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  1. LOL LOL LOL

    Too funny. Yeah, guess it's pretty well-known about the walking ball&chain in my house. I was launching SC yesterday, and she literally walks over, turns off the computer and says non-chalantly "let's go outside". How lame is THAT?!

    Seriously, looking for games now and then, but you guys aren't on when i come home from work anymore!! what's up with that? I've been itching to try out a couple more 'new' strats... got some unseen stuff to try out :D:D:D

  2. I'm Alive!! Sry guys, was in Canada, and parents with no net (wtf??), so I was in limbo for awhile. Was fun, nice to be in NA for a change... Europe can be a little dull sometimes. But, I'm biased, so ignore that comment!

    SO, I'm back, and I'm ready as ever for some play. DH, are you still ok for playing? I didn't even finish my game gainst Zapp, so I don't know what my chances are anymore, but I'm still more than willing to play if you want to.

  3. IMO, Russia would have 'won' by seizing the rest of Germany, as well as the rest of south east europe that they didn't have. You guys are imagining a slug-fest, another world war III, but chances were likely that Stalin would have taken what he could by force, and then made peace with the West as soon as it was practible. Soviet industries, far from Allied Bombers (unlike Germany's) could not be bombed, and therefore could churn out much more equipment that would have been readily on hand. I'm not saying they could have waltzed through all of western europe, but they certainly could have taken another large chunk. In a scenario like this, Stalin could have justified more aggression by stating that Russia's losses were far greater than those of most combatant nations. The West would have fought, but most likely the Rhine and Alps would have been a barrier to further aggression. And would the Allies fight to gain back those possessions? 90% not. Besides, Germany caused Russia so much grief, the West might have allowed the russians to keep Germany under its boot! It would still be the Cold War like we know it, but with the Iron Curtain around a 1000km west of it's historical position.

  4. Actually HR, I used the UK Navy to attack Denmark too. I think tho you're forgetting that somehow Malta needs replacement. My preferred method is using the badly depleted Fr AF (after a couple intercepts/attacks) to Op to Malta. You don't wanna bother reinforcing later as it's nigh-useless against by-now experienced german AFs, and, you get to keep it after Paris falls anyhow. You could move it to Africa or use it elsewhere for spotting or whatever.

    In addition to what HR said, you can do a 'limitied' 'all-in', where you know as the allies you can't stop axis from getting paris, so you do as much damage as possible, and hold on as long as you can, but come a certain point, you evacuate and make a decision not to defend paris anymore. This way, you won't lose as much for UK when it's post-france. Since playing Terif, and he got to Oct '41, I thought that Russian readiness starts rising Mar '41, but it doesn't! It never does! It raises normally in June 22nd. So there's not a huge huge point is losing a lot in france, since you're just that much weaker later on. A middle-point strategy should work well however.

  5. Terif's right about everything. Really. It kind of is a fluke I have him in a headlock. But, it happened, not my fault!

    In all seriousness, I have a very demanding girlfriend, who, unlike zapp/jjr/hellraisers' girlfriends, she will NOT let me play 12 consecutive hours. She's the type who literally pulls the plug on my computer. I just can't play super long games! I have no choice but to go for shorter ones! Deutsche Telekom charges ISDN by the minute, so in my old appartment, a 2 hour game of SC would cost me around 10 euro. In Canada, it was different, but here..... :(

    Well, Yoda will have his revenge sometime soon. My dream would be, of course, to beat him twice consecutively :D

    [ May 23, 2005, 07:58 AM: Message edited by: Avatar ]

  6. JJ, I agree 100% with your reasonings. However, I believe 'plunder' should be seen as more abstract. An additional corp (or whatever) created by liberating a country can equally be transposed with 'plunder' money. For the sake of easier programming, and more simplified game flow, it's easier that the allied player just decide what he wants to spend the money on. Portugal, when it declared war on the Axis provided almost entirely money and auxiliary troops, kinda like most free minor countries did. All this can be translated into MPP. A corp would be too restrictive. At the time, you might need the extra money for AF's or whatever, and getting a corp, well, it's just not enough.

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