WWII Warfare – Infantry

I was doing some experiment on the infantry units, I trained about 2,200 Anti-Aircraft squads and about 300 Bazooka squads, and below is the result.

Without the support of my infantries and enemy has no ground attacking units:

On the first defense, I got the following ant-aircraft troops:
Tunderbolt (R3) = 130
Corsair (R3) = 129
Lighting (R2) = 15
Pershing (R3) = 150
Anti-aircraft artillery (M) = 10

With that I took down 22 out of 900 TA153 (R3). Now look at what I can do with my infantries

With the support of my infantries and enemy has no ground attacking units:

On the second defense, I got the following ant-aircraft troops
Tunderbolt (R3) = 41
Corsair (R3) = 68
Pershing (R3) = 170
Anti-aircraft artillery (M) = 10
Anti-Aircraft squads (R2) = 2,200
Bazooka squads (R2) = 319

And with that I took down 25 out of (again) 900 TA153 (R3). Now let us look at my last defense

With the support of my infantries and enemy has ground attacking units:



The enemy now has anti-ground units but it did not wipe out my infantries on the first range attack, it only wipe them out on the second range attack. Here is the details

First range attack
· [Attack Force]Junkers Ju 87(R3),
· [Counter Force]M26 Pershing (R3),Anti-Aircraft Squad (R2),
· [Attack Force] DMG To Infantry 25810DMG To Armour 7676DMG To Aircraft 0
· [Counter Force] DMG To Infantry 0DMG To Armour 0DMG To Aircraft 16702
· Casualty of Attacker Ta 152 (R3) 5Ar 234 Blitz (R3) 5Junkers Ju 87(R3) 6
· Casualty of Defender M4 Sherman (R3) 1Kfz. 61 (R2) 30M26 Pershing (R3) 2Anti-air artillery(M) 3Bazooka Squad (R2) 319Anti-Aircraft Squad (R2) 569

See how it only took 569 out of my 2,200 Anti-aircraft squads?

One more point, Handsgrenade used a legendary commander with 100+ strengths, so I am lucky to have some troops left at the end of the day.

Even though it eventually took out all my infantries, it shows one thing, if you want to train infantry then do it in huge number, do it in thousands, at least they will do good damage on the first range attack. Don’t bother about R1, if possible got for R3 but I calculated that R2 and R3 unit is more or less the same when it comes to infantry because of the grain that R3 unit consume. For example, I can train (to max) about 2,500 R3 anti-aircraft squad (if I do not plan to expand my base area) but if I go for R2 unit instead I can train about 5,000 units. The attack and defense points in total are the same.

Also remember this, infantry can’t stand alone because their defense systems are low, they are use to support other units like the tanks and planes. So train them in your second base as a support to your main base.

Well, that’s my finding. I leaned something new from Hansgrenade’s attack and I am going to do some new experiment. Not going to train anymore infantry for now, going for something new. Will let you know how is the experiment turn out.

Online strategy games vs. mmorpg

I used to love playing MMORPG games but it takes up a lot of my working time and not to mention the memory space that it eats when I login and beside I still need to login to my work applications. On top of that it also eats up a lot of my time with my family on weekends. And so I decided to stop playing games at all. But I’m addicted to games and old habits die hard, it doesn’t take long for me to start playing MMORPG games again.

Then I discovered online strategy games, well, since these types of games do not require any downloading (which may take days) I thought I give it a try. I have played a few but none can capture me from sticking to the games for long, as soon as I was under attack and all my armies wipe out, I quit. But then I noticed the hours that I spent on this games is not long, I don’t really need to monitor it all the time, I spent more time on work and with my family on weekends. And so I started to look for one that suits me more. It turns out most of the strategy games are more or less the same and I think to myself why not another try, at least the hour spend is less than MMORPG games.

It has been about 3 months now and I am still playing WWII (I’m not here to promote this game, there is still a lot of bugs in this game and quite a number of players quit because of it, so play on your own risk). I’m starting to prefer strategy games than MMORPG, reason, because unlike MMORPG where you hunt monsters to level up, strategy games has less use of leveling, in fact you can start doing battle with other players as soon as you are out from the newbie protection period. I find battling other players is more fun than hunting monsters (or maybe I am just sick of it already), you got to strategies your move, plan carefully, get information on your opponent and do on researches. You don’t have this in MMORPG, I mean sure you can join alliance and do an alliance war and battle other players (which you can do that in strategy games too) but you hardly do that. In most MMORPG that I used to play require consent from the other player before you can do battle. In strategy games you are constantly doing battle with players all the time, even when you logoff. Now that’s require a lot of strategy, especially when you logoff cause you do not want to find that you have been attack when you next login.

When I attack other players (excluding weaker players) I always have the anxious feeling what will be the outcome and yet I have to wait, sometimes in hours before the results are out (this is due to the journey from one base to another). And this is why I don’t have to monitor the games all the time, it needs time to build bases, it needs time to train armies and it needs time to do combat, while waiting I can just do my work or spend time with my family.