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Next British & Russian & Italian Empires & U.S.A., versus, AH & German Empires. Russia is the Axis goal, hold in the south and control the North Sea. It is hard for any direct U. S. aid, British Empire needs complete naval control of the North Sea, &, Italian forces even with Allied help, will find it hard to break into Southern AHE.
Round One: A.H.E. builds manpower, to protect its coast from landing, and, any push into the southern empire(naval takes a back seat). Finally fighters, guns, &, troopers for the big push into Moscow. Builds 4 troopers, fighter, &, submarine. Moves land forces to Galicia & reinforces Trieste & Tyrolia, the latter to protect from Allied southern incursions, into the empire.
Russia builds fighter, sub., 4 troopers. Keeping a trooper in Karelia, moves forces into Belarus & Uk.(leaving a trooper in Poland). Russian will trade territory, &, avoid combat, to build up her land forces.
Germany builds transport, sub.(naval units off Berlin), 2 fighters, &, 3 troopers. Moves troopers from Togoland, &, Kamerun to take undefended British Nigeria & Gold coast. From Sea Zone #7 two subs. go off Canada, &, attack Canadian transport & Cruiser. For a lost of a sub., Canadian fleet wiped out. Also 2 subs. from Sea Zone #5, leave and one goes to off Kiel, &, another to off Berlin.
In Germany, except for forces to protect the coastline, &, 6 troopers from Munich garrison crossing over into AHE to help protect Tyrolia, land forces head for Russia. Garrison from Prussia & Silesia cross over into Poland along with fighter from capital(defending trooper taken out, for lost of a trooper), Poland falls!
British Empire builds 2 transport(off Wales), 2 fighters, &, submarine(off London). Transport & C go from Egypt to debark trooper & gun onto Tuscany, while C from India arrives off Egypt. BB & transport from India head for West Africa. Troopers from Rhodesia & East Africa enter GE. E. Africa, take out defending trooper, for no lost, colony falls! Meanwhile Sudan trooper heads for Egypt, while trooper & gun invade GE. S. W. Africa from S. Africa, versus, GE. trooper & gun. Losses Brits. a gun, &, GE. all(colony falls!).
From off London transport picks up trooper & gun, &, heads for Italy. Adjust land forces in home islands, in case of Axis landings. Off London Brit Home Fleet enters GE. Home Waters. BB(damaged by mines) & 2 C, versus, GE. BB, 2 C, & submarine(losses all ships both sides are lost).
Italy builds fighter & 2 troopers. Land forces head for Venice, while trooper in E. Africa heads for Libya. Meanwhile transport off Rome, picks up trooper & gun, &, heads for West Africa.
U.S.A. builds fighter & 2 transports. BB off East Coast goes to off Canada, sinks GE. submarine for no lost. Also C from E. Coast heads for Italy.
Round Two: AHE builds sub., fighter, &, 4 troopers. Forces have concentrated into one large army group in Galicia, with a fighter flying in from the capital. This large force should steamroll its way into Moscow, while the Germans have already taken Poland. Leaving Bohemia, Vienna, &, Budapest denude of any land & air forces. Also Trieste(receiving a trooper from the capital) & Tryolia(with 6 GE. troopers there to help), to hold the southern line.
Russia is trying to defend for now, if they faced only one empire, it would welcome a attack in Uk. by AHE, &, counterattacked with forces from Belarus. The problem with both Axis powers heading for Moscow, defense is the best play for now, even with the risk of letting AHE build up their forces in Galicia.
Russia builds fighter, &, 6 troopers. Moves forces out of Uk. & Belarus(sans a trooper) and Tatarstan, &, moves then back to capital.
BB & sub., enter GE. Home Waters off Berlin(no mine lost), versus, 2 subs. & transport. Losses Axis all. Allies rule the Atlantic Ocean!
GE. is force to rebuild its navy, does not want any British troops landing in Russia, much less Germany. Builds BB & C off Berlin & also Kiel, garrison in Poland with fighter takes Belarus(defended by Russian trooper, taken out for no lost). Also more land forces heading for Moscow, with fighter from capital flying to Poland, &, another flying to Kiel. Both troopers in Africa move to Togoland, &, hunker down.
British builds 2 BBs, &, a fighter. From off London sub. enters GE. Home waters off Kiel(no mine lost), along with 2 fighters from London. Both fighters in air duel with GE. fighter defending Kiel(one lost each side). Now fighter & sub., versus, GE. BB & C. Losses Allies all & GE. losses C & damaged to the BB. Two transports reach Canada & board 2 troopers & 2 guns. Another transport leaves SZ #7, &, moves to off Marseilles with a trooper & gun.
Another transport leaves off Tuscany & picks up from Egypt 2 troopers, &, they debark onto Tuscany. While from Tuscany a trooper & gun enter Venice. Both troopers in GE. E. Africa, head for Egypt, while BB & transport land into undefended Kamerun a trooper & gun, colony taken!
Italy builds gun, &, 4 troopers. Roman garrison finally reaches Venice. BB & C enters AHE Home Waters(no mine lost), also with fighter from capital, versus, AHE BB, C, 2 subs., &, transport. Losses all for Italy(the fighter survive first round of battle & landed in Venice), &, only the damaged AHE BB left.
Transport arrives off Togoland, &, lands trooper & gun, versus, defending 2 GE. trooper, all lost, colony still contested.
U.S.A. builds transport, sub., &, gun and 2 troopers. BB off Canada goes to London, C arrives in AHE Home waters(no mine lost), versus, damaged AHE BB(both lost). AHE needs to build a new fleet. Two transports leave East Coast for Italy with 3 troopers & gun, fighter flies to Ireland.
Round Three: AHE builds fighter, sub., BB, &, gun. From capital fighter flies to Uk., &, 3 troopers move into Galicia. Moves its Grand Army into Uk. from Galicia, disposal of Russian defending trooper for a lost of a trooper, Uk. captured!
Russia builds 8 troopers. All land & air forces are in Moscow, except a trooper guarding Livonia & Karelia, with Poland & Uk. lost, &, all other provinces are undefended. Fleet of BB & sub. still off Berlin, retreats to Home Waters.
GE. builds fighter, trooper, gun, BB(off Kiel), &, 2 submarines(off Berlin). Moves more land forces into Belarus, reinforces coastal provinces, leaves 5 troopers in Munich(in case they need to go to Russia or AHE southern front). Also a C goes from Berlin to Kiel.
Italy builds sub., trooper & gun. Transport off Togoland heads for East Coast. Rome garrison moves to Tuscany, &, Tuscany garrison moves to Venice. Meanwhile Venice garrison invades Trieste, with the hope of reliving the pressure on the Russians, &, remaining Allied forces(including Brits.) in Venice to detour any move into Italy. Fighter, 19 troopers, &, 6 guns, versus, AHE 8 troopers & 3 guns. Losses Allies 6 troopers, &, Axis wiped out. Trieste has fallen!
U.S.A. builds C, &, transport. BB joins British fleet off Kiel, no mine damage, while fighter lands in Scotland. Two transports land 3 troopers & gun into Piedmont. Sub. & transport(with trooper & gun) leaves East Coast for Italy.
Turn Four: AHE builds no naval units, its coastal port has been captured, builds fighter, tank, &, 4 trooper, &, gun. …Three troopers from Galicia enters Ukraine. Moves Grand Army into Moscow from Uk., 2 fighters dog fight 2 Russian fighters, losses Axis a fighter & Allies all. AHE Fighter, 37 troopers, &, 6 guns, versus, Russian 50 troopers, &, 13 guns. Losses AHE 29 troopers, &, Russian 15 troopers. Moscow is contested, but, AHE Grand Army is no longer so Grand.
Vienna & Tyrolia garrisons attempt to liberate Trieste(leaving GE. 6 troopers to guard Tyrolia). Fighter, 9 troopers, &, 4 guns, versus, Italian fighter, 13 troopers, &, 6 guns. In air duel, Axis fighter lost. Losses Axis 8 troopers, &, Allies 8 troopers, Trieste is contested.
Fleet leaves Home Waters(if it returned it would have to face its own mines), goes into Italian Home waters, Bb damaged by mines. BB(damaged) & sub., versus, It. sub. & Brits. 2 C & transport. Only one British C survives.
All builds are needed to save the southern part of the Empire, the forces in Russia cannot take Moscow, it is up to GE. to save the situation.
Russia can destroy or take out most of the AHE forces in Moscow, but, still hunker down. She needs her forces intact, cause of the impending GE. attack. Builds 5 troopers.
GE. builds Cruiser(off Berlin), fighter, tank, 2 guns, &, 3 troopers. Berlin Garrison goes to Hanover(heading for AHE), &, Munich Garrison enters Tryolia, &, Polish Garrison enters Belarus. Also garrison in Belarus enters Moscow(no time for more reinforcements), 2 fighters, 30 troopers, &, 9 guns, versus, Russian 40 troopers & 13 guns. Losses Axis 20 troopers, &, Allies 12 troopers.
In Trieste 6 troopers from Tryolia attempt to help AHE forces, versus, Italian 3 troopers and 6 guns and fighter. Losses GE. 4 troopers & Italian 2 troopers. Off Berlin to Kiel BB, 2 subs., &, fighter, versus, British 2 damaged BBs, &, a U.S.N. BB. Losses only GE. BB survive.
British Empire builds BB, C, sub., trooper, &, gun. Moves trooper & gun from Nigeria, enters undefended Togoland, &, colony falls. Also transport off Gold Coast, picks up trooper, &, will head for entrance of Med. Sea. BB off W. Africa moves to off Ireland, &, Cruiser enters waters off Italian occupied Trieste. Also three transports arrive off Trieste & debarks 3 troopers & 3 guns, and, are joined from Venice by 3 troopers & gun, versus, Axis of GE. 2 troopers & AHE 3 troopers & 3 guns. Losses Allies 4 troopers, &, Axis all but one AHE trooper. Also two more troopers move from Tuscany to Venice.
Off London BB & 2 transports(no mine losses), &, a fighter, go off Kiel, versus, GE. BB. Losses British fighter & GE. BB, with landings in Kiel. BB shelling & defending guns(2), losses a trooper each side. Land battle 2 trooper & gun, versus, defending GE. 2 troopers & 2 guns. Each side losses a trooper, Kiel is contested.
Italy builds gun, fighter, &, 3 troopers. Transport arrives off East Coast, &, trooper from Somaliland arrives in Libya. Also 3 troopers & gun, enter Venice from Tuscany. Trieste garrison leaves Trieste(there are still Brits. 2 troopers & 4 guns watching the leftover AHE trooper in Trieste), &, enter Vienna. Italy’s fighter wins air duel with AHE fighter, 2 troopers, &, 6 guns, versus, defending AHE 4 troopers, tank, &, gun. Italy losses trooper & 3 guns, &, AHE all(tank also absorbed a hit). Vienna has fallen!
From Venice 4 troopers enter Tyrolia defended by GE. 5 troopers. This is too hopefully contest that AHE province, so GE. forces cannot go directly to Vienna, or, if the Italians are wiped out, cannot threaten Venice(protected by Brits. 2 troopers and so to arrive U.S. forces). Losses 2 troopers each side, Tyrolia is contested. Most of Italy’s original land units have been destroyed, while a good bulk of GE. forces/Grand Army are still intact, &, a fair share of AHE/not so Grand Army in Moscow.
U.S.A. builds tank, gun, trooper, &, 2 transports. Fighter flies from Scotland to Kiel, while C & transport(trooper & gun) leaves East Coast for Kiel. Also 2 troopers board It. transport off East Coast.
Two transports leave Italy for East Coast, &, another transport arrives with sub., that debarks trooper & gun onto Piedmont. Also entering Venice from Piedmont are 3 troopers & gun.
I will end this game, as usual when a capital falls, it is barley making it to a moderate Allied win. AHE gets back Vienna, Russia gets two Axis armies out of Moscow, Allies leave contested Tryolia, Trieste, &, Kiel, and, Russia gets back Poland, Belarus, &, Ukraine. GE. keeps Togoland and the Allies get the other three colonies(Russia sells her part, &, U.S. makes a new country).
Afterwards I will play one more round to see if the Axis could have taken Moscow. The bulk of all land forces are on the Eastern Front, Russia has 13 guns, &, 28 troopers. The Axis attack separately, AHE has only 7 troopers & 7 guns with a fighter, not enough to take out Russia, but, maybe enough to weaken it for Germany’s 2 fighters, 21 troopers, &, 15 guns. Also 7 troopers & five guns in Uk., Poland, &, Prussia.
The Southern Front the Axis have 3 troopers(with also 3 troopers & 2 guns in Hanover) & Allies have 2 fighter, 16 troopers, &, 13 guns(also 3 more troopers on transports, &, 11 troopers & 3 guns in Africa & Asia) .
The Western Front Axis have 4 guns, 6 troopers, fighter & tank, in Kiel and Berlin, and, the Allies in Kiel trooper, gun, &, fighter. With also the Brits. Home Islands & Canada & East Coast, 16 troopers and 4 guns and a tank.
The Axis still has a large presence in the East, less in the West, but, most of it is in mainland Europe, &, in the south practically no forces. As for the navy, the Axis have a C waiting to be destroyed, while the Allies have 4 BB, 2 C, 3 submarines, &, 13 mighty transports.
IPCs lost units, Air: Axis 4 & Allies 5 fighters, Navy: BB 6 and 5, C 5 and 6, Submarine 10 and 2, Transport 2 each side, Tanks one only Axis, Guns 6 and 4, Troopers 86 & 56( actual face value of purchase units: Air Axis 24 & Allies 30, Naval Axis 189 & Allies 138, &, Land Axis 288 & Allies 184).
The What IF Round #5, cause the Axis did not want to lose,
Round Five: AHE builds zero units, retreats trooper from Trieste to Budapest, a trooper goes from Uk. into Moscow and another goes back to Galicia, while a third trooper just stays in Uk. Finally battle for Moscow, AHE forces can only hope to weaken Russia, to let GE. finish the job. Eight troopers, 7 guns, &, 1 fighter, versus, Russian 28 troopers & 13 guns. Losses AHE all, &, Russians 9 troopers.
Russia builds 6 troopers, moves in trooper from Karelia & Livonia, has fleet of BB & sub. enter GE. Home Waters(BB suffers damage), versus, GE. Cruiser. Losses Russian sub. & GE. Cruiser.
GE. builds fighter, 3 troopers, gun, sub., &, BB. Hanover Garrison crosses over to Bohemia, while the 3 troopers in contested Tyrolia pass on attacking 2 invading Italian troopers(this will help prop up the AHE for a while). Polish Garrison enters Belarus, Prussian Garrison enters Poland, while garrison from capital splits up sending units to Prussia & Kiel.
In Kiel 2 troopers, 3 guns, tank, &, fighter, versus, U.S. fighter & Bits. trooper & gun. In dogfight Allies win, on land Axis lost absorbed by tank, &, all Allies wiped out. Kiel is freed! Meanwhile in Moscow, 2 fighters, 21 troopers, &, 15 guns, versus, Russian 27 troopers & 13 guns. Losses GE. 20 troopers & a gun, &, Russians 23 troopers.
British build fighter, tank, 2 guns, &, 2 transports. From Wales 2 troopers go to London. Moves trooper & gun from Togoland to Gold Coast, from Trieste into Budapest 2 troopers & 4 guns, versus, AHE trooper. Losses a trooper each side, Budapest falls! Three transports off Trieste go to Egypt & bring back 4 troopers & a gun, while another transport outside Med. Sea brings a trooper(also C leaves Trieste for Kiel).
BB off Kiel , &, sub. & C off London, go to off GE. Home Waters off Berlin(no mine lost), versus, GE. BB & sub. Losses British a sub, &, GE. all. Two transports off Kiel go back to British Home Islands & pick up 3 troopers & gun. BB that stayed, off Kiel shells & 3 guns defending fire back, each side losses a trooper. British 2 troopers & gun, versus, on land GE. trooper, tank, &, 3 guns. Land losses Allies trooper & gun, &, Axis 2 guns(tank took a hit), Kiel is contested. Also BB arrives off London.
Italy builds(with also IPCs that were in Vienna when it was captured)fighter, C, sub., gun, &, 7 troopers. Fighter flies from Rome to Vienna, also 3 troopers & gun go into Tuscany from Rome. From Venice garrison reinforces units in Tryolia, 6 troopers & gun, versus, GE. 3 troopers. Losses It. a trooper & GE. all, Tryolia falls! Transport leaves East Coast with U.S. 2 troopers for Kiel.
U.S.A. builds transport, &, 4 troopers. Two transports leave for Kiel with 2 troopers, tank, &, gun. Also 2 transports arrive East Coast, &, another transport(trooper & gun) & escorting C arrive off London. Along with sub. off Rome heading for London, &, transport off Rome heading for India. From Venice 3 troopers & gun enter Tyrolia.
Here I will leave this setup, could another round, GE. finally take Moscow, much less get Vienna back. To do the former is possible, 2 fighters, 17 guns, & 2 troopers, versus, Russian 13 guns, &, 10 troopers(six are new builds). Also to do the latter using units from Poland & Bohemia 6 troopers & 4 guns, versus, It. trooper, 3 guns, &, 2 fighters in Vienna. Even if GE. got Vienna back, would it last the round from British, Italian, &, U.S. counterattacks, all looking to claim Vienna. Would GE. declare peace, to get a better deal, who knows, there is no six round(I will never tell).
Next the last Round Robin using this format.
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