Operation Dark Skies JamesAleman(axis) vs Allweneedislove

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.6

Game History

Round: 2

Politics - Italians
            Italians takes Political Action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians
                Italians succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Italians and Russians from Neutrality to War

Purchase Units - Italians
            Italians buy 1 bomber; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Italians
            1 armour moved from Romania to Belarus
            1 armour moved from Romania to Belarus
            1 bomber moved from Southern Italy to Belarus
            1 fighter moved from Southern Italy to 99 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Kenya to Tanganyika Territory
                  Italians take Tanganyika Territory from British
            1 infantry moved from Kenya to Belgian Congo
                  Italians take Belgian Congo from British

Combat - Italians
            Battle in 99 Sea Zone
                Italians attack with 1 fighter
                British defend with 1 transport
                Italians win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for British: 1 transport
            Battle in Belarus
                Italians attack with 2 armour and 1 bomber
                Russians defend with 1 infantry
                Italians win, taking Belarus from Russians with 2 armour and 1 bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Italians
            1 armour moved from Yugoslavia to Eastern Poland
            2 aaGuns, 3 artilleries and 6 infantry moved from Yugoslavia to Romania
            1 fighter moved from 99 Sea Zone to Romania
            1 fighter moved from Southern Italy to Romania
            1 bomber moved from Belarus to Eastern Poland
            2 transports moved from 97 Sea Zone to 94 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Tunisia to 94 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry, 1 mech_infantry and 2 transports moved from 94 Sea Zone to 93 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from 93 Sea Zone to Southern France
            1 cruiser and 1 destroyer moved from 97 Sea Zone to 93 Sea Zone
            1 aaGun and 3 infantry moved from Northern Italy to France
            1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Northern Italy to Romania
            2 infantry moved from Northern Italy to Southern Italy
            1 artillery moved from Kenya to Italian Somaliland

Place Units - Italians
            1 bomber placed in Southern Italy

Turn Complete - Italians
            Italians collect 15 PUs; end with 15 PUs total
            Objective Italians 1 Control The Mediterranean: Italians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 20 PUs

Order of loss S. France: Take off the inf, art, German art, mech
Order of loss z93: dd, ca
Order of loss S. Italy against UK bomber: aagun,3inf,bomber

I’m off work until next Monday, so I’ll be available to post throughout the day this week.

Mind if I change Italy by dropping a transport and artillery in Gibraltar?

Just use the art from Africa if that is ok.

Here is the map, if you don’t want me to make the change, just use the other map.

Italy Edit.tsvg

TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.6

Game History

Round: 3

Politics - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 2 bombers, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 3 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 artillery moved from Holland Belgium to Normandy Bordeaux
                  Germans take Normandy Bordeaux from French
            1 bomber moved from Western Germany to 88 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Western Germany to Baltic States
            7 bombers moved from Western Germany to Baltic States
            2 infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Baltic States
            1 battleship, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 2 fighters and 3 submarines moved from 109 Sea Zone to 112 Sea Zone
            2 tactical_bombers moved from Western Germany to Baltic States

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.6

Game History

Round: 3

Politics - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 2 bombers, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 3 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 artillery moved from Holland Belgium to Normandy Bordeaux
                  Germans take Normandy Bordeaux from French
            1 bomber moved from Western Germany to 88 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Western Germany to Baltic States
            7 bombers moved from Western Germany to Baltic States
            2 infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Baltic States
            1 battleship, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 2 fighters and 3 submarines moved from 109 Sea Zone to 112 Sea Zone
            2 tactical_bombers moved from Western Germany to Baltic States

Combat - Germans
            Battle in 88 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 1 bomber
                British defend with 2 transports
                Germans win with 1 bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 14
                Casualties for British: 2 transports
            Battle in Baltic States
                Germans attack with 7 bombers, 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers
                Russians defend with 1 aaGun and 3 infantry
                Germans win, taking Baltic States from Russians with 7 bombers, 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 11
                Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Russians: 1 aaGun and 3 infantry

Non Combat Move - Germans
            6 bombers, 1 fighter and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Baltic States to Belarus
            2 fighters moved from 112 Sea Zone to Western Germany
            2 tactical_bombers moved from Southern Italy to Finland
            2 fighters moved from Southern Italy to Belarus
            3 aaGuns, 3 armour, 3 artilleries and 17 infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Belarus
            2 artilleries and 8 infantry moved from Romania to Eastern Poland
            6 armour and 4 mech_infantrys moved from Yugoslavia to Eastern Poland
            3 aaGuns and 1 artillery moved from Holland Belgium to Western Germany
            1 artillery moved from Southern France to Northern Italy
            1 bomber moved from Baltic States to Western Germany
            1 bomber moved from 88 Sea Zone to Gibraltar

Place Units - Germans
            1 mech_infantry placed in Germany
            1 destroyer placed in 112 Sea Zone
            2 bombers and 1 fighter placed in Western Germany

Turn Complete - Germans
            Germans collect 46 PUs; end with 49 PUs total
            Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 54 PUs

I will scramble 3 fighters vs Russian sub z112.

Order of loss Belarus:aagun, inf, art, mech, 2 german armor, italian armor, bombers, tac, italian armor, german armor, fighters.

To those reading the bomber thread:
To preserve the German fleet, I deviated from 2 more bombers to make a dd, fighter, the mech will be needed for Greece later.
My original plan called for 12 bombers by this turn, now I have 9, the strategy leaves room for flexibility based on game outcomes. The Germany navy is new to my play testing and I feel it is worth the extra investment to preserve it if possible.

I also changed Italy’s planned Mech build turn 2, the bomber was deemed more important for the extra punch it gives the 3 Italian armor, 2 fighters and other units. So far so good in terms of demonstrating the range and flexibility of the bombers, we’ll see how things develop. This should be Russia’s last full production, the lockdown is set up to begin unless my opponent draws the bombers elsewhere like he did on turn 2, when my 3 bombers were enticed to sink the UK navy instead of landing in Romania to bomb Russia this turn. Now I have 2 bomber forces able to bomb UK and Russia if they are free.

@JamesAleman:

I will scramble 3 fighters vs Russian sub z112.

Order of loss Belarus:aagun, inf, art, mech, 2 german armor, italian armor, bombers, tac, italian armor, german armor, fighters.

To those reading the bomber thread:
To preserve the German fleet, I deviated from 2 more bombers to make a dd, fighter, the mech will be needed for Greece later.
My original plan called for 12 bombers by this turn, now I have 9, the strategy leaves room for flexibility based on game outcomes. The Germany navy is new to my play testing and I feel it is worth the extra investment to preserve it if possible.

I also changed Italy’s planned Mech build turn 2, the bomber was deemed more important for the extra punch it gives the 3 Italian armor, 2 fighters and other units. So far so good in terms of demonstrating the range and flexibility of the bombers, we’ll see how things develop. This should be Russia’s last full production, the lockdown is set up to begin unless my opponent draws the bombers elsewhere like he did on turn 2, when my 3 bombers were enticed to sink the UK navy instead of landing in Romania to bomb Russia this turn. Now I have 2 bomber forces able to bomb UK and Russia if they are free.

As you can see, the Italian starting unit presence, along with the armor, mech and bomber built by Italy turn 1 and 2, make blocking with Russia very challenging. German is set up to secure both factories next turn, since Italy can clear many blockers, in addition Italy poses a serious risk to Moscow in terms of opening a channel for 3 German armor and the air force. Due to the Russian determination to deny Factories, a large portion of their forces are cut off from the Capital and risk severe strafes from air and land forces in theater. Japan will be able to drop an airbase (not sure I want to) and bomb Moscow turn 5 if needed, and in a pinch Italy can as well. We still need to see what effect the allied Atlantic threat will pose to the Germans, in addition, there is a Greece garrison that will have to be ignored for a couple of turns, with the 54 IPCs collected by Berlin, only 1 mech can be built without dropping the 4 bomber build, If things got dire, I could at this time do 3 bombers and make 4 mech, but I am below my bomber quota, and a mech a turn should suit me for now. Next turn, Germany will go up 7-8 IPCs from Novgorod and or Karelia. Archangel should be blitz-able to remove the NO at this point since my navy will be otherwise engaged in other endeavors.

Its hard not to justify the dd and fighter build.  For 18 IPC you guarantee the safety of your fleet of 66 IPC.  You are not deviating from the bomber build.  If you didn’t have the fleet, you’d be building bombers.

The real problem is Germany is playing around with their fleet.  The only reason to keep that fleet is to use as casualties as bombers…an excellent reason btw.  And it didn’t cost much to save it.  Russia is in danger of falling in 2 turns.  Lockdown for sure next turn.

God save the queen, you can start playing the waiting game in Russia and lockdown Britain now.

Let me reiterate something here.  You are actually building bombers by saving the fleet!

By providing casualty soakoffs for taking out any attempt by Britain or the US to come to Europe.

You have 8 Soaks before your attack power diminishes at all.  So with the bombers on the board plus your soaks, exactly how many carriers and planes must the US build?

The fact that the ships get to fire is pretty nice too, only adds to the threat, although I don’t even count fleet as attackers with bombers, just soakoffs.

Allweneedislove, you have done well, I am not at my bomber quotas. This has been costly for the allies, but it did reduce my threat by 30 percent so far. You also crushed my Italy for now(I typically don’t in my games). This leaves me two choices for Egypt, build a new fleet with Italy and or Germany out of  S. France…or do a neutral crush of Turkey, Spain, Sweden as I get time and mech. So keep an eye out in the Middle East, as a late game Neutral crush only increases the range of my bombers as flying over Spain shortens the distance to Allied navies.

To those reading the bomber thread:

Well, as you can see, if Italy is ever able to take a territory next to Moscow (most likely if the axis are able to hold that position), all bombers can redeploy to S. Italy…There, 3-4 bombers can be deployed to Moscow and London on a rotating basis. Only the Moscow bombers will land out of range of the Atlantic allied fleet, the remaining bombers and ships are able to hit, I can also back 1 space away from Moscow, send the defending slow moving air back to Europe to deal with an allied fleet that is larger than I’d like (to preserve bombers from being removed during an allied fleet sinking).

I’m a noob, I was playing with our game, doing Japan’s turn in advance, I figured I would be ok if I didn’t post summaries, I forgot we would get emails about the battles, please ignore those emails, and I will save the game for offline play…just working ahead for what ifs.

TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.6

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - Japanese
            Japanese buy 1 airfield, 1 bomber and 6 infantry; Remaining resources: 6 SuicideAttackTokens; 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Japanese
            1 infantry moved from Chahar to Suiyuyan
            1 infantry moved from Chahar to Hopei
            4 bombers moved from Hunan to Suiyuyan
            6 fighters moved from Hunan to Hopei
            2 artilleries moved from Anhwe to Hopei
            1 infantry moved from Siberia to Sakha
                  Japanese take Sakha from Russians
            1 fighter moved from Anhwe to Suiyuyan

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.6

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - Japanese
            Japanese buy 1 airfield, 1 bomber and 6 infantry; Remaining resources: 6 SuicideAttackTokens; 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Japanese
            1 infantry moved from Chahar to Suiyuyan
            1 infantry moved from Chahar to Hopei
            4 bombers moved from Hunan to Suiyuyan
            6 fighters moved from Hunan to Hopei
            2 artilleries moved from Anhwe to Hopei
            1 infantry moved from Siberia to Sakha
                  Japanese take Sakha from Russians
            1 fighter moved from Anhwe to Suiyuyan

Combat - Japanese
            Battle in Hopei
                Japanese attack with 2 artilleries, 6 fighters and 1 infantry
                Chinese defend with 2 infantry
                Japanese win, taking Hopei from Chinese with 1 artillery and 6 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is -1
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
                Casualties for Chinese: 2 infantry
            Battle in Suiyuyan
                Japanese attack with 4 bombers, 1 fighter and 1 infantry
                Chinese defend with 2 infantry
                Japanese win with 4 bombers and 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Chinese: 2 infantry

Non Combat Move - Japanese
            4 bombers moved from Suiyuyan to Yunnan
            6 fighters moved from Hopei to Yunnan
            1 fighter moved from Suiyuyan to Chahar
            6 tactical_bombers moved from Hunan to Kwangsi
            1 transport moved from 36 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from Siam to 37 Sea Zone
            1 transport moved from 19 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Hainan to 36 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 37 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from 36 Sea Zone to Kwangsi
            2 artilleries moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
            1 aaGun and 2 infantry moved from Manchuria to Korea
            1 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
            1 transport moved from 19 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone
            1 artillery moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
            1 artillery moved from 6 Sea Zone to Korea
            4 fighters moved from Anhwe to Korea
            2 tactical_bombers moved from Anhwe to Kwangsi
            3 artilleries, 8 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Kweichow to Yunnan
            1 infantry moved from Jehol to Chahar
            2 artilleries, 1 infantry and 2 transports moved from 6 Sea Zone to 19 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Jehol to 19 Sea Zone
            2 artilleries, 2 infantry and 2 transports moved from 19 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
            2 artilleries and 2 infantry moved from 36 Sea Zone to Kwangsi

Place Units - Japanese
            1 bomber and 6 infantry placed in Japan
            1 airfield placed in Kwangsi

Turn Complete - Japanese
            Japanese collect 35 PUs; end with 36 PUs total
            Objective Japanese 1 Trade With America: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 46 PUs

I will scramble 3 units in z112 if attack by UK or France. Order of loss: bb,cv,3subs,ca,3ftr,cv,bb

@JamesAleman:

I will scramble 3 units in z112 if attack by UK or France. Order of loss: bb,cv,3subs,ca,3ftr,cv,bb

Add dd after subs