BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?

The next Battle of Britain will be held on the 22nd January 2023. We currently have 9 players (+1 possible) with space for more.

This all-day event is held in Derbyshire, UK. Typically we will have three A&A games running - Anniversary, 1942.2 and 1914 - allowing players to decide which they wish to join.

If you would like to come along then please either reply to this thread or contact me using the Chat facility on this website.

Cheers
Adam (PP)

PS The spring event will be on 23rd April 2023.

Again 6 hardy souls braved the pandemic! We decided to play a game of 1914 so we could all participate in the same game.

1. 1914

Used 2 house rules: max 4 builds in India; land units move 2 if every territory is friendly. Powers were allocated at random:

CPs - Mike (Aftertaste) as AH & T; Adam (Private-Panic) as G
Entente - Andrew (h0lym0nk) as Italy & USA; Mark (Credulous) as F; Jon (jon1988) as R; Dave as GB.

R was able to consolidate virtually all it’s units into Poland and so put the fear of God into AH & G, who countered with almost equal stacks in Silesia (G) and Galicia (AH and some G). The Entente decided to pursue a G first strategy and R advanced it’s stack into E Prussia. The CPs rubbed their hands with glee! While this might create a possibility of the Entente capturing Berlin it certainly gave the CPs an easy route to Moscow. G put everything it could into E Prussia to fight a battle in which it might have had a slight advantage, so as to prevent the R stack retreating. In order to do this G accepted the need to fall back on the Western Front.

The battle in E Prussia resulted in quite a few more losses for R than G. The dwindling R stack was stuck there without reinforcements while G could add units easily if it wished.

Meanwhile F pressed forward against G’s western borders, reaching the Ruhr. Perhaps F had a slight advantage in that territory and it also had a sizeable stack in Munich to follow up. Unfortunately F lost badly in the Ruhr, effectively ensuring that G would recapture with sufficient force to stall the F attack.

G took out the GB North Sea fleet for the loss of only 2 subs.

Turkey kicked GB out of Mesopotamia and captured Egypt.

All of this in just 2 turns.

The Entente abjectly surrendered!

2. 1941

With some hours of the day left to play we decided to follow with a game of 1941. Dave had to leave so we now had 5 players. Only house rule was an additional GB destroyer off Canada to balance the game. Sides allocated at random.

Allies - Mike (Aftertaste) as GB; Andrew (h0lym0nk) as R; Mark (Credulous) as US
Axis - Adam (Private-Panic) as G; Jon (jon1988) as J.

The Axis decided on a strategy of jointly pressing hard on Moscow, probably linking up in the Caucasus. And this is what they did!

However, a GB & US fleet was established off the coast of Western Europe by the end of turn 1. Normally this takes longer so G was not happy! By the end of turn 2 the Allies had 7 units in Western Europe, including a US and a R fighter, with a combined defensive power of 19. G decided to attack this with the 8 units it had available, with an attacking power of 21. I have just used triple a to discover an attacking success probability of 70%. Risky. But absolute disaster!

Clearly it still hurts!

In the meantime J captured China, the Spice Islands and the Phillipines.

Aware that G would be unable to afford units for the Caucasus given Allied Pressure on Berlin the Axis decided that their chances on Moscow were not going to improve. G’s sacrificial attack was another dice disaster, doing far less damage to R than J needed if its follow-up was to have any chance of success.

After J duly undertook its kamikaze assault, the Axis tearfully surrendered.

Its our second year running! We will be playing the Bloodbath ruleset! Catered food, alcohol, and lots of fun! Event is in Laguna Hills, about 7 min south from the John Wayne airport.

Price is 50 per person, this is to mainly cover the food and drinks which is provided Sat/sun… Monday you are on your own for food.

Unfortunately this event sold out super fast via youtube, if you would like to be on standby or I can possibly put you on a 3 player team (we have a few already)… just message me before hand and ill ask around for ya.

Lots of folks coming this year! Some of us will also be attending Disneyland on the 24th and 25th … BOOM!

Young Grasshopper
Iron Stitch
Wartorn
Gijoe
Gargantua
VK Cowboy
Hambone
Dtroy
Corpo 24
Matt Todd
Warpig
Albert
Teflon
zencube
Leatherneck
Cesar’s Gual
Jose Pascual
Edward Pascual
Jason Hagarty
Ross Pimentel
Big Jim
Jelso and his brother
Dominic - MoFo Brothers
Jay
and Myself

@Gargantua
dam rerolls
lol : )

@Corpo24

Thank you everyone for coming out! Hope you guys had a fantastic time! Congrats to Karl7 for bringing home the gold in a tight final game!
Gold: Karl7
Silver: Argothair
Bronze: Corpo24

Credulous has provided the following battle report on the other game:

The 1942 game was contested between Credulous and two non-forum players from the village. The Axis very quickly established themselves as firm favourites for the win wiping out a significant Russian stack in Karelia, and the Siberian army massing on the Japanese border. The Allies never really recovered from these early losses, which were compounded with the early loss of Egypt and India. In a desperate bid to counter the American’s launched an audacious bid to capture Toyko via amphibious landings, but this desperate gambit was quashed and in the following turn a four carrier Japanese battlegroup sailed into home waters to sink the American battleships and cruisers and leave the US Pacific fleet in tatters. Finally the British launched a desperate attack of their own on Berlin having established a temporary beach head in Holland Belgium, but this attack was also quashed leaving nothing to prevent the triumphant Axis armies marching into Berlin. At the close of the game the Axis empire stretched from Normandy to Eastern Siberia, encompassing everything in between and the entirety of Africa, along with Australia. The contest was over by 3.40pm allowing an early get away for all concerned to soak up the sunshine and fine weather!

After fourth round!?

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