Is diplomacy worth it at all? Should I try, say, trying to get balkan nations to join the allies as the UK or is it a waste of leadership?
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Diplomacy certainly isn't a waste of leadership, but to get Yugoslavia, Bulgaria or Hungary in the allies will certainly be. Those countries are far from any allied country, as well as being autocratic. So it won't work.
But other diplomatic actions can be worth while. Keeping the US out of the war as Germany, for example. Or getting the Balkans in the Axis.
I know FTM isn't due for realease for another couple but here is question regarding the production screen. Next to the convoy transports there is icon of a fist. Just wondering what that is?
Notices the straegic resources icons aswell. Appears to be quite a few.
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Notices the straegic resources icons aswell. Appears to be quite a few.
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For beta patches, always check the relevant thread in the tech support forum. Here is the thread for 2.04f. A quick glance seems to prove that IDXF is correct.
How can I discover how much IC (and air/naval base sizes) a province in enemy terratory has? I need to know where to aim my rockets!
You can't. Except by experience of by using bombers first to see what's where. Every building for the enemy is shown as either 0 or 1 where 1 means 1 or more.
Uhm, i usually send a INT wing on air intercept there, but there might be better ways...
And now my Q, i've figured iam clueless about how RADAR works and what benefits it provides ingame...
Radar helps to reveal enemy land units information, but it's comparative. If you have a level 10 radar you see more about the enemy, but if the enemy researches encryption techs, you don't get a lot more info. But if the enemy does not research encryption techs, you might see every bde in a province along with the best commander's name.
For air combat, the first interceptor gets a huge combat bonus within that province, but the 2nd + subsequent interceptors in a grouping get almost nothing. 217 combat efficiency, then 148 then 145 for a 3 interceptor grouping under the same commander [50% more effectiveness, then 2.5% and lastly 0.1% for a level 10 radar].
Oh, why does everyone here seem to like playing Germany? I cant bring myself be a fascist at all. 
Oh, why does everyone here seem to like playing Germany? I cant bring myself be a fascist at all.
Lol, that was Italy, btw i reckon everyone has his own taste, after a couple of games i think Germany is too easy, so im trying a game with Italy and going for world domination ^^
And now to stay OT, im puzzled about air missions: lets say as Germany as soon as war breaks out with England, they start strat bombing me, i set air intercept missions with my INTs when i see where their bombers are headed, then i move on on ground combat. Is this an ok way to deal with them? I see bombers change targets of course once my factories are down or stop for a while after i cause them too much damage, so the other question is, to deal with them (and maybe TACs in ground combat) is better intercept missions or air superiority? Im not sure how air sup works...
AS keeps your planes in the air in their area. If you have the numbers to do it you can set an AS mission at the enemy bomber base so they get shot up everytime they take off and land. With intercept your planes will wait for an enemy to enter their area and then go intercept them. I haven't tested, but I think intercept mission will save you some fuel with no real drawbacks. Maybe someone with more insight can tell us.
Well, I can only speak for my self. But I like to play Germany because they are one of only two majors with initiative (Japan is the other). You start the war, relativity early too. You wage offensive warfare for several years, which is not more challenging but more fun than defensive. The other majors just have to sit there waiting for Germany and Japan to do something.Oh, why does everyone here seem to like playing Germany? I cant bring myself be a fascist at all.
Well, I don't understand the »see were their bombers are heading« part, but otherwise I think your doing it right.
I'm not that used to using the air superiority mission, but I've started to use it more now. I use it in the start of campaigns, before I send in any bombers, to find and engage the enemy's interceptors.
For more defensive aerial warfare, like defending against strategic bombers or after a few weeks of AS, air intercept is better. It saves fuel, but most of all your planes preform better. The air doctrine »Interception Tactics« improves the mission efficiency for air intercept, there is no corresponding doctrine for air superiority.
To set up a good air defence, cover the entire area around what ever you are trying to protect. Not just IC provinces/the front line/what ever. Once the enemy planes are flying over your territory you see them, if you have radar you might even see them before that. If you've set your intercept missions right, this means you can actually intercept a single bomber run two or three times.
I like my interceptor groups to consist of just 2 wings and then let them overlap when they operate, so I often bring 4 wings into combat. And I like to assign mission area with the region tool, since that gives me great accuracy. But that's just my taste.
Is there anything I can do to keep my CAGs alive? I don't think they repair while on carriers (or if they do very slowly), and they don't get fixed very quickly at airbases either. Does everybody just build lots of spare CAGs and rotate them out?
use spares.
that said, when they are not "on duty", have the spares on the highest level Airport/INFRA province you can.
Fleet composition.
I want to build CTFs as the USA, should I include Heavy Cruisers/Battleships/Battle Cruisers or will doing so make my Carriers move in close to the enemy?
I want to build CTFs as the USA, should I include Heavy Cruisers/Battleships/Battle Cruisers or will doing so make my Carriers move in close to the enemy?
First time playing with Germany, Semper Fi 2.04d (anyway that's what it says in the initial menu). I have observed two strange things:
1. I am allowing debts from Japan. So i start sending them 50 fuel. When they assign enough convoys i see that i have loads of money incoming from them (about +25 a day). Money they don't want to spend (because they weren't trading with me before i allowed debts). What's going on? Are they going to give me money until they are empty? And after they have 0 money will they start getting stuff for free? That's ruining their economy...
2. As expected i am involved in "ASW/convoy raiding" kind of war with the allies (including USA). I am sinking over 5-6 British convoys/escorts a day and they sink about 2 or 3 of my convoys/escorts a week! Ok, i am good i thought. But then i checked my NU. It is falling rapidly even if they are sinking only 2 convoys a week (i think my NU droped about 1% in only one or two months with maximum loses of 20 convoys/escorts). Ok, maybe it is as it is supposed to be. But then i think that the British losing so many convoys/escorts for about a year must have very low NU. I load the save as British, their NU is 81%. I press "resume" and their NU isn't dropping when the, now AI Germany's, subs sink convoys... What's happening? Why isn't their NU dropping?
Not very quick questions, but i'd love some answers!
1. I am allowing debts from Japan. So i start sending them 50 fuel. When they assign enough convoys i see that i have loads of money incoming from them (about +25 a day). Money they don't want to spend (because they weren't trading with me before i allowed debts). What's going on? Are they going to give me money until they are empty? And after they have 0 money will they start getting stuff for free? That's ruining their economy...
2. As expected i am involved in "ASW/convoy raiding" kind of war with the allies (including USA). I am sinking over 5-6 British convoys/escorts a day and they sink about 2 or 3 of my convoys/escorts a week! Ok, i am good i thought. But then i checked my NU. It is falling rapidly even if they are sinking only 2 convoys a week (i think my NU droped about 1% in only one or two months with maximum loses of 20 convoys/escorts). Ok, maybe it is as it is supposed to be. But then i think that the British losing so many convoys/escorts for about a year must have very low NU. I load the save as British, their NU is 81%. I press "resume" and their NU isn't dropping when the, now AI Germany's, subs sink convoys... What's happening? Why isn't their NU dropping?
Not very quick questions, but i'd love some answers!
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