WW2-Global

[Andreas68]

Week 9, 1940 to week 22, 1940

British on Monarch difficulty

Workers

Got spies now in Soviet Russia, France, Germany, Italy, China and Japan;

Soviet Russia - 62 workers
Italy - 1
China - 6
Japan - 12
France - 1
Germany - 1

All of these are doing terrain improvements, building roads and I already see radar towers popping up (which should also rather be a special technology to be researched). With recce I spotted some "dust and dirt" near Dortmund, now will look whether the German worker cleans that one up.

British Home Defense

The mighty German Luftwaffe stopped the London Blitz, since it got no bombers left, bummer ain't it. Germany built it's first Bismarck battleship which it proudly sent right into range of my Home Fleet - HMS Rodney sank the Bismarck, and is now docked in London for repairs. I frequently bombard Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and Bomber Command just started bombing Bremen.

Continental Europe

Germany conquered all of France, apart from that nothing happens there, except...

Mediterranean

...that Italy has just started to sent it's tanks towards Gibraltar, one by one. Should have a word with that guy in Spain why Italy is allowed to pass. Seriously, in my last game as Germany, Italy just did the same, sending tanks after tanks through Spain to attack Gibraltar, with no results.

I got a fleet of 6 battleships and a couple cruisers and destroyers in the western Mediterranean, my plan was to pass the Suez Canal to send it to the Pacific, but a single French light cruiser is blocking the way SE of Sicily. The US fleet is also waiting there, but the French seem to be interested to not let anyone through. I start hoping Italy might build a single sub to sink that damned ship

Africa

Conquered Bisciara, so Ital ynow only got it's Abyssina and Somali colonies, which are still not under my control. I am attacking Mogadishu and Addis Abeba at the moment.

Asia mainland

Still no change of possessions. I sent some troops to Hongkong, hoping to be able to attack Japanese Canton, but Japan retaliated fiercely when a single Blenheim bombarded Canton - now, half the Imperial Japanese Fleet and half of Japan's Air Force are around Hongkong, bombing the he** out of it. Hongkong is reduced to size 2 now, and I think it's only still under my rule because Japan hasn't launched a land attack yet.

Dutch East Indies

Japan overran it all except Padang and Surabaya. Singapur and Kuala Lumpur, under British rule, haven't been attacked at all yet. Dipllomatically I am on good terms with Thailand, we agreed on right of passage, which makes reinforcing the 2 cities a lot easier. Ondce I stationed a bomber at Fakfak to bomb Japanese Makassar - now there is the other half of Japan's Air Force, again paying back what I have done, and Fakfak also is reduced, now size 1. But my 2 ANZAC's there managed to destroy two Type 97 tanks, job well done.


About the new units, I have been very conservative with the stats, being careful not to construct some super-units. None of these are already on the map, neither the StuGIIIA (Land 1940) nor the Short Stirling (Air 2 1940) - but I have just researched the necessary technology and the first three are already ordered.

 

[aceault]

Is there a another way to distinguish between city wonders that produce units and those which do not apart from just observing?

I have been completing the civilopedia for Rocoteh, and the almost fully updated civilopedia will be released tonight or tomorrow, this includes every aspect of WW II Global 2.5 information, including which units are produced by which wonders, and how often. Actually it is done now, but I need to send to Rocoteh so he can review, check it out, and put it up.

Well, is there a way we can thank you, Tom? Awesome work!!!

THANK YOU!!!!

 

[Rocoteh]

Hey Rocoteh,
Im going to send you the files in about an hour or so, finishing up photoshop'ing the arrows on the tech advisor page, taking longer than i thought! ha, being that its somewhat of a pain having to start a new scenario constantly to see the changes made, and I had to get creative with it, being that most techs have 4 pre-reqs and lead to 4 other techs. Using arrows going to every tech would have required about 90 of em, so I made it more simplistic, but it does look pretty good and cohesive...

tom2050,

The new civilopedia and biq-file with the improved tech tree
have now been uploaded.

Once again:

Thank you for your great work with this.

Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Andreas68,

Thank you for the report.

"Week 9, 1940 to week 22, 1940

British on Monarch difficulty

Workers

Got spies now in Soviet Russia, France, Germany, Italy, China and Japan;

Soviet Russia - 62 workers
Italy - 1
China - 6
Japan - 12
France - 1
Germany - 1

All of these are doing terrain improvements, building roads and I already see radar towers popping up (which should also rather be a special technology to be researched). With recce I spotted some "dust and dirt" near Dortmund, now will look whether the German worker cleans that one up."
Andreas68

62 workers in Soviet!
That is a surprise.

"British Home Defense

The mighty German Luftwaffe stopped the London Blitz, since it got no bombers left, bummer ain't it. Germany built it's first Bismarck battleship which it proudly sent right into range of my Home Fleet - HMS Rodney sank the Bismarck, and is now docked in London for repairs. I frequently bombard Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and Bomber Command just started bombing Bremen."
Andreas68

A strategic bombing campaign can be a good idea.

"Continental Europe

Germany conquered all of France, apart from that nothing happens there, except...

Mediterranean

...that Italy has just started to sent it's tanks towards Gibraltar, one by one. Should have a word with that guy in Spain why Italy is allowed to pass. Seriously, in my last game as Germany, Italy just did the same, sending tanks after tanks through Spain to attack Gibraltar, with no results.

I got a fleet of 6 battleships and a couple cruisers and destroyers in the western Mediterranean, my plan was to pass the Suez Canal to send it to the Pacific, but a single French light cruiser is blocking the way SE of Sicily. The US fleet is also waiting there, but the French seem to be interested to not let anyone through. I start hoping Italy might build a single sub to sink that damned ship"
Andreas68

Yes backing up the naval forces in the Pacific with reinforcements should
be a good move.

"Africa

Conquered Bisciara, so Ital ynow only got it's Abyssina and Somali colonies, which are still not under my control. I am attacking Mogadishu and Addis Abeba at the moment.

Asia mainland

Still no change of possessions. I sent some troops to Hongkong, hoping to be able to attack Japanese Canton, but Japan retaliated fiercely when a single Blenheim bombarded Canton - now, half the Imperial Japanese Fleet and half of Japan's Air Force are around Hongkong, bombing the he** out of it. Hongkong is reduced to size 2 now, and I think it's only still under my rule because Japan hasn't launched a land attack yet."
Andreas68

It will probably be very hard to stop this massive attack against Hongkong.

"Dutch East Indies

Japan overran it all except Padang and Surabaya. Singapur and Kuala Lumpur, under British rule, haven't been attacked at all yet. Dipllomatically I am on good terms with Thailand, we agreed on right of passage, which makes reinforcing the 2 cities a lot easier. Ondce I stationed a bomber at Fakfak to bomb Japanese Makassar - now there is the other half of Japan's Air Force, again paying back what I have done, and Fakfak also is reduced, now size 1. But my 2 ANZAC's there managed to destroy two Type 97 tanks, job well done.


About the new units, I have been very conservative with the stats, being careful not to construct some super-units. None of these are already on the map, neither the StuGIIIA (Land 1940) nor the Short Stirling (Air 2 1940) - but I have just researched the necessary technology and the first three are already ordered."
Andreas68

Good play from Japan AI it seems.

A counterattack in the Dutch East Indies should probably work well.

Thank you and welcome back.

Rocoteh

 

[somdnole]

Rocoteh -
Update; playing as France, Regent difficulty; up to Week 16, 1943 -

I need to start by mentioning something I forgot in my last update - Portugal declared war on the Soviet Union in Week 9, 1942. Sounds inconsequential, I know, but I'll get to it a bit later....

In Europe, I continue to hold all French cities, and the German attacks now occur only in a tiny trickle. One puzzling the thing the AI does with the Germans is send 1 unescorted 88mm gun wandering into the forest near Verdun. I simply wait for the 88 to get next to Verdun, then redline it with artillery and destroy it with armor. There will also be an occasional attack by a single German infantry or by a single Panzer IIIg. (I have not seen any Romanian, Hungarian, or Bulgarian infantry units in over a year.) Again, I use the same tactic to deal with these attacks.
The ocasional one or two Finnish infantry units show up, near Lille. Again, my armor has no problem in dispatching these units.
The Italians also send one infantry unit, maybe twice a year, into southern France, but they're no threat.
I have smashed the southernmost fortress just south of Torino, and am marshalling forces in that area, for a push against either Torino or Bologna (the other northern Italian city). I have also destroyed most of the German static defenses facing the Maginot Line. There are now three hexes between the Maginot Line and Freiburg that are completely free of German defenses.
The Luftwaffe continues to bomb Marseilles, Verdun, and Brest, but my AA defenses seem to knock down about 1 of every 5 Luftwaffe attackers.
On the naval front, the Royal Navy, plus my cruisers operating from Brest, are sinking an average of 1 UBoat every two weeks in the English Channel.

Soviet Union
The Soviets took Huambo and Nampula from the Portugese in Weeks 35 and 39, 1942. In Week 40, 1942, Germany declared war the Soviets, and captured Semipalatinsk and Vitebsk. In Weeks 42 and 44, Germany captured Vilnius and Kujbysjev.
Unfortunately for the Allies, a British battleship ran over a Soviet submarine in the English Channel, precipitating a war with the Soviets, starting in Week 45, 1942.
Using the massive stack of armor they had moved into Africa to fight Portugal, the Soviets then went on a rampage - in Week 46 alone, the Red Army took Cairo, razed Port Sudan, captured Salisbury, and captured Lubango. In Europe, the Soviets also recaptured Kujbysjev in Week 46. Still in Week 46, Japan razed Bulgan.
In Week 47, the Soviets captured Suez and razed Beira and Lusaka.
Sometime during Weeks 47 - 50, the British captured Chah Bahar from the Soviets, who themselves razed Addis Abbaba and Mombasa.
In Week 49, the US liberated Suez and Cairo from the Soviets.
The USSR and the Axis signed a peace treaty in Week 50, and the Soviets wasted no time turning their air force loose on me - Strasbourg was subjected to massive raids by 20 -25 heavy bombers of the Red Air Force, causing tremendous damage and civilian casualties, during Weeks 50, 51, and 52. However, I saw no Soviet ground forces.
In Week 52, the British captured Kandahar, but the Soviets razed Mogadishu, then captured Kamina in Week 1, 1943. Fortunately, I was able to negotiate a peace treay with the Soviet Union during Week 1, 1943.
Peace was short-lived, however, as the USSR demanded ivory from me in Week 11, 1943 - I refused, and we're at war again. Beginning in Week 12, the Red Air Force bomber raids began anew - Strasbourg has been bombed by 25, 29, 22, and 14 heavy bombers. Very strangely, though, my flak seems very effective lately - I shot down 5 of 25, 8 of 29, 9 of 22, and 5 of 14. I know the USSR has a big industrial capability, but losing 27 heavy bombers over a month has to hurt.
To wrap up the report concerning the USSR - they captured Maputo in Week 6, 1943, and razed Caluula in Week 13.

Pacific Theatre
The action continues to be heavy in the Pacific. In 1942, during Week 36, the US recaptured Kushiro, and the British captured Banjarmasin (Week 37) and Singapore (Week 39.) In Week 44, the Brits recaptured Makassar, and in Week 1, 1943, the captured Palembang. In Week 6, the Brits captured Davao, followed by Manila the following week. In Weeks 13, 14, and 15, Britain liberated more Japanese-held cities - Taipei (Wk 13), Hainan and Hanoi (Wk 14), and Hong Kong (Wk 15).

My current worry is that the Soviets will send a stack of 30-50 T-34's south through Germany and overrun my homeland cities. Also, I'm very concerned that they will turn their attention in Africa westward - with only a handful of T-34's the Red Army could destroy all my Saharan holdings, and seriously threaten my more productive coastal African cities, such as Algiers and Tunis. So I am trying every turn to effect another peace treaty!
I continue to be surprised by the aggression shown by the British in the Pacific. I truly can't tell what (if anything) they're doing against the Germans, though.
The Japanese seem to be sitting on their hands, and I can only assume that the Germans are marshalling forces for another go at the USSR, or for a big push against me.

I hope to post more in a week or so.

 

[dEfAuLt01]

Hello,
is it possible to play this scenario with the normal Civilization III version, I don't have Civ III Conquests.

 

[tom2050]

Hello,
is it possible to play this scenario with the normal Civilization III version, I don't have Civ III Conquests.

Unfortunately no, conquests is required.

 

[tom2050]

Germany - SID difficulty, AI most aggressive, no workers (clean pollution only), ironman rules (no reloads)

Week 51, 1941 - Hindenburgs sinks 1 Lion Class Battleships with ease near Ponta Delgada, lost a BismarckC and a Hindenburg against 4 other Lion Class Battleship (sunk 1) in mid-atlantic. I have it in for Britain (they are making a ton of Battleships), and am going to throw everything I can at them in India. Stack of 23 panzers launched assault on Leningrad and destroyed 3 of the fortresses there at a toll of a panzer handful, strange thing is the last fortress had 1 hit point left and showed on top, but when I attacked, another unit would defend (???). Since I couldn't attack the fortress, it will probably regain full health next turn. I will hold the remaining troops.
Week 52, 1941 - Took Sochi (Soviet Russia) and sold all improvements.
Week 1, 1942 - One thing that irks me about the AI, is that they can bomb a ship when it is completely out of their visual range. An escort carrier near Greenland bombed 1 of my transports which was right next to Dublin Britain. Theres no way they could have known it was there, US recon aircraft do not have that kind of range. Took Baku (Soviet Russia). Took Liepaja (Soviet Russia).
Week 2, 1942 - Took Riga (Soviet Russia). Took Vilnius (Soviet Russia). Working my way up to Leningrad from the south, to assist my troops up north. Japan takes Dehli and Jaipur (British-India). Took Brest-Litovsk (Soviet Russia). Took Lwow (Soviet Russia). My counter attack is going very well so far! Took Teheran (Persia). Russia has gone crazy with its Pe-8 bombers, it started a few turns ago. It must take a whole minute while they bomb everything in sight. Even with the luftwaffe all over the place, there is too many of them to stop, and they dont go down often.
NOTE: infantry does not include fortresses, special fortresses, or garrisons.
My current strength: 32 ships/68 subs, 0 carriers, 8 transports, 11 artillery, 366 infantry, 107 fighters/bombers, 193 tanks.
Current US strength: 26 ships/no subs, 0 carriers, 9 transports, 35 artillery, 536 infantry, 80 fighters/bombers, 665 tanks.
Current Japanese strength: 76 ships/no subs (65 are YamatoC's), 3 carriers, 14 transports, 44 artillery, 357 infantry, 106 fighters/bombers, 122 tanks.
Current Soviet strength: 16 ships/107 subs, 2 carriers, 14 transports, 88 artillery, 936 infantry, 153 fighters/bombers, 85 tanks
Week 3, 1942 - Just as my India assault force was heading down into Persia, Italy takes Chah Bahar (Persia). Took Pskov (Soviet Russia). Took Lutsk (Soviet Russia). Last Leningrad fortress destoyed at a cost of 6 panzers.
Week 4, 1942 - Japan takes and razes Karachi (British-India). Japanese tanks appear near Chah Bahar. Took Tallinn (Soviet Russia). Took Novgorod (Soviet Russia).
Week 5, 1942 - Took Leningrad (Soviet Russia).
Week 6, 1942 - Took Gomel (Soviet Russia).
Week 7, 1942 - Took Mashhad (Persia). Took Minsk (Soviet Russia). Took Odessa (Soviet Russia). Japan takes Nagpur (British-India).
Week 8, 1942 - Took Kiev (Soviet Russia). Took Arkangelsk (soviet Russia). Soviet armor is somewhat rare now, although they do attack in small groups. There is infantry by the hordes, and 250-300 infantry along the German-Soviet border supported by alot of flak and a few armor units. I decided to research Air 1942 instead of Land 1942 in order to get the longer ranged lethal-land Fw 190G and He-177. Russia has 24 tanks/armor and 863 infantry. USA up to around 700 tanks. I've changed many coastal cities over
to naval building, including transports, carriers, s-boats, cruisers, etc to get a head start on creating a USA invasion fleet. I need a large quantities of carriers, so I am mainly creating escort carriers for their cheaper cost, so I can bring over ALOT of air support. Projected GO with america invasion across Atlantic will be in the beginning of 1943. By then, I will guess America will probably have 900-1000 tanks. The 17 tanks I brought down to British India have met up with Japanese armored forces, to help take out the remaining 7 British-India cities. British Lion Class Battleships have stopped coming up from India since Japan started making it's push. I am making the push for the primary reason to stop Britain from making these battleships. US has 7 M-36 Jacksons, which mean they have had Land 1944 for a while now!
Week 9, 1942 - Took Lahore (British-India). Took Vitebsk (Soviet Russia). Took Dniepropetrovsk (Soviet Russia).

 

[tom2050]

Just a quick note, I am not sure if this happens often, but in my SID Germany game, I did air recon of Moscow, and there are no troops in ANY of the 10 fortresses built around Moscow. This will actually make my job of taking Moscow much easier, since if my troops move onto the fortresses, I will receive the defensive bonus and zone of control. I am not sure if they move because it is set on Most Aggressive, but perhaps some immobil garrisons or special fortresses should be placed there, to ensure there is at least some type of Moscow defense in place.

 

[Andreas68]

Just checked, there are Special Fortress units in around Moscow at start of the scenario.

In my Germany game, Russia has disbanded all of its fortress units, around Moscow, Leningrad, and even Odessa.

 

[Andreas68]

Week 22, 1940 to Week 39, 1940

British on Monarch difficulty

Workers

Some more spies around, latest figures;

Soviet Russia - 112 workers, Stalin will be pleased with the 5-year plan
Italy - 1
China - 9
Japan - 12
France - 2
Germany - 1
USA - 61
Finland - 8

I also see activities by Persian, Dutch and Belgian workers, and I have no explanation yet as to why Germany and Italy doesn't build any workers. None of the civs have "build Workers often" checked, and I suspect it got something to do whtether "production" is checked or not. Or maybe it's because there's a lot of terrain improvement from start on in Germany. Or it is government related. Or whatever.

British Home Defense

All fine there, I build up my forces, and still do coastal bombardment. Bomber Command started raids on Bremen and Hamburg, utilizing the 6 Short Stirling bombers now in my arsenal. They already destroyed a barrack and reduced Hamburg by 2 - not decisive for the war IMHO but nice to have nonetheless.

A second Bismarck-Class battleship was spotted in the North Sea near Bremen. My Home Fleet damaged it badly, and it had to sail for Bremen for repairs. A Skua from carrier HMS Glorious sank it.

Continental Europe

No news, except that Germany builds Panzer IIIe's like crazy, now at 82 pieces. They also produce my new introduced StuGIIIA, now at 26 pieces, for city defense.

Western Mediterranean

The Italian attack on Gibraltar was just a pretext to something worse - week 24 Germany came along with a stack of Panzer IIIe's, and conquered the rock, losing 12 tanks in the attack. A black day for The Empire, His Majesty wasn't pleased.

The French light cruiser Marselleise still blocks the way through the Mediterranean, so I am using my 6 battleships there to bombard Palermo and Naples. Currently, my fleet is steaming up north for a attack on German Marseilles.

And because of this French cruiser, my Pacific fleet reinforcements do the long way around Africa - 4 new carriers and 3 new King George V battleships are on it's way, but nowhere near yet, one group just in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

The US fleet in the western Mediterranean bombarded Gibraltar, and the US landed 12 M2A2 tanks the week after Germany took Gibraltar. All US forces were lost. But the bombardment continued, and the next transports of the US were sailing towards Sardinia, and week 38, Cagliary was conquered - I am very pleased with this, and I hope the US will use Sardinia as a base for a invasion of mainland Italy.

Eastern Mediterranean

Landed forces on Cyprus to free Nicosia from Italian rule - the first attack of 4 Indian Infantry was a failure, but now, 3 Canadian Divisions arrived which hopefully will do better.

Africa

Took Mogadishu, and there's fierce fighting going on around Addis Abeba.

Asia mainland

Action! Japan took Yenan from the Communist Chinese, Ningpo and Amoy from China. The battle for Hongkong waged for weeks and weeks, at one point I was already removing my 4 Gurkhas and a couple Indian Infantries, as I thought the next attack will be the final one. But no, sent them back in, and the battle continued, Japan sent Type 97 tanks and infantry, and finally, in week 37, the Crown Colony was lost to Japan. Another black day for The Empire

The remainder of my troops, together with a couple new Cruiser Mk4 tanks, are now stationed around French Hanoi. Persia sent half a dozen infantry too, joining in the defense of French Indochina. Japan bombs Hanoi and Chinese Nanning.


Dutch East Indies

Surabaya is now Japanese, and Japan sent a small force of 1 transport, 2 destroyers and a heavy cruiser around the northen tip of Sumatra, apparently for the attack on the last Dutch city, Padang. I was already thinking it will be me, Singapur or Kuala Lumpur, or even India, on their list. Both my cities are reinforced now, but not too strong, let's see how it goes. India's southern tip now is reinforced with the old carriers Argus, Eagle, Hermes and a couple old destroyers.

New Guinea

Japan sent a battleship plus transport, taking Port Moresby! The SNLF troops are a tough opponent, the ANZAC's there managed to destroy all but one, which took Port Moresby already red-lined. The next turn, a British Infantry, sitting next to Port Moresby on the victory location, retook my city.

Japan sends transports and heavy cruisers into the waters around Fakfak, I managed to sink 2 heavy cruisers, and a small US fleet of old cruisers popped up and sank another couple ships, 2 destroyers and a transport.


Playing as British is mighty interesting; never enough troops, different battlefields, here on the offensive, there on the defense, over there hopelessly outclassed. I use Canada as a industrial base, irrigating and mining whatever possible, I build roads in India for all the fine resources there, and am building up Australia. I hope to be able to launch a major counter attack on Dutch East Indies when my fleet arrives. Until then, I am a sitting duck with my 2 heavy cruisers and handful light cruisers there.

And before I forget, Russia was angry at me, demanding some luxury, or else. I gave it to them, and offered a deal for another luxury. Stalin offered me his entire gold! Thanks, tovarish.

 

[tom2050]

Just checked, there are Special Fortress units in around Moscow at start of the scenario.

In my Germany game, Russia has disbanded all of its fortress units, around Moscow, Leningrad, and even Odessa.

Yes, you are correct. I should have figured. That is strange, because out of all governments, communism gets the largest amount of free units per city! Not only that, they get an additional 50 free units, but whats worse, is that Special Fortresses require NO UNIT SUPPORT COSTS! They are free, you don't pay gold for them, ever (along with a few other units). So the reason the AI would do that is beyond me, the only way to really find out when they do it, is to perhaps add a recon air unit with a very large range to monitor those areas, but that would be very time consuming unless Soviet AI does it at the start of the game.

 

[Andreas68]

Both Garrison and Special Fortress units can be disbanded. I don't know exactly, but do units which require no support costs, count against the limit of available units to one civ?

Because if, can it be that AI disbands immobile units first?

Maybe one possible solution is to remove the "disband" option for this two units (also for fortresses btw).

 

[tom2050]

Both Garrison and Special Fortress units can be disbanded. I don't know exactly, but do units which require no support costs, count against the limit of available units to one civ?

Because if, can it be that AI disbands immobile units first?

Maybe one possible solution is to remove the "disband" option for this two units (also for fortresses btw).

From what I know, the limit of available units counts units with support costs only, since once that limit has been reached, 1 gold/turn is deducted from your treasury each turn per unit. Units with no support costs are still included in the total unit count (such as on the F3 military advisor), but not calculated in the Army support cost on that same page. I've tried it before, and even when above the total free units, you incur no support cost.

There are a number of common free units, such as Soviet militia divisions, soviet garrison, special fortress, submarines (the 18.7.4 subs), artillery offensive, fixed coastal defence, garrison, and maybe a couple more. Majority of these cannot be built.

It's strange Soviet keeps all the other loads of soviet garrisons at its border though, perhaps since Moscow is further back in a 'safer zone' it discards them. Who knows ?? I wonder if Rocoteh or anyone else knows more about how the AI works in this type of situation.

 

[Rocoteh]

somdnole,


Thank you for the report.

"Rocoteh -
Update; playing as France, Regent difficulty; up to Week 16, 1943 -

I need to start by mentioning something I forgot in my last update - Portugal declared war on the Soviet Union in Week 9, 1942. Sounds inconsequential, I know, but I'll get to it a bit later....

In Europe, I continue to hold all French cities, and the German attacks now occur only in a tiny trickle. One puzzling the thing the AI does with the Germans is send 1 unescorted 88mm gun wandering into the forest near Verdun. I simply wait for the 88 to get next to Verdun, then redline it with artillery and destroy it with armor. There will also be an occasional attack by a single German infantry or by a single Panzer IIIg. (I have not seen any Romanian, Hungarian, or Bulgarian infantry units in over a year.) Again, I use the same tactic to deal with these attacks.
The ocasional one or two Finnish infantry units show up, near Lille. Again, my armor has no problem in dispatching these units.
The Italians also send one infantry unit, maybe twice a year, into southern France, but they're no threat.
I have smashed the southernmost fortress just south of Torino, and am marshalling forces in that area, for a push against either Torino or Bologna (the other northern Italian city). I have also destroyed most of the German static defenses facing the Maginot Line. There are now three hexes between the Maginot Line and Freiburg that are completely free of German defenses.
The Luftwaffe continues to bomb Marseilles, Verdun, and Brest, but my AA defenses seem to knock down about 1 of every 5 Luftwaffe attackers.
On the naval front, the Royal Navy, plus my cruisers operating from Brest, are sinking an average of 1 UBoat every two weeks in the English Channel."
somdnole

I doubt you ever will see major German offensive again.

Maybe its time to plan a counteroffensive.

"Soviet Union
The Soviets took Huambo and Nampula from the Portugese in Weeks 35 and 39, 1942. In Week 40, 1942, Germany declared war the Soviets, and captured Semipalatinsk and Vitebsk. In Weeks 42 and 44, Germany captured Vilnius and Kujbysjev.
Unfortunately for the Allies, a British battleship ran over a Soviet submarine in the English Channel, precipitating a war with the Soviets, starting in Week 45, 1942.
Using the massive stack of armor they had moved into Africa to fight Portugal, the Soviets then went on a rampage - in Week 46 alone, the Red Army took Cairo, razed Port Sudan, captured Salisbury, and captured Lubango. In Europe, the Soviets also recaptured Kujbysjev in Week 46. Still in Week 46, Japan razed Bulgan.
In Week 47, the Soviets captured Suez and razed Beira and Lusaka.
Sometime during Weeks 47 - 50, the British captured Chah Bahar from the Soviets, who themselves razed Addis Abbaba and Mombasa.
In Week 49, the US liberated Suez and Cairo from the Soviets.
The USSR and the Axis signed a peace treaty in Week 50, and the Soviets wasted no time turning their air force loose on me - Strasbourg was subjected to massive raids by 20 -25 heavy bombers of the Red Air Force, causing tremendous damage and civilian casualties, during Weeks 50, 51, and 52. However, I saw no Soviet ground forces."
somdnole

Very strange play from AI!

"In Week 52, the British captured Kandahar, but the Soviets razed Mogadishu, then captured Kamina in Week 1, 1943. Fortunately, I was able to negotiate a peace treay with the Soviet Union during Week 1, 1943.
Peace was short-lived, however, as the USSR demanded ivory from me in Week 11, 1943 - I refused, and we're at war again. Beginning in Week 12, the Red Air Force bomber raids began anew - Strasbourg has been bombed by 25, 29, 22, and 14 heavy bombers. Very strangely, though, my flak seems very effective lately - I shot down 5 of 25, 8 of 29, 9 of 22, and 5 of 14. I know the USSR has a big industrial capability, but losing 27 heavy bombers over a month has to hurt.
To wrap up the report concerning the USSR - they captured Maputo in Week 6, 1943, and razed Caluula in Week 13."
somdnole

Such massive losses from flak is seldom reported.

"Pacific Theatre
The action continues to be heavy in the Pacific. In 1942, during Week 36, the US recaptured Kushiro, and the British captured Banjarmasin (Week 37) and Singapore (Week 39.) In Week 44, the Brits recaptured Makassar, and in Week 1, 1943, the captured Palembang. In Week 6, the Brits captured Davao, followed by Manila the following week. In Weeks 13, 14, and 15, Britain liberated more Japanese-held cities - Taipei (Wk 13), Hainan and Hanoi (Wk 14), and Hong Kong (Wk 15).

My current worry is that the Soviets will send a stack of 30-50 T-34's south through Germany and overrun my homeland cities. Also, I'm very concerned that they will turn their attention in Africa westward - with only a handful of T-34's the Red Army could destroy all my Saharan holdings, and seriously threaten my more productive coastal African cities, such as Algiers and Tunis. So I am trying every turn to effect another peace treaty!
I continue to be surprised by the aggression shown by the British in the Pacific. I truly can't tell what (if anything) they're doing against the Germans, though.
The Japanese seem to be sitting on their hands, and I can only assume that the Germans are marshalling forces for another go at the USSR, or for a big push against me.

I hope to post more in a week or so."
somdnole

I think you are right:

You can not afford that the war with Soviet continues.
It will be of crucial value if you can establish a peace-treaty with them.


Thank you for the report and welcome back.


Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

tom2050,

Thank you for the report.

"Germany - SID difficulty, AI most aggressive, no workers (clean pollution only), ironman rules (no reloads)

Week 51, 1941 - Hindenburgs sinks 1 Lion Class Battleships with ease near Ponta Delgada, lost a BismarckC and a Hindenburg against 4 other Lion Class Battleship (sunk 1) in mid-atlantic. I have it in for Britain (they are making a ton of Battleships), and am going to throw everything I can at them in India. Stack of 23 panzers launched assault on Leningrad and destroyed 3 of the fortresses there at a toll of a panzer handful, strange thing is the last fortress had 1 hit point left and showed on top, but when I attacked, another unit would defend (???). Since I couldn't attack the fortress, it will probably regain full health next turn. I will hold the remaining troops.
Week 52, 1941 - Took Sochi (Soviet Russia) and sold all improvements.
Week 1, 1942 - One thing that irks me about the AI, is that they can bomb a ship when it is completely out of their visual range. An escort carrier near Greenland bombed 1 of my transports which was right next to Dublin Britain. Theres no way they could have known it was there, US recon aircraft do not have that kind of range. Took Baku (Soviet Russia). Took Liepaja (Soviet Russia)."
tom2050

Agree.
This type of AI-cheating is disturbing.
Its also said that AI always know where all transports are located.

"Week 2, 1942 - Took Riga (Soviet Russia). Took Vilnius (Soviet Russia). Working my way up to Leningrad from the south, to assist my troops up north. Japan takes Dehli and Jaipur (British-India). Took Brest-Litovsk (Soviet Russia). Took Lwow (Soviet Russia). My counter attack is going very well so far! Took Teheran (Persia). Russia has gone crazy with its Pe-8 bombers, it started a few turns ago. It must take a whole minute while they bomb everything in sight. Even with the luftwaffe all over the place, there is too many of them to stop, and they dont go down often."
tom2050

I think the general siuation in the East looks very well!

"NOTE: infantry does not include fortresses, special fortresses, or garrisons.
My current strength: 32 ships/68 subs, 0 carriers, 8 transports, 11 artillery, 366 infantry, 107 fighters/bombers, 193 tanks.
Current US strength: 26 ships/no subs, 0 carriers, 9 transports, 35 artillery, 536 infantry, 80 fighters/bombers, 665 tanks.
Current Japanese strength: 76 ships/no subs (65 are YamatoC's), 3 carriers, 14 transports, 44 artillery, 357 infantry, 106 fighters/bombers, 122 tanks.
Current Soviet strength: 16 ships/107 subs, 2 carriers, 14 transports, 88 artillery, 936 infantry, 153 fighters/bombers, 85 tanks"
tom2050

US will not be easy to deal with.
Positive though that US naval forces are so low in numbers.

"Week 3, 1942 - Just as my India assault force was heading down into Persia, Italy takes Chah Bahar (Persia). Took Pskov (Soviet Russia). Took Lutsk (Soviet Russia). Last Leningrad fortress destoyed at a cost of 6 panzers.
Week 4, 1942 - Japan takes and razes Karachi (British-India). Japanese tanks appear near Chah Bahar. Took Tallinn (Soviet Russia). Took Novgorod (Soviet Russia).
Week 5, 1942 - Took Leningrad (Soviet Russia).
Week 6, 1942 - Took Gomel (Soviet Russia).
Week 7, 1942 - Took Mashhad (Persia). Took Minsk (Soviet Russia). Took Odessa (Soviet Russia). Japan takes Nagpur (British-India)."
tom2050

Good play from Japan AI!

"Week 8, 1942 - Took Kiev (Soviet Russia). Took Arkangelsk (soviet Russia). Soviet armor is somewhat rare now, although they do attack in small groups. There is infantry by the hordes, and 250-300 infantry along the German-Soviet border supported by alot of flak and a few armor units. I decided to research Air 1942 instead of Land 1942 in order to get the longer ranged lethal-land Fw 190G and He-177."
tom2050

A good move I think.

"Russia has 24 tanks/armor and 863 infantry. USA up to around 700 tanks. I've changed many coastal cities over
to naval building, including transports, carriers, s-boats, cruisers, etc to get a head start on creating a USA invasion fleet. I need a large quantities of carriers, so I am mainly creating escort carriers for their cheaper cost, so I can bring over ALOT of air support. Projected GO with america invasion across Atlantic will be in the beginning of 1943. By then, I will guess America will probably have 900-1000 tanks. The 17 tanks I brought down to British India have met up with Japanese armored forces, to help take out the remaining 7 British-India cities. British Lion Class Battleships have stopped coming up from India since Japan started making it's push. I am making the push for the primary reason to stop Britain from making these battleships. US has 7 M-36 Jacksons, which mean they have had Land 1944 for a while now!
Week 9, 1942 - Took Lahore (British-India). Took Vitebsk (Soviet Russia). Took Dniepropetrovsk (Soviet Russia)."
tom2050

I think its a correct decision to invade America early 1943.
Waiting longer then that will mean that US armoured forces will be to huge and probably
impossible to deal with.
It should be an interesting campaign!

Thank you for the report and welcome back.


Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

Andreas68

Thank you for the report.

"Week 22, 1940 to Week 39, 1940

British on Monarch difficulty

Workers

Some more spies around, latest figures;

Soviet Russia - 112 workers, Stalin will be pleased with the 5-year plan
Italy - 1
China - 9
Japan - 12
France - 2
Germany - 1
USA - 61
Finland - 8

I also see activities by Persian, Dutch and Belgian workers, and I have no explanation yet as to why Germany and Italy doesn't build any workers. None of the civs have "build Workers often" checked, and I suspect it got something to do whtether "production" is checked or not. Or maybe it's because there's a lot of terrain improvement from start on in Germany. Or it is government related. Or whatever."
Andreas68

The 112 Soviet workers is not easy to explain since not much is known
about how AI will choose production-strategy.
There have never been any comments on this issue from Firaxis.

"British Home Defense

All fine there, I build up my forces, and still do coastal bombardment. Bomber Command started raids on Bremen and Hamburg, utilizing the 6 Short Stirling bombers now in my arsenal. They already destroyed a barrack and reduced Hamburg by 2 - not decisive for the war IMHO but nice to have nonetheless.

A second Bismarck-Class battleship was spotted in the North Sea near Bremen. My Home Fleet damaged it badly, and it had to sail for Bremen for repairs. A Skua from carrier HMS Glorious sank it.

Continental Europe

No news, except that Germany builds Panzer IIIe's like crazy, now at 82 pieces. They also produce my new introduced StuGIIIA, now at 26 pieces, for city defense."
Andreas68

Germany AI production-strategy works better in version 2.5 then in 2.4.
That is because its not possible to produce the 88s anymore.
They will now only come from autoproduction.
When it was poosible to produce the 88s the result was a to defensive
production-strategy from Germany AI.

"Western Mediterranean

The Italian attack on Gibraltar was just a pretext to something worse - week 24 Germany came along with a stack of Panzer IIIe's, and conquered the rock, losing 12 tanks in the attack. A black day for The Empire, His Majesty wasn't pleased.

The French light cruiser Marselleise still blocks the way through the Mediterranean, so I am using my 6 battleships there to bombard Palermo and Naples. Currently, my fleet is steaming up north for a attack on German Marseilles.

And because of this French cruiser, my Pacific fleet reinforcements do the long way around Africa - 4 new carriers and 3 new King George V battleships are on it's way, but nowhere near yet, one group just in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

The US fleet in the western Mediterranean bombarded Gibraltar, and the US landed 12 M2A2 tanks the week after Germany took Gibraltar. All US forces were lost. But the bombardment continued, and the next transports of the US were sailing towards Sardinia, and week 38, Cagliary was conquered - I am very pleased with this, and I hope the US will use Sardinia as a base for a invasion of mainland Italy."
Andreas68

The capture of Gibraltar is a surprise.
Good play from AI one must say.

"Eastern Mediterranean

Landed forces on Cyprus to free Nicosia from Italian rule - the first attack of 4 Indian Infantry was a failure, but now, 3 Canadian Divisions arrived which hopefully will do better.

Africa

Took Mogadishu, and there's fierce fighting going on around Addis Abeba.

Asia mainland

Action! Japan took Yenan from the Communist Chinese, Ningpo and Amoy from China. The battle for Hongkong waged for weeks and weeks, at one point I was already removing my 4 Gurkhas and a couple Indian Infantries, as I thought the next attack will be the final one. But no, sent them back in, and the battle continued, Japan sent Type 97 tanks and infantry, and finally, in week 37, the Crown Colony was lost to Japan. Another black day for The Empire

The remainder of my troops, together with a couple new Cruiser Mk4 tanks, are now stationed around French Hanoi. Persia sent half a dozen infantry too, joining in the defense of French Indochina. Japan bombs Hanoi and Chinese Nanning."
Andreas68

I guess it will take some time until its possible to counterstrike in the Pacific
and in Asia.

"Dutch East Indies

Surabaya is now Japanese, and Japan sent a small force of 1 transport, 2 destroyers and a heavy cruiser around the northen tip of Sumatra, apparently for the attack on the last Dutch city, Padang. I was already thinking it will be me, Singapur or Kuala Lumpur, or even India, on their list. Both my cities are reinforced now, but not too strong, let's see how it goes. India's southern tip now is reinforced with the old carriers Argus, Eagle, Hermes and a couple old destroyers.

New Guinea

Japan sent a battleship plus transport, taking Port Moresby! The SNLF troops are a tough opponent, the ANZAC's there managed to destroy all but one, which took Port Moresby already red-lined. The next turn, a British Infantry, sitting next to Port Moresby on the victory location, retook my city.

Japan sends transports and heavy cruisers into the waters around Fakfak, I managed to sink 2 heavy cruisers, and a small US fleet of old cruisers popped up and sank another couple ships, 2 destroyers and a transport.


Playing as British is mighty interesting; never enough troops, different battlefields, here on the offensive, there on the defense, over there hopelessly outclassed. I use Canada as a industrial base, irrigating and mining whatever possible, I build roads in India for all the fine resources there, and am building up Australia. I hope to be able to launch a major counter attack on Dutch East Indies when my fleet arrives. Until then, I am a sitting duck with my 2 heavy cruisers and handful light cruisers there.

And before I forget, Russia was angry at me, demanding some luxury, or else. I gave it to them, and offered a deal for another luxury. Stalin offered me his entire gold! Thanks, tovarish."
Andreas68

Yes playing Britain should be an interesting challenge.

For sure there are not just one clear way to go.


Thank you for the report and welcome back.


Rocoteh

 

[Rocoteh]

From what I know, the limit of available units counts units with support costs only, since once that limit has been reached, 1 gold/turn is deducted from your treasury each turn per unit. Units with no support costs are still included in the total unit count (such as on the F3 military advisor), but not calculated in the Army support cost on that same page. I've tried it before, and even when above the total free units, you incur no support cost.

There are a number of common free units, such as Soviet militia divisions, soviet garrison, special fortress, submarines (the 18.7.4 subs), artillery offensive, fixed coastal defence, garrison, and maybe a couple more. Majority of these cannot be built.

It's strange Soviet keeps all the other loads of soviet garrisons at its border though, perhaps since Moscow is further back in a 'safer zone' it discards them. Who knows ?? I wonder if Rocoteh or anyone else knows more about how the AI works in this type of situation.

tom2050,

This is probably an AI bug.

I can not see another way to explain this problem.

Rocoteh

 

[againsttheflow]

tom2050,

The new civilopedia and biq-file with the improved tech tree
have now been uploaded.

Once again:

Thank you for your great work with this.

Rocoteh

Where are they at?

 

[tom2050]

Where are they at?

The download link on first page was updated with the new file, here is the link: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=107698&page=399