Duncan vs Supermax 4.0 charlie (no Supermax please)

[duncanr]

Plus there were a lot of home guard types defending the homeland

We have made 1 strategic error and a few minor forgets but essentially you can't stop a determined axis who doesnt have to buy leaders - will be interesting to see Barbarossa - I have the turn but am away from PC

[duncanr]

there were a lot of home guard produced to defend England! hence the losses

Barbarossa begins with an assault in the south



we can't see whats happening in the North yet , will they advance there next turn? they may have been held up by the need to flood units to England as that would have taken rail points

no matter as we run trying to save our good units - we are happy to give some ground

In Persia its messy as the Axis assault begins - our priority here is to get control of the air

[duncanr]

ok so its fortress europa for the Axis in Russia while they attack in Persia, we couldn't quite slow them down long enough for them to run out of oil, now they will have plenty for a while

they grind forward in Persia while we try for air superiority - they have lots of heavy units to bring forward from the south



we get what we wanted in the UK - the Luftwaffe arrives, better they are here for now



we will evacuate most of our UK units

[duncanr]

axis strikes forward in Persia



we pick on the Cavalry and evacuate the western Air Persia will likely fall next turn - we also give their mountain troops a headache - its the small things!



haven't seen a SUB for a while - hmmm

[duncanr]

max is a little frustrated as our air evacs - it can't really do anything

here is the start



we spend the turn upgrading our TAC's and continue the air war - ouch he has a lot of FTR's here

[Peter Stauffenberg]

How is the new air base rules affect the play in the Middle East. Guess it's hard to place air units everywhere now since you must be adjacent to a resource or in a clear hex.

[duncanr]

makes it very hard!

[duncanr]

robbed as we miss by 1 step on the mountain CORPS

[Vokt]

How is the new air base rules affect the play in the Middle East. Guess it's hard to place air units everywhere now since you must be adjacent to a resource or in a clear hex.

I see @supermax's Italian (2) and German fighters based on desert-hill terrain thus helping to build double defensive line in northern Irak. I remember that one of the goals of the changes in air bases rules was to avoid that: using air units for building double defensive lines. Shouldn't this type of terrain (desert-hills) be also banned from being possible to base air units?

[Peter Stauffenberg]

It is, but maybe Supermax didn't install the latest updates. I noticed a Soviet fighter south of Tbilisi in a mountain hex. Strange

[GogTheMild]

In 3.2 you can place an air unit in Mountain or swamp terrain if you do so when it is first built. Has this changed in 4.0? That could explain the Tbilisi FTR. But not Max's double line.

[duncanr]

Max is on 4c

[duncanr]

Persia falls and we decide to just kill the last step of the Mountain CORP



it was very tempting to go for the weak MECH but wasn't sure our FTR's were up to it - Russian labs are terrible

[Peter Stauffenberg]

In 3.2 you can place an air unit in Mountain or swamp terrain if you do so when it is first built. Has this changed in 4.0? That could explain the Tbilisi FTR. But not Max's double line.

That is a bug. I found it and fixed it. A thread with a hotfix to the updated game.class file is created in the main forum folder. The link is here:
http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtop ... 18&t=75310

[Peter Stauffenberg]

How is Barbarossa going with so many Russian units in southern Russia and Persia?

[duncanr]

there is no barbarossa yet juts moved up to the river line - there will be a double defensive line though for the Germans, I am just moving up to that line now

[duncanr]

after a quiet turn we resume our very slow grind in Persia, before



and after, we will lose on the counter attack but we can't just stand still

[duncanr]

as expected we get countered - in return a limited offensive to kill an IT CORP



Max see's our southern fleet, never the less we have a look for a beach

[duncanr]

we push on in the West and have a terrible combat result with our SUB - crazy outcome

just a really nasty outcome



still we have a cunning plan for next turn, so this turn we have lots of air PP's spent

[duncanr]

arghh from bad to worse!!!!

our cunning plan to kill the FTR stationed at Kirkuk fails - really shouldn't have and to make it worse we leave the CORP at 1 step to boot!



more progress in the west, but really we need that FTR dead