I forgot about the convoys. Just rolled those out (2 and 4 dice) and hit the 8 max.
so UK down to $20 for turn two, IC at 17 damage, AB at 6 damage. UK only able to place 1 unit if they repair AB.
I’m messing around with different UK responses and rolling - London gets steamrolled turn 3 with this strategy with 15-17 ground units on London. Full Taranto and G2 is possible with good dice.
I like Sealion now
I’m messing around with rolls, jumping ahead to G2 and assuming UK bought all inf, and kept 4 ftr in London.
What I learned, if attacking London G2, do not bring the planes.
Send the SBR to IC, and two tacs to AB - I rolled those out to see what would happen = IC: 17 damage, AB: 6 damage (assuming they were at 5 and 2 prior after paying off round 1)
so I sent 3 tanks, 3 inf, with 2 offshore bombardment.
I got 5 hits, UK 3. Germany lose the 3 inf, and retreat. the 5 AA guns removed from London - great for G3 attack.
Not exactly sure how retreats work with amphibious landings - I assume they just hang out on the transports
@SuperbattleshipYamato I was mistaken, the NB in Spain was to reach Berlin/Warsaw
US and UK were can opening for each other so was setting up - take Denmark, go thru straits to get Berlin or Warsaw. I got Warsaw
In this play I did not scramble into SZ 110.
I just rolled the scramble to see the difference. Scramble, Germany loses its battleship and two fighters - UK has to take 3 hits. So 1 BB, 1 FT, 1 Damaged BB, 2 Ft, 3 FT. Any of the options has to make UK nervous.
Scramble makes Sealion easier because at least one fighter gone.
I have never tried Sealion because it just seemed like it would be a lose lose in the long term. I’ve been giving it a lot of thought to make Sealion feasible and decided to go economic warfare route.
Can you see what I did here?
IC damaged 11, AB fully out at 6
UK Turn one probably losing $10 to repair AB and IC enough to place units. That’s 3 less inf they can place.
If Germany is going G3 Sealion, UK might not be able to place anything turn 2, give or take. Germany prob going G2 to at least take out as much as they can for the much larger fleet on G3
If you are UK, how do you respond in your first turn?
Chile was taken by Anzac. Anzac swimming in money with only being able to place 3 units a turn so plopped a NB down to get them an extra space towards Africa or Europe
Spain
UK took Spain so US could land there next turn. Next turn they dropped a NB on Spain so US could reach Denmark in one move from Spain.
Java
After Calcutta fell, dropped a NB on Java so Fleet could reach Sydney in two turns instead of longer.
Caucasus
Foolish of me. Russia was looking like a boss after Round 1 so bought an AB to drop in Caucasus because you can reach Egypt, Berlin, and Calcutta in 4 spots from there. It’s a great location for an AB, but terrible if Russia owns it as they don’t really have mucn of an air force
Holland
US took Holland. UK had 4 transports in channel and followed the can opener with 4 inf and 4 tanks in Holland. Next turn US drops a complex in Holland to churn out 3 tanks a turn rather than use transports and multiple turns from DC to get there.
LOL, I misspelled Ottawa. Why no edit button?
I stumbled on the thread asking for a list of the victory cities and was stunned to see that Ottawa was a VC. I’ve never ever heard anyone talk about capturing Ottawa. So I decided I"m going to keep that in mind for the future.
Future came quickly. In solo game, Paris was liberated the turn before Moscow fell so I was a VC short of victory. US was can opening for UK which had 4 transports in the channel and was dropping 8 units off a turn, and there were 14 units in Paris. All my offense was in Moscow so wasn’t going to take it back. In fact I had to fight for my life to hold Berlin.
I had 3 transports and a battleship in the Baltic that returned from the Leningrad campaign. US had a large fleet, and the UK a medium fleet in the channel so nothing I can do with my lone battleship.
So I sent them north. Next turn I conquered Iceland.
On that turn Japan invaded Alaska and Western Canada with a Battleship and fully loaded AC. And moved a couple AC’s, and other ships and 8 transports to just outside Hawaii, with the island ringed with subs.
So USA had to go all in to get the Japanese off of North America and try to rescue Hawaii.
Next turn Germany captures Greenland. I tried to play this game as others would against me, etc. No one knows Ottawa is a VC, so US didn’t react by building an army in DC. Besides they were getting the snot kicked out of them in the Pacific. Eastern US almost empty
So next turn captured Ottawa for my 8th VC. I rolled out the two battles that could have extended the game and Germany held on.
So Ottawa won the game. Ottawa.
@crockett36 I’ve getting really into economic warfare in the game and incorporating AB and NB to open up additional paths to battles
@SuperbattleshipYamato
if you pick out a location I will explain it. unless you want it for all
I’m having a blast with naval bases in the solo game I’m playing. Here is a list of all the naval bases placed by both sides:
Chile
Spain
Hainan
Java
I’m also going nuts with AB’s. Here is a list of all the air bases placed by both sides:
Caucasus
Syria
Complexes:
Holland
FIC
Korea
Romania
End of Turn 5
USA ready to ship more units to Europe. I forgot to include South America - Turn 5, Anzac conquered Chile.
Germany starting to crumble, but Italy brought all of their inf up over last two turns to fortify West Germany. This is the picture I’ve been waiting for. The London fighter left turn one and helped France take back Southern France. A turn later it flew to Norway to help UK defend its new acquisition. Turn 4 it flew to newly conquered Spain to help defend it. And now Turn 5 it’s back in Paris!!! One of the Foreign Legion survived to and is now in South Africa.
Standoff in the Suez. Italy activated the 2 free units on Mozambique (thanks UK for invading Spain). Used the tank in Alexandria to take off the USA marker and back to Alexandria.
Middle East pretty open now
Italy’s can opener could have gone better - took off the AA and 5 inf. I bumped it up one round because Berlin is in trouble and I need to take Moscow now, so I can race back west.
No China
Japn planning bad things
Japan still planning bad things
USA still building Pacific fleet. Still can’t go to Hawaii because Japan will erase all the boats.
@dazedwit Oh crap, no NO. Didn’t realize US still owns Tobruk
@dazedwit
End of Italy Turn 5
Helping fortify Germany
Finally picked up this NO (forgot to move him last turn so took two)
I was initially going to abandon Egypt and go into Africa. But then I realized that’s a victory city and I need to fight for it. So I did. Had two fighters in Southern Italy - reached 4 spaces and will land in Egypt.
Can Opener is ready for Turn 6
End of UK Round 5. USA and UK have a large army in Holland. Germany two turns from taking Moscow. USA and UK planning to take Berlin in two turns. I’m gonna have to look up to see other people’s experience with both capitals falling same turn.
