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karloskar -> early axis win (9/11/2007 12:44:38 PM)
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In my latest game (versus ai, havent dared go online yet, normal difficulty) I planned from the start to make an all out attempt to conquer the british isles.
The conquest began with taking Poland followed by Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France (pretty much standard I would guess). In the meantime I focused on beefing up my airforce first, buying two additional fighters and one tacbomber asap. Italy joining me ment another tacbomber available.
When France was out, a bit ahead of historical time, all forces were repaired and embarked into the channel and the northsea but close to my own coast until I had all tanks, some corps and the motorized corps out at sea. Meanwhile the navy I had (the starting units) were brought in as escorts and my airforce killed off the british airforce smoother then i had thought.
Suddenly the coastal areas around London and eastern england were swarming with german troopstransports and the royal navy must have been on a pacific cruise or something, at least they didnt show to help the small british defensive forces.
With heavy air support London was taken within 2 turns of the landing and the rest of the british cities were conquered soon after, apart from scapa which was ignored.
Happy with the fast success vs france I had allready started the construction of a carrier and after that 2 new german battleships. Also another tank was finished once england was conquered. My eyes now set on Canada.
Again the entire army, airforce also, set out to sea, this time with a strong escort consisting of 3 battleships, 1 carrier and 2 subs. Once all units were assembled the journey began. This time landing was harder since the royal navy in full force was guarding the canadian coast. In spite of taking some losses to my landing forces and navy I had to many units for the british to stop and also once my airforce was ashore the naval battle tipped in my favor.
A few turns later britain was about to be expelled from canada and still no sign of american or russian entry into the war. I was planning to declare war on USA myself and rush it from canada once the brits were gone but before i got the chance England surrendered and since there were no other enemies at war with me I won the game, nice but sort of an anticlimax also.
The test would have been on the russian front since my oil was down to 150 or so but on the other hand I had a strong economy at this time and had the entire border from Rumania to the baltic bristling with corps. Anyways it didnt matter since war never came to that part of the map.
I think for the next game I am in position to raise the difficulty a notch.
/Kalle
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