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TripleA Turn Summary: Italians round 5

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

Game History

Round: 5 Purchase Units - Italians Italians buy 1 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Italians 1 armour moved from Tunisia to Libya Italians take Libya from British 1 armour moved from Libya to Tunisia Combat - Italians Non Combat Move - Italians 1 aaGun moved from Western Ukraine to Ukraine 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Bulgaria to Yugoslavia 1 bomber moved from Southern Italy to Western Germany 1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Bryansk to Novgorod 1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Bryansk to Ukraine 1 aaGun, 1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Normandy Bordeaux to Southern France Place Units - Italians 1 infantry placed in Southern Italy Turn Complete - Italians Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 4 Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 5,5,1,4,1,3 Italians collect 7 PUs (4 lost to blockades); end with 7 PUs

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Clarifying that I only pointed the carrier to 94 out when I was mulling over how bad my odds for London are in my game with AD. Your positioning in our game is excellent to prevent a SL. It is by dint of dice that allows a good player to challenge a great player like you or Adam and have a chance

@Adam514 I hear you, but I’m wary of giving a player of your skill level a 20-bid - you’d be able to make a real hash of the Axis plans. I’ll take a fighter in Scotland and an arty in Sudan. GLHF!

@farmboy thx, much appreciated!!

@GeneralDisarray said in L24 PTV Adam514 (Axis+13) vs GeneralDisarray (Allies):

@Adam514 Is this condition for BM3 as well adam?

No, just PTV.

Thank you for another good game.

@JDOW thanks for the review!

two quick comments. It was probably a mistake on my part to give up Egypt early. I did it for two reasons. Given the loss of German air on G1, I thought he was more likely to gamble (especially with Italian units). My standard opening is the gibraltar airbase. I realized though that if I did that (and also cleaned up the surviving German naval units in the Atlantic especially the battleship) he would have almost 50% odds on the British navy in 92 on I1. Because I also needed to keep British air in the pacific, he would also have had about 70%+ odd on Egypt I2. I knew though that the loss of that German air meant that he couldn’t take and stack Egypt. So I thought it was a safer move even though it gave Italy a little more room and a little more income early.

And you are right about the strafe at the end. I was just sloppy. I was playing more forward because I thought I could and that doing so would deny him another chance to hold Leningrad or get Moscow. I hadn’t been careful about stacking Caucasus initally. In the correction I removed Soviet fast movers from Rostov. That allowed him to can open with Italy and use a German mech to move there and block a number of my units. It turned a combat that was well above 90% to one that was around 10%. So initially I thought it was safe for me to do and I didn’t realize how the correction I made opened up this option for him. But fortunately for me the one round strafe was still likely still a safe move and it did work out.

@Adam514 Great, just what we need. @666 was already a great player

ignore, wrong game thread lol

I also want to acknowledge that as I recall, after a perfect India crush set up (that was hampered a little by J1 dice)
India was doomed even with ANZ 3 fighters that were sent immediately (and I think I managed to get the Singapore army to help out)
It was just a matter of how many Jap planes would be lost.
I could argue that the attack should have been made, I’m sure Adam went back and forth (right?)
But Adam knew he didn’t need to take the chance there because he is a greater player than me, not a lesser. A lesser would have taken the shot and with a little dice assist I would have been in real trouble (if the lesser player were actually to set up a perfect India crush like that)

In other words, I nearly lost in round 2 or 3, and I nearly lost in round 7.
And there might have been another near death like these, in fact, I think Russia was in very real danger although I stumbled on a way to slow the advance by maybe even 2 turns.

@Adam514 said in L24 BM4 Adam514 (Axis) vs axis-dominion (Allies+21) Rematch:

With average dice the Japanese fleet is too strong to counter attack. And then I have enough turns to take Anzac before Gib reinforcements come.

Big battles have less variance than smaller ones. And taking your ship hits on my subs would increase the odds compared to what was shown (roughly compensated by keeping a couple carriers up).

Well I also had an excess of air I was considering pulling over if I felt a VC loss was immanent, in particular the uk air in southern France which could ride those 91 carriers and fly over to queens or Sydney as needed. But I’d only do that if I felt the situation called for it of course. As again Europe side was in good shape after Rome fell.

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the game!

@pacifiersboard Good game!

Sure, send bid by DM.

@Ghostglider Thanks for the game!

Might have been close without the VC win.

@Adam514 Thanks to you as well. Thread updated.

@farmboy Then you’re the only one who beat my Axis, fitting.

It was a good one!

@MrRoboto With the Russians I like to prevent Germany from getting to the south, so I put moderately expensive blockers and deadzone the territory Germany would like to move into to go South. This only works if Germany doesn’t go 100% land units (fleet G1 for example).

In our game, sacrificing the Russians did indeed delay India, but I think you could have waited a turn and saved the stack with a similar result.

@Adam514 I’ll probably wait until my other game is done, and assuming hte playoff finals haven’t started yet. But definitely up for it.

@Adam514 some very interesting game play. Thought I was for sure in trouble losing my American fleet early in the pacific. Always open for learning more from you happy to play again:)