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- From: d88-cbr@alv.nada.kth.se (Christian Beijner)
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- Subject: Re: WiF: Question about Sweden ressouces
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.130322.18000@kth.se>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 13:03:22 GMT
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- In article <2555@cix.cict.fr> david@tls-cs.cert.fr (Vincent David) writes:
- >I need some help for a problem with the article 9.5 (5th edition):
- >
- >"Sweden must provide Germany with all its ressouces per turn. Unless
- >they can trace an overland route, Germany must place a CONV marker
- >in the Baltic Sea to transport these pionts. Germany receives no
- >convoyed ressouces from Sweden in turns in which the Artic Circle
- >is experiencing Winter or Severe Winter if the Allies control Oslo,
- >Bergen, or Narvik."
- >
- >So the problem is:
- >
- >-If Finland is declared in war with the Axis, Germany receives the
- >ressource point from Petsamo.
- >
- >-If Norge is controlled by Germany, except Bergen, Germany receives
- >one more point.
- >
- >So the Axis can trace an overland route from Sweden to Oslo or Helsinki.
- >Could Bergen avoid the ressources points from Sweden? And Why?
- >
- > Vincent.
-
- Its really quite simple, those resources really exist a lot further north.
- There exists a railroad - designed for this purpose - that can carry lots
- of iron ore from the north of Sweden to Narvik (Malmbanan). If you want to
- you can call Narvik the port of Kiruna. During non-winter turns you could
- possibly get the ore to one of the swedish ports in the north of the baltic.
- However during winter, they are frozen, and Narvik is not.
- The standard trains going south in Sweden couldnt handle this amount of
- additional freight.
- The allied control rules is merely a way of allowing the german a chance of
- getting the ore out by Narvik, hugging the coast with his ships, which would
- be impossible if the allies control parts of the coast.
- If this rule seems "special" to you, think what would happen if you forced
- the german to use a conwoy in the North Sea to get them home.
- I think explains the importance of Norway.
-
- Hope this answers your question.
-
- Since I am on the question on Sweden, let me flame that WIF map and the
- CWJ expansion board a bit:
- 1) Stockholm lies in the artic circle zone, having worse weather than Moscow.
- This is really outrageous.
-
- 2) The west and south of Sweden (on the wif map) is covered in woods.
- Thats hilarious. Everyone now that most of this is open plains.
-
- Expansion board:
- 3) There is a mountain range I have never heard of going out to the baltic.
-
- 4) They havent added a single city, except those already on the wif map.
- Thats ignorant. It will disallow swedish/finnish train transport north.
-
- 5) The expansion board is to big, fitting my wif map teribly.
-
- Chris
-