You will see in the game I’m playing now - not much to chase ships in the North Atlantic
I just finished up Anzac 4. It’s a pretty wild game. When I finish (maybe turn 6, but def turn 7) I’ll share the YouTube playlist for you guys. I decided to make vids so you guys can see me roll instead of questioning the results when I post photos.
I restarted the game and this time filmed it so you can see all the great dice and all the bad dice. I’m going to finish the game before sharing the YouTube playlist of my game.
For now, I need advice on what US should do on turn 3. Here is what the world looks like at the end of J3. US built on Atlantic to deal with Sealion. But now Japan is in North America - do you send the AC’s through the Panama Canal to the west coast or what do you do in response to this world?
These are just pics. If anyone wants to argue that this is impossible lucky dice or whatever, you can just watch me roll on YouTube
Here I made a video of the G1 battles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pIQIBU3EX8
I put a lot more thought into this time
I’m going to reset this up since I forgot the French boat. I’m going after both fleets very light because I want both SB and Tacs to SBR and two subs need to be in that London convoy zone. The convoy zone in Scotland not necessary but I think that’s the only thing that one sub can do besides attacking the destroyer/tran in Canada
Maybe Germany fares very poorly this time. That’s fine. I go heavier on the Scotland fleet - so that should be gone, possibly a damaged battleship if bad dice. The London fleet is very light, and that’s fine - I’m not trying to eliminate that fleet as much as take out as much as I can turn 1, and leave the rest for turn two. I’m totally focused on economic warfare for this strategy.
I’m going to set it up many times and run it so I’ll get the average of what to expect and what to expect round 2 as a result and so on.
This is a solo game (strategy really as I may not play entire game) so I want feedback on how Allies will respond - so I don’t have to play this 100 times to test out every possible response. Playing solo, I know what I’m doing against myself so there are no surprises.
I love this game but playing the same strategy over and over can get boring. So I"m on a tear this week coming up with out of the box strategies that I’ve never seen before - and I assume no one else has.
In a real game, if I used this strategy effectively I plan to get 6th VC turn 6 - no Moscow, no Stalingrad. No one would see that coming.
This thread is about German economic warfare so I won’t go into Japan strategy that will pair with this.
good call. the blue boat blended in with the blue water. I’ll redo this
It wasn’t that I had no casualties, I just had few casualties. My sub attacks each picked off at least one boat which was nice. 110 was a bit dicey as UK took out the two fighters. (never mind the French boat that was invisible). I was expecting to lose three fighters, two subs, and a damaged battleship. I lost two fighters. I just rolled and took what came which was Germany crushing it round 1. I know that’s not likely to happen every time but I love the results for this thread - to show how vulnerable UK now is. If you guys like I can put a couple UK boats back on and take another pic and then again ask, how does UK respond?
For this strategy I’m working on, it’s okay if any UK boats survive - I"m just trying to knock out most of them, which I believe is very doable removing two SBR and two Tacs from the naval battle. Whatever survives will gone turn two unless they take them out to the Atlantic.
I didn’t start this thread to argue about battles - I’ve never seen anyone go full economic warfare G1. I think this cripples UK. Turn one, they are placing at least two less inf, maybe 3. Italy1 their bomber hits the IC. G2, the two SBR hit the IC again - which should be at max 20 damage. And keep the AB at full damage to discourage scrambles if possible, but the IC is most important.
20 damage IC, and losing 8 to convoy - UK can place 2 inf, round 2 (1 if they repair the AB).
I want your opinions on how UK should respond to how the board looks now. Without playing any other countries I was rolling fake battles for rounds 2 & 3 based on UK doing different things. UK is crippled turn one - and Japan not doing J1 so USA can’t rescue.
If my math is right, this tactic removes 10 inf from London (over two turns). That makes Sealion easy with plenty of land units left in London for Germany
Are you doing Taranto?
Are you buying nothing but inf, getting a ftr turn 1?
Are you going Middle Earth?
What can you do with your Med fleet to help save the day, anything?
How does UK and the allies respond to this G1 attack - that is what I am looking for in this thread.
I think common tactic is for US to build 3 fully loaded AC, place them in 102 turn two, and then hope to take out the German boats turn 3?
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.
