Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: brian brian

oooohhhh....will Rommel find the old half-submerged fish weir to get his always hustling scouts across the upper Meuse? we'll find out when the dice are rolled....

one of the handiest play aids we generally kept close at hand, after the combat charts of course, is a page with the sequence of play on it. I think I would still keep this nearby even when playing on the computer. even though you could just look at some menu or pop-up window for this information and you know what phase you are in currently, you always have to think about the phases coming up. this might be even more important on the computer, where your opponent can't just graciously hand-out Mulligans when a missed detail isn't very important. on the computer, once you click to the next phase, there's no going back.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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Firstly, why the hell didn't you and Orm tell me about Finland beforehand eh? eh? I am not looking to do anything gamey and so an historical approach would have been good.

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ORIGINAL: Klydon

Great AAR. Keep it coming. Very enjoyable to see what is happening.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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Commonwealth have a combined. They place a Swordfish in the North Sea to keep the BEF supplied, and send TRS toward Canada and South Africa to pick up the land units waiting to come to Europe/North Africa.

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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Commonwealth have a combined. They place a Swordfish in the North Sea to keep the BEF supplied, and send TRS toward Canada and South Africa to pick up the land units waiting to come to Europe/North Africa.

Since you play with all options on (and that includes limited overseas supply) then a Swordfish will not keep a sea supply route open. You need a TRS, AMPH or convoy point each sea area that you are going to draw supply through.

England expects that every man will do his duty. Horatio Nelson October 1805

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Houses of Parliament, London
7th May 1940

France is seemingly about to fall. In the House of Commons MP's are debating the course of the war (not Norway for the purposes of this game ). Things are not going well for Neville Chamberlain when the Conservative MP Leo Amery takes to the floor:

"Just as our peace-time system is unsuitable for war conditions, so does it tend to breed peace-time statesmen who are not too well fitted for the conduct of war. Facility in debate, ability to state a case, caution in advancing an unpopular view, compromise and procrastination are the natural qualities - I might almost say, virtues - of a political leader in time of peace.

They are fatal qualities in war. Vision, daring, swiftness and consistency of decision are the very essence of victory."

Amery then looked at Chamberlain and quoted from Oliver Cromwell's speech to the Long Parliament 300 years previously: "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go".

Poor Chamberlain was at that time already an ill man, and these terrible words (and the actions of MP's in the coming days) sealed his fate. Winston Churchill became Prime Minister 3 days later.

Neville Chamberlain was dead from cancer before the year was out.