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ORIGINAL: ADavidB

ORIGINAL: ZonkerH

Just curious Dave, but in the other game, did you get these Wellingtons as an upgrade or as a reinforcement unit? If they're a reinforcement, have you loaded any of the old turns to see if they were in the queue for our game?

Reinforcement unit. I've received none in our game, despite their being 80 or more in the pool, and there are none in queue in our game.

The other big, noticible difference in the two games is that my island bases are upgrading much, much faster in the second, "historical" game in comparison to ours, and that's with me getting supplies to those bases in the "historical" game weeks after I did in our game.

Dave

ORIGINAL: Mogami

Hi, So you are saying that WITP is preventing a historic (or historicly possible) massive mine barrage in 1941-1942? In areas far from major bases. (Since you can mine the snot of areas close to major bases)

I grew up around the folks in California who were personally involved with the mine-overkill off the coast during the first few months of the war. They saw nothing wrong with it at the time, and 20 years afterwards still felt that it was the right thing to do because they knew no better.

No, infantry in open flat terrian kills tanks They will always defeat tanks that have no infantry support.
The tank early in the war was a "feared weapon" like elephants. However trained infantry defeats tanks. Always has always will.

Hmm . . . I just loaded up scenario 15 in head to head mode, and the first Wellington reinforcement unit is listed as arriving in 129 days, which would be what, April? So if my scenario file is correct, you shouldn't have received any of them yet, since (as I now remember) Brits can't upgrade air units until May.

But in this case I think its more the numbers than anything else. However good the tanks are they cant operate without fuel, ammo and maintenance. If they get cut off from these necessities they are doomed. And I’m pretty sure 100 tanks will be surrounded by 20000 infantry and shred to pieces.

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

Is that a crack against Napoleonic Infantry? Im sure a 1777 AN IX or a 3rd Pattern Brown Bess could..... I dunno, annoy the tank.

Let not the allied shipping escape from the Philiipines

ORIGINAL: Tankerace

On that same subject, I'm actually looking in to buying a Brown Bess. Im weighing it or the 1861 Springfield rifled musket.

believe, in 1943 at Kursk salient, germans tried to use “Elefant” assault guns without infantry support on open field against entrenched Russian infantry (they thought that 200 mm armor and 88-mm gun is a fearsome combination).

Russian infantry with no feasible antitank weapons using gasoline bottles defeated them. After that germans installed MG on “elefant” and used it as long-range tank destroyer far away from enemy infantry.

But in this case I think its more the numbers than anything else. However good the tanks are they cant operate without fuel, ammo and maintenance. If they get cut off from these necessities they are doomed. And I’m pretty sure 100 tanks will be surrounded by 20000 infantry and shred to pieces.

ORIGINAL: Grotius

Let not the allied shipping escape from the Philiipines

At the risk of asking a question that's on page one of this forum: I am not worthy either, because I seem to do a bad job at this. Should I be using my two CVLs? Betties and Nells from Formosa? KB (but it's got a long haul back from PH)? Surface groups? Subs? All of the above?