crash to desktop everytime
I clicked load saved game. ie it would crash when I clicked that button on the main
menu. I thought perhaps it was my computer so I rebooted; made sure I had no progs
running and tried 2 more times (ie tried a few more times - rebooted - tried again).
Then I even started a game and saved it and tried again. Same thing.
So I went in my windows explorer and deleated the saved games and tried again - presto'
it worked. So not sure what the deal was but I'm just letting you know. I was wondering
if it had something to do with the # of saved games I had (11 I think).
2. Honestly I havnt read though the instruction manual fully yet; game is just to fun to
play to read the rules
but one thing I noticed - something with supply lines ie city and HQ's:
Units can get trapped if they lack supply.
example:
one time I decided as the germans to sweep though turkey and attack russian from the bottom
up from turkey. I had a unit in iraq (I think it was that) and wanted him to catch up to my
troops now working their way in russia. He was able to get 2 hexes into the mountains and then
he was basically stuck; he couldnt (operate ie train it to anywhere) he didnt have
enough action points to move anywhere either; he was stuck for the remainder of the game.
So again basically he moved from clear to mnt. to mnt. so he was surrounded by mnt. hexas.
I can understand how supply should hinder units but I think its a bug if a unit gets stuck for
years in the same hex because they cant move. I'm pretty sure if I moved a HQ unit
close by that he could move but still do I really need to move one close by for him to move at
all?
2. Another technical question - actually happened during that same game. Basically the game was
nearing an end and I had conquered most of eourpe and now russia. And my only 2 opponents left
were the UK and the US. I easily kicked them out of france once I had destroyed the russians
(they were playing d-day on me while
I was working on the soviets.)
Anyways ... what I am getting at here is that basically I was earning about 3x as much as the US
and UK combined but they had this air fleet army that would just decimate me; literally.
I took my whole russian attack army from russia over to france and was going to try a land
invasion but they just destroyed me. And even when I sat back and tried to 'research' up my
planes to max I couldnt get anywhere in time because their planes would just kill anything I would
make. I had like 6 decent strength planes and basically every turn I would have to spend
all my resources on repairing my planes and the UK and USA would still wipe them.
My question is? are the air crafts in this game too strong?
3. oh and I play all my games with fog of war on; just curious does the computer cheat?lol
meaning do they get free repairs or know where your guys are?
again referring to that game where I was earning 3x the money of the combined allie total; they
were still whiping my butt bad. My level 5 tanks and level 5 rockets and level 4 infantry stood 0
chance against the computers air army. And heaven forbid I bring a HQ in range of their rockets.
ok those are my questions - hope they made sense. Hard to type up a good layout for my questions with
this scrolling message.
again I am a long time fan of WWII board games and especially computer games (board games was when there
were no computer war games.)
Dulak
