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France's role in Global 1940 SE

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@FranceNeedsMorePower said in France's role in Global 1940 SE:

@The-Janus You got a lot of good ideas by chance did you every watch his video I made. It talks about France.

Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/I0nxyB3JwAk?si=K0GHmYXuijhuSVDA

I just went back through this thread earlier today, so I had copied the link, and watched it just now. Here are my overall thoughts:
UK fighter: Generally I don’t scramble planes, ever; in a recent game I saw the Ai send some undefended transports, so I took the option to scramble, then. In the early naval battles around the UK, it just never seems worth it, because the scrambled planes can’t retreat from combat so they’re basically doomed to die. North Africa: I tend to see the Ai axis take Tunisia but then back off; as I mentioned earlier in the thread, it seems like the thing to do as France is back off as far away from the Italian transports as possible, and add French units from the UK there as well; this basically means defending Morocco until the US/UK can land to reinforce the position. If you push everything into Algeria (assuming the Italians leave Tunisia alone, at first) I worry that they’ll get dogpiled by an amphibious landing; Morocco is a lot safer. Egypt/East Africa: I don’t typically see the Italians break into central Africa, but just in case they do, I always move the French infantry from West Africa to Nigeria, rather than to French Central Africa. This might be a little bit superstitious of me, but basically, as a general rule I want to leave French territories undefended, so that they can potentially be reclaimed by my Allies, if Italy captures them. Madagascar: As I said, I tend to send the destroyer to the Atlantic; I don’t find much use in keeping a large fleet in/around Suez. If the Allies can’t challenge the Italian navy in the Mediterranean, they’re best off hiding behind the canal; you only really need enough navy to fend off any planes from sniping UK transports. If there aren’t any Axis planes within range, then I just run the transports naked. What I tend to see happen in my games is that the US and UK built up around Gibraltar, and if the Italian fleet is in range of both those fleets and the Suez fleet, then the UK fleets merge up for an attack. (As I’ve mentioned in this thread: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1696439 I know it’s popular for the UK to use their planes for a Taranto attack ASAP, but I tend not to.) I also tend not to build ships off of South Africa, aside from a transport or two – sometimes more, if I get in a position to start shuttling guys from the middle east into Greece. Indochina: I think the obvious reason there isn’t a French infantry there to start the game, is because the Pacific game on its own can then easily have no French pieces, no? I think if it makes sense and/or makes the game better balanced, I don’t see any objection to adding it for the Global game. IMO that’s basically the same idea as how the Global game adds ANZAC infantry to Egypt. (I think if you wanted to represent the French in Indochina when using just the Pacific game, the obvious thing to do would be use an American infantry; they’ll be long dead before any “real” Americans show up, anyway.) Mediterranean: Now, perhaps because I don’t do the Taranto raid, I see my French ships in the Mediterranean usually get wiped out on the Italian turn – so i tend to discount them from my planning. If any of them do survive, I treat it as a bonus (likewise for the Channel ship) and just try to merge them up with my other destroyer. To me, Gibraltar (SZ 91) is the obvious rallying point for the allied fleets. Paris: I tend to play pretty old-school, so when I make a landing in Europe as the US, it’s generally all infantry with some planes; not that I expect France to have much to do at that point in the game, but I don’t agree that adding more French infantry for defense is the obvious move. I think if you want France sniping as much territory as they can manage when the opportunities arise (particularly if US/UK are doing can-opener type moves, for them) you might want to mix in another offensive unit, to go with your starting fighter. Generally I don’t change the default 4 inf in TripleA, but once I get France up and running, I always immediately feel like I need tanks or artillery, or else I’m just going to be sitting around defending – like France has been, all game. Psychological Warfare: It depends on your opponent; if it’s someone who’s running every battle through a calculator, they’re probably not going to be fooled or have any surprises pulled on them. If you’re playing “live” and people are just eyeballing things, then sure. Can-opening as France: I think the trouble is that most of the time, you’re going to (at best) be attacking with 2 infantry and a fighter. So you’re only really going to win a battle vs. 1 defender. And if you get hit back, suddenly you’re completely out of steam for basically the remainder of the game. I honestly feel it’s better to have French units as a mixed defending force, than trying to use them offensively, particularly since taking territory (even by accident) as France is a detriment to the Allies. (For example: it’s better to have the US land a 50/50 tank/inf force in Morocco, if it’s defended by a handful of French infantry + a fighter; otherwise, the US would want to go heavier on infantry and not risk exposing their tanks.) You make a valid point about opening up Tobruk for mech/tanks to break through; do you often see the UK push coming from that direction, with those types of units? I tend to see everything flowing in from Morocco.
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I made a small edit in my NCM to move a fig from Malaya to sz 44, as I had a small mix up in my combat move. I meant to use the planes in sz 37 instead of Siam. Let me know if you want further explanation or if there’s an issue.
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TripleA Turn Summary: UK_Pacific round 2
TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1942 2nd Edition

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Round: 2 Purchase Units - British British buy 1 armour, 1 factory_minor, 2 infantry and 2 submarines; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Purchase Units - UK_Pacific UK_Pacific buy 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - British 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 5 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber moved from India to Burma 1 bomber, 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Gibraltar to 96 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 91 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone 1 tactical_bomber moved from Egypt to 96 Sea Zone Combat - British Battle in 96 Sea Zone British attack with 1 bomber, 1 destroyer, 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers Italians defend with 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 1 transport British roll dice for 1 bomber, 1 destroyer, 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers in 96 Sea Zone, round 2 : 2/6 hits, 3.33 expected hits Units damaged: 1 battleship owned by the Italians Italians roll dice for 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 1 transport in 96 Sea Zone, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 1.17 expected hits 1 destroyer owned by the British lost in 96 Sea Zone 1 cruiser owned by the Italians lost in 96 Sea Zone British roll dice for 1 bomber, 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers in 96 Sea Zone, round 3 : 3/5 hits, 3.00 expected hits Italians roll dice for 1 battleship and 1 transport in 96 Sea Zone, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0.67 expected hits 1 transport owned by the Italians and 1 battleship owned by the Italians lost in 96 Sea Zone British win with 1 bomber, 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 31 Casualties for British: 1 destroyer Casualties for Italians: 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 1 transport Battle in Burma British attack with 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 5 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber Japanese defend with 2 artilleries and 5 infantry British roll dice for 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 5 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Burma, round 2 : 2/8 hits, 2.50 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 2 artilleries and 5 infantry in Burma, round 2 : 0/7 hits, 2.33 expected hits 2 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Burma British roll dice for 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 5 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Burma, round 3 : 2/8 hits, 2.50 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 2 artilleries and 3 infantry in Burma, round 3 : 2/5 hits, 1.67 expected hits 2 infantry owned by the British lost in Burma 2 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Burma British roll dice for 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 3 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Burma, round 4 : 3/6 hits, 2.17 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 2 artilleries and 1 infantry in Burma, round 4 : 2/3 hits, 1.00 expected hits 2 infantry owned by the British lost in Burma 1 infantry owned by the Japanese and 2 artilleries owned by the Japanese lost in Burma British win, taking Burma from Japanese with 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 11 Casualties for Japanese: 2 artilleries and 5 infantry Casualties for British: 4 infantry Non Combat Move - British 1 mech_infantry moved from Iraq to Eastern Persia British take Eastern Persia from Neutral_Allies 2 aaGuns and 2 infantry moved from India to West India 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Burma to West India 1 infantry moved from Iraq to Northwest Persia British take Northwest Persia from Neutral_Allies 1 artillery moved from Iraq to Persia 1 transport moved from 80 Sea Zone to 72 Sea Zone 1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Egypt to Iraq 1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Egypt to Trans-Jordan 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Egypt to Trans-Jordan 1 carrier and 1 cruiser moved from 80 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from 80 Sea Zone to West India 1 destroyer moved from 91 Sea Zone to 92 Sea Zone 1 transport moved from 91 Sea Zone to 82 Sea Zone 2 fighters moved from United Kingdom to Gibraltar 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 96 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 96 Sea Zone to Egypt 1 infantry moved from Rhodesia to Belgian Congo Place Units - British 1 armour and 2 infantry placed in Union of South Africa 1 factory_minor placed in Egypt 2 submarines placed in 106 Sea Zone Turn Complete - British British collect 33 PUs; end with 33 PUs Place Units - UK_Pacific 2 infantry placed in India Turn Complete - UK_Pacific UK_Pacific collect 6 PUs; end with 6 PUs Some Units in India change ownership: 2 infantry
Combat Hit Differential Summary :
Japanese regular : -1.00 Italians regular : -0.83 British regular : -1.50
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Round: 3 Purchase Units - Italians Italians buy 5 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Italians 1 artillery and 5 infantry moved from Tuscany to Venice 5 infantry moved from Rome to Tuscany 1 infantry moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Egypt Place Units - Italians 5 infantry placed in Rome Turn Complete - Italians Italians collect 14 PUs; end with 14 PUs
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Round: 3 Purchase Units - Americans Americans buy nothing; Remaining resources: 40 PUs; Turn Complete - Americans Americans collect 20 PUs; end with 60 PUs
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Ragnell (Allies) vs. VF (Axis) | Classic, Game 2 - Tournament Rules

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Round: 5 Purchase Units - Russians Russians buy 2 armour and 5 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Russians 2 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Yakut S.S.R. 1 infantry moved from Evenki National Okrug to Yakut S.S.R. 1 infantry moved from Caucasus to Persia 2 fighters moved from Karelia S.S.R. to Persia Combat - Russians Battle in Yakut S.S.R. Russians attack with 3 infantry Japanese defend with 1 infantry Russians roll dice for 3 infantry in Yakut S.S.R., round 2 : 1/3 hits, 0.50 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Yakut S.S.R., round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Yakut S.S.R. Russians win, taking Yakut S.S.R. from Japanese with 3 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3 Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry Battle in Persia Russians attack with 2 fighters and 1 infantry Japanese defend with 1 infantry Russians roll dice for 2 fighters and 1 infantry in Persia, round 2 : 1/3 hits, 1.17 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Persia, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Persia Russians win, taking Persia from Japanese with 2 fighters and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3 Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry Non Combat Move - Russians 2 fighters moved from Persia to Karelia S.S.R. 6 armour and 6 infantry moved from Russia to Novosibirsk 1 infantry moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Novosibirsk Place Units - Russians 2 armour and 2 infantry placed in Russia 3 infantry placed in Karelia S.S.R. Russians undo move 2. 2 infantry placed in Karelia S.S.R. 1 infantry placed in Russia Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 27 PUs; end with 27 PUs
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TripleA Turn Summary: French round 2
TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

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Round: 2 Purchase Units - ANZAC ANZAC buy 1 artillery and 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; Combat Move - ANZAC 1 infantry moved from Shan State to Burma Non Combat Move - ANZAC Place Units - ANZAC 1 artillery and 2 infantry placed in New South Wales Turn Complete - ANZAC Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 0 Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 62 Sea Zone. Rolls: 5,4,4,6,4,6 ANZAC collect 10 PUs; end with 11 PUs Trigger ANZAC 1 Control Original And Malaya: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 16 PUs Combat Move - French 1 fighter moved from Iceland to United Kingdom Non Combat Move - French Turn Complete - French
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