13L G40 Boldfresh (+9) vs. Hobo - game 3

[boldfresh]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 3

Politics - French
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by ANZAC from Syria: 2 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by ANZAC to Trans-Jordan: 2 infantry
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Combat Move - French

Non Combat Move - French
            1 infantry moved from Syria to Trans-Jordan
            1 destroyer moved from 78 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - French

[hobo]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 4

Politics - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 3 artilleries and 11 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 destroyer moved from 91 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Baltic States to Belarus
                  Germans take Belarus from Russians
            1 infantry moved from Western Ukraine to Ukraine
                  Germans take Ukraine from Russians
            2 tactical_bombers moved from Greece to 98 Sea Zone
            3 fighters moved from Greece to 98 Sea Zone
            2 bombers moved from Eastern Poland to 98 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 91 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone

Combat - Germans
            Battle in 106 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 1 destroyer and 1 submarine
                Russians defend with 1 submarine
                Germans win with 1 destroyer and 1 submarine remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Russians: 1 submarine
            Battle in 98 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 2 bombers, 3 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers
                British defend with 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers and 2 fighters
                Units damaged: 1 carrier owned by the British
                Germans win with 1 bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for Germans: 1 bomber, 3 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers
                Casualties for British: 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers and 2 fighters

Non Combat Move - Germans
            1 bomber moved from 98 Sea Zone to Libya
            5 artilleries and 18 infantry moved from Western Ukraine to Ukraine
            1 aaGun moved from Eastern Poland to Belarus
            10 armour and 12 mech_infantrys moved from Eastern Poland to Ukraine
            1 aaGun moved from Eastern Poland to Western Ukraine
            6 infantry moved from Karelia to Novgorod
            2 infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Western Ukraine
            6 artilleries moved from Eastern Poland to Bessarabia
            5 mech_infantrys moved from Poland to Eastern Poland
            2 armour and 4 mech_infantrys moved from Germany to Eastern Poland
            5 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to Poland
            1 cruiser moved from 91 Sea Zone to 89 Sea Zone

Place Units - Germans
            3 artilleries placed in Novgorod
            5 mech_infantrys placed in Germany
            6 mech_infantrys placed in Western Germany

Turn Complete - Germans
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 2
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 6,3
            Germans collect 46 PUs (2 lost to blockades); end with 46 PUs total
            Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 51 PUs
            Objective Germans 2 Control Novgorod Or Volgograd Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 56 PUs
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Bessarabia: 6 artilleries
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to Western Ukraine: 6 artilleries
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

[boldfresh]

you went for it eh?  nice.

[boldfresh]

Trying to put me at the mercy of the dice huh?  Ahhh you know my greatest weakness.  :lol:

[boldfresh]

@Boldfresh:

Trying to put me at the mercy of the dice huh?  Ahhh you know my greatest weakness.   :lol:

what the hell…. i think i’m going for the ukraine.  if i get diced, it will just be another brick in the wall.

[boldfresh]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 4

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians buy 6 artilleries and 1 fighter; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            1 mech_infantry moved from Bryansk to Rostov
            1 mech_infantry moved from Rostov to Ukraine
            2 armour, 3 artilleries, 2 fighters, 47 infantry, 1 mech_infantry and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Bryansk to Ukraine

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Ukraine
                Russians attack with 2 armour, 3 artilleries, 2 fighters, 47 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber
                Germans defend with 10 armour, 5 artilleries, 1 factory_minor, 19 infantry and 12 mech_infantrys
                1 armour owned by the Russians retreated to Bryansk
                Germans win with 10 armour, 5 artilleries and 6 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is -86
                Casualties for Germans: 19 infantry and 6 mech_infantrys
                Casualties for Russians: 1 armour, 3 artilleries, 47 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys

Non Combat Move - Russians
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            EDIT: Removing units owned by Russians from Bryansk: 1 armour
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Rostov: 1 armour
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            4 aaGuns moved from Bryansk to Russia
            1 infantry moved from Russia to Bryansk
            2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Ukraine to Russia
            6 infantry moved from Timguska to Novosibirsk
            2 aaGuns and 12 infantry moved from Yenisey to Timguska
            1 infantry moved from Iraq to Trans-Jordan

Place Units - Russians
            6 artilleries and 1 fighter placed in Russia

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 26 PUs; end with 26 PUs total

[boldfresh]

yep, that was epic.  my dice are incredible oh so often.  :lol:

well, new life for you in a game you were on track to be terribly smothered in.  :wink:

[boldfresh]

i think i took all mech for you - just clicked through.  feel free to change your casualties however you wish.  :lol:

[boldfresh]

if you can’t win now, then we know something’s up.  :-o

[boldfresh]

traded 53 units for 25.  and you came out with an extra 6 mech,
5 art, and 9 armor.  should be interesting.

[boldfresh]

for the record, i think it was a smart move what you did.  however you could never have hoped in your wildest dreams for an outcome that sweet!  :wink:

had it been a tournament game or if i was actually in the runnings for a playoff, i would not have made the attack.  but i’m playing mostly to have fun and try new things and making that attack just plain runs the risk of a major dicing.  on the other hand, the time i ran it in local, i was the one that ended up with about 15 units.  very dicey battle, the type i would normally avoid since the dice typically HATE me.  :lol:

[hobo]

It’s interesting you initiate so many battles when the odds aren’t in your favor. You also could have retreated earlier after recalculating odds per round.

I also find it interesting your perception on games. Maybe it’s just trash talking but you were nowhere near the dominating position you viewed. Even in the first game you were getting killed and had I been caught up with the VC situation with Japan you never would have won that way.

[boldfresh]

ok if you are so sure of it, let’s start over from R4.

[boldfresh]

that was a RIDICULOUS dicing anyway.  i mean completely stupid dicing.

[boldfresh]

or i’m happy to just keep playing from where we are.  still not going to be easy for you.  just play and we’ll see.  :roll:

[boldfresh]

@hobo:

It’s interesting you initiate so many battles when the odds aren’t in your favor. You also could have retreated earlier after recalculating odds per round.

I also find it interesting your perception on games. Maybe it’s just trash talking but you were nowhere near the dominating position you viewed. Even in the first game you were getting killed and had I been caught up with the VC situation with Japan you never would have won that way.

don’t know what you are referring to as to battles i initiate when odds are not in my favor.  but i will tell you this, if that battle goes to odds, you are DEAD IN THE WATER.  you can’t afford to even come close to trading germans for russians at this point, and that was slated to be roughly a trade.

[boldfresh]

the safer move for the russians would have been to take 10 inf, 3 art, and the air at your w ukr stack and go sit in russia where you would never have cracked moscow.

more fun this way, that would have been a complete massacre.  i like a challenge.

[boldfresh]

if i was playing cow, i would not have made that attack either, i would have just suffocated him.  but i don’t really have anything against you, so i went for it  :-P

[boldfresh]

plus if the dice are gonna do something that nuts, they could just as easily have done it when you attacked moscow with a 10% shot in a few rounds when you realized it was then or never.  if the dice are gonna go that nuts, there’s nothing you can do.  yeah i coulda retreated after round 1 but i decided i wanted to see if the russians could still win if they traded 3 to 1 for your forward stack.  let’s see.

[boldfresh]

maybe i’m giving you too much credit, but i took it as a desperate move,
that you were hoping i would go for the dicey battle and get dice f’d
because you saw how hopeless it was to go for moscow.  yeah you could have made it an
economic game if i retreated to moscow but if that battle goes remotely to odds, an
economic game was not going to develop for you (as you need southern russia to make that happen.