<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AlvaroSousa<br/>
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You are attacking across a river here. Read the AARs man
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In the image, I'm defending across a river. (Playing Allies.) I'm demonstrating with that one how units retreat for seemingly no good reason, as they ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ncc1701e<br/>
Not at all, the role of a submarine is to avoid the destroyers to target the CV.
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Unless it is an American submarine in the Pacific. Sinking destroyers was one of the top priorities of US submarines, as the Japanese ...

<r> Especially in the North Africa campaign, air units are completely useless. Something about them being at a lower scale seems to make them incapable of ever damaging an enemy, and so I eventually gave up ever using them offensively. The most common result was 3 lost air units to 0 lost targets ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Platoonist<br/>
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The Japanese decision to attack the United States, a nation that even the most militant Japanese government officials recognized as vastly industrially superior to Japan, has always bewildered historians since. Samuel Eliot Morison called ...

<t> In my current game against the AI as the allies, I basically destroyed the entire Kriegsmarine, U-boats and all in 1940. I did lose 20 merchant marine and 1 escort, and I had been building a lot of escorts (being basically the only thing Canada did with its production), but the AI was dumb ...

<r> I know it's in the manual. The problem is, their effectiveness doesn't go down at all. In fact, because of their immunity to the snow, my own forces IN supply are depleting far faster than the units in basic supply, and it's extremely costly to try to throw my own units at theirs to try to force ...

<r> Even if I have fleets that interdict every single supply that can reach a port and utterly surround a port, I cannot actually leave an enemy unit in anything less than basic supply. This makes any unit that garrisons a port extremely annoying to take down, especially in situations where the ...

<r> Playing as the Allies, the Belgian army does not display its unit strength like they belong to me. (This means not showing details like having priority repair, etc.) The Belgian army displays unit strength like an enemy army, with unit strength only displaying when next to Axis troops, and units ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ncc1701e<br/>
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I just realized recently I was not taking care of HQ at all. I was taking care of them for combat but not for effectiveness recovery. Now, I am pressing the S key more often. Also, you need to rotate your spearhead otherwise your army will ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: stjeand<br/>
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Keep in mind...fighters do not participate as "escorts" unless the bombers are intercepted.<br/>
You can tell since they still have the same operation points left if the bombers are not intercepted.<br/>
Your statement was the line was not ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AlvaroSousa<br/>
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It's a chance you gain experience. it isn't always certain. The lower XP you are the easier it is to gain
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Going back and playing some more, I did have one of my fighter units gain experience, however if ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AlvaroSousa<br/>
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If air sups have no one to fight why would they gain experience?
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That was the case in some of the earlier attacks, but later battles were clearly battles between superiority aircraft. I have a screenshot of ...

<r> I noticed playing Allies in 1939 that the Siegfried Line is undefended by air cover, so, lacking anything to really <I><s>[i]</s>do<e>[/i]</e></I> with France until Germany was done digesting Poland and Denmark, I sent my bombers to attack the under-defended units there in the snow. No damage ...

<r> Switching mission is just hitting a hotkey, and so is sending a supply truck, so I don't see this as an undue amount of player input to get what you want done and doesn't seem that much more of an investment of player time than land forces. This game also lacks artillery as distinct from ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ncc1701e<br/>
Excellent, during the Russian winter the Germans will no longer be fed with supply trucks. A limited Soviet counteroffensive will have some chance of success.<br/>
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But, I am myself concerned for France 1940. I need to test this against a ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AlvaroSousa<br/>
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Taking Berlin in August 1945 is a lot more exciting than running up to it with a tank in 1942. Well at least for me it is.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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The key is finding a balance to a ...

<r> To ease myself into the game, my first campaign was playing as Axis against the computer in the North Africa campaign. I learned fairly quickly that there was no point in me buying reinforcements, because they can't catch up to the front in time to make a difference, anyway, and yet, I needed ...

I think it's the same thing as what happens if you don't invade France or Denmark. Sure, nothing FORCES you to do so, but it's going to be much harder on you if you don't rush in and claim all those production points when it's easy to do so. Time is on the Allies's side.

<r> Hexes would make sense if you had actual ability to throw out search planes and had to patrol areas of the ocean to find enemy fleets, as opposed to always being able to see where enemy fleets are, yet having a random roll tell you that your forces can't see or do anything about the carrier ...

<t> I see. Thank you, then. Until I went and tried out going along the coast to attack some Germans on land, I hadn't seen a chance to attack anything with a carrier at all. (The Germans move their ships out to the Baltic and don't come back within smiting range, so I've lacked a chance to attack ...