Grizx said:
Czar1917 said:
Adler17 said:Week 38:
At the beginning of the turn I made a CAP (= bombing run with Me 109) over a damaged British tank unit. I met at once the resistance of a Spitfire. But like many other Spitfires this was shot down. I abandoned all planes to use bomber there. So I decided to attack the British troops at the border to attack the British air field. I lost one inf doing so.
I also saw the stats of Spitfire and Me 109. Spitfire was a bit more manuverable but in speed and dive/ climb no match for the Me 109. Also it had not such a big firepower than the Me 109. So I suggest to give them equal stats. Also the German pilots were trained partly in Spain (Mölders for example, or Galland). So the Brits should start as regular and the Germans as veterans.
I destroyed nearly all British units on the continent!
Now the first attack on Paris. I didn´t have so much units to take the city within a turn but I wanted to lower their defense units. But wait! I had just killed the defending FlaK. Only artillery remained. My Luftwaffe attacked. Now I could use my damaged fast units. Indeedaris is mine. That gave me the possibility to attack Brest. And I took Brest for the price of a regular inf (promoted conscript). The fights about Lyon were heavily. 2 inf and 2 conscripts were lost some other down to even 1 HP. However I was able to capture the town.
HMS Calcutta is sunk by one of my Otsus. It can now retreat to Brest to be repaired. U 33 and U 34 follow. U 53 sinks HMS Curacao in the Atlantic. U 40 sank the minelayer HMS Adventurer. U 29 sinks HMS Curlew. U 28 is sunk by attacking HMS Norfolk. But U 37 finishes the job.
PC turn:
The Allies are at war with Turkey. I lost 2 Uboats to french DD but sank one of them U 53 was victorious despite the fact it had 1 HP left. Unfortuantely the next DD was too much. Britain declares war on Spain.
Adler
Jadetorc said:In my current Soviet Union Sid/Most Aggro game I saw a solo Jap destroyer squadron attacked by US veteran BB California. California lost half its strength but became elite, ending as 7/12. On same turn US also shelled the crap out of Okinawa, which had several Jap ships, inc. a destroyer squad. It was getting mauled.
On a close tangent, I think submarines shouldn't be able to stealth attack carriers. The US ran over my subs early in the game and declared war. Much of the US Pacific Fleet was fortified in CV+3 ship stacks north of Marcus Island. I would sneak my subs in three spaces north of each stack (to avoid DD detection) then attack. I - the Russians - sank the Yorktown, Lexington, and Saratoga and their destroyers right out from under capital ships (2 were CA, 1 was BB). They must've been full of planes also, as they were then shelling crap out of Marcus Is. garrison (which they eventually bombed to dust and rolled in the Marines). I was retreating the wounded survivor subs when the US sued for peace (for the reasonable sum of 20 gold), before I could come back to sink the fortified Enterprise.
All told the Russians lost about 7 subs + 5 DD in Atlantic (vs 2 US DDs) and in the Pacific lost 17 subs + DD and took out 3 CV !(+planes), 2 CL, and 12 DDs. The real life Soviets could only DREAM of such tallies ...
On an interesting side note, having retaliated vs. US with bombers in Vladivostok and the Pacific subs (and lone DD), their allies never declared war on the USSR in the ~2 months of the naval joust. Usually they jump right in ... so much for "Most" Aggro.
-b
EDIT - When the US declared war a 2nd time a had a sub lined up to take out the Enterprise, but couldn't! I had to take out a destroyer. Carrier units are stealth-able, but not Carrier C3's which the Yorktown is. It must have had a CL guarding it, not CA, and I just took out the whole stack. Still, I don't think Carriers should be stealth-able, but with C3's being immune, I'm less opined. Subtle, you sneaky little ...
clearbeard said:It's been said many times, but can't be said enough: Great scenario Rocoteh!
I've started in with the Brits to get a little global action going, and it's quite fun so far. A few notes, some of which I'm sure have been mentioned, but I'll add my $0.02.
Some have said the Thai navy is annoying: As the UK, I don't see why. Just conquer all of Thailand in the first two turns (easy) and the whole navy goes *poof!*
The two biggest pecadillos I have so far are the leaderheads and the civilopedia. I know it's just graphics, but seeing Elizabeth and Fat Catherine instead of Winston and Josef just irks me all out of proportion. To solve, I went ahead and tossed in more "proper" leaderheads from GIDustin's site, something I hope you are considering doing for the next revision of the graphics archive.
As for the civilopedia issue: I've been finding all the different unit types, with their unique names (which I love, don't get me wrong) to be a little confusing without more complete documentation. My guess is that you want to get the game working as smoothly as possible before tackling the huge job of making a new Civilopedia.txt, I just hope you don't neglect it forever.
One other niggler: the 100 turn build time for RR's. I realize this is intentional, and designed to keep the silly free move under control, but it makes destroying enemy rail links oh so fun and effective. I've hamstrung much of Japanese mainland operations with a few will placed bombing runs out of Hong Kong, and done bad things to the German rail system too. Since the AI doesn't use bombers or artillery basically at all against terrain improvements, it gives a large strategic advantage to the human player when the computer can't rebuild. I imagine similarly minded opponents in multiplayer could quickly decimate the entire scenario's rail system if they were so inclined.
A minor thing overlooked: you appear hell-bent on eliminating pollution from the game (I like). Research Labs still generate pollution, but other than them, nothing does. If no buildings have positive pollution values, then setting the "reduces building pollution" has no effect, btw.
Okay, so back to the war. So far, as I've said, Thailand has fallen. Most of the German north fleet is at the bottom, thanks to tactics of moving only far enough to still return my ships to port at the end of the turn. Hitler was obliging enough to move much of the rest of his fleet within range of the Isles after I destroyed everything within range on turn one. So now to build up the infrastructure and army to invade across the Channel to rescue the sorry French, who are indeed not doing so well.
So far, operations have been largely naval in the Med too, with almost the entire Italian fleet smashed with similar tactics out of the well-placed Malta. Taking Tobruk on turn one certainly helped, as it killed all 13 subs based there with the loss (luckily-all 6 were badly damaged) of no troops for me. If this was not an intended strategy, perhaps move the subs out of port?
Anyway, enough talk, gotta get back to the game!
Oh, and for the record, I'm running on 512MB PC2100 ram, and only a 900MHZ(!) Athalon, though on a newer mobo, and the game works fine. I'm a patient person, though
Sasebo said:Just a few points. If anyone has a sorry computer like mine, then you can do things in the preferences to speed things up. Specifically, turning off "Show friend moves", and "show enemy moves" will speed up the in between turns considerably. I still keep "show enemy moves" on though; it can be bad if you don't see some of their moves against you.
I am not certain, but has ANY US player not played "evil empire" and taken the central & south american countries? I mean just because it is easy, do you all have to do it??? I've been waiting to see a playtest where the US followed the historical pattern and did not just invade people arbitrarily.If I missed one that did please point me in the right direction.
Rocoteh: Have only managed to do a few turns with Germany so far; lack of free time.The Uboats not having blitz has not been an issue so far, since my average Uboat is either dead or in no condition to keep going. I have to report that I was forced to take terrible losses versus UK BBs in the North sea, since they were bombarding my minefields and worse, actually damaging them!
If I did not take them out they would have blown my covering minefields to smithereens. Either they were REALLY lucky with those bombards, or they are just susceptible maybe. By the stats I would assume they would shrug bombard off like nothing, but 3 BB bombards hit for 2 hit points of damage on the mines, which I can't repair. So I just sank them.
I have lost like 44 Uboats and several capital ships doing it so far. I did manage to kill 6 BB, a BC and several CA; it's not like they died for nothing... Adler17 seems to be able to get much better results with German units all around, maybe I am just not using them properly.
Czar1917 said:Hi, I'm a total newb here, but I would like to say great scenario! I read every single post and it looks awesome! I probably won't download it (bad computer, virus, etc.) but I did want to make a few comments on city placement from what I saw in the previous images. El Amien (spelling?) should be renamed Alexandria, El Amien (spelling?) was a nowhere town in the middle of the desert. Suez Canal can be plain Suez, and the same for the Panama Canal (I believe you called it that?). Amman is too far out in the desert, and should be a hex left; that encroaches on Jerusalem though, so it might be best if it's deleted for geographical accuracy. Jerusalem could be Haifa or Tel Aviv also...... Taking another look at the map though it looks like you misspelled El Amien. I'm also not sure about the placement of Tobruk and El Agheila. Also from screenshots on the first page, Khabarovsk should be a hex right, on the river Amur. Also on Hokkaido, you may want to add Sapporo to make an advance South more difficult. Harbin should be larger it was a bustling city of about a million. Also add in Phoenix, AZ although that may unbalance the border with Mexico..... Can't really comment on anyting else, Great scenario though, probably one of the best ever
) and finished it yesterday
Rhadamenthos said:I played your scenario as the French on Monarch (I hadn't played for months and was quite out of practice
Eventually I controlled Spain, Portugal, Italy, Turkey Poland, Germany, Italy, Norway/Denmark, Greece, Balkan.
My front with the Soviets was:Norway(they had conquered Sweden and Finland), Riga, Vilnius, Lublin,Lwow, Budapest and Sofia.
But it seems to me that France is underpowered( certainly it is in the endgame)
I accept that the best tank, I can get is the M-4 Sherman(22.16.2), I accept I have crap air units and artillery, but why can't I build the A-BOMB??(which is the only possibility to expand after 1945)
Otherwise you could introduce a new special unit for France: the Foreign Legion?
Except this point this scenario is really great! I certainly love alternative futures.
