Ups, leaving 16 units behind for a suicide attack is not helpful :)
I agree that the Allies had to hope for some kind of dice miracle as the Axis were clearly winning.

I have 2 pieces of advice though, if you are interested, let me know, I would PM you then.

Thanks for the game Sir.

Best,
Tobias

Been awhile, so I’m just posting as a reminder

Yes in deed - GG - I’ll post the result.

Thank you for the game!

More just the seemingly one-dimensional view of your armies as of the beginning of turn 4. 90+% of Germany units were in Germany / E. Poland / Poland, no presence in the Med, Africa, France, or Atlantic. For Japan, no early attempt at protecting the Carolines, much of the navy pressed down to Sumatra even though India was well fortified.

It was just a heavier concentration of units/resources towards these specific fronts than I’ve seen before, with other flanks more open than most leave them.

Obviously it worked well though.

And I’ll place those artillery for you.

bump.

Italy is up.

Allies for me please! Same bid.

Placements:
Sudan 1 ART
Egypt 1 Tank
Alex 1 ART
S. Africa 1 Transport
India 1 INF

DiceRolling 1:
(4)  
1-3 I take Axis game 1
4-6 You take Axis game 1

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod3, version: 3.3

Game History

Round: 39

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians buy 3 artilleries, 3 infantry and 6 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            1 infantry moved from Bessarabia to Romania
                  Russians take Romania from Germans
            2 infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Poland
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Poland to Poland

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Poland
                Russians attack with 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Italians defend with 1 infantry
                    Russians roll dice for 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Poland, round 2 : 2/4 hits, 1.50 expected hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Poland, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Italians lost in Poland
                Russians win, taking Poland from Germans with 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Italians: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            16 armour, 3 artilleries, 10 infantry and 16 mech_infantrys moved from Eastern Poland to Romania
            3 infantry moved from Ukraine to Bessarabia
            3 artilleries and 18 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Samara
            3 artilleries moved from Volgograd to Samara
            1 aaGun moved from Suiyuyan to Chahar
            1 aaGun moved from Kansu to Suiyuyan
            1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Kansu to Suiyuyan
            1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Kansu to Chahar
            2 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Timguska to Samara
            1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys moved from Belarus to Romania
            3 infantry moved from Novgorod to Baltic States
            2 armour and 3 mech_infantrys moved from Kansu to Samara
            1 armour moved from Russia to Ukraine
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Poland to Ukraine
            1 submarine moved from 91 Sea Zone to 64 Sea Zone

Place Units - Russians
            3 infantry placed in Ukraine
            3 mech_infantrys placed in Novgorod
            3 artilleries placed in Volgograd
            3 mech_infantrys placed in Russia

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 37 PUs; end with 37 PUs
            Trigger Russians 4 Archangel Lend Lease Lane War With Japan: Russians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 39 PUs
            Trigger Russians 2 Persia Lend Lease Lane: Russians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 41 PUs
            Trigger Russians 5 Persia Lend Lease Lane War With Japan: Russians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 43 PUs
            Trigger Russians 1 Lend Lease: Russians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 45 PUs
            Objective Russians 2 Spread Of Communism: Russians met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 51 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Germans : -0.33
    Russians : 0.50

Bump to keep track.

I spent the whole game trying to overcome early mistakes that had to do with not being familiar with Balanced Mod. It was my first game with BM3, but I’ve grown to like it. Many of the players won’t do 2nd Edition without a huge bid for the Allies, so in the future I will likely play BM3 most of the time.

Thanks man. This game was some kind of a roller coaster for me.

First turn was really Axis friendly. Very good G1/J1 dice followed by the UK disaster in 96 that quickly snowballed.
After 3 turns you forced me to make a stretch, either defend Egypt or India. I decided for Egypt and left you 75ish?% on India.
Here, MARTI was fair in a way that she took many Japanese planes off so that Japan was left with a crippled airforce after the India rush.
Although USA could take unusual advantage of that (I guess one does not see a US fleet at Kwangtung often in turn 4) Allies weren’t able to get Japan down.

So Axis stayed in the game and the Germans grew very strong.

Then there was this wipe of the ITA/German fleet in 92.
Can I assume you overlooked that the WUS bombers could reach 92? I did not expect you to allow me to take down the fleet and the German planes like that on purpose, right?

From there, the Allies had a nice position but the pressure on Moscow became unbearable. Although I saw it coming, I could not avoid that you had 60+ish% odds on that battle.
The battle had 3 possible outcomes:

After my great defense dice turn 1 I guess the game was over. Japan has made too big sacrifices to allow that attack. You sacced a loaded TT, carrier+2 planes just to take out the one bomber at midway that could have reached Moscow. After the attack failed, Germany was crippled and Japan did not have the power to try to go for a VC win. Because of this potential risk I played very carefully in the Pacific.

I think after the failed Moscow attempt the game was already over for a couple of turns. But you are a fierce fighter and tricky player. So I was always alerted you might find a crafty play to sneak for a Japanese VC victory. This option was off the table after the Chinese reached the coast again and it was clear Japan could not hold the VCs on the Chinese mainland.

Ill post it, I don’t see allies take a vc  back indeed. Well played!! Ill set up the new game today or tomorrow

Do you want me to forfeit and give you the win, or would you like me to put my game face on and try to fight back?

I’ll do whatever you want, my good friend

TT off South Africa
Art in Sudan
Art in Alex
Tank in Egypt

Thanks Kevin. Good game. You had me struggling there for a while, so I feel lucky to have won. :-D

2 German inf attk on Kaz.

DiceRolls: 2@1; Total Hits: 02@1: (4, 4)

Thank you for the game.

You want to play a G40 2nd ed Vanilla game with bids?

ok good game!

bid 20
bid placement please

destroyer sz106
man in south africa
art in alex.
art in sudan
tank in egypt
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