Posts made by Jetfan4hire

@88:

Anyone who has the platform can e-mail files back and forth to each other. I’m good friends with the people I play with, so we don’t bother e-mailing dice results after each roll. We take our turn, save it in a recognizable file name, and e-mail it back as an attachment. The person then takes their turn; repeat process. We trust the other person is being honest and not rolling each battle until it comes out the way they want it. Saves alot of e-mails.

I’ve never played by e-mail with others, so I don’t know what platform is being used by most people. One guy I play against regularly is involved in tournament play at Flames of Europe- they use a completely different platform- you manually set the board every turn. The one I told you about is a little more user friendly according to him.

AI difficulties are always easy. You can include bids, LL, technology, and a few other options.

its ff time, get your priorities straight :-D

@bebo:

Anyone ever just take it easy on new players?  Or just try unorthodox strats?  Maybe against a newb is the perfect time to try a new KJF, or buy that fighter with Russia, or just build battleships with the UK (oh, wait, that might work…)  Or if they are the Allies, perhaps Germany could try for Sealion or Japan go for a big Pacific fleet and shoot for Los Angeles.  I think throwing KGF at a neophyte could be discouraging.

feel free to try any of those strategies in our game.

@Malus:

I also put on a topic in the games section looking for an opponent. I don’t mind tutoring for a player who’s new to online gaming, as long as you get the basics of the boardgame, so don’t be affraid to reply in my post in the games section.

Regards,
Daniel Malus

send me an e-mail. I use the same map board

I’ve had a hard time opening Triple A’s programs. Everything is downloaded.
Have been using ABattlemap program from flames of europe. The triple A version looks better though
http://www.flames-of-europe.de/modules.php?name=Downloads

I don’t spend much on artillery. Mabey a handfull, just enough to give my inf. a little teeth. I voted for makes no difference

I think an IC anywhere for Germany is a bad idea. I’d rather have 5inf, or 3 more armor on the board

logistics is more difficult with the allies, and for newbs, thats the toughest part of learning. I think the Axis are easier for beginners

this version probably 4 or 5 times. Original and Xeno world at war around 100 times

@ncscswitch:

In addition to the drain on the UK economy facing Germany, there is another factor as well…

In order for the Australian IC to not be quickly lost, the US is going to have to spend a pretty significant amount of IPC’s on naval, AF, and even land forces to be sent to the South Pacific to help protect that IC.

Pulling half of UK’s resources off of Germany, and probably half or more of the US forces off Germany means that Russia is in deep Kimchee.Â

And Germany being able to nearly ignore UK and US for even a couple of rounds will MORE than make up for the minor easing of pressure on Russia’s eastern borders while Japan diverts forces to Australia.

Russia cannot stand alone against Germany.

exactly…if my opponet ever tried this strategy against me, I’d be very, very happy as the German player

@Axel:

Maybe an Australian complex wouldn’t be that bad in the UK strategy you’re talking about?
Good for having ships and planes and good options to go island hopping soon after…
right?

why have Japan spend a turn and go kill you down there. I usually leave Australia alone when I’m playing Japan because its a little out of the way from my strategy, but if my opponet ever put an IC down there I can guarntee that would be 3 IPC’s Brittain wouldn’t be collecting for the rest of the game. And at what cost is this to the effort against germany? Your’re spending 15ipcs and whatever you plan to purchase in Naval and land units to justify the build of the IC in the first place. That is going to end up being quite alot of economy not going into a vital place. Japan can see it coming and react quickly to this move in my opinion. The only place I would consider a factory with the UK is Egypt.

The allies just have to get thier act together. If you are having no problem controling the N.Atlantic with Germany, and putting pressure on Russia then I attribute that to poor play by the allies. The first thing you can do is forget about spending any time in the pacific. Use those three allied economies and go after germany. It’s all about buying transports and ground units with UK and US and finding a way to funnell them in somewhere to support Russia

I prefer FIC first

Right now all my expieience is coming from Xeno’s game, and the original MB game, but the principals are the same. Just need a little tinkering. I wish the Xeno game was still fun. I guess I’ll play you with the allies next time

@triforce:

I always manage to take it in J1.

try to imagine Japan without the transport off kwangtung. It can be destroyed by Brittain. Also depends on what Brittain does in regards to Egypt

@Nix:

Japan can allways take India in J1 if needed (by needed i mean if UK builds a IC on UK 1).

No they can’t. Turn 2 mabey

@Octopus:

about that Aircraft Carrier….

“analyze their attack sir, there is a danger.  Shall I have your ship ready?”

:-o

what does that mean? are you for it or against it? I see more pros than cons. Lets hear an argumant against the purchase of an AC on G1. I don’t have one

@88:

Jetfan- your philosophy is sound. If Germany builds a Carrier + Infantry, and follows up with mostly Infantry from there on out, and Japan concentrates completely on Asia, Russia will be hard pressed.

I recently played a game against someone who did nearly this exact thing to me, and as late as turn 10 I had a looming choice to make as the allies regarding the Caucasus.

Unfortunately the rum/ginger ale combo had taken it’s toll and the game had to be postponed…

In that game I was both surprised and dismayed at how quickly Japan can go from having small forces to a stack of 30 Armor prepared to penetrate Russia. There is a price to be paid for focusing on Germany alone.

I have always been a strong advocate of lots of Infantry for Japan, but it now seems like Infantry early and Armor late is a good Japanese strategy.

The learning never ends…

yeah, I made the mistake of not puting out enough infantry early with Japan against you, and it may have cost me. I also regret not getting part of my Jap fleet through the suez canal to hook up with Germany when I had the chance. If those 2 things had happenned I’d be in much better shape. Oh well…I think next time, I can do alot better with Japan. I’ll test this out on Steve and see what happens. Even with those critical errors I’m still in it against you. With a little tinkering with my strategy I’ll be in great shape next time. I’ll be up some time before June to finish the game.

@General_D.Fox:

I just wnat to know how the UK can keep buying fighters every round(seems like 3 from what Axel Allie is saying) if they’re down possibly India and a few more African countries?  Even if they take Norway, that’s only 3 itself, and if Germany has taken 3 or 4 from African by round 4 and Japan already has 3 from India, that’d put UK down possibly 7.

If UK is wasting economy on fighters every round that means thier transports are carrying less ground units. That won’t work against an axis player who knows what he’s doing. JMO

my strategy is to find the most viable supply line to Russia. Usually ends up being in the North

1.Germany-army
2.Russia-army
3.UK-navy/army(in perfect balance of course)
4.Japan-army/Complex
5.US-see UK