Posts made by Bjergmose

Long time…no threat.

Been kinda quiet at the club.

Last week Bjergmose played against Ghostglider in a new setup.
We wanted to find a way to be able to play the Danish Championsship in October using AE.
There seems to be some old-schoolers in our midst who prefers Revised over AE,
but I for one will rather play AE.

We (read:Bjergmose) thought that counting VC after round 7 could give the game a score and then we could play 3 games in a 4-player group and have the best from 2 groups meet in the final.

But as we both agreed this setup only results in a weird game.
Come 5th round both sides began to ran out ouf usefull things to buy.
Both the US and Japan will not be able to buy any units that would have an impact before the game ended.

So I´ll have to find another way to install AE as Danish Championsship game….

PS: Ghostglider won

Wednesday 18th of feb. 2009
Captains log…

No report last week as I was busy working  :-o
But Ghostglider continued to rule…this time over John who has returned
from the dark side (final exam).

Yesterday Ghostglider teamed up with yours truly…Bjergmose…and once again ruled supreme. Ghostglider controlled GER/IT and Bjergmose JAP. John managed the ALLIES.

Germany started once again with all panzers held in formard-reserve in East Poland, securing Ukraine and the Baltics too. Egypt held with 1 ftr.
Later they rolled over the russians, thanks to Italy punching holes in the russian defense.
Moscow fell 3rd round but was retaken. Then Caucasus and later Leningrad changed owner.
The Royal Navy was annihilated 4th round and never came back leaving Europe german.
Russia hadn´t heard of the axis plan to use Italy to punch through the 1-infantry defense, leaving Moscow unguarded. They never truly recovered from that loss.
Japan had a perfect 1st round, but everything went downhill from there. But Japan managed to survive a naval defeat against the US, thanks to their supersubs. They still managed to take half of Africa and even ended in Brazil.
UK did things by the book, but quickly lost income and a failed landing in France left them struggling. When their navy was sunk just south of Sweden everything was lost. With an income of 20-25 and no US support they simply faded away.
Italy conquered the other half of Africa and had 10 armors heading for Moscow with a small airforce to support it when the game was ended.
US of A went all-in against Japan but failed the kill them…only slowing them down.
A fatal lack in the naval intelligence department left the japanese submarines hard to destroy(er).
After the 7th german turn the allied commander surrendered.

Time:
1st round (incl.setup)  58 min.
2nd round                 37 min.
3rd round                  35 min.
4th round                 35 min.
5th round                 34 min.
6th round                 29 min.

Wednesday 4th of feb.

So Ghostglider rebounded. After 8 or 9 rounds the axis surrendered (due to the hard facts and off course the time of day…Jens had to go to work next day….otherwise we would still be fighting…and maybe winning  :-D)
He played allies against Jens (GER/IT) and Bjergmose (JAP).

Germany tried to break the russian line and disrupt the Royal Navy. The russians were pushed back a little but never enough to break the line. Karelia fell once but was quickly retaken. The Royal Navy was hit hard 1st round but 3 brand-new cruisers was enough to keep the luftwaffe at bay.
The Russians held their line and bolstered their attacking force with 3 bombers all-in-all.
One russian bomber helped to keep the Imperial Japanese Navy down and landed in Australia. The army were never close to Berlin…but and the other hand never close to defeat.
Japan tried to push hard first round, but found out the forces were spread to thin. Ghostglider managed to take out a lot of ships with the US airforce.
Japan struggled in China too, but heavy bombers round 3 or 4 brought them back on the mainland. But the japanese onslaught was ended after they took and quickly lost Caucasus.
UK bought a lot of ships and kept landing in france and holland again and again. The secured norway and finland early so the loss of africa didn´t sting that much. The British were the proud owners of some powerfull rockets, but somehow they managed to never fire a single one. Good sportsmanship or just alzheimers? :roll:
Italy was at a point the strongest axis partner. Income 30 ipc. Maintained their fleet and controlled Mare Nostrum. They even took India with permission from Tokyo…who later realised the mistake…no forward industry  :cry:  But long-range and jet fighters took out the Italian navy and Italy was grounded. 3 bombers though.
The US sent their pacific navy down south and co-operated with the australian navy to retake the expensive islands in the pacific. When overpowered it sailed south of africa and ended in the atlantic ocean. US had all tech-2 but their most precious heavy bombers.
They also kept landing in france to keep the germans and italians occupied.

Good game even though I almost lost  :wink:

Next week…Bjergmose have to work…who will be the next worst player ever  :|

Wednesday 29th of january.

So the giant tumbled. And he tumbled hard.
The unbeaten…undisputed champion of Denmark Jakob Ghostglider who had an unbeaten streak since the Danish championship in early october last year was taken by surprise.

A determined axis team lead by von Smedman (GER/IT) with heavy support by Bjergmose (JAP) overtook the stunned allies Ghostglider (UK/US) and Jens (RUS/US).

A strong opening by the Germans left the UK with only SZ12 navy intact.
The german panzers were curled up in the middle, and Karelia was ignored 1st round.
Egypt was a bloodbath leaving no units on both sides.
Russia failed to retake Ukraine and when the italians softened up Caucasus the Germans could take it and hold it 2nd round.
The japanese was expanding as fast as possible and US and UK tried to rally the troops.

3rd (and final) round Germany attacked and took Moscow against all odds (33%).
The allies panicked and didn´t see the Japanese transports that took Los Angeles with 2 inf.
Desperate times…the UK made a suicide landing against Berlin and when the US couldn´t retake LA all eyes were on their last effort.
Berlin was attacked again with 6 units against seven. Then it was 3 vs. 3 and last round a single artillery scored a hit against the italian fighter. This was a nerve-wrecking last roll of the dice. But a hit secured the draw. France was liberated…Berlin was empty but it was enough to win the war. Good game. And fast. 3 rounds of action.

Next week…who will feel the wrath of Ghostglider…it´s payback time…

This is just a threat :-) from aaclubdk.dk ´cos we never seem to be able to keep a 28 day forum alive.

Wednesday 22.jan.
4 players present.
Jonas, Jakob aka Ghostglider, von Smedman and Bjergmose.
We decided to play ´41 with Nobs.
Jonas - Japan
Bjergmose - Germany/Italy
Jakob - Russia/USA
von Smedman - UK (1st game AE).

The game was decided in 1st round when Germany tried to take Karelia with everything but the kitchen sink. The kitchen sink would´ve had a bigger chance.
3 inf 1 rt 3 ftr 1 bmb and a cruiser support short = zero dead commies.
5 inf 1 rt = zero surviving ground units and the aa took a ftr too.
Disaster. The axis tried to rally and come back, but against a determined US-fleet that pulled west 1st round and a steady increase in russian bombers nothing worked. Italy fell quickly and when Japan couldn´t pressure mother Russia the japanese leader Jonas threw in the towel. Germany would´ve liked to fight to the end (most likely next round).

The axis would have lost anyway…but it´s a million to one chance, it might be this game we pull it off?
Actually I think you should play to the end. The odds of a Karelia attack like mine is 0,05 % that no russians gets killed, so when the allies attacks Berlin I might get lucky too?
We´ll call it a draw then…as all my games are.

Next week:
Is Jonas ready for the clash of the trash?
2 guys…zero victories…who will come out on top…will they ever win? :wink:

To be continued…