11L 41 Tyzoq (Axis) v Boldfresh (Allies+3) +Tech Game 1

@simon33 said in Simon33 (Allies+10) vs Lebowsky (Axis) French Rebalance:

Excited to play the first game of the French Rebalance

Bid: Ftr Scotland

Excited to be the first to try it too ;)

To be sure about the rules, I paste what you have in the post:

*"I can now announce version 2 of the French Rebalance (renamed from Parisian Rebalance)

All French territories become capturable by USA/UK/Anzac if they don’t go Vichy. Sub in sz62 French troop in French Indo China One infantry in Siam upgraded to an artillery Chinese Burma Road objective restored to 6PUs Several BM changes now turned off by default (Guerrillas, objectives for Carolines, NW Africa for USA, Okinawa&Iwo Jima for Japan and the UK objective requiring 2 of Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, Rome, USSR bonus for provoking a Japanese DOW on it) Anzac declaring war on Japan doesn’t put Britain at war with Japan

I would think it likely now that Vichy is activated by the Axis nearly always but UK fights them for it."*

Im assuming the base game is BM4

@simon33 said in Simon33 (Axis) vs Lebowsky (Allies+16):

@simon33 I can set it up if you need that.

Ok do It if you can, I wont be home for 8-9 hours

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: French round 3

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: WW2 Path to Victory

Game History

Round: 3 Purchase Units - ANZAC ANZAC buy 1 destroyer and 1 infantry; Remaining resources: 2 PUs; Combat Move - ANZAC 1 submarine moved from 64 Sea Zone to 45 Sea Zone Combat - ANZAC Battle in 45 Sea Zone ANZAC attack with 1 submarine Japanese defend with 1 transport 1 transport owned by the Japanese lost in 45 Sea Zone ANZAC win, taking 45 Sea Zone from Neutral with 1 submarine remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6 Casualties for Japanese: 1 transport Non Combat Move - ANZAC 1 destroyer moved from 64 Sea Zone to 56 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from New Zealand to Queensland 2 aaGuns, 1 artillery, 3 infantry and 1 marine moved from New South Wales to Queensland 1 cruiser, 1 submarine and 1 transport moved from 64 Sea Zone to 55 Sea Zone Place Units - ANZAC 1 infantry placed in New South Wales 1 destroyer placed in 64 Sea Zone Turn Complete - ANZAC ANZAC collect 10 PUs; end with 12 PUs Objective ANZAC 3 Pacific Supply Lines: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 15 PUs Objective ANZAC 2 Control Strategic Islands: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 18 PUs Combat Move - French Turn Complete - French

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

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I matched the dice in my dice email to the game but still better if you check too.

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 11

TripleA Turn Summary for game: WW2 Path to Victory

Game History

Round: 11 Purchase Units - Russians Russians buy 10 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Russians 1 infantry moved from Yaroslavl to Novgorod Russians take Novgorod from Germans 1 armour moved from Stalingrad to Tambov Russians take Tambov from Germans 1 armour moved from Tambov to Stalingrad 1 armour moved from Stalingrad to Rostov Russians take Rostov from Germans 1 armour moved from Rostov to Stalingrad Combat - Russians Non Combat Move - Russians 1 artillery and 10 infantry moved from Samara to Stalingrad 1 artillery moved from Gorky to Samara 1 artillery moved from Russia to Samara 2 infantry moved from Samara to Kazakhstan 8 infantry moved from Russia to Samara 1 artillery moved from Buryatia to Sakha 1 bomber moved from Buryatia to Komi 1 artillery moved from Siberia to Sakha 1 infantry moved from Siberia to Sakha 1 infantry moved from Amur to Sakha 1 infantry moved from Siberia to Sakha Place Units - Russians 3 infantry placed in Siberia 7 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in Russia Turn Complete - Russians Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 2 Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 5 Sea Zone. Rolls: 2,4,4,4 Russians collect 30 PUs (2 lost to blockades); end with 30 PUs Trigger Russians 2 Persia Lend Lease Lane: Russians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 32 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Territory Summary for Russians :

Komi : 1 bomber Kazakhstan : 2 infantry Nenetsia : 1 infantry Siberia : 2 aaGuns, 1 factory_minor and 10 infantry Smolensk : 1 infantry Russia : 1 airfield, 1 factory_major, 1 fighter, 9 infantry and 1 mech_infantry Samara : 1 aaGun, 2 artilleries and 10 infantry Buryatia : 1 infantry Urals : 1 factory_minor Gorky : 2 infantry Vologda : 1 infantry Sakha : 2 artilleries and 3 infantry Novgorod : 1 infantry Stalingrad : 3 aaGuns, 2 armour, 8 artilleries, 1 factory_minor, 2 fighters, 74 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber Northeast Persia : 1 flag

Production/PUs Summary :

Germans : 59 / 75 Russians : 32 / 32 Japanese : 59 / 82 Americans : 51 / 82 Chinese : 11 / 14 British : 38 / 47 UK_Pacific : 9 / 13 Italians : 10 / 1 ANZAC : 4 / 4 French : 5 / 0 Dutch : 0 / 0 Mongolians : 0 / 0 Neutral_Axis : 0 / 0 Neutral_Allies : 0 / 0 Neutral_True : 20 / 0

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TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 18

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod3

Game History

Round: 18 Combat Move - Russians Non Combat Move - Russians 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Iraq to Eastern Persia Turn Complete - Russians

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

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Someone liked a post (not this one) on a 12 year old Sealion thread (shortly after the rules had been firmed up from the Alphas), and I bumped into this nearby post

Apparently I forgot the lessons I had learned. It’s long, but thought you would enjoy:

I wrote this in 2013:

I have never lost as Allies when G attempts Sea Lion
We are getting to the point where we invite a Sea Lion attempt
If you don’t pressure Russia, Russia will kick your butt.  Especially now with the 3 IPC NO per territory, which was another change as of Alpha2/3 somewhere in there.

Dog pile Russia.  If the Allies don’t lose, they win.  If the Allies don’t lose Russia, they will almost always win.  There are exceptions, of course.

To answer the question of the thread “Sea Lion worth it?” I would say, yes, when UK has a lot of money to plunder and you can take it fairly cheaply (without losing your entire fleet to Allied strike after taking) and/or you can take it and hold it at least for awhile.

I would not attempt Sea Lion with less than about 80-90% odds and also a very high chance of losing only a couple of aircraft.  If you’re looking at a 60% chance of taking London with 1 tank and losing most or all of the Luftwaffe - no way.
You don’t win G40 2nd edition just because you successfully took London.
Again, I have never lost after losing London.  It’s best to go full bore after Russia, because Moscow is the biggest threat to the Axis win.

Show me a game where the Axis win after taking London first (in the first 5 or so rounds) and I will show you an Allied player who didn’t do his job, or got horribly diced, or both.  A good Russian player will be licking his chops when he sees the Germans attack London, and should absolutely mop up (assuming London is reasonably defended and G loses most ground units and several air craft, which they almost always will)

New rules that make Sea Lion less rewarding since OOB, Alpha1 version -
Russia AND USA immediately enter the war if London falls
No more NO for London for Germany
AAs can be taken as casualties and UK gets 5
Transport in 113 moved out of range to 114
UK can scramble 3 aircraft from Scotland and UK (for those who don’t remember, weren’t aware, you could not scramble from the UK or Scotland at all, OOB)
Russia gets 3 IPC NO for every single original Axis, pro-Axis Europe/Africa territory (this is a pretty serious deterrent)