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@Wittmann said in On this day during W.W. 2:

@barnee it is. I checked its operational history though and thought it was first used in late 42 at Leningrad. I don’t think the photo can be from the Demyansk encirclement.
@SS GEN
Yes wittman. There was 4 Tiger tanks that saw service on Aug 29 1942 in SE of Leningrad. 3 broke down and all 4 had to be recovered. Then they made more changes to the Tiger designs and then later mass produced them.

My reply about Aug 29

@SS-GEN I had seen that; thank you.

Crockett, I have a buds Tech/Special weapons list he used when his 39 game came out in 1995. You cannot use tech until turn 6.
You still could buy tech tokens to research before turn 6 and on each turn after turn 6 1 or 2 countries would receive
a free tech per turn as game went on. I can post a pic of chart if you would like to see or anybody else.
A few techs are not correct time wise. One or 2 countries already had one.
I will see if its just tech or both with special weapons.

Here’s the chart with the year. How accurate I never really checked.
Disregarded the turn order so there’s no confusion. Turn order based on his 39 game

I guess if you want time of season to match turns in your game I’ll post pick with seasons on it
After turn 2 I think it’s 4 turns per year

For what it’s worth it’s something that maybe somebody may want to put a few of theses in there game or whatever

No idea. Think got to T12 couple times but never finished game.

@crockett36 said in big tech:

what would the game be like to have every one of those in the game? super subs earlier perhaps.

The USA would KICK ASS !!!

Heh heh maybe :)

HA. They did one game. Got a free tech token. Rolled a 6 for break thru. Then rolled a 6 for Super Fortress. This happened on turn 3. OK can’t use until turn 6. So I buy 6 Super Bombers turn 3. ( 6 max ) Then on turn 4 6 figs for escorts. Then on turn 6 bomb Berlin. Lose 2-3 figs in dog fight and 6 bombers SBR Berlin with 2 D6’s each.
SO now I do like 45 damage to IC. ( 72 max ) wtf. Think 30 was max. SO now Germany has to to repair damage to build and also lost 5 figs in DF and no way they would keep up with just US buying figs and a bomber each turn with Germany losing 30 icps damage and 6 figs 54 icps. Even at 30 damage a turn still to much.
US I only sent 4 bombers next turn and money went else where. Plus bombers could A@1 dog fighting to. That’s pretty strong in d6 system.

So Crus had to change that in game to 1 d6 SBR that I know of.
Also another game Russia gets to defend @3 in winter seasons for Inf and art for all rounds and that was to strong too based on Russian inf cost 2.
Play test people so you have a for sure results.

I edit this at bottom here. It’s the B29 Heavy Bomber. For sure some of these you shouldn’t get before there time. But it’s what you want for your game.

@SS-GEN
yea the bomber hitting at 1 in 6 is too strong. I was gonna set it at 1 in 12 for starters but triplea can’t do that without switching everything to 12 sided. Which one day I hope to do

Is there anyway for every 2 bombers get 1 AD@1 dog fight ?

@SS-GEN
I don’t think so. One could possibly have a “requires unit” thingy but that’d only work for the first two. After that they’d all be able to but I don’t think that could be done either.

I keep thinking i should learn how to code so I could do it myself but pretty sure I’m not smart enough : ) Who knows. If we all go into lockdown maybe I’ll give it a go until the power goes out or the net is overloaded and won’t work :)

@barnee said in big tech:

@SS-GEN
I don’t think so. One could possibly have a “requires unit” thingy but that’d only work for the first two. After that they’d all be able to but I don’t think that could be done either.

I keep thinking i should learn how to code so I could do it myself but pretty sure I’m not smart enough : ) Who knows. If we all go into lockdown maybe I’ll give it a go until the power goes out or the net is overloaded and won’t work :)

Lol. Ya time to paint pieces. Just hope it plays out sooner than later

That would be cool if You could give certain pieces a d6, d8, d10 or a d12 and it would be automatic too from coding them. There’s somebody I thought was able to go in triple a and rewrite stuff on site here. Make all the pieces AD values right or where some pieces aren’t to strong.

Take that back. Use d7 d9 d11 too.

@SS-GEN

yea you can do it for some with the aaGun code but it won’t work for airbattle. It goes airBattle then aaGun then regular combat. I made a request to one of the slideruler guys but it’s a little down the list from happening.