Col. Gen. Guderian

Hello? How can I get these icons and terrains?

I don't mean to sound like a smug bastard, but defeating the low countries in one turn is the norm, right? With a tiny bit of luck you can do it and not even touch the Dutch corps. What's harder, is taking the low countries and France in 3 turns. It can be done, and 4 turns is easily done. I only know the way to do it so well because I played the demo for so long before buying the full game.

Who hasn't? You're talking against AI right? Although i've never played a PBEM game, even I know that defeating the comp is easy. You did it in a fairly decent timeframe mind. I just did mine in about 30 months, which may sound pathetic, but get this. The siberian reserve was released on the same turn as the allies landed in Normandy, I totally wasn't expecting that. What's worse, I foolishly forgot to put a corps in Brest and this is probably what lured the computer to do such an early invasion (February 1942 I think.) and the nearest corps I had couldn't make it in time and ended up being destroyed in the open by a few Air Fleets. I'm sure I would have defeated the USSR in half the time had these 2 events not occurred simultaneously.

Nice one, how may I get my hands on them? I even tried compressing the bitmaps from the demo I have and extracting them into the full game bitmap folder, but to no avail-the terrain + icons are just the same. P.S. I'm from Ireland, but I presumed you could only order the game from the states. That kinda pissed me off.

Yup, that's it! Are they your own? If so, very impressive. I noticed how you even managed to get the american soldier's boots right. Now, the demo that I played with those graphics I installed off the PCZone demo disc from June of this year. Yet the demo from this website just has the default graphics. Why is this, do you know? [ June 26, 2004, 07:45 AM: Message edited by: Col. Gen. Guderian ]

Nope, I have of course checked there. You've gotta remember that i've checked most websites for the stuff. May I have your e-mail address so that I can show you these screenshots I have of the demo? [ June 25, 2004, 11:07 AM: Message edited by: Col. Gen. Guderian ]

I don't know how to upload the screenshots I have of the demo, but if anyone would be willing to give me their e-mail address and i'll send it to you? I'm not exactly sure why I find myself so desperate in getting these graphics, as I presumed I'd get used to the default ones. But although I may have gotten used to them, I still don't like them. I think it's the luminous green, red and sky blue that seems so horrid. I've searched for new icons but I can't find the same ones and I can't find any different terrains whatsoever. Can anyone help?

He doesn't just list off atrocities. When I was bought Berlin the downfall last christmas, I was dreading reading the book because it was so dense on a part of the war which I didn't find very interesting, but that was really only because I didn't know much about it. It's an excellent book, much better than Stalingrad. I think Clark is amazing, I love the way Barbarossa focuses on the personal intrigues and jealousies withing the Nazi framework and the military. His account of battles is excellent too. Whatever you were talking about that 1000 page essay on the friggin red army, let me pose this question. Have you ever been skull-****ed?

I've read Barbarrossa by Alan Clark and Stalingrad by Antony Beevor and they both agree that Stalin would do anything to avoid provoking Hitler. That's the basis of what i'm saying. Yes, the military and industries were preparing for war, but it is doubtful that Stalin would have ever given the order unless Germany's fortunes were in decline, which is unlikely because the Soviets were the only ones who could actually stop Hitler.

Don't do that ! Go for Norway, Sweden, Vichy, Greece, Iraq, Egypt. Leave the bear to it's sleep as long as possible.

I invaded the baltic states for the craic straight after I conquered France, it really stretches out your front.

Do you ever invade Sweden and Finland before doing so? So as to create a 4th army group and a second front against the Russians? You could even take the rump of what would have been army group south and deploy them in Finland, and leave Army group south to be made up of the satellite armies, including Italy. Does anyone ever do this? Or is this a common tactic? P.S. My birthday tomorrow, will finally get to play the full version.

This would be a great addition, I whined about it before. 2 big things that should be adjusted, sub warfare should be more effective. Same goes for bombing. I mean, the amount of times that the computer bombs your city and you lose about 3 MPPs, but the bomber unit might lose just 1 strength and it would cost it 20 MPP to reinforce. So basicly bombing cities and resources was completely useless in SC, could this be looked at for the second?

This would be a great addition, I whined about it before. 2 big things that should be adjusted, sub warfare should be more effective. Same goes for bombing. I mean, the amount of times that the computer bombs your city and you lose about 3 MPPs, but the bomber unit might lose just 1 strength and it would cost it 20 MPP to reinforce. So basicly bombing cities and resources was completely useless in SC, could this be looked at for the second?

I still don't understand what bidding is. Could someone explain it to me in a no-bull****, non-convoluted way?

Agreed.

Two things have altered not Since first the world began The beauty of the wild green Earth And the bravery of man.

That's a bit stupid. It was so much more complicated than you make out. If all of the great generals resigned on account of Hitler's 'dumbass', the German army would have been in a pretty dire state and they would have been absolutely certain to lose the war. Generals like Guderian, Manstein and Rommel did their very best to work around Hitler and OKW's inflexible commands and many times it worked.

I agree with the bloke who said Ike was more a manager than a General. He was heavily criticised for his conduct of operation Torch in 1943. Yes he was brilliant in many senses, but John Churchill (aka Marlborough) did pretty much the same thing in the war of spanish succession, only he was personally responsible for 4 great victories in battle. Needless to say, I think Guderian was the greatest general of the war, with Manstein at a close second. If it wern't for him, the German Blitzkrieg simply wouldn't have been invented. Guderian was one of the few generals who seemed to see the right course of action for nearly every situation. He was also one of the most likable Generals of the German army, and the one who found it the easiest to argue with Hitler. He was also the only General and perhaps the only person ever to stand up and yell at the Fuhrer. I think that in many ways he underachieved in that he had been in virtually every rank apart from Field Marshall, and this includes Inspector General and OKH Chief of staff. More often than not, it was circumstances and OKW that thwarted some of his wisest plans.

Was that not more simply because he obeyed every order he was given? Zhukov was no genius himself though.

So does no one here really play single player at all then?

But in the demo I usually invade Russia around september 1940. On top of the forces that originally invaded France, I usually have another Airfleet, 2 more panzer groups, another HQ, 3 Italian armies and an Italian HQ. Not to mention level 1 tech for heavy tanks and anti tank weapons. It usually does the trick and by May 1941 I have destroyed all of their armies. It's not hard at all. I'm only talking single player of course.

i.e. Invade Russia in June 1941?

Stop messing with my brain Dr. It's a pretty humourless gimmick. Is that meant to be funny?

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