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ORIGINAL: berthier

Watching video tutorials, simply awesome. I've owned the board game for ten years, never got through the rules, looked longingly at all those counters and gave up a dozen times. The tutorials although long are really firing me up to plunge in.

One thing though, does every narrator who did a tutorial live in a war zone? There are sirens continually going in the background as emergency vehicles race along the city streets...I thought they might have used a sound room, apparently they used their lounge room, windows open, New Years night [;)]

[:D]They were all done by me. I work at home and live next to two hospitals. The last 3 were recorded in Philadelphia when I was visiting my sister, so they should be quieter. But I was badly jet-lagged with a slight head cold when I recorded those so you'll need to turn up the sound level.

Checked to see if my order came in yet... NOPE! [>:]

Trying to get production down.

Oh, yea....this to.

ORIGINAL: Dorb

Checked to see if my order came in yet... NOPE! [>:]

Today, I got my books and started to play Global War, just to get a feel of how the game will progress. A lot of trial and error. I have a good grasp on land movement and combat, along with how land aircraft function. Naval movement I'm OK with, but convoys are still a mystery. I'm not sure how many convoy points are too many or too low and I have not even tried to move a resource yet. I also cannot get carrier planes to rebase, so there's still a lot of work to be done.

Books just arrived in the mail, Cleared customs quickly it seems ... now I am reading the books.

They are of genuine high quality ... well worth the price for the game. [8D]

ORIGINAL: Titanwarrior89

Trying to get production down.

warspite1

Titanwarrior89 I fear that Economics 101 course you too rather flew over your head didn't it? The key goal for any economy - especially in time of war - is to get production UP. [;)]

I awarded the VC to an entire squadron of Nimrods operating from CVL Eagle based in Gibraltar. They were really there to give some air cover to 4 slow BBs, but stole the bloody show.

In 3 turns of Med battles, this CVP shot down a 2 pt Nav, port struck and dmgd a TRS even though it had a FTR covering it, aborted a 3 pt NAV and a FTR on 2 occasions, and forced large Italian fleets to abort because they lost their air cover.

Not bad for a unit with 2 Air-to-air, and 1 air-to-sea factors.

START
watch videos
read manuals
read AARs
GO TO START

HELP! I am caught in a loop![&:]

ORIGINAL: henri51

START
watch videos
read manuals
read AARs
GO TO START

HELP! I am caught in a loop![&:]

warspite1

Just go straight to a game and pile in - don't be afraid to ask questions. You will soon get the hang of it.

Today I realized that my German attacks needs a lot of work before I can take on any human opponent...(Jan/Feb -41 and I am STILL north of Paris...)
 
 
Terje

ORIGINAL: terje439

Today I realized that my German attacks needs a lot of work before I can take on any human opponent...(Jan/Feb -41 and I am STILL north of Paris...)


Terje

warspite1

Yes, this game requires a hell of a lot of planning.

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: terje439

Today I realized that my German attacks needs a lot of work before I can take on any human opponent...(Jan/Feb -41 and I am STILL north of Paris...)


Terje

warspite1

Yes, this game requires a hell of a lot of planning.

Well, in my defence, I had really poor rolls in Poland, and the weather in 1940 was an utter disaster for the Axis. Yet still...

Today I reproduced a bug, and setup an optionals default and Setup for Barbarossa Solitaire.

Hopefully I'll decipher how to use Netplay tonight. The interface isn't intuitive by any stretch of the imagination.

Ran Barbarossa. Didn't read any manuals or view any tutorials - They are for wimps.
German northern assault - textbook - Broke the line. Lots of dead soviets. USSR airforce over run during large gains. Even managed to get the fleet out to help squash Leningrad.

Middle - went about average - broke through and made good gains. -

South - ahh ..yes..the south .. Now ..how did I used to do this so the Germans weren't stuck on the Romanian border for four months?

Global war, finished setup, played axis 1st impulse. German Air Force did squat (disorganized 1 division) but the attacks went well. Japanese attacked in the South, killing some Chinese units by Hainan but losing an ART, opening some space for further offenses in the south. Italians did nothing. Good times.

I got stuck in China and I cannot figure out how to get supplies to any of my inland units. [&:]

Did alot of reading today with the manual.  Got a headach after about 3 hours and had to quit.

Don' let Chinese div's run away in your jap controlled hinterland. I am spending too much units on mopping them up, and getting US entry rolls for each reconquered city.

Watched the video tutorial chapter 9. I'm still waiting the manual books but these very nice and clear tutorials have really helped me to get some of the basics. I'm still trying to figure out the sequence of play and the 'impulses' as well as how the combat goes on and how it is resolved, but I think that eventually I have enough courage to try at least the Barbarossa scenario in solitaire play. Maybe next week, who knows? For now I've just tried to get familiar with the interface and navigating through different menus and learning them. So far I have liked WiF and I understand that this game needs much patience what comes to learning. That said, WiF clearly has the potential to become one of my all-time favourite strategy games. Luckily I'm on holiday next week so I will have some time to spend to learn more...