Why is it a problem if a whole fleet full of surface ships causes a sub to run out of supply? As I understand it, a sub only has a (1 + tech) * 10% chance of diving, so a level 2 sub would have a 30% chance of diving on each attack. If I attack that sub with ten surface ships, then it would expect ...

I just came here to say that redrum is absolutely right about the problems in the current meta and the solutions. I strongly agree with darn near everything he says.

My only tiny quibble is that for the submarines, I would just restore the part where they lose supply for diving. Losing supply is ...

Yes, the resource type has to be either an urban resource or a port, things like Mines and Oil are excluded.

I can understand why you set the Oil to be the one, but the engine doesn't currently support the convoy starting or ending at that type. Change it to say Bucharest and hopefully all will ...

Lol, yes, that's true and very entertainingly phrased.

I mean, this just ties into what we were saying on the other thread about aircraft and weather. The biggest problem isn't the balance between Strategic Bombers and Medium Bombers; the biggest problem is that all aircraft are too powerful if their demoralization and deentrenchment effects work at 100 ...

Overland convoys work in the same way as sea ones, except they have to start and stop at a land resource, ideally the capital as that generally makes the most sense.

With waypoints on land between the sender's and receiver's capital.


@BillRunacre Unfortunately, I am not getting the desired ...

Unfortunately, my game does not agree with you, sir. Any suggestions?

Aggro is short for aggression. If you invade Norway, then the US perceives it as aggressive and increases its mobilization, which increases the US's total income over the course of the game. When Germany invades Norway, the US probably profits more than Germany does -- the US economy is what, about ...

We could argue that Food, Manpower, and Metals are represented in or by MPP.

However, I've always considered the lack of an "oil crisis" to be the weakest point of this series.

No oil, no offensives. Once you read up on the German (and Italian and Japanese) oil crises early in the world, you ...

Just a note...the game does support overland convoys. We have them in SC-WW1 and SC-ACW. So they could be layed out here...like from Rumania to Germany for example.
Not saying yay or nay to the idea for SC-WaW. Just pointing out the existing game engine would make it possible to incorporate them ...

There's a few different possible issues.

One is that if your HQs are literally at "strength" 8, then their supply will be less effective. HQs should be at strength 10 (i.e., fully reinforced) in order to provide maximum supply.

Another is that HQs need to be stationed *inside* a supply source to ...

Both sides raise important points. We're already tracking MPPs, unit morale, national morale, supply, leadership, mobilization %, entrenchment, readiness, and force pool limits, so the game really doesn't need another stat to track in the form of oil reserves. That said, it's not realistic to allow ...

Ohhh, that makes a hell of a lot more sense. Sorry, I misunderstood.

I'm not sure how I'd counter that -- it's possible the game balance is off and you just need to mod the AA tech so that it's cheaper and/or more effective.

That said, you could try (a) focusing on the northern front, like, take ...

How are the Axis getting control of the Middle East? That sounds like your real problem to me. You should be able to counter the Axis coup in Iraq by marching two units (they can be zero-tech corps) adjacent to Baghdad and leaving them there for a few turns; there is an event that will make the Axis ...

Having a single capital ship escape from multiple pursuers is one thing; transporting several armies' worth of infantry right past an intact enemy navy is another. For one thing, the armies need supplies that will have to keep on sailing past the by-now-alerted navy if the armies are to be combat ...

Yes, good point, James; the kinds of units you can put into amphibious transports, especially at lower tech levels, should be sharply limited.

I actually like having garrison units, but I'm not sure how I feel about giving them the option for tech upgrades, and I think they should have 0 strikes (i ...

Thank you for that thorough and fascinating explanation! I agree that your scripts probably work quite well for ACW; I haven't tried that one yet.

I hear you that having the AI cancel invasions when there are enemy ships nearby would lead to paranoia and paralysis. I'm not even that upset about ...

I recently finished a game where I played the Axis against an Allied AI running at normal difficulty. As Japan, I sunk most of the American Pacific Fleet over the course of 1942 -- I killed something like 3 American battleships, 3 cruisers, and 4 carriers with minimal losses on my end. I similarly ...

Brilliant, thank you. What about air units and naval units? Will they stop partisans? Does it matter if a ship is in a port adjacent to the partisan symbol vs. just floating in an adjacent sea hex?

I agree; a defending naval unit being hidden should add some surprise value to the damage taken by the transport, or perhaps reduce the transport's chance of taking damage, but it should not render the transport invulnerable to enemy navies. In real life, just posting a destroyer near a pair of ...