WaW v32 Germany versus the world! AI++

[bwheatley]

Latest bombing run on Paris was intense and it softened the way for the ground attack!

[bwheatley]

We did it!! Paris is ours! We're going to declare Vichy soon enough so that we can then sweep through the low countries and take them out before redirecting to the Balkins.

On the italian front we have a division in Africa. We also took Malta from the brits.

[bwheatley]

Vichy france has been declared. I have put all my air units right on the border of Britian. I have also Strat moved my 2 tank divisions to the balkins to get a head start on this fight.

[nslcole]

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Does anyone have any recommendations for keeping PP's up on the border with the Soviets so i don't get bum rushed?

If you mean the numeric value(Counter Strength)on the counter of a unit, the fomula is.

Counter Strength = Power Points * ( rdn / 100) + ( Power Points * ( xp / 100 )
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there are only 3 variables (pp, rdn, xp).

pp can be increased by upgrade.(The Power Points of all subformation types in all included release scenarios are set equal to production cost / 100.
(manual, page 49).)


high rdn is about beeing in supply.(manual, page 41)

high xp is about traning(up to 40) and fight.(manual, page 41-42)


If I understand it I will say upgrade subformations and/or let the units get some
fighting experience in the west or against some minor.

[bwheatley]

The balkins war has flared up we have put together a new division under a newly formed HQ called Southern Kg.

The 12th SS Panzer Division has been formed with 40 SS Rifle II. And 118 Rifle II plus a couple 88's and a couple medium II tanks.
This should be a nice addition to our attack on the balkins and greece.

[bwheatley]

The Africa Korps has a humble beginning with only a few armored cars to provide mobility.

But we landed 3000 supplies on the docks for the AK to use. The battleship taskforce docked in Malta seems to be doing a good job of interdicting the enemies supplies. I get little gray circles that say powerpts killed. I have some subs coming off the line that i want to put over by gibraltor. The sooner i can take out gibraltor the easier my supply lines will be in the med.

[bwheatley]

no the subs got waxed...though i just did upgrade to sub 2! If i'm going to challenge the allies it has to be with submarines as i can't afford to put a lot of work into a big surface navy. I've got to keep my Eastern front ready for the russian bear!

[bwheatley]

AHh crude i made a mistake! I sallied the italian fleet with 300PP out to fight the allied fleet with 300PP but i went in forgetting i had already moved them a bit so they ran out of AP right in the middle of the turn. They are not setting out there and will be made mince meet. That just further puts me into the submarine camp.

I'm also having a dilly of a time keeping my AF upto snuff. I've lost 20 Fighters II's in the past 3 months. I've just upgraded to fighter III hopefully that will help stem the tide and let me turn the tables on the brits.

[bwheatley]

The balkins are very slow going!!

[IRONCROM]

Nice AAR bro... I like a good AI AAR, players don't do to many of them.
 
Soviets should prove to be a real challenge with AI++ chosen. That's a lot T34's
 
 What is the Date?

[wmcalpine]

I agree with IRONCROM. This is a nice AAR, and am interested in the date as well. How are you doing in the tech race?

Bill

[bwheatley]

The date is May 22 1941! I'm up and again to start another round of play. This game is very addictive hopefully i can find someone for a PBEM game.

[bwheatley]

Here is my production per turn so far. I'm trying to make enough Rifleman to bring new divisions online in the east to keep my score up or i'm going to get jacked up by the USSSR. I've decided to forgo any thoughts of an invasion of britian until i take out the USSR. Once i take out the balkins and greece i'm goign to 100% focus on the USSR. I wish i had a choice with wether i wanted to have Italy on my side or not. It's just one more thing to worry about that i'd rather not. Though I have 2 units down there that are about to start pushing.
I just have to get the Italtian sub fleet up so that i can keep supply interdiction to a minimum.

[bwheatley]

Here is the garrison report and even with a 2 to 1 modifier i'm just barely over powering the soviets. I need to bring some more panzer divisions online up there. Whats a good size for each division? I tried to get the panzers upto 10 med II tanks but that take forever.

[bwheatley]

BTW i had a problem with this scen if someone knows teh scen creator. The Western Blitz card i got in april 1941 not april 1940.....
Kinda too the air out of my sails that way but i managed to do the blitz all by my lonesome

[bwheatley]

Finally got my units in a position to wipe out a good portion of the balkins defense so far!

Things might be coming together.

[bwheatley]

I'm about to upgrade to infantry 3. Perhaps i should wait and do armor 3 instead? I'll hold off for a turn if anyone comes forward with better advice before then i'll heed it if its sound.

[bwheatley]

The Romanian airforce while it may suck its turning out to be a real god send. For some reason i couldn't take my other panzer division into the low mountains. I'm thinking its because i had the 88 so i transfered it back to OKW.

[bwheatley]

As you can see here we've had a good turn so far. Though there is still a unit thats cut off over by greece. Thats next turn! What are the ramifications of being far away from your assigned HQ? I didnt want to transfer the panzers to the local theather HQ i created becuase i didnt want to suffer through the lose of readiness.

[bwheatley]

I've gotten messsages about air interdiction and got those red circles.
Their is that tiny island to the top left of the shot that is West controlled perhaps there are fighters there? Oh its probably carrier around somewhere interdicting right?

Above malta what are those? is that me actively interdicting his power?