First off I would like to say thank you for such an awsome mod. I have had the chance to have one play through as Britain and a few small ones as smaller countries and currently as Germany(1939). Normally I don't play as Germany but this one seemed geared torwards Germany, I also plan on playing through as Italy and Japan. Two countries I really have a hard time with. Normally I like playing as the Soviet Union.
For my remarks I played the game on Normal/Normal.
First in the few games I have played I have not seen National Spain win, that is about 3 times for sure. Also Japan doesn't do much, does not make coastal beach heads or take Pacific Islands, and always creates the Nanjing puppet government.
Also as Britain I had the ability to ask Italy's AI to defend the homeland or send forces to help the Soviets. At first the events said nothing but around 1944 the event gave the option between the two. I asked USA to help with D-Day it was the only option. They took their sweet time. I actually started invading Italy but the US had about 40 units in Tunsia that they did not move on to the continent. Bloody Yanks, fornicating no doubt. When I hit the Gustav Line/Cassino the Germans showed up and had to retreat back to Sciliy. Eventually the US landed in Europe near Netherlands I believe around late 1946. Also I had about 20 str bombers, I couldn't do anything to the Germans IC. Mostly they got shot up. (Is 20 Str bombers too low?) One stack of four would do about 0.50 IC of damage per attack but that is the high amount usually lower, and only sent them in with at least 85-90 str/org. But no bombing my homeland, my interceptors and AA chewed everything up. Also my CV's seem to get nailed by naval bombers. Like I have a stack of 15+ plus naval units and my CV is the one that gets sunk, had the happen over four times. So I lose my ability to engage at range, very frustrating. Seemed my capital ships got sunk the most from naval bombers. Plus Germany had over 100 U-boats about 200 by wars end but wasn't using them. In death stacks of 20 to 30 sometimes. I was checking the intelligence to see what their manpower was and keeping tabs on their military and their focus. It seemed like they could have shut me down in North Africa if they wanted to but kept them in port. I also prevented Germany from getting Norway by a year by attacking their naval force going to Norway. What was interesting Japan seemed to have fun taking Male(island near Inda) three times, Kuwait, and landing on East and West Africa. But only could take the Dutch East Indies which I easily retook. In the other games they haven't done any of that. In general Japan does not seem to be doing too good. In the British game I nuked them twice and they surrendered to the US.
Now for the epic part which I absolutly loved. Germany in the first year easily pushed through Russia however their farthest extent looked to be the Ural mountins, so they had Leningrand and Moscow, but they were not able to take Stalingrad or Sevastopol. So the next 6 years was just endless fighting that saw Russia run out of manpower first! I was shocked when I looked at the intelligent report. To say the least I was beside myself. Germany though had 600 left. But then the US invanded XD I was thinking of how much fighting they had to do to go through all that manpower.
Though in a recent game as Romania I did almost nothing(acutally fell back) and Germany conquered them within a year. I used the freedom cheat so I could DoW on Bulgaria and Hungary =B I wanted an empire around the Black sea, but Turkey joined Germany which I haven't seen in any game before.
Also like somone else mentioned when I do the invasion of Poland I am told the gamble of only losing 25,000 men but afterwards it changes to 15,000. I can easily do it in 20 days however my losses are usually twice the original number easily.
I will post more after my current game and some thoughts and suggestions. Again I would like to thank you for such a great mod.
Is that supposed to happen, or is it just a choice of the Soviet event that has a "chance"?
