<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Hairog<br/>
One big thing first. It appears that some of you have missed one of the key concepts here. <br/>
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Statements like this make it readily apparent that the task force unit and concept is misunderstood.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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When people ...

<t> Reinforcement is based on supply. You need to use the 'show supply' button at the bottom of the screen to see how much supply places have. Cities and ports get knocked down (usually to 0) when captured, most captured cities and ports provide at most 5 supply, your home cities provide 10, some ...

<t> I agree about the naval mod; while carriers should be dominant, they shouldn't be capable of destroying surface fleets with no escorts and no risk to themselves, even though the author of the mod seems to love immortal carriers. Yes, carriers didn't often get sunk by surface ships historically ...

they're vulnerable to being attacked by ships and air units, but they are rarely and barely hurt by attacking land units.

<t> Bring gun ships to bombard the town/unit and to sit next to the port. If you reduce their supply to 0, they can't repair, and bombarding the town will also reduce entrenchment and readiness. Bring carriers (or nearby land-based air) to take a bigger chunk out of the unit. Don't forget that your ...

<t> Yeah, this game wants you to make a 1941 (or 1940 according to some on the forum) Barbarossa. Letting the USSR attack first gives them a bunch of free units since they won't have their 'Germany won't attack us this year' units wiped out at the start of the war, and there's really no way to keep ...

Because rebasing all of your tac air instantly to one place to rapidly overwhelm an area is both unrealistic and game-breakingly good.

<t> Remember that you don't have to keep attacking everywhere with all units - in Poland that works fine and leads to their collapse, but China is too big and has too much rough terrain. You only want to attack with advantage, and there's really no reason to look at withdrawing completely. If your ...

<t> I played the European SC a lot, and recently bought this version and the WWI one. In my first game, I played the 1939 scenario as Germany/Italy and sent the two heavy cruisers off to raid ports. They moved into the 'bombardment' hexes, one in Canada and one in South Africa. I was expecting them ...

I agree, this makes this upgrade tool useless for most of the German army as you usually can't afford to put the mobility upgrade on everything.

You need to conquer London for the quick victory, otherwise the game goes until 1947 to give the Allies an attempt to recover. You can mass all of your bombers near the UK, then bomb down whatever unit is in London and drop a paratrooper to force a victory if you really want.

The AI gets extra units in general, and also gets scripted units if the other side hits certain objectives.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Interesting. I am wondering then that, when digging fortifications, it makes sense to just have one hex side. They get constructed faster and you get the benefits of higher entrenchment and AA. The question is whether being attacked where you have no facing makes enough of a ...

Also you can't upgrade units while they are in the production queue, so if you're going to 'queue hold' them you need to buy them with the upgrades you want, and won't be able to get any last minute tech jumps.

<t> Two tricks you can try: If you take Lithuania as Germany, you can put units in the northern part of the country and they won't count as they're more than 10 hexes out. Also if you take the 'no polish partition' option lots of the border is more than 10 hexes out, so units pushed as far forward ...

I went back and looked at the event, didn't realize there was a 25% chance of the AI choosing not to honor the pact and that it's only a 20-30% jump. I hadn't encountered this before, but the AI refusing to honor the pact is probably what actually happened.

<t> I recently played a game against the AI where the Germans didn't actually conquer Poland for a long time, IIRC it was November or December before they actually got Warsaw. It looks like the events triggering the partition of Poland into a German and Soviet parts simply never fired - aside from ...

<t> You get the same problem with board games. I remember one particular game of Advanced Third Reich that went pretty much perfectly to play defense, the Axis tried a fairly standard Barbarossa, hurt the USSR but didn't win and didn't lose by a complete collapse. It was a rare game where 1943-1945 ...

<t> I've been poking around at this, and I can duplicate it with a standard scenario.<br/>
Select the 1942 (Case Blue) scenario, up the difficulty to intermediate, leave the side to play as Axis.<br/>
Start the game, then save and exit back to the main menu.<br/>
Go to load saved game, load your ...

<t> I think the Siberian reinforcements only come if winter has hit the Germans, if winter doesn't hit then it won't come until the 'fallback' of May 1942. I'm not sure exactly what triggers winter, but I'm pretty sure I've seen the Germans dodge winter until 1942 if they don't advance. (For example ...