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ORIGINAL: Pocus

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ORIGINAL: BillRunacre

Hi Pocus

This relates to the ability the Japanese have to place an air unit on Midway that can effectively impose a partial blockade of US resources on Wake.

If you hover your mouse over Midway you should see some text explaining this.

Bill

I see you modified your answer . I was waiting for my new PBEM turn to show you screenshots but they are now not relevant anymore with your explanation. So thanks. But there is no tooltip with mousing over the hex.

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

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ORIGINAL: BillRunacre

Hi Pocus

This relates to the ability the Japanese have to place an air unit on Midway that can effectively impose a partial blockade of US resources on Wake.

If you hover your mouse over Midway you should see some text explaining this.

Bill

I see you modified your answer . I was waiting for my new PBEM turn to show you screenshots but they are now not relevant anymore with your explanation. So thanks. But there is no tooltip with mousing over the hex.

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ORIGINAL: USGrant1962

Nice. I was trying to figure out what that button did - I clicked it on and off and couldn't see a difference on the map or the hex/text boxes at the bottom. I guess I never floated over a relevant hex.

The on/off indication is an extremely faint blue background - can that be made more distinct? And does it default to on? Right now it seems to be sticky even if you start a new campaign, so if you turned it off it stays off. I don't know how a fresh install behaves, but I've never seen those tooltips before.

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

If you stumble upon an enemy ship, I guess you are the attacker in this case, right?

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ORIGINAL: USGrant1962

I've been playing the Allies and yes, the Brits crush the Norway convoys. I love it when the Kriegsmarine tries to resist. A CV or two, a couple of BBs plus cruisers/battlecruisers sailing from the northern UK usually take care of business. This is against the AI so YMMV.

As a side note, I just recently realized that multiple raiders on the same convoy route can sink multiples of MPPs.

Is there any reason not to have all of your surface ships set permanently to "raider"? Other than that they may be spotted if on a convoy route.

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

Great, thanks!

From a test, it seems a bad idea to attack the Netherlands and not Belgium on the same turn (the latter mobilize immediately). Is it systematical, the German should attack both at the same time? Is Luxembourg also off-limit to attack alone?

And now a more 'strategic advice' question, how do you deal early in the war with the British preventing any of your Norway income as Germany? It seems you can't do much in fact. Their sub can't definitively be chased by your destroyers, unless you want to lose them, and the same would apply to your feeble surface navy, if the Brits stations BBs (well, perhaps the UBoat can do smth here admittedly!). So, you write it off as a loss and move on?

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

And now a more 'strategic advice' question, how do you deal early in the war with the British preventing any of your Norway income as Germany? It seems you can't do much in fact. Their sub can't definitively be chased by your destroyers, unless you want to lose them, and the same would apply to your feeble surface navy, if the Brits stations BBs (well, perhaps the UBoat can do smth here admittedly!). So, you write it off as a loss and move on?

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ORIGINAL: LoneRunner

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

Great, thanks!

From a test, it seems a bad idea to attack the Netherlands and not Belgium on the same turn (the latter mobilize immediately). Is it systematical, the German should attack both at the same time? Is Luxembourg also off-limit to attack alone?

And now a more 'strategic advice' question, how do you deal early in the war with the British preventing any of your Norway income as Germany? It seems you can't do much in fact. Their sub can't definitively be chased by your destroyers, unless you want to lose them, and the same would apply to your feeble surface navy, if the Brits stations BBs (well, perhaps the UBoat can do smth here admittedly!). So, you write it off as a loss and move on?

In my losses against good players, they attacked Belgium and left Netherlands for later. I tried the strategy myself and it seemed to work pretty well. I noticed that the US mobilized 2-3% when Germany DOWs Netherlands so that could be one reason for holding off.

USGrant is right. Fighting the British blockage of Norway appears to be a lost cause.

EarlyDoors, I didn't know that a max of 4 raiding ships is allowed per convoy line. Did you find that in the manual somewhere?

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

The maritime bomber you don't have at start and that you should buy?

2 extras questions:
Are rockets expended after they strike (V1/V2 units)?

Amphibious technology also reduces the cost of going amphibious, right? That's not in the description.

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

Are rockets expended after they strike (V1/V2 units)?

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

According to the rule, conquering a minor will lower some the morale of all enemy units across the board. Is that still true? Say I conquer Luxembourg, and all French units take a morale hit?

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

I have a tac bomber in the mud, according to the rule, it should have half its operational range, but that's not true. Was it changed compared to the manual?

By the way the manual is wrong for mud on AP. It says you get only half of the AP of your units, minimum 1. But it is now that you pay double terrain cost.

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

Just wanted to protest I can't build an armored train in Japan and ship it to china!!


Amphibious landing in disguise. Should transport be allowed to land only in hex you own?

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ORIGINAL: Pocus

Some questions:
1. How MPP are transferred if oversea, if there is no scripted convoy lane? For example I took Djibouti as the Italian. Is the production credited to Italy in all cases?
2. What is a the benefit of a 'secondary supply' compared to another town?