Tuomas Seijavuori

Apples and oranges. Good games, do not compare them. Buy the one which interests you more. Whichever you choose, your money should be well spent. SC costs only $25, by the way.

In SC I can. In SC Finland happily declares war to USSSR every time even when there has been no winter war; France may find Albany an attractive target in May 1940 and Sweden can stubbornly hold out the onslought of the German war machine. Anything can happen in this game. That's why it is so much fun. Who knows what if...?

I thought a completely surrounded (all neighboring land hexes occupied) unit couldn't be reinforced. I had this situation with Hueristic today. Leningrad was surrounded by three units and the other three were water. I could not reinforce the city defenders. The silly thing is Leningrad was supplied via lake Ladoga in real life.

Finland is GMT+2. Seven hours ahead of forum time, if that's easier for the Legend.

I hosted a game for AxisGeneral and myself. Fall Weiss 1939, I'm Allied. We are both new to TCP/IP so I thought a "Low Countries gambit" might do the trick. The darned LC Corps didn't die, of course, and thus I left a hole in my line. Which AxisGeneral exploited masterfully. Still, it took him awfully long to take Paris, because I got lucky in the defense after the breakthrough. I also tried to maximize damage to his Panzers and managed to save my FAF air group. Heavy naval battles in the Med. I sunk his sub, a cruiser and a Battleship, losing a battleship and getting lots of damage to all my naval units. Axis conquered Yugoslavia, but none of the Nordic countries. USSR only 71% ready to join. Undoubtedly thanks to my Low Countries move. Hunted down and sank both German subs in the Atlantic. We'll continue at 4 pm GMT on Sunday. Stay tuned. PS. I'm ready for a new game right now. My ability to continue tomorrow is limited (because I have to play AxisGeneral at 4) but if that's not a problem, drop me a line. My ICQ# is 11928634. Relatively inexperienced TCP/IP players preferred... I've played the game for about one week.

Otto, Hans, zappsweden - check your ICQ panes. I'd appreciate, if one of you guys would give me a strategy lesson via TCP/IP. I've only played a few online games with a friend of mine, but he hasn't practised enough against the AI, even. I'm in GMT+2 timezone (Finland), so at least Hans and zappsweden should be able to play sometimes. The Finnish Opponents Finding forum didn't have any SC playing Finns - where are they? :confused: I play Axis or Allies, with FoW on. Please no War in Siberia, if I play the Allies and we start from 1939, if that ok with you. A short game is appreciated, but I'm willing to go on tomorrow. My vacation start in a week (4th of January) so I will be available for much longer TCP/IP sessions then. ICQ# 11928634

Same thing happened to me after applying the Elite bitmaps over patched 1.06. Then I applied 1.06 patch once again and the problem was solved. Strange, indeed.

Interesting reading, thanks guys. I started thinking this: when will we get a game in which the player can make decisions like this? Give new tank specifications (speed, fp, dp front/sides/rear) to designers, review the prototypes and their production costs, get information about production line conversion times, that kind of thing. The virtual engineers would come up with different solutions each time you'd play it. Certain combinations of speed, fp and dp(s) would carry familiar, hard coded names - others would be fictional. You would decide which one goes to production. I'm throwing the ball to Hubert and the other game designers frequenting this board. You don't even have to mention me in the credits - I just want to play the thing.

So there was my T-26 too. Thanks!

One more request if I may... You don't happen to have a BT-5 or T-26 lying around somewhere would you? Your KV-series is beautiful, but I'm looking for a mix of the most commonly used types during the war and I'd like the first Soviet tank to be a light one. I replaced KV-85 with your very nice looking T-34/85 already.

As for the T-34, my new set includes them. I can e-mail you it. All that you'll have to do is change the color. It is a T-34/85 in the Westward-facing minor allies, level 5. Ah! <slaps on his own forehead> It's right there in front of my eyes on the last page. I can grab it from there. The third one looks something like BT-7, right? Could you please list the names of your new Allied minor tanks facing west? [ December 22, 2002, 04:37 AM: Message edited by: Tuomas Seijavuori ]

Are the first two Russian tanks KV-1 and KV-85? The third surely must be the KV-2? They look great, but I miss the T-34 a little, for it was so widely used, just like I missed the Panther which I added. Did you ever try drawing, say, the 1943 version of T-34? I would replace the KV-85, which wasn't used in as great numbers as the others, with a T-34.

(Deleted double post) [ December 21, 2002, 07:17 PM: Message edited by: Tuomas Seijavuori ]

Nice work, Logan! I especially like the P-38. Were there any other changes to the USSR tanks except the extra fuel tanks? :confused: I think I'll grab the BMPs later, when you are done and combine them with my own adjustments.

Especially at this resolution! I used your jpgs, but I tidied them a little. The result is good enough for me.