Doctor_Nick said
In rise fo the Reich I played as Germany but kept my military forces small as I dumped all of my IPU's into research. Soon I could produce heavy tanks which I did in abundance. Due to the toughness of the unit and its offensive strength I unleash my tanks against France. France however had been spending its time building a huge arsenal of light and early tanks itself. I soon found myself to be outnumbered at least three to one and with their defensive bonuses I was defeated. With the core of my land army laid to waste the French counter attacked. I was able to hold out for about twenty turns but my reliance on superior units with inferior numbers cost me the fatherland.
You've got to do some recon before such an attack. Just fly one plane over france to see what they got. Do that when it is still peace, otherwise you might lose your plane...
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It's always good to do recon before a main invasion. Main invasion meaning, an invasion of another playable nation. Such as playing Germany against France. Do recon, and if you outnumber, and outpower them, then face them straight on. If you don't outnumber them, but do outpower them, then try to do deeper recon, and if so, try 2 attacks at once. The AI cant send the same fresh medium tank to face both attacks ;).
I must admit I have not been using the recon funtion that much with my airforce. Mainly it's used in bombing or air superiority. Thanks for the tip guys.
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Yeah I know what you mean Doctor.Moreover, I am not much of an airforce person myself, in the way that I lack in building it. So I do with what I got at the start of the game, and probably never build new one (until I can nuke someone, or I can make the goodlooking fighterjet). I am more a tankman :). Really, when you can make light tanks, you can take over the world. Although I now talk about starting a game in 1936 or sooner (not much later).
But indeed, when I use the airforce, it will be mostly about bombing and airsupport. But, when (and I did sometimes) I decide to do nothing until I have advanced tanks (playing as germany) I will do recon over any country I am planning to attack. Just to avoid the situations mentioned in the first post.
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Now that we are on the subject of airforce. When researching bombers I usually onlly go as far as light bombers. The reason being is that they are the most effective against ground forces. I never really developed a strategy of bombing an enemies cities as I usually like to capture them intact and then use them for my advantage. Therefore I think it's kind of a waste in my style of playing to research anything above light bombers. Whats your thoughts on using medium to strategic bombers to attack enemy cities?
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WHEN I research bomber or fighter, it is to get to the top of the Tech tree. So, I only go for the nuke-bomber, and for the Jet Fighter. But since I do not go for nukes very often, I do not research bombers much. For the fighters; I do not use much, as I stated before. But I like the looks of it though. They can fly far, and they do pretty good damage, so sometimes I want them. But I like Adanced tanks more :)
To go really of topic: Like I said before, get light tanks, and you can conquer the world. In that case I work only with one unit. I rarely make a very diverse army. I almost never make (any kind of) artillery, or... something else then Battleships. Btw, I don;t like to make carriers, because those damn planes die to soon. And then they have to go to port, and then back to the scene...damn...so much time goes into that. So, most of the time I just make a lot of battleships (I research those to the top as well). Only thing I lack is recon from the carriers for my ground forces... So, that is some of topic talking isn't it?
A (big) goof could also be making a lot of Battleships that once the action is on, you have so much, that you don't know where to put them? I had that once, really chaotic for you mind.. damn I got to much ships and not enough enemy vessels to shoot at, what should I do!
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Mine would be Losing to Switzerland as Germany.
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Soy bueno, pero eso fue cuando fui un noob
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FDR, TJelas, Whats with the Spanish?
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Flyboy1943 said
FDR, TJelas, Whats with the Spanish?
Probably an April Fool's joke. Pretty epic one, too.
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I know right!
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dizzle229 said
Flyboy1943 said
FDR, TJelas, Whats with the Spanish?
Probably an April Fool's joke. Pretty epic one, too.
Die spyker reg op die kop. Of iets soos dit. Ek weet nie.
DEMONS
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FDR said
dizzle229 said
Flyboy1943 said
FDR, TJelas, Whats with the Spanish?
Probably an April Fool's joke. Pretty epic one, too.
Die spyker reg op die kop. Of iets soos dit. Ek weet nie.
April Fools Day Is Over.......
And FDR is still talking in Welsh or Danish..... And his Location is UK
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Flyboy1943 said
FDR said
dizzle229 said
Flyboy1943 said
FDR, TJelas, Whats with the Spanish?
Probably an April Fool's joke. Pretty epic one, too.
Die spyker reg op die kop. Of iets soos dit. Ek weet nie.
April Fools Day Is Over.......
And FDR is still talking in Welsh or Danish..... And his Location is UK
If you check the date it was still April Fools day when I made that last post. Also, I was speaking Akrikaans there.
DEMONS
Oh, Sorry
By the way, its Afrikaans, Not Akrikaans
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Was taken over by Belgium in the Deadlock scenario as Germany.
Thought my armored cars and improved infantry could outgun both Belgium and France at the same time, I was wrong. If you give the little nations time, they can build some kickass stuff.
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Another one of my goofs:
In the Rise of the Reich scenario, I played as Germany, and got to the point where I owned all of Europe except for the USSR, and Finland, which the USSR had captured. I decided it was time to invade the bastards so I invaded through Turkey, Poland, Romania, and Sweden. I managed to get a large advance, but, like I had originally guessed, the USSR wasn't just sitting on it's ass watching the show the entire time. Turns out they had a pretty big ass industry they'd built up over all those years, and managed to lolscript spam me into oblivion. I managed to take Moscow, but it was eventually surrounded by hundreds of millions of conscripts, so I decided it would be best to retreat from encirclment. I managed to retreat, but by then, the monstrous Soviet Advanced Tanks soon overran my puny Heavy Tanks. I ended up finishing Advanced Tank research by the time they took back all my territory, and got half of Poland. If I would've invaded them later, it would've surely been a victory. I ended up having to make peace with them, they gained all of Middle-Eastern Turkey, most of the Balkans, and pretty much all of Poland, including East Prussia and Silesia.
Not only that, but the USA had been building up a large force, and they ended up taking Greenland after I invaded Greenland, the USA decides to declare war on anyone as soon as they touch Greenland for some reason :P anyways... They managed to take Iceland and Greenland, and even mounted an invasion of France, Spain, Ireland, and Scotland. I didn't have enough transports to send reinforcements to the UK and Ireland, and I ended up losing both territories, which were liberated by the USA. Spain and France were easily won back. The Americans caught me by surprise, and they reached Picardy, Il de France, and Champagne which I retook in a couple turns. They invaded Spain in Navarre and reached a little into France, but I defeated them. I ended up striking a peace deal with the USA and decided to buildup all my forces until I could destroy the USSR.
I ended up getting pretty far, I managed to build a strong enough force to retake the territories that the Soviets took from me, and actuall siezed quite a bit of their territory as well. The UK was taken by me, and so war Ireland. I eventually massed enough forces in Greenland to take half of Canada, then I made peace with the American alliance. It was epic until the USSR rompstomped Japan and their occupied China, and later wtfpwned the UK and USA in India and parts of the middle east. By that time I decided to join the American alliance and just join forces to send Soviet Russia back to the stone age. Unfortunately we failed at sending them to the stone age, because the earliest units MH allows are Bolt-Action rifle (lolscript/Basic Inf.) wielding (mounted inf.) people who ride ponies into battle.
Looks like I'm ranting, so I better come to conclusion. Although it was one of my biggest goofs, loosing so much damned territory, I did manage to take it all back, and own half of Asia while I was at it.
