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Dowly · 02-18-09, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

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Originally Posted by Dowly

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Well, at least you landed at Grain this time rather than Ramsgate

How did the Allies know you were coming?

Do you have to take Dover or could you take the Essex coastline and sweep down from there, taking Hornchurch and (peers at green dot) Southend? Then if the Luftwaffe got themselves sorted, they could bring in Ju52s of troopers during the night to set up a forward base while the rest of the Panzer Divisions make a dash across the North Sea.

Never played WWIIOnline (would love to but don't have the money) so dunno if there's a gameplay mechanic behind the reason you are hitting the Kent coast (aside from the fact that it looks like that's the only part of the UK that has proper scenary, thus provision to hide from the RAF)

Great job though. Panzers traipsing through my birth county

There's Early Warning System in WWIIOL, if an, let's say enemy armor get's within 3,5km of your town, a small tank icon pops-up under the towns name, for infantry it's 1,5km (I think) and for naval 8km or so. We set off quite a few EWS' during our approach thru the cities west of Dover, so they could pin-point our destination.

We could attack any town we want, but we wouldnt be able to capture without the High Command marking it as an AO (Attack Objective), and an AO can only be put to towns that are "linked" or maybe commonly known as supply lines

. Basically, you cant move divisions to towns that arent linked with eachother. That's why we are attacking the Ramsgate-Dover line, as only the 3 towns there have links to Oostende and Dunkirk allowing us to move in divisions in-case we capture the town(s). You can check the supply lines to know what I'm blabbering about from the campaign map here:
http://www.battlegroundeurope.com/in...y/campaign-map

Just pick the square on the minimap that shows the channel and then click the 'supply lines' button, you see 3 black lines leaving Ramsgate, Deal & Dover.

Aaah, that makes sense now. Helps balance it a bit I guess, preventing the Axis from steamrollering England before France has been defeated.
The front line is moving along steadily, but a good punch through at Lumbres could net you some more channel ports, thus allowing you to focus on an objective further down the coast. If they've got their landscape right, Dungeness is flat, barren and full of pebbles, not much in the way of cover, but good flat landing ground. Folkestone might be the better place to land, but the local chav population might prove troublesome...

In all truthness, I'm not sure if we're going to have a full-scale assault on England. The campaign ends when a certain % of towns is controlled by one side, no idea what the % is, but anyway, invading England isnt absolutely necessary. The raids we've done has been 100% 116. Panzer Division's squad operations, "for Fame & Medals"-type of tries to open a second front. Have to say, some very dedicated guys in the 116th. Especially gents Pilomon & xfire who are constantly volunteering to either take an merchant to haul tanks to England or fly a sortie after sortie to drop paras to England. Two jobs that have to be the most boring one's in the game.