R01 - DM (Axis) vs. Soul (Allies + 10)

@gamerman01

I am fine with commenting during the game. It’s ok maybe I should be nervous since everyone was able to win so quickly unlike me.

@leemorrison You’re being polite. Yes I got my bomber and some air shot down during the first two turns but I overextended very badly with Japan, mostly because I underestimated the value the tanks would give you in terms of exploiting openings in my positions.

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Back to W.W. I, A.H. Empire versus Italian & French Empire.
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Round One: AH Empire builds fighter, sub., &, 4 troopers. Here a quick strike for Rome can bring some results, with only one sea & land entrance for Austro-Hungarian Empire, makes it hard for the Allies to attack. But with France to lend large land forces to help Italy, perhaps a limited conquest(say Venice) to help see what the Allies will give to get AHE out of Italy.

Sends forces into Venice, while keeping Trieste covered in case of any future Allied sea landings. Twelve troopers & 4 guns versus Italian 6 troopers & 2 guns. Losses 5 troopers, &, all Italian but for one trooper. Venice is contested.

Fr. builds sub., fighter, &, 4 troopers. Moves forces into Italy, &, fighter lands in Piedmont. Also transport lands there, 2 troopers from North African colonies. Another transport goes to Morocco to pick up 2 troopers from W. Africa.

Brest fleet goes to Med. Sea, while Med. fleet, links up with Italian fleet.

Italy builds fighter & 2 troopers. Sends reinforcements into Venice, it is still contested. Also transport picks up colonial trooper & gun from Libya, and, lands them in Piedmont.

Round Two AH Empire builds fighter, BB, 2 troopers, &, gun. More forces into Venice, 37 troopers & 8 guns, &, fighter, versus, Italian 8 troopers & 2 guns. Losses AHE 7 troopers & all Allies, Venice has fallen.

France builds fighter, 2 troopers, &, BB. Transport from Morocco & 2 from Marseilles debarks 6 troopers on Tuscany. Also BB & sub. join up with Italian Fleet off Rome. Reinforcements enter Piedmont from Eastern France(along with fighter from Paris).

Italy builds gun & 3 infantry, transport arrives off East Africa. Reinforcements from Piedmont & Rome enter Tuscany.

Round Three: AHE builds sub., fighter, gun, &, four troopers. More land reinforcements pour into Venice, along with fighter from capital. Land forces attack Tuscany(rather than Piedmont). Thirty troopers & 8 guns & fighters, versus, Allies 15 troopers, 3 guns, &, 2 fighters. Losses Axis 11 troopers and fighter, &, French 6 troopers & fighter. Also Italian 8 troopers & 3 guns lost. Tuscany is contested.

AHE breaks out of Home Waters(no mine lost) aiming for French transports. Two BB & C & sub., versus, Fr. 2BB & C & sub. & 3 transports, &, Italian BB & C(only after battle Italian BB & Fr. BB & 3 transports left).

France builds fighter, sub., gun, &, 3 troopers. Moves 3 transports from Italy to Marseilles & lands in Tuscany 6 troopers(from Piedmont forces move into Tuscany also). Battle 17 troopers & 4 guns & fighter, versus, AHE 19 troopers & 8 guns. Losses Fr. 15 troopers & AHE 10 troopers.

At sea Fr. BB goes to AHE Home Waters, hits mine, but, takes out Axis submarine.

Italy builds 4 troopers, from Rome into Tuscany last of uncommitted European forces of 3 troopers & gun(also trooper goes from Piedmont into Tuscany). In East Africa trooper boards transport.

Round Four: AHE builds BB & fighter and 3 troopers. Moves from Venice forces into Tuscany and fighter from capital. Also from Trieste forces go into Venice, &, from the capital forces go to Trieste(to defend against any sea landings). Two fighters(lost in air duel) & 15 troopers & 10 guns, versus, Fr. 2 fighters(one lost in air duel) & 2 troopers & 4 guns, and, Italian 5 troopers & gun. Losses Axis 9 troopers & Allies all, Tuscany has fallen.

France builds sub., gun, &, 4 troopers. Forces from Piedmont enter Tuscany, and, 2 trooper from Burgundy & fighter from Paris enter Piedmont. Battle 11 troopers & 4 guns, versus, AHE 6 troopers & 10 guns. Losses Allies 6 troopers & Axis 5 troopers & 3 guns.

At sea, sub. goes from Marseilles, with no mine damage to join damaged BB, in AHE Home waters, versus, AHE BB. Losses all.

Italy builds gun & 3 troopers. Moves Rome garrison to Tuscany, 4 troopers, versus, AHE trooper & 7 guns. Losses all of Italy’s European land forces & AHE 3 guns. Transport with trooper arrives off Egypt.

Endplay AHE will never take Rome or head towards Paris, even probably controlling Tuscany again(to do so, lets France to retake Venice). Pieces for land are about the same for both sides, Axis has no navy, but, needs to build one to protect the coastline from Fr. landings in the future(if Venice is lost, would also face a land invasion). For the Allies, it would be a long bloody road to Vienna. So both sides “save face”, where Fr. Tunis & Italian Libya meet, a small part of the coastline(20 miles long & 5 deep) is leased to AHE for ninety-nine years. Also uncontested home ports visits for everybody. This mini leased colony is a non-militarized zone.

Losses IPCs, Allies troopers 43 & Axis 37, Allies guns 12 & Axis 6, fighters 3 each side, transport for Axis, 2 subs. each side, Allies 2 C & Axis 1, and, 3 BBs each side.

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@VictoryFirst said in 2025 Classic tournament round 1 Gamerman01 v VictoryFirst (Axis):

in the end it worked out beautifully.

I had lucky results in China J1, and again against the Japanese battleships and loaded carrier off French Indo China

The Japanese fleet was more important than normal because only one factory was built

Very gracious, thank you!

@Martin Yes the “miss” on my part was using Japan’s bomber offensively when it could have at least NCM’d from Manchuria -> Germany to give one more HP to the units there. That might have made some level of difference in the final fight but in hindsight, once the UK air got as many kills as it did it was unlikely that Germany was going to survive.

Good luck to you as well!

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