Iron Ranger

Late Fall 1940 The next target is spoted.... a huge navy appears off of the Egyptian coast. UK rushs in a few units to hold the beachs as there has not been a crossing of the wire on the Libian border.

Yes on of the joys of playing Rambo is the wildnes of the games. Railheads would kill his game play I think but with it... watchout as he is a Icon.

Fall 40 Quiet time, UK seachs for the next target of the Axis powers. USSR spots a air fleet and minor units on its border.... hmm perhaps they plan on comming here soon? USA stays isolationsit while the Med is quiet.

Early Fall 1940: The brave Royal Marines held out in Hamburg for two turns before being over run by a combined arms assult, UK hopes that lost time will prove vital. Brest and all the port citys have also fallen one week after Paris... it was felt that we needed to make sure we had some troops for the Home Islands. The raid into Denmark worked well. Two wolf packs and one CN were distroyed, one CN was badly damaged in port. No ships lost however a few were damaged and will need some time in drydock. Romaina and Hungery both now serve Germany, US and USSR seam happy to let UK face the danger alone... for now.

France feels the heat, thier General staff breaks from thier MT hide out only to get cut down by fast moving german tanks south of Paris. Units around Paris survive for the most part but too few troops can be found to fill in the holes. De Gaul sits in Paris and hope for Mud in June as he knows only God can save them now that the UK EF (corps) has fled to the port citys and left the south side of Paris open. UK, seeing that all german units are busy in Frace quickly desides on a fast naval attack in the Baltic just might help them in the long run. RN marines are loaded up and sent to Denmark as she will not allow up to pass... then land and take the Capital and port quickly. Ships then race in and hunt and destroy one Germany CN group and damage two wolf packs. As a side bonus they also land and take the city on the Denmark/German border.

WOW, impressive number .. 54% of all men. If you factor in old and young your talking about close to 100% of all males 16-45. Then again someone posted that males 17-24 were all but wiped out in russia (5%).

I know your going for game balance, but Air Power was king in the west with good reason. Without there never would have been a D-Day ect. Bombers, if used right in this game are insanely overpowered. But they are EXPENSIVE (as are air fleets), and take FOREVER to build. Thier is a real balance here as if you go this route your giving up alot of MPPs for a long time, and once you have them reinfocing them is insanly expensive (if you go the air route then your going to need tech=costly) Again I just dont see how you can consider these units over powered... unless used in a mass'd approce (same as navel units btw). Perhaps the solution would be to script HQs to only support a max of two air units (one Air on Bomber?).... so that if you wanted to mass your air fleets in NA you better have alot of HQs near by (or UK for that matter).

Not allowing a Sealion gives the Brits a free hand to do whatever they wish, and thats a huge mistake. Thier already are few options left to the axis due to the many scripts IG now, making a non historical house rule would push this even more into the realm of liners combat where a few die rolls is all that matter. If UK desides to adventure somewhere and not protect the home islands they are going to pay the price if the axis player is fast enough (I was not... I never beat the RN, just damaged them) USA not entering in this game. I DOW almost no minors before USA entered, there was a cost to this but I felt it was worth it to keep them out (see Teirfs post). I put chits in USA and got HITS. Yes this is why their readness is was so low. UK blocked me almost compleately in Norway (still UK's at 3%) and Sweden (Not one hit even though I had a huge number of chits in it - 20% now but was down to 0 at one point). UK also had the use of Iraq for most of the game. It was just useless as his port was at 0 for a long time. Yea this game has been filled with mistake, and thats what makes it fun.

Reduce it to 3-4 for all..... whats the number of hex's from London to Normandy.. 3? If people want more put it in Tech. Let It start at 1 US at 1 with more chits invested already.

Slow going for the Allied HQs, they are all drunk and just dont know what to do. We hold the line against Germany but its all falling apart. The Dutch and Belguiams fight on hard but they are no match for the LF and Armor. Its going to be a long spring in Eroupe.

While massed air / operating it around is a problem (due to the moral / readness drops I guess); I personally feel Air fleets are underpowered... against Naval units. And Bombers are over powered against Navel units. Historically the smaller bombers ect sank ships in WW2. Not B-17s droping for sky high... they rarely to never hit ships. Flip these values around and things would be better.

Augest 42 East: The Germany army continues to hold the line, in fact we counter attacked in the south and cut off a Red army near the MTs of Romaina. Finland holds on once again. In fact its kind of quiet up there. Med: Our garison troops near Iraq report alot of sand clouds coming thier way. Looks like the UK troops in Iran have moved out and are scouting our border. West: A lone armor group lands in UK and clears the last of the ships in Londons harbor. After taking the docks and fixing the morings the rest of Army Group West sails in and sets up in southern UK and Wales. Well its a race, time - space and the weather. Per our House Rules (no DOW axis on Turkey, and Inactive Major's needed to keep all ships near thier ports) I have 3(?) turns before USA troops could transport into the island. Its been 1.5 turns.. also the weather could turn ugly soon... its going to be VERY close in the West. In the East the Red Army is strong, just not big so I cant win but he can overwhell me in one turn. The Med is quiet but I'm not sure what will happen over the next few turns. Tech as been both good and bad. USSR has HT3 and IW 3 from day one. I have M2 IW 2 and other techs though you can see I'm outmatched. I did look at the tech screen and was disapinted to see 3 chits that I put in early 40 still sitting there.... made me sad and mad!

READ IT HERE>>> READ IT HERE LONDON FALLS! Late Summer 42 East: We hold the line but the Russian armor is just too strong (tech 3 from day one)... its only a matter of time. We hope our new anti tank guns will slow them down but there is no hope now. Finland hold on, there are a hard people and thrown back the Russian attack. Med: Itialan ships break the Rock and race north to the Bay of Biscay.. too late but perhaps they can hold back the US fleet West: Yes you heard it right. Two corps and the Para unit with alot of air support destroy the UK bomber in London and heavly damage the ship in port. Perhaps Franco likes this and will throw in with the Axis power's after all.

July 42 Things are not looking for Germany and the Axis. Hitler is burning files and everyone else is getting drunk alot. East: We are now hiding behind the rivers and MTs on the border.. watching a sea of red army units move forward. One lone crops was sent to Finland as aid... I hope they make it out alive. Med: Tunis is 'asked' to join the us and agrees. A few desenters are killed in the Capital but the rest of the population agree's that Italy is a good Big Brother. West: Naval battles around Denmark see's alot of the Kriegsmarine go down.. where are the Itialian ships? Denmark notes this agression by the UK and Joins the Axis.. with some help. UK is starving however... its ports are in ruins and no convoys can reach the Island now.... perhaps they will see the light as well and join Germany.

I think he prefers the PlayBOY bunny suit.

bump we need more people guys the AI sucks!

The German Air force shifts to France and dual's with the Brits over thier skys again. German Bombers work over the UKs ports with exellent support from the ME109'Es. On the Eastern front not all is as good, mud, mud and more mud seams to be all we see. Our troops have shifted back to the pre war border in the north but pushed out to the Dineiper river in the south. All's quiet in the Med. [ July 09, 2006, 11:32 PM: Message edited by: Iron Ranger ]

The French continue to dig deap and pray for more cold weather. The RN and all of UK hide behind a cloud of fog and brace for the axis power's next move.

Didnt see a sticky for bugs so I'll just post some observations here. 1.02 Sealion #2 states that USSR should see a 30-35% incress in activation PER TURN when axis units in range (?) of London or Manchester. --- This seams a one time only event, never seen it fire off more then one turn British Units going around the Cape of Good Hope remain on the board if both capitals are taken while they are at sea. I just finished a game with Jaimain and my Egpyt army group sprang up one turn after both of the Capitals fell and UK surrenderd..... FREE UK units woot.....!

While I at first didnt like the square grid I could see how it helps make this a war of movement. And that good, what I still hate however is that 'river defence' seams impossiable for the main reason I'm still not sure when your attacking across a river or defending behind one due to the confusion of grids/river paths. Help on this please?

And thats what the engine does, or thats what I have been told.

Liam must figure one finished makes you a champ (IE me). Well more learning to to, so took Allies this time in a PBEM game with the king of smack. We will change it around next time. Allies, not much to say so far. French dig in, UK plots, and the Poles lasted a few turns. Would have lasted longer but the attacked like mad after the capital fell but the Goverment refused to give in to German demands. US and USSR watch all this and wounder where it will lead them.

Spring 42 Eastern Front: Mud.... thats all I need to say In the Med the greeks aggree to our demands and join the greater axis empire. More air raids in Iraq and units continue to slowly move into Iraq. All else is quiet, sadly Franco doesnt see the light and refuse's to join up with Germany. In the west Brest is retaken and two German air fleets duel with UKs two air. The skys over Eroupe are filled with planes as each side fights for dominance.

Jan 42 Russian winter rolls in but the german army continues to move east. One Red Army is destroyed after our fast moving units cut it off from Leningrad. Several more units are now traped in that city as we hold the eastern swamps. UK starts sending bombers against our mines and industral centers in western Eroupe while our planes remain grounded due to the weather. In the Med Greece refuse's to join with us and is shown the lash... its troops fight hard against the valuted Itialian Marines and hold Athens however all orginized resistance is gone and soon they will be forced to give in. More and more sand it collected by the Africa Korps and our bombers have turned Iraq's oil production to zero. [ July 08, 2006, 11:15 PM: Message edited by: Iron Ranger ]

*coughs* problems?