Nice post; very detailed.
But I cannot say that the standard German moves in your area are the same as the standard German moves where I play. I usually see placement of German units in Africa to aid in the attack on Anglo-Egypt without forcing the Mediterranean fleet to support. Anglo-Egypt is taken, preventing the UK destroyer there from escaping, and preventing the Indian fleet from reinforcing in the Mediterranean. (No German air is risked against the UK destroyer, since the UK destroyer can hardly do anything if Germany takes Gibraltar, which prevents 1 destroyer, 2 fighters, and bomber attacking the German Med fleet). The German sub in the Atlantic is very likely preserved instead of being taken as fodder to the UK battleship. A UK/US attack on Algeria is far less likely with the German transport, sub, 5 fighters, bomber, and battleship in range. (I presume that USSR took the Ukraine as well as West Russia, which is a reasonable possibility in most games, and that I landed fighters in Western Europe to discourage landings in Algeria, to threaten the sea zone west of Algeria, and to threaten invasion of London). NOTE: I don’t usually use a German bid in Africa myself; I typically run two Mediterranean transports these days and attack Anglo-Egypt with overwhelming force, but I am leaning in favor of the old German Africa bid again these days).
The USSR attacks I usually see are either West Russia and Belorussia (with 3 infantry and 2 fighters), or West Russia and Ukraine (with assorted ground units, two fighters, and usually two tanks tops, although I suppose some players might use three tanks instead)
In the scenario you mentioned, with only slight changes to the German plan, I can see that there is a decent possibility of Germany taking London on G2 with infantry, tank, five to six fighters, (depending on whether or not USSR did the Ukraine attack, I presume no German air was risked against the lone UK destroyer at Anglo-Egypt) and bomber going against a bomber, two infantry, two artillery, two fighters, and an AA gun.
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As far as Japan goes - the proposed move is to unify the UK fleet of 2 transports, sub, destroyer, carrier, fighter, and USSR fighter at sea zone 38, not 30. That means the UK fleet is in range of the Solomon islands next turn, or the waters off East Indies, Borneo, India, and French Indochina (opening up a strong possibility of a combined attack of Australian and Indian infantry against French Indochina). The Solomon threat can be made a lot stronger with a UK bomber at Western U.S…
The sea zone 30 alternative can only be hit by a carrier, 4 fighters, and a battleship. The sea zone 38 alternative puts more pressure on Japan, but can be hit by two carriers, a sub, a destroyer, 4 fighters, and a battleship. Seeing that this could become very expensive for Japan, I would probably not do it.
Both sea zone 30 and sea zone 38 are far out of range of Japan’s western and eastern sea zones, so the UK cannot hit any Japanese transports there, even with fighters from carriers (since the fighters have to land), unless UK has Long Range Aircraft. Of course, if UK puts its bomber in China (also fairly common where I am), it can hit any isolated transports, assuming the Japanese battleship intiially in Japan’s eastern waters moved off to protect against the Solomon threat.
Typically, I put a battleship and two carriers at the Solomons, and hit the US fleet with sub (if it survived), destroyer, 4-5 fighters, and bomber, losing the sub and the destroyer and perhaps a fighter or two tops. This assumes no UK reinforcement of Pearl with the UK Indian fighter. If the UK did reinforce Pearl, I might well go for a naval/air attack instead, bringing along an additional transport for fodder, and try to hold the waters around Pearl instead of standing off at the Solomons.
If the UK unified at sea zone 38 with a Russian fighter, if there was an Indian IC, I think I might forgo Pearl Harbor, attack the unified UK fleet, and keep a Japanese battleship to escort transports west of Japan.
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With the given scenario, though, I think I might purchase two transports and an industrial complex (given a Japan bid of 1 IPC), or two transports and a fighter, send the Kwangtung transport north to take Soviet Far East, send Jap air, sub, and destroyer to take out Pearl, and unify the rest of the Japan navy at the Solomons, for two battleships, two loaded carriers, and transport, ready to attack Western U.S, Australia, or New Zealand. I’d split newly built transports between eastern and western Japan sea zones, if there were a UK bomber in China (I know there wasn’t one there in the given scenario, but if there was), or put both transports in western Japan to protect against Long Range Aircraft attack from the U.S.
@Jennifer:
@ajgundam5:
From your original post you are saying that you are uniting the entire Indian Fleet … does this mean you are not going to attack the Japanese Trn in Sz 59 … I thought this was a pretty standard move why aren’t you doing it?
Here’s the basic premise, and i’m going to assume standard German moves. I realize that you cannot count 100% on the outcome of the dice or the German’s move or the location of bid units, so please take into consideration that those objects could drastically alter the game!
Bid: 7
2 German Infantry in Ukraine
1 IPC to Japan.
Buy: 8 Infantry (This is the most conservative Russian build. However, 4 Infantry, 3 Artillery works well, or 3 Infantry, 3 Armor work.)
11 Infantry, 4 Armor, 2 Artillery, 1 Fighter to West Russia.
* 2 Infantry, 1 Fighter from Karelia
* 3 Infantry, 1 Armor from Archangelsk
* 3 Infantry, 1 Artillery, 1 Armor from Caucasus
* 3 Infantry, 1 Artillery, 2 Armor from Russia
LL Results are: 2 Defender Kills, 5 Attacker Kills. 1 Round of Combat.
NCM:
1 Fighter from Russia to Kazahk to Persia to India to Sea Zone 35, land on English Carrier
1 AA Gun from Caucasus to W. Russia
1 Submarine from Sea Zone 4 to Sea Zone 2
1 Fighter from W. Russia to Yakut SSR
2 Infantry from Kazahk to Persia
2 Infantry from Novosibirsk to Kazahk
2 Infantry from Evenki to Novosibirsk
2 Infantry from Yakut to Novosibirsk
2 Infantry from SFE to Yakut
2 Infantry from Buryatia to Yakut
Place: 8 Infantry in Russia
Germany: Buy 1 Aircraft Carrier, 8 Infantry
BB/TRN from SZ 14 to SZ 15
1 Inf, 1 Art from S. Europe to Egypt
1 Inf, 1 Arm from Libya to Egypt
1 Fig from Balkans to Egypt
1 Fig from Ukraine to SZ 15
1 Bmb from Germany to Egypt
1 Sub from SZ 8 to SZ 13
1 Fig from Germany, 1 Fig from W. Europe, 1 Fig from Finland to SZ 13
3 Inf from Finland to Karelia
1 Inf from Ukraine to Caucasus
LL:
SZ 15 cleared with damage to battleship
Egypt 2 hits for attacker, 2 hits for defender on R1; 2 hits for attacker, 1 hit for defender on R2
Karelia no hits for attacker or defender R1: 1 hit for attacker, one hit for defender R2
SZ 13 2 hits for attacker, 1 hit for defender
NCM:
Bomber/Fighter from Egypt land in Libya
Infantry/Artillery from Algeria move to Libya
2 Fighters from SZ 13 to W. Europe
1 Fighter from SZ 13 to SZ 5
1 Fighter from E.Europe to SZ 5
2 Infantry, 1 Armor from E. Europe to Ukraine
2 Infantry, 1 Armor from Balkans to Ukraine
2 Armor from Germany to Ukraine
1 Armor from S. Europe to Ukraine
1 Fighter from SZ 15 to Ukraine
2 Infantry from Belorussia to Ukraine
3 Infantry from Germany to W. Europe
1 Infantry from S. Europe to W. Europe
Place AC in SZ 5; 6 Infantry in Germany, 2 Infantry in S. Europe
England:
30: Buy 2 Infantry, 1 Artillery, 2 Fighters
combat:
TRN SZ 1 with Armor to SZ 8 get Infantry to SZ 12
TRN SZ 2 with Armor/Infantry to SZ 12
BB to SZ 12 from SZ 2
- 2 Armor, 2 Infantry to Algeria
SBR Germany (3 dmg)
NCM:
Bomber lands in England
2 Fighters move to W. Russia
DD, TRN, AC, 2 FIG (1 UK/1 USSR) move to SZ 38 from SZ 35
TRN, SS move from SZ 40 to SZ 38
Infantry from Trans-Jordan to Persia
3 Infantry, 1 AA from India to Persia
1 Infantry to Alaska from W. Canada
Place 2 Infantry, 1 Artillery, 2 Fighters on England
It is now Japan’s turn, what do you do?
(note, I went with low luck and I biased it against the attacker and for the defender. Meaning that if the attacker didn’t have a remainder of 3 or better he missed and if the defender had a remainder of less then 3 he missed.)
Japan’s in a quandry, navally. He has 2 transports, 1 submarine, 1 destroyer, 2 fighters and an Aircraft Carrier in SZ 38, in prime position to snipe islands. Meanwhile, the Americans are sitting there begging to loose a Carrier in Hawaii.
