Tutor game: AndrewAAGamer (X) vs trulpen [and everyone else] (A+50) OOB

[trulpen]

I’m thinking Kweichow is a more central square and that the chinese may take the northern route, getting away from some of the japanese air-threats.

[trulpenplay]

TripleA Turn Summary: Chinese round 5

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0

Game History

Round: 5

    Purchase Units - Chinese
        Trigger Chinese Loses Burma Road: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Closed
        Chinese buy 3 infantry; Remaining resources: 2 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Chinese
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Kiangsi
              Chinese take Kiangsi from Japanese
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Kwangsi
              Chinese take Kwangsi from Japanese
        1 infantry moved from Shensi to Hopei
        1 fighter moved from Hunan to Hopei

    Combat - Chinese
        Battle in Hopei
            Chinese attack with 1 fighter and 1 infantry
            Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Hopei, round 2 : 0/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Hopei, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Hopei, round 3 : 0/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Hopei, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Hopei, round 4 : 2/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Hopei, round 4 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Hopei
            Chinese win, taking Hopei from Japanese with 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
            Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry

    Non Combat Move - Chinese
        4 artilleries and 17 infantry moved from Hunan to Kweichow
        1 fighter moved from Hopei to Kweichow

    Place Units - Chinese
        3 infantry placed in Kweichow

    Turn Complete - Chinese
        Chinese collect 11 PUs; end with 13 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Chinese : 0,00
Japanese : -1,00

Savegame

[trulpen]

Looking at UK now. Unfortunately z80 doesn’t look feasible. J will have slightly better odds if we build a sub there, and about even with a des. UK has low income, so investing in fleet now is rather expensive.

Another option is to secure taking Cyprus while protecting the tr, i e moving the fleet to z99. Italy does have 40 % then and a german follow-up with air. Since the italian fleet is going down anyway sometime, maybe it’s good to actually kill off some british fleet when the have the chance.

Probably it’s best to keep the fleet in z98 and sacrifice the tr, but atleast get 2 figs into the attack.

[trulpenplay]

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: British round 5

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0

Game History

Round: 5

    Purchase Units - British
        British buy 1 artillery, 6 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - British
        1 infantry moved from Northwest Persia to Caucasus
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Persia to Caucasus
        2 infantry moved from West India to India
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Persia to India
        1 infantry moved from Egypt to 98 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 98 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Malta to 96 Sea Zone
        2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 96 Sea Zone to 99 Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from 99 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        2 fighters moved from 98 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        2 infantry moved from Norway to Finland
        1 fighter moved from Norway to Finland
        1 bomber moved from Russia to Ukraine
        1 fighter moved from Russia to Finland

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

[trulpenplay]

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: British round 5

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0

Game History

Round: 5

    Purchase Units - British
        British buy 1 artillery, 6 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - British
        1 infantry moved from Northwest Persia to Caucasus
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Persia to Caucasus
        2 infantry moved from West India to India
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Persia to India
        2 infantry moved from Norway to Finland
        1 fighter moved from Norway to Finland
        1 bomber moved from Russia to Ukraine
        1 fighter moved from Russia to Finland
        1 armour moved from Algeria to Tunisia
              British take Tunisia from Italians
        1 armour moved from Tunisia to Algeria
        1 fighter moved from 98 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        1 infantry moved from Egypt to 98 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 98 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Malta to 96 Sea Zone
        2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 96 Sea Zone to 99 Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from 99 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        1 fighter moved from 98 Sea Zone to Cyprus

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

[trulpen]

Remembered to blitz Tunisia.

Considered taking out the des in z92, but concluded that it will take too much effort and risk to be worth it. Rather be able to land atleast 2 air in Normandie and probably 2 air in Norway.

[trulpen]

Although the fleet in z110 is extremely secure, so we’re able to spare a lot of air.

[trulpenplay]

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: British round 5

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0

Game History

Round: 5

    Purchase Units - British
        British buy 1 artillery, 6 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - British
        1 infantry moved from Northwest Persia to Caucasus
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Persia to Caucasus
        2 infantry moved from West India to India
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Persia to India
        2 infantry moved from Norway to Finland
        1 fighter moved from Norway to Finland
        1 bomber moved from Russia to Ukraine
        1 fighter moved from Russia to Finland
        1 armour moved from Algeria to Tunisia
              British take Tunisia from Italians
        1 armour moved from Tunisia to Algeria
        1 fighter moved from 98 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        1 infantry moved from Egypt to 98 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 98 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Malta to 96 Sea Zone
        2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 96 Sea Zone to 99 Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from 99 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        1 fighter moved from 98 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        1 fighter moved from 110 Sea Zone to 92 Sea Zone
        1 fighter moved from Algeria to 92 Sea Zone

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

[trulpen]

Adding a 2 fig attack on z92, with the plan of landing 1 fig from Cyprus in Alexandria. Don’t want Italy to be able to open up a territory easily to allow for a german follow-up air-strike.

Also thinking now that to build a sub in z98 might be a good idea.

[trulpenplay]

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: British round 5

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0

Game History

Round: 5

    Purchase Units - British
        British buy 1 artillery, 5 infantry, 1 mech_infantry and 1 submarine; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - British
        1 fighter moved from 110 Sea Zone to 92 Sea Zone
        1 fighter moved from Algeria to 92 Sea Zone
        1 armour moved from Algeria to Tunisia
              British take Tunisia from Italians
        1 armour moved from Tunisia to Algeria
        2 infantry moved from Norway to Finland
        1 fighter moved from Norway to Finland
        1 fighter moved from Russia to Finland
        1 bomber moved from Russia to Ukraine
        1 infantry moved from Northwest Persia to Caucasus
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Persia to Caucasus
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern Persia to India
        2 infantry moved from West India to India
        1 infantry moved from Egypt to 98 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 98 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Malta to 96 Sea Zone
        2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 96 Sea Zone to 99 Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from 99 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        2 fighters moved from 98 Sea Zone to Cyprus
        1 fighter moved from Russia to Finland
        1 transport moved from 112 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from United Kingdom to 110 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from 110 Sea Zone to Holland Belgium

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

[trulpen]

Hmm, in this case, maybe the fleet can just as well hit z92? Then no air is at risk.

[trulpen]

But the fleet will be unstable there unless UK builds an ab in Gib.

[trulpen]

Decided to use both figs from Moscow to attack Finland and land in Norway.

[trulpen]

The french fig will stay, which leaves 4 figs to deter an SBR. I’m not so worried about an SBR of Moscow right now. G likely wants to put the air to other use.

[trulpen]

I’ll leave this for 10-12 h.

[farmboy]

I’d use a sub on 92 to save the fighters and be a little more sure.

I would definitely use a second inf on Caucasus. If not, there is a risk that the Italians can blitz into NW Persia and the Germans can land air and make that safe.

Also I’d want to make sure that a German move into NW Persia and then supported by the Japanese air in range doesn’t secure it for them. It looks to me that you have just enough to discourage that, but it will depend on your NCMs and on whether the bomber survives the SB. I might want to spend on art instead of inf in Persia or make sure to have another fighter from Moscow available. If he holds NW Persia, with the tanks and mechs following and with German air, he should be able to get Persia or swing around and get Egypt.

Finally, this may be overkill on a naval build but a carrier would certainly keep the fleet safe in 80 and force him to retreat or stack more. Plus you can bring the transport up from S Africa which gives you two more inf against the Germans. And if China’s units went back to Yunnan you could be in a position to either retake India permanently or force him to pull more units away from the US fleet.

I’m assuming that the Eastern Persia inf are going back to Persia but you might need them in W India too.

[trulpen]

I thought of a carrier in z80, but thought it was too expensive. Perhaps it’s not under these circumstances? I’ll consider it again.

Another inf in Caucasus is probably wise, as you say.

We definitely want to keep W India safe. Will probably land 2 air there.

I don’t really understand how the chinese stack in Yunnan will make us able to retake Calcutta permanently? Is it the 2 mechs following? Securing Burma?

What I don’t like about that is that it relieves pressure from Anwhe. Don’t want to release the japanese into China too easily.

[trulpen]

The problem with the carrier-build is that air has to be reserved for landing there and can’t be used for attacks. Think that’s a problem actually.

[trulpen]

And not keeping the fleet in z98 makes using air on Cyprus rather fishy, since they have to land in Syria. Then we need to stack Syria with some land, which loses a lot of momentum. It’s pretty messy.

[trulpen]

If there’s a build of 1 art, 1 sub, 1 des in Persia, the fleet will be rather secure in z80, but not without bringing both subs from z98.

Haven’t looked at what the situation will be in NW Persia with that build.

I’m leaning towards land-builds, perhaps a sub in z98 and keep the fleet there, thereby securing Cyprus and not risking air against the des in z92. Also prepares for a crush of the italian fleet, which is good.

I really like the idea of pressuring the japanese fleet by India, but it just seems too costly to achieve in a good way.