Mine happened last night when playing with a couple friends. I’m the Japanese, and at this time things were going pretty damn well for me. It was J4, and I had a strong foothold in the Pacific, including (but not limited to) all of the DEI except Java, Philippines, etc. I was setting up in Carolines for an amphibious assault on either Hawaii or NSW on my next turn. The situation in Asia was favorable, with China doing everything she could to stack Yunnan, and a beat-back Britain was doing whatever she could to help China. I had minor IC’s in FIC and Shanghai pumping a handful of infantry into Asia every turn, to act as fodder for my still-massive airforce.
I landed large number of my air units in a temporarily-empty FIC – 3 heavy bombers, 2 tac bombers, 2 fighters, as I had use them in an attack to completely obliterate the remains of the British Navy (1 BB, 1 CA, 1 DD, 1 CV, 1 SS, 1 AK).
On UK’s turn, my friend decided to fly over an infantry-stacked Shan State for a suicide attack with his remaining British aircraft – 1 fighter and 2 tactical bombers – Against my massive FIC airforce.
Without making this overly lengthy and going into detail about each dice roll, he rolled nothing but 2’s and 3’s, and obliterated my entire FIC air force, with me only scoring one single hit – In three rounds of battle.
I’ve never seen anything like it. He traded 1 tac bomber (11 IPCs worth of units) for 3 heavy bombers, 2 tac bombers, and 2 fighters (78 IPC’s worth of units). Checked it out later in TripleA’s battle calculator, and the defender is given a 100% chance of victory in that particular battle. :lol:
We’ll be finishing the game tonight. Japan is currently trying to rebound and build up a large enough force in Asia to take India before a massive American fleet sitting off the coast of San Fran recaptures Hawaii (I currently have a defending fleet of 3 CV’s, 3 fighters, 2 tac bombers, 1 BB, and 1 SS) and begins a march through the Pacific. Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.
What are some of your stories?