L16 G40 Simon (Allies +21) vs ABH (Axis)

Right, I was looking at the chance of the destroyer living.

I can understand an artillery in Sudan to increase the chance of the Ethiopia attack succeeding to 95% (from 79%), or in Alexandria if you’re doing a Tobruk crush but two seems overkill to me.

While the US may take down Manchuria in a few turns, India is toast. Thought it could die that last turn.

Happy to concede this one. I’ll post the result.

USSR: 1 artillery in Karelia
China: artillery in Kweichow
UK: Sub in 98, artillery in Sudan.
ANZAC: inf, in Malaya - unless I can whack it in New Guinea?

Twice shy in Africa. Not convinced about it being worth it, but let’s try it anyway.

No scramble 111.
No scramble 110.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - Russians
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Changing PUs for Russians from 41 to 37
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Russians buy 12 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Politics - Russians
            Russians takes Political Action: Political Action Russians To War With Japanese
                Russians succeeds on action: Political Action Russians To War With Japanese: Changing Relationship for Japanese and Russians from Neutrality to War
                Russians succeeds on action: Political Action Russians To War With Japanese: Changing Relationship for Russians and Chinese from Neutrality to Allied
                Russians succeeds on action: Political Action Russians To War With Japanese: Changing Relationship for Russians and ANZAC from Neutrality to Allied
                Russians succeeds on action: Political Action Russians To War With Japanese: Changing Relationship for Russians and Dutch from Neutrality to Friendly
                Russians succeeds on action: Political Action Russians To War With Japanese: Changing Relationship for Russians and UK_Pacific from Neutrality to Allied

Combat Move - Russians
            1 armour moved from Volgograd to Turkmenistan
            1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Sikang

Non Combat Move - Russians
            6 infantry moved from Amur to Buryatia
            2 aaGuns and 6 infantry moved from Sakha to Buryatia
            2 infantry moved from Bessarabia to Western Ukraine
            3 infantry moved from Ukraine to Western Ukraine
            2 infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Western Ukraine
            1 infantry moved from Belarus to Bryansk
            1 cruiser moved from 115 Sea Zone to 114 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 127 Sea Zone to 125 Sea Zone
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Russia to Karelia
            1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Russia to Belarus
            2 aaGuns, 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Russia to Bryansk
            2 aaGuns moved from Novgorod to Belarus
            1 infantry moved from Archangel to Belarus
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Karelia to Novgorod
            3 infantry moved from Vyborg to Novgorod
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Karelia to Novgorod
            3 infantry moved from Baltic States to Novgorod

Place Units - Russians
            3 infantry placed in Ukraine
            3 infantry placed in Novgorod
            6 infantry placed in Russia

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 37 PUs; end with 38 PUs total

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TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - Americans
            Americans buy 2 artilleries, 2 destroyers, 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 2 transports; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Americans
            1 infantry moved from Western United States to Central United States

Non Combat Move - Americans
            1 fighter moved from Philippines to 31 Sea Zone
            1 carrier, 1 destroyer and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 10 Sea Zone to 31 Sea Zone
            2 fighters moved from Hawaiian Islands to Wake Island
            1 destroyer and 1 submarine moved from 35 Sea Zone to 23 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Western United States to 10 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 10 Sea Zone to 8 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 8 Sea Zone to Aleutian Islands
            1 battleship and 1 cruiser moved from 10 Sea Zone to 8 Sea Zone
            1 transport moved from 26 Sea Zone to 10 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser, 1 destroyer and 1 submarine moved from 26 Sea Zone to 7 Sea Zone
            1 battleship and 1 cruiser moved from 8 Sea Zone to 7 Sea Zone
            1 bomber moved from Central United States to Eastern United States
            1 infantry moved from Central United States to Eastern United States
            1 fighter moved from Western United States to Eastern United States
            1 fighter moved from 10 Sea Zone to Wake Island

Place Units - Americans
            1 destroyer and 2 transports placed in 101 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer placed in 101 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 fighter placed in Eastern United States
            1 artillery and 1 infantry placed in Western United States

Turn Complete - Americans
            Americans collect 52 PUs; end with 53 PUs total

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TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - Chinese
            Trigger Chinese Loses Burma Road: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Closed
            Chinese buy 4 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Chinese
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Kweichow to Yunnan
            1 fighter moved from Szechwan to Yunnan

Combat - Chinese
            Battle in Yunnan
                Chinese attack with 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 2 infantry
                Japanese defend with 1 artillery and 2 infantry
                Chinese win, taking Yunnan from Japanese with 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for Chinese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 artillery and 2 infantry

Non Combat Move - Chinese
            1 fighter moved from Yunnan to Szechwan
            1 infantry moved from Shensi to Szechwan
            2 infantry moved from Suiyuyan to Shensi

Place Units - Chinese
            4 infantry placed in Szechwan

Turn Complete - Chinese
            Chinese collect 9 PUs; end with 9 PUs total
            Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 15 PUs

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TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Combat Move - British
            1 bomber and 1 fighter moved from United Kingdom to 97 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser moved from 91 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to 96 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Alexandria to 98 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 98 Sea Zone to 76 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Ethiopia
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 76 Sea Zone to Ethiopia
            1 mech_infantry moved from Egypt to Ethiopia
            1 cruiser moved from 39 Sea Zone to 76 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 98 Sea Zone to 97 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from United Kingdom to Scotland
            2 fighters moved from Scotland to 110 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 109 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone

Combat - British

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Scramble 97?

Oh crap. Just saw that I forgot to bring in the Malta fighter to SZ97. Too late to fix it?

First round dice for Malta fighter:
Rolling 1d6:
(6)

Ok, now we have an unaccompanied Tac Bomber. Let’s roll the second round with the planes reversed, tac bomber will be rolled in the forum. Rolling at 4:
Rolling 1d6:
(6)

Dice server seems to have crashed. I’ll have to load up the save and reinstate the results. Since I’ve already rolled part of round 2 in the forum, I guess the rest has to be rolled here too.

Bomber:
Rolling 1d6:
(4)

Fighter:
Rolling 1d6:
(1)

Sub:
Rolling 1d6:
(4)

Italian battleship (provisional based on the sub missing):
Rolling 1d6:
(5)

German fighter:
Rolling 1d6:
(1)

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - British
            British buy 2 artilleries and 2 fighters; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Purchase Units - UK_Pacific
            UK_Pacific buy 1 armour and 1 fighter; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Combat Move - British
            1 bomber and 1 fighter moved from United Kingdom to 97 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser moved from 91 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to 96 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Alexandria to 98 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 98 Sea Zone to 76 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Ethiopia
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 76 Sea Zone to Ethiopia
            1 mech_infantry moved from Egypt to Ethiopia
            1 cruiser moved from 39 Sea Zone to 76 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 98 Sea Zone to 97 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from United Kingdom to Scotland
            2 fighters moved from Scotland to 110 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 109 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone

Combat - British
            Italians scrambles 3 units out of Southern Italy to defend against the attack in 97 Sea Zone
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by British from 96 Sea Zone: 1 fighter
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Italians from 96 Sea Zone: 1 destroyer and 1 transport
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from 97 Sea Zone: 1 fighter
            EDIT: Removing units owned by British from 97 Sea Zone: 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer and 1 fighter
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Italians from 97 Sea Zone: 1 battleship, 1 cruiser, 2 fighters and 1 transport
            EDIT: Removing units owned by British from Malta: 1 fighter
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Battle in 96 Sea Zone
                British attack with 1 cruiser
            Battle in 97 Sea Zone
                British attack with 1 bomber, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber
            Battle in 110 Sea Zone
                British attack with 1 destroyer and 2 fighters
                Germans defend with 1 battleship
                Units damaged: 1 battleship owned by the Germans
                British winBritish winBritish win with 1 cruiser remaining, taking 97 Sea Zone from Neutral with 1 bomber, 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber remaining with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 2
                Casualties for Germans: 1 battleship
                Casualties for British: 1 destroyer and 1 fighter
            Battle in Ethiopia
                British attack with 2 artilleries, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Italians defend with 1 artillery and 2 infantry
                British win, taking Ethiopia from Italians with 2 artilleries, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for British: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Italians: 1 artillery and 2 infantry

Non Combat Move - British
            1 mech_infantry moved from United Kingdom to 109 Sea Zone
            1 mech_infantry and 1 transport moved from 109 Sea Zone to 88 Sea Zone
            1 mech_infantry moved from 88 Sea Zone to British Guiana
            1 fighter moved from 110 Sea Zone to United Kingdom
            1 battleship moved from 37 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from India to 39 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 39 Sea Zone to 41 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 41 Sea Zone to Sumatra
                  UK_Pacific take Sumatra from Dutch
            3 infantry moved from Malaya to Shan State
            2 infantry moved from Burma to Shan State
            1 armour and 1 infantry moved from Alexandria to Egypt
            1 destroyer moved from 71 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from Union of South Africa to Rhodesia
            1 carrier moved from 98 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
            1 tactical_bomber moved from 97 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
            1 bomber moved from 97 Sea Zone to Malta
            1 infantry moved from West India to Eastern Persia
                  British take Eastern Persia from Neutral_Allies
            1 fighter moved from Burma to India
            3 aaGuns, 1 artillery, 2 fighters, 4 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber moved from India to Burma
            2 fighters moved from Burma to India
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Burma to Shan State

Place Units - British
            2 artilleries placed in Union of South Africa
            2 fighters placed in United Kingdom
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by British from Scotland: 1 aaGun and 2 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by British to United Kingdom: 1 aaGun and 2 infantry
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Turn Complete - British
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 3
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 106 Sea Zone. Rolls: 3,6,5,1
            British collect 26 PUs (3 lost to blockades); end with 26 PUs total
            Objective British 1 Original: British met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 31 PUs

Place Units - UK_Pacific
            1 armour and 1 fighter placed in India

Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
            UK_Pacific collect 21 PUs; end with 22 PUs total
            Some Units in India change ownership: 1 armour and 1 fighter

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TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - ANZAC
            ANZAC buy 1 artillery and 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - ANZAC
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Queensland to Northern Territory

Non Combat Move - ANZAC
            2 infantry moved from New South Wales to 62 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 62 Sea Zone to 42 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 42 Sea Zone to Java
                  ANZAC take Java from Dutch
            1 aaGun moved from New South Wales to Queensland
            1 fighter moved from Queensland to Shan State
            1 infantry moved from Malaya to Shan State
            1 infantry moved from New Guinea to Dutch New Guinea
                  ANZAC take Dutch New Guinea from Dutch
            2 fighters moved from New Zealand to Queensland
            1 cruiser moved from 63 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 62 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone

Place Units - ANZAC
            1 artillery and 2 infantry placed in New South Wales

Turn Complete - ANZAC
            ANZAC collect 14 PUs; end with 14 PUs total

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TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Combat Move - French
            1 infantry moved from Syria to Trans-Jordan
            1 infantry moved from French West Africa to French Central Africa

Non Combat Move - French
            1 destroyer moved from 72 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Algeria to Morocco
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Normandy Bordeaux to Southern France
            1 cruiser and 1 destroyer moved from 93 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - French

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