Posts made by Cobert

People dont put infantry into perspective.  One fighter isnt one fighter, and one infantry isnt one infantry.  They think the opposite and cant imagine one infantry shooting down a fighter so they believe that land units cant hit air, and they realize that means air can just kill every land unit in a territory.  They realize this makes the game horribly unbalanced, and decide to come on here and ask if what they think is right.

I really only build artillery as Russia and Germany.

With russia I wait until the axis inch in then counterattack.

With Germany I alternate buying between infantry/artillery and infantry/armor so the first wave and the second waves tanks arrive at the same place the run after the tanks are built.  This makes for a few very powerful waves of forces that I direct straight to Caucasus, and If I can take Caucasus, that probably means I have a lot of forces nearby and Im able to take Russia 2 or 3 turns later.

The only solution I see for the axis is for Japan to react quickly and work around the IC while Germany uses its airforce to immobilize the UK’s reinforcement plan.

I need to try this in my next game.  I probably wouldve done it with somemore defense on my transports.

Persia gets more important every game that I play, it seems like theres  been a lot of times where theres a stack of allied tanks there ready to shift direction towards whichever battlefront needs them.

The more I look at the situation, the more I think the flaw of the axis was not moving through India quick enough, and that Germany was just doing their best to keep up.

Well see how this works out in my next game.  It all seems very opportunistic though, an IC in sinkiang could be VERY bad if japan does well in china and has planes in FIC or Manchuria.

Trannies only cost half as much as an IC when you pick up the ones in a back alley downtown.

/tasteless

Somebody give me a rimshot!

<_<

Back on subject: I still dont see how the UK has enough resources to fend off Germany on the eastern front. 5 transports of infantry every turn while russia stacks on Caucasus?  Im actually very interested in this stratgy now.

@General_D.Fox:

@Cobert:

I thought about quoting you as saying ‘trannies rule’ and just LOL for a while.

Oh well, now you know what to do in this situation.

Sorry about that ‘compliment’.  I thought the Fresh Prince reference would make it slightly more goofy and not scolding.

Actually, I thought you were being sarcastic when you said honourable mentions go to Japan for not going around.  That’s what I was referring to.  I did start to go around, but kept getting pushed back sometimes.  And yeah, I was laughing when I started reading your Fresh Prince reference.  I knew what you were referring to both in-game and by using the ref.Â

Damn straight. That show was awesome.

My guess is you didnt commit fully to a flank?Â

@tcnance:

i think everyone is missing the point that uk was doing a lot of dying on the russian front instead of russians

What was that UK fleet composed of?

On a side note, I hate stalemates. One tends to form in my games with Ukraine and Caucasus. When I see one forming, I start to hold troops in a territory behind it where they can be used for a counterattack after the stalemate breaks or where I can shift them into another direction of attack if need be.  Another one pops up at Sinkiang and China, but to a lesser extent.  It always seems like breaking through Sinkiang is on the back burner while i grab india and buryatia (and sometimes Australia) and there ends up being a standoff between 3 infantry on each side.  I guess thats less of a stalemate and more of a dead front though.

I thought about quoting you as saying ‘trannies rule’ and just LOL for a while.

Oh well, now you know what to do in this situation.

Sorry about that ‘compliment’.  I thought the Fresh Prince reference would make it slightly more goofy and not scolding.

I agree with evertyhing newpaintbrush said.

If anything, the loss should be attributed to Germany doing a bad job against russia.  with the amount of infantry going into sinkiang, Hitler should have been chilin out max and relaxin all cool and shootin some b-ball outside of the Kremlin after a few turns. Honorable mention goes to Japan for not going through india or yakut.

So the best way to counter the Australia IC is to b**** out?

Gotcha.

No really though, I understand.  Thats kind of a good strategy for any nation though, just a bit hard to execute because Japan is spread out through islands.

Whats the best way as Japan to counter the Australian complex?

Would it be to send some attack ships (subs like I usually build in a KJF and a destroyer for air protection) down and destroy any transports before they can fill with land units?

My friend calls a loaded aircraft carrier a ‘key defensive position’ as a joke and refuses to call it an aircraft carrier.

One strategy we use is for complete naval domination of the mediterranean, since it helps to hold africa and leave untis out of southern europe, so we call southern europe the soft underbelly since its always undefended.

Any time 2 massive forces collide for strafing where both of them will surely be killed (usually germany killing off a mass of russian tanks with whatever they ahve around), we say ‘MU-TUAAAL DESTRUUUCTIOOOOOON’ in weird deep voices.  I assure you this IS the corniest thing we do.  :-P

We have a lot weirder terminology for risk though.  We played once at school and nobody knew what we were talking about because we kept calling things ‘bitchfights’ and ‘poopshoots’.

Im assuming youre playing with 8 vitcory cities if youre trying to keep Calcutta.  Theres a whole different discussion on why 8 isnt very good to play with, but well save that for later.

You really cant get them to india fast enough, so its probably a better plan to throw everything you have at Leningrad and buildingup up with the US to take a victory city away from one of the axis to balance out the game. A light pacific push hitting the phillipines might do the trick.

Ive learned from experience and stories on here that a very early indian IC is bad for the UK, it just gets overrun with Japanese airforce.

Ive never put an IC on Norway or South Africa.

My friend told me an Egyptian IC (after north africa is secured) is great because its easy to hold and you can throw troops straight into the eastern front and threaten the south.

I built an Australian IC once for a KJF.  Because I had to use my destroyer to kill the transport in Kwangtung and Germany took Egypt so I had to transport troop to get it back, all I had left rom the fleet was my aircraft carrier. I transported over the INF from NZ to Australia and united the two small fleets.  It took a while to get off the ground, but I eventually took the East Indies, Borneo, and New Guinea….but by then there was a large enough american transport fleet in the water where they couldve done it themselves.  An Australian IC takes too long to get things runnings.

Ill probably try the Egyptian IC soon.

Ive played a game recently with Craigs superb VT system.  I enjoyed it, the game seemed more diverse than the 9VC system I usually play with.

In 9VC, it seems to me that any time the axis win in our games, Germany takes leningrad, Japan takes India, then while germany holds off russia and the UK, Japan gets to sneak around through the north (bury / yakut / novosi) and steals Moscow.  These Victory territories make it more important for Japan to avoid the north and head more through china, and it encouraged more activity in the pacific since Japan had to defend its valuable Borneo and East Indies.

Ive been thinking if the VT method could work for a goal of only 16 VT’s needed. It would probably make the allies scramble a turn or two quicker into the action.

we’ve always rolled them without any restrictions.  If a single rolled die seems to land flat on a one that it was one when it was picked up, theres a general agreement in the group to reroll it.

Also, sometimes, we use pie-tins to roll into.  Theyre very compact and although the metal surface is loud, it prevents die from landing flat and makes them bounce and shift easier.

Same, I was using that transport for an attack on Caucasus on G1.  This was only viable beacuse the Russian player was new also and didnt think to destroy some of those Ukrainian units.

Ive played all of my games where they get to fire opening fire every round, until my last game when somebody told me I was wrong and that they fire only the first round in opening fire, which is a bit more logical.

Im pretty sure you dont need to clear all of the the zones bordering, just the one youre trying to invade from.

I end up not talking to them and getting mildly pissed when they cheer for getting good die.

I like this idea.

its like country-specific tech rolls.