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I agree 100%.

I felt good about the Europe side. My problem was my original plan was to split China and India at Yunnan and your move to DOW on UK2 totally eliminated that plan.

My revised plan was to go for India but as you said I quickly realized that meant the US was going to go wild. That forced me to take the 72% battle in Belarus that normally I would have ignored. Unfortunately, I went 4 units under average which put me in a position of status quo. I wasn’t behind, but I also wasn’t ahead, which was not good since I was in trouble in the Pacific.

Thus, when you accidentally gave me an 85% battle to knock out Yunnan I couldn’t pass up that opportunity. Unfortunately, for me, you won instead of me and given the rest of the board position the game as over.

Looking at the game via a debrief perspective, your plan was better than my plan. Because of that I was forced to take battles that relied on fair dice to get back into the game. With your mistake in Yunnan I easily could have got back into the game. But, the dice didn’t cooperate, which is why I always try to have a plan that doesn’t depend on fair dice.

Thanks again for the game. As always you learn more from losing than from winning. :)

@AndrewAAGamer said in L24 OOB LL AndrewAAGamer (X) vs Myygames (L +60):

Thank you for the game!

I wanted to try something different and see if the Japanese could help the Germans take Moscow fast enough to make up for the Yunnan Stack. Obviously, it is not going to work. Can’t figure out how to combat that Yunnan Stack.

Thank you for the game!

I was actually still alert that Moscow would fall within the next 3 turns. Your pressure was high, and I did not consider this game won yet. Loosing Moscow would have made this very complicated for me.
I agree that china was off the leash and unstoppable. There was little chance for Japan to regain the upper hand on the mainland. But then, I think we have seen in several games that j can survive, and can even be aggressive towards India / islands without china. I was not expecting that your goal is to regain china, I feared that your goal is to survive snd help Germany with their victory.

Well played, lots of headaches, much appreciated!

Allied Carry Over = 0.87

Axis Carry Over = 0.64

Allies attack:
G29 = 1.74 + 0.87 = 2 Hits (Carry over 0.61)
G22 = 0.97 + 0.61 = 1 Hit (Carry over 0.58)
G37 = 1.68 + 0.58 = 2 Hits (Carry over 0.26)
Caen = 0.98 + 0.26 = 1 Hit (Carry over 0.24)

Axis defend:
G29 = 1.0 + 0.64 = 1 Hit (Carry over 0.64)
G22 = 0.5 + 0.64 = 1 Hit (Carry over 0.14)
G37 = 0.67 + 0.14 = Miss (Carry over 0.81)
Caen = 0.33 + 0.81 = 1 Hit (Carry over 0.14)

Allied Victory as of Allies 10.

Thank you for the game! I would agree, especially with your overall strategy to put tremendous pressure on Europe, that this error makes winning the game for the Allies virtually impossible.

You made me think very hard with your strategy. You did a great job of putting massive pressure on Europe - so much that I doubt Germany would ever have been able to take Moscow without the error.

1d1000<=1: 2; Hits: 0
1d1000<=1: 25; Hits: 0

@AndrewAAGamer It was a good game. I was interested to see how the Russian /Chinese defense played out. I was able to force the Russian and Chinese back, but I never got any traction in Moscow.

Greece was a problem, and perhaps, I should have just ignored it until I built more ground forces in the area. However, the bid for Russia supplemented them with enough units that I never had an advantage there regardless of the Greece fiasco. In fact, I felt you had pulled back too quickly and let the Germans gain some territory that could have been more dearly fought over, which counteracted the early loss of material in Greece.

But that leads to my main “learning point” of this game, a winning strategy for the Allies is just to build up and defend. You never really fought for anything in the Europe side, just built up forces in Normandy and eventually spilled over to Holland. More dramatically, this was followed in the Pacific side, you never even threatened for the DEI or even took back Aleutians until I went for India on T9. Just build carriers and fighters and some transports that just stayed as a single force.

Normally, I would have thought that was a losing strat against Japan, but because China was so strong, I never established my hegemony over Asia. Sure, at the end, Japan was a land force, but it didn’t matter because the IJN was unable to defend against the US fleet. From T6-T14, the Japanese never spent less than 19 IPCs on land forces except 2 turns, and spent more than 1/3 of the iPCs on land forces + transports on over half the turns. Yet, did not remove the Chinese from the map.

Equally surprising strat was to ignore Europe with the US for so long. Just buying a small fleet to hold Normandy and 3 inf each turn. I would have thought the Germans would have made more progress since they had a small West force to counter with. But Russia wasn’t falling so nope.

The bottomline is I don’t see how to defeat this strategy with this bid. There was nowhere to attack at advantage. The NO for Russia does not seem to be stoppable. I tried a couple of times to get the Japanese over but without severely dispersing my forces, that was not going to happen. So Russia will hold, and then it’s just build and wait for the remaining forces.

Kinda demoralized right now, so I’ll go beat up on some other competition and maybe try again after the scars have healed.

TripleA Turn Summary: UK_Pacific round 18

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 18 Purchase Units - Americans Americans buy 1 artillery, 2 carriers, 3 fighters, 3 infantry and 2 transports; Remaining resources: 3 PUs; Combat Move - Americans Combat - Americans Americans creates battle in territory 35 Sea Zone Non Combat Move - Americans Turning on Edit Mode EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode Turning on Edit Mode EDIT: Removing units owned by Americans from Philippines: 2 aaGuns, 2 armour and 8 infantry EDIT: Adding units owned by Americans to Burma: 2 aaGuns, 2 armour and 8 infantry EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode 1 armour, 2 artilleries and 1 infantry moved from Eastern United States to 101 Sea Zone 4 artilleries and 6 infantry moved from Central United States to 101 Sea Zone 1 armour, 6 artilleries, 7 infantry and 7 transports moved from 101 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone 1 armour, 6 artilleries and 7 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Morocco 2 fighters moved from Egypt to Iraq 1 submarine moved from 20 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 2 fighters and 6 transports moved from 35 Sea Zone to 38 Sea Zone 2 bombers moved from Philippines to India Place Units - Americans 1 carrier placed in 10 Sea Zone 1 carrier and 2 transports placed in 101 Sea Zone 3 fighters placed in Eastern United States 1 artillery and 3 infantry placed in Central United States Turn Complete - Americans Americans collect 67 PUs; end with 70 PUs Objective Americans 1 Homeland: Americans met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 80 PUs Objective Americans 3 Defense Obligations: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 85 PUs Objective Americans 2 Outer Territories: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 90 PUs Objective Americans 4 Philippines: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 95 PUs Purchase Units - Chinese Trigger Chinese Loses Burma Road: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Closed Chinese buy nothing; Remaining resources: 4 PUs; Combat Move - Chinese Turn Complete - Chinese Chinese collect 0 PUs; end with 4 PUs Purchase Units - British British buy 1 fighter and 9 infantry; Remaining resources: 2 PUs; Purchase Units - UK_Pacific UK_Pacific buy 3 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; Combat Move - British 1 submarine moved from 105 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone 2 fighters moved from United Kingdom to 110 Sea Zone 4 fighters moved from 91 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone 8 fighters and 2 infantry moved from Iraq to Persia Combat - British Battle in 110 Sea Zone British attack with 6 fighters and 1 submarine Germans defend with 1 destroyer British roll dice for 1 submarine in 110 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits British roll dice for 6 fighters in 110 Sea Zone, round 2 : 3/6 hits, 3.00 expected hits Germans roll dice for 1 destroyer in 110 Sea Zone, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 submarine owned by the British lost in 110 Sea Zone 1 destroyer owned by the Germans lost in 110 Sea Zone British win with 6 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 2 Casualties for British: 1 submarine Casualties for Germans: 1 destroyer Battle in Persia British attack with 8 fighters and 2 infantry Germans defend with 1 factory_minor and 1 mech_infantry British roll dice for 8 fighters and 2 infantry in Persia, round 2 : 1/10 hits, 4.33 expected hits Germans roll dice for 1 mech_infantry in Persia, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 mech_infantry owned by the Germans lost in Persia British win, taking Persia from Germans with 8 fighters and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4 Casualties for Germans: 1 mech_infantry Non Combat Move - British 8 fighters moved from Persia to Iraq 2 armour and 6 infantry moved from Trans-Jordan to Iraq 3 infantry moved from Egypt to Trans-Jordan 1 infantry moved from Belgian Congo to Anglo Egyptian Sudan 1 infantry moved from Rhodesia to Belgian Congo 3 infantry moved from Union of South Africa to Rhodesia 2 submarines moved from 82 Sea Zone to 71 Sea Zone 1 aaGun moved from Burma to India 3 infantry moved from India to Burma 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Quebec to 106 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 106 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Morocco 2 fighters moved from 110 Sea Zone to United Kingdom 4 fighters moved from 110 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone Place Units - British 3 infantry placed in Iraq 3 infantry placed in Egypt 3 infantry placed in Union of South Africa 1 fighter placed in Quebec Turn Complete - British British collect 34 PUs; end with 36 PUs Objective British 1 Original: British met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 41 PUs Place Units - UK_Pacific 3 infantry placed in India Turn Complete - UK_Pacific UK_Pacific collect 10 PUs; end with 11 PUs Some Units in India change ownership: 3 infantry

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Germans regular : 0.33 British regular : -3.67

Savegame

@AndrewAAGamer

Sure!

@AndrewAAGamer

Thank you! I’ll keep this advice in mind (and I’ll use this game to see how to defend against a Green Skies strategy as the Axis).

I definitely made some huge mistakes but you flawlessly capitalized on them. It is always an honor to play someone at your talent level; you have greatly improved my skill level over the years. Maybe I will be more careful in the 2025 playoffs… until then best of luck.

@crockett36
No hurry. Do it tomorrow or Sunday.

Sent you a Bid. LL is great.

@AndrewAAGamer no problem. Hope to see you in the playoffs.

@AndrewAAGamer

I’m so sorry, that bid list was incorrect:

1 artillery in Amur.
1 submarine in sea zone 62.
1 submarine in sea zone 102.
1 submarine in sea zone 98.
1 submarine in sea zone 111.
1 submarine in sea zone 91.
1 fighter in Scotland.
1 figher in Russia.
1 infantry in Novgorod.
1 infantry in West Ukraine.
1 infantry in Burma.
1 Infantry in Egypt.
1 infantry in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
1 infantry in Yunnan.

@Panther

Thank you Panther! That worked. :)

It seems that way.

Plus, it’s just difficult to adapt. I think PtV is a great mode on paper, but I when I played it I kept forgetting the rules, because I was so used to BM

@AndrewAAGamer
Thanks for that overview! Sounds like a first pick for getting back into reading novels!

@crockett36 I’m sorry but balanced mod is much better than OOB. Andrew should do as he likes though.

@AndrewAAGamer Yeah, it was a great game. Look forward to the next, but I can use a few days to recover too.

@crockett36

https://youtu.be/rJE5-SjyXAY?si=CPsqK8g9TNVvneqD

I begin my review.