WHICH TITLE TO START?

[Mr Grumpy]

Well my first title was Sicily 43 and as advised I used the AI with FOW off to learn the game system and to get a feel for how the various rules worked, I then started a scenario against the AI with the FOW on and soon I was a military genius running rings round the HG Panzer Division and generally flattening everything I came across.

So convinced I was a military genius and there was nothing I didn't know about the game I plunged head first into PBEM games, obviously it didn't take long to realise that unlike the AI human opponents did sneaky things like ambushing my over extended units and hitting me in places I least expected them to and not sitting still while I surrounded them !!!!

But obviously each defeat I learnt a little more and applied the same tactics to my new opponents that had been used on me to such great effect, over time I became more and more difficult to beat and could hold my own against all but the very best (you know who you are).

So the moral of the story is that we all start at the beginning with PBEM and the trick is to try to find opponents who are slightly better than yourself who you can learn from, given time and patience anyone with a little common sense can become a solid player, the ones who fall quickly are the ones who have no patience and want to be a genius without going through the learning process and those who will not read and fully understand the rules.