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I love the concept behind the game, and it's got great potential, but... seeing my numerically superior squadron of Spitfires get shot down in droves by a few Ju-87s is... disheartening, to say the least. As has been said, the airplane ability advantage should be clearly in the favour of the British, as even the stellar Bf-109 did poorly in the actual Battle of Britain due to lack of fuel for dogfighting. Not that I'd necessarily agree that the Bf-109 (or the under appreciated Fw-190) was better than a Spitfire or Hurricane even on equal ground, to say nothing of Spitfires and Hurricanes being shot down in large numbers by bombers, particularly Ju-87s (It would be like said Bf-109s or Fw-190s being slaughtered by Fairey Battles).
So, to sum up: British planes should be stronger, but pretty well outnumbered. I want a sense of my brave pilots and civilians struggling on heroically in the face of grim odds, not the sense of "Wow, my planes are terrible."
In the meantime, Achtung Spitfire!
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I'm not sure if it's actually built in, but I find that my spitfires perform best if they're just a bit outnumbered. I always get good kill ratios when I start off outnumbered, but if I overwhelmingly outnumber them they will smash my entire force
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It's a surprisingly good game considering the simplicity of it.
There seems to be something wrong with the math regarding scrap metal though (I seemed to have more scrap metal than expected at all times).
Some suggestions:
* Rebuilding could be harder
* Firemen could be *slightly* more effective, or the cost of recruiting them should be lower
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@sukoi during the blitz the RAF had to let Coventry be bombed to pieces without doing anything about it, as they only knew about the impending attack because they had cracked the enigma code and protecting it would have given away the element of suprise.
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Suggestions:
Spitfires should be more likely to attack fighters first, hurricanes should be more likely to attack bombers. This reflects how they were used during the battle. It should mean a combined force would have a purpose.
The enemy planes should be drawn from a pool. In such a way if you concentrate bombers later attacks will contain more fighters.
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Not a bad little game but two of the achievements are based purely on luck. Sending 1 plane out against 3 enemies and surviving and the one for shooting down 20 bombers in one raid. I've played through the thing 3 times now and have never had 20 bombers show up in one raid and never had a single plane survive attacking 3 enemies (tried that one about 20 times so far). Still like the game though! 3/5
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I really hate the fact that a squadron of 5 nazi planes can destroy 14 of mine, historically, bombers were easy meat for fighters, espacially when they only havd one plane escorting them
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Achievements dont work. I sent out 50 planes and didnt get awarded with the "send out 50 or more planes" medal. then i sent out 51 - in case 50 is not "50 or more"... didn't receive the medal. then i sent out 20 planes in one day in each 3 different battles. still nothing. :(
and the medal "prevent a raid containing 20 bombers from dropping 1 single bomb" is nonsense. never happened that 20 bombers came for me...
this game is badly balanced and too buggy for more than 3 stars. 2 stars for cool idea, 1 star for graphics.
not more.
keep on working on this game, dude.
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You should Add the number of planes about to attack each area on the areas map. I hate having to go back and forth from the intelligence screen.
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It _IS_ a good concept.
However, it is FAR too random. I send two spitfires against 4 fighters and 6 bombers and shot down all but 1 bomber, with one spitfire surviving, and another time 6 spitfires against 2 fighters and 1 bomber and all of mine get shot down? Now, i have nothing against some "randomness" when it comes to things as air dogfights of the era, but SOME consistency would be appreciable.
As would be slightly more options. Let my split my intelligence between finding intel and affecting random events. Start me with hurricans and let me "research" better models/weaponry. Make combat more clear and less random.(e.g. 2 rounds of fire, one fighter vs. fighter, second your fighter versus their bombers, their fighters against your fighters)...
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this game really needs to let you manually save unless you send out all 4 of your pilots and they all die...game over
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I placed one spitfire in the East Coast and it knocked down around 4 enemy bombers (spread between two waves) before I added 3 more spitfires. Those 3 were shot down the next wave, without killing anything. That one spitfire killed 4 more bombers in that same wave. I think I have a god on my side.
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"Sir, they keep shooting down our planes. What should we do?" "Surrender! Everyone surrender!!" "Sir, couldn't we just stop bombing them?" "No, we have to surrender!!" "LAST TIME I CHECKED, WE'RE GERMAN, NOT FRENCH."
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Here are some of the places specials London: Most population meaning proctect it and you'll get more recruits South east Intel center protect equals better intel report Mid lands Were workers work Protect equals more scrap The north Also increases scrap but not as much and fire does 5% less damage here to. South west germans are slightly more likely attack since it's closer also if procted spies have an additional 1% to survive East Coast were surport comes from freindly nations from Canada Austrailia (Recruit wise)also U.S.A (scrap wise) ETC. meaning has about the same recruit rate of London and Scrap rate of the Midlands due to others helping. Those are the specailbilities sorry for spelling errors.
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Terrible "event" generation and confusing battle rules.
Planes keep being shot down even when all enemy are destroyed!!!
It's frustrating that I could lose over 10 planes while attacking just 5 enemies with over 60 planes .
What upset me most is that whenever the number of pilots / spies or planes hits a certain level, negative events will keep cominig up to greatly reduce my intelligence / defense power.
It seems to me that the more successful you play it, the more it punlishes you.
Although it has excellent setting , music and graphics, all the fun is just taken away by the "unfairness" so awkwardly imposed. If this game is meant to be unfair, why not just state that in the description so that players may expect it and thus have less disappointment (like Mud and Blood 2).
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I like it how if your plane goes down, the pilot uses a parachute to go down slowly whereas the germans have no such thing.....someone was a bit arogant :P
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nice idea but poorly engineered in some parts, expecially the combat screen. I keep noticing english planes that love exploding on their own, even if nazi don't hit them, or even better, when the battle is already won and all nazi planes are already dead, they keep on suiciding... Also, is very frustrating to manually add in city screen +1 -1 to every resource, there must be a button MAX to be able to allocate full resource in 1 click.
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weird game. Having more planes in an area just means heavier losses than less planes facing the exact same number and type of enemies. So if I send 4 spits vs 6 german (3fighter/3bombers) We each lose all but 1 fighter. Same enemy against 10 spit 8 h. means I lose all but 4 planes. Just silly. 2/5 for this and other weird effects that makes the game seem pretty random.
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I found it extremely helpful to use all new recruits to bump up the recruiter until it was maxed out at 20. Then new recruits could be distributed as needed. Once spies are at about level 20, all intelligence reports are fully revealed. Try to keep pilots at or above level 20 and keep on adding to factory workers (spitfires only) and gatherers for sufficient materials. You don't need more than 8 builders or firemen. Just use them accordingly to repair bombed areas. This should help winning in 35-40 days.
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Fool proof way to win - don't use any spies or firemen
Days 1-3
Only put people into recruiters until you get to 20, don't use any planes.
Days 3-4
Use 8-10 builders to repair the parts that got bombed
Day 5
Once the major damage is repaired, keep 4 builders to fix what gets bombed each day. Put all recruits and leftover builders into gathering
Days 6-8
Put all recruits into factory and gathering. hurricane, is useless
Day 9-10
Put all recruits into pilots, do not train any spies, they are a waste of manpower
Day 11-end
This is when the waves of germans become bigger.
You should have 30+ planes and pilots.
Many(=small)attacks/day - spread out planes to all areas.
Even though your intel sucks it usually tells you the 2 areas an attack will hit
You can cover both with 10-15 planes.
Keep your pilots 40+ and put the recruits in planes and metal til you're at 12 spits/day (48 workers).
You should win around day 30 with this strategy.
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Me: Lets send in our 50 hurricanes! I mean, there's only 5 bombers anyways. What could go wrong?
*One battle later...*
Some guy: Sir, we lost 23 hurricanes.
Me: ...
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Part 3: Now, to the game's developer, "Rob Almighty": Well Done, Sir! 4 out of 5 stars easily! In addition to Xenod's comments, I'd like to add this main one to the mix: How about a 2-player version with the second player in control of the Luftwaffe's staffeln (that's "squadrons", FYI). ["Sheesh! What a show-off!" he mutters under his breath as he quietly chuckles]. To do that, though, it'd probably really complicate the "Intelligence" coding quite a bit. But, think of the fun the German player could have trying to outwit & trick the RAF's defences into wrong moves. A German winner clears the RAF from the skies and the invasion of Britain begins. What the Royal Navy has to say about that is a whole 'nuther game. ;>)
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Part 2: First off, great Kudos to "PhoenixW" for the detailed pointers, secondly, thanks to "mpsr" for the +\- button hint and thirdly, I also like & am in full agreement with most of "Xenod's" points with the exception of "...just have a lot more German planes attack as the game goes on...". Xenod, "duderoblox"s comment is kinda sorta right about increasing the amount of Luftwaffe planes. Keep in mind the fact that the Battle of Britain occured roughly during the middle to latter half of 1940 and the German General Staff were already planning ahead for the invasion of Russia less than a year away in June, '41. Not even mentioning the fact that Fighter Command was doing its best at shooting them down as fast as they could (which, as it turned out later, to be about 1.5 German aircraft for every British plane, statistically speaking).
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Wait let me get this straight... My six or so planes were shot down by a lone enemy pilot? I guess he must have done a barrel roll or something... Wish our pilots could do that.
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The game is highly addictive and really sets the feel of desperation. I managed to win the first time(though it took around 55 days) round and before I knew it I had spent many hours playing the game!