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Oberon · 12-29-15, 12:23 AM

The whole bloody world's gone mad, it's the only explanation for it. The last time I tried Barbarossa the Hungarians broke it, this time it's the Italians and the Japanese.
I can only presume that I OD'd on uboats and tanks because I didn't have enough manpower to Barbarossa properly, so I figured that rather than go back to square one I'd retire to Switzerland and let the AI take over at max speed and see what happened.
Up to this point the Wehrmacht was bogged down just inside Eastern Poland, the Japanese had run riot through the western Pacific, having conquered Australia, New Zealand and making a quick pass through central India. Italy had pushed the British completely out of North Africa all the way back into Iraq where they stomped them completely. They then roflstomped the Greeks and joined me in pwning Republican Spain.
After I retired to live on the Nazi Gold in the Swiss banks, the AI continued the German trudge back and forth across Poland, at one point the Russians pushed far into Eastern Germany but then ran out of steam and were pushed all the way back again by a resurgent Wehrmacht. Meanwhile Italy invaded Scotland and ran into a brick wall of Weegies north of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Japan began eating Russia, taking Vladivostok quite easily and beginning a trudge westward to meet up with the Wehrmacht. In November 1941 Japan declared war on the US, and Italy and Germany followed suit (although their ships had been stomping on my uboats already since early 1941, which is realistic). Japan took a brief break from eating Russia to play tennis with Midway and the Wake Islands, before turning westward again, eating India and marching onwards through the snow covered wastes of central Russia. So far it's taken one small province of the Phillipines, probably just to annoy MacArthur.
In the western theatre, Vichy France got brought back into the fold as soon as the US declared war on it, and then the Allies landed in North-west Africa. The Italians pulled out of Scotland and seem to have deployed to push the Allied invasion out of North Africa. Since the Axis have control of the northern half of the straits of Gibraltar it's going to be tough going for the Allies.
Meanwhile Japan just keeps going west, I think that they will probably reach Moscow before Germany ever does.

So...things to note. Obviously I need to not build so many bloody tanks, or at least build a few more light tanks so I can actually do this encircling business. I also need to practice this encircling business so that I can do it without the Russians laughing and smashing a giant hole in it.
Uboats work well but there's no need to flood the entire Atlantic with them, I need to get my head around the scale of the game, I've just about managed it with the ground forces, but the air and sea elude me.

Also, find whatever the hell Mussolini has put in the pasta of the Italians in this game...

12-29-15, 12:23 AM	#4340
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	The whole bloody world's gone mad, it's the only explanation for it. The last time I tried Barbarossa the Hungarians broke it, this time it's the Italians and the Japanese. I can only presume that I OD'd on uboats and tanks because I didn't have enough manpower to Barbarossa properly, so I figured that rather than go back to square one I'd retire to Switzerland and let the AI take over at max speed and see what happened. Up to this point the Wehrmacht was bogged down just inside Eastern Poland, the Japanese had run riot through the western Pacific, having conquered Australia, New Zealand and making a quick pass through central India. Italy had pushed the British completely out of North Africa all the way back into Iraq where they stomped them completely. They then roflstomped the Greeks and joined me in pwning Republican Spain. After I retired to live on the Nazi Gold in the Swiss banks, the AI continued the German trudge back and forth across Poland, at one point the Russians pushed far into Eastern Germany but then ran out of steam and were pushed all the way back again by a resurgent Wehrmacht. Meanwhile Italy invaded Scotland and ran into a brick wall of Weegies north of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Japan began eating Russia, taking Vladivostok quite easily and beginning a trudge westward to meet up with the Wehrmacht. In November 1941 Japan declared war on the US, and Italy and Germany followed suit (although their ships had been stomping on my uboats already since early 1941, which is realistic). Japan took a brief break from eating Russia to play tennis with Midway and the Wake Islands, before turning westward again, eating India and marching onwards through the snow covered wastes of central Russia. So far it's taken one small province of the Phillipines, probably just to annoy MacArthur. In the western theatre, Vichy France got brought back into the fold as soon as the US declared war on it, and then the Allies landed in North-west Africa. The Italians pulled out of Scotland and seem to have deployed to push the Allied invasion out of North Africa. Since the Axis have control of the northern half of the straits of Gibraltar it's going to be tough going for the Allies. Meanwhile Japan just keeps going west, I think that they will probably reach Moscow before Germany ever does. So...things to note. Obviously I need to not build so many bloody tanks, or at least build a few more light tanks so I can actually do this encircling business. I also need to practice this encircling business so that I can do it without the Russians laughing and smashing a giant hole in it. Uboats work well but there's no need to flood the entire Atlantic with them, I need to get my head around the scale of the game, I've just about managed it with the ground forces, but the air and sea elude me. Also, find whatever the hell Mussolini has put in the pasta of the Italians in this game...