16L BM2 Marshmellow of War (Allies) vs simon33 (Axis) Game II

TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod, version: 2.0

Game History

Round: 17

Research Technology - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans repair damage of 5x factory_minor; Remaining resources: 66 PUs;
            Germans buy 1 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 carrier, 2 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 fighter moved from Baltic States to 112 Sea Zone
            3 bombers moved from Western Germany to 112 Sea Zone
            2 fighters moved from Southern Italy to 112 Sea Zone
            1 armour moved from Volgograd to Samara
                  Germans take Samara from Russians
            1 armour moved from Samara to Volgograd
            2 armour, 21 artilleries, 1 infantry and 20 mech_infantrys moved from Tambov to Bryansk
                  Germans take Bryansk from Russians
            1 mech_infantry and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Volgograd to Caucasus
            1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Caucasus

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Scramble SZ112?

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod, version: 2.0

Game History

Round: 17

Research Technology - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans repair damage of 5x factory_minor; Remaining resources: 66 PUs;
            Germans buy 1 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 carrier, 2 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 fighter moved from Baltic States to 112 Sea Zone
            3 bombers moved from Western Germany to 112 Sea Zone
            2 fighters moved from Southern Italy to 112 Sea Zone
            1 armour moved from Volgograd to Samara
                  Germans take Samara from Russians
            1 armour moved from Samara to Volgograd
            2 armour, 21 artilleries, 1 infantry and 20 mech_infantrys moved from Tambov to Bryansk
                  Germans take Bryansk from Russians
            1 mech_infantry and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Volgograd to Caucasus
            1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Caucasus

Combat - Germans
            Americans scrambles 3 units out of Norway to defend against the attack in 112 Sea Zone
            Battle in Caucasus
                Germans attack with 2 mech_infantrys and 2 tactical_bombers
                British defend with 2 mech_infantrys
                Germans win, taking Caucasus from Russians with 2 mech_infantrys and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 8
                Casualties for British: 2 mech_infantrys
            Battle in 112 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 3 bombers and 3 fighters
                British defend with 2 transports; Americans defend with 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 3 fighters, 1 tactical_bomber and 2 transports

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4 hits. Max D = lose tac, CV and DD.

OOL?

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod, version: 2.0

Game History

Round: 17

Research Technology - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans repair damage of 5x factory_minor; Remaining resources: 66 PUs;
            Germans buy 1 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 carrier, 2 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 fighter moved from Baltic States to 112 Sea Zone
            3 bombers moved from Western Germany to 112 Sea Zone
            2 fighters moved from Southern Italy to 112 Sea Zone
            1 armour moved from Volgograd to Samara
                  Germans take Samara from Russians
            1 armour moved from Samara to Volgograd
            2 armour, 21 artilleries, 1 infantry and 20 mech_infantrys moved from Tambov to Bryansk
                  Germans take Bryansk from Russians
            1 mech_infantry and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Volgograd to Caucasus
            1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Caucasus

Combat - Germans
            Americans scrambles 3 units out of Norway to defend against the attack in 112 Sea Zone
            Battle in Caucasus
                Germans attack with 2 mech_infantrys and 2 tactical_bombers
                British defend with 2 mech_infantrys
                Germans win, taking Caucasus from Russians with 2 mech_infantrys and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 8
                Casualties for British: 2 mech_infantrys
            Battle in 112 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 3 bombers and 3 fighters
                British defend with 2 transports; Americans defend with 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 3 fighters, 1 tactical_bomber and 2 transports
                Americans win with 4 transports remaining. Battle score for attacker is -1
                Casualties for Germans: 3 bombers and 3 fighters
                Casualties for Americans: 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber

Non Combat Move - Germans
            1 mech_infantry moved from Baltic States to Bryansk
            4 mech_infantrys moved from Novgorod to Bryansk
            2 aaGuns moved from Tambov to Bryansk
            2 armour and 4 mech_infantrys moved from Volgograd to Bryansk
            3 artilleries and 3 infantry moved from Germany to Western Germany
            3 artilleries and 4 infantry moved from Western Germany to France
            2 tactical_bombers moved from Caucasus to Volgograd

Place Units - Germans
            1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys placed in Volgograd
            1 carrier placed in 112 Sea Zone
            2 fighters placed in 112 Sea Zone
            2 artilleries and 1 infantry placed in Novgorod
            1 infantry placed in Western Germany
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Western Germany: 1 aaGun and 3 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to Germany: 1 aaGun and 3 infantry
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Turn Complete - Germans
            Germans collect 54 PUs; end with 56 PUs total
            Objective Germans 2 Control Novgorod Or Volgograd Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 66 PUs
            Objective Germans 3 Control Caucasus: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 71 PUs

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I have posted your result.

Is the above posted to the correct thread?

GG BTW.

I might have to have a look at that but I think the opening you’ve posted above is a mistake. You make it a 50/50 scramble from Scotland but a clear scramble to SZ110. You can keep the Scottish fighter for Taranto. I would. If you are retreating from SZ111 you don’t need better than an even fight in SZ111. You normally lose one sub and dent the BB, rarely lose more than one plane.

The scramble to SZ110 hits the Luftwaffe pretty hard and makes Barbarossa harder. A stronger attack normally preserves all the planes to this square.

@Marshmallow:

I’ll start by saying my Russian turn 3 was disastrous. I mean to strafe Leningrade, but I hit the wrong button on round 3 for retreat vs remain. The advance into Ukraine was just a major blunder on my part.

Turn 4. Yes, walking into Ukraine was a mistake which I capitalised on. I actually think you should have advanced your 9 land units in a rear guard action. The Leningrad attack was a mistake period.

@Marshmallow:

When I retook Malta and Cyprus, I knew the air battle against my fleet had a strong chance of costing me my fleet. If should have waited a round and built a destroyer or two in Egypt. I wound up regaining my NO at the cost of giving Italy it’s NO back for several turns – a wash really, except for the fleet loss. If I had waited a round, I could have kept my fleet and next turn started convoy disruption of Italy in sea zone 97. I don’t recall the exact turn here.

Once Manchuria was secure, if I had built a factory on the next turn I would have been able to replenish my losses faster instead of shipping them from the US. In retrospect this would have been a better play. I don’t recall the exact turn here, but I think it was around 13.

But I could have bought more subs and one DD might not have made the difference to defending in SZ98. Hold in the Red Sea? I could have put down a blocker in SZ98 then.

An IC on Korea if possible and any serious chance of defending it is one of my standards.

One thing I learnt from this game is that you can be better off holding off on the Moscow assault to retake Norway. Flying fighters to Moscow is a real problem for Germany.