15L Playoff Rd2: [4] JDOW (Axis) vs. [8] Gamerman01 (Allies +25)

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 13

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians buy 4 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            1 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Tsinghai
                  Chinese take Tsinghai from Japanese
            1 armour, 6 artilleries, 3 fighters, 23 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Russia to Tambov
            1 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Kansu
                  Chinese take Kansu from Japanese
            2 armour moved from Vologda to Tambov
            1 infantry moved from Urals to Timguska
            3 mech_infantrys moved from Urals to Timguska
            1 fighter moved from Urals to Tambov

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Timguska
                Russians attack with 1 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys
                Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Russians win, taking Timguska from Japanese with 1 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
            Battle in Tambov
                Russians attack with 3 armour, 6 artilleries, 4 fighters, 23 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Germans defend with 5 armour, 9 artilleries, 5 infantry and 20 mech_infantrys

triplea_37262_Rus13.tsvg

Casualty choice for Tambov please

twos go wild!!!

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

Game History

Round: 13

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians buy 4 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            1 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Tsinghai
                  Chinese take Tsinghai from Japanese
            1 armour, 6 artilleries, 3 fighters, 23 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Russia to Tambov
            1 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Kansu
                  Chinese take Kansu from Japanese
            2 armour moved from Vologda to Tambov
            1 infantry moved from Urals to Timguska
            3 mech_infantrys moved from Urals to Timguska
            1 fighter moved from Urals to Tambov

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Timguska
                Russians attack with 1 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys
                Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Russians win, taking Timguska from Japanese with 1 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
            Battle in Tambov
                Russians attack with 3 armour, 6 artilleries, 4 fighters, 23 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Germans defend with 5 armour, 9 artilleries, 5 infantry and 20 mech_infantrys
                retreated to Tambov
                Germans win with 5 armour and 8 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is -36
                Casualties for Germans: 9 artilleries, 5 infantry and 12 mech_infantrys
                Casualties for Russians: 3 armour, 6 artilleries, 2 fighters, 23 infantry and 1 mech_infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            3 infantry moved from Vologda to Urals
            1 aaGun, 1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from Smolensk to Vologda
            1 aaGun moved from Russia to Vologda
            2 fighters moved from Tambov to Urals

Place Units - Russians
            4 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in Russia

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 11 PUs; end with 11 PUs total

triplea_37262_Rus13.tsvg

JDOW’s dice come roaring back
He don’t stay diced for long

Russians disappointed all game long
Good riddance - I’ll hang my hopes on the US, UK, and ANZAC

You needed to make a power move on Moscow this turn like you did.  Probably too soft of a target presented in Tambov, but you came out OK.  I don’t know why I flew so many planes away from India, especially the 5 to NTE.  Nearly a week waiting for Japan’s turn to be completed didn’t help, but I can’t blame that, I could have made notes.

Yes, after that first round it looked like the game might break open, but now you still have a decent chance.  I don’t even know how good your chance is, but I know I can hold off Axis victory for a long time.  However, gobbling up Russia is going to be a real shot in the arm for you.  However, I got to Japan just in time.  So it will be a really great game by the time it’s all over

Landing the air is no problem.  I was looking at a 3 round attack and hoping to save 3 air - 1 was stuck landing in Moscow.
But the dice were all weird and it went 4 rounds, and then you got a good roll in round 4 and I lost 1 very important Russian fighter.  So disappointed once again.  Losing the tac hurt bad.  It’s been tough going

Pretty sure I’ve never seen a blue guy in purple China before

Now you have tough Japan moves probably for the remainder of the game.  Germany’s gonna be tough to handle for me though.  So many good dice rounds early in the game for them.

The waves were probably unstoppable - I don’t know how many rounds I could have held off.  But I’m glad I’m not going to lose any (more) allied air defending Moscow in some big huge stack battle.  Hate to lose Moscow at this point (I should have had a ton of air in India going into G13 and I failed), but glad I won’t be losing a bunch of bombers and a huge stack of fighters there now

Average TUV for the first 2 rounds was only a very small negative number for me, so it was a no-brainer to attack for 2-3 rounds.  All the Russians could do was die in Moscow and not take enough down with them, or retreat in the wrong direction, which would have been a terrible decision.  I’m just really glad you gave me a chance to wipe all the artillery and about 10 mech (I ended up getting 12 but losing all tanks and 2 fighters) - I’m sure it was my best option then, given that I had flown too many fighters out of range of Moscow.  I didn’t run calcs to see if you could stack both territories - probably overconfident after the 33 disaster.

Game will continue to be hard fought for several rounds, that’s all I know

Yes, the last round was crazy
I have been thinking about the new situation a lot.  You stated the obvious about Germany and Russia…. but like I said before, not losing a single Allied fighter or bomber in Moscow is big, too, and I don’t know that Moscow could last that long anyway.  It is also big for me that Italy has almost no income.  But even by itself, Germany is scary right now.  Taking out all the artillery and a bunch of mech was significant, but I’m not sure if it was enough.  We have suddenly shifted to a very different phase of the game, as you are saying.  How Japan fares is indeed a big question.  My America play is going to have to be very strong, and maybe my American dice need to be strong too.

As I wrote before, I moved too many fighters out of range of Moscow, and am trying to console myself.  I think there is a situation where you could possibly trap all the Russians and kill them more cheaply than this, so I think it could have been worse.  You did luck out in Tambov after that first round (after of course my great luck).  If I had managed to wipe out the entire stack, then I think the game is mine.  But you ended up saving 13 extremely important units and even took down an extra plane to boot, keeping you very much alive

Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.