Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: terje439

Against Serbia, the "rush the interior cities" must be a joke, right? I destroy the northern most unit on T1, then the Serbs are dug in in a continous line along their entire border. If I buy an artillery unit on T1, that means that by the time the Russians go to war, the Russian border is FUBAR. If I do not buy the artillery, I lose ground to the Serbs which are more or less always reinforced by one French and one British garrison. If I try to sink them as they arrive, I lose the navy...

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ORIGINAL: Anguille

Starts to be really frustrating...not new to strategy games but this bloody thing is too hard on normal...the AI seems to have so much more PPs and seems to have the best odds in each battles...

http://www.ussliberty.org/index2.html
https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/but-sir-its-an-american-ship-never-mind-hit-her-1.5492908

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ORIGINAL: BlackKgt

I’m sorry, but I have to TOTALLY agree with terje439. I have been playing board/table/computer games since back in the days of Strategy Simulations Inc (SSI – early 80s). I have never seen a game with when you run as either Allies or Axis where the AI has such crushing strategy. I have tried many different openings for both, and I have even written down the AI’s moves and attempted to conduct the same. There is NO WAY possible for the player to even think about competing with this games AI. A player cannot even attempt to make the moves the AI does, and for production, there is no match but the AI has the advantage. The AI has units in places that the player cannot get them in the time given to where the AI COMPLETELY has the advantage TOTALLY. For a game, I played the World War One by SSI when you had to make your own over lay and put it on the War in Europe map. Building what is called “Active” units, and then as the war rolls on slowly units turn into reserve status. At least with this game, a player could have a chance to attempt something. Yea, it was moving counters on a map, and having a 40sq foot area for the map setup, but you can play the game with some hope of achieving something.

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ORIGINAL: vonRocko

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ORIGINAL: BlackKgt

I’m sorry, but I have to TOTALLY agree with terje439. I have been playing board/table/computer games since back in the days of Strategy Simulations Inc (SSI – early 80s). I have never seen a game with when you run as either Allies or Axis where the AI has such crushing strategy. I have tried many different openings for both, and I have even written down the AI’s moves and attempted to conduct the same. There is NO WAY possible for the player to even think about competing with this games AI. A player cannot even attempt to make the moves the AI does, and for production, there is no match but the AI has the advantage. The AI has units in places that the player cannot get them in the time given to where the AI COMPLETELY has the advantage TOTALLY. For a game, I played the World War One by SSI when you had to make your own over lay and put it on the War in Europe map. Building what is called “Active” units, and then as the war rolls on slowly units turn into reserve status. At least with this game, a player could have a chance to attempt something. Yea, it was moving counters on a map, and having a 40sq foot area for the map setup, but you can play the game with some hope of achieving something.

Sorry you're wrong. I have never lost a game against the AI.

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Anguille

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ORIGINAL: BlackKgt

No question is ever to basic. It is those that are not ask and then we wonder how to get it done. To :Load on transport: all you do is have the unit next to a port sysmbol and then click the unit, then for te move, click on the port symbol and the unit is now on the transport. Hope this helps you.

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ORIGINAL: Anguille

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ORIGINAL: BlackKgt

No question is ever to basic. It is those that are not ask and then we wonder how to get it done. To :Load on transport: all you do is have the unit next to a port sysmbol and then click the unit, then for te move, click on the port symbol and the unit is now on the transport. Hope this helps you.

You also need to have sea transport points (you can buy these). Not every country has points to begin with.

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shanehogfan

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ORIGINAL: Khryses

Hokai it's my third game vs AI (normal) as the CP and it's now May 1916.

I've managed to shut down (in order) Belgium, Serbia, France, Italy and now Russia.

I have a fairly large military sitting in the east facing the now-peaceful Russian border, while my wolfpacks have done enough to annoy them that the US has now joined the UK in the war.

Aside from the continuing British presence in Egypt and the Sinai, the Entente no longer has a foothold anywhere that will spare them an amphibious assault - but they don't seem interested in surrendering.

Will taking Egypt from the silly sods be enough to push the UK into bending the knee? Or will I actually have to arrange a Sealion or something similar?

And if that's required, what would be the best approach to it?

I tried slipping across while British production was focused on Egypt and lost a garrison in Cornwall - the British are now a lot more serious about home defense and I can see the units entrenching around their cities from Calais.

On a strategic level I have three armed fighters, a pair of airships and three Austrian heavy bombers that I could start harassing London with if that's a way to break their morale?

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Hi Bob,I tracked this down in the Game Morale script.

The heading states NO LONGER USED?

-- no longer used
--~ function CaptureMoraleEffect(captor, construction)
--~ if construction.type == Construction.TYPE_CITY or construction.type == Construction.TYPE_FORTRESS then
--~ -- morale loss for original owner
--~ local owner = construction.hex.originalFaction
--~ ChangeFactionMorale(owner, -100)

--~ -- morale boost for captor's factions
--~ for faction in captor.factions do
--~ ChangeFactionMorale(faction, 50)
--~ end
--~ elseif construction.type == Construction.TYPE_CAPITAL then
--~ -- morale loss for original owner
--~ local owner = construction.hex.originalFaction
--~ ChangeFactionMorale(owner, -200)

--~ -- morale boost for captor's factions
--~ for faction in captor.factions do
--~ ChangeFactionMorale(faction, 100)
--~ end
--~ end
--~ end

If you loose a City or Fortress = -10% Morale loss to your Nation.
If you loose a Capital City = -20% Morale loss to your Nation.

If you Capture a City or Fortress = +5 Morale boost.
If you Capture a Capital City = +10 Morale boost.


< Message edited by kirk23 -- 4/10/2014 7:06:44 AM >

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ORIGINAL: Khryses

Cheers, it wasn't quite as simple as that but after storming Egypt, Gibraltar, Cyprus, Malta, Ireland and Scapa Flow, sinking the last of the RN, strategically flattening all the cities in southern England, stopping the convoys butt-cold and finally opening a second(?) front with Lvl IX Infantry and Tanks in Scotland the UK agreed to surrender.

I'm thinking Churchill got into power a few decades early!

The US still refused to surrender, although they were largely ineffectual and we ran out the clock with a few probing attacks up around Boston.