Help - Playing Classic map as Axis against FastAI
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@ptt196 2020-4-12-World-War-II-Revised.tsvg Allied victory in 9 turns. The Russians need to hold the Caucasus.
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@RogerCooper Wouldn't work. Wrong version or something. Thanks for trying though.
Anyway I'll try holding the Caucasus - but I find it almost impossible to hold that AND Russia.
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Dang. Lasted until turn 30 or so then Russia fell.
US and UK were pumping troops onto the continent and had isolated Japan and destroyed their navy. Africa was safe and the Pacific was in allied hands.
But then the Japanese started producing fighters en masse in Japan and wiped out my transport fleet up north. A couple turns without reinforcements from the US was too much and the Germans took out my Asian factories. Game over at that point.
Sigh....
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Finally. Did it.
Key was to wipe out the Japanese fleet. Then start a supply chain through the South Pacific - to avoid their air attacks from Japan.
At the same time, the British built a factory in S.Africa - constantly spawning units to keep the continent. With the pacific secure, it was constant Norway invasions and re-supply. Forcing the Germans to deal with it.
The Russians? Just survive. Nothing but infantry. Flying in constant fighters from the UK and US almost every turn helped secure it (couple dicey turns but they never attacked). Lost the Caucasus. US reinforcements from Asia arrived just in time. Another 2-3 turns and I was probably toast.Now to play the Axis - I can't imagine how hard this will be....
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@ptt196 In revised, it is usually better to invade into Western Europe. The Germans will retake every turn but the Germans will ending up sending little against Russia, allowing the Russians to gain the initiative after a few turns.
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@RogerCooper True.
Just won as the Axis. Pretty easy actually. Just survive as Germany for a half dozen rounds and build up a suicide force to weaken Russia.
At which point the Japanese should have a sizeable force built up to end it. Roll the US/UK off the continent and outbuild them. Easy peasy. -
PACT OF STEEL -
Playing as the Allies is even HARDER here. Because of that extra turn that Italy gets - they cause all kinds of problems in Europe and allow the Germans to more easily build up a force to take Russia. Even without Japan's help.
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@ptt196 Pact of Steel is very rarely played since many years, but, back when TripleA had only Classic and Revised, or almost so, it was a consistently play tested map, thus I believe it is well balanced. If so, Allies have to have it harder than in Revised, since Revised is a little unbalanced in favour of Allies, actually (it is usually played with a small bid for Axis).
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I would not say it is well balanced at all.
I won the first time I played as the Axis, and fairly easily. Build a strong fleet as the Japanese and the US leaves you alone to roll over the continent. Germany/Italy simply have to survive.
It's even harder than revised playing as the Allies, which was hard enough to begin with.
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@ptt196 Pact of Steel has been played a lot in the far away past and it is a custom TripleA map (thus meant to be balanced, unless otherwise stated). You can trust it being next to perfectly balanced. Not talking personally, as I'm not a player of it.
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