Syria Push

I just want to share this.

I made a terrible blunder…and then I made a worse one.

Launched a Sea Lion assault on G3 with five transports (all armor/infantry) and my entire luftwaffe, plus a cruiser for bombardment and a pair of ACs in case he scrambled his four fighters. Stupidly, I assigned no fighter support to the sea zone…and his scramble sunk my entire fleet.

The worse blunder, however, was thinking that I had to continue the attack; I was misremembering the amphib assault rules, which only prevents seaborne land units from retreating, and thought that I was forced to continue fighting a hopeless cause (my opponent assumed the same, BTW…he was not trying to mislead me). Without the 10 land units I had anticipated bringing to the battle, I lost the entire German air force in a single battle.

The debacle cost me more than 200 IPCs worth of units.

Despite this “setback,” we continued the game. And I still managed to win, taking both India and Hawaii on J5 for my 5th and 6th (Pacific) victory cities, and no way for the Allies to retake before Japan’s next turn.

I am rather amazed. My opponent focused all his (American) attention in the European theater, deciding to pounce on Germany’s weakened state after J2 DOW…perhaps thinking Japan wasn’t much of a threat as I had moved all my navy to the south Pacific (FIC, Philippines, etc.). But I goaded him into attacking Japan and then destroyed his fleet with my battleships, and still he didn’t bother rebuilding his Navy on the west coast.

I took Hawaii with two transports and four infantry (the island’s only defender: a lone mechanized infantry unit). Incredible.

As I said, I just wanted to share this with other A&A Global players. I can’t believe how stupid I was, losing the luftwaffe that way. And yet, I learned from that mistake (when I took India, it was with plenty of fighter support for the potential sea battle). And, now, having snatched victory from the jaws of my own idiocy (and having read up on the amphibious assault rules and seen just how truly dumb my Sea Lion disaster was), I am breathing a sigh of relief and tilting a glass of Ouzo.

[my opponent was very gracious in defeat]

@shadowhawk said in Know The Rules: How Boats Can Move 4 Spaces:

Retreat however is not a move so it ignores most movement rules.

Retreat is movement, as the pieces involved move from one space to another. As such, it must follow all movement rules. However, it is a special type of movement, with additional rules extending the total range of land and sea units by 1 and restricting where it may end. That’s the only difference.

@Black to further expand, a player cannot attack a land territory with a non-enemy unit.

This happens not uncommonly when Italy declares war on Russia and moves into a territory. Germany does not declare war and marches their units into the newly captured Italian-owned territory. When Russia wants to attack, it cannot just attack the Italians, it must declare war on Germany.

If I recall correctly.

@Argothair

This is just straight OOB, but this game I added tech rolls. You had to pay for the rolls so only 4 countries got tech.

Russia went Red Skies and bought 3 SB’s turn one. Counterattacks are blowouts when the 3 SB’s are in on it.

Germany has been scatter brained (Japan too). On Russia’s first turn at war they sent a SB to each of the two new German factories and the third SB to one of the counterattacks. Germany didn’t bother repairing the damage next turn and instead dropped inf all over western Europe because every single inf died on G1.

Germany and Russia keep trading the same 3 territories back and forth. I’m just starting R6 and they will only be able to take two of the 3 back this turn.

On I5/G6, they gave up on trying to take Persia and burst into the Caucasus. The shucks from South Africa just made Persia too large to take even with a can opener, follow up. Stalingrad going down next turn as Japan has six tanks and 5 planes ready to hit it, and one space away is 5 tanks, 2 ftr, 2 tac, 1 sb.

Russia has been slugging it out with Germany and holding its own. Now Axis is about to hit them from the south and the east so they need to turn their attention away from the west.

Germany has rockets. I think next turn I will drop two AB’s in Romania and Slovakia to get extra damage on Moscow IC.

Japan is in Australia and needs to figure out what to do. US has large fleet and 5 fully loaded trns in Iwo Jima. US has blocker to stop Japan from taking Hawaii in one move. IF US was going next, they will be taking Tokyo. Japan goes next, so I think they will drop an AB in Korea and create six ftr scramble with whatever boats I add. It will be too much for US to risk… US could plop into Asia but large Japan fleet in Australia can cause real pain if US gets that far out of position. US was initially trying to take back Phillipines but Japan played dosey do to keep them away and they hit Iwo instead.

I want to be super aggressive with US, but I know that will end up costing them the game so I think they will return to Caroline Islands next turn to protect Hawaii… but then the two fleets in Japan and Australia can converge into one massive fleet to wipe out US. Gotta figure out what to do with them.

So far UK has spent every dime on Persia and South Africa. Now that Axis has peeled away from Persia they can focus on Europe.

US just landed decent sized fleet and 3 fully loaded trns in Morrocco with the intent to hit other side of Med to help save Persia. Now they are going to hit either Holland or Normandy and let UK set up bridges. Germany has been dropping inf all over west Europe (normally it’s pretty bare) so it won’t be easy for the Allies.

UK pac/Persia has a lot of ftrs and they will be going to Moscow soon - if Japan goes north instead of west. UK pac has Bay of Bengal and Persia area fully stacked, and a six ftr scramble for Calcutta so Japan is going to bleed . UK has radar and India has 6 AAA. Basically, Japan is going to howl when they try to get to India. As such, Japan decided to go after Russia instead to help Germany.

The best way I can think of is to attack Iraq, and let the Italians have the left over infantry from the strafe.  They will probably take Syria for the easy money and won’t think twice about it.

@PGsquig said in Anyone ever used Ceylon?:

@dazedwit When Calcutta falls, there is often no naval battle whatsoever. You would be better off spending the money on more infantry which will help your land defense rather than investing in infrastructure which will likely not be used. Any Anzac fighters can be used to defend the land territory of Calcutta and will have much more utility than if they were used in a sea battle.

Even if there were a naval battle before an amphibious assault on Calcutta, only if the UK Pacific’s navy is large enough to nearly win a battle against the Japanese navy would a second airbase be useful. If your UK Pacific navy is strong enough to stand toe-to-toe with the Japanese navy, either something disastrous has happened to the Japanese navy (in which case the Allies probably have the game in the bag) or you have nearly no UK Pacific land units (in which case the Japanese army will walk their way to Calcutta and ignore your boats).

Depends if Germany does something really weird you might be able to afford pulling the med navy back to india. If your pacific fleet consists of 3 destroyer 2 cruiers 1 BB and loaded carrier adding another 6 planes to the defence might really make it hard to japan to overcome that. IT wont be a walk in the park.

It could be something like letting 110 survive and then when you group at gibraltar having bad dice and losing the italian navy for no real damage to the UK navy.

But then again japan can then just dont invade and first take out the fleet and then a turn later invade anyway.

@kcdzim:

All units from a single transport must be unloaded in the same territory and (unless they were on the transport at the start of the turn) also during the same phase.

This statement is a little misleading.  While a unit that was on the transport at the start of the turn may be left on the transport when the other unit offloads, it may not offload in a different phase.  A transport may never offload in two different phases of the same turn.

@Noll:

So if for example I have a transport with 1inf and 1aa and I attack a territory with 1inf, I can’t unload the AA during the non combat phase?

No.