All,
Playing SF/DIG…(I have FtM but holding off to ensure the DIG patch is stable, can’t see the sense in playing it without DIG and also I want to finish this game…but maybe it is finished
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I went through Poland like corn through a goose, bagged Denmark at the same time and did rather well throughout the Benelux countries but got severely bogged down in France. It's 1 April and I'm racing all my Mobile forces back to the East to start invasion of SU...
Question:
1. I took all; I mean ALL of France except Paris (40 Garrison regiments + supporting units in defense) and some province with a few divisions hold up in the mountains with a fort near Italian border. Vichy event did not fire until I took Paris.
Will a country capitulate if I take all the VP provinces – meaning – I don’t have to take every province? Or, how many VPs do I have to take? Normally, I take every province but in some cases when the clock is ticking and blew my timeline this could be handy to finish off a country.
2. Also, my TAC aircraft are getting slaughtered. I have to watch them carefully or lose them. I send them in groups of three (3) and all Tech is up to date but…
Anyone find any clues to giving the TAC a better chance? I am going to send a Fighter unit (actually an INT) with them and watch the results. Will this help?
3. Upon conquering France, I occupy the coastal airfields and actually try to stop the RAF over the Channel but covering the Channel with INT set for ‘Air Superiority’. On land, I then set some INT for “Air Intercept’ on areas that it appears the AI has focused on, sort of an ‘in-depth’ doctrine.
I would be interested to know any other ideas, any other strategy to keep the RAF at bay that was found to be effective. The only other one I know is to place INT directly over their airfield in 'Air Superior' mode but that takes a lot of aircraft and the Strategic Bombers still get through as my INT can't cover the deep airfields. Is the answer to build, build, BUILD Fighters/Interceptors?
4. Is it too late to beat SU? I doubt I can get my forces back to the East, upgraded and in place until at least 1 June even then I won't have them all upgraded...and I know DD has made Barbarossa much harder.
Rick