This is one of the bugbears I have, the specialisation. The usual law of unforseen circumstances where added features reduce variability in game design.

<t> Yes the same David Irving who in a legal judgement had the following said about him.<br/>
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On this count Mr Justice Gray was unequivocal and damning: Irving was not a dispassionate researcher, but a 'pro-Nazi polemicist'. <br/>
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I've never thought of Irving as anything other than a ...

<t> Why can't you implement the A&A solution which I liked. I also don't know why WAllied troops aren't allowed in Soviet/Chinese territory. I know Stalin rejected the offers of deploying air wings in the Caucasus in 1942, but it was a feasable event, probably more so tham some of the other events ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko<br/>
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Your thinking is conditioned by what you already know about history.<br/>
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Who would expect Germany would attack such peaceful, and generaly Germany friendly nations like Denmark, Netherlands or Norway? Denmark for christssake ...

<t> dapamdg has hit a good point here, if you cap research into any single tech to say 3 RP's, then getting way above world standard would be time prohibitive. I feel this would also reflect reality, the throwing of infinite resources at a problem does NOT ever produce an infinitely better result ...

<t> This counter tech is key, my view is that if you ever get 2 ahead, it should be possible say for minimal reseach to leap to one behind, but not level - make that cost a bit more. This has to some degree to apply to counter tech. You can ignore tech, but you will spend a few turns always slightly ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mike mcmann<br/>
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Delph,<br/>
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I have to disagree.<br/>
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Being associated with the US military during some of its recent "conflicts", airpower CAN and assuredly will destroy ground units on a vast scale. <br/>
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What you are missing is ...

<t> I read Raydudes post and it was eloquently put, but missed our point. Airpower apperas to be too effective when attacking land units on their own. Attack with air/land/sea combined and fine, but we have the wholesale hoovering of whole army corps by airpower (I've done it myself as Germany) and ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: abulbulian<br/>
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Sell it? You must be either nuts, didn't even try and give it a chance, or possible mentally challenged. Go back to your first person shooter games if you don’t have enough mental capacity to handle a game that requires a minimum 3rd grade ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mike mcmann<br/>
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I think the point you guys might be missing about the airpower is this...<br/>
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Germany, for example, starts with 5 fighters, 2 tac and 3 heavy bombers. This represents the ENTIRE LUFTWAFFE! which was a feared thing in 1940. If it ...

<r> I know I started this thread back in testing reading early AAR's, but I still get frustrated at the power of aircraft to clear whole countries of their garrison to allow a "walk in" invasion by the regimental mascot and the pipe band. All the Sealion strategies are based on this type of ...

<r> I think that the complaints about the tech generally are NOT complaining about the inclusion of technology in the game, but in the way it is implemented and the EFFECT of that implementation on the game. <br/>
It does need tweaking in that in reality, no tech is independant, in that if I invent ...

Why do we assume he's disappointed because he can't get into it. I have become more disillusioned since I got to know how to play the game and found the "gamey" side of the system and tech issues have put me off playing.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: dembe73<br/>
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The Axis and the allies both have different weapons and there are only a few turns where Germany has the advantage in this game if you ask me even if they use tech, because of the better production capacity of the Allied side. <br/>
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I thought Belguim had been renamed (B)Euroland years ago!

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: dobeln<br/>
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"When the tech goes up, the cost to build the unit doesn't seem to go up. Designing the wonder tank is one thing. Mass producing them to make them major battlefield units is another."<br/>
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True, but to some extent this is reflected in ...

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I just got my first win ahead of history playing the Russians against AI. Guess what, mega tanks 10-3-10 strong fighters speed to 2 8-8. Quality and not quantity won the war.<br/>
The whole tech thing is becoming a bit silly. I've mainly played as the Russians ...

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Difficulty Level : Normal Advanced Supply<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Game end : Summer 1946 - Allied Victory 5634/453.<br/>
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Notable points : <br/>
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The inability of the Wallies AI to deal ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Uncle_Joe<br/>
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The Eastern Front is going to seem like OGRE with huge battle tanks shooting it out! [;)]<br/>
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I noticed that in a recent game, I nad Russian tanks at 8/9 and they almost nver even got damaged. My ...

<t> Jjared, the above advice holds. I tend to start research into upgrading three things, tanks (essential), artillery & fighters. Tanks and Arty to increase evasion & combat, fighters, evasion & combat strength. These can easily be close to completion before the invasion. (Taking a long view),<br ...