Kilroynothere (Axis) vs Wheatbeer (Allies)

[kilroynothere]

Wow, that was quick. I’m around, but at work. Give me a couple of minutes and I’ll respond here. Oh, and sorry for the file. That was goofy…

[wheatbeer]

No worries and no rush.

I happen to have a lot of free time today and I’ll admit, I was eager to test my UK plan  :-)

[kilroynothere]

I like the UK plan so far. I imagine you are going to bail the CV out to India if the fight goes poorly (or maybe just take the wfr ftr as a first casualty) so you can move the carrier in that direction. Maybe wrong, but seems like a fun move to me.

I will scramble the German and the Italian fighter.

[kilroynothere]

Oh,and I am here and available for the next hour or so.

[wheatbeer]

SZ95

A: 1 dest, 2 cru, 3 fig, 1 tact

Rolls: 1@2 5@3 1@4; Total Hits: 41@2: (1)5@3: (6, 4, 3, 5, 2)1@4: (2)

D: 1 sub, 2 dest, 1 cru, 2 fig

Rolls: 1@1 2@2 1@3 2@4; Total Hits: 01@1: (6)2@2: (4, 5)1@3: (6)2@4: (5, 5)

[wheatbeer]

those were some ridiculous dice … given that you got no hits and that was pretty unlikely, I’d grant a reroll if you want

[kilroynothere]

Haha… I was writing this then noticed your post…

_Holy crap those are awful rolls. One thing I typically do in f2f games is each country has a one battle “do-over” per game just to clean up crazy bad dice rolls.  A little advantage to the allies (more countries), but it does really smooth over wild dice and better than a low luck game which I do not like. Luck is part of the equation.

Regardless, I did not say anything prior.  So….

lose the navy I guess.  damn, that really hurts._

If you want to do the “do-over” house rule, we typically roll out the entire battle, just in case, then decide.

[wheatbeer]

I think a do-over per country is fair, so long as it’s really wretched like this, lol.

So I’ll finish this one up, then you’ll decide.  I assume you want the fighters alive for hitting power?

[wheatbeer]

SZ95 r2

A

Rolls: 1@2 5@3 1@4; Total Hits: 31@2: (5)5@3: (4, 3, 3, 6, 3)1@4: (5)

D

Rolls: 2@4; Total Hits: 22@4: (1, 3)

[wheatbeer]

A little less heinous after round 2, but still, better than I anticipated for UK.  Up to you.

[wheatbeer]

If it makes any difference, I would take the 2 hits on 1 dest, 1 tact.

[kilroynothere]

Agreed, but still waaaaay under odds. That’s why we like to finish the battle before pulling the trigger. We’ve actually seen a first round like the one we had and then the second/third rounds go the other way to actually even things out. Dice are crazy!

Let’s have the do-over.

thanks for being cool with this. Would have done the same for you. I like to win by strategy (skewed with just a bit of luck) rather than all luck.  No fun that way.

[wheatbeer]

No problem … I think this would spoil the game with England having an armada alive and half of Italy sunk anyways.

Here goes … SZ95

A

Rolls: 1@2 5@3 1@4; Total Hits: 31@2: (5)5@3: (6, 4, 2, 3, 1)1@4: (5)

D

Rolls: 1@1 2@2 1@3 2@4; Total Hits: 31@1: (5)2@2: (3, 2)1@3: (5)2@4: (3, 3)

[kilroynothere]

Agreed. That was the whole problem with OOB apparently….

I’ll remove the sub and two destroyers.

[wheatbeer]

I will take my hits this time on 1 dest, 1 cru, 1 fig

A: 1 cru, 2 fig, 1 tact

Rolls: 3@3 1@4; Total Hits: 33@3: (3, 1, 2)1@4: (5)

D: 1 cru, 2 fig

Rolls: 1@3 2@4; Total Hits: 21@3: (4)2@4: (2, 2)

[kilroynothere]

Cool. I need to run. I’ll try to check in again in an hour or so.

[wheatbeer]

Ok doke

SZ95 taken with total loss of 1 dest, 2 cru, 1 fig, 1 tact

[kilroynothere]

One last thing. On the map, I moved one of my subs out to the sz33.  The other is with the rest of the fleet.  Again, sorry you had to do that for me.

thanks.

[wheatbeer]

Non-combat
1 carrier SZ98 >> SZ93
2 fig SZ95 >> SZ93
1 trans SZ98 >> SZ96 load 1 inf + 1 aa gun from mal >> SZ81 unload egy
1 inf, 1 fig sco >> uk
1 inf uk load trans SZ109 >> SZ87
1 dest SZ109 >> SZ92
1 dest, 1 cru SZ39 >> SZ76
1 bsh SZ37 >> SZ39
1 inf sud >> egy
2 inf, 1 art, 1 tank alx >> egy
1 dest SZ71 >> SZ76
2 inf ind load trans SZ39 >> SZ76 unload bso
1 tact, 1 fig ind >> bso
3 inf malaya >> shn
2 inf, 1 fig bur >> ind
1 inf wind >> ind

Mobilize:
UKE
9 inf UK
UKP
5 inf ind

Collect
UKE 34 (+1 for 35 total uk2)
UKP 17 (+2 for 19 total uk3)

[wheatbeer]

oops, fixed the Japanese sub on the uk1 map

kilroynothere_vs_wheatbeer_uk1.AAM