Posts made by StrongBad1988

do any of you know if they are planning to make a new one?

oh i thought you were moving a transport through a seazone in which a battle had just ended in order to attack an island, but now i understand what you meant. sorry for the misunderstanding

i hope the company that made the game makes a better version with better AI, b/c iron blitz stinks like crap

in iron blitz destroyers attack and defend at 2, and cost 8. they are exactly the same as subs, except that they can fire at planes. as allies buy destroyers, and as axis buy subs

one of my russian strategies is to feep the germans bottled up in east poland/baltic states/ukraine as long as possible, and then i retreat to turkestan w/ almost all of my men. if they try to go north to russia, i counter attack. if the go down the middle to bellorussia, i counterattack. if they go south to caucasus or stalingrad, then i counterattack. usually by this point ( turn 3 or 4) i have beaten the germans in the far north, and i have at least 4 russian fighters and 3 bombers, 3 or 4 tanks, the rest of my infantry that i retreated with + all the infantry i have bought so far, plus the 8 or 9 artillery i have to counterattack with.

economic left/right .82
authoritarian/libertarian 2.62

have any of you heard the new wilco album "yankee hotel foxtrot’'? i was really dissapointed that it wasn’t nominated for a grammy (or whatever the music awards are called) it has a great story behind it too; the record album hated it so much that they dropped wilco off the label entirely, and after a year no record companies would pick them up, so they just put the album on the internet, and over 100,000 copies were downloaded. some cheapo record company picked them up, and now the album has sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and it’s getting pretty popular. i reccomend that you go pick it up next time you drive by the closest CD store, its REALLY good

on amphibious assualkts they attack at 3. a HUGE advantage for the US when it comes to taking japan or for US &UK for taking western europe. i have no idea why they put those in (the game was already slanted enough towards the allies) you could make a case saying it would help the germnas to take the UK, but in the games i play the german player goes after the UK after he’s already done w/ russia, and by then he gets the IPC victory (unless japan is getting slaughtered)

well, america was played by a beginner who had no idea what he was doing ( in the pacific he never bought a single transport to ship men to the japanese occupied IPC rich islands) but in the european theater the english player did the amercian moves (cuz the american player had no idea waht to do)

oh sorry i thought you meant the thing i was talking about, not the thing rommel was talking about

yup, same w/ me , some nasty pic

it’s kinda just taking up space

if i took it i’d probably be pretty far to the right

yeah, it was a lot, they basically bought whatever they wanted, but it still wasn’t enough. germany (me) still took moscow and my ally still got the VP win

don’t get me wrong, it’s still a great game, probably my 3rd favorite board game (after europe and world of course :P )

those little sea zones that have the british/american insignia in them are very important. when japan takes those, the country whom it was taken from loses the amount of money in the convoy (the # inside) japan DOES NOT GAIN this money, the allies only lose it.

alamein i got the game, and if you can take karelia on G1 you have a very good chance of taking moscow on turn 2. i’ve had games against the AI where i’ve had england alone take germany on turn 2. the AI is so retarded they can’t do anything to stop you from winning

in many games i’ve seen US UK and USSR all go for germany (which falls then by the latest at turn 4) and then only japan is left, but they have become quite rich (certainly not enough for the IPC victory) and then all 3 go for japan and then its over

yeah, i think russia is the most important country. if it holds, the axis will almost certainly lose. if it falls, the axis will come pretty close to winning, either being rich enough then to take out england, or just being able to get the IPC victory

yeah, say it’s captured by the germans. the germans can only build 3 units there per turn