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May 22, 2012 7:34 PM #661202

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Thing is, he has no tanks. Men make a small target at any range and if I get too close there's a risk of being infiltrated at which point he could use my own big guns against me. I guess possibly it would be better to leave the heavy guns at home and just torch him with all the lights, but I figure he has enough men in there that an inaccurate round of shelling with no risk of losses is likely to do some damage and better than a slightly more accurate obliteration with high risk of heavy losses.

Ideally I'd have brought mediums to this battle but I put them on the wrong side at the start. Tactical error.

By the time I run out of ammo the lights will be in there anyway and the risk of friendly fire would probably be too high to keep shooting.

It's okay. It's too late to change your attack anyways ;) I'm just telling you of the inaccurate artillary so that you don't think I'm tipping the scales in Israel's favour.

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Wait a sec, I don't see any german advance anywhere.

In any case, I'd like to buy 2 medium Death rollers, which'll take me down to $7000, and send them to WW.

Done. I'm assuming that you're producing them from RR.

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Yeah there was a mistake, it's fixed.

So do I have $15,000 or $2,000? I'm confused

edit: Adding up everything I have comes to $110k total, so I'm assuming I have $15k.

Send the 5 small mechs to XXX and the other 3 to X. Send all of the units at MMM to O.

You have $15k. I accidentally skipped your country when I was editing the first post. Was rushing a lot, as you can probably tell.
Also, done.

I'm going to run the Britain attacking Israel scenario. The battle will be all figured out and written up in about 30 minutes.

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May 22, 2012 8:26 PM #661216

Now Germany has invaded Japan.

Britain attacks Israel (Click to Show)

Meanwhile, Britain has launched an attack against Israel's army. Twenty heavies and forty lights.
The area around them is mostly rolling hills, with a small town to the west. The sky is clear, the sun is high in the sky, and the lightly rolling hills are rocky and sparsely populated by shrubs and small trees. Twenty heavy units from Britain are ready to begin an artillary barrage, guarded by ten lights.
There's no spotters and nobody knows where Israel's army is, so they're firing blind into the town when Britain's commander gives the order for the firing barrage to begin. Light booms are heard as the shells smash into their targets, but nobody knows if these shots are hurting anyone but civilians.
When the second command to fire is given, thirty light Skitters roll forward, beginning their blitzkrieg into the town.

The Israel soldier's bunkers are scattered throughout the town, but those that can do what they need to do quickly leave their bunkers and rush out to the main entrance of their town. Five medium soldiers take out their mine-layers, and slowly but surely pepper that main entrance with mines.
Sixty light soldiers also run out, keeping to the best cover they can as they set up next to the outskirts of town.

Britain's blitzkrieg of thirty lights is just roaring over the last hill when a lucky artillary strike smashes into a house where five snipers were holed up, killing each of them instantly.
Accurate sniper rifle fire is everywhere, and lots of the sixty soldier's shots are hitting. They punch through the Skitter's light armor, but very few of the shots are hitting anything vulnerable.
These tanks are flying. They gather up into a metaphorical fist, and punch through the main entrance of town, ready to split up and start spreading chaos.
They run right into the mines. The first six light skitters are demolished, and two more wreck themselves on the hulks of metal before the other tanks see the danger, and rethink their plan. Machine gun fire is coming from various buildings all the while, and Britain is taking lots of damage.
So the light skitters do what they do best. In their groups of three, they rush the houses and buildings that are holding Israel troops, and they burn them to holy hell. And as the soldiers scramble to escape, they're caught and roasted by flamethrowers.

Some buildings are defending themselves better, though. The ones that have heavy units fire down with bazookas and grenade launchers, decimating the weakly armored Skitters of Britain. With no mediums, the light skitters have no ranged weapons and have no choice but to either take cover, or rush valiantly at these well-defended places.
Artillary is still fairly far away, and the fighting is too close for them to help much.

The British commanders see that with no medium units, the cost of rushing Heavy units holed up in houses or small office buildings was too high. He orders a retreat.

Britain has 21 lights, and 20 heavies remaining (total)
Israel has 25 lights, 5 mediums (who escaped all fire-roasting with the help of grapple guns) and 15 heavies.
Note: Other fights probably won't be this elaborate. But for now, I had the patience to describe all this in detail.

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May 22, 2012 8:48 PM #661222

$13,000 lost. $19,000 damage done. Less than ideal but better than it could have been.

Having now captured KK, can I move my 20 lights and 15 mediums through it to engage EE again? If so I'd like to have five lights in the lead screening and mine-clearing, followed up by lights and mediums working in pairs (one light one medium per pair) to watch each other's backs. The plan is to close to range as quickly as possible and just tear them apart.

And I'd like to draw Smile (China)'s attention to the fact that Russia has a hard time attacking anyone else than him right now so please don't attack my right regions.

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May 22, 2012 8:53 PM #661227

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Having now captured KK, can I move my 20 lights and 15 mediums through it to engage EE again?

I'm afraid not :( You already attacked with those guys to take over KK.

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May 22, 2012 8:56 PM #661229

I captured KK with the 3 lights and 4 heavies army. I have far too many armies moving around right now :o

By the way, Germany appears to have 5 spider walkers in xxx.

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May 22, 2012 8:59 PM #661231

Ah, you confused me with how you mentioned capturing KK without saying where your 20 lights and 15 mediums were coming from. My bad.
You can attack a second time, I'll get to work on it in a bit.

Edit: And Germany's thing was a slight mix up. Just wait until I'm used to all this stuff, and I'll stop messing up so much

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May 23, 2012 1:17 AM #661328

I'd like to move all my units from F into EE
I'd like to spend the remainder of my 14,000 on light troops for EE.
For EE: My heavy unit will be defensive, prepared to blast away any skitters that come too close, with a portion of them breaking off and moving with my lights to invade EEE, and I'd like to Have all the lights go forth into EEE and take over as many skitters as they can.

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May 23, 2012 1:27 AM #661329

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I'd like to move all my units from F into EE
I'd like to spend the remainder of my 14,000 on light troops for EE.
For EE: My heavy unit will be defensive, prepared to blast away any skitters that come too close, with a portion of them breaking off and moving with my lights to invade EEE, and I'd like to Have all the lights go forth into EEE and take over as many skitters as they can.

Are you sure? You lost a bunch of units because of Zed's attack. Look on the last page, it says that you have 60 units on that country (before you got attacked)

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May 23, 2012 2:05 AM #661336

You raise a valid point. Instead of building the lights, I spend $13500 on heavy units in EE. Then I send All my heavies in to do a metric ass-ton of damage to the skitters. When the damage has been dealt, I send in the lights to try and pick up any remaining skitters they can find.
Zed, you can easily overpower him in KKK, if you go after him there, we'll have him on the run.

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May 23, 2012 3:08 AM #661344

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Having now captured KK, can I move my 20 lights and 15 mediums through it to engage EE again? If so I'd like to have five lights in the lead screening and mine-clearing, followed up by lights and mediums working in pairs (one light one medium per pair) to watch each other's backs. The plan is to close to range as quickly as possible and just tear them apart.

Britain attacks Israel (again) (Click to Show)

Five lights lead another big charge of British tanks, streaming across the hills of Israel's town. They're spotted well before they arrive, and the remainders of Israel's army scramble into defense position, with each squad now accompanied by at least one heavy unit.
Just before the British charge plows into the town, twelve bazookas fire in disciplined time, not aiming at the lights in the front, but at the grouped-up mediums and lights in the back. A good amount hit their targets, blowing skitters onto their sides, wrecked and smoking.
And then they're in. There's no mines this time, and pairs of mediums and lights split up together and start dealing their carnage. Two buildings are quickly set on fire before Israel's troops have the chance to retreat, and with methodical precision, two squads of lights and heavies are roasted in the blaze.

Now the fight is raging in the streets. Light units are blasting their machine guns, working together with a heavy or a medium. They keep a constant fire to keep British light skitters away with their flamethrowers, but they don't know what to do with the mediums. At one point, a squad of soldiers is cornered, and then mowed down by heavy machine-gun fire.

By more luck than skill, two medium units grapple a light skitter, tethering the thing to a building. As the medium comes in to the rescue, a vehicular grenade explodes right underneath it, wrecking the tank in an instant. The light soldier that threw the grenade opens the hatch to the trapped light skitter, machine-guns the driver, and takes over. Its grapples are cut and the thing is released into the crowd.

None of the British can tell which light is hostile. It charges into the fray and melts down whatever skitters it can get close to, before finally being shot apart by a medium unit.
At this point, only two squads of Israel soldiers remain. As they try to retreat into a well-fortified building, a valiant medium skitter rams into it at full speed, knocking the building down on itself, killing the skitter--but the rest of the Israel soldiers, too.
The last remaining Israelites are tracked down and killed without much difficulty.

Israel has no troops remaining in EE.
Britain has 8 lights and 5 mediums left alive.

Israel's attack on EE is next, and then the next day will begin.

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May 23, 2012 3:28 AM #661350

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You raise a valid point. Instead of building the lights, I spend $13500 on heavy units in EE. Then I send All my heavies in to do a metric ass-ton of damage to the skitters. When the damage has been dealt, I send in the lights to try and pick up any remaining skitters they can find.
Zed, you can easily overpower him in KKK, if you go after him there, we'll have him on the run.

I'm assuming you're producing these units at F.
In case nobody remembers, you can give me defense plans as well as attack plans. If you give them to me before you're being attacked, it'll all be good.

Israel counter-attacks Britain (Click to Show)

Israel has 12 lights, 8 medium and 11 heavy soldiers left.

Also, the new day has begun.

Britain gains $12k
Germany gains $14k
USSR gains $12k
Japan gains $10k
China gains $15k
Israel gains $10k

Points of interest:
-Israel has lost no land, but Britain really has the upper hand so far. Maybe Hugsta needs to figure out some tactics to fight these Skitters which would work effectively.
-Germany has invaded Japan. What will happen in return is yet to be seen.
-Bubbles has a large (in comparison to their danger) force sitting in Japan, collecting dust. What will he do with that much power?

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May 23, 2012 4:13 AM #661362

I spend $9000 on 6 heavy units at F and position them at EE.
I have the defensive units at EE lay mines near the border on the right hand side in small clusters of a high concentration, designed to flip any skitters that try and get through.
At the top is where I station my heavy units, ready to blast at any skitters that try and get too close. Should any manage to get through the heavy units, I'll have light units back far enough for the enemy to lower their guard by the time the skitters reach the light units. Then, if any go where the light units are hiding, I'll have them ambush and attempt to take over the skitters.
If no-one invades, they'll just hold their positions.

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May 23, 2012 5:24 AM #661394

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I said all of my units from FFF, FF, JJ and N will go to K. My units from JJJ will go to N.
Also, 15,10,10 to JJJ.

Erm Devour, I think you made a mistake. My units from FFF, FF, JJ and N was supposed to go to K, not N. That should make my army in K 30,20,20, and My units in N will be 15,10,10.

Also now I would like to spawn 15,10,10 to K and N each. That would leave me with $5,000.

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May 23, 2012 5:57 AM #661406

The army of 3 lights and 4 mediums moves from KK to F, securing the production plant there. I would then like to use that production plant to produce 10 mediums.

And here's the really dickish move: one light skitter from EEE moves through BBB to take C. Then the light skitter from BBB moves through C to CC.

Assuming all that is allowed, the 20 remaining lights and 20 heavies from EEE roll on to EE again, with the 10 mediums coming from F to reinforce (although I can't use the lights or heavies since they took F in the first place). One light skitter will move to just outside the town with a megaphone telling the civillian population to evacuate. Then (if he isn't killed) he'll return to the main force, each heavy pairing with a light which will watch out for him and drive in front when they're moving to clear mines. The plan is to move up in a single line and level the town with heavies from just outside it. Only once the heavies are out of ammunition will the lights and reinforcing mediums move in to mop up, with two lights and a medium forming teams of three.

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May 23, 2012 6:55 AM #661430

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Move 3,2,0 from RRR to RR to help ally defend.
Move 2,1,1 from S to RR to help ally defend.
Move 3,0,2 from RRR to NNN.
Move 2,1,1 from S to NNN.

Produce 6,6,2 at TT
(4500+24000+12000 = $40500, leaves me with $1000)

Move 2,4,1 from TT to SS to help ally defend.
Move 4,2,1 from TT to RRR.

To make things easier for you I think I should now have
9,3,5 at NNN
4,2,1 at RRR
2,4,1 at SS
5,3,1 at RR
$1000 remaining

i think you missed some of my commands or some of my units have disappeared (RRR, SS) and I have one too many light units at RR

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