Teslas (Allies) vs Private Panic (Axis) in 1940 Global

[teslas]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 6

Purchase Units - British
            British buy 3 fighters and 3 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Purchase Units - UK_Pacific
            UK_Pacific repair damage of 7x factory_major; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;
            UK_Pacific buy nothing; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - British
            1 mech_infantry moved from Iraq to Turkey
            2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Iraq to Turkey
            5 fighters moved from Russia to Smolensk

Combat - British
            Battle in Turkey
                British attack with 2 fighters, 1 mech_infantry and 2 tactical_bombers
                Italians defend with 1 artillery
                British win, taking Turkey from Italians with 2 fighters, 1 mech_infantry and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
                Casualties for Italians: 1 artillery
            Battle in Smolensk
                British attack with 5 fighters
                Italians defend with 1 armour
                British win with 4 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is -4
                Casualties for British: 1 fighter
                Casualties for Italians: 1 armour

Non Combat Move - British
            4 fighters moved from Smolensk to Russia
            2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Turkey to Russia
            3 mech_infantrys moved from West India to Persia
            1 fighter moved from India to Iraq
            1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Egypt to Syria
            1 infantry moved from Egypt to Trans-Jordan
            5 aaGuns, 8 artilleries and 9 infantry moved from India to West India
            1 battleship moved from 76 Sea Zone to 98 Sea Zone
            1 transport moved from 81 Sea Zone to 98 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from Algeria to 92 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 92 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Spain
            1 battleship moved from 92 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Quebec to 106 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 106 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Spain

Place Units - British
            3 fighters placed in Iraq
            3 mech_infantrys placed in Egypt

Turn Complete - British
            British collect 37 PUs; end with 37 PUs total
            Objective British 1 Original: British met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 42 PUs

Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 3
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 39 Sea Zone. Rolls: 1,3
            UK_Pacific collect 2 PUs (3 lost to blockades); end with 2 PUs total

[teslas]

America is attempting to do both sides of the board at the same time, which is normally a recipe for disaster.

Moscow is a razor’s edge. Spain is shaky. Turkey/middle east is shaky.

Japan is doing quite well, but now America is there to distract them as best it can, though, as said above, can it do two things at once, and for how long? (This is where the extra 10 IPCs/turn that I like to try to do with America really helps.)

Tense game.

[Private-Panic]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 6

Purchase Units - Italians
            Italians buy 1 armour and 1 destroyer; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Italians

Non Combat Move - Italians
            3 fighters moved from Albania to Southern Italy
            3 infantry moved from Yugoslavia to Albania
            1 artillery moved from Southern Italy to Northern Italy
            1 infantry moved from Southern Italy to Northern Italy
            1 infantry moved from Northern Italy to Yugoslavia
            1 artillery moved from Southern Italy to Northern Italy
            1 infantry moved from Southern Italy to Northern Italy

Place Units - Italians
            1 destroyer placed in 97 Sea Zone
            1 armour placed in Northern Italy

Turn Complete - Italians
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 5
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 93 Sea Zone. Rolls: 5,1
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 4,1,6,4,1,2
            Italians collect 11 PUs (5 lost to blockades); end with 11 PUs total

[Private-Panic]

Kamikazes were useless!

[teslas]

Yeah, bad luck for you. If I might make two suggestions:

1:
I like hitting carriers with them, if they’re present. 2 dice each. A damaged carrier can’t hold planes. That’s 2 less things throwing 4’s, and if you’re lucky and the American player is bad, maybe you just killed some planes that have nothing to land on anymore. It’s especially damaging for the Americans if the carriers are not near any naval bases to be repaired soon. If you’re really lucky, you might even outright kill a carrier.

(There are, however, plenty of cases where spreading them out and trying to kill the cruiser/destroyer fodder is also as good or sometimes even a better choice.)

2:
Saving 1 Kamikaze is sometimes nice, because it forces naval combat, and can prevent bombards. Just for later, just in case.

[teslas]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 6

Purchase Units - ANZAC
            ANZAC buy 1 infantry and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - ANZAC
            1 infantry moved from Queensland to 54 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 54 Sea Zone to 44 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from 44 Sea Zone to Celebes
            1 infantry moved from Queensland to 54 Sea Zone
            1 artillery moved from Queensland to 54 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 54 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 35 Sea Zone to Philippines

Combat - ANZAC
            Battle in Philippines
            Battle in Celebes

Non Combat Move - ANZAC
            1 transport moved from 76 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone

Place Units - ANZAC
            1 transport placed in 54 Sea Zone
            1 infantry placed in Queensland

Turn Complete - ANZAC
            ANZAC collect 13 PUs; end with 13 PUs total

[teslas]

On the french turn, I ran my french cruiser into your new Italian destroyer. I can only assume you wanted to scramble your planes.

The french cruiser has scored a hit. You must select the destroyer or one of your three Italian fighters.

[teslas]

And if you didn’t want to scramble the planes, fine, no harm no foul, I can fix that in edit mode after this round.

[Private-Panic]

@teslas:

On the french turn, I ran my french cruiser into your new Italian destroyer. I can only assume you wanted to scramble your planes.

The french cruiser has scored a hit. You must select the destroyer or one of your three Italian fighters.

I’ll select the destroyer. Lucky beggar!

[Private-Panic]

@teslas:

And if you didn’t want to scramble the planes, fine, no harm no foul, I can fix that in edit mode after this round.

No - scrambling was the plan

[teslas]

Hey, at least all four of your Italian units scored a hit, sinking the cruiser three extra times :p

And man, I got fucking shitty convoy rolls against Italy.

[teslas]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 6

Combat Move - French
            1 cruiser moved from 92 Sea Zone to 97 Sea Zone

Combat - French
            Italians scrambles 3 units out of Southern Italy to defend against the attack in 97 Sea Zone
            Battle in 97 Sea Zone
                British loiter and taunt; French attack with 1 cruiser; Russians loiter and taunt
                Italians defend with 1 destroyer and 3 fighters
                Italians win with 3 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is -4
                Casualties for Italians: 1 destroyer
                Casualties for French: 1 cruiser
            Moving scrambled unit from 97 Sea Zone back to originating territory: Southern Italy
            Moving scrambled unit from 97 Sea Zone back to originating territory: Southern Italy
            Moving scrambled unit from 97 Sea Zone back to originating territory: Southern Italy

Non Combat Move - French
            1 infantry moved from Trans-Jordan to Iraq
            1 infantry moved from Kenya to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
            1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to Spain

Turn Complete - French

[teslas]

I had to take the 50/50 chance with the French cruiser to kill that dest. Allowing it to live until Italy’s next turn would potentially completely ruin the submarine investment.

Had I not killed it then, on Britain’s turn, I might have sent in the British BB off of Egypt to do the job. That would have gotten messy, but it would have probably gotten the job done.

[Private-Panic]

TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 7

Research Technology - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 3 armour, 1 bomber and 3 tactical_bombers; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 bomber moved from Western Germany to Russia
            2 bombers moved from Novgorod to Russia
            5 fighters moved from Ukraine to Russia
            1 armour moved from Bryansk to Western Ukraine
                  Germans take Western Ukraine from Russians
            1 armour moved from Western Ukraine to Bryansk
            5 tactical_bombers moved from Ukraine to Russia
            1 infantry moved from Archangel to Vologda
                  Germans take Vologda from Russians

[Private-Panic]

Intercept in Russia?

Messy is the best I can hope for I think! But it’s probably worth having ….

[teslas]

Nah, not gonna scramble against 13 units, especially since 8 of those planes will have to go through AA fire anyway.

Odd that you’d send 5 tactical bombers against one air base.

[Private-Panic]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 7

Research Technology - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 3 armour, 1 bomber and 3 tactical_bombers; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 bomber moved from Western Germany to Russia
            2 bombers moved from Novgorod to Russia
            5 fighters moved from Ukraine to Russia
            1 armour moved from Bryansk to Western Ukraine
                  Germans take Western Ukraine from Russians
            1 armour moved from Western Ukraine to Bryansk
            5 tactical_bombers moved from Ukraine to Russia
            1 infantry moved from Archangel to Vologda
                  Germans take Vologda from Russians

Combat - Germans
            Air Battle in Russia
                Germans attacks with 13 units heading to Russia
                Air Battle is over, the remaining bombers go on to their targets
            Strategic bombing raid in Russia
                1 tactical_bomber killed by AA
                Bombing raid in Russia rolls: 2,6,4,3 and causes: 6 damage to unit: airfield
                Bombing raid in Russia rolls: 7,8,4 and causes: 16 damage to unit: factory_major
                Bombing raid in Russia causes 22 damage total.  Damaged units is as follows: airfield = 6, factory_major = 16
            Cleaning up after air battles

Non Combat Move - Germans
            3 bombers moved from Russia to Bryansk
            5 fighters moved from Russia to Bryansk
            4 tactical_bombers moved from Russia to Bryansk
            3 infantry moved from Ukraine to Bryansk
            1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys moved from Novgorod to Bryansk
            1 fighter moved from Western Germany to Novgorod
            1 bomber moved from France to Western Germany
            3 infantry moved from France to Southern France
            1 artillery moved from France to Southern France
            3 infantry moved from Switzerland to France
            1 infantry moved from Holland Belgium to France
            1 mech_infantry moved from Western Germany to Southern France
            4 infantry moved from Sweden to 115 Sea Zone
            4 infantry moved from 115 Sea Zone to Novgorod
            3 infantry moved from Sweden to Finland

Place Units - Germans
            3 armour placed in Ukraine
            3 tactical_bombers placed in Novgorod
            1 bomber placed in Western Germany

Turn Complete - Germans
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 4
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 3,5,5,4,6,3
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 105 Sea Zone. Rolls: 4,2
            Germans collect 53 PUs (4 lost to blockades); end with 55 PUs total
            Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 60 PUs
            Objective Germans 2 Control Novgorod Or Volgograd Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 65 PUs

[Private-Panic]

Probably overkill - took the risk to escort the bombers.

Realised that the triple a error came in. Took a TB as an AA casualty. Might have been the bomber. Do you want to roll a dice or something? Were 5 TBs and 3 bombers (I think) so 5/8 chance of it being a TB.

[teslas]

Yes, it’s best to roll the dice seperately. This time, in the interest of progressing the game, we’ll just say it was a TB since that was the more likely outcome.

Next time you bomb two facilities in the same territory with both tacs and strats, after the dogfight (if there is one), ignore the AA rolls, and ignore the damage you do. Edit it all back in, and then roll manually in the dice roller.

It sucks to do it that way, but it’s the proper way to do it.

[teslas]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 7

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians repair damage of 4x airfield, 13x factory_major; Remaining resources: 9 PUs;
            Russians buy 3 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            1 infantry moved from Samara to Kazakhstan
            1 mech_infantry moved from Rostov to Kazakhstan
            1 fighter moved from Russia to Kazakhstan
            1 infantry moved from Samara to Vologda
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Russia to Vologda
            1 armour moved from Russia to Smolensk
                  Russians take Smolensk from Italians
            1 armour moved from Smolensk to Russia

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Kazakhstan
                Russians attack with 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Russians win, taking Kazakhstan from Japanese with 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
            Battle in Vologda
                Russians attack with 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Germans defend with 1 infantry
                Russians win, taking Vologda from Germans with 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            1 fighter moved from Kazakhstan to Russia
            1 fighter moved from Vologda to Russia
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Vologda to Russia
            1 infantry moved from Volgograd to Rostov
            2 aaGuns and 11 infantry moved from Samara to Russia
            1 mech_infantry moved from Italian Somaliland to Anglo Egyptian Sudan

Place Units - Russians
            3 infantry placed in Russia

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 18 PUs; end with 18 PUs total
            Objective Russians 2 Spread Of Communism: Russians met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 24 PUs