Sombra

The curious mob gathers. Chance to defend himself bahhh boring!!!!!!!! As it is a PBEM game there should be a good chance that there is still the first turn of the game hanging around? Like the others said ask him for his password.

@Liam with "force pool" limits applied, it could be that you will need the corps elsewhere then guarding the sea. Just my two cents. On the other hand you still need the backup for the corps spot units to create effective killing zones

Even Rambo if you consider this topic more or less closed I believe in keeping alive a litte while SC2 is still in development. Nothing destroys an online game faster than the suspicion that the other guy is cheating. Though your ideas to have the ability to check the game values before the game starts. I like it very much. Even with the "simple" game SC is, some moves of an experienced player seems like magic to newbies. At least I couldn´t believe my eyes in my last game against TErif . My point is anything to build up the trust is welcome for SC2.

It was much fun friendly fire. Thanks for the games :cool:

Though, in the end. Friendly fires "Dutch Gambit" failed but it was although due to his aggressive style to play. Afterwards I tried the dutch gembit and could hold france up to 06.1941though here it paid off. But in the end I have to admit it is easier and less stressful simply to take NL in turn two.

@ Friendly fire: I agree with you it is an unusal strategy with many flaws ( the reason why it isn´t played much by the Allied player) Regarding your first point: Attacking Irak => transfer of airfleet => you should adapt IMHO a defensive corps defense in France => freeing troops for some aggressive moves elsewhere : Spain, Med, Italian gambit. Looking forward to play against you

Yes, 1:5:20 I suggest 175 MP? => 175MP GB, 875MP USA, 3500 MP Rusia?

Yes, axis gets although 10 MP per round still: - Depending on the axis player strategy the US enters sometimes the war after the declaration of war against the UDSSR . In this case you don´t loose anything. - You have these extra MPs early on. Like an investment in a bank early MPS are muchmore useful than getting them late. - KB of UDSSR is early on not influcened by a declaration of war - An advantage of the declaration of war is an additional corps +125 MP for the axis

Hi Friendly fire, though you are living GMT-8 and myself GMT +1 = 9 hours time difference. I will be online lets say 7:30 AM (sunday morning) and you will be online saturday night 10:30 PM? Regards Sombra

@ Friendly Fire: I would like to play against you.Time zone CET+1 (Germany), ICQ336345303. Contact me if you see me on ICQ or we can set up a game for this weekend

[ June 23, 2004, 01:15 PM: Message edited by: Sombra ]

@ Friendly Fire: I would like to try a counter Dutch Gambit against an experienced player. While I prefer to attack as Axis the LC on turn 2, sometimes I try to take out Warschau on turn 1 running into the risk of a Dutch Gambit. Cleaning up the Med: => ITaly enters the war early , though it builds up its strengh and can buy already the necessary troops for the later expansions. The Dutch Gambit is a DEADLY strategy against an inexperienced player. If the axis player is more experienced and has his troops ready for a counterattack on turn 3, I believe the strategy can backfire for the allies. Still I admit the "safer" way for the axis is to take simply the LC on turn 2... Advantages for the Axis player of a dutch gambit: - Delayed entry of the US - Early entrance of Italy - Risk of faillure of Dutch Gambit by the allies

FIRST RULE: DON´T PANIK!!! Like Yoda "Terif" explained and demonstrates to anyone who cares it is quite "easy" to counter the "Dutch Gambit". Try to get a unit next to Brüssel. Every round you attack Brüssel and the Maginotline the Italian war readiness jumps up => Italy enters the war REALLY fast. Don´t spend your airfleets on hunting ships!!! British fleet in the Baltic ? Hope they have a nice day there. Hide your ships in the habour of Kiel and you should be fine. Use airfleets on taking Kopenhaagen and/or making breakthroughs. Try to get a "foothold" on the other side of the rhine. From the it should be only a matter of time to work your way to Paris with the combined pressure on the southern front. Note: There should be always a "fast" unit tank or corps avaible to move in the gap you just cleared. Many times I have seen players making a potential breakthrough but they had no troops ready to move in the gap. Additional advantages for the axis of the Dutch Gambit. - Good chance to capture part of the british med fleet if they lingered to long in the med... - Delayed entry of the US in the war - Italy gets quite strong and start to clean up the med early on.

Replace the the corps with an LF until the fall of france and the italian readiness does not increase. Since you can´t really counterattack without this airfleet in GB switch to an corps defence in France and plan an Italien Gambit with your English troops, knocking out the italien fleet securing your investment in Irak. 20-40 Rounds of +30 MP for GB until the axis retakes Irak (if it does retake ist)it is a lot of MPS......

-Gibraltar can be taken by force if the allied player moved his corpos to Egypt via Suez. - Who plys the axis and does not take by force Malta :confused: - For example I tried it succesfully... If the enemys fleet is in a bad shape, with the help of a few subs the italiens can win the Attlantik. You don´t have to worry about amerikan troops arriving by sea then. - Rockets why not? They are cheap in the beginning...gambling 1 or 2 chits in research perhaps they pay off. You can train them on the Londoner habor (and the supporting HQ of course) But it is more a expensive toy for the axis player

1. Yes 2. French at sea, transport or ship have 20% chance to convert to free french

Well here we go: 1. after France falls, Vichy france is created, besides a DOW of one side I know no poloitcal trigger to activate Vichy to join one side in the war. To conquer Vichy is "difficult" right after the Fall of France because you have to capture although the north african part of Vichy 2. simply yes but be careful because Rusia doesn´t like a declaration of war at all. 3. Only a declaration off war motivates the Irak to join one of the sides. 4. You ca do it unfortunatly you need a lot of troops to do it and the rusians can easily reinforce the turks. But it can be done and is done sometimes as a kind of surprise attack.

Either way, you have to register only to feature in the rankings. If you are looking only for players send them simply an E-Mail without to register. Most of them are speaking English. Best way to find SC-Players go to Einzeliegen=> Startegic command. Click on the name of the player and you get his E-Mail [ June 08, 2004, 04:17 PM: Message edited by: Sombra ]

:cool: For TCP/IP play take a look at the panzerliga. Some very nice germans over there

Or you can go to www.panzerliga.de - There you will find lots of players (also TCP) . You will find... Active players (At the moment 58) under: Ligen -> Einzelliga -> Strategic Command New players (At the moment 38 for SC)under: Ligen -> Gesamtlige -> Musterung (here you should have a look in the "Wehrpass" to check if they play SC or only a different game) Just make sure they also speek english (english or mixed flag behind the name) and you can ask anyone for a fun game You can simply send them an e-mail or in the so called "Wehrpass" you will find the ICQ numbers. Or register and join the league if you want to play frequently/more often - then you can also post officially in the "Gegnersuche" and look for opponents for League matches (in this case make sure you know the Panzerliga-rules (you can ask me or any other Veteran member from Panzerliga)/clear it with your opponent). [ May 30, 2004, 06:13 AM: Message edited by: Terif ] --------------------

Well make it easy, inform your PBEM partner beforehand that you would like to ask him at the end of the game for his password at that you intent to save various moves from the game to check afterwards for strange things. If you tell him beforehand he will be able to choose a password for only this game and have no complaints afterwards sending it to you. Rambo if we play sometimes online I will offer you alwys this possibilty.

By the way perhaps we should start another match Germany against the rest of the world since half of the active SC-community sems to be Germans.

Unfortunatly in the last Europe -US war called the ryder cup the famous general Rambo the legend was missing. Though History tokk notitice off another defeat of the proud american nation.

Sniper actions, but in this game Curry already used the cookie cutter on most of Europe. His airfleets will be deployed more or less in France and perhaps Italy for an attack on Spain right now. Moving the British fleet to the Med, is only possible with a very high risk to loose the navy. Any advances in LR will spot your fleet moving to the Med, with ample warning to give the Allies a warm welcome. Brest is although risky any ship moving to Brest is right now in mortal danger due to airfleets in France. There are always exceptions if for example Aeosopol is much more advanced in JT to fight a battle for air supremacy. IMHO opinion there is time for the Allies to sit back and hope for mayor mistakes by the axis player to exploit. Different playing style perhaps.