Yep, england is a real pain. Normally i play Sealion 43´so i can relly on veteran crews with the new Tiger I tanks to advance by passing London. The armored divisions should capture objetives at W(Bristol) and NW(Birminghan), in Sealion 40´ you may add light infantry and artillery. Paratroopers even the auxiliary ones can capture Norwich whit naval support. London is where your Pioniere and Engineer infantry performs best even without artillery/air support. The crucial issue is time so keep in mind your objetives, dont take any location without purpose (to capture Birminghan and Bristol you may advance through Newbury-Oxford or Winchester-Worcester, never both; paradrops should be over Norwich dont waste time in securing a nearly city to get reinforces).

The rest, is the air battle... i prefer to weaken the enemy tactical bombers first, then clean skies from fighters and last terminate the bombers; but this time you arent able to control skies so consider what is prior for invasion and have auxiliary air defense backuping your artillery. About air support, since your infantry got plenty of time to assault London, dont risk your tactical bombers helping them, use them to speed up left wing or to help paratroopers.

Operation Barbarosa is another hard one, red army just delay your forces but the map is long with only 2 main roads, without air transports and with snow. The enemy has powerfull KV tanks, the best way to kill them is to force them out of air defense coverage and kill them with stukas (at begining, they got plenty of aircraft but after a few airbatles... they are all down, survey their airfields coz they rebuild red air force at least once). The other red army´s unit of danger is their artillery backuping entrenched infatry within the range of an air defense unit. The only solution is most of armor bypassing and one tank unit sorrounding, killing artillery and leaving zone; then a few pioniere infantry units finish resistance. You need to do lot of bypassing and rellying in slower units to finish this scenario in time.

The JU88A that you can purchase in Norway has high ship attack, 14 I think, compared to the ship attack of the JU87 "Stuka's" which is 3. The JU87 is better against land units and the JU88 is better against Sea units, and loses its value half way through Africa when ships disappear.

Most excellent game indeed. I'm not sure have I found all alternative endings to campaign (yes, I did lose my first game against Poland - I never cheat by save/load), but I'm pretty sure there aren't many possibilities. Definitely my favorite battles are (in alphabetical order): Caucasus, Kiev and Berlin. Best in this game is the "what-if"-scenarios, such as Middle-East, Caucasus, all Berlins (East, West and vanilla). Only scenario I've yet to see in my campaigns is El Alamein.

In my current campaign (restarted after many many months) I've failed couple of times, but I'm not too unhappy with the situation: 5 major and 3 minor victories and my attack around Kiev has began well. I've apparently developed a little too efficient tactic to destroy the enemy and thus I've had to give enemy +0 experience, +3 prestige in custom difficulty. I hate to increase enemy experience - dunno why, thus the prestige increase.

Oh, btw: How many have succeeded capturing Alexandria (or whatever that city in Africa was) in assaulting Crete? :D

even on low experience setting (-3) allies gain experience way too fast compared ot your units. hax0rz

Well, I think it reflects quite well the truth how Allied forces learned to fight (remember how Germans saw it: incredibly poor at first, but damn quick to learn!) and during the battles I've began to suspect that they get experience even slower than player... Nevertheless, in '42 at last your veteran fighters, tactical bombers and tanks should be at level 15 (preferably boosted up) and enemy experienced troops are way easier than with rookies. As long as you have air superiority you shouldn't have too much difficulties.

Btw, my current campaign is in North Africa in '42 (6 major and 4 minor victories) and I'm having terrible problem: what the hell am I supposed to do with prestige over 6000??? I hate eastern front at spring and autumn, damn muddy weathers. Without them I'd have 8 major and 2 minor victories. Oh, and is anyone else frustrated with Italian and Romanian forces? ;) Most of the following casualties are Italian or Romanian:

http://www.pichoard.com/images/JuniOri/casualties.png

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Juni Ori @ Sep 28 2007, 12:56 PM) [snapback]313634[/snapback]</div>I don't think so, ask Von Paulus. LOL

Unfortunately I stopped playing this without even attempting the Netherlands. Some day I will retake the game.

Excuse me, who's von Paulus? ;) Only general in Wehrmacht with even closely similar name was Friedrich Paulus - who was not of noble heritage, something that gave him some advantage under Hitleristic command. BUT, you have a point, though not everyone will understand it. ;)

Well think about it, Italians are normally crappy warriors and Romanians weren't to happy to fight for the nazi's. :P

Odd, I read von Paulus somewhere, which must be wrong. :whops:

Japo, that's way too common mistake - done even by respected historians - so no wonder you've read it from somewhere. He was a son of a burgher family - something that nazis liked to love: an average person of "übermensch" who was supposed to fight 'til the end... Well... How did it all end? ;)

Edit: Tulac, were Italians bad warriors in Roman times? ;)