16L G40 BM 2.0 Mr.Green vs Koala (allies)

@Mistergreen:

you’ve won at the beginning of japans next turn, if I do not manage to capture either one of japans 6 VCs or all axis capitals

You only need one axis capital as long as it is Japan or Berlin.  :-)
Nevertheless a very hard task so I would be astonished if you accomplish it!  :-o

(OOB) rules state (p.33 pacific rulebook):
“Axis win by controlling 8 (or 6) Victory Cities for a complete round of play, as long as they control an Axis capital at the end of that round.”

So I think I have to capture all Axis capitals.

But either way, I have to go all in and try my luck on Tokyo…

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

Game History

Round: 8

Purchase Units - Americans
            Americans buy 1 destroyer, 8 infantry, 1 submarine, 2 tactical_bombers and 4 transports; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Americans
            2 infantry moved from Hawaiian Islands to 26 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer, 2 infantry, 2 submarines and 1 transport moved from 26 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 91 Sea Zone to 94 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Gibraltar to 91 Sea Zone
            1 infantry, 1 mech_infantry and 1 transport moved from 91 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from 110 Sea Zone to Normandy Bordeaux
            4 bombers moved from United Kingdom to Normandy Bordeaux

Combat - Americans
            Kamikaze Suicide Attack attacks 1 destroyer owned by the Americans scoring 1 hits.  Rolls: 4,5,6,3,6,2
            Battle in 6 Sea Zone
                Americans attack with 2 infantry, 2 submarines and 1 transport
                Japanese defend with 1 carrier, 2 destroyers, 2 fighters, 2 submarines and 1 transport
                Units damaged: 1 carrier owned by the Japanese
                Japanese win with 1 carrier, 2 destroyers, 2 fighters, 2 submarines and 1 transport remaining. Battle score for attacker is -25
                Casualties for Americans: 2 infantry, 2 submarines and 1 transport
            Battle in Normandy Bordeaux
                Americans attack with 4 bombers, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Germans defend with 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 2 infantry
                Americans win, taking Normandy Bordeaux from Germans with 4 bombers, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Germans: 2 infantry
            Battle in 94 Sea Zone
                Americans attack with 1 submarine
                Germans defend with 1 transport
                Americans win with 1 submarine remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for Germans: 1 transport
                2 fighters owned by the Japanese forced to land in Japan

Non Combat Move - Americans
            1 cruiser moved from 54 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
            1 carrier and 2 fighters moved from 50 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
            4 infantry moved from Western United States to 10 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer, 4 infantry, 1 submarine and 2 transports moved from 10 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from 26 Sea Zone to Hawaiian Islands
            1 fighter moved from 26 Sea Zone to Hawaiian Islands
            2 infantry moved from Eastern United States to 101 Sea Zone
            2 artilleries moved from Eastern United States to 101 Sea Zone
            2 artilleries, 2 destroyers, 2 infantry and 2 transports moved from 101 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Gibraltar
            2 artilleries moved from 91 Sea Zone to Gibraltar
            1 fighter moved from 91 Sea Zone to Gibraltar
            2 fighters moved from 110 Sea Zone to Gibraltar
            2 destroyers moved from 110 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            2 destroyers and 1 transport moved from 112 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from United Kingdom to Gibraltar
            2 transports moved from 91 Sea Zone to 101 Sea Zone
            1 transport moved from 91 Sea Zone to 101 Sea Zone
            4 bombers moved from Normandy Bordeaux to United Kingdom

Place Units - Americans
            2 transports placed in 10 Sea Zone
            2 transports placed in 101 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer and 1 submarine placed in 10 Sea Zone
            4 infantry placed in Western United States
            4 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers placed in Eastern United States

Turn Complete - Americans
            Americans collect 56 PUs; end with 57 PUs total
            Objective Americans 2 Outer Territories: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 62 PUs
            Objective Americans 8 Pacific Airfields: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 67 PUs
            Objective Americans 3 Defense Obligations: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 72 PUs
            Objective Americans 1 Homeland: Americans met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 82 PUs

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

Game History

Round: 8

Purchase Units - Chinese
            Trigger Chinese Loses Burma Road: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Closed
            Chinese buy 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Chinese

Place Units - Chinese
            2 infantry placed in Tsinghai

Turn Complete - Chinese
            Chinese collect 5 PUs; end with 6 PUs total

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

Game History

Round: 8

Purchase Units - British
            British buy 10 bombers and 1 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - British
            1 infantry moved from French Central Africa to French West Africa
                  British take French West Africa from Neutral_Axis
            2 transports moved from 114 Sea Zone to 115 Sea Zone

Combat - British

Non Combat Move - British
            1 infantry moved from United Kingdom to 110 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from United Kingdom to 110 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 110 Sea Zone to Normandy Bordeaux
            1 fighter moved from United Kingdom to Normandy Bordeaux
            1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to Normandy Bordeaux
            1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to Normandy Bordeaux

Place Units - British
            10 bombers placed in United Kingdom
            1 infantry placed in Union of South Africa

Turn Complete - British
            British collect 28 PUs; end with 28 PUs total
            Trigger British 3 No Enemy Submarines: British met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 31 PUs

Turn Complete - UK_Pacific

Territory Summary for British and UK_Pacific :

Tsinghai : 1 artillery, 2 fighters, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
    Iceland : 1 airfield
    Quebec : 1 factory_minor
    Gibraltar : 1 armour, 1 harbour and 1 infantry
    New Brunswick Nova Scotia : 1 harbour
    Union of South Africa : 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 1 infantry
    Scotland : 1 airfield
    United Kingdom : 5 aaGuns, 1 airfield, 10 bombers, 1 factory_major, 1 harbour and 1 mech_infantry
    Normandy Bordeaux : 3 fighters and 2 infantry
    French Central Africa : 1 flag
    French West Africa : 1 flag, 1 infantry
    Ethiopia : 1 flag
    106 Sea Zone : 1 flag
    115 Sea Zone : 2 transports
    110 Sea Zone : 1 transport

Production/PUs Summary :

Germans : 61 / 92
    Russians : 13 / 23
    Japanese : 78 / 106
    Americans : 56 / 82
    Chinese : 5 / 6
    British : 28 / 31
    UK_Pacific : 0 / 0
    Italians : 19 / 39
    ANZAC : 3 / 0
    French : 1 / 0
    Dutch : 0 / 0
    Mongolians : 0 / 0
    Neutral_Axis : 1 / 0
    Neutral_Allies : 0 / 0
    Neutral_True : 18 / 0

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Okay,
I think there is no possibility left for me to win not lose the war.

I’ll post the results in the league thread in a few minutes… :)

Some thoughts on the game:

• After G1 I thought I was kind of ahead because of how the 110 battle went. (I scrambled 3 fighters and managed to kill 5 german planes). At this time I thought it was a mistake of you to take the battleship to 111 because with a french/british scramble you are certain to lose a lot of planes. Of course, preserving the battleship has also its advantages! A relatively strong german fleet in the med gave you options there. But I don’t know if it is worth. I’d be interested in your thoughts on this. Were you happy with your 110,111 results or not? :D

• I kind of felt, that through the whole game there wasn’t really much pressure on Moscow. Even without the UK fighters in china the german odds were really low. I had a feeling that this was mostly because of the relatively small Luftwaffe. But I don’t know, in my last game I failed quite hard on Russia too and that with a few more planes :-D

• What do you think about the Balance Mod so far? I think I like it, because there were some interesting things going on in the med with the new american, british and italian NOs concerning the med islands and north Africa and of course Vichy France. In the OOB game I think it’s quite a pity, that the med is mostly empty after turn 1 (taken from my limited experience with the game). Mid in the game I thought the axis have it pretty much easier with the Vichy addition mainly because of the smaller french navy and because of the free troops in Syria and north Africa. This allowed Italy to secure the no allied warships NO much easier than in a OOB game I think. But the axis advantage from Vichy France is probably quite balanced with the extra money for anzac and Britain.

• I also am not so sure about the marine unit. Especially since it is quite rare, that I move ships like battleships and cruisers in a seazone where I can build marines. Before the game I thought maybe I’ll buy a few for the US in the pacific, but from turn 1 I never returned home with a cruiser or a battleship, so I have only the options to carry marines with a transport to the fleet staging point (Queensland for me) or build new cruisers and battleships which made it kind of unappealing.

• Probably my biggest failure was the attack on Japan turn 2. I gained nearly nothing and lost everything. I really wanted the complete british and anzac NO money for at least one turn and i thought you’ll attack anyway turn 3. But yeah, the yunnan stack was far to weak and the delay for the americans was to high :-D

• I was really impressed on how many japanese land units you shoveled into china. I have always to few of them but for you this wasn’t a problem, even though you had to garrison whole inland china.

• Your japanese fleet positioning was also really good from my perspective. You secured the DEIs without losing any ships. I always struggle with splitting my navy useful… Of course it helped, that you did not needed your fleet in india ;)

• I was completely unhappy with my naval game in the pacific. Nearly all my blockers felt like a waste after your turn. That you were actually quite happy to hit my destroyers outside my fleet and simply continued with your real objective (with a grin on the face)…

• I am also kind of baffled that you managed to float 4 italian transports in turn 3 and were able to secure them till the end of the game :-D

• I should have invested more in the middle east with the UK

• german bomber in the pacific is really awesome :)

• I should have exploited the turn sequence more as the allies (especially in the pacific). It’s the advantage the allies have.

All in all I was much more pleased with my europe play than my pacific play.

And since I’m here to learn, do you have any major suggestions for me? Maybe some mistake you’ve spotted repeatedly or somewhere on the map you did feel a lot less pressured than in previous games?

At the end: Big congratulations from me! :-)
You’ve played really well, I learned a lot and had a lot of fun playing.

PS:
Hope the above textwall was all kind of understandable.
And I hope I’ve not dragged the match to long even though the winner was kind of foreseeable. I’ve looked in other match threads, and often as early as turn 4 there is someone giving up and they are in a clearly better situation that me in the last 4 turns :-D…

Are you still in for a rematch?  :evil:

@Mistergreen:

Oh I do recall one mistake. Even if I wasn’t certain if it was a mistake at the time due to inexperience with balance mod.
You Dowed Japan with Russia. Thus giving Japan the option to block one land-lease NO with warships without doubling the income of land-lease NO’s due to a Japanese Dow.

Yes, in the balance mod there is now a consequence for russia declaring war on japan. Good catch :)

Then I would suggest, we postpone this after your trip.

If you feel like playing another game then, write me a pm. I’m most certainly having time.

regards and have fun