I am not sure it's possible to get to Omsk in '42. Perhaps with very, very lucky weather. Another issue which you would see is that while, yes, the AI is not great at exploiting holes in your front lines in the first year or so, as it builds corps it gets better. Also, if you try to go straight for ...

In my experience, the AI will spam France with unescorted transports throughout '42. If you can close the western approach to the channel with three subs, it will ram the transports into those subs and you can kill them quite easily. A STRAT or TAC in Brest helps. Then the AI will switch to France's...

Well, I can only repeat what I said above. First, and most important, I didn't suggest that units automatically surrender when surrounded. I said there should be a check, with a low chance at first but that rises over time and based on how far behind the lines they are. Second, I don't think it's to...

Has this ever been discussed before? It seems that it is somewhat unrealistic to have to crush and eliminate all encircled units when in the real war many surrounded forces--some of them very large--simply surrendered. This could be easily modeled in the game. At the beginning of each turn, a unit w...

So let me ask. It appears that the consensus here is that the Axis cannot really contest Africa or threaten (much less grab) the ME oilfields. So don't try to take on the Brits directly. However, it is wise not to abandon Africa because if you do that you have left Italy wide open for invasion. So i...

First, sorry for my cranky post. I had suffered a crushing defeat and was very bitter. I also spilled hot peppermint tea on my foot. Second, your last post sort of supports my main point, I think. I am not arguing that Germany ought to make an easy march to Omsk every time. I'm saying that in the ga...

Good God, this game is so imbalanced against the Axis. If you haven't taken Moscow before severe winter hits in '41-'42, you lose. Period. That is, you have no chance of actually defeating the Russians. The winter just stops the Germans dead and destroys them. Or you pull back to save steps but you ...

Just conquered Paris in Dec. '39. Yes, against the AI. Still, lots of things had to go right. Also requires a very careful use of railing and placement of units.

Question: once Brussels has fallen, why go ahead and attack other Belgian units? They will just disappear at the end of the turn. Aren't you unecessarily risking casulaties (i.e., step losses) and incuring uneeded repair costs?

The AI also allows itself to be encircled with surprising ease.

That is a lot of PPs to put into Norway. I don't see how the German player can afford it, given all that he has to do in Russia.

The AI never contests the English Channel route for subs.

Makes sense, thanks. You don't have to think about such things against the AI!

I don't understand the point about "sweeps". Isn't ANY hex potentially part of a straight line? So what are you really avoiding?

The AI is not smart with ships. It nearly always leaves ships in ports of cities that are about to fall, losing the unit. Sometime (I believe) it will even sail a ship INTO a port it has already lost, and lose the ship at the end of the turn! I can't prove this because I can't "see" it hap...

I guess you could attack with two corps but only on penninsulas/promontories. But since you could only land one (at least on the attack turn) in that case, what happens to the other one?

If you halved the effectiveness of the onboard unit, I think landings would never succeed. As it is, they will be hard to make succeed and many or most landed units would be quickly destroyed. On partisans, I think the presense of garrisons in occupied countries should decrease the probability and r...

I agree on point one, sort of, but I don't see a way to implement contested landings given the combat engine. One way would be to make tranports clickable into ground units when they are in hexes adjacent to land. Then that ground unit could attack a ground unit in the hex it wants to occupy. On the...

That is a much smaller Barbarossa force than I am used to seeing in these AARs.

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