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A some what hollow victory that i feel compelled to repeat. My tactics were sound but the AI did not engage his entire southern army, so i feel ive cheated my way through the scenario. AT the HQ spent the majority of my prestige on Air Defence, not being able to deploy any air units gave the AI air ...

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After a lot of contemplation at the last HQ i went with the following upgrades BT5 Resistance Leader to Strumtruppen 42 cost 492 BT5 to Tiger 1 cost 360 IIIJ to IVG cost 180 which left me with just 12 prestige points. Looking at the forces arrayed before me i spent a few trial starts attempting to p...

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What to upgrade next 1044 to spend AAR indicates there is no real air threat and its winter so air operation will be limited, so little benefit in updating AD or Airforce. There are no real benefits to be had updating recon, i already have the best available. Last two scenarios i have done updates t...

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I had to restart, at turn 5 i realised that my deployment and initial core movements were wrong. Tanks do not fair well in build up urban environment of stalingrad. The only soviet armor is to the north of the map so after i restarted i sent tanks and anti tank units north, with only my light BT5 ta...

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being rewarded with good leaders is essential, i was lucky and never received a poor leader, if you do then i would seriously consider selling the unit and freeing up the leader slot, do this early while it has 1 or 2 experience bar's. The unit ability is fixed, its the random ability that can make ...

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Welcome to the party. hope you have as much fun and frustration as i'm having, the harder it gets the more rewarding it is when victory comes, tactical planning and shrewd purchase decision will be needed as i know your already aware of. It also demands a considerable amount of personal time somethi...

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a few complications to surmount but relatively easy. focused first few turns in capturing the airfield so that my air force could be deployed, was worried that the soviet air force would cause havoc but it never moved from its entrenched positions. by turn 5 i has air superiority. First time through...

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Compared to the last scenario pretty easy, but the AI was defensive and reluctant to move most of its entrenched units, including its air force. In the Last HQ i did the following changes upgraded my mobile SdKfz 6/2 AD to the Italian 90mm camion, i also purchased 1 new 90mm Camion. There are scenar...

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by far the toughest scenario so far considerable thought and effort to overcome the AI. Numerous restarts and refit options were tried before i managed to stop the soviet attack. For me there were 3 key battles that all had to be won 1. The air battle to gain air superiority - AI had fighter majorit...

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well things are not going well and i'm about to restart the scenario. i've gone through a considerable struggle to gain air superiority. To have a chance of this i upgraded 3 of my Me110C leaderless fighers to FW190A3's which used the bulk of my available prestige. I also manage to upgrade my two IV...

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Winter Defence BV turn 10 proto 21cm K18 well that was interesting AI goes aggressive and wipes me out! i had to restart a number of times. first time i abandoned in turn 4 a hopeless cause, Snow grounded my air force and i left the aux eastern forces in place defending the outposts, the red hordes ...

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battle for the kremlin BV in turn 12. an attritional slogging match, snow negated my air superiority even when it was clear the network of enemy AD made air attacks difficult. Massed Enemt Arty was deadly and i couldnt out range it, final soulton was to concentrate my arty and move 3 or 4 units toge...

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After A long rest i decided to raise the tattered battle standard once again and continue where i left off back in 2022 looking back at the saved games it appears i was in the throws of scenario 23 Battle for the kremlin i was 3 turns in when i paused playing. I will restart the scenario and get rea...

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by far the hardest scenario so far and thus the most enjoyable - weeks of effort! 3 restarts were required before i could get a BV. i abandoned the first attempt on turn 2 after realising i had a poor deployment. 2nd attempt went on to turn 10/11 before i finally accepted that a BV would be impossib...

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did not upgrade any units in the HQ Another tough battle, few resources and 25 VH to take and hold. Now have 2812 prestige points. There does not appear to be a deployment airfield which can only make things harder. Its snowing, maybe i need to upgrade some of my truck transport to half tracks. With...

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A right old slogging match! All turns used. May core units took casualties but none were lost. Armor is starting to become outclassed by increasing soviet strength/experience and entrenchment levels When will new Armor come online. Had to buy a 231 recon during the game, left behind a enemy supply h...

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I had been saving prestige to upgrade my 110C to FW190A1's but as there is no soviet air threat (according to the AAR enemy estimates) i will delay this until an air threat emerges, i might go directly to the FW190A3's which has slightly better stats. Lack of Heavy artillery forces me to upgrade my ...

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Enemy troops are now becoming experienced over strengthed and what looks like ever increasing levels of entrenchment! Had to restart twice, enemy has vast array of long range arty bearing down on the deployment zones, took too many losses on key equipment. Final solution was to group all my artiller...

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Deployment Area is in Heavy ARty Range, had to restart as deployment was not optimal, could not reduce the enemy arty on the first round lost core units so i restarted with a better deployment. regretting not having a recon leader spotting range limited to +4 making it difficult to locate a silence ...

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first encounter with the soviets and they got a pasting. bought final core units at turn 3. used all the turns to try and give them as much experience as possible they mounted a counterattack at the end. AAR OpenGen 0.93.4.0 * 25 Dec 2020 * AI version: Default (0.91) Efile folder: C:\OpenGeneral\efi...

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After my last analysis i think i can add 3 more units to the core these wil be 2 PzIVF1 and another 88+Halftrack.

These will be the last new additions to my core.

remaining prestige will be upgrades and over strengthing.

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i appear to have lot my last post :irate so here goes again O so i'm 17 scenarios in out of 47 and wondering how big a core to maintain, i currently have 28 ground units and 10 air units. The remaining scenarios will deliver approx. 38000 prestige points from this i must upgrade and overstrength the...

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So I'm in the HQ wondering if its worth spending any of the 1268 prestige points. When playing at 0% it is vital to spend prestige wisely, here is how i decide. When faced with a number of new purchase possibilities or potential upgrades i compute a "value for money" metric based on the stats and co...

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no purchases in HQ AAR Played Scenarios: 1 Storming The Republicans , #0 , Brilliant Victory +++ Proto: 21cm M18 2 Fall Weiss , #1 , Brilliant Victory 3 To Warsaw , #2 , Brilliant Victory 4 Seizing Trondheim , #3 , Brilliant Victory +++ Proto: Sturmtruppen 40 5 Crisis At Narvik , #4 , Brilliant Vict...

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Another relatively easy battle, some difficulty for the Luftwaffe because of the number of enemy aircraft. Air superiority gained by turn 6.
668 to spend in the HQ

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with 20+ air units against me Me109F was purchased and put into training, i will have to be careful with this inexperienced fighter unit or the AI will target it. Here is AAR after its purchase OpenGen 0.93.4.0 * 25 Dec 2020 * AI version: Default (0.91) Efile folder: C:\OpenGeneral\efile_cc56\ * Efi...

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No problems A good scenario to train up my inexperienced troops here is a summary of experience they gained PzIVD 477 -> 554 Now fully trained PzIVD 277 -> 314 S40 103 -> 187 this unit type gains experience very slowly 88 258 -> 347 88's gain experience fast 88 0 -> 143 gave this rookie unit assista...

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SM79 -> Ju88A cost 336 2 of 120mm Mortars -> NbWf41 cost 240 both these fully trained units give me Engineer capability Inf -> Stormtroopers' cost 228 Then more new units to train up 88 + Halftrack cost 300 Inf on foot cost 228 120mm mortar + Half track cost 312 leaving me with just 20 prestige poin...

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no upgrades or purchases were made in the HQ, i saved my prestige for the following HQ when new equipment would be available

no problems with london.

now in Balkans part 1 HQ wondering how to spend 1724.

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All turns used with no spare. Hindsight allowed my to divide my forces better this time. air superiority gained during turn 6 and naval by turn 8. AAR just before BV OpenGen 0.93.4.0 * 25 Dec 2020 * AI version: Default (0.91) Efile folder: C:\OpenGeneral\efile_cc56\ * Efile version: CC56-In the Line...

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so in the HQ i purchased PzIVD and another 88 with half track. I abandoned the game when the BV turn limit expired, after making a number of mistakes mainly on how I divided my ground forces up. I sent too many forces west and not enough north east. The Luftwaffe were hard pressed and did not gain a...

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Having reviewed the experience gained by my non 5 bar units it was disappointing except for the air units, basically the ground units did not have enough round of combat before i took all the VH. I had 5 turns in hand to still gain a BV. So i went back to my final turn a delayed taking the final VH ...

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first attempt at this scenario i lost too many navel units to air attacks during the first turn. second attempt i gained air and naval superiority by turn 4 and then had my land forces decimated by the powerful coastal defences. On the third attempt i played more cautiously. deployed my AD at my emb...

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what to spend the 628 on? lack of armour and Antitank is concerning but the next two scenarios will give little scope for training it, it would be languishing in its naval transport for most of the time. The next two scenarios are predominantly air/naval battles. I have no intention of developing a ...

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i could not get the Gibraltar+ map to load correctly. Eventually i updated OG to the latest version and reloaded the latest CC pack which cured the problem. with the 832 prestige i upgraded both my 109C fighters to 110C and my DEV FIRE leader Ju87A to SM79 leaving just 28 points remaining. first 3 t...

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832 to spend on Gibraltar

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840 to spend in the HQ

arty got battered, i to replay some turns to prevent its loss

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with only 280 available i can only make one purchase its either another 88 or PzIVD, i'll try the IVD

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managed bv just in time last BV objective was taken with inadequate forces due to poor disposition of forces. Jagdcommando used to take out British radar si, but i did it too early, they had to fight it out with just air support. I wasn't aggressive enough in the first 4 turns, spent too much time b...

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812 to spend so what should the priorities be. Air Superiority will be key in the future but as yet no real air threat as been encountered, but air units need time to gain experience. Eventually my army will have to split into battle groups so another recon unit is required. My 120mm mortar without ...

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Easy, all turns used so that new units could gain experience, unfortunately the two Foot infanty units and the 120mm mortar without transport only managed a few rounds of combat, enemy units were too dispersed to keep them fed with new targets. The two Flk 37mm in half tracks managed to fight nearly...

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840 to spend
No real air or armour threat
Jagdkommando no transport 348 - time to train up some airborne capability
120mm mortar no transport 204 - train up more arty to fight with the foot sloggers
37mm flk with halftrack 276 - train up more air defence

12 prestige points remain.

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the Luftwaffe were severely pressed and did not attain air superiority. Naval superiority was gained by turn 4. bad weather on turns 3 and 4. If the royal navy were more aggressive i would have bee in trouble. AI's air force were very aggressive from turn 1, its beaufighter I6 TB even attacked my 37...

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upgraded Infantry to stormtroopers Engineer capability required to deal with the ever increasing entrenchment levels
bought a infantry foot unit to train up
40 prestige points remaining

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managed to bring the 120mm mortar team upto 82 point of experience fighting alongside foot infantry and the 37mm AD which also gained 113 points fighting from its HT transport. Lots of leaders gained BT5A Resiliance 88 Combat Support 15cm Arty Infiltration Tactics BR17 Arty Street Fighter Inf Attack...

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after a lot of consideration i bought 37mm flak with half track at 276 and 1 120mm mortar again with half track at 312 leaving me with 56 prestige points remaining. I need AD for the expensive Arty I've bought and it will take a lot of time to develop this unit, the HT will aide as it can fight in i...

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No prototype. 644 to spend in the HQ before Trondheim, what to sped it on ? gained Aggressive Attack Leader for one on my ME109C's DF leader on Ju87A combined with CS Leader o its Ju87A partner has resulted in it gaining 5 bars! A19 Arty only managed to gain 41 experience points which is disappointi...

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still to gain air superiority - surprised by AI's agressiveness with its air fleet.
sandomierz,krakow and lodz have been taken.
Posnan and Twierdza Modlin are under siege.

A19 not gaining experience as fast as i thought it would but the BR17 which inherited 200+ is a game changer.
need engineers.

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i think you misunderstand regarding the bonus, there is no additional prestige for running at 0% but i dont have to allocate units to collect the prestige from non victory flags, as there isnt any when running at 0%. So the "bonus" is in terms of time and units. So i'm in the HQ deciding how to spen...

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used naval support to take out the AD at danzig then landed the fallschirmjager's these again with naval support capture the port. Naval support then used to take out AD at the airfield at 2/24 which was used to reembark(turn 5) fallschirmjager so they could take the final objective at the bottom le...

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