Who will play with me?

[klesh]

The twin king reads me well!!!

Ahhh, techumseh... you are quite intuitive my friend.

Playing with Xin and talking strategy via emails was, needles to say, an eyeopening experience. I jumped at the chance to play as Japan not to meet or beat Xin's legendary performance, but rather to employ some of his teachings which changed the way I saw the Japanese options. It was such a lesson! Invaluable. Thanks Xin!

Nemo, though professinng he was a better designer than player, he did deliver a nice counterattack to the German. He utalised the German events file to get himself some tasty weapons. He was able to get alot of the German's units to be disbanded by focusing his counter attck on key German cities. I still think he lied about not being a good player.

Lest we forget that Grothgar's turn was certainly better than mine was in the first game as the German. Hats off to Gary!

-FMK.

[Case]

FMK, could you PM me the [*cue drum roll*] 'Secrets of Nemo'?

[Jimmywax]

I will not even bother.

[Grothgar]

Frankly Case just read the PBEM he was in. FMK do no such thing lol.

[Grothgar]

Britains turn now. hmm this could be intresting

[Case]

Thanks Grothgar, I'll have a look through the archives

BTW, where can I download the latest version of the scenario? I tried Civfanatics, but it only has the original version.

[klesh]

Originally posted by Case
BTW, where can I download the latest version of the scenario? I tried Civfanatics, but it only has the original version.

2194 DaysofWar v1.3


-FMK.

[Case]

That download link doesn't work, and the file its ment to link to is the one I downloaded from Civfanatics anyway.

[Stefan Härtel]

An excerpt from my secret war-time diary

LONDON.
Mid-December.
The rain had settled down to a light shower over the streets of London, still troubling the water of the Thames.
"The tea is a little too cold," I said to James, my entrusted friend and butler, as if it had any relevance or importance at this moment. He wanted to reply, but his words were swallowed by a patrol of Spitfires that was just flying across the open window, roaring like a thunder beyond the grey clouds, panicking the few people on the wet streets, striking them with the fear of a new german raid on the heart of the British Empire.
I gazed at an old map of the world, which was hanging on the wall opposite to my chair. The map, not having been updated within the last three years appeared to me like an illusion, as my view passed to the headline of an old issue of the 'Times', reading "Major Commonwealth ports fallen to the Axis", underneath a picture of a german battleship bombing the harbour of Alexandria.
I knew the paper was almost two weeks old, but I couldn't help myself reading it again and again. One article in particular, about the destruction of a british freight by german submarines, attracted my attention. Despite the fact, that it was filled with imperial propaganda, threatening me to vomit every time I was confronted by it, I must have read it at least ten times. James kept asking me wether he should get rid of that paper, and I always came with the same reply:
"When I'm done reading it."
The paper was old, but the news weren't. Alexandria was still in german, Calcutta and Darwin still in japanese hands. Maybe a clever soul could change the headline, and the article, but I wanted to keep the paper. It was mainly positive news I heard from the rare news broadcasts on the radio. British troops in Norway, securing Bergen, leaving Oslo an open port for eventual fight against german aggressors, while struggling in the north for Trondheim. Perhaps the news were a bit pushed up as well. I would have never called a defeat of german tanks outside of Alexandria, or the bombing of Tunis in northern Africa decisive. Nor the massive sinking of german and japanese submarines in the waters of the Atlantic and the South Sea- who knows how many of those were still down there. A bombing raid on japanese tanks in Australia was of no importance, until they would have been driven out of the continent.
The pride of the British people was not broken. A german attack on Britain was not an attack on the british dignity, and the heavy loss of aeroplanes, battleships, cruisers and destroyers within the Channel and the North Sea, two waters we had always claimed to be our own anyway, was not too much of a price to pay for freedom, and the destruction of nazi aggression. The Pacific was too far away, and to some, perhaps the loss of India would have been a relief, for it would rid Britain of the half-naked fakir touring the country, allowing us not to fight him, for he wouldn't fight. Little did they know, that the loss of India would drive the emperor's troops to the lightly defended territory around the Iranian port of Bandar-i Bushire, and to Arabian oil, meeting their german allies somewhere between the Euphrates and the Mediterranean, providing the necessary ressources for the defeat of the crippled red power that was the Soviet Union, then allowing them to aim for our splendid isles. And little did they care, too.
But the men and women making up the people of the British Commonwealth fought bravely, and I would say, they died in honour. Some day, when the world is free again, and if it might be after a thousand years, someone might remember.
Or maybe it was just a few years. Whatever is destined for me, for my country, I am sure it is more than the capture of it by a number of fascists in brown shirts, and however it will be, fighting will go on.

[Grothgar]

ANZAC your turn. lol. i think your turn will be the quickest turn ever hehe

[Xin Yu]

Stefan,

If I were you I would send my spitfires to air raid the German heartland. Germany did not have enough air defense for defending all cities. So I could get some of its cities by air raiding then sending a motorized infantry there to occupy cities. If lucky I could occupy the home city of the U-boats and some of the U-boats would be disbanded. By doing so I could cripple the German production, cause some of the supporting units to be disbanded, and buy enough time for the Soviet to recover. I could even send airplanes to Leningrad and Riga, where most likely Germany would have ignored air defense, and empty the city for the red army (the spitfires would lost to the sea but the Red Army would be able to concentrate its force to attack the southern front).

I would totally ignore Norway.

Now the Soviet would have a hard time.

[Stefan Härtel]

You're right, I will consider that in my next turn (if I have anything to fight with then lol).

Germany did not have enough air defense
for defending all cities.

Let's say it like that, it impressively showed when I accidentally dug out some ruins from beneath the house of my grandparents in Berlin...

[Grothgar]

You know i really shouldnt say this but the psycological value cannot be ignored. You know those 6 AA guns or so that are on the coast of france well they have been relocated to cities and also i spent about 4000 gold in equiping every city that i have and/or captured so next turn air raids will be dificult to say the least. And also because of some great luck i have about 5 messcersmidts in moscow and leningrad. Hehe, im a cautious expnsionist hehe. Im liking the sound of this. My worst nightmare was going to be coming onto these boards and seeing that loads of my cities had fallen and that most of my units were disbanded. Oh well heres to good luck.

*wipes brow with hand*

[Case]

Sorry

Seeing as I'm away from my copy of civ for the next week (I'm typing this from my grandparents house) and this game is moving so quickly, I think its best that I resign(?) from this game. I've offered the Soviets to The ANZAC, but he doesn't want them, they're free to whoever wants a grandstand seat for Grothgar and FMK's conquest of Siberia

[Grothgar]

You dont have to resign. hehe. but hey who wants to take up the mantle of this challenge. No Xin Yu unfortunately. Well not until the next one