BM3 Colt(Axis) vs Rommel

Okay, I accept that the Axis can land air in Iraq, even tho they don’t control it.  This is the second time that this game has denied me an approx 98% battle calc victory.  Just when I built an IC.   On another note, I wish that I had thought of building and using marines earlier in our prior game, to take the islands in sz99, instead of sacrificing tt’s.

I took ANZ and Fra turns but got an error message when I tried to post “missing refresh header after login.”  Since I didn’t get marti email, must have been in local game mode.

triplea_39700_Fra2.tsvg

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod3, version: 3.3

Game History

Round: 2

Purchase Units - ANZAC
            ANZAC buy 1 destroyer and 1 marine; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - ANZAC

Non Combat Move - ANZAC
            2 infantry moved from Dutch New Guinea to 45 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer, 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 45 Sea Zone to 42 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 42 Sea Zone to Java
                  ANZAC take Java from Dutch
            1 artillery moved from Northern Territory to Queensland
            2 infantry moved from New South Wales to Queensland
            1 transport moved from 62 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone

Place Units - ANZAC
            1 marine placed in New South Wales
            1 destroyer placed in 62 Sea Zone

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

triplea_39700_ANZ2.tsvg

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod3, version: 3.3

Game History

Round: 2

Purchase Units - ANZAC
            ANZAC buy 1 destroyer and 1 marine; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - ANZAC

Non Combat Move - ANZAC
            2 infantry moved from Dutch New Guinea to 45 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer, 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 45 Sea Zone to 42 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 42 Sea Zone to Java
                  ANZAC take Java from Dutch
            1 artillery moved from Northern Territory to Queensland
            2 infantry moved from New South Wales to Queensland
            1 transport moved from 62 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone

Place Units - ANZAC
            1 marine placed in New South Wales
            1 destroyer placed in 62 Sea Zone

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

Combat Move - French
            1 destroyer moved from 81 Sea Zone to 99 Sea Zone

Combat - French
            Battle in 99 Sea Zone
                French attack with 1 destroyer
                Italians defend with 1 cruiser and 1 transport
                Italians win with 1 cruiser and 1 transport remaining. Battle score for attacker is -8
                Casualties for French: 1 destroyer

Non Combat Move - French

Turn Complete - French

triplea_39700_Fre2.tsvg

I don’t know if the posting error was because I had not separately posted ANZ first, or if I had not been in forum mode.  I redid ANZ and Fra separately, and the Fra battle in sz99 turned out different.  The first time they sank each other.  The second time, the Ita won.  I’d ask you to consider using the manually posted save game, but that wouldn’t be proper procedure.  If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.

This game has spun completely out of control.  I purchased an IC for a location that was far away from any axis. When I lost the battle, there was no other terr that qualified to build it in.  W. India is part of UK Pac.  Not only did you win a 1% battle chance, but on the particular situation that was uniquely important.  Why couldn’t it have been a non-critical battle?  I’ll take Rus turn late tomorrow eve.

After I thought about the situation, I realized that the Ita army in Syria would take 2 turns to reach the IC and Ger wouldn’t risk an all plane attack against newly built inf and perhaps a Bri fig.  But, your massive move will prevent the new IC from feeding new troops into India or China for a few turns at least.  I’ve never seen such a large Ita army going towards Rus.  With 2 5-PU N.O.'s, Ita will be able to rebuild its fleet and air this turn and next, until the allies can retake Gib and try to keep a ship in the Med.  Not having the Bri tt convoy an inf into Gib on B1 was a mistake.  The fun part about playing Bri, is that it has lots of discretionary cash to build all around its empire.  It has the cash to build more ships in the Med and/or armor to take out Syria/Iraq.  I doubt that the Ger want to permanently garrison 5 planes in Iraq.  Perhaps taking Vichy out means that Ger wants to build its own fleet to further support Ita.  Vichy has some nice aspects, but the Axis lose out on 3 PUs every turn.

Thanks for using my Bri2 save game.  Last turn, Rus built mech in Mos to rush to W. Ukr to hold off Ger, before comparing the numbers and afterwards, I realized that Rus can’t hold and will have to retreat to the old standby, Bry.  I feel Rus’ limited air power now when I want to take out the Ger in Kar, but also the single inf in Bal and in Bes, without risking more than 1 Rus unit.  The Siberian Rus army can reach the eastern edge of European Rus soon enough, but then it’s still several turns from Mos.  Not quite as fast as historical.  Once Jpn committed itself to attack USA, the Rus felt free to release their Siberian army rapidly. I need a Siberian railway.

I wouldn’t say FDR was pro-Commie, but he was definitely anti-Fascist.  There’s not enough time to discuss this and this isn’t the place. Also, while I know a lot about WWII history and its origins and politics, I’m not that versed about FDR.  I’m headed out, will be back to take my turn within 2 hours.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod3, version: 3.3

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - Russians
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Southern Italy: 1 tactical_bomber
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Western Germany: 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Italians to Iraq: 1 bomber and 1 fighter
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to Iraq: 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Iraq: 1 fighter
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Russians buy 4 artilleries and 7 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Baltic States
            1 fighter moved from Belarus to Baltic States
            1 infantry moved from Ukraine to Bessarabia
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Belarus to Bessarabia

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Bessarabia
                Russians attack with 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Germans defend with 1 infantry
                Russians win, taking Bessarabia from Germans with 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry
            Battle in Baltic States
                Russians attack with 1 fighter and 1 infantry
                Germans defend with 1 infantry
                Russians win, taking Baltic States from Germans with 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            1 bomber, 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers could not land in Iraq and were removed
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Bessarabia to Bryansk
            1 fighter moved from Baltic States to Bryansk
            1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Archangel
            1 infantry moved from Vyborg to Novgorod
            2 aaGuns, 1 armour, 5 artilleries, 8 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Western Ukraine to Bryansk
            1 infantry moved from Ukraine to Western Ukraine
            3 artilleries moved from Ukraine to Bryansk
            1 infantry moved from Belarus to Smolensk
            1 mech_infantry moved from Novgorod to Vologda
            2 aaGuns, 1 armour, 4 artilleries, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Belarus to Bryansk
            4 mech_infantrys moved from Russia to Bryansk

Place Units - Russians
            2 infantry placed in Ukraine
            4 artilleries and 5 infantry placed in Russia

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 35 PUs; end with 35 PUs total
            Trigger Russians 7 Great Patriotic War: Russians met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 38 PUs
            Trigger Russians 3 Siberia Lend Lease Lane: Russians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 40 PUs
            Trigger Russians 2 Persia Lend Lease Lane: Russians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 42 PUs

triplea_39700_Rus3.tsvg

I went a little crazy with buying art for Rus.  But with Global Bal Mod vs Europe, Rus gets more cash.  Here’s where you and I play diff.  You start out almost all inf as Rus, while I buy all or almost all art R1 and continue buying some art every turn.  This time, the art ratio is higher than ever for me.  So I’ll stop buying them, since a Ger attack would take out most of my inf on round 1 of die roll.  The diff strategies probably evens out.  For 12 P.U., you get 4 inf with an offense of 4 and defense of 8.  I get 3 art with combined arms offense of 9 and defense of only 6.  But my attack should kill an extra enemy on round 1, even with 1 less unit.  Defense tho is worse.  Historically, the Rus had massive art and rocket launcher firepower by the middle to the end of the war when they were on the offensive.  Cheaper than tanks and mass produced, the art and rocket launcher bombardments terrified the German defenders.

Oops, please move Rus army Yak>Yen on Jpn’s turn.  I might change the game options to prompt for unmoved units.

As I expected, the AI automatically removed the Ger and Ita planes from Iraq again at the end of Rus 3 NCM.  I noticed when I looked at the map and then the history.  The only way to change that is to edit to have Italy take control and then back out the P.U. from Iraq and the N.O.  Or else keep editing them back in for each player turn.

Iraq won’t affect Jpn, USA or China, so I can edit the planes back in on Bri turn.  Then Ita will have to edit them back in again before combat, since it can’t take control until NCM.  I think that you will only send in 1 inf just to activate Iraq and direct your attention to Trans Jordan for a combined land and amphib attack on Egypt in 2 turns or so.

I edited Rus Yak>Yen and also changed Rus builds in Mos to 9 inf & 1 art, instead of 5 & 4.  I manually saved.

triplea_39700_Jap3.tsvg