Soviet Battleships

My buddy “scaramouche” and I were playing A & A IB on the PC one night with paratroopers turned “on” (small apartment at the time, no room to set up the board game IIRC). I was the Allies so I had Russia going first, and on the opening turn I decided to be ridiculously  aggressive like you can play against the AI…so I moved all of my pcs forward to their max, and when my turn was over, I had decimated most of his forward strength all along the border territories. I was sitting pretty, or so I thought.

He bought his units and then he made ONE combat move…he loaded one paratrooper on his bomber and dropped it into Moscow. I had NOTHING within a one-turn range of taking it back. I just sat there, staring at the screen. Totally forgot about the paratrooper thing…and that was game, set match.  :-D

Rob.

For grins, I was playing a two friends in Global 1940:

Russia turn 1: I place 17 infantry and 1 aa gun next to Manchuria as bait.

Japan attacks: round 1: 10/17 russian infantry hit, Japan hit 3 times out of 14 land units, 8 air units (2 transports now out of position)

He retreats, and I hear about it the rest of the game (as Japan is stopped in China), then we remember I forgot to roll my aa gun: 2 more hits, but I let him keep the planes so I could keep my hits.

Same game, Germany takes London, Russian fleet (yes 2 carriers and 3 DDs, and 2 TT sz 127) secures Norway with 4 land units. Collected +6 IPCs (3 territory, 3 NO)

Germany moves 10 transports to sz 112, decides to drop 4 land units there and the rest on W. Germany non combat, uses 4-6 planes to attack Norway.

I hit 3/4 with Russian 2’s, he misses entire round. I finish off his land units and a couple planes before he retreats: Norway secured!! Even though he had 10 transports at his disposal. Collects -8 IPCs (3 territory, 5 NO) that makes it a 14 IPC swing (1 carrier almost paid for!)

He whines like I just ate his baby, this coming from a guy who on his first game of global ever, secures all 3 Italian NO’s on turn 1!!!
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Alexandria, S. France, Greece, and Gibraltar!! and Scuttles the French ships leaving fleet in the Mediterranean as I had pulled UK’s around to India after stacking my land and air in Egypt! I wanted to focus on Japan, the experienced player and figured he couldn’t hurt Egypt with the transports I left him. Oops!!

Collects 19 + 15 for NO + 10 IPCs saved for 44 IPCs to spend on turn 2! (who needs to buy units when you can clear the board attacking with 2 infantry on 1 in Morocco or hitting Greece with 2 infantry 1 tank and 1 fighter for a win!

I will add, I failed to hit with single infantry (10-15 times) all game in China, Russia, and Africa but when they fought together, they were a sight to behold!

I had to try a Russian fleet at least once (and because I was the senior player, one was new to global so I figured I’d throw a softball) , in honor of my Classic axis Russian carrier build turn 1 win. History may have repeated itself if we finished the game.

Russian fleet: (was not that effective, needed 4 turns to link with US fleet which was not realistic, did not result in loss by the second day of playing, we scrapped it to return home to St. Louis:Germany claimed he had a lot of chips and Moscow was his, but during clean up, he asked where all those red chips came from, and I replied Moscow…lol)

Did learn that 1st turns money is not vital (I used 2 turns of money and that was vital) , and 1 DD would have probably secured the sz125 NO for Russia 2-3 turns after at war. (8 IPCs would have got me 10-15 likely)

Oh god, where to begin…

My friends and I play Global with house rules that make it more like rise of nations (if it was a board game) than Axis and allies. in short, everyone is neutral in the beginning, everyone has special abilities (in place of national objectives), and it is such a chaotic mess, that it is so damn fun we play it all day once a month.

Anyway, we’re playing a game, I’m the USSR who is allied with Japan and the UK. We are at war with the ANZAC/US pact, I’m neutral with the Franco-Prussian alliance (but are at war with the UK), and Italy is all alone. No one is playing china so Japan and I just sort of roll through it.

Italy is rolled over by the Germans. he leaves, surrendering all remaining territory to France. the Franco-Prussian alliance invades the UK, who switches his capital to Calcutta last minute (again, we play with some funky rules). I don’t help the UK because I’m busy securing peace with Germany and making sure I can focus my attention elsewhere, so japan doesn’t fight 2 countries by himself.

games is going well (except for the UK and Italy, well Italy had to go to church anyway so it worked out), My mates and I are screwing over the Americans and the…ANZAC…ies… and we’re ready to crush the US. Japan has all but conquered australia, New Zealand is a doom fortress of doom, filled with infantry and loaned IPC’s to build more. UK is holding on for dear life as africa is getting raped by the french, while germany picks off neutral countries and backs up france. They won’t screw with me and let me take a few neutral territies…to build some Soviet battleships and transports…(again funky rules). I’m ready to invade alaska when the FPA begins to invade the eastern us. They have enough to take the last capital they need to win. japan says something like “good work guys, I guess we can take victory”

I was confused but then it hit me, he was working with France the whole time. Japan backstabbed me. I was so pissed, it was like the often parodied scene from downfall minus the crying.

I then ally with my former enemies, agreeing to crush Japan and the FPA. After invading korea, I invade japan with my Alaskan invasion fleet. I bombard….no hits…I invade. I have a bunch of tanks and a few infantry left over from invading Korea. He has some artillery a tank and an infantry…not much at all. I get obliterated, I take out a few units but his artillery kicks my ass.

The UK and the USA try to take out the Japanese navy. The US completely fails, losing a bunch of expensive boats to an air craft carrier…with some cheap ass planes. The UK kinda liberates ANZAC but the Japanese still have Sydney and are still able to build. We at least had him distracted in china (which had more essential cities than ANZAC did anyway)

The Germans invade the east coast while the Americans barely hold on after a joint denfence with the UK. The French player laughs saying how utterly screwed we are…and the releases an enormous fart next to the German player. We had ordered an Italian beef and hot pepper pizza which apparently didn’t sit well with him. Germany gets pissed and breaks the alliance citing the fart and japan being a deceitful prick and goes for both the US east coast…and france. He crushes france who takes up japan after Japan leaves for wrestling practice (because France had some piddlings in Africa left after the invasion…he was done).

Germany is poised for victory. I am given control of the remaining us pieces, uk has Australia. The situation was, if we held the east, we would keep him back and could invade Germany next turn (or well I could, the UK would be taking out the French until he could reach Italy). Our joint defnce…utterly fails. He had wayyy to many IPC and could muster a giant invasion fleet. He won on his lone some, everyone else lost.

Gracious in victory, the last slice of the pizza (which was to go to the victor) was shared with me and germany (as the US and anzac had left, and the UK didn’t like it) saying I was a good opponent and he felt bad that japan backstabbed me.

Insanity as usual, it was the most fun we’ve had. I have more stories from older games, but I can’t recollect anything noteworthy.

I played a game of Global 1940 where the Germans threw everything they had a Paris, they had attacked he British navy, but still had most of their airforces attacking Paris. When the dust setteled, all that was left was 1 single French fighter, it was hilarious!
The really weird thing, was the axis player wanted to keep playing. The Brits moved their infantry from Normandy to Paris and the entire RAF, for a total of 6 fighters (including the French one) and procceded to sink the bulk of the Italian navy. Then the placed the remnants of their fleet (I think it was a cruiser and 2 destroyers, and something else cruiser or battleship) in sz 109 and built more transports to reinforce the French. The Italians made an attempt on Paris, with  2infantry 2 arty, 1 tank, 1 fighter and 1 Tac. The Italians were butchered with the allies still controling Paris with 5 fighters! Finally the French took their turn and bought 5 infantry and a arty, moved 1 infantry into an unoccupied Belgium and attacked N. Italy with 1 infantry, 1arty, 1tank and 2 fighters against 3 Italian infantry with the tank. They aslo sunk the remnants of the Italian fleet with their fleet sz93. France collected 24IPC and game continued. Germany re-took Belgium and N. Italy, but had been seriously weakened, and was never able to really threatened Paris again. They game finally ended and few turns later with the French storming into Berlin after the British captured Rome, and all before the US or the Soviets got to fire a single shot!  :-D

I haven’t any funny A&A stories, however Rish 2150 is amusing in the sense that my friend has received his Asia bonus once.

In about dozen or so games, once.

I get it and clean his clock. lol

I literally had a guy attack me with a knife, over a game of Conquest of the Empire.

We got in a dispute about something, and he stole my watch from the game table and put it in his pocket, so I wrestled him to the ground and took it back.  Then he stood up, red faced, and produced a knife.

He came at me and was trying to stab me, but the other 2 players (Both subtle users of this site) didn’t think it was legit until it had been a few minutes of fighting, and both our hands were wrestling for the blade.  Then the “Whoah whoah whoah - put it down! Put it down!” started.

No one got stabbed.  But the game was over.

The game was outside on the hottest day of the year, so we blamed heat stroke, and now don’t play games outside in the sun anymore… for obvious reason :D

I’d have a strict no weapons policy over board games, knife=end of friendship. :)

Its amazing that you continue to play with him and we didn’t see this on an episode of “Cops”.

Thought of a good one after a game today;  leaving one Battleship and one destroyer, accompanied by about nine or so full transports, in range of five bombers and two subs.

As you probably imagine, that was essentially the end of the game and a loss for the allies. lol

@Guerrilla:

@-Wolverine-:

Thought of a good one after a game today;  leaving one Battleship and one destroyer, accompanied by about nine or so full transports, in range of five bombers and two subs.

As you probably imagine, that was essentially the end of the game and a loss for the allies. lol

Haha, I guess this was a Spring '42 game. This really made me laugh.

GG

Yeah, they were attempting to offload troops for Soviet Support in the northern most coastal Soviet territory…… left it largely undefended.  Without the troops on the transports Moscow would have fallen, in addition to the fact that Japan was pumping units through China after removing the UK from China.

Played a game of A&A Global Alpha +3 tonight (finished about an hour ago) with 3 people, I was playing the UK, ANZAC and France. I had 2 French Infantry take Lybia from Italy, she responded by amphibiously assaulting (missing with the Cruiser bombardment) 1 Infantry, 1 Arty and 1 Tank and supporting it with 2 fighters. I successfully defended keeping 1 Infantry alive and killing everything save 1 fighter.
Absoultely perposterious dice rolling but incredibly funny.

Hope you enjoyed the story.

C

Spam not dead.

Played a game of AAE last night, with me as the Allies. On about the second turn, I put a nice stack of 9 infantry in Belorussia, thinking that would be enough to at least slightly mangle any German force that might attack. Germany attacked with a mixed force of about a dozen units, and got 8 hits on the first roll. My infantry? All 9 of the buggers missed. Missed in the second round also; Germany got Belorussia for free.

Later, Germany tried to take my fighter in Malta, with inf/art + battleship/destroyer OSB. Despite rolling 6 for the first 5 rounds, the fighter ended up winning :-)

Good thread, by the way. I try to make at least one completely crazy move every time I play; win or lose, it keeps things interesting.

Ok, so this is not an Axis&Allies moment but you guys would appericate this. Im playing a world war 1 based board game (No, not “the Conflict” game FMG is advertising for) and the Russian player is trying to steamroll the Austrians in Galacia. Thing are going well and the Austrians seem to be on their way out of the game, there last ditch effort is to dig-in in the carpathians and in the face of a monstrous Russian invasion it looks like a feeble last attempt. On a whim the Austrian spents what little remained of his economy to do some tech research (the players reasoning was all he had left was enough for 1 attempt of research and he figured “why not?”). By total luck he managed to get the next level infantry research which completely changed the front. Now the massive Russian forces couldnt hope to breakthrough, and the next turns saw the Austrians revived and start invading Russian territory. It was espically hilarious because up until that point the Russians had been unstoppable, and the Austrians were the first country in the game to get that infantry research! We all know how great the Austrians were historically!  :lol:

The Moral of Clyde’s story?  Always stick to your guns…

I’ve got one, a Global 1940 game. I was Germany, my friends Steven and Tyler were Japan and Italy respectfully. The war was going pretty well for the Axis, with France fallen and major advances into the USSR. But a Soviet counter attack, stiff resistance in China & India, an uninvadable Britain and US entry into the war was spelling defeat for the Axis. Things seemed down until I noticed that Italy still had a sizable Navy and America had it’s East Coast fairly weak, mostly gearing for a D-Day. So I called a secret Axis meeting, told Tyler to move to the outside of the navy base at Italian Gibraltar, 3 spaces from D.C. coast and make it look like an invasion of Britain. The Allies bit, America sent all her ships to Britain and Italy in turn sent her ships to the East Coast. With but 2 infantry and 1 tank to defend, America’s beloved capital was captured and 80 IPC went into Italy’s pocket. America withdrew to take back the East Coast but couldn’t get it back until the turn after, by then the Italians had moved north to take Alaska and establish an airbase for the Japanese to bomb US factories. The 80 IPC was spent on defenses for Normandy while I recovered and took Moscow. FDR would go down in history as America’s worst President

The closest story I think I have is one game where I was playing A&A1942 as the Allies (one-on-one) with a friend. For US, I decided I would try something different. Every turn, I just stocked up on subs and threw them at Japan. The first wave died. The second wave broke through, and tadaa, all his transports were gone. And there was no way, with only 35 IPC that he could break through 20-25 subs, whose hits are opening fire casualties. Not the best strategy, but it was fun watching Japan flounder about in the Pacific.  =P    Then Japan made a last ditch effort to capture moscow with 2 inf, 4 figs, and a bomber. Unfortunately for them, 3 of their figs died to AA fire. That marked the end of the Japanese empire.

Once while playing the original A/A in a desperate move I sent a British transport with 2 infantry
from the western Med. into the Black Sea and attacked Ukraine that had 4 German fighters.
I rolled 2 ones, he missed on all four and then I rolled snake eyes again. Unforgetable and hilarious.  What a rush!