Allies (+16) vs. Axis (darkskies) Coop

Thanks, man :-).
I’m glad to hear you like it. Trying to get it running is no problem at all. If you make a mistake/forget something, it may be better to not correct it immediately, because the other player may have a hard time trying to see why something was redone. Post it like it is and request if you may redo that phase/battle. I will never make any problems with something like that. I’m going to need it myself as well haha! Given that this game is Low Luck, we may even correct certain mistakes with a simple edit.

Maybe we can disable the “also post after combat moves” checkbox. That is just silly double information. Maybe AD can explain why he advised to leave this on. If there’s a good reason I am missing, we can leave it on, ofc.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - Americans
            Americans buy 1 carrier and 5 transports; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Politics - Americans
            Americans takes Political Action: Political Action Americans To War With Germans
                Americans succeeds on action: Political Action Americans To War With Germans: Changing Relationship for Germans and Americans from Neutrality to War
            Americans takes Political Action: Political Action Americans To War With Italians
                Americans succeeds on action: Political Action Americans To War With Italians: Changing Relationship for Italians and Americans from Neutrality to War
            Trigger Americans War Production Western: has removed 1 factory_minor owned by Americans in Western United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Central: has removed 1 factory_minor owned by Americans in Central United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Eastern: has removed 1 factory_minor owned by Americans in Eastern United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Western: Americans has 1 factory_major placed in Western United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Central: Americans has 1 factory_major placed in Central United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Eastern: Americans has 1 factory_major placed in Eastern United States

Combat Move - Americans
            Trigger Americans Unrestricted Movement: Setting movementRestrictionTerritories cleared  for rulesAttatchment attached to Americans

Non Combat Move - Americans
            1 artillery moved from Eastern United States to 101 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 transport moved from 101 Sea Zone to 86 Sea Zone
            1 artillery moved from 86 Sea Zone to Brazil
                  Americans take Brazil from Neutral_Allies
            1 fighter moved from Eastern United States to Gibraltar
            1 battleship and 1 destroyer moved from 10 Sea Zone to 89 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Western United States to Central United States
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Western United States to 10 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 10 Sea Zone to 89 Sea Zone
            1 mech_infantry moved from Central United States to Western United States
            1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 10 Sea Zone to 8 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 26 Sea Zone to 64 Sea Zone
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Western United States to Central United States
            2 aaGuns and 1 infantry moved from Eastern United States to Central United States
            2 infantry moved from Hawaiian Islands to 26 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 26 Sea Zone to 10 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 10 Sea Zone to Western United States
            1 cruiser moved from 101 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone
            1 bomber moved from Central United States to French Guiana

Place Units - Americans
            1 carrier and 5 transports placed in 101 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - Americans
            Americans collect 52 PUs; end with 53 PUs total
            Objective Americans 2 Outer Territories: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 58 PUs
            Objective Americans 3 Defense Obligations: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 63 PUs
            Objective Americans 1 Homeland: Americans met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 73 PUs

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - Chinese
            Trigger Chinese Artillery Supplies: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Open
            Chinese buy 4 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Chinese

Non Combat Move - Chinese
            2 infantry moved from Kweichow to Szechwan
            1 infantry moved from Shensi to Szechwan
            2 infantry moved from Suiyuyan to Shensi

Place Units - Chinese
            4 infantry placed in Szechwan

Turn Complete - Chinese
            Chinese collect 9 PUs; end with 9 PUs total
            Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 15 PUs

Scramble?
Don’t bother with saving anything. Just say Yes or no (and if yes what planes exactly).

A little Coop-talk:

Since I have foreknowledge that Germany is… ‘restricted’… to building a LOT of STR (from what I’ve seen it should be 10 in 3 turns and more later), I think it is more than fair if I give you an equal amount of foreknowledge. I can’t pin anything about the allies yet (depends too much on what your next moves will be) -except the USA, so here it is: The USA will from now on produce nothing in Europe anymore. Except perhaps another carrier or a submarine or 3. Unless… Japan gives the USA an easy time in the Pac ;-).

This is the most uncertain strategy I have for the USA (safe against a late JDOW aiming for India, but J1 perhaps not), but I want it tested against a veteran Japanese player doing J1, now that I have the chance. Just to be sure how safe it is.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - British
            British buy 2 fighters and 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Purchase Units - UK_Pacific
            UK_Pacific buy 3 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - British
            1 fighter moved from Scotland to 110 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from United Kingdom to 110 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 109 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 106 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 98 Sea Zone to 97 Sea Zone
            1 bomber moved from United Kingdom to 97 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from United Kingdom to 97 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to 96 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Malta to 96 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Malta to 97 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from 110 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone

Combat - British
            Battle in 96 Sea Zone
                British attack with 2 fighters
                Italians defend with 1 destroyer and 1 transport
                British win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 5
                Casualties for British: 1 fighter
                Casualties for Italians: 1 destroyer and 1 transport
            Battle in 91 Sea Zone
                British attack with 1 destroyer and 1 fighter
                Germans defend with 1 submarine
                British win with 1 destroyer and 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Germans: 1 submarine
            Battle in 110 Sea Zone
                British attack with 1 destroyer and 1 fighter
                Germans defend with 1 battleship
                Germans win with 1 battleship remaining. Battle score for attacker is -18
                Casualties for British: 1 destroyer and 1 fighter
            Battle in 97 Sea Zone
                British attack with 1 bomber, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber
                Italians defend with 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 1 transport
                Units damaged: 1 carrier owned by the British
                British win, taking 97 Sea Zone from Neutral with 1 bomber, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 39
                Casualties for Italians: 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 1 transport

Non Combat Move - British
            1 fighter could not land in 97 Sea Zone and was removed
            1 fighter moved from 97 Sea Zone to Malta
            1 fighter moved from 91 Sea Zone to Gibraltar
            1 fighter moved from 96 Sea Zone to Malta
            1 tactical_bomber moved from 97 Sea Zone to Malta
            1 bomber moved from 97 Sea Zone to Malta
            1 armour and 1 infantry moved from Quebec to 106 Sea Zone
            1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 106 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            1 armour and 1 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Gibraltar
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Ontario to Eastern United States
            1 aaGun and 1 infantry moved from United Kingdom to 109 Sea Zone
            1 mech_infantry moved from United Kingdom to Eire
                  British take Eire from Neutral_Allies
            1 aaGun and 2 infantry moved from Scotland to United Kingdom
            1 aaGun, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 109 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            1 aaGun and 1 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Gibraltar
            1 armour, 2 artilleries and 2 infantry moved from Alexandria to Egypt
            1 artillery moved from India to 39 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from India to 39 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 71 Sea Zone to 83 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from West India to Eastern Persia
                  British take Eastern Persia from Neutral_Allies
            3 infantry moved from Malaya to Shan State
            1 fighter moved from Burma to Szechwan
            2 infantry moved from Burma to India
            2 infantry moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Egypt
            2 infantry moved from Union of South Africa to Rhodesia
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 39 Sea Zone to 80 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 80 Sea Zone to Persia
                  British take Persia from Neutral_Allies
            1 transport moved from 98 Sea Zone to 80 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser and 1 destroyer moved from 39 Sea Zone to 80 Sea Zone
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from India to Tanganyika Territory

Place Units - British
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by British from 97 Sea Zone: 1 carrier
            EDIT: Adding units owned by British to 97 Sea Zone: 1 carrier and 1 fighter
            EDIT: Removing units owned by British from 97 Sea Zone: 1 cruiser
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            2 fighters and 2 infantry placed in United Kingdom

Turn Complete - British
            British collect 30 PUs; end with 32 PUs total
            Objective British 1 Original: British met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 37 PUs

Place Units - UK_Pacific
            3 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys placed in India

Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 0
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 37 Sea Zone. Rolls: 6
            UK_Pacific collect 10 PUs; end with 10 PUs total
            Some Units in India change ownership: 3 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys

Always hated those first turn battles… Imagine playing OOB, without extra bid units. A little bad luck for the allies around the med and it’s game over… Not that the current situation is much better :|. Sigh.

Right, the name of the scrambled sea area is in the window-header. Also below that, just a little above the unit selection box. The scramble would have been for SZ97, which Italy could indeed not have won. They could have caused UK to loose 2 more aircraft at the cost of 3 axis air.

Before I forget: I took the wrong loss in SZ97.
I forgot 1 FTR came from London and could not land on a dmgd CV. So I edited to correct that.

Hmm, difficult to answer… I know this is a more out of the box course of events but there are reasons for it. It would be too much writing to explain why. At least Egypt is safe now and that means a lot.
It´s just something I want to try first, and if it fails horribly (which I do not see as a remote possibility), we can just start over and play the allies more conventional. Maybe I even wanted to try this strategy first because I have the least faith in it of the few ideas that I have… But it has to be like trial and error. And who says I have to use the US forces I placed in Europe against Germany/Italy :-). The Pacific is not too far away.

As for the UK in the med… Again, there´s reasons why and I admit some of the reasons have something to do with my knowing Germany is going to have a large bomberstack and I don´t want the allies to spread too thinly and/or in too small stacks. But if the allies won´t be able to ´beat the bombers´, I am sure it won´t have anything to do with the UK in the med/Africa. Although, Churchill demands German payment for the unnecesary loss of 2FTR and a CA :-). The loss of the first a direct result of the loss of the latter.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - ANZAC
            ANZAC buy 1 infantry and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - ANZAC
            2 infantry moved from Egypt to Anglo Egyptian Sudan

Combat - ANZAC
            Battle in Anglo Egyptian Sudan
                ANZAC attack with 2 infantry
                Italians defend with 1 infantry
                ANZAC win, taking Anglo Egyptian Sudan from Italians with 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Italians: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - ANZAC
            1 infantry moved from New South Wales to 62 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 62 Sea Zone to 45 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from 45 Sea Zone to Dutch New Guinea
                  ANZAC take Dutch New Guinea from Dutch
            1 cruiser moved from 63 Sea Zone to 62 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 fighter and 2 infantry moved from Queensland to South Australia
            2 aaGuns and 1 infantry moved from New South Wales to South Australia
            2 fighters moved from New Zealand to South Australia

Place Units - ANZAC
            1 transport placed in 62 Sea Zone
            1 infantry placed in New South Wales

Turn Complete - ANZAC
            ANZAC collect 10 PUs; end with 10 PUs total
            Trigger ANZAC 1 Control Original And Malaya: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 15 PUs
            Objective ANZAC 2 Control Strategic Islands: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 20 PUs

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 2

Research Technology - Germans

Something went wrong with posting the French turn summary…
I canceled the posting because I wanted to check something and then the post button was greyed out. So be aware of that bug.

You can manually post (file, post PBEM/PBF) which I found out only after it was already the German turn.
Please be aware I edited the 3 Russian ART in Leningrad for MECH. No big deal, but I don´t want anything to go accidentally unnoticed  :wink:.