XDAP 01 Team Imhotep (Axis) vs The Headless Neds (Allies)

Axisplaya

I may be mistaken

You are ! :wink:

Stalingradski

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 2.8

Game History

Round :3

Purchase Units - Russians
Russians buy 1 armour, 1 artillery, 5 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
Giving bonus movement to units
1 mech_infantry moved from Novgorod to Finland
Russians take Finland from Germans
4 infantry moved from Belarus to Baltic States
17 infantry moved from Belarus to Eastern Poland
3 artilleries moved from Belarus to Eastern Poland
2 mech_infantrys moved from Novgorod to Eastern Poland
1 artillery and 7 infantry moved from Bessarabia to Romania
3 armour moved from Ukraine to Romania
2 mech_infantrys moved from Western Ukraine to Romania
2 armour moved from Western Ukraine to Romania
2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Belarus to Romania

Combat - Russians
Russians creates battle in territory 110 Sea Zone
Battle in Baltic States
Russians attack with 4 infantry
Germans defend with 1 artillery
Russians win, taking Baltic States from Germans with 4 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
Casualties for Germans: 1 artillery
Russians win with 4 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
Casualties for Germans: 1 artillery
Battle in 110 Sea Zone
Russians attack with 1 submarine
Germans defend with 1 battleship, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter, 2 submarines, 1 tactical_bomber and 11 transports
Units damaged: 1 battleship owned by the Germans
Germans win with 1 battleship, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter, 2 submarines, 1 tactical_bomber and 11 transports remaining. Battle score for attacker is -6
Casualties for Russians: 1 submarine
Battle in Eastern Poland
Russians attack with 3 artilleries, 17 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys
Germans defend with 1 infantry
Russians win, taking Eastern Poland from Germans with 3 artilleries, 17 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry
Russians win with 3 artilleries, 17 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry
Battle in Romania
Russians attack with 5 armour, 1 artillery, 2 fighters, 7 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber
Germans defend with 1 aaGun, 2 artilleries, 11 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys; Italians defend with 1 aaGun
retreated to Romania
Germans win with 2 artilleries and 3 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is -40
Casualties for Germans: 1 aaGun and 11 infantry
Casualties for Russians: 5 armour, 1 artillery, 2 fighters, 7 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys
Casualties for Italians: 1 aaGun
Recording Battle Statistics

Non Combat Move - Russians
1 tactical_bomber moved from Romania to Caucasus
3 infantry moved from Caucasus to Northwest Persia
Russians take Northwest Persia from Neutral_Allies
1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Northwest Persia
3 aaGuns moved from Belarus to Eastern Poland
1 aaGun and 12 infantry moved from Buryatia to Amur
1 aaGun and 6 infantry moved from Sakha to Amur
3 infantry moved from Bryansk to Western Ukraine
1 infantry moved from Bryansk to Ukraine
1 infantry moved from Russia to Bryansk
1 aaGun moved from Russia to Bryansk

Place Units - Russians
1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys placed in Novgorod
1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in Ukraine
2 infantry placed in Volgograd
2 infantry placed in Russia
Turning on Edit Mode
EDIT: Russians player Removing units owned by PlayerID named:Germans from 110 Sea Zone: 1 battleship
EDIT: Russians player Adding units owned by PlayerID named:Germans to 110 Sea Zone: 1 battleship
EDIT: Russians player Adding units owned by PlayerID named:Russians to 125 Sea Zone: 1 submarine
EDIT: Russians player Adding units owned by PlayerID named:Russians to 115 Sea Zone: 1 cruiser
EDIT: Russians player Removing units owned by PlayerID named:Russians from 114 Sea Zone: 1 cruiser
EDIT: Russians player Removing units owned by PlayerID named:Germans from Poland: 8 infantry
EDIT: Russians player Adding units owned by PlayerID named:Germans to Slovakia Hungary: 8 infantry
EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
Turning on Edit Mode
EDIT: Russians player Removing units owned by PlayerID named:Russians from Caucasus: 1 infantry
EDIT: Russians player Adding units owned by PlayerID named:Russians to Caucasus: 1 mech_infantry
EDIT: Russians player Removing units owned by PlayerID named:Russians from Northwest Persia: 1 mech_infantry
EDIT: Russians player Adding units owned by PlayerID named:Russians to Northwest Persia: 1 infantry
EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
Turning on Edit Mode
EDIT: Russians player Adding units owned by PlayerID named:Russians to Ukraine: 1 infantry
EDIT: Russians player Removing units owned by PlayerID named:Russians from Western Ukraine: 1 infantry
EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Turn Complete - Russians
Russians collect 39 PUs; end with 39 PUs total
Objective Russians 2 Spread Of Communism: Russians met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 42 PUs

Septimus

that’s fine, imhotep Â 8-)

Stalingradski

All apologies for the number of edits - everything was above board, but needed to happen. I’m not used to this platform yet - still thinking in terms of ABattlemap and all the editing usually done.

The chance of this game continuing is very slim - I’ll talk to Antholin and get his thoughts. Britain and Russia together can’t sustain continuous extra losses combined with below odds Axis losses. Our chance in this game came down to Russia holding the line for a few turns, and Romania may have been our Waterloo!

Please give us a chance to discuss before Japan’s turn, so nobody has to waste their time.

Axisplaya

@Stalingradski:

All apologies for the number of edits - everything was above board, but needed to happen. I’m not used to this platform yet - still thinking in terms of ABattlemap and all the editing usually done.

The chance of this game continuing is very slim - I’ll talk to Antholin and get his thoughts. Britain and Russia together can’t sustain continuous extra losses combined with below odds Axis losses. Our chance in this game came down to Russia holding the line for a few turns, and Romania may have been our Waterloo!

Please give us a chance to discuss before Japan’s turn, so nobody has to waste their time.

Just reviewed that Romania battle….just one word : OUCH !!!..Hideous result for Russia.
Sorry about that luck we’re having there.

POMME WILL NOT POST HIS TURN BEFORE TOMORROW EVENING SO YOU GET THE CHANCE TO DISCUSS AS YOU WANT.

Stalingradski

Axisplaya - thanks for saying so - by odds it was to be taken with an armor, which of course meant everything in this game. Losing the aircraft on top of it all was a mortal wound. As you know, if London falls, Russia has to make Germany pay long enough to get the other Allies into play. But in this one, Britain bleeds as well.

Team Imhotep has played extremely well, and Team The Headless Neds has played average - we didn’t make the requisite sacrifices to the Dice Gods, etc… :-D But if we don’t surrender… we expect a couple of big bloody battles to go our way!

Stalingradski of The Headless Neds

Stalingradski

The Headless Neds lay our swords at your feet. The victory belongs to Team Imhotep! It is deserved - you collectively made great choices, sound moves, and deserved the win.

We have an offer - since it’ll likely be awhile until your second round game, would your team be open to another game against us, but played outside of the tournament? Same rules, same platform, same people? The game can be run in the normal game threads, if you guys are interested. Our team is intersted in working out the communication & platform kinks, since we’re all ABattlemap people.

What say you?

Again - congratulations on the win.

Axisplaya

Review of the game :

List of Allies bad luck:

–Eth UK1
–sz106 UK1
–Taranto cost 1 too many plane UK1
–Yunan India 2
–Rom R3

List of Axis bad luck:

–Sze J2 cost 1 too many plane
–Epl G3 cost 1 plane

If we just look at Rom, no need to be a genius to understand Allies got very rough dices.

If i may, in case you want to know: i think your team has done only 1 mistake in this game. After taking out of UK 1 mec, planes for Taranto and having no reinforcement from Canada at all, putting 3 land units in Saf instead of UK was just too much. It is exactly that which made me decide for Sealion instead of Barbarossa.

Now, in case you want to continue this game, i must warn you : My team is NOT to take the rest of this game lightly. Quite the oposite actually : we’ll take extra care of every move, and fight as efficiently as we can because we know that nothing is more dangerous than a wounded animal !

:lol: :wink:

Axisplaya

@Stalingradski:

The Headless Neds lay our swords at your feet. The victory belongs to Team Imhotep! It is deserved - you collectively made great choices, sound moves, and deserved the win.

We have an offer - since it’ll likely be awhile until your second round game, would your team be open to another game against us, but played outside of the tournament? Same rules, same platform, same people? The game can be run in the normal game threads, if you guys are interested. Our team is intersted in working out the communication & platform kinks, since we’re all ABattlemap people.

What say you?

Again - congratulations on the win.

Okay, had already typed my post before i saw your surrender.

Thanks for your fair play.

Team Imhotep accept gladly a friendly rematch against The Headless Neds !

Will open a thread tonight, and this time, Septimus will handle Germany !

Septimus

It was a pleasure Stalingradski, playing against you and your friends of the Headless Neds.

Here is our new game :

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=27443.0

May you be luckier this time.

Axisplaya

"Here is a post by Septimus that you may only see if you click on “reply” because it seems to beconsidered as SPAM…

"It was a pleasure Stalingradski, playing against you and your friends of the Headless Neds.

Here is our new game :

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=27443.0

May you be luckier this time."

Stalingradski

Axisplaya - yes to what you said about S Africa - we recognized it immediately and hoped for the best. It was somewhat of a reaction to the Great Ethiopian Debacle of 1940, but that is not an excuse.

We had other, smaller errors here there and everywhere, but they added up. Overall we were average in our approach - in the game of football you try to hold onto the ball, and then when you do cough it up, you try to pounce on it and hope your opponent doesn’t react quick enough. In this game, our mistakes were seen and exploited very quickly. The dice were only part of the story.

We will improve - it was a good wake up call for us to be professional and thorough in our approach. The dice gods just might reward us if we are :-)

Looking forward to playing against you guys again -

seth4god

Allies, if it makes you feel any better I have had some very rough dice in my game as well.

Taranto cleared with just 1 fighter after sending everything but the kitchen sink
Italian dd/trn survived against cruiser(I went light, choosing instead to send the fighter that lived against taranto)
China losing fighter turn 1
Rolling only 2 D hits against J2 DOW out of a possible 16 rolls

I’ve had some good battles along the way, but rds 1-2 were so bad for the allies that rule #7 was invoked to add a French bb at the tip of S. America. Oh and I too was sealioned as well. Best of luck to both teams in the rest of the tourney.

Stalingradski

Seth - ouch! French Battleships all around!

Infrastructure and I play with a nice modified low luck variant in our games - you get some automatic hits, yes, but still roll plenty of dice. Our games tend to last longer because of it (15-20 + turns until someone calls uncle is pretty typical)… and it leads to less A&A-related depression. It would be hard to use in this setting - straight low luck (only LL option in this platform) is for the birds - dice should matter.

Straight dice leads to quicker games, which can be a good thing in a tournament setting.

Cow

I would like to say that if you are going to quit after UK falls, you may as well have had russia in east poland regardless of the odds. that way when uk falls you can at least make a push for rome with russia, germany will have to attack that and if he fails it will be VERY FUNNY.

Cow

also you quit before japan even entered war.

russia can take manchuria which is funny, if he counter attacks that he will most likely have to pull xports and not take cash islands.

allies are still in this, but they have to do some desperate moves. Why quit when there is still some gamble left?

Cow

J3 DOW is really bad, you have to take advantage of the pacific situation, allies can still pull this off. Hell I might even go for a usa convoy on japan waters if ruskies put 1 inf on korea. Japan will have to catchup on too much late homework to get the task done. J3 DOW is really bad, allies can just shove everything at japan and hope for the best, why the heck not?

So what if germany is strong, take your chances in the pacific, spend all your dough to liberate uk quickly then go full pacific.

I still feel you guys rolled over too soon. A couple desperate moves can turn this game around big.

Axisplaya

@Cow:

So what if germany is strong, take your chances in the pacific, spend all your dough to liberate uk quickly then go full pacific.

excuse me but…are you on drugs ??

Almost all the content of your 3 last posts in this thread is pure and total BS…

Cow

Is it? I don’t see why quit before the pacific even got rolling. Also russia should have been in east poland, but that is in the past. Russia can take manchuria and korea this round, japan does not have an airbase, if enough infantry survive say 11 inf japan would have to use transports to take it back and forgo a couple islands this round. USA is in hawaii… may as well push to japan waters especially if korea is russian, you can move the ships non combat and kill small fleets with air units, if not head to queensland.

There is no reason to quit, when you can be hyper aggressive and take a few chances. At least you would go out like a champ, it is called ball till you fall. If you feel you lost early in the game, just go nuts, you will be surprised how many times you can win doing this.

J3 declaration is really bad, if you disagree you are bad.

Cow

In anycase I couldn’t go out like this man, not with this many units left on the board. I would just shove everything at the axis roll some dice clankity clank and have fun then quit, if it means taking 10% odds then take it, 10% is better odds than the state lotto, LOL. Just think of all those times you see on TV a guy is all in on the flop and his opponent hits him with a river. It is what it is, this is a dice game, shooka shooka.

XDAP 01 Team Imhotep (Axis) vs The Headless Neds (Allies)

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