Bombur 1930 game

[Twotribes]

The year is 1934 and the French, British face the German and Russian powers. Peace is currently the State of Affairs and the German High Command has no desire for war.

The size of the map is large we each have a capitol and 8 cities I think we each have 3 or 4 of each resource.

With it being 1934 there are not a lot of tanks to build nor aircraft. Further other then the French 25 MM anti tank gun there are no anti tank guns yet.

The political question is complex, does one build factories or increase fuel production. Raw should be good for a while at the current levels of available production.

The British have 2 small enclaves separate from their Country and the French have one. Both Germany and the Soviets are one unified Country though the Soviets have numerous borders to defend due to the state of affairs.

[Twotribes]

Germany added an artillery factory to her Tank factory. Making it easier to upgrade her Infantry divisions.

[Twotribes]

Been 2 days and a weekend at that.

[Twotribes]

The Artillery factory aided by City production has produced numerous Infantry and anti Aircraft guns. At this rate soon the entire army will be upgraded.

[Twotribes]

Priority shifts yet again as the Republic Builds its forces on the eastern Empires border. Aircraft are a must and while we get a new fighter in 35 its range leaves a bit to be wishful for the older aircraft range.

[ironduke1955]

Forces continue to build as soon as we can find a justification for war then we will have at it.

[Twotribes]

As should be obvious by German placement of troops we are not planning on being the aggressor. The French meanwhile continue to mass on our borders.

Our industrialization for civilian production continues as planned even though the increasing tension from the French provocative military stance worries us.

[Twotribes]

Question? Did they change the general level of seeing factories in enemy territory off?

[ironduke1955]

The French have gone to war some insult over their Baguettes, and where the French go we British must follow. So war it is to the death or at least to the last bread roll.

[ironduke1955]

The Russians and Germans pressure the British and French isolated cities who will be on short rations for quite a while.

[Twotribes]

One British city falls while a Soviet city falls. The Soviets were not prepared for war and the British have made a major commitment in Birch guns. The german high command reports that the French Artillery has been mauled.

[ironduke1955]

Leeds was lost to the British one of three isolated British cities at risk, hopefully the other two can avoid the same fate. The War on the main front for the moment goes well with the Russians in retreat though at some point we expect them to dig in Russian style.

[falco148]

Oh dear, this is precisely what I was afraid of. I thought I might've been able to keep the British bottled up around Lipetsk but those stacks upon
stacks artillery must have done their job.

I'm kindof afraid to open the file now.......

[Twotribes]

It doesn't help that what is supposed to be mobile artillery is actually better then most tanks.

[ironduke1955]

LOL we are down the road of complaining that your opponents equipment is overpowered as a explanation for the situation on the battlefield, the Birch a early SP gun runs at AT 200/200 the British medium tank is 280/280 the Birch has higher stats against infantry, that is its only advantage. This is a golden rule never commit your tanks to a even contest, that is equal experience versus equal experience because if you fail you have just given a huge XP bonus to the opposing defending tank force. Having done that if those defending tanks then go onto attack moving infantry stacks that have been softened up with massed artillery and obliterate them gaining XP they will become 40+ tank units eventually and higher, and any green tanks you produce and place in the front line, it does not matter if they are marginally inferior or superior in AT stats they are going to be owned by their opponents superior experience. And this being the middle thirties you do not have the airpower to even the playing field. Experience rules the battlefield not equipment.

[Josh]

Well said Thomas, well said.

[Twotribes]

I never said it was overpowered I made a statement about what it appears to do. 6 of them stopped 30 of my actual armored vehicles and destroyed with out a single loss about 10 of them.

[ironduke1955]

The statement you have made merely illustrates the point I made, those 6 Birch guns have 40+ experience they are veterans they are going to defeat large numbers of units with lower experience before they go down.
As I said all things being relatively equal experience is the deciding factor.

Just occurs to me that if this combat occurs near the French city of Dinan. I have a Engineer unit building Fortresses along the road approaching the city, that is the only location that the attack you refer to could have occurred. So add to the combat that the infantry and Birch SP guns are defending a fortress.

[falco148]

Just got this message when I opened the file to play my turn for this game.....

Possible PBEM Cheat
"The Empire has been making changes to the log filter. He has been attempting to copy logs".

Not quite sure what this means or if this means anything at all. I'm sure its perfectly innocent but I thought maybe I'd pass the info
on to those who know this game better than me.

[ironduke1955]

Yes sounds suspicious to me, I am constantly ignoring players opening files more than once, with possible cheat messages, and I feel no need to post such messages to the forum.
I am not sure what a log filter is (Unless its the wooden kind) or why I would want to copy it.
But if you would like I would be more than happy to forfeit the game on the grounds of cheating though to be honest I have no need or inclination to cheat.[&:]