15L G40 champinoman (Axis) v mitler (Allies+19)

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TripleA Turn Summary: French round 3

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 French Rebalance

Game History

Round: 3 Purchase Units - ANZAC ANZAC buy 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - ANZAC 1 fighter moved from India to 42 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from India to 39 Sea Zone 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 39 Sea Zone to 72 Sea Zone Combat - ANZAC Battle in 42 Sea Zone ANZAC attack with 1 fighter Japanese defend with 1 transport 1 transport owned by the Japanese lost in 42 Sea Zone ANZAC win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7 Casualties for Japanese: 1 transport Non Combat Move - ANZAC Turning on Edit Mode EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode 1 fighter moved from 42 Sea Zone to Northern Territory 3 infantry moved from New South Wales to South Australia 2 infantry moved from New South Wales to Queensland 1 infantry moved from French Equatorial Africa to French Central Africa ANZAC take French Central Africa from Free_French EDIT: 1 artillery, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Queensland to Hawaiian Islands EDIT: 1 carrier moved from 30 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone EDIT: 1 battleship, 2 carriers, 2 cruisers, 3 destroyers, 4 fighters, 2 submarines and 2 transports moved from 54 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 49 Sea Zone to 63 Sea Zone 1 cruiser moved from 26 Sea Zone to 63 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from New South Wales to Queensland 1 infantry moved from Burma to India 1 infantry moved from 72 Sea Zone to French Madagascar ANZAC take French Madagascar from Free_French Place Units - ANZAC 1 transport placed in 62 Sea Zone 1 fighter and 1 infantry placed in New South Wales Turn Complete - ANZAC ANZAC collect 13 PUs; end with 13 PUs Objective ANZAC 3 Pacific Supply Lines: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 16 PUs Combat Move - French 1 infantry moved from Burma to India 1 infantry moved from Egypt to Alexandria Combat - French Battle in Alexandria French attack with 1 infantry Germans defend with 1 tactical_bomber French roll dice for 1 infantry in Alexandria, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits Italians roll dice for 1 tactical_bomber in Alexandria, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.50 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the French lost in Alexandria Italians win with 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is -3 Casualties for French: 1 infantry Non Combat Move - French 1 infantry moved from French Equatorial Africa to Anglo Egyptian Sudan Turn Complete - French

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Italians regular : 0.50 French regular : -0.17

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TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 4

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Classic

Game History

Round: 4 Purchase Units - Russians Russians buy 1 armour and 7 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Russians 22 infantry moved from Finland Norway to Karelia S.S.R. 2 infantry moved from Russia to Caucasus 3 infantry moved from Russia to Karelia S.S.R. 1 armour moved from Russia to Karelia S.S.R. 2 fighters moved from Evenki National Okrug to Caucasus 1 armour moved from Russia to Karelia S.S.R. Combat - Russians Battle in Karelia S.S.R. Russians attack with 2 armour and 25 infantry Germans defend with 1 factory and 1 infantry Russians roll dice for 2 armour and 25 infantry in Karelia S.S.R., round 2 : 6/27 hits, 5.17 expected hits Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Karelia S.S.R., round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Karelia S.S.R. 1 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Karelia S.S.R. Russians win, taking Karelia S.S.R. from Germans with 2 armour and 24 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0 Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry Battle in Caucasus Russians attack with 2 fighters and 2 infantry Germans defend with 1 armour Russians roll dice for 2 fighters and 2 infantry in Caucasus, round 2 : 1/4 hits, 1.33 expected hits Germans roll dice for 1 armour in Caucasus, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 armour owned by the Germans lost in Caucasus Russians win, taking Caucasus from Germans with 2 fighters and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 5 Casualties for Germans: 1 armour Non Combat Move - Russians 2 fighters moved from Caucasus to India 1 infantry moved from Evenki National Okrug to Russia 1 aaGun moved from Russia to Karelia S.S.R. 1 aaGun moved from Russia to Kazakh S.S.R. Place Units - Russians 1 armour and 7 infantry placed in Russia Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 24 PUs; end with 24 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Germans regular : 0.33 Russians regular : 0.50

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TripleA doesn’t require it, but the rulebook does:

SBR attacks first,
Naval battles supporting amphibious assault and the ensuing assault second,
All other battles after that…

So Kenya was supposed to be rolled before Hunnan

Just for future reference
Myself included, many players don’t realize this rule is actually in the rulebook, and yes it does sometimes make a difference, potentially a huge difference, so all must observe the rule…
Page 16 of 2nd edition Europe rulebook, first thing under “Phase 3: Conduct combat”

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Scramble to Romania?

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: Japanese round 19

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: WW2 Path to Victory

Game History

Round: 19 Purchase Units - Japanese Japanese buy 1 aaGun, 1 airfield, 1 factory_minor, 1 fighter, 13 infantry and 1 submarine; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 6 SuicideAttackTokens; Combat Move - Japanese 1 transport moved from 20 Sea Zone to 7 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from Japan to 7 Sea Zone 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 7 Sea Zone to 9 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from 9 Sea Zone to Aleutian Islands 1 infantry moved from Jehol to Chahar Japanese take Chahar from Chinese 1 infantry moved from Shantung to Anhwe 2 infantry moved from Kiangsu to Anhwe 1 bomber and 2 fighters moved from Kiangsu to Anhwe 1 infantry moved from French Indo China to Yunnan Japanese take Yunnan from Chinese 3 artilleries and 6 infantry moved from French Indo China to Kwangsi Japanese take Kwangsi from Chinese 1 infantry moved from Eastern India to Central India Japanese take Central India from UK_Pacific 1 infantry moved from Eastern India to Western India Japanese take Western India from UK_Pacific 1 submarine moved from 40 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 40 Sea Zone to 80 Sea Zone 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 40 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 40 Sea Zone to 80 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Eastern India to Burma Japanese take Burma from UK_Pacific 1 marine moved from Eastern India to 40 Sea Zone 1 battleship and 1 marine moved from 40 Sea Zone to 132 Sea Zone 1 marine moved from 132 Sea Zone to Siam 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Eastern India to 40 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 40 Sea Zone to 132 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 132 Sea Zone to Shan State 1 transport moved from 20 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 6 Sea Zone to 21 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from 21 Sea Zone to Kwangtung Combat - Japanese Battle in Kwangtung Battle in Siam Battle in Shan State Battle in Aleutian Islands Battle in 80 Sea Zone Japanese attack with 1 fighter, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber British defend with 1 destroyer Japanese roll dice for 1 submarine in 80 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber in 80 Sea Zone, round 2 : 2/2 hits, 1.17 expected hits British roll dice for 1 destroyer in 80 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 destroyer owned by the British lost in 80 Sea Zone Japanese win, taking Kwangtung from UK_Pacific, taking Siam from ANZAC, taking Shan State from UK_Pacific, taking Aleutian Islands from Americans with 1 fighter, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 8 Casualties for British: 1 destroyer Battle in 81 Sea Zone Japanese attack with 1 fighter, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber Americans defend with 1 destroyer Japanese roll dice for 1 submarine in 81 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber in 81 Sea Zone, round 2 : 2/2 hits, 1.17 expected hits Americans roll dice for 1 destroyer in 81 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 destroyer owned by the Americans lost in 81 Sea Zone Japanese win, taking 81 Sea Zone from Neutral with 1 fighter, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 8 Casualties for Americans: 1 destroyer Battle in Anhwe Japanese attack with 1 bomber, 2 fighters and 3 infantry Chinese defend with 1 artillery and 3 infantry Japanese roll dice for 1 bomber, 2 fighters and 3 infantry in Anhwe, round 2 : 2/6 hits, 2.00 expected hits Chinese roll dice for 1 artillery and 3 infantry in Anhwe, round 2 : 2/4 hits, 1.33 expected hits 2 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Anhwe 2 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Anhwe Japanese roll dice for 1 bomber, 2 fighters and 1 infantry in Anhwe, round 3 : 3/4 hits, 1.67 expected hits Chinese roll dice for 1 artillery and 1 infantry in Anhwe, round 3 : 1/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Anhwe 1 infantry owned by the Chinese and 1 artillery owned by the Chinese lost in Anhwe Japanese win with 1 bomber and 2 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4 Casualties for Japanese: 3 infantry Casualties for Chinese: 1 artillery and 3 infantry Non Combat Move - Japanese 1 battleship, 3 carriers, 5 destroyers, 3 fighters, 2 submarines and 3 tactical_bombers moved from 20 Sea Zone to 9 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 6 Sea Zone to 9 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 36 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone 1 carrier moved from 37 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone 1 carrier moved from 37 Sea Zone to 21 Sea Zone 2 tactical_bombers moved from 37 Sea Zone to Kiangsu 2 fighters moved from Anhwe to 20 Sea Zone 2 fighters moved from 37 Sea Zone to 21 Sea Zone 5 transports moved from 37 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Eastern India to 40 Sea Zone 3 fighters moved from 40 Sea Zone to French Indo China 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 81 Sea Zone to Eastern India 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 80 Sea Zone to Eastern India 1 destroyer moved from 40 Sea Zone to 56 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 2 battleships, 7 carriers, 3 cruisers, 4 destroyers, 4 fighters, 1 infantry, 5 submarines, 1 tactical_bomber and 3 transports moved from 40 Sea Zone to 132 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 132 Sea Zone to Shan State 1 bomber moved from Anhwe to Kiangsu 2 transports moved from 20 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone 4 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone 4 infantry and 2 transports moved from 6 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone 4 infantry moved from 20 Sea Zone to Kiangsu Place Units - Japanese 1 airfield and 1 factory_minor placed in French Indo China 1 submarine placed in 6 Sea Zone 3 infantry placed in Kiangsu 9 infantry placed in Japan 1 aaGun, 1 fighter and 1 infantry placed in New South Wales Turn Complete - Japanese Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 0 Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 64 Sea Zone. Rolls: 4,5 Japanese collect 63 PUs; end with 63 PUs Objective Japanese 6 Home Islands: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 66 PUs Objective Japanese 4 Control Dutch East Indies: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 71 PUs Objective Japanese 3 Control Honolulu Or Sydney Or Calcutta Or Western United States: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 81 PUs Turning on Edit Mode EDIT: Removing units owned by Japanese from Victoria: 1 infantry EDIT: Adding units owned by Japanese to New South Wales: 1 infantry EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Chinese regular : 1.00 Americans regular : -0.33 Japanese regular : 2.33 British regular : -0.33

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@AndrewAAGamer It was a good game. I was interested to see how the Russian /Chinese defense played out. I was able to force the Russian and Chinese back, but I never got any traction in Moscow.

Greece was a problem, and perhaps, I should have just ignored it until I built more ground forces in the area. However, the bid for Russia supplemented them with enough units that I never had an advantage there regardless of the Greece fiasco. In fact, I felt you had pulled back too quickly and let the Germans gain some territory that could have been more dearly fought over, which counteracted the early loss of material in Greece.

But that leads to my main “learning point” of this game, a winning strategy for the Allies is just to build up and defend. You never really fought for anything in the Europe side, just built up forces in Normandy and eventually spilled over to Holland. More dramatically, this was followed in the Pacific side, you never even threatened for the DEI or even took back Aleutians until I went for India on T9. Just build carriers and fighters and some transports that just stayed as a single force.

Normally, I would have thought that was a losing strat against Japan, but because China was so strong, I never established my hegemony over Asia. Sure, at the end, Japan was a land force, but it didn’t matter because the IJN was unable to defend against the US fleet. From T6-T14, the Japanese never spent less than 19 IPCs on land forces except 2 turns, and spent more than 1/3 of the iPCs on land forces + transports on over half the turns. Yet, did not remove the Chinese from the map.

Equally surprising strat was to ignore Europe with the US for so long. Just buying a small fleet to hold Normandy and 3 inf each turn. I would have thought the Germans would have made more progress since they had a small West force to counter with. But Russia wasn’t falling so nope.

The bottomline is I don’t see how to defeat this strategy with this bid. There was nowhere to attack at advantage. The NO for Russia does not seem to be stoppable. I tried a couple of times to get the Japanese over but without severely dispersing my forces, that was not going to happen. So Russia will hold, and then it’s just build and wait for the remaining forces.

Kinda demoralized right now, so I’ll go beat up on some other competition and maybe try again after the scars have healed.