Experimental Alpha 4 Game - Wrongway Corrigan vs. Noll

I like this but I also recognize that this is going to produce a longer game then most people want.

Every version of axis and allies that I am aware of made the crushing of the UK’s fleet part of the standard German opening.  Changing that is major and for the good, but I am not yet sure that it is not unbalancing.

I really don’t know whether a fast attack on Russia will produce an automatic victory or not.  Perhaps Japan should lose its peace NO when it DOWs against Russia.

You may try it, but I don’t see off hand that the attack thru turkey is more effective than the standard line of attack, other than you emphasize the oil objectives rather than the Novgorod objective.

I might still want to try the coordinated attack turns.  I would not allow Germany and Italy to use a combined turn until the end of the first round with Italy’s 1st and Germany’s 2nd turn.  This makes some historical sense since it’s my understanding that Italy did not enter the war until after Germany invaded France.

The new turn sequence would be

1.) Germany alone R1
2.) USSR
3.) Japan
4.) Democratic Allies
5.) Italy/Germany, then to USSR

In addition, I would like to modify the neutral rules:

1.) Friendly neutrals.  Instead of persuasion by invasion, try influencing them with ipcs.  Choose 1-5 ipcs per friendly neutral, roll a die, if it’s your investment or less, you’ve persuaded them to join your cause.  Can only persuade those in your sphere of influence.  For the USA, this is Brazil.  The UK gets all other allied friendly neutrals.  Germany gets all of the axis friendly neutrals.

2.) True Neutrals – the allies can’t invade them.  The axis can, but if they do, the allies get an automatic investment of 3 ipcs per round in each allied friendly or true neutral territory.  The allies can add up to an additional 2 ipcs each round, but they can never automatically persuade a neutral by making an investment total of 6 ipcs.

Consider making a Japanese invasion of the USSR grounds for a USA DOW.

Italy – Fall 1941
With 37 ipcs,
7 inf = 21
4 art = 16

Combat

Attack Iraq (2 inf 2 art) with
8 inf fr Syria
17 inf 2 tanks 2 mechs 4 art fr TJ
3 ftrs 2 tanks fr Egypt
AttackRolls: 23@1 8@2 7@3; Total Hits: 823@1: (5, 1, 6, 6, 1, 3, 3, 5, 2, 5, 4, 3, 2, 4, 5, 6, 3, 4, 1, 2, 6, 5, 3)8@2: (3, 1, 6, 2, 3, 1, 5, 5)7@3: (5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 1, 1)
DefendRolls: 4@2; Total Hits: 14@2: (4, 3, 6, 1)

Attack s france ( 1 inf ) with 2 inf fr n Italy, bmb fr Egypt

AttackRolls: 2@1 1@4; Total Hits: 02@1: (5, 2)1@4: (5)
DefendRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (3)

Iraq taken with loss of 1 inf

Attack s france ( 1 inf ) with 2 inf fr n Italy, bmb fr Egypt

AttackRolls: 2@1 1@4; Total Hits: 12@1: (4, 5)1@4: (3)
DefendRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 11@2: (2)

Italy collects 39 less CRD on S France
CRDRolls: 2@3; Total Hits: 12@3: (1, 4)

Note that given the UK DOW against, it is not probable that I will not DOW against the USA.

Italy collects 38 ipcs

Germany with 53 ipcs,

11 inf = 33
5 art = 20

Combat

Attack Bessarabia ( 1 inf) with
2 inf fr e Poland
Bmb fr w Germany

AttackRolls: 2@1 1@4; Total Hits: 02@1: (3, 3)1@4: (6)
DefendRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (6)

Attack n ukr ( 1 inf) with
2 inf fr e Poland
Bmb fr w Germany

AttackRolls: 2@1 1@4; Total Hits: 12@1: (6, 5)1@4: (4)
DefendRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 11@2: (2)

Attack belarus ( 1 inf) with
2 inf fr e Poland
2 ftrs fr 115 w Germany

AttackRolls: 2@1 2@3; Total Hits: 22@1: (1, 4)2@3: (6, 3)
DefendRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (6)

Attack Baltic states ( 1 inf) with
12 inf fr w Poland
36 inf, 22 art, 2 mechs, 9 tanks, fr e Poland
1 inf 1 art fr e Germany

BombardRolls: 1@3 1@4; Total Hits: 11@3: (6)1@4: (3)
attackRolls: 28@1 46@2 9@3; Total Hits: 2028@1: (2, 6, 4, 2, 3, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 2, 5, 3, 5, 4, 2, 5, 3, 5, 6, 3, 2, 6, 6)46@2: (2, 6, 3, 4, 5, 6, 5, 2, 1, 3, 3, 2, 3, 5, 1, 6, 5, 2, 5, 1, 6, 3, 3, 4, 5, 1, 4, 1, 3, 4, 1, 5, 3, 3, 2, 1, 3, 6, 3, 3, 2, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4)9@3: (4, 2, 6, 2, 3, 6, 4, 5, 4)
DefendRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 11@2: (2)

Attack sz 93 ( 1 ss) with
1 dd fr 95, 2 ftr 2 tacs fr france

AttackRolls: 1@2 2@3 2@4; Total Hits: 31@2: (6)2@3: (2, 3)2@4: (2, 5)
DefendRolls: 1@1; Total Hits: 01@1: (3)

Attack Bessarabia ( 1 inf) with
2 inf fr e Poland
Bmb fr w Germany

AttackRolls: 2@1 1@4; Total Hits: 12@1: (6, 3)1@4: (1)
DefendRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (3)

N ukr taken with loss of 1 inf

Belarus taken without loss

Baltic states taken with loss of 1 inf

Sz 93 taken without loss

Italy collects 38 ipcs

Germany with 53 ipcs,

11 inf = 33
5 art = 20

Combat

Bessarabia taken without loss

N ukr taken with loss of 1 inf

Belarus taken without loss

Baltic states taken with loss of 1 inf

Sz 93 taken without loss

Germany collects 47 ipcs

Germany Winter 1941-42.AAM

I really can’t take my turn until I know whether or not USA can attack if Japan does not make a DOW against it.

“Incidentally, I probably was going to attack with Japan on R8 anyway, so the net impact is mainly just that you don’t get your war income R7”

That’s what I said - probably.  However, you did the one thing that would make me not attack the USA, you declared war with UK and ANZAC, now I have targets that I can take without having to mess things up with the USA.

Is it possible to DOW with ANZAC and not the UK?  I thought that they were linked?