It's exhausting. I've had to take a break over the holidays.Originally posted by K62
Stef, How's your game with Dave going? I'm also in a '43 right now, but as Russian, it's more fun this way;)
Because it's my first e-mail game ever, it takes me a lot longer to figure out how to proceed, and I'm still learning many things that I had no knowledge of before we started. Each turn I learn more and more about the game, and I appreciate Dave's patience. Every time I send off a turn, he turns it right around, and I don't even get a chance to play my other classic favorite (against the AI so far), which is PACWAR.
It's somethiing like running away and having a BIG DOG (hehe) nipping at your heals, and occasionally taking a chunk out of your butt!
We have reached the end of March '44. It has started to rain. THANK GOD! He beat me up pretty badly over the Winter.
He took Sevastapol a couple of turns ago.
In the far South (everyone speaks with a Southern accent down there, {American Joke}) he has pushed five or six hexes across the Dnieper.
I hold Kiev.
In the Center, I hold Minsk, which he has pushed right up to, albeit in poor supply, but that will change.
In the North, he has actually made the least progress, now that I think about it, the stuff in the Center and South is probably just his dumb luck!!
I hold a line around three or four hexes East of Pskov, and I am only two hexes West of Leningrad. My Finns are just North of the
Leningrad minor city.
The next time I play, I will certainly be more aggressive, but I am playing this scenario in a more defensive posture (which Dave doesn't respect very much), but I wanted to see what the Axis went through in their long retreat. I regret that now, but it's too late. I assure you that Dave is really enjoying himself at this point as he must by now have a powerful force.
I don't think a lot of players really regard the '43 and '44, which I find fascinating. After a while, just surviving as the Axis is a victory in itself. (We New Yorkers are experts at that). Any player is not going to enjoy having their oil, resources, heavy industry, and manpower dwindle, as cities are lost, and as the Allies progessively pound the daylights out of Axis industry with more and more intensity.
Most players are obsessed with the '41 game I believe.
I wonder what proportion of games are going on in all the different scenarios.
It's kinda difficult to be more candid with you because I know that darn Wolf is lurking in the woods, and because eventually you are going to play me in '43 as the Russians!
By the way, you give Upstate NY as your location.
Are you in the 10th Mountain? ("Black Hawk Down", with the Rangers and Delta Force of course)
I was very surprised to find that they are in and train in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate NY!
