HALO 3

Let me introduce you to Phoney War, a grand strategy WW2 game for 2-3 players. Phoney War consists of two games in one: Race to Berlin, the 3 player version, begins in 1939 and features a setup inspired by history. Phoney War: Prelude to War is our two player version, and begins sometime in the early 1930s. It plays out very differently from the three player game, and should appeal to the alternate history crowd, or those who just like two player games more.

Some features: Diceless combat resolve. Fog of War mechanic. East and West share a common enemy in Germany, but are nonetheless competitors - single player victory!

Please see my instagram to follow along with the development story of Phoney War, and read some primers on our original and intriguing game mechanics.
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TripleA Turn Summary: Usa round 9

TripleA Turn Summary for game: Total World War: December 1941 2.8, version: 2.8.0.5

Game History

Round: 9 Research Technology - Usa Usa spend 0 on tech rolls Usa rolls : 2/1 hits, 0.00 expected hits Usa removing all Technology Tokens after successful research. Usa discover ImprovedHulls Combat Move - Usa Trigger americanMecht3: Setting isLandTransportable to false for unitAttachment attached to americanMech.Infantry Trigger americanHvyTank1: Setting isLandTransportable to false for unitAttachment attached to americanHeavyTank Trigger americanTank1: Setting isLandTransportable to false for unitAttachment attached to americanTank Trigger americanAirtraninfra1: Setting isInfrastructure to false for unitAttachment attached to americanAirTransport Trigger americanAirtraninfra1: Setting attack to 1 for unitAttachment attached to americanAirTransport Trigger americanAirtraninfra1: Setting destroyedWhenCapturedBy cleared for unitAttachment attached to americanAirTransport Trigger SovietFarEastLLUsa1: Usa takes ownership of territory Soviet Far East Trigger EasternSzechwanLLUsa1: Usa takes ownership of territory Eastern Szechwan Trigger EasternIranLLUsa1: Usa takes ownership of territory Eastern Iran Trigger ArchangelLLUsa1: Usa takes ownership of territory Archangel Trigger americanMecht4: Setting isLandTransportable to true for unitAttachment attached to americanMech.Infantry Trigger americanHvyTank2: Setting isLandTransportable to true for unitAttachment attached to americanHeavyTank Trigger americanTank2: Setting isLandTransportable to true for unitAttachment attached to americanTank 2 americanHeavyStrategicBombers moved from New York to Western France 1 americanInfantry moved from Northern France to Eastern France 1 americanMech.Infantry moved from Northern France to Eastern France 5 americanStrategicBombers moved from Northern France to Northern Germany 2 americanHeavyStrategicBombers moved from Northern France to Northern Germany 1 americanCombatEngineer, 3 americanInfantrys, 1 americanTank and 3 americanTransports moved from 32 Sea Zone to 34 Sea Zone 1 americanInfantry moved from 34 Sea Zone to Western France 1 americanInfantry moved from 34 Sea Zone to Western France 1 americanInfantry moved from 34 Sea Zone to Western France 1 americanCombatEngineer moved from 34 Sea Zone to Western France 1 americanTank moved from Northern France to Eastern France 4 americanNavalFighters moved from Marianas Island to 123 Sea Zone 1 americanTank moved from Northern France to Western France Combat - Usa Air Battle in Northern Germany Usa attacks with 7 units heading to Northern Germany Germany launches 2 interceptors out of Northern Germany Attackers Fire, : 1/1 hits, 1.08 expected hits Defenders Fire, : 1/1 hits, 1.08 expected hits 1 americanStrategicBomber owned by the Usa lost in Northern Germany 1 germanNavalFighter owned by the Germany lost in Northern Germany Air Battle is over, the remaining bombers go on to their targets Strategic bombing raid in Northern Germany AntiAircraftGun fire in Northern Germany : 1/1 hits, 1.75 expected hits 1 americanHeavyStrategicBomber killed by AntiAircraftGun Bombing raid in Northern Germany rolls: 2,0,7,1,6 and causes: 12 damage to unit: germanBarracks Bombing raid in Northern Germany causes 12 damage total. 1 germanBarracks owned by the Germany lost in Northern Germany Battle in Eastern France Usa attack with 1 americanInfantry, 1 americanMech.Infantry and 1 americanTank Italy defend with 1 italianArtillery; Germany defend with 1 Flagpole Usa roll dice for 1 americanInfantry, 1 americanMech.Infantry and 1 americanTank in Eastern France, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.92 expected hits Germany roll dice for 1 italianArtillery in Eastern France, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.25 expected hits 1 italianArtillery owned by the Italy lost in Eastern France Usa win, taking Eastern France from Germany with 1 americanInfantry, 1 americanMech.Infantry and 1 americanTank remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4 Casualties for Italy: 1 italianArtillery Battle in Western France Usa attack with 1 americanCombatEngineer, 2 americanHeavyStrategicBombers, 3 americanInfantrys and 1 americanTank Italy defend with 2 italianArtillerys and 2 italianTanks; Germany defend with 1 Flagpole and 1 Material Usa roll dice for 1 americanCombatEngineer, 2 americanHeavyStrategicBombers, 3 americanInfantrys and 1 americanTank in Western France, round 2 : 2/0 hits, 2.00 expected hits Germany roll dice for 2 italianArtillerys and 2 italianTanks in Western France, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 1.67 expected hits 2 italianArtillerys owned by the Italy and 1 americanInfantry owned by the Usa lost in Western France Usa roll dice for 1 americanCombatEngineer, 2 americanHeavyStrategicBombers, 2 americanInfantrys and 1 americanTank in Western France, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 1.83 expected hits Germany roll dice for 2 italianTanks in Western France, round 3 : 1/0 hits, 1.00 expected hits 1 americanInfantry owned by the Usa and 1 italianTank owned by the Italy lost in Western France Usa roll dice for 1 americanCombatEngineer, 2 americanHeavyStrategicBombers, 1 americanInfantry and 1 americanTank in Western France, round 4 : 2/1 hits, 1.67 expected hits Germany roll dice for 1 italianTank in Western France, round 4 : 1/1 hits, 0.50 expected hits 1 americanInfantry owned by the Usa and 1 italianTank owned by the Italy lost in Western France Usa win, taking Western France from Germany with 1 americanCombatEngineer, 2 americanHeavyStrategicBombers and 1 americanTank remaining. Battle score for attacker is 11 Casualties for Usa: 3 americanInfantrys Casualties for Italy: 2 italianArtillerys and 2 italianTanks Battle in 123 Sea Zone Usa attack with 4 americanNavalFighters Japan defend with 1 japaneseCruiser, 1 japaneseDestroyer and 1 japaneseSubmarine 1 japaneseSubmarine owned by the Japan Submerged Usa roll dice for 4 americanNavalFighters in 123 Sea Zone, round 2 : 3/1 hits, 2.33 expected hits Japan roll dice for 1 japaneseCruiser and 1 japaneseDestroyer in 123 Sea Zone, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.75 expected hits 1 japaneseCruiser owned by the Japan, 1 japaneseDestroyer owned by the Japan and 1 americanNavalFighter owned by the Usa lost in 123 Sea Zone Usa win with 3 americanNavalFighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 9 Casualties for Usa: 1 americanNavalFighter Casualties for Japan: 1 japaneseCruiser and 1 japaneseDestroyer Cleaning up after air battles Non Combat Move - Usa Trigger americanMecht1: Setting isLandTransport to true for unitAttachment attached to americanMech.Infantry Trigger americanMecht2: Setting isLandTransport to false for unitAttachment attached to americanMech.Infantry Trigger americanAirtraninfra2: Setting isInfrastructure to true for unitAttachment attached to americanAirTransport Trigger americanAirtraninfra2: Setting attack to 0 for unitAttachment attached to americanAirTransport Trigger americanAirtraninfra2: Setting destroyedWhenCapturedBy to FROM:Usa for unitAttachment attached to americanAirTransport Trigger EasternIranLLUsa2: Russia takes ownership of territory Eastern Iran Trigger ArchangelLLUsa2: Russia takes ownership of territory Archangel Trigger SovietFarEastLLUsa2: Russia takes ownership of territory Soviet Far East Trigger americanProd1: Usa has 1 Material placed in Washington 3 americanNavalFighters moved from 123 Sea Zone to Marianas Island 2 americanAdvancedSubmarines and 1 americanCarrier moved from 156 Sea Zone to 115 Sea Zone 2 americanDestroyers moved from 34 Sea Zone to 23 Sea Zone 1 americanCarrier moved from 34 Sea Zone to 23 Sea Zone 1 americanTank moved from 34 Sea Zone to Western France 2 americanHeavyStrategicBombers moved from Western France to Northern France 1 americanHeavyStrategicBomber moved from Northern Germany to Northern France 4 americanStrategicBombers moved from Northern Germany to Northern France 1 americanTank moved from Northern France to Low Countries 1 americanFighter moved from Iceland to Low Countries 6 americanTransports moved from 34 Sea Zone to 32 Sea Zone Purchase Units - Usa Usa buy 1 americanAdvancedSubmarine, 1 americanCarrier, 3 americanFighters, 1 americanNavalFighter and 2 americanTransports; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 0 techTokens; Trigger EasternSzechwanLLUsa2: China takes ownership of territory Eastern Szechwan Place Units - Usa Units in 156 Sea Zone being upgraded or consumed: 1 americanHull 1 americanAdvancedSubmarine, 1 americanCarrier and 2 americanTransports placed in 156 Sea Zone 1 americanNavalFighter placed in Chicago 3 americanFighters placed in New York Activate Technology - Usa Usa activating ImprovedHulls Trigger americanIH3: Setting attack to 7 for unitAttachment attached to americanBattleship-damaged Trigger americanIH2: Setting attack to 7 for unitAttachment attached to americanBattleship Trigger americanIH1: Setting attack to 6 for unitAttachment attached to americanCruiser Trigger americanIH1: Setting isAAforCombatOnly to true for unitAttachment attached to americanCruiser Trigger americanIH1: Setting mayOverStackAA to true for unitAttachment attached to americanCruiser Trigger americanIH1: Setting maxAAattacks to 1 for unitAttachment attached to americanCruiser Trigger americanIH1: Setting maxRoundsAA to -1 for unitAttachment attached to americanCruiser Trigger americanIH1: Setting typeAA to CruiserAntiAircraftGun for unitAttachment attached to americanCruiser Trigger americanIH1: Setting targetsAA to germanAdvancedTacticalBomber:germanAdvancedNavalFighter:russianAdvancedTacticalBomber:russianAdvancedNavalFighter:japaneseAdvancedTacticalBomber:japaneseAdvancedNavalFighter:britishAdvancedTacticalBomber:britishAdvancedNavalFighter:italianAdvancedTacticalBomber:italianAdvancedNavalFighter:americanAdvancedTacticalBomber:americanAdvancedNavalFighter:germanFighter:germanAdvancedFighter:germanNavalFighter:germanTacticalBomber:germanStrategicBomber:germanHeavyStrategicBomber:germanAirTransport:italianFighter:italianAdvancedFighter:italianNavalFighter:italianTacticalBomber:italianStrategicBomber:italianHeavyStrategicBomber:italianAirTransport:japaneseFighter:japaneseAdvancedFighter:japaneseNavalFighter:japaneseTacticalBomber:japaneseStrategicBomber:japaneseHeavyStrategicBomber:japaneseAirTransport:brazilianFighter:swedishFighter:spanishFighter:turkishFighter:chineseFighter:chineseTacticalBomber:russianFighter:russianAdvancedFighter:russianNavalFighter:russianTacticalBomber:russianStrategicBomber:russianHeavyStrategicBomber:russianAirTransport:britishFighter:britishAdvancedFighter:britishNavalFighter:britishTacticalBomber:britishStrategicBomber:britishHeavyStrategicBomber:britishAirTransport:americanFighter:americanAdvancedFighter:americanNavalFighter:americanTacticalBomber:americanStrategicBomber:americanHeavyStrategicBomber:americanAirTransport for unitAttachment attached to americanCruiser Turn Complete - Usa Usa collect 72 PUs; end with 73 PUs Units generate 9 techTokens; Usa end with 9 techTokens

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

AntiAircraftGun fire in Northern Germany : : -0.75 Defenders Fire, : : -0.08 Usa : 0.25 Usa rolls : : 2.00 Japan : 0.25 Attackers Fire, : : -0.08 Germany : -0.42

Savegame

He posted in the correct forum: other games. What exactly is the issue here?

Hopefully, those risk games end before the cards trade in for too many armies.

40+ armies for such a trade, added to regular production could build in a lottery mentality for your kids.

A&A has steadier reinforcement per turn and favors frontal defensive stacking .  This playing style would often lose in risk .

I just came across this forum, and decided to write a word in it to see if anyone was still interested in this idea.

I have the risk game as well, with halo pieces. I have two copies and I thought, “why not add flood to world war 2?” I have the global war varient map, and it’s fantastic. As a matter of fact, it could be really easy to start a random invasion of the world with the flood. If you’ve ever played memoir 44, there’s a system where you drop troops from a certain height, and that’s where the groups start. We could do the same type of thing with Axis and allies, but a little more “chances guaranteed.” Make a chart of different territories on different continents, and then make a concentration chart of the level of flood you’d want in the invasion. I’d make charts where I could roll D12’s, because it’s a lot better that way.

First thing is first, I would see how many territories it’s effecting (roll a 1D8 to see how many territories it effects.) Next, I would roll the territories with a D12, and the territories can’t overlap.

1. Hunan (China)                                                                            1. 15    9 small, 2 carriers
2. Brazil                                                                                        2. 20  14 small, 2 carriers
3. Archangel                                                                                  3. 25  16 small, 3 carriers
4. Central USA                                                                                4. 25  16 small, 3 carriers
5. Greater Southern Germany                                                          5. 30  18 small, 4 carriers                                         
6. Nigeria                                                                                      6. 30  18 small, 4 carriers
7. Western Australia                                                                        7. 30  18 small, 4 carriers
8. Novibrisk                                                                                    8. 35  20 small, 5 carriers
9. Japan                                                                                        9. 35  20 small, 5 carriers
10. India                                                                                      10. 40  22 small, 6 carriers
11. Egypt                                                                                      11. 40  22 small, 6 carriers
12. Quebec                                                                                  12. 50  20 small, 10 carriers

splitting it up would be the tricky part. I would just try to evenly split the amount of “units” there are in the group and then split them that way amongst the territories. For easier understanding, carriers are still “3”, just in a different way (I’ll get to that.) The more there is, the easier it would be. Once you split them up, get ready for the chaos!

Carriers are going to be pretty strong, but not ridiculously. The infection forms are going to be very important for the spread of the flood as it would in real life. Stats are below;
Infection- 1/1/1/1
Carrier- 2/2/1/3
Juggernaut- 4/4/2/6- can only have one
Base- 0/0/0/8

Though they don’t use the official minerals of the earth, it still takes time and energy to make more flood. The flood don’t need the base to make more flood. The base will simply allow them to produce extra flood for free, making it more interesting.  You can figure there are animals and plenty of people for them to infect in the territory themselves. If you want to take it a step further, you can make population counts using the UNSC troops throughout the map, according to what’s realistic. In this case, colors of population wouldn’t matter as much, but you could still make it interesting if you wanted to. Just a thought.

This is just an idea. Thoughts!!??

Don’t forget to try out the epic WW1 Mod for HoI3! It’s soberly well done, I would know, we’ve been testing it in multiplayer games for a little over a year now  :-D

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?471-WW1-Mod

Just wanted to mention we are at a stage in the campaign where it is convenient to add more players if anyone is interested.  I happen to enjoy posts at least every two or three days, but there’s no rule saying we have to move that fast, scenes can easily be longer with more role play between more active players while waiting for those with busier schedules to find a minute to login and post a round.

Heres a Halo 3 trailer that was barely posted today.

http://www.gametrailers.com/downloadnew.php?id=15442&type=wmv&f=