Soviet Battleships

Moscow AA gun rolled for about 9-10 planes if I remember well, and rolled 8 (EIGHT) ones. The attack failed (just).

8 out of 9 hits? That hurts. I remember in a game of revised for the first 4-5 rounds EVERY AA gun on the board missed every single shot they took, except the India AA gun, which hit every time. The Japanese tried to invade India 3 times but kept loosing their air support and retreated after one combat round. Everyone was strategic bombing everyone else without any problems from the AA guns, but the India gun was shooting everything down. I think AA guns have a mind of their own

Classic Axis

Round 1 I built a Russian aircraft carrier so UK could just build Transports first turn. Allied planes landed on it and I won.

It was insult to injury….I built the AC and won! :)

I still bring it up to my old time buddies at times.

Look at this game:http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=20109.0
My opponent had bad luck, losing the entire Italian fleet and airforce, and losing a battle of London.

india, pacific 1940
23 dice on 2 with brits, no hits ^^

I don’t get why this is sticky

@Guerrilla:

Just cause I like the thread, it is the crazy stories of Axis and Allies. if Djensen says it is not worth stickying so be it… So petition away, no hard feelings if you do.
GG

You’ve pretty much killed the thread.  :wink:

One game of revised I was playing my firned played the SU and had no expirence so he asked me(UK/US) what the best unit in the game was based on Att and Def stats. I told him BB but he should build Inf and Art. Instead he realised he had 24 Ipc the same cost of a BB in revised. So he Brought the BB. the German player wis licking his lips seeing that Russia would fall easily. So on G1 the German attacked the UK BB by Gilbartir with a sub and a BB. He killed it thinking that he would take the SU BB next turn wasting the SU players turn. He then took Lenningrad and CauCau. Next SU brought another BB. At this stage I was thinking of conceding after UK had lost Calcutta turn before. Then When Germany attacked Moscow which had all of its original units. The SU player hadn’t attacked at all. The battle was

Germany, 2inf,  6arm, 4 fig, 1 bmr against SU, 3 inf, 1 fig, 2arm, 1 art, AA

First round
AA gun took down 2 Fig and Bmr
Germany killed 1 inf
SU killed 2 inf 1 arm

2nd round
AA GUn killed 2 fig
Germany killed 2 inf 1 art
SU killed All 5 arm
Germany was so angry he attacked two BBs with BB and sub. He lost both with neither BB taking a hit.
Germany then just started making random attacks on SU and lost because of it.

AA only fires one per combat, not every round

@Guerrilla:

@Dylan:

@Guerrilla:

Just cause I like the thread, it is the crazy stories of Axis and Allies. if Djensen says it is not worth stickying so be it… So petition away, no hard feelings if you do.
GG

You’ve pretty much killed the thread.  :wink:

Untrue. You did.  :wink:

GG

Actually I just revived it.

In a G40 game, japan attacked a Chinese territory with 8 inf and an art with 3 inf, art, 2 mech, tank, 2 ftr, 3 tac. Japan hit 7 times, and China hit 6 out of 8 times!!! Next round, Japan finished off China, but not before both Chinese units hit. Thus, Chinese troops hit 8 out of 10 times and decimated the Japanese ground force.

Europe 1940 Russia built a major factory in Romania.

They built out of it once, we traded it like 4 times, then I finally seize it permanently at a steep cost:

I hit with Italy, AAgun shoots down both planes, units are mostly ones I lose.

Then I follow up with Germany, 3 of my 3 planes sent in fall to the AAGun again, this time I squeak out a capture with like 1 unsupported land unit.

Allies respond: we kept missing 24-30 other AA rolls. I respond, I wish you had hit me then, instead of all at once! :)

this just happened yesterday on TripleA, in a multi so there were witnessess. my japanese partner attacked an amercian fleet, “Battle casualty summary: Battle score (TUV change) for attacker is 79”, the japs didnt lose one unit, the 2 jap BBs soaked up the lousy 2 hits the american fleet dished out before it all went to the bottom. $79 worth of navy destroyed for free. it was an epic defeat that i might never see again  :-o

In AA50, for about 4-6 games in a row at a point, I was feared for my efficiency with Russian or British AA guns.

In that time period, I shot down 3/4 air units about 3 times, shot down 2/2 countless times, and once got 4/6 German fighters in an assault on Karelia.

On the opposite end of rolling fortune, in A&A in general, my dad is well known by everyone that we play with for how terrible his rolling is. His friend likes to say “The most fun part of Axis and Allies is watching your dad suck at rolling”

It proved true in an AA50 game once when I attacked Karelia with about 8 infantry, 4 tanks, 3 fighters, and a bomber. In defense he had around 12 infantry, 2 artillery, and 4 tanks.

I took Karelia with total casualties of 2 infantry.

Also one time I had Russians earning 60 IPC’s. I was confident enough in my victory and surprised enough about my income that to rub it in, I built a Soviet aircraft carrier in the Caspian sea.

I think we should sticky this thread again  8-)

Mere minutes ago, in an alpha+ game with my dad, the German fleet and air force attacks the British fleet.

The Germans move in with the odds, 3 submarines, 4 fighters, a cruiser, a tactical, and a strategic.
The British defend with 2 destroyers, 4 cruisers, and 2 scrambled fighters.

The Germans hit 3 and take out the destroyers and a cruiser.
The British hit every single roll and cripple the german air force and navy.

Needless to say, he’s not too happy and I’m ecstatic.

I was playing an expansion game a few years ago.  It was a 1939 version and had an option for Japan to do a surprise double attack the first turn that they attacked anyone other than China or a Neutral.  I had carefully planned the first several turns of my game so that when my surprise attack came I would crush the allies.  So I captured all of China and a couple small neutrals then launched my carefully scripted double assault.  My attacks went flawlessly; I captured the entire pacific as well as the south of Asia all the way to the Middle East.  It was a huge victory for the Axis. I was at the gates of Moscow and everyone agreed that the game was all but won.

So the US out of desperation launched a suicide mission on the Japanese home Island.  He had to clear my small defensive fleet and kill the small home defense.  The Japanese forces were small, but the US could only reach with 1 transport and a few air units.  The attack was laughable.  Until I (Japan) did not score a single hit in 9 rounds of combat and lost my home territory.  Per the rules I had 1 round to recover my capital.  However, my lightening assault had put all my units just out of reach of return to Japan…