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Kiwillian posted:Is that still in the forum or on lparchive? I can't seem to find it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3535440&pagenumber=1 Boom! It vanished from the first few pages of the LP forum like half the German Army! Oh poo poo, spoiler alert! 
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Man, Ultimate General goes bad so fast.  I'm normally used to beating up the AI in Empire: Total War so when they fainted and then counter attacked I got a real shock.
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I don't know if this is like a really dumb question or something, but I won as the Confederates at the start of Day 2 with a minor victory. Losses were even, but at the end the Union had like 2x the amount of troops. So what did I actually achieve here?
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Tekopo posted:You aren't giving a lot of details about what the position of troops were. Did you manage to force the union army off Cemetery Ridge? Strategical position and morale were more important in the ACW that sheer number of troops/casualties. I just don't know the names of all the places, I'm sorry. But yes I had control of all the hills south of the town, but it makes sense why I "won" even though they had twice the men. Alchenar posted:You forced the Union to withdraw from the battlefield by occupying all the locations providing dominance over it. Beyond that you achieved nothing because the Union army withdrew in good order and you don't have the supplies to fight another battle so like the best-possible Confederate outcome nothing actually changes. Okay cool! So it's like those old WW2 games where if you won as the German's they'd say "hurrah you won, but the allies are still going to win well done anyway!" I think i'll do what people in the thread suggested and watch Gettysberg.
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Alchenar posted:
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Ultimate General just added multiplayer
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Alchenar posted:Give me 10 mins. I'll be back later myself if there are any goons who want to destroy me!
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Nenonen posted:Quick question, is the multiplayer for two players only? They're working on implementing a spectator mode where you can play as the English.
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Historically, are the Germans in Normandy in a really tight spot? As opposed to War in the East where it seems like both sides have strong chances.
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Well you get to see if you're better than Montgomery. Spoiler: most of this thread is better than Montgomery.
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Oct 12, 2014 20:15
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Will you need to micromanage tea breaks for the British in WITW I wonder?
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When Multiplayer updated like a second later I joined a game and got SPANKED. A few minutes later in this thread a goon was like "okay, here's a hint pubbies: don't do this this this and this"  and listed everything I did.
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So how are goons finding WitW so far? Worth the money if I want to invade Germany?
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I just watched a stream of the sicily campaign where they said "here is our auto air thingy to cut down on micromanagement" and I was like "holy poo poo, really?" Progress!!! I guess not. Never change.
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Saros posted:IJN: "Why are those troops still in strategic mode, we agreed to use them for assaulting Guadacanal." Navy: Our Sub commanders report the torpedoes are hot garbage. BUORD: I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm pretty certain the torpedo is fine. Navy: But... BUORD: Zippit. *makes zipping motion across mouth* Navy: But... BUORD: *covers ears* La la la la la can't hear you la la la la
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Dec 12, 2014 15:43
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Turns out in WitW pilot training is more dangerous than combat.
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Alchenar posted:
Hell at 80% off I'd buy it all again. Only because I never owned any of the year by year DLCs, are they good?
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Lichtenstein posted:Panzer General Oh man I was going to post this   
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Someone pointed this out to me
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I read umm the one where they put down some dirty socialist tree hugging hippies using magic goggles. And Clear and Present Danger, I can't remember anything funny about it apart from the movie ruled and the book might have been okay too. edit: I know that wasn't directed at me but I just love cracking jokes about Rainbow Six
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Speaking of Battlefront, how's Strategic Command?
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COOL CORN posted:I'm enjoying it. It's a different feel for sure, and I think it was somewhat panned when it came out, but I also think that's mostly because of the new air-planning-mini-game-aspect. I just set it to AI control based on what focus I want (bomb strategic, bomb air bases, interdict fighters, etc.). I enjoy the new amphibious assault mechanics, and overall it feels like basically just what I wanted. There are some hilarious AARs including one where the allied player forgets to set their air directives and the Germans repel the D-Day landings.
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There was some outrage over some Anthony Beevor stuff right? Where the Russians were like "What are you talking about? Glorious Russia never committed any war crimes. Anyway, they were Nazis so, let's just say something got through our cracks eh? Probably they deserved it. Just saying."
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I still have the pacific one with Real Fleet Boat mod installed and ready to go at any moment.
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You need SH4 + the Uboat addon. Then you can either play with one mod, whose name I forget, that gives you realistic convoys. So realistic you won't find any, or Real Fleet Boat which among other things adds a great damage model. Real Fleet Boat is the one I use. 
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RFB is the one I would think you want because it changes the damage model from hit point based, to actually modelling flooding and compartments and stuff like that. Which pretty much means if you sink 3 shots into the side of a ship it'll list slowly over for a while, take on water and then "sink". Where as in vanilla (and TMO i think,but I'm not sure) you'll hit it three times and it'll go "boom you sunk it" and do a canned routine or whatever." But you can still sink ships quicky, but if you do it's a result of them taking on lots of water quickly and not it running out of HP.
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I can never remember the math to working out the speed. You measure the distance the ship/convoy travels in a minute something something the speed in knots? I just can't remember the "something something"
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Nah man, try real fleet boat it's worth it. You don't need to plot stuff, just work out how fast they're travelling, point the scope at 'em and pull the trigger. 
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Re: SH4 I never liked RSRD because I could never find any ships. So I liked the balance between RFB with stock campaign because it meant the game was hard, but also there are plenty of boats to shoot my duds at.
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Goodness gracious that game sounds pretty fun.
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That Co-Op WtP stuff looks fun, is it? Or is it totally dumb.
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Actually, in general how to you learn to lightning warfare because I have no idea beyond "attack weak counters with strong ones"
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The other thing I've seen is the Germans can only win, literally only win, if you're playing a Human and they forget to send aircover for the D-Day landings. And then the end is "Russians got to Berlin,but I guess Germany surrenders and keeps all of France?" For a beginner however, the game should be easier to get conceptually? (Beat up Germans in italy, beat them up all the way to berlin after d-day) and less of a nightmare than the Eastern front with a million counters.
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I have decided that the reason I like WitW so much is I secretly enjoy logistics and air planning. That and the combat is simple enough for my grog-lite brain. Although, lmao, I didn't realise you had to start planning your Italian invasion like, the turn after you invade sicily in order to land in time. Whoops, I just sat my Amphib HQs on the sicilian coast for like 2 months. edit: I just learned how to airdrop in supplies. This changes everything. 
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Now I lost two Amphib HQs that I was using to ferry across the straights of messina.  I'm actually going to continue with an amphibious assault which I planned, but will now be behind my own lines just because I need the troops and the temporary ports. Patton I'm not. Also in true grey hunter style every time I launch an attack with the 1/82 Airbourne they get hilariously slaughtered or dropped in the ocean and sent back to Ireland for a fresh wave of
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dtkozl posted:That is pretty historical, they took over 200 percent casualties during the war because high command were dumbasses that kept dropping them into horrible positions. Monty was the worst. Hey I resemble that remark!!!
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Drone posted:I always recombine my paratroopers into full divisions and then drop them. It's far too easy for brigades to die. Funny story, I couldn't work out how to do it because I got "recombine" and "merge units" confused. Anyway, once I did form them up I didn't have enough transport planes at the base to do it.  edit: I've also gone from "yeah man whatevs" wrt the air war to "NO YOU MUST RECON THESE THREE HEXES AND TELL ME WHERE THE GERMANS ARE WHILE ALSO INTERDICTING THE SHIPPING TO THIS PORT AND GROUND ATTACKING THIS UNIT" :sperg: :sperg:
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Illegal Username posted:My troops are exhausted, my supply lines are a mess and that loving swamp between kiev and brest-litovsk is full of russians that are apparently fighting my troops off with nothing but rifle butts. Yes, but is Train Nazi happy?
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WITW: What is normal for attrition between turns? I just seem to be losing men like flies during the AI turn but they don't seem to be attacking me? I have like 2 sieges going down right now, so is that just it?
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It's on sale at the matrix site though, right? http://www.matrixgames.com/products/483/details/Command:.Modern.Air.Naval.Operations.Wargame.of.the.Year.Edition
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