Adler17 said:Excellent news!
Adler
Adler,
Yes, hopefully this will give me time to rework all unit-stats.
The huge-map version should be much, much more interesting to play.
Rocoteh
Adler17 said:Excellent news!
Adler
IarnGreiper said:One thing that is unrelated to the beta test, but which came to my mind:
Can you trade connect Kopenhagen to Oslo and Malmö, please? After all without trade across the Skagarak, Operation Weserübung is somewhat futile.
Rocoteh said:Bob1475,
Yes I think this analyse is right.
As said in the post before this, probably we will have to
accept that AI is not very smart when it comes to handle
large overseas campaigns.
Its said that AI in CIV IV shall be much better.
Well let us hope...
Rocoteh
oljb007 said:Rocoteh,
Looking forward to playing the latest release. Worst case scenario, next saturday i'll put some time into it.
thanks
Bob1475 said:Beta 1.8 Huge - Japan - Emperor
Presuming that most will test with Germany I decided to go with Japan. I am still in the first turn but unless I have missed something Japan will not be able to produce its best unit - Japanes marine SNLF - until Japan takes Mandalay or ChangMai. Even then they will not be able to produce on the Home Islands. It might be easier to take Davao but again without trading by sea/air this will not help. It would appear that the rubber placed near Yenan in the 2.0 and earlier versions is not there. I believe the result will be very limited advances by Japanese. Will let you know.
EDIT - Rocoteh - I see that the Japanese cities on the mainland have no buildings. Was this your intent or is Japan not ready for playtest?
IarnGreiper said:Rocoteh,
I dared to change the beta 1.8 map as following:
Copenhagen, Malmö and Oslo have been given clones of the Padang wonder. I think this will change the problem of trade across the Skagarak. As with the historical Operation Wesenübung, Germany can take advantage of the rich Scandinavian resources when it takes over Copenhagen and Oslo (or as alternative Malmö).
As a side effect the Netherlands can trade with both Sweden and Norway for a few tuns but that should not be much of an issue.
Bob1475 said:Beta 1.8 Huge - Japan - Emperor
Week37-38 Naval activity and contact with US battleships. US BBs withdraw but are replaced with swarms of destroyers and subs. We lose two carriers to subs. Most of our fleet remains near home islands. Chinese sending swarms of infantry against Canton. We have set our forward infantry in position to force Chinese towards gap between Nanking and Shanghai. Resulting stacks of Chinese infantry are destroyed by our unopposed air forces.
Home islands now producing bombers and Yamatos will come on line by year-end.
Weeks 43-52 - ...Americans have begun to pull back from the North, probed South and are now pounding Okinawa with BBs and Truk with airforces off carriers.
IarnGreiper said:Week 36 Poland surrenders (learning curve, I can do this blindfolded now if I don t happed to recieve a bad streak with the random number generator), digging in on the western front
Week 37 Denmark surrenders, we build our first transport at the cost of some other naval units, our Kampfgruppe Poland turned south, total defense on the western front
French capture Torino at heavy losses. I expect them to have lost about 16 divisions there. Many British and French planes shot down over the Reich.
Week 38 Captured Malmo by surprise. A large portion of the Spanish navu is now cut off in the north sea. The rest is decimated.