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It doesn't appear that you landed an engineer unit with that cavalry unit. An engineer unit would be used to build a port. Without a port and an HQ to man that port (to receive supplies from the home city), your cavalry unit will quickly run out of supplies. It is either that or break through on the land front so that it can get supplied overland. There is one other option and that is to air drop supplies.

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It doesn't appear that you landed an engineer unit with that cavalry unit. An engineer unit would be used to build a port. Without a port and an HQ to man that port (to receive supplies from the home city), your cavalry unit will quickly run out of supplies. It is either that or break through on the land front so that it can get supplied overland. There is one other option and that is to air drop supplies.

OK. I see what you mean. Anyhow, I'm plowing through now. I think I was just a little too tentative before. Empire units must be totally demoralized. I knocked out 11 tank killers in one battle, along with a lot of other stuff. And I didn't appear that I had any kind of advantage, not for those results.

I did air drop on the Cavalry. I wanted to see what was in the area before I moved further with other landings.


Thanks,

Alan

Another thing that can be done is pack some extra supply into an HQ so that when it lands with the invasion force, it has enough supply for a few turns for the units attached to it. Especially important if you expect that your beachhead will be attacked almost immediately.

I've ended this scenario and AAR.

Some of the things I've learned:

1. How not to run haphazardly into the enemy without considering what might happen next.

As I moved along in this scenario, it was only a matter of time before I defeated the Empire. But it would have taken much longer than it should have. I ran into problems that really would have required a total reorganization of my forces. I had simply created, for one, too much artillery. This was good for the moment, but artillery is not very mobile, and these units soon fell behind and caused timing problems. Also, I was becoming to overloaded on hex stacks.

2. How not to run naval operations

My navy never really got on track. I was building shipyards but ports were in the wrong area of the map. I never had a port in the north, where it was mainly needed. The port further to the southwest was there, but my enemy was doing his landings in the north. And my own amphibious operations were stalling.

3. How not to organize HQs

I actually had only one major HQ which was completely bogged down. On a related note, a lot of times I just forgot to keep my HQs on rails or roads, with close access to its units. This created a nightmare when it came to transferring things around.

4. How not to plan production

Production, like a lot of things in this scenario, became willy-nilly. One time I lost track of what my supreme HQ was producing, only to discover that it had 32 levelbomer IIIs! I wasn't creating enough infantry-type units, concentrating more on armor, artillery, and planes. This was the main reason why my army simply bogged down and could hardly move. (I realize also that the space constraint of the area I was fighting in did contribute to this stagnation.)


But still, it would have been interesting to continue on with this scenario and I still may in the future. The big deal would be what would happen between the Dragon Empire and my army after the Empire was, well... liquidated. The Dragon Empire early on was taking on the Empire alone, but once I declared war on the Empire that freed up the Dragon Empire. In the end it was inevitable that the two of us would have squeezed the Empire out and then met on the battlefield. I would have probably been in the worse shape, because of the general disorganization of my forces and the fact that my army wouldn't have been well suited to take on the Dragon Empire, at least not initially.

That's about it. Thanks for listening.


Alan