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82ndtrooper -> ETO Game 3 Allied View (10/7/2010 5:59:51 PM)
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its the end of turn 4
I haven't posted anything before now because other than the fighting in Poland I haven't moved any troops or produced anything but PP and supply with the UK. Only producing units in mainland France and that mostly Infantry and light tanks and armored cars.
I am going a completely different strategy this time as the west compared to what I did the first Game. The reason for this is twofold.
1. I always like to do different things each game I play, this prevents my becoming predictable and I enjoy trying out different strategies.
2. Changes to the scenario require a completely different approach for my play style as the west.
When playing as the west/allies in a WWII scenario my priorities are always as follows.
1. Build and maintain a strong navy, Historically this was the only advantage the UK had early in the war.
2. Defend Britain at all cost. Number 1 is the key to number 2. A strong navy prevents the Germans from doing Sea Lion.
3. everything else. Its my belief that if I can accomplish numbers 1&2 then everything else will fall into place.
New changes to the scenario , mainly a raise in price for building ships and changes to carriers in that they can only carry 4 planes now to start and only certain planes which are not good enough to waste production on building at this point, have forced me to focus on producing PP so I can tech up my air-force first to see if that will allow me to build viable naval planes. This will also allow me to make land based planes that I can use to defend against the axis navy both in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
So for now my carriers are in reserve until I can equip them properly and I will focus my defensive efforts on the Battle fleet and land based aircraft. (except for France)
This also means I will produce no tech-I aircraft at all since I know I will have tech-II soon. This will severely limit the size of my air force but it will be of higher quality.
in the first game I raised my war-footing slowly and built units as I went. My focus now is to build nothing in the UK until my war-footing has been raised. Higher war footing = more production = more PP built per turn = higher war footing faster.
England's War-footing starts at 60% and its now at 66%, France starts at 30% and its now at 33%.
War footing also effects the combat efficiency of your military, so its important that I raise Frances also. So except for France my economy is 100% supply and PP.
it cost me 150PP per turn to raise France and England's war-footing 3% each.
we will see how this goes.
a look at my production.
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notice i am only making around 140PP per turn but as I raise my War-footing that will increase every turn by 3% until I am making more than 140PP per turn.
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