Here’s another example of how determined ordinary Soviet infantrymen could be, especially in engagements with high symbolic value. In a book that he wrote, Marshal Chuikov describes an incident that allegedly occured during the Red Army’s assault on Berlin. A Soviet tank somehow got isolated during the street fighting for the city and was damaged by a German anti-tank round. All but one of its crew were killed. The surviving (though wounded) crewman kept working the main gun, loading and aiming and firing it by himself. When the main gun ran out of ammunition, or was wrecked by another enemy hit (I can’t remember which; I read the book a long time ago), the Russian soldier proceeded to fire the tank’s machine gun at the nearby Germans. When that ran out of ammunition, he started lobbing grenades out of the tank to drive off the Germans who were pounding on the hull and demanding that he surrender. A fresh Soviet unit finally arrived and forced the Germans to retreat. The Russian reinforcements got into the wrecked tank and found the last crewman inside. He was dying of his wounds, but he was holding a knife in his hand, ready to use it to make a final stand against any German soldier who had tried to enter the tank. After telling the other soldiers what had happened, his final words were supposedly, “Thank you, comrades, for not leaving my body in the hands of the Fascists.”
5th Japanese Pacific NO should be offered to UK as well>
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Below is the fifth Japanese NO. Does anyone think it shoud be a British one as well?
5. Collect 5 IPCs per turn for Axis control of all of the following territories: Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes. Theme: Strategic resource centers.
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Maybe. Its all about balance though not historical accuracy.
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I’m glad they removed that one in the global. There is enough incentives for the allies to take the islands. They provide quite a boost for the small economies around them.
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@Idi:
Below is the fifth Japanese NO. Does anyone think it shoud be a British one as well?
5. Collect 5 IPCs per turn for Axis control of all of the following territories: Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Celebes. Theme: Strategic resource centers.
Lets seriously look at the starting IPC’s first…
Japan: 26 (36 not at war)
USA: 26 (at start / even building… 36 at war)
India: 17 (22 for holding territories/at war)
Anzac: 10 (20 with Dutch/at war)
China: 12 (18 with Burma)Can we honestly tell ourselves the allies need more N.O.'s? If the Allies keep their N.O.'s when they go to war… combined will have 96 IPC. Japan actually LOSES a bonus when war starts… so they go back down to 26.
If you really want India to have more of an advantage over Japan, bring down their Mediterranean fleet and grab the Dutch islands. They’ll be making 34 IPC… that’s what the USA is dumping into the Pacific! :cry:
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I think that NO is historical correct.
The DEI produced a lot of crude oil during WWII and that made it valuable. But you have to refine crude oil into gas and diesel before you can put it on your tanks and trucks, so since DEI is a short way from Japan, this oil was more valuable to Japan, that could put it to good use in no time, than to USA or Europe that had to sail the crude oil to the other side of the globe in order to refine it to gas and diesel, and then sail it back again to use it in trucks and tanks at the frontier. Now I remember we had this dicussion at Larry’s forum like 5 years ago, so this NO is historical. For game balance Larry gave the Tricky Nippers a lot of planes, man.
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I think that NO is historical correct.
The DEI produced a lot of crude oil during WWII and that made it valuable. But you have to refine crude oil into gas and diesel before you can put it on your tanks and trucks, so since DEI is a short way from Japan, this oil was more valuable to Japan, that could put it to good use in no time, than to USA or Europe that had to sail the crude oil to the other side of the globe in order to refine it to gas and diesel, and then sail it back again to use it in trucks and tanks at the frontier.
So your trying to tell me Australia had no refineries?
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@Idi:
I think that NO is historical correct.
The DEI produced a lot of crude oil during WWII and that made it valuable. But you have to refine crude oil into gas and diesel before you can put it on your tanks and trucks, so since DEI is a short way from Japan, this oil was more valuable to Japan, that could put it to good use in no time, than to USA or Europe that had to sail the crude oil to the other side of the globe in order to refine it to gas and diesel, and then sail it back again to use it in trucks and tanks at the frontier.
So your trying to tell me Australia had no refineries?
I’m sure they did, but what was their refining capacity. I think the Allies are stacked enough, without the extra NO
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