2016 League General Discussion Thread

@Stucifer Whatever you do to make the game fun for me, I’ll take.

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: Germans round 1

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: WW2 Path to Victory

Game History

Round: 1 Purchase Units - Germans Germans buy 1 carrier, 1 destroyer and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Trigger Germans 6 Atlantic Wall Broken Switch: Setting switch to false for conditionAttachment_Germans_6_Atlantic_Wall_Possible_Switch attached to Germans Combat Move - Germans 1 battleship moved from 116 Sea Zone to 114 Sea Zone 1 tactical_bomber moved from Germany to 113 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from Norway to 114 Sea Zone 1 tactical_bomber moved from Western Germany to 114 Sea Zone 1 bomber moved from Germany to 114 Sea Zone 1 bomber moved from Germany to 113 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from Holland Belgium to 113 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 111 Sea Zone to 113 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 106 Sea Zone to 113 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 127 Sea Zone to 114 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 121 Sea Zone to 109 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 120 Sea Zone to 109 Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from Holland Belgium to Normandy Bordeaux 1 mech_infantry moved from Western Germany to Normandy Bordeaux 1 armour moved from Holland Belgium to Normandy Bordeaux 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Western Germany to 113 Sea Zone 1 tactical_bomber moved from Western Germany to Normandy Bordeaux 2 armour, 2 artilleries and 3 infantry moved from Holland Belgium to France 1 artillery, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Western Germany to France 3 armour and 3 mech_infantrys moved from Austria to France 2 artilleries and 6 infantry moved from Austria to Yugoslavia 2 infantry moved from Slovakia Hungary to Yugoslavia 1 armour moved from Poland to Yugoslavia 1 fighter moved from Poland to Yugoslavia 1 armour moved from Slovakia Hungary to Romania 1 armour moved from Romania to Yugoslavia Combat - Germans

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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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oh bugger. Could have busted Moscow if I had can opened Samara.

@GeneralDisarray I assumed the BB and then destroyers as your casualties. Let me know if you want it swapped. Won’t affect any other dice, as I only did a one round strafe.

Scramble to Romania?

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 9

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

Game History

Round: 9 Purchase Units - Russians Russians repair damage of 5x factory_major; Remaining resources: 21 PUs; Russians buy 6 infantry; Remaining resources: 3 PUs; Combat Move - Russians 1 infantry moved from Bryansk to Western Ukraine Russians take Western Ukraine from Italians 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Bryansk to Ukraine 1 infantry moved from Smolensk to Archangel Russians take Archangel from Germans 5 infantry moved from Amur to Siberia Combat - Russians Battle in Ukraine Russians attack with 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber Germans defend with 1 factory_minor and 1 infantry Russians roll dice for 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Ukraine, round 2 : 1/4 hits, 1.50 expected hits Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Ukraine, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Ukraine Russians win, taking Ukraine from Germans with 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3 Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry Battle in Siberia Russians attack with 5 infantry Japanese defend with 1 infantry Russians roll dice for 5 infantry in Siberia, round 2 : 1/5 hits, 0.83 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Siberia, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Siberia Russians win, taking Siberia from Japanese with 5 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3 Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry Non Combat Move - Russians 1 aaGun moved from Amur to Siberia 1 aaGun and 8 infantry moved from Amur to Buryatia 1 armour, 13 artilleries, 36 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys moved from Bryansk to Tambov 2 infantry moved from Volgograd to Tambov 1 infantry moved from Kazakhstan to Caucasus 3 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Samara 1 infantry moved from Urals to Vologda 2 mech_infantrys moved from Vologda to Russia 1 infantry moved from Smolensk to Russia 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Ukraine to Russia 1 fighter moved from Szechwan to Russia 2 mech_infantrys moved from Russia to Tambov 1 submarine moved from 110 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Russia to Tambov 1 fighter moved from Russia to Tambov 1 aaGun moved from Russia to Tambov Place Units - Russians 6 infantry placed in Russia Turn Complete - Russians Russians collect 29 PUs; end with 32 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Japanese regular : -0.33 Germans regular : -0.33 Russians 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.