Posts made by dazedwit

@shadowhawk

oh boo. My computer is work laptop, and I don’t have privileges to install game.

Give me all the gory details.

Did Moscow/Calcutta fall?

Was it a point where normal people would have conceded but you fought on and managed to pull off the win?

Did France come back to conquer Berlin?

I want to bathe in glorious comebacks.

@shadowhawk

I will give it a shot. I googled AA G40 online and it brought me to a Steam website and I think asking for money?

Do you have a link so I can check it out and get a feeling for it before we play>

@shadowhawk

ah, yes, always forget about Cyprus. Now I know that when Gibbastion happens, Italy sends one trn to Cyprus instead of Egypt

This is my first time playing out the Gibbastion so I’m still learning. Hmm, maybe Italy drops two blockers and rest of fleet in Syria taking Syria and Cyprus.

I avoided keeping entire Italy fleet together because if I was UK I would smell a rat. I figured splitting them up would negate that response.

So, send all the planes but keep all the boats in SZ 92. That will be really tough to stop a sealion. Germany will send blockers on the turn they buy trns. If planes were still in London/Gibralter they could clear the blockers and the boats could NC to 110 and then less planes for London attack since they will be needed to clear the water first.

Playing this out for the first time, I would rec sending the boats after Italy and keeping as many planes as possible on Gib. Those planes should be enough to save London.

Granted, this rec is because Germany has been convoying max 11/turn and London IC at 20 damage so very limited defensive units placed in London per turn. If Germany wasn’t going full economic warfare, you don’t have to worry about London at this point. Economic Warfare can be laughed off turn one, but turn two it really starts to hurt, and turn 3 you are in full blown panic. Germany focusing on removing money from London removes 8-13 inf from London. Set up your typical Sealion battle on the battle board - then remove 10 UK inf. The battle is over after two rounds and Germany usually has a few inf left. If I’m planning a sealion and UK buys a ftr turn one I rejoice - they need inf and nothing else until the possibility of sealion passes. That extra ftr does no good if battle is over after two rounds. Those extra 3 inf ,might extend the battle to round 3, and the ftrs can possibly eat into tanks.

The UK AB turn one removes 5 inf from London that Germany had no part in, and makes Sealion that much more likely I think.

I’m going to have to set this up multiple times and try different paths, etc to get a full grasp of all sides - and learn what to do as UK and Axis in response.

The Gibbastion is very intimidating, but I feel there are cracks in the strat that can be exploited.

@shadowhawk

if just planes taking out Italian fleet only bomber can reach Syria, and two planes from AC, and AC has to move over to catch them. And I don’t think 2 4’s and 1 3 will take out that entire fleet. Sub can’t be hit, but 4 hits needed to take out remaining 4 Italian ships. I assume at least 2 ftr on gib need to go take out the tiny Italian fleet and land in Egypt.

Krieg answered my FAQ about what happens if one unit attacks one unit and one trn and they both hit on first round. I assumed trn would survive but he said no, the trn goes down. Sending 1 ftr to Egypt is dicey, but I do like to be adventurous.

The fleet remaining in Gib won’t hurt Germany’s plans. All those planes would. Reason I took off tac instead of ftr is because I’m playing myself and I know UK is going to need all the defense it could get - fast.

I feel like it’s a no win situation for the Gibbastion. If they don’t send everything, or mostly everything, Italian trn in Syria will survive and add another two ground units to Syria. Italy getting two units in Syria can turn it into a monster so six units will guarantee that. Remaining at Gib will save London, but Germany will just go forward with their G2 Barbarosa buy as Italy begins to grow to be a menace, where the convoy in 97 will be negated by all the dollars they gobble up in ME and sourthern Russia.
Take out the Italian fleets - Germany buys 7-8 trn turn 3 and does Sealion turn 4.
Try to split the difference, I’m not sure. London could be saved but Italy will grow, etc. Ignore Italian fleets and they will grow too big. Just send planes, that trn in Syria is going to survive, and sealion is def coming since a lot less ftrs able to fly back to defend.

@shadowhawk the tac got taken out by the Malta destroyer. I could have lost the ftr.

edit: the UK fleet and planes at Gib took out the Italian fleets which I think is what you said you would do.

@shadowhawk

Well, I am playing against myself, but your comments leaves wanting to know what you would do since it’s different than what I was playing. I liked getting a full view of how gibbastion works because what’s on the internet leaves a lot to be desired. I’m going to mess around with that strat in future games to really get a good feel for how awesome it can be, or failure.

French were planning to get the bigger convoy prize and didn’t give the fleet a second thought. They def could have taken out Italians in Egypt and wouldn’t have affected my catnip plan.

Africa - tank and inf took trn to kill Italians on the horn. one inf got wiped out blocking Alexandria. That’s it. A lot of times, the India trn will go after the Horn but they did the money islands this game instead. I normally like to have UK activate Greece turn 1 but I figured since I was building in the Med I should try to kill as many Italians as possible.

I just wanted to see if the Gib bulge would go after the Italian fleet. I placed most of the fleet in Syria so that way UK can’t get back to Gib naval base in one turn. Placed tiny fleet off of Egypt just because if I put entire fleet off Syria, opponent would smell a rat. At least I would if I was UK. I thought maybe the economic warfare might be a tip off, but I do that every game for first turn at least.

Germany leaving Italy to die to save Germany. But Italy is in the ME, and they can really add up dollars heading to Russia.

Edit: feels like most games, by the time Italy gets to Russia, that part of the country is pretty bare and Italy blitzes through $2 territories

@shadowhawk

It’s UK2 turn

I1: Purchase 1 tank, 1 mech. Took Syria and Trans Jordan. 1 SB bombed London IC for $5 IC (AA missed). Italy has $13 in the bank.

G2: Purchase 3 tanks, 4 mech, 6 inf, 2 ftr. 3 inf in Normandy, 3 inf in So France, mechs and tanks in Berlin, ftrs in West Germany. Took Iceland and Greece. Tanks in France moved 2 spaces east. 11 stack in Berlin moved into Poland. All AAA’s moved one space east. 3 SB’s bombed London IC (AA’s missed) for $18. London IC now at max 20 damage. France convoyed $4 off. Germany has $53 in the bank.

UK2: UK has $23 to spend. London IC is at max 20 damage.

What are you buying as UK Atlantic? How much are you paying off the max damage IC?
Are you going after the Italian fleet and taking back Trans Jordan? Something else?

@shadowhawk

I appreciate your feedback.

I wasn’t giving Japan the attention it deserves and that’s my bad. I’m kinda super focused on Europe. I almost forgot China’s turn.

Japan is just treading water until it launches its attack in a future turn. It’s going to be a Know The Rules moment when their attack comes. I could have just set up that battle and gone but I decided to play the whole world so I can try out things like ignore SZ 110. I have unconventional strats for every country and I sprinkle them in here and there when playing a game for another strat, etc. Gives me some practice before those vids are made.

It’s time for G2

@shadowhawk said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

@dazedwit said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

@shadowhawk

those six Chinese are the six that liberated Yunnan so don’t know what I can do about that.

the Flying Tiger is in Burma. Japan would have to declare war on UK to attack it, and they are in no position to really threaten Burma. It could be taken out with planes but personally I would use the planes to wipe out all Chinese inf they can reach.

I wouldn’t necessarily say Japan is weak - they are just occupied with other things.

Japan had all 4 units alive after taking yunnan? Because you needed 6 inf to take it back? And then had terrible luck in defence?
Still the fighter is exposed there but you can still place your india stack there with the fighter + where is the tactical india starts with?

Also in this situation UK-pac would declare war and whipe out most of the japanese transports round 1. At least from what i seen that is all the transports in range. And take java for good measure. Gives them a huge income the next round and japan not in a position to threathen.

Japan will declare war round 2 anyway because else UK-pac will declare war :) so 1 round difference is not a big deal, the 15ipcs NO bonus for japan and anzac is.

Also why lose a destroyer in the med as a blocker? Just put it with the fleet you want italy to attack your fleet, you got more of basically everything there. IF he attacks he loses his fleet and you can attack on your turn somewhere else as it repairs.

I don’t remember what Japan took Yunnan with.

I honestly wasn’t paying much attention when moving Japan around. I would always send escorts with the trn. It is what it is.

The Tac either never got put on, or I may have scooped it up by mistake when cleaning up the board. I put one back on.

I removed the IC in Egypt and dropped 3 inf and art in London instead.

Edit: playing alone, I don’t have a roomful of eyes to tip me off when stuff is missed.

Edit2: the destroyer was left as blocker because I read many many times on this forum that you drop it there when building a fleet in 92. Doesn’t matter to me where it goes.

@shadowhawk

those six Chinese are the six that liberated Yunnan so don’t know what I can do about that.

the Flying Tiger is in Burma. Japan would have to declare war on UK to attack it, and they are in no position to really threaten Burma. It could be taken out with planes but personally I would use the planes to wipe out all Chinese inf they can reach.

I wouldn’t necessarily say Japan is weak - they are just occupied with other things.

@shadowhawk

I guess I didn’t take a wide pic of Asia. Japan is busy with Russia in the North and nowhere near Calcutta at this point. So grabbed another trn to help pick up more money islands in expedited fashion.

IC in Egypt because I have a nice sized fleet about to dominate the Med. In no danger of losing IC to Italy because turtled in Egypt with one block in Alexandria. I guess Italy could invade w/ 4 units and offshore bombardment but that will be very close fight. I was going to land the two planes from Malta battle in Egypt but sent them to Gib cuz that’s what I thought you said they go. I figure UK should be only one left after 2 turns, and then convoy lots of money off Italy. IC gets a nice entry point to Middle East and soft underbelly of Russia.

What would you have bought instead of IC. $13 left after AB buy.

@dazedwit

I just rolled the convoys of 106 and 109 and took $3 and $8 off UK. UK collects $23

The French convoy got rolled at same time cuz I forgot about them on G1 collect income, and they missed.

@shadowhawk

Here is end of UK2. Purchased AB and IC for Egypt in Atlantic. Purchased ftr and trn for UK Pacific

@shadowhawk this is the Gibastion correct? I’ve read about it but only things out there only seem to deal with the opening: building the fleet in the Med and planes on Gib. But what comes next? Is it going after the Italian fleet? Is it heading back to 110? Somewhere else?

was able to find a single thread where I got one answer to, “what’s next.” He attacked Italian fleet, moved all planes to Egypt so they can move on to Moscow - I assume all the boats came since he took out the Italian navy completely. That sounds like a sound strat but maybe I’m not thinking of other options?

@shadowhawk

SZ 92 is one space inside the Med. SZ 91 is outside the Med and starts the game with a UK cruiser. I’m pretty sure you want the boats in 92 as that is 3 spaces away from 109.

I already did 109 so that’s going forward this game.

I never even thought that could not be a scramble in 109. Now that I know that actually quite probable, that would change G1 buy to cover that possibility. Still send the 3 planes just in case.

I’m going to go through ignore 110 multiple times. Next time I’ll keep all your planes

Started US1 - they bought 2 AC, 2 DD to split on each coast, 1 mech. Big fleet in Hawaii. Didn’t go get Brazil. Collect $52

I tinkered with Japan opener and excited to see how that works out.

@shadowhawk

Okay, you don’t want to play Youtube wars, and that’s fine.

I’ve watched many, many, people from this forum play the game this way with very little problem. They discuss on vid, “I had to call Garg and ask him if he wanted to scramble,” and such. Thanks to technology getting a hold of someone is easier than ever.

My wife went on vacation over a month ago. While she was gone I decided to break out G40 for first time in like 7 years or so. I set it up on the floor of the great room and dogs kept knocking pieces over. I assumed I would pack it up and send it back to the basement when wife returned. She actually suggested getting a table from garage and setting it up so dogs won’t knock over pieces.

So for over a month the game has been set up on table 12 feet from my work station so I’m basically staring at the board at least 10 hours a day (I WFH 50+ hours/wk). Having the board set up and staring at you every waking moment, you come up with ideas. So now every new idea I’m going to set it up and roll it and see how it works.

I joined this forum 6 years ago just to communicate with GHG better. Forum is pretty dead, but I’m so excited playing new strats by myself I’m sharing it here and hoping to get people active again.

I’m finally starting to get constructive criticism (which I’m looking for) instead of, “Try this strat and you will lose,” comments without any comment on the strat or what they would do different, etc.

Having the game set up next to my work station has put a ding in my productivity - prob an hour a day. But I work over 50 hours a week and only get paid for 40 so I’m okay with that.

@dazedwit

SZ 92 fleet becomes really annoying to Germany, but they have counter all set up to deal with that annoyance. All the planes in Gib def could wipe out my counter but I have plans for when that happens. Wait, you said nothing but planes taking out the destroyer on Malta right? so two fighters will be in Malta, and not Gib - two less planes is good for the German counter.

SZ 110 fleet = absolute bloodbath with all planes and boats going down G2 (Italy SB would hit their AB I1 so no scramble).

92 saves offensive firepower for G3

@shadowhawk said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

@dazedwit said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

This is my first go at ignoring 110, and I’m sure each time I give it a go I’ll make some changes. There is a long term strategy beyond G1 but that’s beside the point.

Germany lost 5 planes without attacking 110. 3 of those came by joining the battle of 109 with 3 subs - I intended to lose those 3 planes so I would most likely have 3 subs convoying London for up to 8 dollars and that is what happened. Sending 3 subs to 109 forces UK hand to send all 4 fighters to scramble - you don’t even have to worry about 111 scramble as UK can’t afford to not send every single fighter to try to eliminate as many subs as possible. 3 subs should be able to convoy off 8$. The lost 3 planes were worth it for my strategy - and I knew the planes I added to the battle would take out some of the scramblers - they took out two. German subs got 1 hit, 4 ftr and 1 destroyer got 3 hits which all went to planes and German subs submerged.

Why does attacking SZ109 with subs force the UK to scramble into the SZ? IF you attack with 3 subs and say 3-4 planes im not suiciding my planes for your subs.
This also frees up the plane in 111 to scramble and do real damage. Your only attacking with airforce you committed at least 4 planes to 109 so you can only commit 5 to 111.

Convoy damage is annoying yes but im not trading planes for subs.

Lost the other 2 planes attacking SZ 111 - didn’t involve the BB because he has more important things to do G2. Germany purchased destroyer, SB, ftr with their $30 so they replaced 2 of the lost planes (well, SB for a lost Tac).

So here i would add the extra fighter so you might not even have won SZ111 or have more losses there. No subs to soak damage so everything goes right to the airforce.

Germany conquered all of France, Yugo, Bulgaria, Finland and collected $73.

NOW… you are the allies:

As UK, do you do the London Bulge (send 91 Cruiser to 110, buy two destroyers, cruiser and do Taranto and have a nice sized Atlantic fleet), or do you do the Gibralter Bulge (send BB, Cruiser to 92, and have 91 cruiser, AC and posssibly another boat join to start wrecking stuff in the Med. French Cruiser can join on their turn or stay there, or move down the coast to serve as blocker; buy IC for Egypt, trn and tank for South Africa)

I would buy airbase for gibraltar fly 3 planes from london there. Combine the fleet in the med off gibraltar with the cruiser from 91 and the fleet from 110. Use only planes to kill the italian destroyer. Now i got Fleet + airbase off gibraltar consisting of 1 destroyer 3 cruisers 1 bb 1 AC 1 fighter 1 tactical and 3 fighters on gibraltar.

Your 3 subs are hanging now, if you stay in 109 to do convoy damage i got 1 destroyer in range with 6 planes. If they move they dont convoy me anymore.
Also the italian navy is in a pickle, if they move they are dead, they have to stay together and stay near their airbase in order to live.
And good luck doing sea lion, that fleet can just as easy move back to 110.

What say you for the UK response?

See above, I would not have suicided my planes in the first place, and consolidate my fleet just inside the med. And yea the rest of the income can be inf on london ofcourse.
Good luck italy trying to get me out of there, or even moving around. Might move my strat bomber to gibraltar as well just for good measure.

thank you. I was planning on doing the SZ 92 if I got no responses. I wouldn’t have done AB in Gib so thanks for that tip.

Germany’s turn one buy was strictly to counter the SZ 92 fleet. If you guys like I can show you what happens later and why 3 subs in 109 plays a big part in it. If I didn’t send planes into 109, then UK would scramble 4 fighters and wipe them out and my long term plan wouldn’t work.

This is my first time tinkering with ignoring 110 so I appreciate all comments

@shadowhawk said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

@dazedwit said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

This is my first go at ignoring 110, and I’m sure each time I give it a go I’ll make some changes. There is a long term strategy beyond G1 but that’s beside the point.

Germany lost 5 planes without attacking 110. 3 of those came by joining the battle of 109 with 3 subs - I intended to lose those 3 planes so I would most likely have 3 subs convoying London for up to 8 dollars and that is what happened. Sending 3 subs to 109 forces UK hand to send all 4 fighters to scramble - you don’t even have to worry about 111 scramble as UK can’t afford to not send every single fighter to try to eliminate as many subs as possible. 3 subs should be able to convoy off 8$. The lost 3 planes were worth it for my strategy - and I knew the planes I added to the battle would take out some of the scramblers - they took out two. German subs got 1 hit, 4 ftr and 1 destroyer got 3 hits which all went to planes and German subs submerged.

Why does attacking SZ109 with subs force the UK to scramble into the SZ? IF you attack with 3 subs and say 3-4 planes im not suiciding my planes for your subs.
This also frees up the plane in 111 to scramble and do real damage. Your only attacking with airforce you committed at least 4 planes to 109 so you can only commit 5 to 111.

Convoy damage is annoying yes but im not trading planes for subs.

If you don’t scramble that’s fine. I save 3 planes that way. 111, you can only scramble the scotland fighter. Germany loses one extra plane maybe two. That’s a win for Germany - instead of losing 5 planes to accomplish the same feat, they lose 3 or 4.