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Post by jordy on Jun 24, 2024 23:53:04 GMT
Turns 10-20 After some island hopping, I captured my first important city being Manilla and an economic powerhouse in Bangkok. The Philippines will quickly be harassed by incoming invaders but I have a closer stepping stone into neutralizing mainland Japans navy. With a decent economy I spawned Rommel and Guderian on Centurion and Pershing respectively and moved them up to counter the Japanese invasion. While I was originally thinking of getting some quick cash in India, it was better of to serve as a buffer state between me and the dangerous axis forces so I left them alone, although of course then was a skirmish here and there Elsewhere in the world, the Allies were putting a very bad fight; Africa was being contested, continental Europe was in German hands and I even saw the US taking a territorial loss Not sure how Argentina captured Miami it but proves you cant underestimate these “new” combatants lol
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Post by jordy on Jun 25, 2024 5:40:17 GMT
Turns 20-30 Sent my gens upward and spawned new ones(Konev, Leeb and Roko) to counter the german invasion. Rumor is key to neutralizing and killing them as pure force im getting decimated especially since Manstein carries a lvl 6 excellence and im attempting a f2p run While the Japanese did spam a bunch of troops, its best to take care of every single one of them rather than just capturing cities as knocking them out isn’t possible since they captured the port in Hawaii. I sent Rommel to Korea and most likely be my main gen to invade the Americas while Guderian went as a “backup” west to assist my 3 rumor gens. Donitz and his fleet contained the Jap fleet in the East China sea. Im probably gonna deploy Darlan to assist him in taking over every port in the Pacific For the starting gens(Blamey and Leslie) they captured Kolkata but their fairly weak so they’re gonna be reserved until the german gens are taken care of On a sidenote, ET massively improved the British AI as they resisted a massive sea invasion with the likes of Rommel, Leeb, Hoth etc with some of them landing as well lol Most of the credit definitely goes for Horton but the land forces did their duty and protected London. This is great news for me as the East will now be empty
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Post by jordy on Jun 25, 2024 6:48:24 GMT
Turns 30-42( i forgot to ss on 40 lol) ET hates me where the stukas covert worked TWICE in a row lol but ig i deserve that for being cocky. It didnt matter tho as Manstein targeted Roko and soon he was done as soon as he took Dihua As for any other german gen, they either died or were alone; Kluge went overseas and got a happy greeting from Konev, Guderian is wreaking havoc up in Siberia but its on fodder cities so hes not an issue. As of turn 42 this is how I am I got lucky that the Americans briefly took over the undefended Hawaiian port under Jap control and quickly knocked them out along with the Soviets Looks good for f2p but theres still some struggle; germany unlocked the railway gun so air spam(or at least on europe) is out of the question, and im not sure what other tech lvls the others have up their sleeve specifically Britain for withstanding that invasion. On second thought, I might as well send missiles to every art I find and then target cities but im not using an air gen(for Africa and America) so it all comes down whether my industry can afford it which is a big maybe
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Post by jordy on Jun 28, 2024 4:07:53 GMT
Turn 42-50 I forgot to update mb guys It was a pretty quick breeze, germany didnt have a lot of cities left so air spam was enough to destroy them Italy and Spain were now going to be an easy cakewalk although the alpini unit did cause me some issues like here.. Elsewhere i landed Rommel in Alaska and pushed him into Canada; he wasnt going to take over the whole continent tho, the goal was to reach Winnipeg to deploy Arnold andddd heres turn 50-55 because i dont want to add another unnecessary post 😂 after deploying Arnold, the only question was how fast i can conquer the rest. Nothing of note in this stage other than Italy built missile silos but they didnt do much with it And i completed my first 2 star under this challenge by turn 55 although i couldve been quicker if it werent for those annoying ports Its nice seeing that even in these extreme measures, f2p players can still win conquests
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Post by jordy on Jun 29, 2024 5:34:35 GMT
Canada 1939 Turns 1-10 My 2nd 2 star on the list, Canada offers a simple plan; take over NA and expand everywhere Of course this is easier said than done but America isnt really impenetrable at all Doing this with 3 tank gens, 2 art gens and an econ gen, it does require a good lineup but any endgame player should have them at their disposal. For now my only issue is resolving my naval dominance as I am crushed by both sides. Once I capture Houstons port however I will deploy Donitz and Darlan to cleanup these u boat gens and move to Europe hastily as we dont want to be to late As for how I started, i put Gud on the pershing and Dowding on an inf in Montreal and focused on killing Eichel and Patton. Soon with Crerar and more troops, capture the NorthEast of the U.S while play defense in Vancouver as Spatz and some other troops invade there. A gen like Leeb can quickly repulse this situation. In the far north, just spam light inf and once i had enough resources i deployed many gens on ef units with Konev having the task of capturing Alaska
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Post by jordy on Jun 30, 2024 6:03:39 GMT
Turns 11-20 After I conquered USA, I sent Rommel and Guderian to Iberia while Leeb, Roko cleared up some battleships on the West Coast and eventually move up with Konev across the Bering to land in Kamchatka. I spawned Donitz and Darlan by the Halifax port since I recaptured it and quickly killed enemy Donitz while the other uboat gen got swarmed by subs. Subs were very important in this conquest and upgrading the naval tech as well. My last tank gen was deployed around this time with Pavlov on the IS tank to capture the Latin American countries.
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Post by jordy on Jun 30, 2024 6:15:20 GMT
Turns 20-30 My game got to a slow halt here; my original plan was to have Guderian and Rommel to conquer Iberia and split up quickly;Gud to mainland and Rommel to Africa but the axis started to clog up any path to France and soon it looked like this I have a dream duo however and it was quickly resolved What does suck tho is that Germany spams stukas on any incoming tank gen so moving any of them up there was suicide especially with the mass amounts of troops ready to encircle them I figured to just rack up kills and in the meantime send a naval force in Darlan, Donitz and multiple subs to achieve a breakthrough in the English Channel and drag some troops away but the germany navy had blocked it and operation Sea lion was a success so german gens were now a priority that were trying to cross from England to France The troop spam did get weaker and Spain was good enough to be defended by one tank gen this is the European theater by turn 30 Elsewhere in Asia, i got decent control of the Pacific and crossed Roko, Leeb, Konev to Russia. Their objective was to move down and capture most of Japans war claims. The japas brought help tho from their other allies and the asian theater by turn 30 is this
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Post by jordy on Jun 30, 2024 6:24:11 GMT
Turns 30-40 Asian Theatre Having maxed out my art and tank tech, the incoming gens werent much of an issue thanks to my sacrifice of Khabarovsk and a small line of forts to hinder enemy movements while Leeb and Konev moved up to the front lines for the battle With 3 maxed out gens, it was a complete curbstomp lol Meanwhile i kept on building subs to swarm the IJN in a complete nightmare of no escape and was now threatening their home ports European theater Not much to say other than Guderian is still on defense, and i decided to let some german units out of the channel to sink them quicker using Darlan and Donitz troop boosting skills Elsewhere, Rommel was conquering Africa while Pavlov just got done painting Brazil a new shade of color, Ill have his group join Rommel to clean up the Western Portion of africa
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Post by jordy on Jun 30, 2024 6:33:36 GMT
Turns 40-end Europe I had lvl 7 tech but my limited resources meant air spamming was not yet in my reach. That changed by around these turns tho and captured all of modern Germany to remove germanys airforce abilities. Now with full air support, I cruised Guderian to knock out Italy and the Balkans while missiles and bombers knocked out Germany and any nations north of it. Africa Rommel did a decent job but air always win in conquering countries so I had him move to Arabia to land. Pavlov and his forces did their duty and I had them stay idle as they did their part in the war Asia Less missiles and strat bombers although I did use them on mainland Japan and any city outside of China. My priority was capturing every port since victory was near. After knocking out all the european nations, all i had left was Australia, the Netherlands and UKs colonies and Mikawa on a port Funny enough, throughout the whole process I only used my air gens in killing Mikawa. The rest of the world was too dangerous to risk them in battle
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Post by jordy on Jul 2, 2024 18:26:56 GMT
India 1939 I played very cautiously; India doesn't have the best position to enjoy being on the offensive and their economy is mediocre at best. I sent most of my starting troops to the middle east while I had to wait a couple turns to put Guderian on a pershing. I sent him to Southeast Asia and eventually spawn another tank gen(Rommel on cennturion) there to stop the spam from incoming invaders while Guderian goes up north to China. Meanwhile, i deployed subs to capture nearby ports and have already conquered Iran and stalled the british troops there. After this is where i became mostly stagnant; Rommel after cleaning up went to China and largely had him target heavy jap units while Guderian got chinas isolated western territories and waited for the incoming german gens, in oceania, i spawned Donitz and Darlan to knock out Australia.In the middle east, I spawned leeb, Rommel and Roko on elite units and after annexing the Arabian peninsula, had them play a form of trench warfare by the strait near istanbul where the nearby cities were taking turns sharing ownership. This kept on until by the end of the run. In this run, i had so much expenditures that i could barely upgrade my institutes and eventually reached lvl 7 by turn 30 something. Built a silo by Port moresby to claim my first victim in Australia and had Darlan and Donitz claim the pacific islands. In Europe, i used Yama and Malinovsky on ef units to capture a lot of undefended cities including Poznan where the Germans built a silo. I used it to capture the nearest missile center being Munich and had complete air control by this point. By this point the usual drill being air spamming every city although i did take the Balkans and mainland asia through physical force Just one allied nation left and were back on the axis faction
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Post by jordy on Jul 21, 2024 15:40:11 GMT
Took a decent break but we back on this ROC 1939 F2P viable:yes A better start than india in economy and strategy, i pushed all the starting gens east to knock out japan from mainland asia while my gens went separate ways although i did send one to backup the chinese gens. After i gained a solid foothold and by this i mean controlling 80% of asias cities i waited for the incoming axis gens and wiped them of with ease while in the East, i spawned Donitz and subs to clean up the IJN so my troops in Korea can land in Japan. After eliminating any noteworthy gen, it’s basically a cakewalk as i took over the Middle East, ussr and much of central europe, Japan and Indonesia until i got missile tech. As usual, air spam to save me some turns and now i can get to try out the 2 star axis nations
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Post by jordy on Jul 23, 2024 10:58:01 GMT
Romania 39 Turns 1-10 First conquest where i had to already restart lol. After some attempts i figured to move all my troops to the middle east due to its location, # of neutrals and abusing the ai’s stupidity i had to sacrifice a lot of my units in order for Guderian and Dowding to cross safely and Im probably not gonna make Konev cross since he’s already at low hp. Im gonna ribbon switch him in order to get the most use out of him by clearing single units and besieged cities to refill his health
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Post by stoic on Jul 23, 2024 11:02:11 GMT
Romania 39 Turns 1-10 First conquest where i had to already restart lol. After some attempts i figured to move all my troops to the middle east due to its location, # of neutrals and abusing the ai’s stupidity i had to sacrifice a lot of my units in order for Guderian and Dowding to cross safely and Im probably not gonna make Konev cross since he’s already at low hp. Im gonna ribbon switch him in order to get the most use out of him by clearing single units and besieged cities to refill his health Good luck, it is already a dangerous territory
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Post by stoic on Jul 24, 2024 12:57:45 GMT
jordyWent badly, I assume
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Post by jordy on Jul 24, 2024 23:34:04 GMT
jordyWent badly, I assume No its just that ET can never give me a break with these events 😂 I really wish these fragments were easier to collect
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