2194 PBEM anyone??

[academia]

Originally posted by Nilat
Oh crap.. I just woke up to remember a massive mistake I did in my turn yesterday due to my half-coma.. I forgot to destroy one Wehrmacht unit in Britain... Alejandro, I don't want to replay the turn to fix this ONE small mistake which I could have remedied so easily so can I ask you for a favour? If you wouldnt use that unit to pillage industry around. If this were real war, the British commander-in-chief wouldn't just forget a German unit on British soil.

ok. tell me the location of my wehrmacth unit and i´ll just simply disband it.


about the range of my paratroopers, it´s 5. the point is that they also have the alpine flag, so i can move them more squares than the regular units. and i obviously have all of them in my french/belgium/german coastal cities. as close as possible to england.

[Nilat]

Aah, yees. I forgot that. You don't have to disband it, but if you just don't do anything to do, that'll be fine. Thank you so much for being fair Well, considering the frustration you caused me with this attack, I deserve it

I assume you captured Bristol with naval and aerial bombardment, paratrooped the fallschirmjagers to Bristol and attacked Liverpool with them? When I looked the turn it was slightly dodgy, but this is my thesis

Oh and the Wehrmacht is the one south of Bristol on forest. I would have bombed it, but I forgot about it.

[academia]

I assume you captured Bristol with naval and aerial bombardment, paratrooped the fallschirmjagers to Bristol and attacked Liverpool with them? When I looked the turn it was slightly dodgy, but this is my thesis

your thesis is correct. the naval support was the key.

[academia]

do you guys want me to play patine´s turn or should we wait a few more days?

[Patine]

I'm back. I'll play my turn shortly.

[academia]

Originally posted by Patine
I'm back. I'll play my turn shortly.

cool! welcome back

[Patine]

War with the Chinese Army: 5 Chinese Infantry killed, 17 SNLF lost, 4 A6M2 Zeroes lost, 3 Artillery lost, 1 Motorized Infantry lost, 1 Type 97 Chi-Ha lost (why can't I kill the Chinese? I'm attacking overkill).

Singapore bombarded and bombed: 1 British Infantry killed, 1 BB lost.

Cebu captured (it was unoccupied).

[Pap1723]

Hello all!

I'm glad to see this scenario isn't dead.

Patine-
You are looking at numbers of Chinese infantry in the cities of about 5-20 at any given time. You can easily destroy them, but you need to use your dive bombers, bombers, field artillery to kill them. The infantry is more for defense for your attacking units. It was hard to simulate the sheer number of Chinese units without making it this way. You will have to decide whether it is best to divert units away from the Pacific Theater to conquer China. (It is, China can give you some great industry if you capture them quickly enough)

Voltar-
You are not in the worst situation in the world. You still have some decent unit producing cities to the east. Stalingrad will be a tough nut to crack. Use your low production cities to pump out massive numbers of infantry to at least bog down the German offensive. Destroy roads, pillage industry in cities you know you will lose, "Scorched Earth" policy. In your other cities pump out massive numbers of IL-2, Katyusha and T-34's. These can easily destroy any German unit left out in the open. Think outside the box also. If he is throwing everything he has at Leningrad and Moscow, take your army south and take over Kursk, Vornezh and threaten Bucharest. The loss of the 139 trade arrows there is hard to recover from. The T-34 has 5 movement points which if used correctly can strike directly into the heart of Germany where defenses are usually weak.

Academia-
You don't really need any help. After you figured out the rules and what kills what, you are pretty much beating everyone up pretty damn well.

I am dusting off my copy of some of the changes I made back in the day. Let me know what you think I should add, remove, change, completely re-do as you are playing. I am enjoying watching this one though.

[Eurisko]

Hello Pap, nice to know that you are still around.

Is there any chance that we will ever see the "1936" version of 2194 which was announced quite some time ago?

And what about the Pacific war version of 2194?

[Pap1723]

Both are actually not very far from completion.
Well, I take that back. I think the Pacific one needs to be started back over from the beginning. and 1936 has some tweaking and playtesting before it is ready.

I was thinking of changing the countries for a new version of the 1941 scenario. Western Allies (British Commonwealth, USA, France), Soviets, Germans, Japanese, Chinese. That gives me more unit slots to play with so there will be a need for researching new units as opposed to upgrading all of the units.

I have a lot of ideas, but I am curious as to which scenario everyone is more interested in.

[Eurisko]

Seeing as how Eivind's BK1936 is very popular, I definitely want a 2194-esque take on the whole scenario and would be more than happy to participate in a playtest of it, so if you ask me you should complete that one first.

[Historical Atze]

I think Eurisko is right which happens only rarely j/k. If the Pacific one has to be redone then you should finish the one that's almost ready and then continue with the other.

[EmuGod]

What would make a 1936 scenario interesting is the fact that it's before the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, so Chiang Kai-shek's German trained elite troops are still around in force. Historically, Chiang used them to defend Shanghai from the Japanese to prove to the world that China and the KMT wouldn't just collapse. They fought well, but were severely depleted afterwards and never recovered.

[academia]

*2 soviet kv1 + 3 light tank + 5 motorized inf + 2 red guard + 1 field artillery + 1 I16 + 13 red army + 1 bomber + 2 freights + 7 partisans destroyed
*2 american destroyer + 1 submarine destroyed
*4 british inf + 1 vickers + 1 spitfire + 1 matilda destroyed
*2 fw190 + 4 panzerIII + 1 fallschirmjager + 2 wehrmacht lost

*voronezh and oslo captured

[Eurisko]

China:

The resistance continues. 2 SNLF and 1 Chi-Ha were destroyed in counterattacks this turn.

USA:

HUGE naval stack(s?) spotted at 90, 36 and 91, 33.

The stack at 90, 36 battered very heavily.

Destroyed roughly 6 submarines, 3 destroyers and a cruiser.

1 battleship on the brink of being sunk left, among other weak units.

Go Britain, get that one, don't let it retreat to Brest!

Lost a B-17 and 2 SBD.

Destroyed a Japanese destroyer.