S02 - DM (allies) vs Yoshi (axis) ; +8 bid : 1inf, 1tnk egy

[DarthMaximus]

Booooo!

Damage

Rolling 3d6:
(1, 5, 5)

[DarthMaximus]

Results

sbr does 11 damage to ger

Non-Combat Move

3 boms to uk
1 inf, 1 rt to nwe from uk
1 inf, 1 arm to uk (trn to sz 2 (from sz 8 )
3 trn, 1 dd to sz 1 from sz 10
1 rt to ecan from eus
1 arm to ecan from wus
2 inf to wcan from wus
1 ftr to ecan from wus
2 dd, 1 ac, 1 ftr to sz 7 from sz 8
2 ftrs to sz 7 from nwe (land on us acs)

Placement

2 dd in Sz 10
4 inf, 3 arm on Eus

Collect 37 + 5 (NO) = 42 total

DMAll-YoshiAx-T11-S02-11Fus.aam

[Yoshi]

Germany 12:

Repair Germany (11)
10inf (30)

Combat Moves:

Archangel ()
1inf Bel

Karelia (1tnk)
1tnk Epl
1art Bel
3fgt Germany
2bmb Caucasus

Dice…

Kar rd1
A: 1art, 1tnk, 3fgt, 2bmb
Rolls: 1@2 4@3 2@4; Total Hits: 21@2: (6)4@3: (4, 6, 6, 4)2@4: (4, 3)

D: 1tnk
Rolls: 1@3; Total Hits: 11@3: (1)

[Yoshi]

Results:

Archangel taken (mt).
Karelia taken, 1art lost.

NCM:

1fgt France -> Germany
2inf, 3tnk Germany -> France
2bmb Kar -> France
3fgt Kar -> Germany
3tnk Novo -> Caucasus
1inf Euk -> Bel

Place Units:

10inf Germany

Collect $33+10=43

DMAll-YoshiAx-T11-S02-12Ag.aam

[DarthMaximus]

Not sure how I’m gonna get out of this.

Russia Round 12

Buy 2 inf, 2 arm

Combat Move

None

Non-Combat Move

1 sub to sz 18 from sz 22

Placement

2 inf, 2 arm on Mos

Collect 6

DMAll-YoshiAx-T11-S02-12Br.aam

[Yoshi]

Japan 12:

Purchase:

2BB (40)
1tnk (5)
14inf (42)

Combat Moves:

Algeria ()
1tnk Libya blitzback

Waf ()
1inf Feq

Results:

Waf taken (mt).
Algeria liberated (mt).

NCM:

4inf Italy -> France
4inf Caucasus -> Italy via 2tp sz14 -> sz16 -> sz14
1inf,  1tnk Rhodesia -> India via 1tp sz33 -> sz35
2bmb East Indies -> Caucasus
3fgt Trj -> Caucasus
2fgt sz14 -> France
1fgt Trj -> France
3inf Persia -> Caucasus
3inf India -> Persia
2inf Yunnan -> Sikang
2inf FIC -> Yunnan
2inf Buryatia -> SFE
2inf Japan -> Buryatia via 1tp sz62
2inf East Indies -> Persia via 1tp sz38 -> sz34
2DD, 1CV, 2BB sz35 -> sz15
2fgt sz53 -> FIC
1DD, 1CV sz53 -> sz59
2inf Hawai -> New Guinea via 2tp sz53 -> sz48

1inf Caucasus -> Euk
1inf Euk -> Bel
1inf Caucasus -> Kazakh
1inf Kazakh -> Novo
1inf Novo -> Urals
1inf Urals -> Archangel

Place Units:

2BB sz15
4inf East Indies
2inf Japan
2inf, 1tnk India
2inf FIC
4inf Caucasus

Collect $70+15=85

DMAll-YoshiAx-T11-S02-12Cj.aam

[DarthMaximus]

I’m going to surrender Yoshi, this one is over.  No sense on dragging things out.

Good game and well played.  You recovered extremely well from a poor start.

Good luck in the rest of the tourney and I’ll update the bracket.

[Yoshi]

Thanks for the game, the early moves were really interesting, specially in the Pacific. A very nice sub campaign !

[DarthMaximus]

Thanks.

Yeah, it really hurt getting booted from the Pac once I spent all that time there.
I’m a big fan of bombers, but with the combo of bombers and subs its really only an offensive threat since subs defend poorly and bombers can’t defend in naval battles.  Just couldn’t quite get to where you can to completely retreat back to Japan’s seazone and stay.  I’ll have to test it out a bit more.

Having the Italian CAs and BB really helped you in the Pac.  A couple of times I thought I had your fleet (or at least odds to make a move) but with those 3 ships added in it put you over the top for defense.  Well played there.

Might have been better to just go all out Germany/Italy this game with your poor G start, but again Japan can get soooo strong.  Tough to decide sometimes.   :-)

[Yoshi]

I believe that to get Japan, you need some ground pressure too. This means building trannies with us to take islands (even if the tranny is dead, as long as Japan cannot take it back safely, for instance because you can kill the japanese fleet if it goes at the sea zone corresponding to the island, that’s good), and also having more ground units to threat India (at least at long term) and ensure to preserve Africa.

Otherwise, Japan makes too much money, and has mainly to defend against the us only, so ecnomics will make them win the pacific battle after some time.

Here obviously the italian navy was very helpful to defend, but the East Indies IC too ; if I as dice by your sub defense at some time, I could have built the new boat in sz38, and still have some fleet in the pacific.

For a KGF… I’m not a big fan, and dunno if it’s good or not (but may be the good option according to the situation). My early moves with Japan have been made to preserve Europa in case of a KGF (Burma J1 to help Europa, East Indies IC J2 - which I’m not a fan at all).

Maybe being more agressive with Russia could have been better (?) - I mean building more tanks for instance, and perhaps a R1 bomber to take a japan tranny and then trade land territories in Europa, since the key point in Europa was Germany holding Epl (which is a great pressure for Russia with the italian opener threat). After that, the situation in Europa was not the same anymore.

A last point : why building so many DD with UK ? 3 of them are useless I think (2 CA would be more sufficient as there were no real threat for the UK fleet, with the few money Germany was able to do).

Anyway, taht was a close game during at least 8 rounds :)

[DarthMaximus]

Yeah, I definitely should have been more aggressive with Russia.  Although I think there was a battle in Ukr or somewhere, that was really a killer for me.  I forget exactly what happened, but I seemed to reacall Ger holding out in a key battle.  I’d have to go back and look.

I agree, I did end up with too many DDs.  Might have been better to go CAs instead of bombers as well, and just pound away at Germany.  I’m pretty sure I could have trapped the the Italian fleet better too.  I think I spread UK out too much in Afr in rds 1-2, I’d have to go back and look.  I’ve had some League games (after we started this game) where I’ve pretty much stacked Trj and held the Ita fleet in place.  Which makes the bomber buy much better, since you can nail the fleet in rd 3 with either UK or US.  Just a little out of practice when we started this game.

[Yoshi]

Yes there was a turn where Russia got diced in Ukraine I believe, and then I did not look if you could have prevent an Epl stack or not from Germany, but this was the case (I think you protected Caucasus after that).

For the uk bombers… they were a good buy I think, since they forced me to defend better both Italy and France. But maybe you could have used them better than a trade in France. I was wondering how to manage them if they had been traveling to Egypt with a big stack for instance.

Anyway, good game I believe, of course one can see that some details lost you, because you did not anticipate enough your ideas, but overall there were several good ideas. Was a nice game :). Good luck in the league ;)