Posts made by Warplayer12

Rolls: 1@2 2@3; Total Hits: 21@2: (5)2@3: (2, 3)

Don´t think any of these options could beat the 8th army, although the tigers and/or marders could make a difference.

Monty had very high casulties, only won because he had a superior number of tanks.

( I know this is old, don´t blame me for that)

I think they cut off al ties with japan, but they´re not going to war unless the phillipines were attacked.

They were very isolationist, and I don´t think congress sees an japanese attack on SE asia (without american colonies) as a reason good enough to vote for a DOW.

Looking great!

You can place chinese units in any chinese-controlled territory, even newly captured ones. Value doesn’t matter.

Declaring war on america, splitting at stalingrad, not invading malta, attacking at kursk, not equipping his allies with good stuff.

All of these could make a difference if he had chosen to do it. (or not do it)

I gotta say the Panther-Wotan line, since I´m fascinated by the eastern front.

@Razor:

@BJCard:

As far as not attacking Russia, it was just an idea.�  Maybe they could have waited another year or hit the Balkans earlier.�  Just saying their timing wasn’t that great if the goal was Moscow before winter.

But it was a bad idea to attack Russia. Thay had more than twice the population, it was the largest country in the world with lots of oil and resources, it have severe winter half the year, and at that time only dirtroads. The classic Russian defense stategi is the scorched earth tactic, and on top of that Stalin had used 60 % of the Gross domestic production for military outlays for 10 years, and had reached 4 times the tank production that Germany had.

Yes, they could have waited another year, but it was not in Hitlers nature to be prudent. He even startet the whole war many years before his military forces were ready, why should he wait to invade Russia ? He could have ignored the Balkans, since Greece would never let UK bomb the Ploesti oil field, and the alliance with Italy was not valid as long as Italy was the aggressor. And he could have startet Barbarossa in mai, but since Hitler figured it would take 3 weeks only to crush Russia, he was in no hurry.

I think Germany’s best bet to conquer Russia, would be to project all their available forces and resources to the campaign. They had half a million men based in Norway and Finland for no good use, and this men could be added to Barbarossa. The Africa Corps with Rommel could be added too, since Germany had no economic interests in Libya, and the 600 000 men from the Balkan Army. Since France surrendered they did not need a million men there just to chase jews. This 2 million extra men could have made a difference in Russia.

Since the German HQ knew the Russians would use the scorched earth tactics, the German army should be better supplyed by trucks. But Hitler wanted them to live by the land, wich means taking food from the local civillians, because he wanted the natives to starve to death so german settlers could later colonize Russia. A nice and evil idea, but the problem was that Stalin had scorched the eart, so there was no food, and since the German Army did not find any food in Russia, and Hitler refused to feed them by supply, then Hitlers Army were starving as a result. One of the rational to not use rail to send supply to Russia, was that Hitler needed all railways to send jews to Holocaust. This was more important then to supply the Army in the east. So basically the German Army in Russia was short of supply, short of food, short of winter clothes, short of gas, short of trucks etc etc and that was bad since the attack turned out to become a war of attrition, and not a 3 week long trip of triumph.

What Hitler could have done was let his generals do the job, but then he would not be Hitler.

Winter clothes and antifreeze would have made a difference.

Another  point would be the constant change of priorities. I mean, just look at fall blau. Hitler first wanted to take the caucasus, and then he became obsessed with stalingrad.

Same with Leningrad. Could be taken easily, but he wanted the infantry to catch up. Why do you want to besiege a city when it could be taken and the forces there freed up for use elsewhere?

The worst (at least I think) is that italy is allied, and in the war from the start. Why don´t they have a delayed entry, or an option to join the centrals?

My dad fucked up my game when he installed a lamp above my gaming table while I was away.  :x

Ok, thanks!

My vote goes to the Arado AR-234, the first jet bomber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_Ar_234

A close second is the ME-262.

Sea Zone 49: 2 fighters, 2 tactical bombers, 2 battleships, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers, 1 transport

On the picture are 2 carriers, in the setup list only 1.

and, one more question: What are the exact stats for heavy armor? (everybody has different stats, so just asking to get a clear answer)

On my mothers birthday in 1940, hitlers giant western offensive started.

On my fathers birthday in 1941, the russians attacked the freezing germans just off moscow.

On my sisters birthday in 1940, british troops started arriving in Greece.

Pretty nice, isn´t it?

(My grandparents have some interesting birthdays as well. My grandfather´s birthday is 4 days before the start of kursk, and my grandmother´s birthday is close to the bombing of dresden.)

Crete was invaded on my birthday! (may 20th)

I´ve an new idea:

buy an x number of tt´s, place then in sz 112, (takes 2 turns, not adjacent ot any IC) load them with troops, and land not in britain, but at nenetsia, the territory just east of archangel. (or, you might just land at archangel itself, your choice)

what do you say?

ok, thanks!

@Imperious:

Germans:
Turn # Fighters Bombers
1 2 -
2 2 1
4 2 1
5 2 1
6 2 -
7      ?      ?
8 2 1

/quote]

How much planes do the germans get on turn 7?

http://www.mediafire.com/?jl8bjwsr8rg9t2q

(actually the same as the file you posted)

@Imperious:

http://www.mediafire.com/?jl8bjwsr8rg9t2q

please make the changes and then we got a decent file.

On the part which shows how many air units per turn each side has, the german part skips turn 7.