Cheese Panzer

You see, Scook, this is why I stopped posting on this forum. Some of the assholes around here are so big they must have to type their messages standing up!

Thank you very much, Scook!

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Keep in mind the other effect of liberating Paris - Paris is the only Western Allied national capitol on the continent and once it is captured then cities can go back up to 10 supply level. Establish a chain of allied controlled saures to the Mid-East and all those 5 point UK cites will grow up to 10.

You know, now that you mention it, the Germans really didn't have amphibious capacity for Norway. Most of the troops were loaded on warships and off-loaded on docks in harbors and ports. Not really an amphibious assault, more like a coup-de-main.

Cool idea, Lars, SC2 as a budget teaching tool. Think it will catch on?

... and another kneejerk ignorant comment from j_j_r. Try reading a book.

Didn't Gary Grigsby's War in Russia do this? You built corps out of divisions and brigades, and your factories even produced various models of tanks! Talk about micro-management! I think it's pretty significant that no-one ever tried to something like that again in a computer game.

And this is coming from the SC2 forum's resident unread ignoramus, who's entire grasp of WWII comes from watching movies. A modern Miracle!

I can think of a few, although in many the mechanisms are rather abstract but they still reinforce success which is what this boils down to: Totaler Krieg - the Axis Tide mechanic. Empires in Arms - the Political Status Dipslay also effects combat and production indirectly. Third Reich - a country doing well can afford to save more ER's to invest for long term increases. I'm sure there are more but I haven't kept up on new boardgames in about ten years.

I know it's hard to identify with this 60 years out, but the fall of the small countries in the early war, and espcially the Fall of France, were earth-shaking events on a par with 9/11, at least for the Western countries. You can read any memior from the period and hear the fear and shock even today. Even in backwaters like Greece these events had an impact - I've read a memior by the wife of the Greek Prime Minister, and although she doesn't say much about the rest of Europe, the Fall of France definitely worries her. Russia is a different story - with rigid control of the press by the government and population still struggling to survive and rebuild after WWI and the Russian Civil War, I just can't see the Russian troops knowing that these events had happened or caring very much if they did. Add to that a lack of primary accounts from Russian soldiers that weren't edited for Party Doctrine - it's hard to give a hard and fast rule. I think the game as written handles the demoralization for the Allies very well but not as well for the Russians.

So that means what, exactly? That Finns have thick furry pelts and layers of insulating blubber?

The sig is a now famous tiff between the French and the British that happened not too long ago: Somehere in the mid-1990's there was an Embassy dinner in London hosted by the French. The British Foreign Secretary (Jack Straw? I'm not sure) and his wife attended. The above quote (I've also heard it as "Isn't Isreal just a ****ty little country?") was spouted off by the French Ambassador. The British minister's wife was a writer for a London newspaper and published the whole ugly mess the next day. The French were outraged! How dare the British publish something said at a dinner party! They even demanded at retraction from the government. Obviously they didn't and the event pisses people on both sides off to this day.

Advanced rockets can blow the defending Malta corps away, although if you have the time and cash to build several advanced rockets you are probably going to use them to take London and not Malta. But it can be done.

Although I kind of like "Incorrigible" - like it's a whole army full of recidivist vandals or something.