Red Prince
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Joined: 4/8/2011 From: Bangor, Maine, USA Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: composer99 Re: obsolete US planes in service Someone upthread mentioned keeping the Bolo around, now that it's made it to Europe, to use as the front-line bomber in future air combats. This I agree with. It also is an extra bomber which can threaten to groundstrike or strat bomb targets (not very well, but well enough if left to its own devices). I fully intend to keep him here. He's already done some damage, and the extra plane is usefull for distracting German fighters. I'd scrap this one as soon as it dies, anyway, and with 56 BP per turn coming to the USA, I'm not too worried about the Pilot, either. quote:
Re: CW/US Convoy Defences Getting the hang of setting up convoy defences properly is something that comes with time. Usually the sooner it gets done, the less disruption one faces regardless of other events in the game. Generally, just as the USSR's best bet is to always assume the Germans will attack in 1941 and build/plan accordingly, the Western Allies are best off always assuming that every turn the Axis will try to sink convoys with every unit they have in reach and deploy their defences on that basis. Re: Groundstriking German hexes with ART in USSR Obviously, this move would have been "better" post facto if it had hit the HQ (to be fair, the Germans probably didn't want to move an HQ up to the front line if it wasn't participating in an attack straightaway). However, it was a reasonable enough move until Dnepropetrovsk falls or the Germans cross the river further south. Then the ART will probably be helpless & overrun. Of course, now that it's the 4th Allied impulse, the turn now has a chance of ending every impulse: 10% this impulse, 20% during the Axis impulse, and so on. IMO the Allies should now strongly consider passing save for the USSR starting on impulse 9 (base 30% chance of ending the turn, increase to 40%). I'd like to hear other opinions on this. I was starting to think the same thing myself. If the CW gets bogged down or disorganized in a coming attack in East Aftrica, they have no real need to continue making moves this turn. It would also be foolish to send any "help" to the North Atlantic. Don't want to let the non-phasing side try anything, do we? quote:
Re: USSR counterattacks An attack with cheap units against HQ-A Rundstet was, I suspect, reasonable. Even if they had died or been disorganized, chances are the bp exchange would have favoured the USSR, and of course there is always the possibility that the Red Army would be as fortunate on the offensive as the Germans have been thus far. Now, one possibility that arises is that if the Germans get across the Dneipr in, say, but one hex towards the centre of the line, the USSR can respond with their o-chit to push them back. Because the Germans do not have an o-chit themselves, the USSR is under less pressure to hang on to its own. An o-chit can make a questionable attack a reasonable one. Ideally, this would be combined with the turn ending right after so the Germans find themselves at the start of July/August on the wrong side of the Dneipr. Even better would be if the Allies get a double impulse (ending May/June and starting July/August) so they can run away once they are reorganized. Gonna need some thoughts on this. There are a few stragglers finally making it to the front at this point, but there are also a few units like the Kiev MIL that are gone once killed, so I need to stack them strongly. Is the river safe? Or do the German air forces make an organized retreat a better option? How long will the turn last? (who knows?) I'll have those images up in about 10 minutes. quote:
Re: Guard Banner Armies That they are not implemented as of this test game makes me sad. Me, too, but those are the breaks. I'm not exactly sure how "un-written" the code is at this point. I know there are plans for the forms that need to be used, but I can't remember if the actual code for it is unfinished or just not yet integrated.
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