Comrade Trapp

June 1940 France Surrenders! Paris falls dispite a heroic last stand made by the French and Canadians. Lucky, the French colonies were successfully evacuated. British forces hold Brest. [ December 29, 2003, 12:46 AM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

May 1940 French and Canadian forces prepare to make last stand around Paris, 2 French corps launch a minor counter-attack against a German Pz group inflicting no losses. Allies evacuate French troops from their respective colonies, Paris may fall next turn. Italy enters the war at the end of Allied turn. [ December 29, 2003, 12:23 AM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

April 1940 German forces destroy a French army, a French army east of Paris launches a counter-attack against a weak German army bringing it down to 1 strengh (lucky bastard). [ December 29, 2003, 12:22 AM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

March 1940 German Army's blitzkreg tactics pay off, German forces breakthrough French lines destroying 2 armies and a HQ. French forces fall back around Paris (defended by a now dugin Canadian 1st Army), Maginot Line abandoned. [ December 29, 2003, 12:21 AM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

February 1940 German forces achieve a breakthrough after overrunning the French 4th Army, French forces fall back one hex to create a new defensive line. [ December 29, 2003, 12:20 AM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

December 1939 Both Poland and Denmark surrender. I'll give them credit for buying the French as much time as they did. 2nd U-boat sent to the bottom, credit goes to RN carriers and RAF Bomber Command. Italian readiness at 80%. [ December 29, 2003, 06:20 PM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

November 1939 Poland and Denmark still holding, once again reinforced. The Low Countries fall after a 2nd assualt. German U-boat attacks Royal Navy BB inflicting 5 damage. Both U-boats engaged, one sunk. [ December 28, 2003, 11:19 PM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

October 1939 Poland and Denmark continue to fight on, reinforced. Germany declares war on the Low Countries, fail to take Brussels, LC reinforced. No sign of U-boats. [ December 28, 2003, 11:18 PM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

September 1939 This is the speech Neville Chamberlain gave to the nation at 11.15 a.m., fifteen minutes after declaring war on Germany for her unprovoked attack on Poland on September 1st 1939. Click here to listen to the speech. Press stop on your browser if it begins echo. Germans invade Poland and declare war on Denmark. All Polish forces survive initial assualt, reinforced dispite low amount of British MPPs, Polish corps captures Konigsberg. German Navy pings Denmark corps. German U-boats raiding Allied shipping lanes in the North Atlantic. France prepares for the inevitable German invasion, purchases Billote (4) HQ. France will not go down easily...... [ December 29, 2003, 01:00 AM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

The Battle for SCHQ - Comrade Trapp (Allies) vs Kuniworth (Axis) Bid 10 (1:10). Kuniworth, in an attempt to get me to restart SCHQ, has made me an offer I can't refuse. The stakes are high.... If I win, it will count as our Winter Storm match (I lost the earlier one against him and this is my chance to recover). If Kuni wins, I will have to restart SCHQ no later then Tuesday (12-30-03). I will be copy and pasting Kuniworth's entries using ICQ since he's unable to post on Battlefront (**coughs** MOON). This will be a fight to the death, no surrendering under any circumstance. [ December 29, 2003, 02:48 AM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

Comrade Trapp (Allies) concedes to Nimitz (Axis), bid 150 (1:10). Nimitz used the "nothing but air" strategy. I couldn't hold in Southern Russia and had nothing to counter his mass airfleets in the west. I know the mistakes I made and do not intend on letting them happen again. Comrade Trapp

I have no problem with that, fighting for air superiority (Battle of Britain for your example) is one thing. But its when someone uses nothing but airfleets to achieve a breakthroughs that pisses me off. Comrade Trapp [ December 26, 2003, 11:57 PM: Message edited by: Comrade Trapp ]

I know this question has been asked before but I'm going to ask it again. In your opinion, is the "build nothing but airfleets" strategy an acceptable tactic? To me, playing a game with one side using that strategy is no fun, it gets boring real quick. I mean, if there was some risk to it then thats one thing, but wheres the risk in doing nothing but building airfleets? How do you defend against mass airfleets in Russia? It's kinda disheartning when the Axis brush aside an entrenched HQ supported AT +1 army using nothing but airpower. If you want to use massive airpower, then at least using something like Rambo's RACK strategy where theres risk involved. Personally, I'm tired of seeing the "build nothing but airfleets" tactic, especially when its used during a tourny game. Its a ****y way to win. Does anyone else feel the same way or is it just me. Comrade Trapp

E-mail address and ICQ ID in sig. Comrade Trapp

Notice: Comrade Trapp has a new e-mail address and ICQ ID, see sig.

About 6 months ago that was a big thing, I haven't really seen it happen in the past few months, not really anything new. There are other variations to that tactic that include landing corps into unoccupied Italian cities upon declaring war on Italy. Do a search, I know there were quite a few discussions about this gambit in that past. Comrade Trapp