In the spirit of sportmanship and for those following along at home:
I'm pulling my forces back to England to await execution. The war is not over, I still have 100 units, though many are damaged at this point from days of constant warfare.. All my instincts are telling me to keep fighting, but I'm tired, I've been playing too much for too long and I'm getting bitter.
There were a number of good battles in the game, the level of competition was much higher than I'm used to. The war with Yugoslavia was going very well and in any normal game would have been enough to knock him out. I laid a very nice ambush on a twenty-six stack last night. He had three artillery in the stack and I repositioned my artillery about five minutes back to force him up and he ran into five level 3 AT. Now you might think, it's 5 on 26, they should get wrecked. Well you would be wrong. Due to stacking penalties and the overall weakness of his force in infantry damage he was only doing about 16 a round and taking 80 in light armor damage. Then my artillery kept lighting him up and I attacked with ten level 3 infantry to finish them off. I massacred a large number of armored cars and light armor with air power. The dude had a swarm.
The war with Ukraine was brief. His composition was much better suited to fighting my army and was very heavy on artillery. In addition, he had superior mobility. He brought a very strong stack to Breslau and we had a very interesting battle before he disengaged. If he had committed the battle would have been very bloody for both sides. In the end he gave better than he got in terms of casualties and units killed. His artillery tactics were spot on, so tip of the hat to Krasny. Felt about evenly matched in terms of skill, but I didn't have much time to observe his play.
I'm pulling my forces back to England to await execution. The war is not over, I still have 100 units, though many are damaged at this point from days of constant warfare.. All my instincts are telling me to keep fighting, but I'm tired, I've been playing too much for too long and I'm getting bitter.
There were a number of good battles in the game, the level of competition was much higher than I'm used to. The war with Yugoslavia was going very well and in any normal game would have been enough to knock him out. I laid a very nice ambush on a twenty-six stack last night. He had three artillery in the stack and I repositioned my artillery about five minutes back to force him up and he ran into five level 3 AT. Now you might think, it's 5 on 26, they should get wrecked. Well you would be wrong. Due to stacking penalties and the overall weakness of his force in infantry damage he was only doing about 16 a round and taking 80 in light armor damage. Then my artillery kept lighting him up and I attacked with ten level 3 infantry to finish them off. I massacred a large number of armored cars and light armor with air power. The dude had a swarm.
The war with Ukraine was brief. His composition was much better suited to fighting my army and was very heavy on artillery. In addition, he had superior mobility. He brought a very strong stack to Breslau and we had a very interesting battle before he disengaged. If he had committed the battle would have been very bloody for both sides. In the end he gave better than he got in terms of casualties and units killed. His artillery tactics were spot on, so tip of the hat to Krasny. Felt about evenly matched in terms of skill, but I didn't have much time to observe his play.
