Global 1940 & 1943 Expansions Game Reports

[barnee]

@The-Captain

Hi Captain

Not a Game report but just a shot of your Neutrals in play :)

From the Multi with
@Panzerstahl-Helm Axis
@crockett36 Soviets
me Nippon
@VictoryFirst Allies

Thought it looked kinda cool. :) It’s late 1944 after Germany’s turn.

oops ! Shoulda activated the Swiss too :)

I think I’ll start on a mid game report, although we’re closer to late game, it’s still undecided :)

[The Captain]

@barnee

Awesome - Germany has got strong reinforcements

[barnee]

Multi Game 1

Panzerstahl-Helm and barnee
vs
crockett36 and VictoryFirst

Game: 1940

Germany and Italy: Panzerstahl-Helm
Russia, ANZAC and France: crockett36
Japan: barnee
USA, China and UK: Victory First

Game Thread
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4020/exp-crockett-victory-panzer-beelee

Current Triplea Save
EXP Multi Game 1 J 10edit.tsvg

This is crockett’s first game of Global 1940 Expansion. He was thrown into the deep end, with all options activated.

While there was some confusion in Early 1940, by Early 1944, he was posting error free. His gaming partners are impressed, as he quickly marches towards veteran staus.

Well done @crockett36

I will try not to make this too long and it will take several postings, but I do want to document crockett’s first game with a fair amount of detail.

Report to Follow

Early 1940

The Kriegsmarine would launch the Graf Zeppelin in Early 1940. They would sink the Royal Navy in 110 and 106. A damaged Bismark would withdraw from 111 to 112.

The Wehrmacht would conquer all of France as well as attriting Yugoslavia and then withdrawing to Romainia.

The Soviets would commision all of their Commisars and promote a Elite Infantry. They would save a significant amount of their income.

The Red Army would have a fairly strong presence in E POL, as well as strengthening secondary lines of defense in Bryansk and Belarus.
Novgorod would retain a sizable Infantry presence.

Japan would build a Factory in Shantung as well as deploy 2 Engineers to Tokyo.
The IJN would concentrate in 36 with a CV Group left in 6 SZ.

USA destroys the facilities in the Philippines and buys 2 CVs, 2 DDs.
PHI would be fortified.

China takes Yunnan back and concentrates in Shensi with their Ftr.

UK moves the London Factory underground and blows up the Gibralter Harbor. They sink the Italian ships in 96 and 97.

Italy builds a DD and a LCV. They sink the remaining UK ships in 97. They take Yugoslavia and Tunisia. The Ethiopian Army moves to Somaliland.

ANZAC produces a Submarine and takes control of Java and DNG. Their CA and DD move to the Harbor in New South Wales.

France disperses its Med Fleet to 92 and 94. The Morrocan Inf reinforces Algiers to face off the Italians in Tunis.

Late 1940

Germany would launch another CV and 4 U-boats, with the rest of their income going to the Wehrmacht.

An undefended GIB would be taken and the damaged HMS Hood would be sunk off Iceland by a single U-boat with Bomber support.
Operation Marita would be activated and Greece would fall.

1st Panzer would form in Berlin and the new CV would launch off Toulon along with a Me 109T. The majority of the Kriegsmarine having already sailed to 91 off GIB.

Russia would have a mixed build of 4 Tanks, Elite, Engnr, Para and 2 Bmbrs.

They would begin to implement the “Crockett Karelian Knot” heavily reinforcing Novgorod and Karelia.

While the Axis were originally skeptical of the Soviet strategy, it has proven problematic throughout the game, as the Reich has been unable to fully untie it.

Far East Forces concentrate on the Manchurian frontier.

Nippon would construct another Fctry for mainland China along with a Harbor in Kwangsi.

Undefended TTys bordering Shensi would be taken and a Huge attack by the IJA would take Yunnan in force.
Kweichow would also be occupied by a large number of Army units.

USA launches the USS Iowa and 3 DDs into the Atlantic, as well as fortifying the Aleutians.

China withdraws their entire Army to Kansu save a single Inf in Szechwan.

Britain builds a Fctry for Egypt and heavily reinforces the RAF. Sumatra is fortified.
The Pro-Axis Neutrals in Iraq are exterminated.

Italia builds a Para, LCV and 3 Inf. Algeria is conquered and a large Army force moves to Romainia.

ANZAC builds a CV and a SS. They take Custodianship of Celebes.

France moves their DD in 81 SZ to the Med in 95. They now have a DD in 95, 94 and a CA in 92. The London Ftr flies to French West Africa.

6-24-25
Early 1941
The Reich starts off Early 41 sending the Luftwaffe to sink the French ships in the Med along with U-boat support. Forces from occupied GIB would make a amphibous attack on W Africa and destroy the French Ftr there.

AG Center forms in Slovakia and U-boats continue to raid England and Canada.

The Soviets invest heavily in Infantry and a TG. They continue to concentrate in Karelia and Novgorod. They withdraw from the East European TTys.

Nippon continues their push into China.

USA sees another large Naval build. Both Pacific and Atlantic Fleets are formidable.
China attempts a minor counterattack in Suiyuyan that fails. They hold there last 3 Western Provinces and are concentrated in Kansu.

UK invests heavily in Paratroopers and eliminates the Italian Army in Somalia.

Mussolini in his desire to upstage Hitler, orders an attack on the Soviet Union. They would take an undefended Bessarabia and launch a successful amphibous attack against a lightly defended Caucasus.
North Africa would be taken for an important Objective.

ANZAC goes with a Naval and Air buy. They disperse their ships throughout the SW Pacific.
What’s left of the French Armed Forces chill with the British.

Late 1941
Germany launches Operation Barbarossa. They would take undefended Soviet TTys in the East as well as use Fallschirmjägers to take UKR and Rostov.
A British DD that deployed to 109 would be sunk.

A small force continues to advance in Central Africa and the Kriegsmarine moves into the Med.
AG Center moves to W UKR and E POL has a heavy Wehrmacht and Waffen concentration.

Russia goes with an all Inf build. They will take back Rostov, UKR, Baltic STs and move into Finland. Strategic Bombers will kill the Italian units in Caucasus.

The Red Army’s largest Force is in Novgorod. The Far East Army remains as a counter to JPN.

JPN suffers a major defeat in Kansu. This will delay the takeover of China until Early 1942.
They begin to build a Air Trprt Fleet.

The Americans, now in the War against Germany and Italy, use a Bmbr DD combo to begin to hunt U-boats in the North Atlantic and Brazil is activated.
China waits for the inevitable.

UK successfully counterattacks against the German Central African Force. An undefended Holland is taken by a Paratrooper.
They continue to suffer heavy Convoy damage.

Italia attacks Caucasus and Alexandria killing the British and ANZAC troops there.
They begin to reinforce North Africa via Air Trprt.

ANZAC continues to build it’s Navy and they remained dispersed in single SZs.

Early 1942
The Reich invests heavily in the Wehrmacht with a large Inf build. Rostov is taken with a combined sea and air attack. AG Center joins the E POL forces in Belarus. The Luftwaffe reinforces Norway.

In the USSR Stalin has ordered Conscription to take place. The fighting in Rostov and Caucasus continues. The Red Air Force takes heavy losses while doing no damage in the latter.
The Novgorod Army moves to Karelia.

Despite the failure of JPN to conquer all of China in Late 41, they remain on schedule and Declare War against the Western Allies. They would attack the PHIs, Singapore, Hong Kong, Borneo and finish off the Chinese. All attacks would succeed.

The Americans, enraged by the sneak attack japanese, activate the Natl Guard. In Europe they would bomb the S FRA Fctry as well as take an undefended GIB back for the British. In the Pacific they would sink a Escort blocking the route to 6 SZ.

The Chinese have a new master.

Britain finishes off the last German Inf in Central Africa and make a small counterattack against Alexandria. They construct a Airfield in Cairo. Blockade damage begins to subside.

Italy continues the back and forth in Alexandria taking it for their Objective. Air Trprts continue to fly into Tobruck.

ANZAC would strike the IJN Fleet off Singapore with Subs and Ftrs. Despite destruction of their entire attacking Force, they would do signifigant damage sinking both CVs and shooting down all the JPN Air.
This would have a strong impact on future Pacific Naval Operations for IJN.

End Early 1942

Income
Allies 210
Axis 177

European Theatre

Pacific Theatre

Late 1942
Germany begins to move their Minor Fctrys underground due to American SBRs. They also start construction on the Atlantic Wall.

Panzers Blitz into and back the undefended TTys of ARCH, Smolensk and Bryansk. A Elite takes control of Novgorod. The Soviet Baltic CA is sunk in 113. The Kriegsmarine joins the Regia Marina in 95. Norway is reinforced via LCV.
The Heer remains concentrated in Belarus. England is no longer being convoyed but Cairo is.

The communists begin Mass Tank production and begin to deploy Guard Inf.
Novgorod, UKR and Caucasus would all be taken. The Red Army is concentrated in Karelia and Moscow with 3rd Corps leading the Far East Army in Amur.

Nippon rebuilds the destroyed Naval Base in the PHIs and is forced into Inf only builds instead af Armor as they start to replace their lost CVs from the Battle off Singapore.

They take DNG, Celebes and Java, while continuing to skirmish with the Americans in 16 SZ. Air Trprts continue to reinforce Carolines. The Kansu Army withdraws from the Soviet Frontier to Kweichow.
Jehol and Yunnan have sizable forces to counter Amur and India.

The yanks commision the USS Missourri and add 3 more B-17s to the Army Air Corps.
The Atlantic Fleet would move into the Med in 92 and conduct landings against Morocco and Algeria.
Bmbrs would move to GIB. The Pacific Fleet remains in Pearl Harbr.

China is no more lol

UK builds both a Air and Naval Base for GIB. Large RAF units and a unescorted Trprt attack Tobruk. The Italians are destroyed but the RAF takes heavy losses.

Italy takes UKR in a small battle. Their Navy remains in a defensive posture in 95.

ANZAC rebuilds their Air Force. The Fighting Spirit of their Army is showcased when a single Inf attacks an Elite JPN Div in Burma. Sadly for them, they are defeated while doing no damage.

NG is reinforced by Air and Sea. A small Naval Task Force begins to take shape off of New South Wales.

Early 1943
Germany would take Novgorod but a single brave Inf in Finland would defeat an attack by a Tac, Elite and Inf. Undefended E Front TTYs would once again be taken.
S FRA would see heavy reinforcement.

SSR builds a Minor Fctry in Finland and moves the Karelian Army there.

Stalin orders an attack on JPN all along it’s border. Manchuria and Korea fall, as well as Tsinghai. The Kansu and Sikang attacks would fail.
Attritional battles continue in Europe with Rostov and Novgorod back under Soviet control.

1st Tank and 3 Grd units move to Kazakhstan and the Air Force will land there.

After the Soviet attack, JPN switches to heavy Army buys, including Total War Tanks and another Fctry in China.

A DD lands a Inf in Kamchatka and mobile units with small Air support would take Tsinghai. In a close battle a Fortified Sumatra would fall, giving JPN the DEI bonus.
The largest combat would take place in Manchuko where JPN would send all available Air, the Land units in Jehol as well as amphibous attack being supported by the Naval units in PHI. While victory was expected, it exceeded expectations and was a smashing success.

The Americans build a Harbor on Wake and the Pacific Fleet would move there. The Med Fleet moves to 94 and Tunisia would be taken. The entire American N African Army would be stationed there.
With 11 Trprts in the Fleet and a heavy combination of Marines and Arty in Tunisia, along with 6 Bmbrs in Gib and the USS Missourri now within supporting range as well, The Italians face a signifigant threat.
UK forces in Egypt and GIB contribute to the danger.

China’s brief moment of liberation was short lived and they are back under the Japanese boot.

Britain begins Total War Ftr builds. They land in Greece and fail to liberate Tsinghai due to unexpected stiff resistance from JPN.

Units are sent to Kazakhstan to support the Soviet Army there. Egyptian Forces move to the ME to prevent a possible suicide attack by Italy from Alexandria that would activate the conditions for a German Takeover of Italy.

Italia takes Egypt and Greece and lands a Para unopposed in Caucasus. The Regia Marina moves to 99 and reinforces the newly taken Greece.

ANZAC would go with a max Sub build and conduct successful combat against DNG.

4-28-25
The Reich and the Soviets going toe to toe Early 1945 in Scandanavia lol
I’ll get us caught up after I finish the Trout report :) This one still ongoing :)

Click to enlarge but you guys already know that :)

Edit
5-29-25
Oh my a month has gone by :). I’ll try and start work on some of the earlier action again soon :)

It’s been a tough slog and the war is far from decided in Late 1945. @crockett36 has taken command of all Allied Forces. It is believed that Otto Skorenzy and the Gestapo have abducted @VictoryFirst .
Rumor has it that British Commandos are working on a rescue. Hopefully it will succeed.

A quick shot of the Pacific End USA Late 1945
There are boats everywhere lol

[The Captain]

@barnee

Great news - welcome to crockett :-)

Keep up the good fight - tons of Fun & Challenge

[crockett36]

@The-Captain Thank you Sir!

[Cornelis Post]

Global 1940, No. 1 Game Report:

This is the only game report of this game.

This Global 1940 Game Report is played according to the tournament rules:

Exception 1:
In Section II, the following units & rules are not included:

Increased Ship Building in the Pacific Theatre (US & Japan)
German Atlantic Wall Fortifications
Exception 2:
In Section V (Optional Rules) the following units & rules are not included:

German Volkssturm
German King Tiger unit
Heavy Waffen-SS Panzer unit
Rocket units
US Heavy Transporter unit
German Type XXI U-Boat unit
Exception 3:
The following Optional Rules are included:

FLAK Tower unit
Strict Neutral rules & units
Note:
Combat Engineer units are not included, due to the fact that play testing has not yet been completed.

Desert Army is included - but did not see action during this game.

This weekends Global 1940 two-player game ended Friday, 28 March Here is a brief situation report:

Players:
Axis: CC
Allies: The Captain

Early 1940:
Germany:
Germany is building up transports and landingcrafts.

France and Southern France are captured. Finland & Bulgaria joins Germany.

Allied fleets in sz 110 & 111 are eliminated.

Soviet Union:
The Soviets build up with a mixed unit combination of Paratroopers, Commissar, Tank, Artillery and Elite Infantry. also a lot of Mines.

Massive re-organization plus troop movement by Strategic Rail Movement.

Japan:
The japenese produced 1 factory 2 transports and 1 elite infantry.

Opening attacks in China.

Re-organization of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

United States:
Build up & re-organization in the Pacific.

All US factories are producing a maximum of 3 units, earmarked for use in the Pacific.

China:
Chinese units counter attack and capture Yunnan.

United Kingdom:
The UK reinforced Londen massive.
Re-organization in both Europe & Pacific theatres.

Italy:
Italy takes out the French Navy.
and clear the meds.

ANZAC:
Re-organization & build up of Naval & Air units.

France:
is doing great.

• 1 French fighter from London destroys 2 cruisers and survives the game.

Late 1940

Germany.

builds up 1 waffen army and builds a heavy battleship including 2 transports in the meds.
also germany produces 5 air transports.
no further attacks in the second round.

Russia

Is building up a vast amount of mines,
also all Russian troops takes strategic locations to fend of any attack.

Japanese

The japanese is only attacking in China,
and is organizing its fleet to attack in the 3e round.

The US

is building up units to kill Germany first, almost all money goes the Europe theater, the entire game.

UK

the UK retakes all original country’s from italy in Africa.

Situation in the end of round 3

Germany is building up a army group in the middle east,
The Japanese are sending units to reinforce the italians and germans in Africa.

In Round 3 the Japanese sends a part of his navy to seazone 58. This makes it possible to attack at multiple positions next round.
This forces the allies player to blockade all directions to fend off an enemy invasion.

The Japanese captured the money islands in the next rounds (also China was captured )
Butt slowly US and Anzac transport liberated the money islands.
A war of attrition was held.

The Japanese prepared to take the Phillipennes
Butt this island was heavily reinforced with fighter units.
The Japanese attacked butt lost 13-18 land based units. They captured the islands butt lost to many troops, to continue the fight and re-capture the money islands.

After the russians army consricption the Axis powers in the Europe Theater where slowly destroyed and Pushed back

Because of the heavy investment in units in africa and the middle east,
soon the eastern front collapsed.
The UK and the US including Russia attacked Germany every round massively.
In round 10 The German’s decided to take over Italy.
and captured Egypt again with heavy losses for the British player.

Butt in this Round after the Japenese the Allies took as much as country’s as they could get.

**This was a very skilled and strategic planned operation, The Allies waited for the Germans to take over. They Allies where counting the ipc tracker on a massive scale.

So the Russians captured country’s deep in the German homeland.

The US captured the Atlantic coast including Holland , Norway Danmark including French. And Normandy.

The UK captured southern France.

The Anzac Captured the last money islands.

So after this Round the allies have like 200 ipc plus on the ipc tracker.
So a economic victory was a fact.

Fun Fact: there is a waffen army fighting in China in the final round.
**

v

[barnee]

@Cornelis-Post said in Global 1940 & 1943 Expansions Game Reports:

France:
is doing great.

Vive le Francais

lol

Nice report :)

[The Captain]

Global 1940, No. 17 Game Report:

This is the only post in the No. 17 Game Report.

Players:
Axis: Traesko
Allies: The Captain

Germany:
From Early 1940, Germany prepared for a Fullscale Attack on the Soviet Union.
Infantry, Panzer Armies and Waffen-SS Armies were marched up along the entire Eastern Front.

Small scale production of U-Boat units kept the United Kingdom busy in the Med. and the Atlantic.

Soviet Union:
As the Germans were clearly preparing for a Massive Assault on the Soviet Union, the Soviets produced their maximum number of 9 Soviet Guard Infantry units as well as 26 Red Army Conscription Infantry units.

Most of the Eastern Front was heavily defended In Depth with Mines. This strategy proofed to be costly for the German Frontline units - during both Combat Movement and Non-Combat Movement.

The Soviets planned for a Static Defense in order to make each captured territory as costly as possible to the Germans.

Japan:
In Early 1941 Japan launched a large scale invasion of several islands in the Pacific.
Fighting was still ongoing in China.
The Japanese Navy was expanded massively - but scattered across the southern part og the Pacific to support amphibious assaults on most islands.

United States:
In Early 1941 the United States activated the US National Guard due to a Japanese attack on the Philippines.
US Naval units & troops attacked Italian occupied Morroco and hunted down several German U-Boat units in the Atlantic.

United Kingdom:
As German U-Boat units were gradually eliminated in the Atlantic and UK forces occupied the Money Islands in the Pacific, the UK economy was strongly increased.
The Industrial Complex in India was producing at its maximum during the entire War.

As Japanese troops captured Borneo, Celebes and Kwangtung the UK economy was reduced, but the production still kept going on in India.

Italy:
Italian Naval & Air units managed to clear the Med from Allied surface Warships.
North Africa was captured by skillfull planned Italian attacks.
The Italian economy was strong in Late 1940 and Early 1941.

ANZAC:
As UK troopes occupied the Money Islands in the Pacific, a continuous flow of ANZAC troops were transported to those islands - by Naval Transport units and Air Transport units.

This proofed to be an impossible task for the Japanese troops to overcome - and Sumatra, Malaya & Java stayed on Allied hands the entire War.

Early 1943:
German troops were halted on the Eastern Front.

Soviet troops captured Iraq, Italian Somaliland, Ethiopia, Tobruk, Libya and Finland.
Soviet Paratrooper units also captured Bulgaria and Slovakia Hungary.
At the same time the Soviets launched counter attacks against German forces on the Eastern Front.

Japanese troops captured all of China - but all supply lines were scarcely protected and vulnerable to enemy attacks.

United States launched attacks in the Pacific against thinly held Japanese islands.
At the same time the US attacked Western Germany - and eliminated most German units. The backbone og the German defense in Western Germany was the1st. Waffen-SS Army.
This Waffen-SS Army suffered casualties - and the surviving Waffen-SS units were now left alone to face an imminent Massive UK Amphibious Assault in Western Germany.

United Kingdom launched attacks in southern China - liberating several Chinese territories - and pushed Japanese Infantry units, Air units and Tank units back towards their factory sites in Kiangsu and Shantung.
Western Germany was captured by strong UK forces.

The End: Early 1944
At the beginning of Early 1944, the total Allied Economy reached 201 IPC on the Expanded National Production Chart.

Strong Soviet forces pushed forward deep into China - and the Soviet 1st Army Group in Eastern Poland was heavily supported by strong Tank & Infantry forces - ready for the Final Assault on Berlin.

The Axis resistance simply collapsed under the enormous pressure from Allied forces.

The following pictures show the Military Situation at the beginning of Germanys turn in Early 1944.

[Cornelis Post]

Global 1940, No. 2 Game Report:

This is the only game report of this game.

This Global 1940 Game Report is played according to the tournament rules:

Exception 1:
In Section II, the following units & rules are not included:

Increased Ship Building in the Pacific Theatre (US & Japan)
German Atlantic Wall Fortifications
Exception 2:
In Section V (Optional Rules) the following units & rules are not included:

German Volkssturm
German King Tiger unit
Heavy Waffen-SS Panzer unit
Rocket units
US Heavy Transporter unit
German Type XXI U-Boat unit
Exception 3:
The following Optional Rules are included:

FLAK Tower unit
Strict Neutral rules & units
Note:
Combat Engineer units are not included, due to the fact that play testing has not yet been completed.

Desert Army is included - but did not see action during this game.

This weekends Global 1940 two-player game ended Friday, 28 March Here is a brief situation report:

Players:
Axis: Dark Knight
Allies: CC

In the early stage of the game.
Round 1/3

Germany

Germany builds up 6 landing crafts in the first round together with 6 waffen infantry and 2 waffen artillery.
Germany was preparing for Sealion
Germany captured Paris, Normandy, Southern France and Finland and Yugoslavie.

Russia

Russia prepared for an German invasion all troops joined together in Bryanks.
Russia bought 4 paratroopers and Mines on a massive scale.

Japan

The Japenese bought 2 minor industry in China in the first round, The Japanese fought only in China in the first 3 rounds.

US

The US is building landingcrafts and armoured infantry on a massive scale to reinforce Russia in the Pacific in a strategic well planned operation.

UK

The UK build 1 carrier and 2 destroyers together with infantry those units where all placed in london, Because of the heavy build up of German landingcrafts.
All surviving British ships moved to seazone 92 in the first round.
In the second round the british navy was send to seazone 110.
2 carriers battleship and 2 cruisers together with four planes and 2 destroyers.

Italy and Anzac and France are all preparing their forces to attack in further rounds.

Inportant events which took place in round 3-6.

Germany attacked in round 3 the UK navy which was in seazone 110.

Germany attacked with:

1 Battleship
1 Cruiser
3 Subs
5 fighter units
5 tactical bomber
2 strategic bombers

The UK defended with:

2 carriers
7 fighter units ( 3 fighters are scrambled )
1 Battleship
2 Cruiser
2 Destroyers

**Germany won the battle, however only:

2 Fighters and 2 Bombers survived the Battle, this was the end for the luftwaffe for the rest of the game…** no reinforcements in air was build during this game.

Russia

Russia moved 1 mec infantry in a British transport which sailed to seazone 76
Russia captured with this Mec infantry:

**Italian somalialand
Ethiopia
Tobruk

Also Iraq was captured early in the game.

later on the Russians captured Finland.**
because of this Russia was very rich the entire game.

The Japanese

after Japan took out China in round 5
All Japanese units are send to India.
because of this and the lack of units produced there in the early stages of the game India was taken by Japan.
The Japanese bought a huge navy.
and in the end of this game the Japanese where able to capture Manilla.
with heavy losses on both sides.

The US

The US launched an massive army in Sovjet far east.
This concluded of:

8 landingcrafts
5 tanks
4 armoured infantry
1 US marine
1 artillery
3 mec infantry

These units where a pain in the ass for the Japanese the entire game and liberated China in the final stages of this Game.

NOTE The Game ended in early 1945.
because of lack of time.

Final stages of the Game

At the end of this game:

The Allies where on the offensive on a massive scale.
Russia together with the US liberated China.

Germany was fighting on all sides of his borders,
with almost no air units left it was hard to counter all attacks.
Germany could not take over italy because of 1 italian artillery on vacation in Morroco.

Still Germany had an decent army on the eastern front butt could not push forward because The russians simply outnumberd the Germans.

The UK was sending a huge army to India to recapture it…
in Early 1945 the game ended because there was no time to complete the game.
( had to cath the plane) butt it was a very good game.
So the game in this point was a draw.

However, if the game had continued for like 3-5
The Allies were in my opinion on the winning hand.

Really looking forward to play next time.

The following pictures shows the situation in early 1945:

[The Captain]

@Cornelis-Post

As I watched the game, it was clear that the Allies were gradually getting the upper hand.

By Early 1945, the Axis were no longer in a position to launch any offensive operations that could turn the tide.

Cornelis - is it possible t turn the pictures in your game report, so it is easier to overlook them ?
It is difficult to get a clear view, when the pictures are laying on their side…

[Cornelis Post]

@The-Captain

Hi Captain,

Rotated the pictures.

*As I watched the game, it was clear that the Allies were gradually getting the upper hand.

By Early 1945, the Axis were no longer in a position to launch any offensive operations that could turn the tide.*

Yes, also note that italy was down to 10 ipc every round because of the massive convoy raiding.

[The Captain]

@Cornelis-Post

A question to your pictures:

The second last picture shows that Finland is controlled by Germany - but the third last picture shows that the Soviet Union controls Finland…

Which picture is correct - and are all the other pictures from Early 1945 ?

We recommend that the pictures in any Game Report should follow this procedure:

• First picture: ENPC - to show the IPC Level and Year & Season.
  In this way it is easy to any viewer to clearly see what is the Economic Situation and also to locate the round which the following pictures show.
• Second picture: Army Boards, The Atlantic, America, Africa and the western part of the Eastern Front.
• Third picture: Eastern Front and all the way to India/Asia
• Fourth picture: India and all the way to the most eastern part of the game board (Pacific etc.)

The second, third and fourth pictures must include the game board from its most southern part to the most northen part.

In this way, the entire game board is documented in an orderly, simple & systematic fashion.

[barnee]

Game 3 barnee vs Trout

Game:1940

Axis:barnee
Allies:Trout

Playing Time: 27 days

Game thread
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4132/exp-game-3-barnee-vs-trout/121?page=7

Saved Game
f808531a-9999-4d63-9d62-54e77d0e6f28-exp-game-3-trout-us10.tsvg

Early 1940 - Early 1941

Germany
The Kriegsmarine builds a steady 3 U-boats per turn. They are able to sink the Canadian ships in Early 1940 as well as the Royal Navy in 110 and 111.
In Late 1940 they begin to Convoy the British Isles, as well as Nova Scotia. The Wehrmacht would take Greece and the Luftwaffe would produce a Air Fleet Commander.
Early 1941 and 4 Fallschirmjäger Divisions along with 4 LCV’s would concentrate in Romainia. The newly formed 1st Luftflotten would deploy there as well.

Russia
The Soviets would produce a fair amount of Landmines, as well as maxing out their Paratrooper production.
An Engineer would help deploy LMs to W UKR to defend against E POL. Belarus would also arm LMs against E POL.
Far East Forces would slowly move West and Stalin would order a Commisar to keep an eye on the Red Army.

Japan
Nippon would build two Factories in China. They would focus on Armor production.
A Harbor would be built in Kwangsi and the main IJN Fleet would be stationed there. Carolines and the Home Waters would also have smaller Fleets.
The IJA would push the Chinese back to their Western Provinces.

United States
USA would destroy the Naval Base in Manila and fortify the Army units there. USS Iowa and Missourri would both launch. The Iowa in the Atlantic and the Missourri in the Pacific.
4 Trprts are off the East Coast, ready for immediate deployment.

China takes a beating from JPN and has concentrated in Kansu.

United Kingdom
Britain sinks a wounded Bismark in 111. Two U-boats are also sunk in 106. The Royal Navy declines to engage the Regia Marina, other than sinking the Italian ships off Malta.
Churchill orders the creation of 1st UK Tank.
The Italian forces in Africa are eliminated.

Italy
Italy takes a undefended Gibralter as well as Jordan. The British evacuate Egypt in Late 1940 and leave the Australian Infantry on their own. Italy easily conquers Egypt and salutes the Aussie bravery by sharing their wine with them.
Il Duce cannot contain himself and declares war on the Soviet Union in Early 1941. Both W UKR and UKR fall to him along with Bessarabia.

ANZAC
ANZAC takes Custodianship of Java and DNG, as well as upgrading their Factory in New South Wales in Late 1940.
They primarily concentrate on ground units to defend against any Japanese invasion.

France they just kinda chill.

End Early 1941

Economy and Lend Lease Units

Total Units and National Objectives
**Note **
Total Units includes Infrastructure. Looking at specific Player totals will give a good idea of the actual Forces on the map.

The Production column does not count National Objectives. You still need to add or subtract from that total for any Pacific Island Bonuses.

Late 1941 - Late 1942
Coming Soon :)

Eastern Front Early 1941 End

Update 4-29-25

Late 1941 - Late 1942

Germany
Late 1941 and the Kriegsmarine continues to launch 3 U-boats per turn. 2nd Luftflotten will also deploy.
After the Italian attack on the Soviet Union, the Fuhrer will send the Wehrmacht and Waffen Units into E POL in force.
Fallschirmjagers will take an undefended Rostov and Cauacasus.

Both small footholds in Caucasus and Rostov would fall to Soviet counterattacks. Russian Engineers would arm 3 LMs each at 100 SZ .
The Wehrmacht with strong Luftwaffe support would take Caucasus with a large LCV landing. Two of the LCVs would be empty. While they avoided the LMs one would be lost in combat.

Novgorod is taken. Skirmishers take Belarus with some casualties due to LM’s.
Army Gruppe Center forms in Belarus. The Kriegsmarine withdraws to 113 SZ except for a Escort to deny any American Bombardment in 112 SZ.
The Soviets liberate the Caucasus.

Russia
Guard Infantry would begin to form in Late 1941. Counterattacks in Rostov and Caucasus would succeed. A light attack against Italian Armor in UKR would fail with both land units being destroyed.

The Red Army would successfully counterattack all along the Eastern front in Late 1942 with the bulk of their Forces concentrated in Smolensk opposite Army Gruppe Center.
One of the Minor Fctrys would also move to Smolensk.

Japan
Nippon subjugates China in Late 1941. After their heady Victory, Tojo pushes for All out War against the Western Allies. His view prevails.

Hong Kong, the Philippines and Singapore would fall to the Japanese Blitzkrieg. Borneo and Celebes would also be conquered by the Rising Sun.

Japan would continue their assault in the South Pacific and take DNG in Late 1942. They would rebuild the destroyed Naval base in Manila.

United Staes
The Americans invest heavily in their Navy and launch a successful Operation Torch in Late 1941.
General Marshall advocates for resources for the Army and in Early 1942 the Americans begin to shift their production to land based units.

Nimitz orders Halsey to stike Iwo Jima and he is victorious. In the Atlantic GIB is liberated.
American Seabees build a Harbor on Wake Island and the Pacific Fleet concentrates there.

China
They get dusted in Late 1941 lol

United Kingdom
Britain conducts a major ASW attack in 109 sinking 2 U-boats and move their Indian Fctry underground in Late 1941.

Early 1942 and they spend 5 bucks to incorporate the French Units in London into the British Armed Forces.
Minor combats would take place and they would take Holland with a small amphibous landing.

Minor combats would continue into Late 1942 and the Naval Base in GIB would be rebuilt. A strong Anglo Fleet would be anchored in 110 SZ.

Italy
Italia would construct a Fctry in Cairo in Late 1941. A Paratrooper attack on Morrocco would fail.
They would move the Egyptian Fctry Underground in Early 1942 and continue to battle the Americans in North Africa as well as the Soviets in Ukraine.

Rome Fctry moves underground in Late 1942 and land units combined with Air take Iraq from the British.
Egypt, with German support, is heavily defended and still able to threaten offensive operations.

ANZAC
They invest heavily in their Navy with a BB and a DD. No combat takes place in Late 1941.
The Air Force would see another Ftr Wing deploy in Early 1942 and the Army would Fortify the Islands under their control.
Late 1942 and the long awaited Aircraft Carrier is launched along with a DD.
They would finally engage in combat with 3 Ftrs attacking a solo JPN DD off Java. While successful, one of the Ftrs would be lost.

France
The French Forces that joined the British Army are eager for combat and payback. A small landing in Holland succeeds and though their survival is unlikely, they are happy to finally hit back at the enemy.

End 1942

Economy

Total Units and Natinal Objectives

Eastern Front End 1942

well that one didn’t turn out that good lol. Try and do a Pacific :)

Edit
I forgot that UK got two LL DDs in 109. :)

Update 5-6-25

Early 1943 - Early 1944

Germany
In Early 43 minor combat takes place in Bryansk and Archangel. AG Center moves to Novgorod.
Late 43 a Waffen Para takes and undefended Urals shutting down Tankograd’s production. A medium size battle takes place in Archangel and AG Center would withdraw to E POL. AG South (I didn’t add the Western Front AG names for triplea) would form in Western Germany.

Early 44 the Eastern Front would be quiet with AG Center and 1st Soviet AG staring each other down. Valuable units would move from W GER to N Italy to try and prevent any USA canopener through S France to allow Montgomery and 1st UK Tank access to N Italy.

I believe that was a mistake and W GER should have been on Max Defend. I will explain in detail with pictures down below.

Russia
The Soviets would continue to skirmish with the Wehrmacht in Eastern Europe with slightly larger combats taking place in Novgorod.
Late 1943 would see an uptick in combat as German Fallschirmjager units would need to be rooted out in Caucasus, Rostov and the Urals. A decent sized Italian Force would need to be expelled in Ukraine as well.
1st AG would move into Belarus in strength.

Early 1944 Novgorod and Baltic States would be liberated and the situation in Eastern Europe would begin to stabilize.

Japan
Nippon would conduct minor naval combat in the Pacific and continue to fight over New Guinea.
They would have two strong Fleets. One in Home waters and the other off of DNG. A smaller Fleet would be in Manila in an escort role for Land units coming from Japan.

Large Infantry concentrations in India and Yunnan would stalemate each other with Armor units deployed slightly further inland.

USA
Uncle Sam partakes in the above mentioned battles with JPN while conducting minor attacks in N Africa and W Europe.
They take Normandy in Late 43 in force.

In the Atlantic they have strong Naval forces in 91 off of GIB and 110 off of London. In the Pacific, Nimitz has Halsey concentrated off of Wake with the Harbor there allowing them to threaten the main IJN Fleet in 6 SZ.

Start of American CM Early 1944

It is here that I feel the Allies missed an opportunity. Slamming everything at W GER followed up by the British doing the same would almost surely have been successful. I did not allow for the UK LCVs ( a reason to demo the Normandy Harbor but the London one made me decide not to. A mistake. ) but even if I had and not moved to N Italy, I think the Allies would still win albeit with heavier losses.

The Soviets say dam the losses and engage E POL or if the Wehrmacht has to fall back they will be threatening Romainia and the Balkans.

Hard to say for sure as big battles can be dicey and I didn’t test it out but that’s probably what I would have done. I’ll play it out in the future just to see what might have happened :)

But a quick calculation shows 31 USA hp followed by 27 for UK against 35 for the Reich.

As we shall soon see though, American High Command chose to gamble in the Pacific instead.

Update 5-8-25

UK
Early 1943 and the British will produce 6 LCVs in London. A solo Paratrooper with strong Air support would fail to take Normandy as the German Inf would acquit itself well, killing the tommie Para. Surprisingly an additional Para in London did not join in the attack.
India would continue to trade with Burma and the largest battle in Iraq would see the Brits prevail with a single Inf. The Naval Bombardment would prove key as well as heavy Air support.

Late 43 and they take Holland in a minor attack and the Iraq battle would continue with them once again taking control. In NCM, strong reinforcements would supplement the US landing in Normandy. 1st UK Tank would be among these.

Early 44 and a minor attack on Burma would fail. Iraq would stay in Italian hands as local British resources have been exhausted.
Sudan would maintain a powerful force in their standoff with the combined Axis Forces in Egypt.
The Middle East is now under complete Italian control.

Italy
1943 would see Italia invest heavily in their Army. They would continue to pressure the Soviets on the Eastern Front, taking UKR and fight in the above mentioned battles in Iraq against the British.

Late 43 would see combat continue in the Middle East with Persia falling to a Para attack. Forces withdrawing from N Africa would use their LCV to successfully take Malta.
Early 44 would see minor trading combats in UKR and S FRA.

ANZAC
ANZAC would continue to fortify Java in Early 43. In Early 44 a second CV would deploy. No combats would take place during this period.

End Early 1944

Economy

European Theatre

Pacific Theatre

Late 1944

Germany
The Reich would invest heavily in Panzers. Total War, King Tigers as well as a Waffen Heavy. A Panzerjager would also join the new Armored Forces.

Novgorod and Baltic States would fall in minor combats, with both being heavily supported by the Luftwaffe, including 2nd Luftflotten in the Baltic States.
Type XXI U-boats would begin to strike at the Allied Fleet in 110 and then return to their Subpens.

AG South in W GER would be heavily reinforced with 1st Luftflotten now stationed there and 6 Total War Panzers along with 6 Inf would also join them.

Russia
The Soviets continue the tit for tat in Novgorod and Baltic States and take NW Persia from the Italians.

Japan
They make some minor attacks in the Pacific but the main battle occurs in Novosibirsk with heavy Armor and Air units destroying a reinforced Soviet Corps.

USA
The Americans make a strong build of 2 CVs with Total War Ftrs supplemented by a large number of Infantry.

Feeling the war slipping away from them, FDR consults his top advisers. Admiral King advocates for an all out attack on IJN in their Home waters. His view prevails.
This would prove catastrophic for the US Navy and the entire American war effort.

The American attack would start poorly.

Yamamoto’s Forces would preform to their upmost abilities.

It would not end there.

Halsey’s aggressive nature left no option for retreat and pressed the attack. His men, horrified by their initial failure, do him proud and strike back hard.

It has the desired effect of slowing the Japanese defense.

The Americans would fire another devastating salvo.

Yamamoto’s response would end any chance of American victory.

The American Transports that had triggered “Home Defense” would be sunk as well and the additional Japanese Infantry would drink sake with their Navy rivals in a rare show of solidarity.

This crushing defeat leaves FDR no other choice than to sue for peace.

End Game

I think the above End of Early 1944 pictures are sufficient for the end game, so won’t post again now. Was another Fun game and @Trout is an excellent opponent and very enjoyable to play against.

Anyway, another long winded report comes to an end :) Hopefully Trout will comment on his impressions of the game.

Peace Out

Rock On

[The Captain]

@barnee

Great to see the German Luftwaffe1st Luftflotte ready for engagement on the Eastern Front.

Does USSR automatically get the 10 IPC when Italy attacks - or do you have to manually EDIT this procedure ?

[barnee]

@The-Captain

It needs to be edited. There is a prompt when they are attacked reminding the Player.

A couple Ftr Aces and a regular Ftr make for a formidable defense :)

[barnee]

@The-Captain @Cornelis-Post as you guys were following along earlier, I have finished the Game 3 barnee vs Trout report.

I bolded and dated when I updated, so hopefully that makes it easier to follow along :)

[Trout]

@barnee Thanks for posting our game Barnee. Yes, Barnee played the better game but I am improving in our battle matches. With regards to attacking W. Germany, I believe I could have successfully attacked and won as Barnee describes, but my opinion at the time was that it was not a sustainable offense. I think I would have been pushed out with the inevitable counterattack. The Pacific naval battle did seem to me to be a good decision but alas sometimes bad dice win out. I don’t know if winning that battle would have changed the eventual outcome but it would have resulted in me not waving the white flag at that time. All in all a fun game. Looking forward to the next one.

[The Captain]

Concerning Game Report No. 3 = barnee vs. Trout:

We have posted a comment on Naval Production and Naval Battles at the Strategy Guide thread.

[barnee]

A shot from @Panzerstahl-Helm and my 8th Game

Thought it looked kinda cool with the Air Fleets and 68 LMs for the SSR lol

Just a glimpse. Game ongoing :)

Here it is with Elk Blends on

Can see the dudes a little easier. I kinda like the darker colors myself. Anyway I’m going off topic a bit. Happens sometimes :)

Full Report after game is finished. It’s not over yet :)

[The Captain]

@barnee

Great battle - awesome to see all the units.