An excellent game. Another one I lost a lot of time to. Not really detailed enough for a true wargame simulation but entertaining and challenging enough as a game. Allied General wasn't as good a solo game but it allowed email play against a human opponent and that was a real step up in difficulty. Unfortunately this was one of those games where gameplay seemed to get progressively worse in each new version.
I'd forgotten about level bomber suppression. It was useful against anything but it's real value was when the enemy had superior units - it made it possible to neutralise most of their strength before attacking with your own inferior units.
Core unit preservation was vital and balancing that against winning as quickly as possible was the main challenge. One of the things which made it unrealistic was the way that encouraged you to use non-core units - as cannon-fodder.)
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