Posts made by Aaron_the_Warmonger

@AndrewAAGamer agreed, try to keep trading yunnan and shan state is important!

If Japan wants it, it gets it.

I do my best to use the few ships around there to block the fleet as best as possible and try to get ANZAC planes to calcutta. I try to make it that if japan wants calcutta, it loses a large chunk of planes. Also, the US needs to have a strike force to take advantage of an out of position japanese navy.

@Stough just remember when playing tripleA that ‘1 more turn’ is never 1 more turn…

@AndrewAAGamer Ya, its atrocious, that’s why we have the Lee rule. (Lee being my friends name).

@AndrewAAGamer he brings the house, without the tactical bomber, and has lost an unusual number of times… its often the first roll of fire is very poor for germany and the French shoot back with average or better, and it snowballs from there…

My friend has a horrible success rate when taking france on T1 as Germany. He has gone into the battle just about every time, with the odds being he should have all 6 tanks and extra ground units leftover, and has lost multiple times. We now have a France home rule that, should you take enough in to statistically have at least 6 tanks leftover at the end of it, but you still lose, you take france with 3 tanks left. This is purely because of this weird phenomena that overwhelming force doesn’t take France an unusual number of times… what can you do!

@ShadowHAwk ya, and i don’t think i’ll be able to put an airbase on Gibralter like i’ve been doing and hold london, could be a long road back for the allies!

@Witt i omitted that germany purchased a transport T1 and a SB on T1, so they can get 4 units on london. I at least have my canadian destroyer and the destroyer to the west of england… i may try to block the baltic invasion force. I take your points, though!! Thanks for the response!

@Witt actually, after G1, if i don’t be careful, he can take london on T2 :( I don’t normally scramble fighters with the UK, but it thought i would try it since he came in light (no subs sent to 110, 2 subs sent to 111, both of which got sunk as well). But ya, the 8/8 was the first battle we rolled for the new game…

So, i scrambled 3 planes in SZ110, and the Scottish fighter for SZ111. in 110, my opponent scored 8\8 hits, eliminating all of my ships and planes, with my return fire sinking the battleship and taking out 1 tactical bomber. However, in 111, i was able to draw out the battle, with Germany retreating with 1 strat bomber left after i had taken out 3 pieces of Luftwaffe. The Scottish fighter survived. So, i lost all of my navy in 110 and 111, and 3 fighters on the UK, while knocking out 2 fighters and 2 tactical bombers. Is this an acceptable exchange or not, and why?

@xFearing is it standard for the german player to buy so much armor on T2 and T3?

@simon33 I have no idea why they didn’t go w/ the Scot fighter . I let them pick, and i think i smoked most of the stuff they had first round (the DD didn’t do much on its own), and the luftwaffe got the rest on T2. That was when i decided to not attack early anybody i wasn’t already at war with…

@simon33 You are correct, it was 111, I just goofed. Waiting to attack USSR with Germany or uk\anzac\US with Japan doesn’t let the axis run amok. It’s just done to give my friends time to build.

@koala So, we have been playing for almost 4 years now, and i have won virtually all the games. I gave them a 31 IPC bid, and also decided to not attack early. I find that not attacking early is actually a bigger boon to the allies than the bid. what is interesting is that, we are currently on T5 and i have leningrad, but such bad luck that i have no tanks. That alone isn’t a killer, but the falling into the 1% of possibilites on 2 major battles. The germans are, interestingly, just barely ahead of the russians but beginning to pump higher quality units out. i like the game to get to this interesting state where all sides have good stuff, and moves really matter! So to respond with Japan vs Amur, i run lean on the northern china border, so i really like to have enough that when the russians finally see i won’t budge, they take korea, negate the mongolian snow monkeys, i smoke them in korea, and begin the slog over the soviet far east.
Additionally, the advantage of posturing in SZ102 is that, while all ships can make it to SZ 91 and invade gibralter, there is no plane assistance. However, with the ACC in 102, planes move 3 to attack gibralter, and can then be picked up by the ACC in 91.
In the current turns, my only advantage is a strong Italian Navy (currently contains an ACC, 2 DDs, 1sub, 1cruiser, 2TTs and that i knocked out a large part of the US Navy in the pacific while simultaneously retaking the carolines. I’m at the point where i have to have the same uber rolls my opponents have had…
All the infantry is to support the atlantic sea wall and denmark while fueling a stead supply of troops to scandinavia and slow moving infantry faster to the front via my 2 TTs in the baltic. This allows me to, with leningrad, move 3 tanks, 3-5 half tracks and 4 infantry a turn to the russian front, and i have enough ground forces and planes to make germany a slow burn for the allies instead of a quick stroke. this allows the japanese, even with the self imposed slow start, a chance to make things a real fight.

Not even going to post a picture… needless to say, in 3 important battles, the Allies rolled infantry hitting @ 80% accuracy… Axis are preparing concession… which is to bad, because had they gone how the math indicated, we would be in the middle of a really close game!

i’ll take all my battles at 3:1 in my favor!

@oysteilo said in Why is Taranto raid so popular?:
Egypt will not fall

I love it!

@oysteilo O my, i forgot the airbase goes on the rock, which makes it very effective in defending future US ships to the west… man… this is getting juicy…

@oysteilo i meant conservative in the sense of minimizing risk to the UK (and i assume that minimizing risk to the UK means that they have at least maximized their options for the future). It almost functions as a pin and leaves Italy to terrorize poor old greece for a turn. I suppose it takes awhile to get an ACC for italy if you can’t get any bonuses… i’m starting to like the SZ92 stack more and more…