I am going to disagree - if the entry for Russia is October, and you as Axis have not attacked them, even with some randomness, it is 100% reasonable to lose your surprise advantage! I suggest changing it so that the entry occurs on that nations turn. This is also consistent with a DoW on an enemy, ...

there are other problems with that.

My proposal instead is to increase the strength of ports - pretty easy to do.

1 - We may want to make Egypt a Nation that "Joins" the Allies around the same time as Italy does. That will freeze up the units there
2 - We may also want to make Belgium pro-allies, so no allied dow can take place
3 - Ports do provide a bonus protection, but this could be increased

Thoughts?

The answer to this is to invade England

Libya would probably not have to be affected anyway. However, this would allow us to "freeze" Egypt, for example, so the UK would not be able to do anything until say Italy joined the war, or thereabouts. We could do the same for the French colonies. It may be a good idea to consider for the next pa...

Actually - it IS possible - we could make both Libya and Egypt "nations" and give them a join date for the axis/allies. This way they would become available at a certain time and the units would, indeed, be frozen. They would not get PP in the interim, but thats not a big deal. Not sure though, woul...

on the way...

version 1.04

I am looking for more players, but I have a lot of experience so not sure I would be best the choice for you to start with.

what difficulty level Syagrius?

I always win in my games in NAF as axis or as allies - even if I lose elsewhere. I put a lot in ME last game then the axis almost pulled off sealion! be careful.

I presume you are playing the AI? There is no way to do that without a specific scripted event, which can easily be countered because it will be known to the player, hence making it no better than not doing that. Unfortunately without the human element the AI needs to stick with basic, easy to under...

output is modified by war effort, so if you are at say 30% war effort, your 13% bonus is 113% x .3 or 34

Yeah it is much harder now after the new patch, I agree - that was the old one. In this Axis vs. moderate allied advantage is a challenge.

It may have been because they were cut off from Paris. That means that they have half supply, and you can't deploy then.

Crizz - any way you can send me the graphics? We may also be able to incorporate them into the game.

email me at vypuero@netscape.net

I dont think that is the case, I know you can repair and rail both Bulgarians and Rumanians.

If you have graphics skill and can get us some graphics for neutrals and/or USA/UK split, that would be fantastic! I think they are split in the game, we just need the graphics to put in and replace the images.

I suggest using it, it will probably become the official patch unless some serious issue shows up - and I have not heard of any and it seems perfectly fine to me.

who wants to play a game with new version? ladder? tcp/ip? pbem?

Naming feature is in next version