Posts made by Corbeau Blanc

@axis_roll:

@Corbeau:

Well, if you want to play with Dardanelles closed, you would need to close Baltic Sea / Danish straits too to make it fair.

Exemple, Force allies to hold both NWE and Norway to be able to go there. Like you need to hold both sides to cross Suez canal.

Historically,  the Danish Straits which separates Atlantic to Baltic was heavily mined / guarded and a direct amphibious assault on the North of Germany herself was impracticable.

Also for Dardanelles, I hate the dumb rule where Bulgaria cannot use the mediteranee side of the canal. This territory with a factory has huge strategic value.

The Danish Straits and Dardanelles are my biggest gripes in the game. Gibraltar could be also played that way as a canal.

the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_straits

That’s not the official optional rule.
I think the op is trying to keep the discussion  in the realm of the official rules.

You mean official OPTIONAL rule.

My point being there is no way I would accept playing in a competitive environement with that optional rule without closing Danish strait.

EDIT: I’d also like to point out the game is pretty balanced to start with and that rule tips the odds toward Allies. You’d need a pretty large bid for axis in the form of a sea unit in Baltic to be able to resist UK1 air attack.

Well, if you want to play with Dardanelles closed, you would need to close Baltic Sea / Danish straits too to make it fair.

Exemple, Force allies to hold both NWE and Norway to be able to go there. Like you need to hold both sides to cross Suez canal.

Historically,  the Danish Straits which separates Atlantic to Baltic was heavily mined / guarded and a direct amphibious assault on the North of Germany herself was impracticable.

Also for Dardanelles, I hate the dumb rule where Bulgaria cannot use the mediteranee side of the canal. This territory with a factory has huge strategic value.

The Danish Straits and Dardanelles are my biggest gripes in the game. Gibraltar could be also played that way as a canal.

the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_straits

Well, If I take the 2nd presidential election between Bush and Kerry,
I think USA got a good look at what religious fundamentalism is, given that both candidate went to the Yales Universty and were buddies in Skull and Bones which has a strong protestant background.

Search a bit, you’ll see that that day there was no democraty, you basically had the choice between Skull and bones or bones and skull ( last quote not from me ).

Ironic also to see that a good part of theses guys familly fortunes were based on the opium market they were forcing upon China in the 1800’s , just to see them now condemn Afghans that produce opium. And how Iran is suddenly evil for trying to protect it’s frontiers with Irak which just pretty much got taken over?

Guys, there is a proverb: history repeat itself. You are playing a game on WWII and don’t even know how Roosevelt familly made it’s fortune, what were the economical interest of every actor and how it is still the same story today…  Also take alook at British interest in that zone backen then and which family/corporations were involved. Just get some books together, cross references, see who is controlling who. Is it THAT hard or you rather accept anything spoon fed as it is? Really, sometimes I’m discouraged.

@ABWorsham:

Why has this post taken the direction of attack people of faith?

You can’t attack the immaginary.

99% of the world population suffers from mass delusion.

Religion is like a widespread disease, everyone is being brain washed to beileive the version of the god or gods been imprinted into their crazed mind is the ‘‘right and only one real truth’’.

They can’t even think by themselves. They go about their live without challenging anything intellectually, always going the easy route. Race, religion, country… like theses things had any meaning. It’s the same sh*t everwhere.

So why would I care if Iran get the bomb based on some assumption of their religion? In my mind, anyone who beleive in religion is a dangerous monkey, so we cannot be worse than we already are far being close to a total global human failure.

Be it Usa, Canada, France or any country of the Euro-Bloc.

Sure, we still have remnants of democraty for the lower class and still think our respective countries mean something but reality is that the higher class already moved on beyond the legislation of each of thoses individual countries. More importantly, they are not elected.

It’s just one massive block getting nearer and nearer to a one world corporated governement.

So why the hell would North Korea Dictator would launches his nukes at this very select group of people when he is prolly trading with them? And more importantly, it would be easier for him to use assassins. Nukes are a dissuassive weapon that protect his regime from a direct military invasion, he won’t launch them.

Carlyle Group, Power Corporation, Bilderberg and the Trilaterates, etc… That’s where they make the decisions, not in Washington, not in Ottawa, not in Paris or not even in London. Industrial Countries are more and more simply becoming districts of a larger Corporate Oligarchy whcih is above any country laws.

Here in Canada we got that guy called Desmarais, well he got like 400 billions in assets, he is the mentor of each prime minister since 50 years and now even of Sarkozy. Vote left or right, red or blue, he owns all candidates so in the end you can only vote for him. How’s that for a choice…

Go figure, I never tought thoses conspiracy theorists would actually be right. In fact, they barely scratched the surface.

Well, that was too much info to go all trough but I glanced to 2 things:

• You don’t protect your aviation enough ( and attack pieces ). Always have aviation land in a safe place and don’t commit it if it gets directly under fire.
• which comes to other point: Use more fodder to shield your attack unit. Infantry is your friend. Both in the attack and to be able to receive a counter-attack, you need a meat shield.

That’s the basic idea of stacks and threatening squares. You can force your opponent to withdraw just by projecting your power with a stack he can’t counter attack effectively. Much like in a game of chess until you close on a square he can’t withdraw from.

Take a look at my game vs Blucher, it’s been a game of Cat and mouse for 5 rounds so far. No decisive battle took place yet.

For China, I think it’s mostly it’s rules rather than number of initial units that makes them so bad. ( Except that fighter who should get to place where you want )

• Remove the unit limit reinforcement per territory if there is already units in it.
• Divide by 2 and not 3 for the number of reinforcement infantry.
• Place fighter where you want or at least not in range for Japan turn 1.

I will never let my opponent play allies with a bid.

If forced to play a bid game, I’d rather play allies at 0 bid, I feel it’s easier to win with them than with axis.

In all cases, for me, the game is balanced.

I prefer Germany as axis and Russia as allies.

The war is really decided between theses 2.

can’t download it, link seem broken

Thanks Subotai for making 3a available  :-)

:dice 2@1 3@3:

Rolls: 2@4 4@5; Total Hits: 62@4: (2, 3)4@5: (1, 4, 5, 1)

aaa:2@1 3@3:

South African IC, ship the AA gun there round 3.

Link the dd/transport with whatever fleet you get to build there and start retaking UK assets in Indian Ocean.

Rolls: 2@1 4@2 5@3 1@4; Total Hits: 82@1: (6, 1)4@2: (4, 2, 2, 3)5@3: (3, 1, 6, 1, 3)1@4: (2)

Rolling 5d6:
(2, 2, 3, 5, 6)

Dondoolee, you perfectly nailed it.

There is only one thing to consider about a USA dedicated SBR campaign. Japan just can do it better.

USA going that route is just an invitation for Japan to start shuffling massive airforce into Europe.

USA bombers won’t be reinforcing UK’s atlantic fleet either. At one point or another, the stack of japan bombers will simply overwhelm the allied fleet ( game over ) and that’s if it don’t break both Britain/Russia economy before Germany/Italy is down on it’s knees.

I can’t wait to roll a 3.5 on my D6.  :-P

If you already good to SBR all day long to trade USA ipc with Germany, I don’t see why you would only do it if there is a France IC or how the France IC cripples Germany in that context.

It does not changes anything, SBR should go logically to highest IPC value territory first which is Germany 10 ipc IC. And if you built a fleet of bombers that can reduce it down to maximum dmg, a France IC would not change anything to it.

That France IC just gives more resilience to thoses bombings and helps Italy which is also is 6ipc if you start bombing it. Remember that you choose how much and where you do repairs.

Also, a SBR campaign is simply an invitation for Japan to do the same. And they got way more ipc to devote to this, especially if USA don’t check them. From East Indies and Indochina, it’s 1 turn for a bomber to Italy. I can assure you, Russia/Britain won’t prod anything way before Germany/Italy suffers the same fate. And why not simply sink UK allied fleet R5 or so  with massive japanese airforce once you are bored with SBR? 9 starting fighters + 10 bombers, any takers? OR simply land in Alaska, hold it 1 turn, land the planes and bomb the hell out of USA.

I like it, I’m pretty sure you still can achieve Japan land objectives and build up IJN airforce. Will make a strat and let you know how it goes. Catchy names: ‘‘Ground-Zero’’ or ‘‘Zero terror over Hollywood’’ ?

how does a D6 produce an average of 3.5!?