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Is there any interest for an AAR against the AI (grand campaign 1939 ¡V 1945)? If so, I¡¦d be willing to do this and at the level of detail illustrated in my CEaW-GS AARs referenced above. I certainly wouldn¡¦t want to do this without any interest and participation from the community. So, is there any interest and willingness to participate (i.e., comment on and provide constructive criticism on my play) in an AAR?

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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Is there any interest for an AAR against the AI (grand campaign 1939 ¡V 1945)? If so, I¡¦d be willing to do this and at the level of detail illustrated in my CEaW-GS AARs referenced above. I certainly wouldn¡¦t want to do this without any interest and participation from the community. So, is there any interest and willingness to participate (i.e., comment on and provide constructive criticism on my play) in an AAR?

I would eagerly follow this AAR but I suspect that I would not make many comments.

I haven't played the grand campaign past 1940 myself.

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

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ORIGINAL: Horseman78

Looking good so far..I like your AARs on the Slitherine forum for Commander Europe at War Grand Strategy (CEaW-GS) and this ones looking like it'll be as interesting.

One little tip - at the end of the first mission you wrote you took the opportunity to bring units not in the action up to full strength. DON'T do this...normal reinforcements are free in the deployment phase and elite reinforcements are half the cost so if you don't need them for the current scenario just keep them under strength until you deploy for the next

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Here's a trick for getting just a little more Prestige that you can do next time. On Norway, don't take Trondheim and leave the Victory Hex unoccupied (you can leave a unit next to it so no new enemy units appear). Take Nasmos in the north and then wait it out to the final turn (you can now move the unit away from Trondheim if you want some enemy units to shoot at and get some experience while you wait). Now, the reason you want to get a Marginal Victory is there is no penalty (you still end up at the Low Countries), but you get over 500 more Prestige by waiting to the last turn (instead of getting the Decisive Victory). It is a quirk that I've noted to the developers and hopefully will be addressed (you really should get more Prestige for a DV over a MV). So, when I started Low Countries, my Prestige was at 2681 and was just enough to do all my purchases and upgrades shown above. If you get the DV, then you'll start LC with 500 less Prestige and have to make some tough choices.

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ORIGINAL: Horseman78

If you haven't already completed Norway here's a quick tip some one posted on my AAR several years ago

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Here's a trick for getting just a little more Prestige that you can do next time. On Norway, don't take Trondheim and leave the Victory Hex unoccupied (you can leave a unit next to it so no new enemy units appear). Take Nasmos in the north and then wait it out to the final turn (you can now move the unit away from Trondheim if you want some enemy units to shoot at and get some experience while you wait). Now, the reason you want to get a Marginal Victory is there is no penalty (you still end up at the Low Countries), but you get over 500 more Prestige by waiting to the last turn (instead of getting the Decisive Victory). It is a quirk that I've noted to the developers and hopefully will be addressed (you really should get more Prestige for a DV over a MV). So, when I started Low Countries, my Prestige was at 2681 and was just enough to do all my purchases and upgrades shown above. If you get the DV, then you'll start LC with 500 less Prestige and have to make some tough choices.

I don't know for certain if you get more prestige for a MV now as its been a few years and patches but it'd be easy enough to check

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ORIGINAL: rkr1958

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ORIGINAL: Horseman78

If you haven't already completed Norway here's a quick tip some one posted on my AAR several years ago

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Here's a trick for getting just a little more Prestige that you can do next time. On Norway, don't take Trondheim and leave the Victory Hex unoccupied (you can leave a unit next to it so no new enemy units appear). Take Nasmos in the north and then wait it out to the final turn (you can now move the unit away from Trondheim if you want some enemy units to shoot at and get some experience while you wait). Now, the reason you want to get a Marginal Victory is there is no penalty (you still end up at the Low Countries), but you get over 500 more Prestige by waiting to the last turn (instead of getting the Decisive Victory). It is a quirk that I've noted to the developers and hopefully will be addressed (you really should get more Prestige for a DV over a MV). So, when I started Low Countries, my Prestige was at 2681 and was just enough to do all my purchases and upgrades shown above. If you get the DV, then you'll start LC with 500 less Prestige and have to make some tough choices.

I don't know for certain if you get more prestige for a MV now as its been a few years and patches but it'd be easy enough to check

Interesting -- that's a bit too gamey for my tastes. And anyway my ego won't let me play for anything less than a decisive victory. Though the enemy has a lot to say about the level of my victory too. For that matter, whether or not I win. Well, the quality of my play is a significant factor too.

By the way, I'm still in the deployment phase, which I should post a little later.

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ORIGINAL: dougo33

I am enjoying reading this and look forward to the updates to your campaign. I just bought the entire PC version of this as a present for myself (and then managed to sneak buying the iPad version of the base game past the wife). So I am looking forward to comparing how I do my campaign to how you do yours.

Keep up the good work and well detailed screens