xwormwood

yes, true for sure. But on the other hand: what has not been discussed here before... [ June 12, 2003, 07:11 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

what about an option in the game menu: every country get the inmprovements like in real history for free?

I am just back from an very interesting game against Terif. While i learned a lot of him i had enough time to think about some things while my armies were hammered, my planes went down in flames and my navies turned into artifical reefs: 1.)I would like to see an improvement for harbors: limited attack abilities against sea-units. 2.)I want limited attack abilities from land units on coastlines against enemy fleet unists (guns can not only fire from sea to land, trust me, friends). 3.)i would be very glad about a separation of tactical / strategic air-attacks 4.)the chat mode has a bug: when a unit (which you don't need to see (FOW) passes through a hex, which is covered by a chat sentence, the letters disapear in this hex. the letters should stay there until they fade completly away. - - - - - - - - and of course: 5.)Terif plays excellent & fair

excellent question!

Panzer39 Good point!

I don't like the way surprise contacts happen in SC. Subs can kill subs, transports can kill transports when a surprise contact was achieved. But on the other hand, when someone runs into my BATTLESHIP, i often lost even more than he did. So i have two points: if surprise damage between units is possible, it should be also possible in real combat; if someone stumbles into my fleets, he should suffer BADLY, because he ran blind into hell, not me. Now let see what the audience will tell me. PS: I never said that i alone would be able to conquer the USA (i am sure someone will again try to tell me that this will and would never been possible. So i beg in advance: please read my BOLD last statement two times and please BELIEVE me. Thank you.) http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=18;t=002503

Great, that is one of the best ideas here since weeks, i like it very much. Maybe it should be possible to upgrade units when a new tech was discovered. Good work, Sand Castle!

I just finished my first TCP/IP-match against xwormwood and I was suprisingly victorious. Now I'm open for new challenges. Maybe some day everyone here know my name. Sigh, my first TCP/IP game as well, and here my tip to everyone: there are players who DO invade the UK. Silly me. [ June 10, 2003, 05:24 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

KDG: thank you for your analysis. One question: have you played COS when it had it glorious times? Maybe followed by the next question: what exactly speaks against a history function? when i played the AI it was always a nice end to see what happend when i wasted again some preciouse hours of my live in front of my senseless computer

the first error might have occured because your pbem-opponent had installed the latest patch

correcto! [ June 10, 2003, 04:45 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

- Weather effects - special Blitzkrieg rule for the Low Countries - limited amphib. Transports - Mulberry harbors - limited air units - History record (animated) - Russian Winter strike - production tree (pay now, get your army 3 rounds later) - politics (press countries in your alliance, Balkan pact) - U-boat system for strategic warfare (incl. Raiders) No one has to re-invent the wheel once more. While so much in SC looks completly like COS, i wonder if it would be possible to put the better ideas from COS into SC. PS: if anybody wants to speak here about house-rules, he is welcome (have a debt to pay...)

you should test the game if possible. I tried it, but it was absolutly not my kind of game. Looked a bit like MEDIEVAL-TOTAL WAR, but it can't be compared with it. In my opinion SC is MUCH, MUCH, MUCHMUCHMUCH better then HOI.

Brad T. I used this poor, helpless thread to learn something new about the defense preparations on the US east coast. I know that in WW2 no axis fleet could have threatend NY City. Sorry to all house-rule haters, next time i start my own thread which you can take then by force for house-rule discussions, ok?

"Try to think, Baldrick. Thinking is so important" (BlackAdder) Where have i written "about New York City after a Axis naval invasion being a diaster for the United States" ? I love to play games like SC, and i like to write, post about and play some fantasy scenarios. No offence meant, so let us stop this "my daddy can whip your daddy" game, ok? Your enumeration: 1) no, it shows only that you often enough don't bother about facts 2) they weren't, they aren't 3) God bless the USA, many friends over there So, peace brother, ok? I wish you a nice day, too. Honestly.

http://www.danshistory.com/ww2/germanb.shtml In January of 1944 a prototype of a German heavy bomber, the Ju 390, took off on a top secret mission. This six engine bomber, the largest aircraft made by the Germans during the war, carried enough fuel to stay in the air for 32 hours. Testing the feasibilty of bombing New York city in the United States the Ju 390 came within 12 mi (20 km) of the American Coast undetected. Averaging 222 mph (357 km/h) during the 6,000 mi (9656 km) round-trip which took more than a day the bomber sucessfully returned to base. ------------------ Some more comments (sorry, i am a weak person as well) to jon_j: The Germans couldn't even successfully fly the Hiddenberg Zepplin over to the United States. No, they couldn't, because they only had the HINDENBURG Zeppelin. So with that pitiful performance by the Nazis, we didn't need CAP. Remember, the Germans were OVER-RATED. Killing sleeping farmers, women & children with tanks doesn't count. All it took to defeat Denmark, Norway, LC, & France was to drive a tank to their capital. Why? Because those countries wanted to become Nazis themselves! They hated Jews just like the Germans. Insulting me is ok, insulting the people of these states, who died while fighting and suffering under the most evil terror the world has ever seen is NOT. Note: I didn't list the Poles with the other collabrators. The Japs were OVER-RATED too. Anybody can attack at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday when we're not at war. that was my point: when someone is not at war surprises are possible Far as your crap about an Axis navy in New York City, are you kidding me? Everybody here is packing heat (see 2nd Ammendment, N.R.A.) You'd have everybody down at the beach fighting to the death & wouldn't even need a draft. sure, never said anything against this

jon_j: why am i not surprised to see that your wrote again such childlike statements? come on, i don't want to argue with you, but why do you always post this farmer-rubbish, ignoring all the facts? Sir Jersey always speaks good of you, would be glad to learn some day why. There has to be a nice John out there, would be honored to to read from him, because i already know everything of Mr. Jon_J Hyde --- finaly there is one interesting thread today after all, even though it needed me to start the fire [ June 09, 2003, 09:36 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

SeaWolf_48 Well, i wasn't talking of a suicide raid. Test flights were made from france to the US and back by the german Luftwaffe in WW2, that is no joke. My question: were there fighters or an air defense system on the east coast or not? Even though i was talking about the Italian Fleet steeming into NY: in 1940, when the war readiness was pretty low in the US, a pearl harbor like strike with battleships or heavy cruisers, slipping luckily though sleepy and unprepared, underdeveloped navys, would have been a major disaster for a city filled with skyscrapers. Maybe it would have never been possible, but on the other hand Pearl Harbor did happen, and the turkey shot of american trading vessel (german subs against the unprepared US) did happen as well. And the mighty british navy let the entire german fleet slip through "their" channel. All a question of timing, training and of course: luck. [ June 09, 2003, 09:25 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

Codename Condor Where can i sign in? Amen, brother!

BTW: the germans never really tried, because of Barbarossa, and Japan would have easiliy conquered this lousy Midway Islands if their code wouldn't have been broken by the Allies. I agree that no invasion in the classical way could have been done by Italy or any Axis Power. But: if they really would have (luckily) sailed with their entire fleet into the harbor of New York in 1940, it would have been a disaster for the city. Some rounds into Manhattan, would have been terrible for the population. In the remaining rubbles even small forces would have been able to fight some weeks. [edit] BTW. German bombers flew within sight of the US coast. Was there some kind of CAP over NY or any other US cities during the 2nd WW? [ June 09, 2003, 04:31 PM: Message edited by: xwormwood ]

We have had all this already within Clash of Steel.

We have had all this already within Clash of Steel.

Immer Etwas I agree 100%! As far as i know every nations soldier in WW2 fought very brave. Most soldiers stoped to fight when they learned that their leaders have betrayed, forgotten or simply didn't cared for them (France 1940, Italy 1940, Western Germany 1945).

German Forces "Fall Gelb" / France 1940: 118 Infantry divisions 10 Panzer (Armored) divisions 1 Cavalry division 4 motorized Infantry divisions 2 motorized SS-divisions 1 Airborne division (2574 tanks, 3834 planes) Allied Forces 119 Infantry divisions 11 Armored divisions 7 motorized Infantry divisions (3373 tanks, 2372 planes)

and something else: i an end-game against the AI i had conquered every country but the USA. But each turn the game tried to collect income for UK-Minors, even though there were none on the map (so it collected 0 income). Maybe not a bug, but it was a bit annoying. When there is no UK / UK-Minor the game shouldn't try to collect income (visible on the screen).