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Okay, got it work... Had to remove the race graphics folders that missed everything from the mod files. Hoe its not a problem...

The aircraft on the deck are B5N2s.

Quote from: Erkki on February 15, 2011, 04:14:22 am

Ozyrat, nothing wrong with the "blitzkrieg" itself. The Germans' failure in Russia and North Africa was not due to lacking strategies or poor leaders, or quality of equipment. The mistake was done when they began the war - they gambled, could they secure enough land and resources to be able to hold long enough, even out-build the Allies? In hindsight, they never stood a chance. Rommel's final offensive to El Alamein was delayed by weeks due to lack of tanks, equipment and especially fuel, by the way. The Italians failed to escort a single convoy across the Mediterranean unscathed.

I disagree entirely. While Barbarossa was indeed a gamble, there was certainly a chance of the intended victory (That is, capturing the three key cities of the Soviets before winter returns).
North Africa was definitely a failure, as it really rested upon the British being unable to easily send their fleet into the mediterranean. With only a few days journey between England and the waters off of Italy, there's no wonder supplying Libya was a logistical nightmare. I'd say Franco is to blame for that, though.

Problem wasn't the Royal Navy's surface fleet or submarine, but the Beaufighters and Baltimores at Malta. See Ralph Barker's Torpedo Bomber!.   

On Barbarossa, yes, looking at Barbarossa itself they might *just* have been able to pull it. But why they had to go East in the first place was the lost attrition war over Britain and the Channel of England. During the Battle of Britain the UK alone already built fighters and bombers at a greater rate than Germany, and had a larger pilot training program.

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Nice. I have no experience playing this game, so I do not know how much of this is due to the natural bonus of the Japanese in the early game and how much is due to your strategic thinking, but it sure looks good so far.

Could you attempt an attak on L.A./S.F. in the next few month, for fun and profit? Bending history so far would be awesome.

Its both. Japanese's advantage is that the Western Imperialist Aggressors UK and US have their interests in Europe(even US, despite only joining the war after Pearl Harbour), vastly superior training and experience of Japanese soldiers, certain technologies and innovations the Allies dont have(and some, like IR cameras and range finders for nighttime naval combat they had no equal until after the war). And then theres the surprise factor. Allied forces are spread out, optimized for colonial use, not war. Pearl Harbour and strikes on Clark Field and Manila that paralyze the US Pacific Fleet, kill submarines, wipe out almost all the modern fighters, and then there are the simultaneous, coordinated surprise invasions.

With the Allies rushing stuff to the Theater its starting to even out now, but unless I screw up something they wont have parity in both numbers and quality, in other than battleships and submarines, until early 1943. I will have to use the initiative and advance as (reasonably) far as possible while keeping all important assets, such as the carriers, alive. Every carrier, battleship and land division the Allies lost they get back up to 10 times. Every carrier the Japanese lost is replaced 1:1 - Japan only gets 8 Fleet Carriers during the war in addition to the 6 in the beginning. But only 3 of those 8 before late 1944. And every lost battleship is lost for good, as there are no new battleships other than Yamato and Musashi that will be built.

edit, yeah the other part. I have no idea why they have no air units in the area, or war ships... Looks like they're pulling a "Sir Robin" and pushing everything back ASAP and AFAP now!

Sorry, I meant Ternate.

I'm going after Ternate (then Kendari) because I'm going after big airfields, big ports and oil first. It is also important that especially airfields can be later expanded as big as possible. After the base screen is up, its easy to stop the front and do the "mopping-up" behind the lines.

"What's in my pocket?" 

Less dumb/dork/awkward than me! 

edit: see above... then see that both have 52%. Lol.