geofighter

Can I still buy off their belligerance through diplomacy. If Germany spends a 100 MPPs on Russia can it decrease their chances in addition to what was already mentioned?

Thanks Hubert, I just wanted to feel reassured. Cheers, Geofighter

I hate to reply here to this instead of by a private email but I cannot get to www.battlefront.com without being asked to authenticate myself. I did my username and password when asked but it still didn't let me through. Thus, I need to ask my question here and I hope it causes no alarm to other customers. The postings above say Battlefront was hacked. I made an electronic purchase for SC-GW. Is my bank account history secure? You don't keep a record of our credit card numbers after purchase, correct?

Hello, Thanks to everyone who replied to my thread regarding North Africa. Your comments were helpful. I decided to let the Italians "hold the fort" but only one has succeeded in resisting the British. I have some frustration (hey, but overcoming obsticles is what makes a game fun, right.) with the war entry rules. I'm playing the Axis in the 1939 World at War campaign. The Germans took out France, Denmark, Norway, Yugoslavia, and Greece rather nicely. However, the Russian's decided to jump into it. I find this frustrating because I haven't been aggressive towards the Soviet union. Yet each turn I see their belligerance on the war map rise a little more with each turn. I question this. The Soviet Union was not ready for war in 1941 nor do I think they were expecting it, historically. Likewise, America isn't in the war yet but we were pretty isolationist until attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Basically, I don't think the Soviets or the US would jump into the war unprovoked. Is there a way of controlling the belligerance of the US and Soviet Union? If the Axis pours money at them through deplomacy can that reduce their chances of jumping into the war? Your thoughts and many thanks. Telling my friends and hope they buy the game. Cheers, Geofighter:)

Hello, I'm playing the Axis in the 1939 devour the world scenario. I'm learning that this game has a bit more challenge to the Axis player. I've figured out that attacking Poland, Benelux, Norway, Denmark (not even a fight), and France are a almost a cake walk to take. The difficulty comes after the fall of France. I figured I'd use the opportunity to kick the brits out of Eygpt and win the North African War. Boy, was I in for a surprise unlike any wargames I've ever played on this Theater. I brought near the entire German army to North Africa. Little did I know I trapped them. Supplies is limited to the Axis Libya and the little Island of Malta makes it worse. Hmmm, It seems It would be impossible to take Africa without taking Malta first. Furthermore, once in North Africa they couldn't sea transport back. I was doomed by the time the Russian's jumped in. Also, Egypt is like a fortress. The Qattara Depression holds the German army back to a single tile bordering Tobruk. So, anyone playing this new game mastered how to take North Africa yet? Inquiring minds want to know. Cheers, Geofighter:)

Hello, I got my game last week and I have throughly enjoyed playing it over spring break. I have played the 1943 Allies turn the tide scenario as the allies twice. I got a minor victory the first time, a major victory the second. I love the game and nothing I'm reporting should detract anyone interested from playing it. These are just minor problems that I hope can be addressed. Perhaps I just need to reload the game from the disk and not the download. Here is what I encountered: 1. The French Dakar Corp. I tried to march it north into the desert to the mediterreanean coast. I couldn't leave the desert beyond 2-3 tiles. Okay, I'll just turn around and sea transport from the port of Dakar. Whoa! the French corps cannot reenter Dakar. It's just as if it became a neutral country to the corps and cannot enter the tile. Neither could I disband it or amphibious transport it from the coast. The corps remained trapped in the desert throughout the war. 2. Disbanding. I can't disband minor country units. Is this intentional? 3. Production: The British start to liberate many minor countries. However, It adds so many the countries listed on the production chart go outside the chart. When that happens I could no longer click on the country to build it units. Namely, India. 4. Still can't figure out why my screen sometimes minimizes when I click a unit. No biggie, just a minor interruption. Any other comments welcome. In the meantime I'm going to uninstall the game and renew it from the disk. Cheers, Geofighter:)

I took a break from the game on Tuesday to catch up on sleep and other chores. Need to keep the wife happy by not being "vididioted "to the game. She enjoys my time, too. Allies have resisted the German counter attacks in France and the allies are pouring in. Mexican army just captured Marseille (librated it but they like to think they are avenging the invasion of their country by France under Napoleon the 3rd back in the 1860's. Take that France!). The Brazillians hold the Mine field east of Paris. British fleet is concentrating in the Med to build up for another invasion of Italy. Russian's are making great progress. Germans can't push em back. Far East has made a turn for the better. The Russians are making progress in Manchuria attacking Japanese fighters there and are firing Katushka artillery at their troops. Learned that the best way for the Chinese to beat the Japanese is to let the Japanese throw their army at theirs and destroy themselves on us. Not exactly repelling them but no longer being slaughtered either. British have liberated Burma. Americans have taken Tarawa and are now going after Rabul. I don't give the access much more time. Lessons learning the came cost us time however. It is winter 1944. We are not near taking Germany yet. Cheers, Geofighter:)

Question: In the production window there are two columns # and Pd. What is the difference between these two columns?

Hmmm. I'll have to double check that when I get home. I don't think my game is behaving like that. When I go to the builds and a color is "grayed" out I don't think I can build it even if have the MPP's. I'll find out for you later.

I like and look forward to your project

hmmm. Heres a thought to make the game more interesting (and it wouldn't require any code/game tinkering either!) How about putting out a PDF attachment that defines what happens at each stage of development (i.e. Level 1: Infantry Weapons - Your major power has invented a, new submachine gun/assault rifle that improves on your bolt action rifles, Level 1 Tanks: Krupp has developed the new Panther II for the German army (GM comes out with Sherman tank). It might add more "color" to the game to define those levels than just say "congrats, your at level 2" which is pretty hollow.

Let me be clear on the soft builds option. I don't have the game with me but if the button next to soft builds is green then I should be able to build hard builds w/o limit but at extra cost. However, if it is not green than than I shouldn't be able to build beyond preset limits. Correct?

Hi Hubert, Thank you for your attention. I am running Windows 7. The game takes up the entire screen and when I intentionally want to minimize it I have to press "ESC." Let me be more clear on the terrain issue. If I just hover my mouse over a tile the terrain type shows in the top red/brown info bar (either the right or left hand side, I can't say as I don't have the game right now). However, when I intentionally right/left click on a tile that is not a resource I don't see anything in the lower right info window. If I do it several times the game minimizes. Now, if it is a resource an icon shows in a portion of the lower, right in the information window in a box where I see the resource icon with a some info about the source (also some sound effect will go off to like "The Marseillese (spelling?)" if Paris or a "Call to Prayer" if Tehren, etc.) This glitch (if it in fact is one) doesn't spoil the game for me. Cheers. Geofighter:)

Hey Hubert, I'm going to pass the word on this game to two of my out-of-state friends. Perhaps if we all buy it we can play together over the Internet. Okay, day two. I've made it to Mid-June 1944 and D-Day is just a week longer than historical. Good progress in France. Brought two armored groups over and we have captured Nantes. City and port took a beating and are down to 1 supply each. I also brought over two HQ's. I'm eager to see how the supply looks next turn. Manage to bring lots of troops to France but I"m worried I need to capture Paris ASAP or be doomed to not have supply.:confused: Russia still making progress in the east. Recaptured Leningrad and Sevastapol. Warsaw here we come. Manchuria isn't making any progress but troops are building up. No progress in the the mediterrean. Still hold Sicily and Sardinia. Moving aircraft in the region near enough to target Naples when the time comes. The allied fleet in the western hemisphere is all concentrating on supporting the invasion of France. China is in bad shape. The allies need to make progress in the Pacific quick or it may fall. progress being made in Burma but it likely won't be enough to save China. Pacific war is on a turn around had to stop the assault on Tarawa as the allied navy had no destroyers to defend against 3 Japanese subs in the region. pulled back, but now 5 destroyers have arrived from the force pool and are escorting a large fleet back that way. New Guinea has been liberated. Questions about game play. Production: I notice that the Russian's can't build anymore tanks. It seems the game limits nations on how many kinds of units they can have. I saw the unlimited soft units option but what about hard units? Can I change this so I can build as much of what I want that I can afford? I'm reading the manual too, just haven't got to the production details yet. Bug? I notice that if I click on a tile to see the details of the terrain/location it only shows me if it is a resource (city, port, etc...). However, if I click on a forest, clear, etc... several times it minimizes the game. Is that just the way the game is made or is that a flaw?:confused: Good hunting fellow warriors.

Oops I lost my post, twice and I'm getting sick of retyping it. Basically Russians are pushing the Germans back, Pacific has made progress but I lost my destroyers and the Japanese have subs, yikes. Carrier planes act like ground planes, attack first, move carrier afterward. Takes getting used to. China is in jeopardy. Chinese can only hold them back. Just read up to supply rules. Explains a lot.

Thanks for your Replies Hubert and Bill, I appreciate your game and your help. I have decided to journal this learning experience for comment and shared enrichment for any other newbies out there. It's 1943 scenario and I'm playing for the allies. We started out invading Italy. It was a bust. The allies took Sicily but can't get anywhere on the boot. Lost about 4-5 units trying to get at the boot but they were slaughtered. Germans in Naples held strong. The invasion is off for now. Learning experience here. Unlike other wargames where air units are at an airbase and fly out to attack their targets, then fly back home with enemy planes flying in to intercept and escorts jumping in to defend. These units don't "physically fly" to the target hexes. Wow, that takes getting used to. I'll have to read up better on how air movement and attacks work. I was hoping I could fly all those British/American planes to Italy and blow the Axis out of the boot. Doesn't work, not enough air range. Also, It takes getting used to the planes "Attack first, stage airbase after." That seems to be the way they work.

Some computers have more than 1 firewall (i.e. you have Norton and Windows Defender Firewall) Make sure they are all turned off.

Boy am I loving this. I haven't ever owned anything from battlefront before but I'm getting into this. I may be repeat customer! Nothing to be disappointed about. Good job Hubert Well, let me make a few comments on how it has been going. I got home and got my download email and license key. I downloaded the game and everything seemed to be going hunky-dori until I needed to put in my license key. Several tries and it didn't work. Soon, after reading posts and instructions that it might be my anti-spam/firewall doing a block. Sure enough, that was the problem. I next decided to play the Allies and go after Hitler and his punks in the 1943 campaign. I'm perplexed and maybe someone can explain this to me. I want the Russians to go after Manchuko but they won't even cross the border. There doesn't seem to be an option for them to declare war on Japan. How do I get the Russians and Japanese to fight? The tiles takes some getting used to. Practically all other wargames use hexes or large, linked provinces/sea zones to control the movement. One advantage, you can surround an enemy on 8 sides instead of the normal 6 with hexes. Cool. I'm slowly and surely reading the manual as I go along and more questions will come up later. Enjoy your battles.

DOH!:eek: I downloaded the demo last night and had loads of fun playing with it. Getting my butt sorely whipped by the Axis still I'm very happy learning the game. It's great when you can just jump right in an learn from getting slaughtered before having to read the manual entirely through first. So, what's the DOH about. It seems everyone else got their email and I didn't check mine yesterday evening. I could have got the whole game last night and bypassed the demo altogether. Something to look forward to this evening.

Hey Lampcord, Could you please post the link to that demo? Cheers.

Yolo has to pee worse than I do. My bladders black and blue for holding it this long.

Hi, Yes, I can hardly wait for the game to be released. I hope when I get home tonight there'll be an email waiting for me if not, I'll continue to be patient. I read the posting under "Who Has Pre-Ordered?" and read from the fella who wants his money back. Where I find his response rude I do question, and forgive me for asking. How long should I be patient? I mean, if we go into May and still haven't got the game then I may have issues then. And if the game isn't out by May does that mean because of the "no refunds" policy I just had $55 stolen from me? Everything I've learned up to now tells me that Fury Software/Battlefront is a reputable company worthy of my business. As a first time customer, I hope I'm not wrong.

Oh today is so Feb 28th. I'm so excited I could pee my pants (well, maybe not the excited, but it's up there.) Can't wait to get the download emai.

Good answer, Thanks.

Hello, While waiting (salivating actually) for my new game to arrive I've been reading the manual to SC-GC. I have never played any of the other SC games so I needs to be edumakated. It states in the manual on page 65 that when troops use operational movement they loose 25% to 40% moral. Why would troops lose moral for riding a train?:confused: Cheers, Geofighter.