Hey SA!
I’ll aim for some sort of “battle report” although I have as yet no idea of what that might look like, this being my first A&A event. If there is a good example to point me at that would be great.
Not sure whether your post signals you are from the UK, Germany or neither? Let me know if the UK and I’ll add you to the list of potential future participants.
Cheers
PP
No I’m in upstate N.Y., I drive to Toronto for the F.M.G.'s event. Its a blast and it adds to your game.
If I had the money and time I would go to events all over (time to start playing the lottery)
I’m a WWII freak, and the title for this event is great!
Good luck and have fun, I hope there is a good size turn out.
Keep us posted with pictures
S.A.
A great time was had by all! An unanimous desire to repeat the event, possibly quarterly, so any other UK players keep your eyes open on this board.
A brief battle report since that seems to be the thing to do. Not checked with anyone else whether they feel this is a fair reflection so they may want to get on this thread and passionately correct me! :-D
Rookies (including me) given Axis. No bids.
Game 1: Credulous and Dukla passer - Allies vs NFP1 (non forum player) and NFP2 - Axis
Declared as an Allied victory. US & UK had achieved dominance against J in the Pacific and taken the money islands. India swapped hands a couple of times, but culminated in a UK victory driving north through Asia.
G failed to take Africa but kept the Allies at bay on all fronts for an extended period, gradually being worn down.
Game 2: wittman - Allies vs Private Panic and NFP3 - Axis
No victory cities taken. J lost two major naval/air engagements to the UK in the Indian Ocean, failing to remove the UK’s carrier or fighters. Darn those dice! Finally got them at the third attempt, but the loss of naval and air materiel dragged J production away from land units for Asia. J and the US at a stand off in the Pacific with huge fleets.
G took Africa, but found itself swapping eastern European rather than Russian territories with R, who retained Asian ipcs J would normally have taken. Big US/UK fleet off western Europe. Would G manage to swing its additional African ipcs against Russia or have them sucked away by US/UK amphibious assaults?
The game ended without finding out, due to time, although wittman (with 25 years of A&A experience) was sure that he had the edge. Private Panic, benefitting from a lack of knowledge to interfere with his preferred reading of the game, believed things to be finely balanced. :-)
PP has omitted to say that the Axis were tremendously unlucky on T1 and Japan on T2 too. MY R1 went splendidly. I think I lost 4 Inf to take 3 Tts. Germany may have found it hard to establish itself on the Eastern Front, because of my lucky R1.
The Axis’ woes were heightened when the UK’s cheeky SZ37 attack went better than expected. Again, I think I lost 2 units, wiping out Carrier, 2 Fts and the BB. The cheeky Brit Carrier survive the inevitable Jap counterattack, only losing its supporting CR. The Japs had to retreat after R1, with only a Ft surviving. As it happens, I only lost the brave AC and accompanying Fts, because I forgot Japan came inbetween the UK and US’s turns and left it off Borneo, thinking the large US fleet would unite with it. Fool!
Suffice to say, I was sad to see it sink, within reach and moments of US help.
Thanks witt for making my excuses better than I did myself! It was a pleasure being beaten / not beaten (delete as applicable!) by you! :-D
Hopefully I can join one of the next ones! And perhaps followed by one in my country, called Market Garden (or Fall Gelb, depending on which side you play).
Wittman always thinks he has the edge.
Don’t believe the fantasy!
Morning Garg. I do believe I am not a bad 1942 player (better than 1940, anyway.) as a game, it is not as Axis biased as 1940. Bombers and generous Axis NOs make 1940 a hard nut for the Allies to crack. I am starting to despair with 1940, of late.
Tavenier: I can assure you we would all love to drop into a Holland to liberate you from those evil Germans. Unfortunately, I could not leave my doting wife and clingy 5 year old to do so.
Great idea, however.
Wittman always thinks he has the edge.
Don’t believe the fantasy!
I can only agree with you Garg! Mind you, I am capable of some delusional fantasies of my own!
@Private:
Wittman always thinks he has the edge.
Don’t believe the fantasy!
I can only agree with you Garg! Mind you, I am capable of some delusional fantasies of my own!
Take a look at this game.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=35249.0
Wittman and his ally hung on until the bitter end, thinking they had the edge until we smacked em down to less than 30 units on the board.
It was only then they gave up, in the face 2800 IPC unit lead. Before that it was all smack talk! And “we can win it all with dice” threats.
That sounds rather like me in my 42.2 forum game against witt!
