ceyan
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Joined: 7/3/2004 Status: offline
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After catching a bad bug, I had some free time, so I decided to plunk down and play again. I'm just about to go to war with the Soviets. This time I more or less did what Kari did, I took every available guy northeast around the fortress line. I actually played two games, because the first game I played I found out that trying to hold the Italian line without one of the Infantry Corps (which I took away) just didn't work. Anyways, second time through everything was much better. I managed to hit Berlin somewhere around turn 40, although it was a severe pain the butt getting there. Can't even remember how many times I was cut off and nearly surrounded because I forced myself to be extra aggressive. Ran into a problem right around that time, I'd banked on the German units bugging out, and they didn't, so I suffered some major defeats for a few turns up around Kiel (where I had pocketed just about everything but the German 5th Army, then held on with just enough strength to last me to Berlin). They still haven't left, although all the Germans have are fighters and bombers. Managed to take over mainland Europe somewhere around turn 60, although it was pure luck. I dropped two of teh Colonial legions (over time) in Albania (I hadn't conquered Italy yet, just took out thier fleets and ran through Tarento. That distracted quite a few Bulgarian and Greek units while I pushed through Yugoslavia and Rumania. One oddity that almost killed me, sometime before I conquered Germany (I think it was around turn 20, but I dont' remember exactly) the Spanish units ont he border retreated a couple of hexes. I hadn't done anything, and it had the unfortunate side effect of gaining me some of their territory, which I'm assuming is what spawns the "vow to defend the Spanish Pennisula" event. Fortunately I had the Italians pushed back into the Genes chokepoint, so between a few piecemeal units from that group and one of the Guards Tank Corps, I was able to hold my ground until Germany and Denmark fell, so I could re-direct troops over there to actually defeat Spain/Portugal. Also, the British Invasion force never showed up when I finally took out Italy, I'm assuming this is because I had already conquered Spain, but I'm not sure if its meant to be that way. As of now, I've just got to figure out how to deploy myself with respect to the Soviets/Turks. I lost two whole Colonial legions (and a few units from the Spanish legion) taking out the British colonies, which I'm sure is going to come back to haunt me. So for now I've got the Spanish legion (which BTW, do the Portugese ever cough up a legion?), the remaining Colonial legion, and the French 4th Army to strike into the Middle-East area. I probably should just scratch that area entirely though, because its only recently conquered and I have hadn't any chance to build up the railroads (not that I can really afford to spare a RR troop, considering I'm still trying to rebuilt Eastern Europe). As for Europe proper I've got a Legion/Army at each road leading into the exclusion zone (with the exception of Turkey, where I've got the Croats backing up the Bulgarians and Greeks), and I've got a few turns to distribute Guards units, although they'll probably go into the Odessa approach since the Soviets have a massive stack in one of the Cities down there. Really would like to put them all into a gun for Moscow though. The Fins survived, so hopefully they can provide some hate and discontent to the Leningrade area. Hopefully I'll get some Norwegians or Swedes soon, but they only fell recently. Damn difficult to get anything sea-borne done with the low transport capacity.
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