18 League TITLE PLAYOFF QUARTER FINAL Oysteilo (Allies + 6) vs JuanSpain G40 BM3

[oysteilo]

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 18

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

Game History

Round: 18

    Purchase Units - Russians
        Russians buy 4 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Russians
        1 infantry moved from Russia to Samara
        2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Russia to Samara

    Combat - Russians
        Battle in Samara
            Russians attack with 2 fighters, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
            Germans defend with 1 mech_infantry
                Russians roll dice for 2 fighters, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Samara, round 2 : 2/4 hits, 1,83 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 1 mech_infantry in Samara, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                1 mech_infantry owned by the Germans lost in Samara
            Russians win, taking Samara from Germans with 2 fighters, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
            Casualties for Germans: 1 mech_infantry

    Non Combat Move - Russians
        2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Samara to Russia
        1 aaGun and 47 infantry moved from Smolensk to Russia

    Place Units - Russians
        4 infantry placed in Russia

    Turn Complete - Russians
        Russians collect 6 PUs; end with 6 PUs
        Trigger Russians 2 Persia Lend Lease Lane: Russians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 8 PUs
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by French from Iraq: 1 fighter
        EDIT: Removing units owned by ANZAC from Iraq: 1 fighter
        EDIT: Adding units owned by ANZAC to Russia: 1 fighter
        EDIT: Adding units owned by French to Russia: 1 fighter
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by French from Russia: 1 fighter
        EDIT: Removing units owned by ANZAC from Russia: 1 fighter
        EDIT: Adding units owned by ANZAC to Iraq: 1 fighter
        EDIT: Adding units owned by French to Iraq: 1 fighter
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Germans : -0,33
Russians : 0,17

Savegame

[JuanSpain]

TripleA Turn Summary: Japanese round 18

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

Game History

Round: 18

    Purchase Units - Japanese
        Japanese buy 3 carriers, 1 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers; Remaining resources: 4 PUs; 6 SuicideAttackTokens; 

    Combat Move - Japanese
        4 fighters and 9 tactical_bombers moved from 36 Sea Zone to Philippines
        3 fighters moved from French Indo China to Philippines
        2 infantry moved from Yunnan to Burma
        2 bombers moved from Kweichow to Burma
        1 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Samara
        1 bomber moved from Kweichow to Samara

    Combat - Japanese
        Battle in Philippines
            Japanese attack with 7 fighters and 9 tactical_bombers
            Americans defend with 1 airfield, 1 armour, 1 artillery, 1 harbour and 2 infantry; ANZAC defend with 3 fighters
                Japanese roll dice for 7 fighters and 9 tactical_bombers in Philippines, round 2 : 9/16 hits, 9,17 expected hits
                Americans roll dice for 1 armour, 1 artillery, 3 fighters and 2 infantry in Philippines, round 2 : 3/7 hits, 3,50 expected hits
                3 fighters owned by the Japanese, 3 fighters owned by the ANZAC, 1 armour owned by the Americans, 2 infantry owned by the Americans and 1 artillery owned by the Americans lost in Philippines
            Japanese win with 4 fighters and 9 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 16
            Casualties for Japanese: 3 fighters
            Casualties for Americans: 1 armour, 1 artillery and 2 infantry
            Casualties for ANZAC: 3 fighters
        Battle in Burma
            Japanese attack with 2 bombers and 2 infantry
            British defend with 2 infantry
                Japanese roll dice for 2 bombers and 2 infantry in Burma, round 2 : 1/4 hits, 1,67 expected hits
                UK_Pacific roll dice for 2 infantry in Burma, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Japanese and 1 infantry owned by the British lost in Burma
                Japanese roll dice for 2 bombers and 1 infantry in Burma, round 3 : 3/3 hits, 1,50 expected hits
                UK_Pacific roll dice for 1 infantry in Burma, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the British lost in Burma
            Japanese win, taking Burma from UK_Pacific with 2 bombers and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
            Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
            Casualties for British: 2 infantry
        Battle in Samara
            Japanese attack with 1 bomber and 1 infantry
            Russians defend with 1 infantry
                Japanese roll dice for 1 bomber and 1 infantry in Samara, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 0,83 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 1 infantry in Samara, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Japanese and 1 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Samara
            Japanese win with 1 bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
            Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
            Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry

    Non Combat Move - Japanese
        2 bombers moved from Burma to French Indo China
        4 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Japan to 36 Sea Zone
        1 submarine moved from 6 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
        3 fighters moved from 36 Sea Zone to French Indo China
        4 fighters moved from Philippines to 36 Sea Zone
        9 tactical_bombers moved from Philippines to 36 Sea Zone
        5 fighters moved from Celebes to 36 Sea Zone
        6 fighters moved from Java to 36 Sea Zone
        2 fighters moved from Java to Sumatra
        1 infantry moved from Kiangsi to Anhwe
        1 mech_infantry moved from Anhwe to Yunnan
        1 infantry moved from Yunnan to Kweichow
        2 armour and 3 mech_infantrys moved from Kweichow to French Indo China
        2 infantry moved from Kwangsi to French Indo China
        1 bomber moved from Samara to Kansu
        4 infantry moved from Yunnan to French Indo China
        4 infantry moved from Yunnan to French Indo China

    Place Units - Japanese
        3 carriers placed in 36 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers placed in Kwangtung

    Turn Complete - Japanese
        Japanese collect 73 PUs; end with 77 PUs
        Objective Japanese 4 Control Dutch East Indies: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 82 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Americans : -0,50
UK_Pacific : 0,00
Russians : 0,67
Japanese : 0,83

Savegame

[oysteilo]

i think thats it, well done and good luck against @Adam514! (and good luck to adam514 too)

[JuanSpain]

@oysteilo Many thanks Oysteilo. You were a very strong opponent. Very good game Sir!!!

[oysteilo]

@JuanSpain said in 18 League TITLE PLAYOFF QUARTER FINAL Oysteilo (Allies + 6) vs JuanSpain G40 BM3:

@oysteilo Many thanks Oysteilo. You were a very strong opponent. Very good game Sir!!!

I think there were many things that didn’t go well in this game. G1 is perfect I would say. I expected you would do a G1, but I did not expect J1. It would have been better to buy 9 inf and 1 fighter russia 1 and have all planes in Moscow.

J1 is close to a disaster for me, it is a perfect result for japan. Yes, I probably should have stacked Yuannan round 1, but I played it out in low luck and both china and UK are completely crippled even with an average result. Some Russian planes would have been nice. But all in all stacking is probably the right play. If you do attack it I am compensated at sea with USA, makes life easier there. So yeah, I should have stacked.

Then J2 is as ridiculous as J1, with well below avarage on defending hits. This puts Japan in a superstrong position.

Then on round 3 i realize I need to do something because you have all your moves planned out, its like playing chess and haveing black and white is just doing computer moves. So I decide to toss things up a little bit by attacking the neutrals. My rationale is it requires substantially less investments in europe than a normal campaign. Maybe this is wrong I don’t know. I am still surprised how litte impact this had on germany on the eastern front when you have like almost 100 german units in western europe. Then the korea/manchuria attack is just bs and has no impact on japan. I am better off just defending my territory given my neutral attack. Then off course when the russian 2 aa and 11 inf score one hit it does not improve my position either

And it is so expensive for the allies to challange islands in the pacific when transports are single use. I am not sure how to go about that

[JuanSpain]

@oysteilo The keys of the game are in strategy in my view.

The germans were able to stack at both eastern and western borders with lots of land because they did not buy a single plane nor ship during the first dozen of rounds. They are able to do so if their purchases are consistently land but you need to look long term on that strat since the very beginning. In that balance helped a lot that the russians declared war to Japs and Japs were able to control a lot of russian economy because I did not need so many germans in Eastern Front. The long term view in the units needed in that front (large amount of mechs) was key to avoid you unifying your middle east army with the russians and fight together. I had the amount needed on due time, anticipating purchases 10 rounds.

A very relevant strat key was Spain battle. Neutrals is ussually a bad decision vs me when I am playing this strategy, because for this german play the only way I can control Gib is crossing Spain and that gives me an easy and stable way of doing it. Once I controlled it, it was a matter of time because your armies were splitted with no solution from there and I could just play increasing Bombers in between instead with the only decision to make on which side to smash and with which % to win that battle. On the other hand you could not reinforce all your fronts affected by those bombers with the same amount of money. Spain battle conclusion released a lot of my western mechs that were bought with that purpose of fighting in Spain first and after reaching Moscow fast while Bombers would both defend western and med coasts and increase Power for Sea Lion, Moscow fall and Middle East. 5 targets at the same time with 1 purchase.

Conclusion of all the statements above is if allies don’t unify armies from a certain point, they have no chance as Axis purchases are much more efficient and I was driving for that situation with more anticipation in my view.

Bombers + Gib for Germany is definitive because a lot of land is released from Rome and other coasts defense + Bombers cover 5/6 targets at the same time with 1 purchase.

Finally, americans should have fought more in eastern russia I believe, and yes, not stacking Yunnan helped Japan but also the way the russians attacked Japan and got trapped.

Hope it helps, not a lot of people share strat here.

[oysteilo]

Thanks!

I agree with your assessment

[JDOW]

Gratz Juan. Gl vs Adam!

[JuanSpain]

@JDOW Thank you Sir, just agreed the Bid, will start soon.

[JDOW]

@JuanSpain cool. Who has Axis?

[JuanSpain]

@JDOW I have Axis + 9