The Cobra vs the Mongoose

[rhinobones]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

I'm wondering how to fix this. Maybe it has something to do with the equipment file?

In the editor change the unit icon to the "heavy bomber" icon. Should correct the problem.

Regards

[larryfulkerson]

Thanks.

[larryfulkerson]

I just now received some moves from Ken and I watched a lot of the playback and now I've started doing my moves. This is the way the front lines look from the
Soviet perspective in T3. Ken is moving a lot faster than I expected. I feel like I'm falling behind already. But I'm having a lot of fun.

[Hellen_slith]

Eager to see how the interdiction goes. I've been trying to get David to turn some on on the German side, but he's kept it all on AS and CS that I know of.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Hellen_slith
Eager to see how the interdiction goes. I've been trying to get David to turn some on on the German side,
but he's kept it all on AS and CS that I know of.

I've been trying to rail my troops to where they need to be ASAP and out of 8 that start the trip only
perhaps two will eventually arrive at the destination. The rest of them are knocked out of embarked
mode by Ken's INT missions. I've seen entire units evaporate. It's mostly deadly. And to add insult
to injury he's breaking my bridges all over the map. My RR engineers can't keep up. This is a hell of
a good game. I'm learning a lot and having all kinds of fun.

[larryfulkerson]

I've received some moves from Ken just now and I watched the playback ( 27K+ events ) and now I've come to the opening screens of my turn. The resolved battles panel says that there were 171 attacks by the Axis units and lots of them were successful bridge attacks. Ken has penetrated my light screen near
Riga and has gotten across the river and is advancing very quickly to Pskov. I'm wondering what his supply net looks like right now. I've been
breaking all the bridges I can while I retreat and I'm hoping that is a pain in the neck for Ken. A lot of my dead units are being respawned already. I have
sufficient rail cap. to get a lot of my units to the front but the problem is Ken's INT. Of 8 units that are railing toward the front only about 2 of them will
arrive at their destination. The rest of them are knocked out of embarked mode by Ken's INT. It's slowing down my delivery of reinforcements to a substantial
degree. Plus, he's moving a LOT faster than I expected. I doubt that I can get my front lines built before his units arrive.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the Soviet view of the front lines early in T4. There's a lot of remnants of Soviet units pretty
far in the Axis rear. I'm proud of them. So far so good.

[Lobster]

If at all possible don't move units embarked on trains through airfields. Even more so if the airfields have air units present. Airfields are observed. Same with urban hexes but there's no way to avoid those. It's not a 100% solution but it will cut down on interdiction.

There's some gamey things you could do to hurt his interdicting aircraft. You could attempt to concentrate fighters on air superiority in an area with several airfields and set their range so they cover a hex with an airfield. Then move units you don't care about back and forth through that airfield. It will attract enemy aircraft on interdiction which in turn will attract your aircraft on air superiority. Just try and stay out of range of his ME109s. They are fairly short range. Or if you feel froggy let them come too. Thing is to concentrate your Soviet fighters in a small area. You get lots more than him and will certainly win the war of attrition eventually.

Not much else you can do early on.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: Lobster
If at all possible don't move units embarked on trains through airfields. Even more so if the airfields have air units present. Airfields are observed. Same with urban hexes but there's no way to avoid those. It's not a 100% solution but it will cut down on interdiction.

There's some gamey things you could do to hurt his interdicting aircraft. You could attempt to concentrate fighters on air superiority in an area with several airfields and set their range so they cover a hex with an airfield. Then move units you don't care about back and forth through that airfield. It will attract enemy aircraft on interdiction which in turn will attract your aircraft on air superiority. Just try and stay out of range of his ME109s. They are fairly short range. Or if you feel froggy let them come too. Thing is to concentrate your Soviet fighters in a small area. You get lots more than him and will certainly win the war of attrition eventually.

Not much else you can do early on.

Thanks Jack. That makes sense to me. It's only T4 and my aircraft proficiency is about 12% so I'd rather
let them rest a little bit before I send them into harm's way. Besides the air schock difference still
favors the Axis and will for a few turns yet. I'll have to try your idea though, it's a good one. I
appreciate you feeding me these tips....I need all the help I can get against Ken. He's a master of TOAW
gameplay compared to me. I'm learning a lot and having a boat-load of fun. This is the hardest game I've
ever played I do believe. I hope to convey to you guys how much fun I'm having.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the T7 Soviet front lines. This is before I have moved anybody.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's some of the Soviet losses so far. I've sorted the losses column.

[larryfulkerson]

I'm due to get a boat-load of reinforcements in T8 and included is the 38th Corps. They are
all red and need to rest before they will be any good though. There's four pages of reinforcements
coming in T8 and they are all red. They will all have to rest before I can use them in
combat. Ken is coming on pretty fast and I may not get all the reinforcements I'm due because he
may overrun the hex and convert it to his control negating my getting any reinforcements from that
hex.

EDIT: In the following post below I seem to have started posting images from my D21 game for some reason. I appologize and my next FITE2 post is in post #120.

[larryfulkerson]

I finally captured Bryansk in T18 which is 20Aug41 but the weather is still
good and the supply levels are adequate and all my aircraft are green except for about half a
dozen Stuka's that are resting from having struck the Soviet naval units near Leningrad
and they got chewed up pretty good. Out of 250 Ju-87's about 77 were damaged or shot
down. And the Soviet boats didn't get a scratch. It's frustrating. And I don't have any
naval units in Leningrad bay to contest the Soviet naval units. So it has to be air attacks to
make them go away. The air war is heating up as you can discern from the air losses panel.

[golden delicious]

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson

about half a dozen Stuka's that are resting from having struck the Soviet naval units near Leningrad and they got chewed up pretty good. Out of 250 Ju-87's about 77 were damaged or shot down. And the Soviet boats didn't get a scratch. It's frustrating.

I'm having the same problem in my game, albeit the PO has the +2 bonus (not sure if you're playing with that or not- I imagine your house rule is enough) which makes it even worse. I did manage to do some heavy damage to Marat, but not before it wiped out the Finnish protected cruisers.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: golden delicious

ORIGINAL: larryfulkerson
about half a dozen Stuka's that are resting from having struck the Soviet naval units near Leningrad and they got chewed up pretty good. Out of 250 Ju-87's about 77 were damaged or shot down. And the Soviet boats didn't get a scratch. It's frustrating.

I'm having the same problem in my game, albeit the PO has the +2 bonus (not sure if you're playing with that or not) which makes it even worse. I did manage to do some heavy damage to Marat, but not before it wiped out the Finnish protected cruisers.

Yeah, Elmer got my Finnish cruisers too. D'oh. I'm racking my brain for a way to sink those
Soviet bad boys. I'm coming up with nothing. Maybe instead of using a two-dot attack I can
use several single-dot attacks. I'll let you know how that works out.

[larryfulkerson]

This is the front lines in early T21:

[larryfulkerson]

It's T22 and this is what it looks like down south on the way to the port at
Sevastopol. I plan to rail all my RR arty into this AO to help pound Sevastopol.
It's early September and I have to own the port by 04Dec41 to release the
Bulgarians. They are in garrison mode right now and therefore unusable for any practical
purpose. So far I've never owned the city in time to release the Bulgarians. I'm hoping that
my luck will change with this game. Supply is 12 at the tip of the spear. The
railhead is nearby so the supply level will rise in future turns.

[golden delicious]

I think you mixed your threads up Larry- not that I'm complaining, but wasn't this thread FitE until a couple of days ago? Now it's D21.

Anyway, I wish I had as much playing time as you. I'm on turn 13 or something and I started months ago.

[larryfulkerson]

ORIGINAL: golden delicious
I think you mixed your threads up Larry- not that I'm complaining, but wasn't this thread FitE until a couple of days ago? Now it's D21.

Anyway, I wish I had as much playing time as you. I'm on turn 13 or something and I started months ago.

Oops. You're correct. D'oh. I'll have to pay more attention. And yes, I spend maybe 16 hours a day playing games. I'm having a blast.

[larryfulkerson]

Here's the front lines in T8 in my FITE2 game with Ken Fortune. my appologies for any confusion caused by my posting my D21 game images previously.