Mainah (X) v Stough (L) OOB III

Ah. I see.
Also. Why can’t I attack the transports off of Italy with my planes, this also makes no sense to me.

Jesus. Will I be able to move to the Med in my NCM?

You answered that already. That blows, not the rule, the circumstances I placed myself in. This game is over before it even began.

I’ll soldier on, but we have already arrived at the wings off a bug portion of the game.

What a bummer, despite the loss of Gib I was pretty pumped about this game.

There is no coming back form this. IF UK has to waste their time fighting an equal Italy, everything else falls. I’ll tap out.

Ready for game 4

All very true.
Gib was an enormous blow no doubt. At that point, my goal was for you to load up Gib, and then strand them. And KJF.
But that , or anything, doesn’t work with a pumped up Italy and no way to reasonably take them down.
I had a small chance if I placed a navy in UK4 in the Med. No chance without.

Yep; I’ll check it out.

Yep, I wanted you to take down that stack. It was calculated to move my timeline in China forward, reduce your land units and bring more units to China.

Anyhow, my intent in this game was to converge on Japan from 4 directions simultaneously. 5; if you count the Med fleet along my Indian advance. ( I was thinking of adding the US transports in the Atlantic and swinging them to the Far East Asia, but dropping them in North Africa seemed more useful.)

My Russian/Chinese were 1-2 turns behind that timeline. So, I was in a position of attacking in echelon, which I am not a fan of, or attacking en masse, which is much better. The Chinese gambit was an effort to speed up the timeline. In the end, the Chinese would never take Kiangsi, the Russians would, or the Indians. Hence my view of their forces as expendable early. At some point, someone has to come out and fight. I wanted the Japanese to be weaker when that happened. Keeping the Chinese stack meant just pushing you back into an ever enlarging stack, which would have been difficult for the Russians to take down. In a sense, it was exactly what you did with your Japanese Air Force in the last game, I just did it 4-5 turns earlier.

At the end of that convergence, if successful. Japan would be back on its island, so I hoped, and then I could work on reducing and defeating the other two Axis.

Keep in mind, I haven’t played enough games to full length to know what the timeline will look like around turn 7-9. Without practical experience of seeing what/how/where many units are on the board on those turns, I have no idea when to push or how long I can hold back.

Also, this is my first KJF- which I’m starting to like a lot as a strategy.
And I have some ideas on how to do that that I haven’t seen discussed on the boards; at least not yet. Maybe these ideas are foolish, but without playing it out, I’ll never know.

The good news is I should by trying them on a version that is not OOB, since that is the preferred version of play.

What you are teaching me is that if my foot work sucks, no amount of strategy will overcome it.

Thanks for the lesson. Because my footwork is pretty terrible right now.

In the meantime, I have started listening to the world’s most boring youtube video and hopefully, with my magic decoder ring , will be able to set up a new game with me as the Axis.

I am not optimistic about my chances, but it’s going to feel great to be able to attack.

BTW- are you getting the email for game IV?

Sorry, not the email, but the forum notice.

try this https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35884/mainah-v-stough-oob-iv/4