Kemco Games

[Iron Giant]

Free play map. 3 sided map with a factory in the middle.

China (me)
France (iirc)
Germany.

I took the factory and held it for a little while and built up a Chinese bomber fleet. Then I made a bee line for the French capital and took it, bombing him out of my way.

But by then I didn't have the strength to hold off those *bleep* Leopards! Holy crapola. Pretty soon I was trying in vain to flood the middle of the map with cheap Chinese tanks who were eaten up by the Leopards. By the end of the game, I was sending waves of E rated Chinese tanks up against A and S rated Leopards. The bombers did a good job of stemming the tide, until the Germans starting sending fighters to take them down...

Since the Chinese have no transport helicopter, I coulndn't even send some infantry behind his lines to take his capital. I tried using paratroopers with a transport plane, but its not the same. You can't land and take citys in one turn, so his Leopards and fighters just chewed up my planes and paratroopers.

I got to around turn 60 and fought him off, but just realized that it was all over and gave up.

So at least in my game, Germany is safe from Communism

[Adoug]

Those Leopards are mean huh?! I like those bad boys. Sounds like it was quite the battle. I hope it was fun even though you gave in. "Da statue of liberty es kaput!" (german propaganda from Saving Private Ryan) I like to say that when I am the Germans in Battlefield when I am online, trying to convert the enemies! Some laugh, some join, and some get a tank shell in the face.
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[cleveland]

I'm getting murdered in my current free play game. Wandering Straits I think it's called. I'm France and the computer is Russia. Those Russian assault helicopters are everywhere forcing me to run hither and yon putting put fires while AI tanks and artillery pound my front. I'm only on turn 30 and it's pretty much over. I also let two Jaguar bombers run out of fuel and crash before they even had a chance to engage in combat. Napoleon I ain't.

[Iron Giant]

Well, played that map again and won as Russia. This time I used transport helicoptors and infantry to disrupt enemy resource production behind their lines. Eventually, instead of 4 or 5 Leopards, I was only seeing 1 or 2 while they had to chase me around behind the front....

[Guest]

The leopards are ridiculously over powered. They remind me of the Neo-Tanks in Advanced Wars II

[SemperFi2382]

[Adoug]

Semper...I remember the Abrams SLAUGHTERING those Soviet tanks. I saw a show about the tank wars in Desert Storm on History Channel and it was pretty cool (for the US anyway)...definetly one sided.
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[DoubleTap]

The Germans have a long, storied history of building some of (if not THE) best tanks in the world. The WW2 Tiger, as Semper Fi pointed out, is a perfect example. Panthers, too. If the Germans had had enough recources to make more of those things, it would've been extrememly bad news.

I had a buddy who had an M-1 platoon in Desert Storm. He had a couple of cool stories. Apparently, at extreme distances, camels (which often travel in groups of 3 or 4) have approximately the same infra-red signature as a T-72. I don't think there are any records of exactly how many camels were vaporized before somebody figured that out.

Also, the M-1 could aquire and accurately target enemy tanks at night from something close to 3 miles away. There'd be Iraqi tank comanders, sitting with their tank company parked at some base in the desert, and suddenly his tanks would start exploding. The M-1's firing from so far away, the Iraqis couldn't even hear the M-1's firing until the rounds had already hit.
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[SemperFi2382]

[DoubleTap]

When the T-80 came out (I think it was the T-80...), alot of Western military analysts were concerned about the improved firepower it would have, since it had an autoloader. A practical considertion they ignored was the fave that the autoloader took up so much room in the tank, the crew had to be 5'5" or shorter. Of course, in a country that big, there's no shortage of guys under 5'5", but still....
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[Guest]

I read somewhere that the autoloaders used to have problems and if the soviets weren't careful it would rip off or maybe it was break crewman's arms occasionally.

[bisl]

[SemperFi2382]

Another flaw in the Tigers and Panthers, was the simple fact that they wre uniquely tooled and therefore much harder to repair. It was common for the Tiger to require maintenence after only 100 hours of use!

Whereas the Shermans could be easily repaired due the parts being less scarce. That also had to do a lot with the sheer numbers of them that were being cranked out.

The fighters would have been some really bad news if they really started showing up in big numbers. The Japanese had a prototype fighter as well that would have made mince meat of our bombers and could have turned the tide of the war. (Super Subs and Atomic weapons aside)
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[The_Sacrament]

The German planes in the later part of the war were the ME-Messhersmicht.They were created in 44 i believe,but could not be mass produced until Germany itself was full of soviet tanks and infantry.While the German airforce could still make bombing runs on Moscow in 44,there were just to many allied units,tanks,and planes.While they were gaining rescources,the germans were losing many.If the germans had the proper supply,and waited a year to invade the Soviets,they could have easily invaded mainland GB,and be ready for invasion of soviets
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