Logan Hartke

Somewhere in Spain... Somewhere in Canada... Logan Hartke

My strategy is different and it works just fine for me. I attack Poland ASAP and transfer everything to the Lowlands. I attack France early, forgetting Denmark (it's only going to make the neutral allies come in that much faster). I take France very quickly (putting all excess cash into research, buying only 1 Panzer army) and then work on shifting all forces to the Eastern Front, only doing normal moves, not wasting money on operating them. As I move over there, I buy 2-3 more HQs and a few more Panzer armies and infantry armies. By now, I have bought nearly all (if not all) 10 chits of research, putting 5 into Industry, 3 into Anti-tank, and two into Heavy Tanks. If one of those maxes out (2-3 in inf., 2 in tank, or 3-5 in indust.) I take those points and put them into long-range and jet aircraft (I find long-range aircraft to be more useful than jets). By this point, Yugoslavia has been taken, the British fleet in the Med has been destroyed and Alexandria has been captured. I take all but an army or two out of France, piling everything else on the Eastern Front. It's mid-late 41 by now and Russia is spoiling for war (80%ish even w/o me attacking Denmark, Spain, Norway, Iraq, etc.). I have basically all Germans on the Eastern front with all Italian income going towards corps spamming. Those corps go entirely into France and Yugoslavia (mainly France). These tend to prevent any kind of invasion once America enters the war and their upkeep isn't expensive either even without air support. An Italian HQ is also useful in Western France. When the campaign in Russia starts, I have plenty of forces to take it by mid-late 1943. When America enters, I start ruthlessly taking all neutrals with small task groups diverted from Russia. If invasion of France threatens, I send a few experienced groups to France and that usually starts working. I then get ready to knock out Gibralter and bring the Italian fleet through, basing it out of France then. By now, my research has switched completely to jet and long-range fighters. Whenever I get a spare 400 MPPs, I buy a Fuftflotte. By this time, ti's slaughter. In January of 1945, I have about 15-20 Luftflottes and have destroyed all Allied airpower (thanks to my long-range), and I then switch entirely to aircraft carriers. Just for the fun of it, I then switch most research to heavy bombers. At the end of the war, (mid-late 1945) I had L=5 fighters, L=5 tanks, L=5 long-range airplanes, L=5 anti-tank, L=5 heavy bombers, and L=4 industrial tech. It was SO much fun hitting the US with 5 Horten heavy bomber groups based out of Spain and commanded by Kesselring. Also, I had invaded EVERY neutral country on the map. I use Canada as a base for my Ta 183 fighter groups. My E-100 tanks landed on the shore and swept through the US. That was a lot of fun. Logan Hartke

I read through it, but not everyone made a stand and said what they thought was the smartest. Logan Hartke

Which is more valuable when it comes to the defence of France as the Allies? Should one go for the all out defence, transferring most British units to France and letting British air forces help defend, or should a player try to get as many units out to fight another day - including French, as possible? I have always gone for the strong France. I think it helps Russia in the long run. Logan Hartke

Thanks. I'll keep in touch. Logan Hartke

Okay then. Nothing new has come out. I'm up-to-date. Hey, I will have to ask you to help me with CC5 mods later. I have no luck getting them to work. I can't get a CC5 mod to work correctly because the maps won't work. I don't need help now as I am not interested in them now. When I need help, though, then I'll know where you are. As for the CC3 mods, I have all that you mentioned. Is there any new news on the Gulf War mod? Logan Hartke

Oh. Like those in Panzer Commander or whatever the precursor to Panzer General is called. Yes, I know what those are. The funny thing is that I was working off of Moder's Aid 'Flat' Tile Mod. Logan Hartke

What do you mean "counters", though? Logan Hartke

Thanks. The Tiger is the level 13 tank, yes. It is also the Italians' level 15 and the level 14 German is a King Tiger. Logan Hartke

I will have to, I will have to. Is the 1946 mod done yet? I have a massive amount of mods. What are the latest few? Logan Hartke

I stink; I haven't even played against a human, yet. How late will you be up? Logan Hartke

Yes, they're basically good memories. I played a little CC3 online and remember your name very well on there. Some people on there seemed to view you as a god. I went under the name ComradeLoganov, but was not on there enough for you to probably remember me. I never played against you. Anyway, it's nice to see that you're on here. Don't worry, I know all of what you posted, I'm just anal and wanteed to be accurate. My minor allied fighter for example is a PZL P.11 so that people would see that in 1939. I DLed your files and blew them up (not literally) in Paint Shop Pro before I began my comments, so don't think that I'm criticising your bad quality jpegs. Anyway, nice work and hope to see you on here more often. Logan Hartke

I just wanted to attack Iraq with level 15 tanks. America got their chance, now let me do it... Logan Hartke

Shucks... I didn't think so. You can do that in Axis and Allies. Logan Hartke

Not only that, but they had very small numbers of trained crewmembers and couldn't maintain more than ~30% of their tanks at one time, and that's not taking into account the massive supply problems. Logan Hartke

There is no way to continue war after all major countries have been occupied or have allied, is there? Logan Hartke

Actually, I think that they do. Logan Hartke

We must be thinking on the same wavelength. Most of my vehicles and planes are the same, but I think mine are more realistic and don't reach so far into the 50s/60s, although, they are not as evenly matched. Also, my minor allies are not ALL carbon copies of their bigger brothers. Only a few levels of your tanks and your ships are any different than their bigger brothers. Also, some of your tanks don't look that much like the vehicles they are trying to protray to my eye. There's a lot more work put into yours, though. Great job. Logan Hartke [ December 25, 2002, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: Logan Hartke ]

Starfury! You probably don't even remember me, do you? I know you... Logan Hartke

Turkey gets involved only when Britain is being taken (at least in my experience) and sometimes not even then. Logan Hartke

Thanks. I have all of the units done and I have modified the flags (gave the US flag a little makeover and used the German military flag posted on your site). Also, I have my medal mod (changed the British medal to the Victoria Cross, gave the US medal a Medal of Honor blue color, and changed the green in Italy's medal - this was all done on top of Andreas' Medal Mod). The only thing that I will do now is change the ship graphics, but don't expect me to do that before the new year. This project wore me out. I will have Otto or Carl put them up on their site for people to download. They can DL and look at them/modify them all they want to. If anyone has any questions as to what certain vehicles/planes are, just ask me after they DL them. Logan Hartke BTW - I e-mailed them to Otto and Carl. If anyone else wants them now, I'll e-mail you as soon as I get your message.

Well, guys, I can't post pics of updates anymore, but I'll tell you that I've finished the fighters of all countries except the minor allies and minor axis countries. I have finished US bombers, Russian prop bombers and have started Italian bombers. Again, if anyone wants them, just ask and I'll e-mail them to you. Otto, will you put them up on your site when they're done? Logan Hartke

No problem. Logan Hartke

Sure. I'll name the ones facing east, too. It goes... EAST- 10-FT-17 (or foreign equivelant) 11-Vickers Light Tank (pick your favorite mark, they all look alike) 12-Mark VIII "Liberty" 13-Valentine 14-Ram 15-Grizzly WEST- 10-FT-17 (or foreign equivelant) 11-Vickers Light Tank (pick your favorite mark, they all look alike) 12-Vickers 6-ton tank (or T-26) 13-LT-38 (or similar vehicle) 14-captured PzKpfw IV used against former allies 15- T-34/85 That's it. The Axis minor allies are based on the Turan I, Turan II, PzKpfw D, PzKpfw F2, PzKpfw G, PzKpfw H-J. Logan Hartke

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.</font>