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

Game History

Round: 15

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians repair damage of 2x factory_major; Remaining resources: 21 PUs;
            Russians buy 7 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            1 infantry moved from Russia to Vologda
            1 fighter and 1 infantry moved from Russia to Vologda

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Vologda
                Russians attack with 1 fighter and 2 infantry
                Germans defend with 1 mech_infantry
                Russians win, taking Vologda from Germans with 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 1
                Casualties for Germans: 1 mech_infantry
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            1 fighter moved from Vologda to Russia

Place Units - Russians
            7 infantry placed in Russia

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 20 PUs; end with 20 PUs total
            Objective Russians 2 Spread Of Communism: Russians met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 23 PUs

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

Game History

Round: 10

Purchase Units - Japanese
            Japanese buy 6 armour and 5 destroyers; Remaining resources: 6 SuicideAttackTokens; 5 PUs;

Combat Move - Japanese
            4 artilleries and 3 infantry moved from Shan State to Burma
            9 artilleries and 6 infantry moved from Yunnan to Burma
            1 armour moved from Szechwan to Burma
            2 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from French Indo China to Burma
            1 mech_infantry moved from Malaya to Burma
            2 armour moved from Malaya to Burma
            1 infantry moved from Turkmenistan to Eastern Persia
                  Japanese take Eastern Persia from British
            1 infantry moved from Tsinghai to Kazakhstan
                  Japanese take Kazakhstan from Russians
            1 infantry moved from Ulaanbaatar to Dzavhan
                  Japanese take Dzavhan from Russians
            1 infantry moved from Tsagaan Olom to Kansu
            1 infantry moved from Olgiy to Timguska
            1 infantry moved from Olgiy to Kansu
            1 armour moved from Tsinghai to Sikang
            1 mech_infantry moved from Tsinghai to Sikang
            1 armour moved from Olgiy to Tsinghai
            1 destroyer moved from 37 Sea Zone to 42 Sea Zone
            1 tactical_bomber moved from 37 Sea Zone to 42 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from 37 Sea Zone to 42 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 43 Sea Zone to 44 Sea Zone
            1 bomber moved from Malaya to 46 Sea Zone
            1 bomber moved from Malaya to 46 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 35 Sea Zone to 46 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Philippines to 45 Sea Zone
            2 tactical_bombers moved from Philippines to 45 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Philippines to 44 Sea Zone
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Philippines to 44 Sea Zone
            1 carrier moved from 37 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 6 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            5 destroyers moved from 6 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Malaya to Sikang

Combat - Japanese
            Battle in 45 Sea Zone
                Japanese attack with 1 fighter and 2 tactical_bombers
                Americans defend with 1 destroyer
                Japanese win with 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is -3
                Casualties for Americans: 1 destroyer
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 tactical_bomber
            Battle in 42 Sea Zone
                Japanese attack with 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber
                Americans defend with 1 submarine; ANZAC defend with 1 transport
                Japanese win, taking 42 Sea Zone from ANZAC with 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 13
                Casualties for Americans: 1 submarine
                Casualties for ANZAC: 1 transport
            Battle in Burma
                Japanese attack with 5 armour, 13 artilleries, 9 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys
                British defend with 2 infantry
                Japanese win, taking Burma from UK_Pacific with 5 armour, 13 artilleries, 9 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for British: 2 infantry
            Battle in 44 Sea Zone
                Japanese attack with 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber
                Americans defend with 1 submarine
                Japanese win, taking 44 Sea Zone from Americans with 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Americans: 1 submarine
            Battle in 46 Sea Zone
                Japanese attack with 2 bombers and 1 destroyer
                Americans defend with 1 destroyer
                Japanese win with 2 bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for Americans: 1 destroyer
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 destroyer

Non Combat Move - Japanese
            2 infantry moved from 35 Sea Zone to Philippines
            1 tactical_bomber moved from 44 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from 44 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            2 bombers moved from 46 Sea Zone to Philippines
            1 fighter moved from 45 Sea Zone to Philippines
            1 tactical_bomber moved from 45 Sea Zone to Philippines
            1 tactical_bomber moved from 42 Sea Zone to Malaya
            1 fighter moved from 42 Sea Zone to Malaya
            1 aaGun moved from Chahar to Anhwe

Place Units - Japanese
            3 armour placed in Malaya
            3 armour placed in French Indo China
            5 destroyers placed in 6 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - Japanese
            Japanese collect 76 PUs; end with 81 PUs total
            Objective Japanese 4 Control Dutch East Indies: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 86 PUs

Hey Odonis, im sorry for letting you hanging, ive been very busy lately, and i still have alot of work that i have to catch up with, so will have to postpone our match. When im ready, i will write u and see if u are still up for it.

Yep, you are exactly right. If you overkill the attack you end up with risking the battleship . I was trying to get 3 hits and then retreat. It doesn’t always work obviously, hehe.  Thanks again for a great game.  Very much appreciate quick turns :)

Yes!  A rematch would be lovely.  My head is killing me right now, but we can totally get that set up tomorrow.

Good game, thanks! I’m sure it would have been a different game if the Luftwaffe hadn’t been decimated in the first few rounds,

Yeah we can rematch anytime you want.

Happy to do a rematch, tho!

The game was over a bit ago when you had India and Africa.  I couldn’t keep up with your economy.  Great playing!

Sorry been working a lot of hours lately (73 hours on the clock this week LOL).  Lost track of games.  I will post the loss in results thread. cheers!

@luckyinmaroon:

I’m going to throw in the towel.  I don’t think I will be winning this game, and I don’t want it to roll over to next season. GG

:mrgreen:

all, right. I think you are right about your analysis. The first round becme very expensive for Japan. Good luck in the new league year!

GG Karl, you played well. I felt like the game went back and forth for a while, but Russia was too stong  :wink:

@Arthur:

I thought the game was over?

LOL yeah. It is. I got saved files mixed up. Sorry about that.

I surrender, well played. Ill post the results

gg, we’ll rematch in the new season

GG

The Axis got lucky a couple times the helped keep them afloat!

@alexgreat:

Congratulations, Balladeer, too solid Axis play for me. Dice have not been a factor in this one, and if, they helped me more often than you. I have a general idea of what went wrong, but unfortunately, I still dont know what to change and if it would have helped me.

Tier 1 is more appropriate for me, anyway :)

Thank you and thanks for playing! I’ll give you the requested chance at revenge, but wait 2 weeks or so to finish some games before we start please :)

@majikforce:

I think I am going to concede. I don’t see anyway to dig out of my hole.  The Allies will just slowly choke me out economically.  Great game play!  Really nice pacific coordination.  I will never build the greece factory again.  Total waste!  And I learned my lesson with my German stack.  Great job.  Maybe I will see you in the playoffs.  We should play again in the next league year.  Good luck in your other games.  I will post the result.

Thank you for posting the win. It has been a lot of fun playing with you, and you REALLY have given me a hard challenge! I also think the allies will win this game. I also think if Germany somehow managed to can open for Japan I think the allies will take hawaii back the same turn. Potentially 8 japan units there. Counter: 3 American bomber and armor + inf. Anzac 3 art + 3 inf + 1 armor. With the americans in queensland and potentially 7 subs in the pacific I think (not calculated it in detail) that American clear the way, both for itself and for anzac. Then I think the Norway campaign has been VERY destructive for Germany. Down 8 ipc but also, must send units west instead of where they belong, east. I think Italy and Germany has given the british a really hard time in the med. Maybe you should have been more agressive here? I don’t think the German factory in greece is a total waist. It has been a struggle for UK. But I do agree it was destructive for Germany in Caucasus. Yeah in the initial battle you lost too many units but I would have continued to the bitter end in the counter. I am not sure how solid my pacific play is with staging at java. I dont have control and you are really close to snapping the win.

Not sure if I am signing up for the additional playoffs. But a new game in 2016 will be fun! Good luck to you!

not sure if you have seen my post in the general discussion the other day, but i have given up A&A for the foreseeable future. i had become too addicted and it’s been a challenge keeping the number of games and the amount of time spent down to where i could maintain a healthy, balanced life. however, it’s very possible that i may decide to come back after a few months off and resume this game, under the strict condition that i would take on no more than two games at any given time.

it’s up to you if you wish to put this on hold for some time for possible continuation, or to claim it for 2015 or 16. no matter what you choose, i am totally ok with it.

sorry for the inconvenience, and take care for now!

I think you should be able to beat tier 3’s and 4’s and possibly 2’s, AeV.  I mean, just playing as well as you did against me.  I guess I played 2 mid tier-2’s recently and they both fared a little better than you, but not much better.

The J2 in China killed you.  Like I already said, you probably would have got away with it against a lesser player - I think most would have attacked Yunnan to get the NO and not tried attacking your stack on Kwe.  But I made the right move and attacked the stack with everything and I got good luck.  That combination there was the killer.

Japanese forward ground units in the first several rounds of the game are GOLD.  The Allies should as a general rule be willing to take risky and desperate shots against all Japanese ground units on the fronts - in China and on islands.  So one of the biggest lessons from this game I think is to keep being aggressive with Japan like you were, but be a little more careful not to give the Allies a shot at you.  <50% odds of the Allies on your stack might not be acceptable.  The conventional wisdom of “as long as they lose more than me” doesn’t work so well in some situations in G40, and this is one of the best examples of that.

I had a 57% with an expected -6.68 TUV swing.  A lot of players wouldn’t attack there, but like I said it was the right move.  Your aggressive move to Kwe forced me to attack, because to stand aside is to let Japan split the Allies in half and drive for India or mop up China.

I hope you don’t feel like I’m beating you over the head with it, but in my opinion that was single most critical decision of this game.  I got great luck there too, and that really hurt you (although you took Kwe back, killing the 5 Chinese survivors with zero casualties to Japan), but even if I didn’t get great luck, it would have weakened Japan’s stack sufficiently to really protect India for quite awhile.

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

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - Japanese
            Japanese buy 1 factory_minor and 2 transports; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 6 SuicideAttackTokens;

Combat Move - Japanese
            1 infantry moved from Jehol to Chahar
                  Japanese take Chahar from Chinese
            1 infantry moved from Shantung to Anhwe
                  Japanese take Anhwe from Chinese
            2 infantry moved from Kiangsi to Hunan
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Kwangsi to Yunnan
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Kiangsu to Yunnan
            2 bombers moved from Japan to Yunnan
            2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Manchuria to Hunan
            1 fighter moved from Formosa to Hunan

Combat - Japanese
            Battle in Hunan
                Japanese attack with 3 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers
                Chinese defend with 2 infantry
                    Japanese roll dice for 3 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers in Hunan, round 2 :  4/7 hits
                    Chinese roll dice for 2 infantry in Hunan, round 2 :  0/2 hits
                    2 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Hunan
                Japanese win, taking Hunan from Chinese with 3 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Chinese: 2 infantry
            Battle in Yunnan
                Japanese attack with 1 artillery, 2 bombers, 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Chinese defend with 4 infantry
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery, 2 bombers, 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Yunnan, round 2 :  3/7 hits
                    Chinese roll dice for 4 infantry in Yunnan, round 2 :  2/4 hits
                    2 infantry owned by the Japanese and 3 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Yunnan
                    Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery, 2 bombers, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber in Yunnan, round 3 :  4/5 hits
                    Chinese roll dice for 1 infantry in Yunnan, round 3 :  0/1 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Yunnan
                Japanese win, taking Yunnan from Chinese with 1 artillery, 2 bombers, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Japanese: 2 infantry
                Casualties for Chinese: 4 infantry

Non Combat Move - Japanese
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            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            2 bombers, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Yunnan to Kwangsi
            3 fighters moved from Hunan to Kwangsi
            2 tactical_bombers moved from Hunan to Kwangsi
            1 infantry moved from Okinawa to 19 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Manchuria to 19 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 19 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 armour and 1 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
            1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 6 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 armour and 3 infantry moved from 36 Sea Zone to Kwangsi
            2 carriers moved from 6 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Okinawa to 36 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Korea to 36 Sea Zone
            2 tactical_bombers moved from 6 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 battleship moved from 6 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 6 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
            2 fighters moved from 6 Sea Zone to Kwangsi
            2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Japan to Kwangsi
            1 cruiser moved from 20 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 battleship and 1 destroyer moved from 19 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 19 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Jehol to Anhwe
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Shantung to Anhwe
            1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from Kiangsu to Anhwe
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Kiangsi to Kwangsi
            1 cruiser and 2 destroyers moved from 6 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 mech_infantry moved from Manchuria to Anhwe
            1 aaGun and 5 infantry moved from Manchuria to Jehol
            4 infantry moved from Korea to Manchuria
            1 transport moved from 20 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone
            1 aaGun and 1 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
            1 aaGun and 1 infantry moved from 6 Sea Zone to Korea

Place Units - Japanese
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            EDIT: Removing units owned by Japanese from Kwangsi: 1 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Japanese to Kwangsi: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Japanese to Jehol: 1 infantry
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Japanese from Manchuria: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            1 factory_minor placed in Manchuria
            2 transports placed in 6 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - Japanese
            Japanese collect 30 PUs; end with 30 PUs total
            Objective Japanese 1 Trade With America: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 40 PUs