13L G40 Gamerman01(allies+10) vs seththenewb(axis)

TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 6

Politics - Germans

Research Technology - Germans
            Germans spend 5 on tech rolls
            Germans removing all Technology Tokens after successful research.
            Germans discover Rockets Advance

Activate Technology - Germans
            Germans activating Rockets Advance

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 3 armour, 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 2 tactical_bombers; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 0 techTokens;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 mech_infantry moved from Bryansk to Tambov
                  Germans take Tambov from Russians
            3 armour and 3 mech_infantrys moved from Ukraine to Rostov
            2 bombers moved from Eastern Poland to Russia
            1 bomber moved from Eastern Poland to Archangel
            1 fighter moved from Belarus to Archangel
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 112 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer and 1 submarine moved from 112 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Western Germany to 110 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Western Germany to 105 Sea Zone
            1 fighter and 3 infantry moved from Western Germany to Holland Belgium
            1 transport moved from 112 Sea Zone to 127 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from Finland to 127 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 127 Sea Zone to Archangel
            1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Archangel

@seththenewb:

You’re acting like this game’s over already.  :wink:

But yes, I’m up for a rematch . . .  after all I have to let you get your chance at redemption.  :evil:

I guess I remember reading your PM and thought it was here. Gotta do your trash talking in private huh? I keed I keed. And Germany has rockets baby!

Also, need scramble orders for sz110 and intercept orders for Moscow.

Actually, I’m not bringing an infantry from Novgorod into the Archangel fight.

Here’s the map file without the extra infantry in Novgorod.

You should feel honored Gamer . . . you’re the first opponent that I’ve actually gotten tech against with Triplea. I’ve dabbled a bit in this game and I’ve been regularly buying tech rolls in another game and that’s it for league games. But I’ve played quite a few live online games that I’ve yet to get ANY tech rolls in. Too bad I didn’t get that mech tech that Russia has.  :evil:

But Rockets is not bad at all for Germany.

If it makes you feel better . .  . Degrasse got Hvy Bombers on his very first tech roll for US. Turn one Hvy Bombers . . .  I’ll say that again because that one REALLY sucks . . . turn one US heavy bombers!

Let’s see both Paris will target the Naval Base in Gibraltar
Rolls: 1@6; Total Hits: 11@6: (3)

W. Germany will target London Major
Rolls: 1@6; Total Hits: 11@6: (5)

Novgorod will target Moscow Major
Rolls: 1@6; Total Hits: 11@6: (3)

Hmm, the battles all worked out well for me except Holland. But that one has me in a pickle. I was planning on stacking Paris and blocking US from taking W. Germany. So do I still do that and let UK walk into W. Germany (losing the Major) or do I leave a plane to possibly die and also risk having to try and retake Paris and Moscow on the same turn. Or do I change my placement plans and allow Russia some breathing room since there’s not much followup coming at this time . . . choices choices choices.

The good news is UK just lost 3 fighters and Germany has Rockets.

I don’t think I can retake Paris if you liberate it with UK . .  not without changing my placement. So I think I have to sacrifice the Major.  :|

Hang on, I’m trying to run some numbers and figure out if I can give myself good odds to take Moscow while still holding both W. Germany and Paris.

It’s either that or sacrifice W. Germany.

Unfortunately, the margins are too razor thin to risk trying to do all three. I can do 2 out of those 3 things. Now the question is, which two and this is actually a pretty hard choice. If I lose this game, I know I’m going to look back on this turn right here and wonder what would’ve happened had I made a different choice.

I need to feed my cats and myself. Let me ruminate on this some.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 6

Politics - Germans

Research Technology - Germans
            Germans spend 5 on tech rolls
            Germans removing all Technology Tokens after successful research.
            Germans discover Rockets Advance

Activate Technology - Germans
            Germans activating Rockets Advance

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 3 armour, 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 2 tactical_bombers; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 0 techTokens;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 mech_infantry moved from Bryansk to Tambov
                  Germans take Tambov from Russians
            3 armour and 3 mech_infantrys moved from Ukraine to Rostov
            2 bombers moved from Eastern Poland to Russia
            1 bomber moved from Eastern Poland to Archangel
            1 fighter moved from Belarus to Archangel
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 112 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer and 1 submarine moved from 112 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Western Germany to 110 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Western Germany to 105 Sea Zone
            1 fighter and 3 infantry moved from Western Germany to Holland Belgium
            1 transport moved from 112 Sea Zone to 127 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from Finland to 127 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 127 Sea Zone to Archangel

Combat - Germans
            British scrambles 3 units out of United Kingdom to defend against the attack in 110 Sea Zone
            Air Battle in Russia
                Germans attacks with 2 units heading to Russia
                Air Battle is over, the remaining bombers go on to their targets
            Strategic bombing raid in Russia
                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 Archangel
                Germans attack with 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 2 infantry
                Russians defend with 1 armour and 1 mech_infantry
                Germans win, taking Archangel from Russians with 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 10
                Casualties for Russians: 1 armour and 1 mech_infantry
            Battle in 105 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 1 fighter
                British defend with 1 transport
                Germans win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for British: 1 transport
            Battle in 110 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 1 destroyer, 2 fighters, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber
                British defend with 1 destroyer and 3 fighters; Americans defend with 1 transport
                Germans win with 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 21
                Casualties for Germans: 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 submarine
                Casualties for British: 1 destroyer and 3 fighters
                Casualties for Americans: 1 transport
            Battle in Holland Belgium
                Germans attack with 1 fighter and 3 infantry
                British defend with 2 infantry
                retreated to Holland Belgium
                British win with 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -9
                Casualties for Germans: 3 infantry
            Battle in Rostov
                Germans attack with 3 armour and 3 mech_infantrys
                Russians defend with 1 mech_infantry
                Germans win, taking Rostov from Russians with 3 armour and 3 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
                Casualties for Russians: 1 mech_infantry
            Cleaning up after air battles

Non Combat Move - Germans
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Changing unit bombing damage for these British owned units to: factory_major = 5
            EDIT: Changing unit bombing damage for these British owned units to: harbour = 3
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            1 armour and 3 mech_infantrys moved from Bessarabia to Bryansk
            7 mech_infantrys moved from Eastern Poland to Bryansk
            1 mech_infantry moved from Smolensk to Bryansk
            1 aaGun, 10 armour, 2 artilleries and 1 infantry moved from Belarus to Bryansk
            3 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus
            2 bombers moved from Russia to Novgorod
            1 bomber and 1 fighter moved from Archangel to Novgorod
            1 fighter moved from 105 Sea Zone to France
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 110 Sea Zone to France
            1 fighter moved from Holland Belgium to France
            3 aaGuns and 2 infantry moved from Western Germany to France
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Germany to France
            1 battleship, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser and 1 destroyer moved from 112 Sea Zone to 115 Sea Zone

Place Units - Germans
            3 armour placed in Ukraine
            1 fighter and 2 tactical_bombers placed in Novgorod
            1 artillery placed in France

Turn Complete - Germans
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 1
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 6,4,5,1
            Germans collect 48 PUs (1 lost to blockades); end with 48 PUs total
            Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 53 PUs
            Objective Germans 2 Control Novgorod Or Volgograd Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 58 PUs
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Changing unit bombing damage for these Russians owned units to: factory_major = 16
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Just be glad I’m not Cow or Bold. You’d have 2 pages worth of 1-2 sentence posts by now.  :wink:

I also made quite a few mistakes with the German army, that I think cost them a number of their infantry. Granted Russia’s down infantry for that very same reason . .  well at least for capitalizing on said reasons. I hope I’ve made the right choice, only time will tell if this was the right decision or not. Either way, it looks like Germany’s in for some interesting times.  :-D

And I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. In my games, I either get really lucky with the air battles/aa guns or I get really bad dice. At least lately that’s been the case. Either all my bombers survive or 2/3rds of them crash and burn.