Rise of the Dictators 2

[McMonkey]

German troops are rushed to Slovakia and Hungary to prop up their collapsing ally. Germany occupies Bratislava and Budapest with the agreement of the Hungarian government. Hopefully this will only be a temporary arrangement!



In the East Germany takes matters into its own hands and takes control of Lemberg to safeguard its southern flank. I apologize for not consulting with the Romanian government first, but the high command felt that urgent action was required.

1 British Destroyer sunk off the coast of Denmark

[Alcibaides]

Italian pilots originating from Lacio have undergone on a suicide run to bomb the enemy forces entering Rome at their leisure
1 Soviet battleship, 1 Soviet aircraft carrier and 2 more soviet ships, identified probably as batteships are sunk near Rome.

@Gelion: You forget to specify how many bombers / fighters you lost taking out that aircraft carrier / battleship stack.

[Jerec]

1 Russian bomber, 1 fighter destroyed in a stack above Debrecen.

1 Russian fighter shot down west of Bucharest.

1 American fighter shot down near Helsinki.

[Cobra]

Lost 1 fighter against a damaged fighter near Helsinki

[Civilionaut]

Flurbereinigungen,
-it:
1 x Fighter
2 x Party boy

-germ:
1 x AA
2 x Inf

-brit:
1 x Bomber

Kopenhagen befreit
Memel beschossen, Briten beginnen demnächst mit der Bernsteinsuche

[Barthi]

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[Alcibaides]

In the Balkans, the Soviets capture the following cities:

-Burgas (2 Italian Partizans killed)
-Kishinev (4 Italian partizans, 1 bunker, and 3 infantry killed. Lost 4 Soviet riflemen and 1 bomber)
-Cluj (2 Italian partizans killed)
-Brasov (4 Italian units killed)
-Vinnitsa (city was empty)

On the Eastern Front, the Soviets capture the following cities:

-Tula and Bryansk, both were only defended by 1 German unit each, no Soviet casualties.

[Gelion]

@Gelion: You forget to specify how many bombers / fighters you lost taking out that aircraft carrier / battleship stack.

Thats just it, none. I bumped into a half-damaged battleship and my bomber nearly died killing it. Call it luck or game design flaw, but it was fair and square.

I will play my turn tomorrow.

[McMonkey]

I think its quite feasible for Bombers to take out a damaged battleship, both in the game and in reality.

[Gelion]

Italy wishes to point out that contrary to Soviet claims no units have been lost in the Balkans over the past month.

Italy is outraged that the glorious city of Rome has been renamed by the occupying forces. This outrageous act will surely make the local population rebell and expell the invading forces.

(OT: I am only joking, the renaming is fine, just pointing out I noticed it)


4 British Infantries and 3 British armoured units destroyed near Bari.
No full Italian formations were lost.

I think its quite feasible for Bombers to take out a damaged battleship, both in the game and in reality.

It is feasible and has been known to happen.

[McMonkey]

I will play tomorrow morning. The turn is too big for me to do tonight.

[McMonkey]

1 British Destroyer sunk off Memel

[Jerec]

1 Russian air stack by Brasov destroyed.

@Alcibaides: When you took Cluj, were your bombers able to destroy my 2 fighters in the city easily? If so, I'm thinking that boosting fighter defense might be another possible update in the RotD game.

[McMonkey]

I didn't want to make things too defensive in this scenario (like Aeterna Civitas!). When I tested the stats I made sure that attackers had a good but not certain chance of winning a combat. Veteran status in both attack and defense makes a lot of difference. I will test out the stats again during the testing of the new version, but so far in this game I think the balance has been quite good. Tanks, Panzergrenadiers and Mobile Artillery all need to be beefed up to justify their shield cost mind. Please keep posting ideas though as I am willing to listen

[Alcibaides]

1 Russian air stack by Brasov destroyed.

Ooops, I have just learnt that air units only stack on the stackable terrain like ground units. That was pretty careless of me..... Congrats on taking out a huge chunk of the Soviet air force with just 1 fighter plane.

@Alcibaides: When you took Cluj, were your bombers able to destroy my 2 fighters in the city easily?

I do not recall there being any fighter planes defending any of your cities Jerec. There were just a couple of partizans in Cluj.

While I was looking at the game file, I noticed that there were a couple of other units I killed but forgot to report:

-1 dictatorship fighter killed north of Debrecen
-1 partizan killed west of Cluj