bo -> RE: How do you handle Barbarossa? And the Pacific War? (7/21/2011 2:53:30 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Ur_Vile_WEdge I quite often don't take out Poland on the first turn as Germany. But I usually play with the "No ZoC on the surprise impulse" and my current favorite set up puts a grand total of 3 corps on the Polish border. I like to go after France/Belgium first. (Way I see it, France can do a *lot* more to reinforce her position than Poland can.) Once the weather turns bad, it can be hard to advance. Bo, this is just my opinion, but waiting for a 7:1 odds or better strikes me as a bit too conservative. I'll almost always attack at 4:1 if there's some kind of situational plus. (flipped, armor concentration in the open, etc.) and get even lower odds as the turn progresses, and flipping isn't as much of an issue. 7:1 might be possible to get with the Poles and a few other minors, but you're not going to have an easy time getting those kinds of odds against the French or the Soviets.... You are right on about being conservative with the odds, at first I wasn't and I paid dearly several months ago but no more of that. I was always getting disorganized, in CWIF the S/O span seems to have any wheres from 10 to 13 impulses and that allows me to be slightly conservative, that might seem high but that's the way it is in CWIF, I don't put any units on the Belgium or the Netherlands border until I get reinforcements after the last impulse of S/O. Now a seasoned WIF player might make me pay dearly for that, but you have to remember I am playing against a tyro noob [ME}[&:] As for France it is very hard to get real good odds if the French player clogs the border and if he [the French player] stacks his units then it becomes a war of attrition which Germany can afford but France can't. Please remember these are all hypothetical scenarios for me, real play will be entirely different and I am sure very enlightening[;)] And also I am just learning this game and I might ask about things I should know out of hand and say dumb [&:] things or seem like dumb things to seasoned players. Bo BO, I agree to your present style regarding Poland attack. Please remember that after taking Poland you can rail any unit that is stacked with an HQ on a railroad or inside a city( with or without HQ) to cities, HQs and ports (?) in the french/netherlands border. This would let you have enough troops to attack Belgium without problems if you want to take the risk (don't know if I would, it can let the BEF take good advanced positions in Belgium if unsuccessful and let some belge unit to escape. 10 or more turns is not strange in a summer turn, in Europe map, hence what I said before, you may have time for railing many units after defeating Poland. It's not an atrition war. German units are more numerous, better, and have air superiority, besides of units that can blitz (unlike french) like armors, ..., it's a matter of time, usually few time, that the french fall to an experienced german. Jose, but aren't those units I am railing to the Belgium border disorganized after the move? Don't I have to wait until the next 2 monthly sequence to reorganize if I do not have HQs nearby? Or are you saying if the units are stacked with a HQ unit when they rail west they do not suffer disorganization? Please explain collapsing Vichy France. Do you mean attack Vichy? Bo
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