Posts made by Grimelark

When you guys are saying per nations turn are you talking about the OM rules or the LH supplemental rules?  Because the box rules state that per bomber you can only take IPC amount of money.

The only tech I don’t like are teh heavy bombers out of the book.  They aren’t as rediculous as they were in classic but they still are overwhelming.  Once I have heavy bombers I just buy infantry and transports.  So if your playing by the book buy them early and buy them often.  Germany on turn 1 with Hvy bombers is just silly.

yeah but really those battle ships still did their job.  4 at a 4 will kill 2-3 inf per turn, well 2 inf = 6 3 = 9 so killing a sub worth 8 is just just as good and pretty much garunteed.  Personally, I think I would have just bought three inf instead and risked it.

Look in the OM you can.  It only says that you have to choose both techs and how much you are spending on each before you start to roll.  You could go for all 6 if you really wanted to.  What you can’t do (which you could in the old game) is spend money on tech then spend more money on tech.

TripleA runs as on Java so you might need to download Java to run it.  I know I did.  Even then I had some DLL’s out of whack and had to do some cleaning and refreshing.  It’s definitely worth picking up though.  Is that how games on here are played?  Through TripleA?

One of the best ways (read only) to win the game as the Axis without bids in classic…

Persia connects to two Russian states, Cuacaus and Mykrackistan, or whatever, I just pull the guys out of the other country and attack Ukraine with my everyone who is close by.  I can also move russians into China as well.  Since Japan takes a bit to really get to much gear over into mainland aisa a couple of guys can stymy them pretty well.

Aye, that was something that caught me as well.  Even if you win them all, now you are in three spots in Germany with no real hope of defending any of them.  Once Germany pops through you’ll be in dire trouble trying to set up another decent offensive.

Is it you can’t collect income or is it that you don’t go through the collect income phase?  From what I’ve read it looks more like you don’t get to go through the collect income phase than it is, you just can’t get cash.

I can’t see it happening all the time, but ofter our games come down to who’s going to fall first Germany or Russia. And in many cases it’s Germany that picks up Russia.

Well I’ve started Germany with a 20 spent on heavy bomber and 15 in rockets.  Got lucky and picked up both of them.  Ended up winning with it as well.  Way to lucky to count on it, but it keeps things interesting.

This is a good question, I wonder what the answer is…

I’ve done it with 15 points on the first turn.  It’s not a garuntee but it gets you a good shot at it.  once you have it move your AA out of Southern Europe and into the Balkans and you can hit Caucaus, England and Russia every turn.  It’s a decent way to slow things down a bit and can really hurt Russia in the long run since you can hit two of his IPC’s.

Actually if you go by the combat in the OM you’ll see that Subs on both sides always go first.  It is just that the fleet with the destroyer will be able to return fire with their losses.

Depends if they take egypt or not.  If they do I take it back e1 then wait a round to go threw.  If it looks like Germany will be going balls out for Africa then I’ll either shoot them around the horn, or get America involved.  Bringing the British fleet into the Med and even later into the Atlantic has served me well when I could get it done.

Of course the Axis is getting cannier now and is starting to hit Trans Jordan as well, but I think a couple of Russians can keep that open by R2.

You go all out after Russia and you will get there before Japan does.  This means that while your sitting on the edge of oblivion japan is still a turn from getting to Russia and probably more than that from getting sufficient forces mustered to be effective.  meanwhile you have stripped your western borders and are very much suceptable to a allied attack.  Losing Western Europe will not only net you -6 but also all of your jets.  In the games I have played when Germany gets to aggresive they end up short changing themselves.  As well they cannot support themselves well at all. so the troops teh send up to Russia are easily blocked from getting reinforcments by britain landing troops in Korelia.

You have to keep trading territories and relying on your air craft is not good since sooner or later it will be chewed up in a tough naval battle.  I tend to but inf and a boat (or heavy bombers if they are in play) then second round ful linf again, then thrid roung 3/4 inf 1/4 attacking, since that is when most of my ealier offensive power is starting to get used up.  I also tend to stockpile tanks in eastern Europe in a hope to keep them in a one turn ability to take advantage or defend myself.  All in all, I just wait with Germany and try to build a stack I can send to Russiea when the Japs start coming close.

This is what I have been doing with the UK fleet.  I use the plane to knock out the Jap trn, then send dest, AC and trany to the straights to take back egypt and sail into the med.  Once I have the ac in the med I’ll drop a plane I sent into Russia last turn and make a defendable force down there.  Now Germany has two fleets to worry abotu as well as a english transport in the med.  They either end up ignoring it or sending the luftwaffe and the BB to take it out.  Either way it’s doing a good job of making Germany do something other than take Africa or hit Russia.

Just keep talking, keep a timer if need be, and remember you can pass notes in study hall if need be…

Some of these suggestions seem a little far fetched.  Especially the ones where you get Germany to all out blitz Russia.  I can forsee doom in your future.  With Germany you have to build up before you can even think about hitting Russia.  I will build Men the first two turns, then start building tanks and men and stacking them in either Korelia or Eastern Europe.  Make a stack big enough there and you can move it against Russia at about the same time Japan starts knocking on their door.

As for the straight bum rush, remember that you can’t support it, that America and Britain will be beating a weakened western Europe, and that when you finally do run into the 20 infantry sitting in Russia or the caucases and get beaten you are in a world of crap on your eastern flank as well.

Every time I see Germany go apeshit I just sit back and chalk up another win.

Germany is now the Russia of the original game, sit, wait, and build.

(in lieu of the naval inf build, I also have some luck on hitting heavy bombers early and using them, trn and inf…)