Global 1940 & 1943 Expansions Game Reports

@mkgionet
looks great, big credits to the Italy player in this game
😅

@The-Captain Game Report #2 continuing from 5/20/2024 Post of first 5 rounds

Germany - mkgionet
Italy - Cathy M
Japan - Pat H
UK - Mike K
Russia - Alex M
USA - Josh S

Report Late 1942 through Early 1944

Germany continued pushing until Armies were in Smolensk ready to invade Moscow. However, Russia launched a powerful counter attack from the north and south completely wiping out all German troops in Smolensk. The German invasion of Moscow sadly just fell short. Germany was able to capture and hold many Russian territories but the front line kept getting thinner and thinner, and then was getting pushed back in the south. At this point the German front line is practically non-existant.

While Germany concentrated on Russia the large US fleet off the coast of France landed in Norway and setup a Minor Industrial Factory - big problems for Germany. The UK also started to expand thier navy. A daring attack by the Luftwaffe made a dire situation better by completely sinking that US fleet. More US ships came up from the southern Atlantic to destroy the German navy. Now how will Germany fend off UK’s fleet? Perhaps Italy can retake Gibraltar and free the remaining German navy that’s trapped in the Mediterranean. Italy hasn’t really been able to make any progress, but has been able to hold their own.

Russia and Japan are still at peace. Russia moved their factories underground after Italian bomber raids. They finally received (3) fighters through Lend Lease, though still haven’t received any tanks.

The US has focused almost all of its attention on the Pacific, where Japan has taken many islands and now threatens Australia. With Germany on the retreat it appears the only way the Axis has a chance to win this war is in the Pacific.

Likely this game will finally end on Day 3, which won’t take place until 6/29 - stay tuned!

@mkgionet

Sweet ! Awesome Game !!! Great Report !

Looks as if you are using the oob victory conditions ?

@mkgionet

Nice. Am worries for the Axis.

Really like your victory cities chart. Simple but effective.

@The-Captain Yes, we use the OOB Victory Cities as well as the Economic Victory conditions. Both seem like a fair way to win.

Yes, I heavily defended Europe mainland so the US decided to take over Norway instead and build a Minor IC that they upgraded to a Heavy Industry 1 Unit.

It’s hard to see the German 3rd Panzer Army flag with the angle I took the picture (my bad). It’s currently protecting the coast and located in Normandy/Bordeaux.

At the moment there’s only 1 Waffen-SS unit in Holland/Belgium, and unfortunately Germany isn’t setup to make any more in the upcoming turn.

Thanks for your compliments & interest!

@mkgionet

yea, only original Factories can be upgraded to Heavy Industry and only the original owner can upgrade it, so Norway can’t be upgraded.

Since you guys playing ftf, I know a while back, The Captain had some rulebooks he was giving out.
I think maybe you had to pay postage but otherwise production cost was free. I don’t remember for sure.

I have a couple windows open, with one on the table of contents and the other to scroll for the answer.
The Captain says they always have the rulebook present when they play as well.

It’s somewhat complex, as you already know, so it’s easy to miss stuff. I’ve been playing or working on the triplea mod almost daily for the last three years, yea i don’t do much in life anymore lol, but just had a couple errors pointed out by Victory that we had been playing wrong.

Anyway, just a long winded way of saying i don’t mean to sound critical of your game play :)

Rock On

P Out

@barnee Thanks Barnee, we totally overlooked that. Will downgrade it now so we can at least play correctly moving forward. We have all the rules printed out but it’s easy to miss something when there are so many.

@mkgionet yea it’s easy to miss stuff. I still do after three years :)

Captain got a revised rule book out as well, in case you don’t have that one.

Global 1940,
First game report of 2024.

This is the second last game report of this game.

Players:
Axis: Beserker
Allies: Cornelis Post

Ipc Income. ( without bonus )

Axis 98
Allies 171

Germany:
From Early 1940, Germany, attacks the British navy, in the first round. After this germany dedicated all his military for operation Middle East. Did only build two U-boats so far.
In Early 1941 germany attacks Russia.
The Germans fights successfully with Italian forces in the Middle East.
Massive troops, paratroopers and a panzer general are ready to set foot in Syria.
Massive battles to come in the Middle East.

Soviet Union:
The Sovjets where attacked in the first round by Japan. This was a surprise attack.
Butt the Russians held ground in the following turn and take out all Japanese land forces. Also the allies sent 3 AA guns to buryatia, to destroy 3 Japanese aircraft in round 2.

Japan:
The Japanse invaded Russia in round 1 which activated the Mongolian pact.
No Japanese operations where held in the pacific so far.

China, is doing great so far, butt needs airsupport

United States:

The US build a massive fleet in the pacific and the Atlantic.
In the 4 round, The US take out the Caroline islands.

United Kingdom:
The UK is fighting a war of attrition in Europe, with massive small scale attacks to weaken the axis.
In the first rounds the British were withdrawing everywhere for the big axis treat.

The British reinforcements all positions slowly successfully to counter the axis in the upcoming rounds.

In round 4 the British attack the Italian fleet in the Mediterranean Sea which led to the end of the English and the Italian fleet.

Italy.

Italy is fighting successfully with Germany in Afrika/Middle East. With the blitz krieg tactic and being backed up by the luftwaffe, the English need to retreat many times.

Anzac.

Because of no Japanese operations in the pacific.
Anzac is becoming stronger.
Anzac will soon join the US navy in the Caroline islands. And will fight a war of attrition.

These pictures show the military situation in round 4 late 1941

@The-Captain
The Russians placed 8 mines in Belarus.

Also Germany placed 2 mines in the coast of Holland, Danmark and Norway.

Army board pictures are underway. Thursday I will post the pictures of the armyboard

Yes i think the Allies already toke the upperhand in round 4, I already told Beserker, butt he disagree. He has a special plan, ready to execute

Global 1940, No. 1 Game Report:

At the start of Late 1943 (round 8)
This is the second post of this game.

Ipc Income.
Axis: 109
Allies: 160

Players:
Axis: Beserker
Allies: Cornelis Post

Germany.

The Germans are heavily fighting in Europe the last 3 rounds.

They lost Danmark in the last round, including a panzer army, also a lot of units.

The British takes out the German fleet.

Germany has built back a massive heavy battleship (bismarck ) and a carrier to take care of the upcoming threat. The Can opener💪🏻. 🥫🥫

Germany is also producing all waffen ss units on a massive scale to, to scale up the waffen army’s as fast as possible.
Germany also bought 4 fighter planes with the total war rule.

Russia.
Army conscription has arrived at the front.
The Sovjets are now in their peak.

They will push hard deep into German territories. With the Fist👊🏻
Last rounds Russia has their bonus alive from seazone 127 and Russia did take A pro axis country.💵💰
The Russians do also a great job on the Japanese and are fighting everywhere now.

Army group north units:

Infantry: 39
Sovjet guard: 3
2 army corpse.
3 tanks
1 fighter.

Japanese.

Japan launched a massive attack on the whole pacific.
After this the US attacked their main fleet. Which led to heavy losses on both sides.
Only 2 heavy battleships survived and 1 battleship. (From Japan)

China. Is doing great. Desperately needs airsupport.🛩🛩

The US.

The floating bridge is almost ready to use💪🏻
Every round the US pounds in Norway, and Danmark. To take out as much damage as they can.

Also The Us takes out almost the whole Japanese Navy…

The Us has lost this battle butt…

they are already mass producing a heavy navy in the pacific. This wil be build up massively in the upcoming rounds.

The US is mass producing units on a massive scale with the total war rule.

UK

The Uk attacks the German fleet and takes out all ships.
They also sent a panzer general to Afrika to support al alemein against Rommel.
The Uk has retreated on multiply positions because of the take over threat.

Italy.

Is only fighting in de Middle East. They are doing great.
Als Italian para troopers are doing a great job.
The take over is a card for the axis what is a pain in the ass strat.

The sub marines from the UK and the US are doing great at convoy raiding into Italian convoy’s

Anzac.
Anzac is producing submarines and bombers on a massive scale💪🏻

Attacked all Japanese transports and Japanese conquered islands. In the pacific.
Also Anzac whole fleet attacked the remaining Japanese battleships.

Anzac is now preparing with two strategic bombers together with massive submarines to deal with any Japanese navy on a solo campaign in the pacific.

Anzac units: 1 escort, 1 destroyer 1 cruiser , 3 subs and a bomber where not able to take out the remaining ships.

Pictures below will show the military situation:

Global 1940 House Rule Expansion Game Report
via TripleA

This is our 4th game.

Axis: barnee
Allies: VictoryFirst

Link to our game thread: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/40822/barnee-vs-victoryfirst-exp-boxes-game-4

Save file: exp-game-4-victory-f5.tsvg

Round: Early 1942 (Round 5)

Eastern Front:
Axis units attacked along the whole front. Novgorod was captured and AG Center was formed in Belarus.
The Russian counter-attack was limited in scale. They went for a defense-in-depth - so they placed most of their armies in Samara so that they can reach all territories on the frontline.
One Russian partisan was placed in an empty Bessarabia. When the Italians tried to suppress this partisan, it actually rolled a ‘1’ and killed an Italian tank in the process 😂

Still no lend-lease units have arrived from the UK or the US, so the Russians are in a tough spot.

Mediterranean:
The UK gathered all their aircraft to attempt to kill the Italian fleet. It was a somewhat risky move as the odds were ~70%, but fortunately, the attack was successful and the Regia Marina is now part of the bottom of the sea. Still, the Italians are putting a lot of pressure on Egypt.

Atlantic:
The Germans now have a total of 18 U-boats operating in the Atlantic. Seeing this, the Americans reinforced their Atlantic fleet with a SHB and an Aircraft Carrier, ready to take on the fight.
The British Paratroopers made landings in empty Holland/Belgium and Southern France, although SF was recaptured immediately by Italian troops.

Asia:
Heavy fighting is taking place between Japanese and Allied troops. The Japanese continue to march through Siberia, and in China, there is a back-and-forth battle. China is getting low on units but still tries to keep up the fight.

Pacific:
A large victory for the Americans in the Pacific. Due to an oversight by the Japanese Naval Commanders, the American fleet was able to attack SZ 6 with a 100% chance of victory. Miraculously, they rolled extremely well too (+10 hits more than on average), the best rolling I’ve ever seen. However, this was not to their advantage. The plan was to retreat from combat after having dealt enough damage, but because of this incredible rolling, they actually managed to destroy all Japanese units. Now, a large part of the American fleet is stuck in SZ6 and there is more than enough stuff for the Japanese to counter-attack. There is more American fleet coming but it is uncertain if this fleet will be strong enough to face the Japanese reinforcements.

Australian subs continue to be annoying in the Pacific. Formosa was recaptured by Japan, although ANZAC now invaded the Marianas.

Income Totals:
Germany: 44 / 66
Japan: 39 / 47
Italy: 21 / 33

USSR: 23 / 28
US: 52 / 91
China: 6 / 12
UK: 56 / 62
ANZAC: 21 / 31

Axis: 104 / 146
Allies: 158 / 224

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@VictoryFirst

Looks like a great game 💪🏻
Did the Russians get army conscription?

The Us is doing great in the pacific.
18 u boats in the Atlantic is concerning though.
Looking forward to you’re next game report.

@Cornelis-Post

Yes, Russia had 51 IPCs, so they built 25 conscription units and a partisan.

Yeah I would’ve gone fully on Japan if those U-boats weren’t there. I felt I had to do something against them. The Atlantic is heating up for sure though. The Pacific is already on fire lol.

@VictoryFirst

heh heh it’s pretty cool seeing it on the real board. Especially one as nice as Lt. Dan’s :)

Thanks for doing these :)

@VictoryFirst

Very worrying for the Axis…