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Just had a weird thing happen vs the AI. It is November of 42 and I am moving troops into position for an invasion of Russia.

Several convoys have been ferrying troops to the base due west of Vladivostok (Chengfeng IIRC).

Last turn I get a message "PE-2 destroyed by flak". I checked the a/c losses and sure enough one of my transports shot down a PE-2 on naval search. Fortunetly this did not activate the Russians.

I did not think that Russian a/c could be given any orders other than training until activated. Does this rule not apply to the AI? Using ver 1.795

Do the Chinese have PE-2's?

I am playing against the AI in November of 42. There aren't any Chineese left. [:D]

maybe it os one of the things that the AI can do ( like other things as well ) i.e. snooping up your orders etc.

It was a cover story. You actually shot down a UFO and now the Ruskies are reverse engineering its technology. In a year they will have fighters with stealth technology and 50 caliber death rays.

But being Russians they will have cut corners and the thing will blow up on launch. Sad to think they we were terrified by a paper tiger for so long.

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

But being Russians they will have cut corners and the thing will blow up on launch. Sad to think they we were terrified by a paper tiger for so long.

ORIGINAL: RUPD3658

But being Russians they will have cut corners and the thing will blow up on launch. Sad to think they we were terrified by a paper tiger for so long.

Dont believe the Paper Tiger crap.

AK47's & T72's were real.

To come back to the original message, I think that all original Soviet units are on training mode and you can't change orders, but new units may arrive with standard orders (naval search/attack for bombers) and you can't change either.

By the way, shooting one aircraft of your neighbour has never been enough to trigger a war. Things like that occured repeatly from 1940 to 2004 (off China) without trigerring more than diplomatic unrest.

By the way, shooting one aircraft of your neighbour has never been enough to trigger a war. Things like that occured repeatly from 1940 to 2004 (off China) without trigerring more than diplomatic unrest.

Actually, such things HAVE been enough to trigger a war, but USUALLY do not. Japan actually sank a Soviet submarine (in transit, off the Pacific NW of the USA) - by accident - they assumed it was American. It did NOT trigger a war - and no one was sure who sank it until after the war. There were two Soviet subs in transit via Panama to the Far East Fleet - and one of them suddenly blew up! It was a Japanese torpedo from an unseen I boat.

El Cid, if you have a case of a war starting from a degenerating air-to-air incident, I will learn something today.

ORIGINAL: JeffK


...T72's were real.

Been there, done that.