XDAP4 The Numenoreans VS The Fighting Mongooses

Please indicate whether you want to intercept the Moscow bombing raid. And if so, what your order of loss will be.

Also, I very much doubt that you want to scramble the Norway fighters against my attack on the American destroyer. But if I’m wrong about that, now is the time for you to say so.

G_11_intercept.tsvg

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3 Future, version: 3.0

Game History

Round :11

Politics - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 6 artilleries, 2 fighters, 3 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            2 infantry moved from Bryansk to Rostov
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Bryansk to Rostov
            1 fighter moved from Bryansk to Russia
            1 bomber moved from Novgorod to Russia
            1 bomber moved from Bryansk to Volgograd
            2 bombers moved from Bryansk to Russia
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Western Germany to 113 Sea Zone
            2 fighters moved from Western Germany to 113 Sea Zone

Combat - Germans
            Air Battle in Russia
                Germans attacks with 4 units heading to Russia
                Russians launches 5 interceptors out of Russia
                Air Battle is over, the remaining Bombers go on to their targets
            Strategic bombing raid in Russia
                1 bomber killed by AA guns
                Bombing raid in Russia rolls: 3,3 and causes: 6 damage to unit: factory_major
                Bombing raid in Russia causes 6 damage total.
            Battle in Rostov
                Germans attack with 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Russians defend with 1 infantry
                Germans win, taking Rostov from Russians with 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry
            Battle in 113 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 2 carriers, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers, 5 fighters, 3 submarines, 1 tactical_bomber and 2 transports
                Americans defend with 1 destroyer
                Germans win with 2 carriers, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers, 5 fighters, 3 submarines, 1 tactical_bomber and 2 transports remaining. Battle score for attacker is 8
                Casualties for Americans: 1 destroyer
            Strategic bombing raid in Volgograd
                Bombing raid in Volgograd rolls: 3 and causes: 3 damage to unit: factory_minor
                Bombing raid in Volgograd causes 3 damage total.
            Cleaning up after air battles

Non Combat Move - Germans
            1 bomber moved from Volgograd to Novgorod
            2 bombers moved from Russia to Novgorod
            1 fighter moved from Russia to Novgorod
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Rostov to Bryansk
            3 artilleries moved from Ukraine to Bryansk
            3 artilleries and 6 mech_infantrys moved from Western Ukraine to Bryansk
            1 mech_infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Bryansk
            1 infantry moved from Belarus to Bryansk
            1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus
            4 mech_infantrys moved from Eastern Poland to Bryansk
            6 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to Poland
            3 fighters moved from 113 Sea Zone to 95 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Western Germany to Novgorod

Place Units - Germans
            3 infantry placed in Novgorod
            4 mech_infantrys placed in Germany
            2 fighters placed in Western Germany
            3 artilleries placed in Western Ukraine
            3 artilleries placed in Ukraine

Turn Complete - Germans
            Germans collect 57 PUs; end with 57 PUs total
            Objective Germans 2 Control Novgorod Or Volgograd Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 62 PUs

Due to a bug, the damage associated with my strategic bombing raids wasn’t computed properly. The Volgograd factory should have +2 damage (for a total of 5), and the Moscow factory should have +4 damage (for a total of 11). If you decide to produce on these factories, please edit away the appropriate number of PUs to account for the extra damage. Thanks.

@wheatbeer:

The dice emails from MARTI show rolls of 1s not 3s, though the program reports it as rolls of 3s.

If you look back to past SBR, for the example the round 9 combat log (quoted above), you can see rolls of 7, which are impossible.  So when it says rolls 7, it actually indicates the dice rolled 5 because it automatically adds in the +2 bonus.

In the past, MARTI always showed 1s when displaying the damage done on strategic bombing raids, regardless of whatever was actually rolled. However, I went back through some MARTI rolls from earlier in this game, and found that there were some non-1s reported in MARTI die rolls. MARTI appears to be a good indicator of SBR die rolls now, regardless of its past uselessness for that purpose.

On my screen, I physically saw 3s being rolled during the damage allocation phase. But it’s possible those 3s already included the +2 to damage the rules specify. It’s disappointing that all three of my remaining strategic bombers appear to have rolled 1s in the damage allocation phase. I have no objection to you taking your turn without editing in the extra damage I’d requested earlier.

Is the losing side ready to admit their failings? and concede this game?

ummmm…. Blue.  No yel--  Auuuuuuuugh!

@Gargantua:

Is the losing side ready to admit their failings? and concede this game?

I have obtained permission from Mababa and Fingolfin to enter into surrender negotiations with the Allies. The Axis is willing to agree to honorable peace terms.

I would like to congratulate Wheatbeer and Kilroynothere for their outstanding level of play. Good luck in the rest of the tournament.

Wheatbeer is modest… the best ideas came from him!

Really enjoyed the game and liked the gambit of getting the US in late. Made our lives very difficult indeed.

As Wheat mentioned, very comfortable in keeping the game going outside of the tournament if desired.

Cheers

@wheatbeer:

Thanks, you guys also had an outstanding level of play (plus significantly worse dice, especially in the latter half of the game).

Kilroynothere deserves most of the credit (he restrained many of my harebrained ideas and took the harder powers to play).

Since it’s not truly won or lost outright, let us know if you’d like to keep playing anyways.

Thanks.

plus significantly worse dice,

That may be, but the main source of our problems was not dice. Your plan to defend Moscow was better than my plan to take it. That was the single most important factor in determining the outcome of this game.

But don’t worry–I’m sure I’ll come up with a better plan the next time we play.  8-)

I’m not totally opposed to continuing this game in an unofficial manner. But my heart isn’t really in it.

Completely understand that. Takes all the excitement out of it really.

I say we just move on to other games and know it was a fun one!

Thanks again for the game, it was fun, exciting, and I learned some new tricks from your Axis play.