The plan to liberate the italian sea didn’t go as planned - But italiens counted on such luck and with foresight commissioned more planes.
“Chi si ferma è perduto”
Americas is up
Japan 2
Buys: 1 ac, 2 dd, save 1 IPC
Combat moves:
Japan declares war on UK, ANZAC & USA
1 inf cha to sui
1 inf anh to hop
1 inf hun to kwe
1 tra z6 to z35
2 inf jap to phi by tra
mech anh to hkon
tank fic to hkom
fig, 2 tac z36 to hkon
1 tra z36 to z44
inf hai to cel by tra
1 sub z36 to z42
1 tra z36 to z43
1 fig, 1 tac, 1 bomb kwa to z43
1 inf fic to bor by tra
bb, ac, cru, dd, 1 tra z36 to z37
1 fig kwa to z37
1 inf, art fic to mal by tra
1 fig 1 tac kwa to mal
bb, cru to z33 to z21 (support Guam)
1 bomb kwa to z21
2 tra z6 to z21
3 inf, art jap to Guam by tra
4 inf fic to shs
1 fig, 1 tac kwa to shs
1 inf yun to sze
1 fig, 1 bomb kwa to sze
sub z33 to z63
1 dd z43 to z49
1 dd, 2 fig, 2 tac z33 to z54
1 bomb kwa to z45
2 inf, art yun to Burma
5 inf, 2 tac kwa to Burma
Combat:
sui, hop, kwe, phi, cel taken; z63, 49, 45, 42, defenseless
z43
ARolls: 1@3 2@4; Total Hits: 31@3: (1)2@4: (1, 1)
DRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (6)
z43 cleared, bor taken, no losses
z37
ARolls: 1@4 2@3 1@2; Total Hits: 31@4: (4)2@3: (3, 4)1@2: (1)
DRolls: 1@3; Total Hits: 01@3: (4)
z37 cleared, no losses
ma
ARolls: 2@2 1@3 1@4; Total Hits: 12@2: (1, 5)1@3: (5)1@4: (5)
DRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 11@2: (1)
damaging a BB does not look very useful, so let’s try to kill an inf…
z21
ARolls: 2@1 2@2 1@3 1@4; Total Hits: 22@1: (3, 2)2@2: (4, 6)1@3: (3)1@4: (1)
DRolls: 1@4; Total Hits: 01@4: (5)
Guam taken, no losses
Burma
AA gun
vs figRolls: 5@1; Total Hits: 15@1: (1, 2, 2, 3, 5)
vs tacRolls: 2@1; Total Hits: 02@1: (5, 5)
1 fig lost
Burma 1
ARolls: 1@1 2@2 4@3 2@4; Total Hits: 71@1: (5)2@2: (5, 1)4@3: (3, 3, 2, 3)2@4: (3, 4)
DRolls: 6@2; Total Hits: 06@2: (6, 3, 5, 6, 3, 3)
Burma taken, 1 fig lost
shs
ARolls: 4@1 1@3 1@4; Total Hits: 14@1: (5, 6, 1, 5)1@3: (5)1@4: (5)
DRolls: 2@2; Total Hits: 02@2: (3, 4)
shs 2
ARolls: 4@1 1@3 1@4; Total Hits: 24@1: (5, 6, 2, 4)1@3: (3)1@4: (4)
DRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (3)
shs taken, no losses
sze
ARolls: 1@1 1@3 1@4; Total Hits: 31@1: (1)1@3: (3)1@4: (2)
DRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (3)
sze taken, no losses
Hong Kong
ARolls: 1@1 2@3 2@4; Total Hits: 31@1: (5)2@3: (4, 1)2@4: (3, 3)
DRolls: 2@2; Total Hits: 02@2: (3, 5)
Hong Kong taken, NB stolen, no losses
z54
ARolls: 1@2 2@3 2@4; Total Hits: 21@2: (2)2@3: (5, 6)2@4: (1, 5)
DRolls: 1@1 1@4; Total Hits: 21@1: (1)1@4: (2)
Choose your losses at z54
hum… not a so easy choice here… looks like keeping the sub might give some options, so let’s try that.
z54 combat ends, 1 fig 1 dd lost, ANZAC sub survives
NCMS:
inf, art cha ti hop
inf anh to hop
2 inf, art hun to kwe
4 inf, art, aa gun bri to cha
inf man to bei
dd z6 to z16
2 ac z33 to z34
2 tac, fig z54 to z34
fig z37 to z34
fig, tac mal to z37
3 bomb (z45, sze, z43) to Siam
fig, tac shs to Siam
fig, tac z43
bomb z21 to jap
1 fig, 2 tac hkong to kwa
fig sze to kwa
4 fig, 2 tac Burma to kwa
Deploy: ac, 2 dd to z6
Income: 53 + 1 = 54 IPCs
almost finished thinking how to react at the board. Should play soon (worst case this week end).
I guess I dunno the scenario enough, but I do not like the situation on the pacific board… I guess (hope ?) an early US at war should compensate (at least a little) that…
Well, I could not allow the indian BB escape to Hawaii, it could make can openers. It was a too tasty target and there were another easy targets everywhere. However, as you can see, I could not kill all of them. I had luck with the indian aa gun, tought
I usually wait until round 3, but in this particular case, I guess that is ‘the eaten for the served’, as we Spanish say
Yeah, and the Yunnan units still alive made an attack on Burma possible that I was assuming not possible by making my uk moves.
Anyway, will be interesting to see what will happen next :)
UK 2:
Purchase & Repair:
London
2fgt (20)
6inf (18)
Calcutta
1tnk (6)
5inf (15)
Combat moves:
Iraq (3inf)
2inf, 1art C. Persia
1tnk Egypt
1fgt, 1tac India
Ethiopia ()
1inf C. Persia via 1tp sz80 -> sz76
Sudan (1inf)
3inf, 1art Egypt
Burma (2inf, 1art, AA)
4inf, 3fgt India
Dice…
Iraq rd1
A: 2inf, 1art, 1tnk, 1fgt, 1tac
Rolls: 1@1 2@2 2@3 1@4; Total Hits: 21@1: (4)2@2: (4, 5)2@3: (3, 4)1@4: (3)
D: 3inf
Rolls: 3@2; Total Hits: 13@2: (4, 3, 2)
Iraq rd2
A: 1inf, 1art, 1tnk, 1fgt, 1tac
Rolls: 2@2 2@3 1@4; Total Hits: 32@2: (2, 1)2@3: (5, 4)1@4: (4)
D: 1inf
Rolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (5)