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TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 4

Purchase Units - Chinese
            Trigger Chinese Loses Burma Road: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Closed
            Chinese buy 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Chinese
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            EDIT: 2 fighters moved from 33 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands
            1 fighter moved from Burma to Szechwan
            2 infantry moved from Shensi to Szechwan
            1 infantry moved from Shensi to Hopei
                  Chinese take Hopei from Japanese
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Shensi to Kweichow
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Shensi to Tsinghai
            1 infantry moved from Shensi to Kansu
                  Chinese take Kansu from Japanese
            1 infantry moved from Shensi to Suiyuyan
                  Chinese take Suiyuyan from Japanese

Combat - Chinese
            Battle in Szechwan
                Chinese attack with 1 fighter and 2 infantry
                Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Chinese win, taking Szechwan from Japanese with 1 fighter and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
            Battle in Kweichow
                Chinese attack with 1 artillery and 2 infantry
                Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Chinese win, taking Kweichow from Japanese with 1 artillery and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
            Battle in Tsinghai
                Chinese attack with 1 artillery and 2 infantry
                Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Chinese win, taking Tsinghai from Japanese with 1 artillery and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Chinese
            1 fighter moved from Szechwan to Shensi

Place Units - Chinese
            2 infantry placed in Shensi

Turn Complete - Chinese
            Chinese collect 8 PUs; end with 8 PUs total

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 4

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians buy 3 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 20 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            2 infantry moved from Bryansk to Ukraine
            1 fighter moved from Russia to Ukraine
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Russia to Archangel
            1 mech_infantry moved from Russia to Archangel
            1 mech_infantry moved from Bryansk to Archangel

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Ukraine
                Russians attack with 1 fighter and 2 infantry
                Germans defend with 1 factory_minor and 1 infantry
                Russians win, taking Ukraine from Germans with 1 fighter and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry
            Battle in Archangel
                Russians attack with 1 fighter, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber
                Germans defend with 1 artillery and 1 infantry
                Russians win, taking Archangel from Germans with 1 fighter, 1 mech_infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Germans: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
                Casualties for Russians: 1 mech_infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Changing ownership of Iraq from Neutral_Axis to Russians
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Archangel to Bryansk
            1 fighter moved from Ukraine to Bryansk
            9 infantry moved from Russia to Bryansk
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Volgograd to Bryansk
            1 mech_infantry moved from Persia to Iraq
            2 aaGuns and 18 infantry moved from Amur to Buryatia
            1 submarine moved from 105 Sea Zone to 103 Sea Zone

Place Units - Russians
            3 mech_infantrys placed in Volgograd

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 31 PUs; end with 51 PUs total
            Trigger Russians 1 Lend Lease: Russians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 56 PUs
            Objective Russians 2 Spread Of Communism: Russians met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 59 PUs

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 3

Combat Move - French
            1 destroyer moved from 80 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Egypt to Persia
            1 infantry moved from Egypt to Trans-Jordan
            1 infantry moved from French Equatorial Africa to Anglo Egyptian Sudan

Non Combat Move - French

Turn Complete - French

lol, I came online to warn you about the fleet off Java but you posted Italy at the same time I logged on…

Do you sacrifice this little fleet intentionally?
If not, you should redo Japanese turn. USA turn will look different if you change something, so I don’t think an edit to correct the situation will work this time.

I’ll do my ANZAC  + French turn, but feel free to redo Japan after that (just reload the last Russian save). OR continue from my French turn. Whatever suits you.

It is no big deal because I was able to have Japan cornered in the Pacific myself anyway ;-).
Then again, that move interrupted the supply of 3 land units per turn in a critical area where 3 units more or less could mean the collapse or survival for Japan.

If a mistake is easy enough to repair with a simple edit I’ll notify on beforehand. If it is not that simple, I’ll allow a rollback (and ask if you want one) anytime.

The time is indeed not right for an American offensive now. Tactical retreat to consolidate. MacArthur says he’ll be back!

@Arthur:

You did slow down my attack on India for a few turns. I decided it was best to scare off the American fleet, keeping them away from the money islands. I need the Japanese economy to stay in the 60+ range.

Like I told you ;-).
Previous game I think I made some tactical mistakes with Japan (other than loosing that IC, which I feel you should have warned me about), but no strategical ones. Then again, the game is still young and in our previous game Japan has been at ~60 untill J5 as well. We will have to see what happens.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - British
            British buy 1 fighter, 4 mech_infantrys and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Purchase Units - UK_Pacific
            UK_Pacific buy 1 armour and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - British
            1 bomber moved from Egypt to 99 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Persia to Iraq
            3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Egypt to Iraq
            1 tactical_bomber moved from India to Iraq
            2 fighters moved from India to 41 Sea Zone
            1 mech_infantry moved from India to Shan State
                  UK_Pacific take Shan State from Japanese
            1 armour moved from Egypt to Kenya
            2 infantry moved from Belgian Congo to Kenya
            1 mech_infantry moved from Egypt to Kenya

Combat - British
            Battle in Iraq
                British attack with 3 fighters, 1 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers
                Neutral_Axis defend with 3 infantry
                British win with 3 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Neutral_Axis: 3 infantry
                Casualties for British: 1 infantry
            Battle in 99 Sea Zone
                British attack with 1 bomber
                Italians defend with 1 transport
                British win with 1 bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for Italians: 1 transport
            Battle in Kenya
                British attack with 1 armour, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Italians defend with 1 infantry
                British win, taking Kenya from Italians with 1 armour, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Italians: 1 infantry
            Battle in 41 Sea Zone
                British attack with 2 fighters
                Japanese defend with 1 transport
                British win with 2 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 transport

Non Combat Move - British
            2 fighters moved from 41 Sea Zone to Burma
            3 aaGuns, 1 artillery, 15 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from India to Burma
            2 infantry moved from Persia to Northwest Persia
                  British take Northwest Persia from Neutral_Allies
            2 artilleries moved from Alexandria to Egypt
            1 infantry moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Egypt
            3 mech_infantrys moved from Union of South Africa to Belgian Congo
            1 destroyer moved from 72 Sea Zone to 71 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Eastern United States to Gibraltar
            1 submarine moved from 123 Sea Zone to 125 Sea Zone
            3 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Iraq to Persia
            1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to United Kingdom
            1 bomber moved from 99 Sea Zone to Persia

Place Units - British
            1 transport placed in 106 Sea Zone
            1 fighter and 2 mech_infantrys placed in Egypt
            2 mech_infantrys placed in Union of South Africa

Turn Complete - British
            British collect 30 PUs; end with 30 PUs total

Place Units - UK_Pacific
            1 armour and 1 mech_infantry placed in India

Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
            UK_Pacific collect 7 PUs; end with 7 PUs total
            Some Units in India change ownership: 1 armour and 1 mech_infantry

Indeed the German economy is! Nothing fancy the allies can do (or could have done) about that.
Fighting for Leningrad means loosing Moscow way too soon. The way A&A is balanced -if we can even speak of balance- ensures at least 6 turns of unopposed axis expansion in Europe that the allies can not do anything about. Not even if the USA went 100% for Europe for 6 complete turns without being punished by Japan.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians buy 9 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            2 infantry moved from Bryansk to Ukraine
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Bryansk to Ukraine
            1 fighter moved from Bryansk to Ukraine

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Ukraine
                Russians attack with 1 fighter, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Germans defend with 1 armour and 1 factory_minor
                Russians win, taking Ukraine from Germans with 1 fighter, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Germans: 1 armour
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Ukraine to Russia
            1 fighter moved from Bryansk to Russia
            9 artilleries moved from Russia to Bryansk
            2 aaGuns, 2 armour, 1 artillery, 19 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Belarus to Bryansk

Place Units - Russians
            9 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in Russia
            2 mech_infantrys placed in Volgograd
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Russians from Turkmenistan: 1 mech_infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Persia: 1 mech_infantry
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 32 PUs; end with 32 PUs total

A lot of excellent posts so far.
I have nothing to add. Except perhaps, that whatever the USA does, it must make sure to increase its economy. 72IPCs per turn seems like much, but it isn’t in the late game. I’d say the USA desperately needs >80IPCs per turn in the late game…
As others have pointed out already, the USA needs an early focus in one area with the aim to increase their economy as said, at the cost of the axis power that is picked on. They need that economic increase in order to be able to maintain their established parity/superiority against the axis picked on early and at the same time, opening a second front on the other map.

Only one other thing must be said: Carthago delenda est!
If you don’t know what that means, google it. It is used in one of my playgroups to poke fun of our strategic rantings ;-).

Hmmm, I also recieve an error message from the website:

“Unable to send mail to the email address [the email you use for the game]”…

Maybe the recent work on the website has smething to do with it.

And again. I wonder if there’s something wrong or if it is just false alarm.

Anyway. I’m sorry for the messy UK in Africa. This very offensive playstyle is new to me and I am also not very experienced in playing with bids. But your play with the UK inspired me to try the agressive approach myself as well. I won’t win a beauty contest this time but one more game as the UK and I’ll know the drill. Without a bid however, I doubt it can be done without suffering too much in another theatre.

I can see that it can work great, wonders even, but I also see that only a little mistake (such as for example not taking Ethiopia, or allowing that attack to fail) can be a game-loosing backfire. My positioning of everything back into Egypt was also not right, but I thought it didn’t really matter where I put my stuff now since we agreed on no attack on it for one more turn. So on second thought the attack on Libya was not a bad thing to do after all :lol:.

No matter how exactly the problem is solved tactically, the most important thing of the strategy is to put an IC into Egypt asap. Maybe 1 turn later but definately no later than that. In theory, this should give the UK 18-27 extra units to defend with once Germany arrives but hopefully they can also mean something for the defense of Russia… We’ll see. Thanks for the good sportsmanship!

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 2

Combat Move - French

Non Combat Move - French
            1 infantry moved from Trans-Jordan to Egypt
            1 fighter moved from Algeria to Egypt
            1 infantry moved from French Central Africa to French Equatorial Africa

Turn Complete - French

I got a bug + error message when posting ANZAC. But it looks everything has been posted just fine?

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 2

Purchase Units - ANZAC
            ANZAC buy 1 destroyer and 1 submarine; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Combat Move - ANZAC

Non Combat Move - ANZAC
            1 aaGun and 1 infantry moved from New South Wales to 62 Sea Zone
            1 aaGun, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 62 Sea Zone to 45 Sea Zone
            1 aaGun and 1 infantry moved from 45 Sea Zone to Dutch New Guinea
                  ANZAC take Dutch New Guinea from Dutch
            1 infantry moved from New South Wales to South Australia
            3 fighters moved from Java to India
            1 cruiser moved from 26 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone

Place Units - ANZAC
            1 destroyer and 1 submarine placed in 62 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - ANZAC
            ANZAC collect 10 PUs; end with 11 PUs total
            Objective ANZAC 2 Control Strategic Islands: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 16 PUs

The attack on Libya was undone. I miscounted the range for the RAF. I thought I could attack and base them all in Egypt, but that was not the case, so: long live the edit function!

Made a classical mistake: FTR flown into Canada cannot fly back to London in 1 turn…

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 2

Purchase Units - British
            British buy 1 factory_minor, 3 mech_infantrys and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 4 PUs;

Purchase Units - UK_Pacific
            UK_Pacific buy 4 infantry; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Combat Move - British
            2 artilleries moved from Tobruk to Libya
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Malta to Libya
            1 fighter moved from Malta to Libya
            2 infantry moved from Egypt to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
            1 bomber moved from Malta to Anglo Egyptian Sudan

Combat - British
            Battle in Libya
                British attack with 2 artilleries, 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber
                Italians defend with 1 artillery and 1 infantry
                British win, taking Libya from Italians with 1 artillery, 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for British: 1 artillery
                Casualties for Italians: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
            Battle in Anglo Egyptian Sudan
                British attack with 1 bomber and 2 infantry
                Italians defend with 1 artillery and 2 infantry
                British win, taking Anglo Egyptian Sudan from Italians with 1 bomber and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for British: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Italians: 1 artillery and 2 infantry

Non Combat Move - British
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Adding units owned by British to Alexandria: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            1 bomber moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Egypt
            1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Tobruk to Egypt
            1 fighter moved from Malta to Egypt
            EDIT: 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Libya to Egypt
            EDIT: 1 artillery moved from Libya to Alexandria
            2 infantry moved from Rhodesia to Belgian Congo
            1 infantry moved from Eastern Persia to Persia
                  British take Persia from Neutral_Allies
            3 aaGuns, 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 8 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Burma to India
            1 fighter moved from Java to India
            1 destroyer moved from 79 Sea Zone to 72 Sea Zone
            1 mech_infantry moved from Eire to United Kingdom
            1 submarine moved from 106 Sea Zone to 123 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from New Brunswick Nova Scotia to Eastern United States

Place Units - British
            1 transport placed in 106 Sea Zone
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Changing ownership of Libya from British to Italians
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Italians to Libya: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            1 factory_minor placed in Egypt
            3 mech_infantrys placed in Union of South Africa

Turn Complete - British
            British collect 29 PUs; end with 33 PUs total

Place Units - UK_Pacific
            4 infantry placed in India

Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 3
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 42 Sea Zone. Rolls: 1,1
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 37 Sea Zone. Rolls: 1,5,5,5,5,6,1,4,3,1,6,1,6,3,3
            UK_Pacific collect 8 PUs (3 lost to blockades); end with 10 PUs total
            Some Units in India change ownership: 4 infantry

If Japan wants to protect their TRSs, they will be spread. The IJN goes where the transports go (Sumatra, Malaya, Celebes).
In other words: if japan wants to develop some sort of income, they cannot keep the IJN at FIC. But maybe they can leave just enough ships off FIC to do it, IDK. Allies do however have a few planes nearby as well, so spreading the IJN should be done with great care.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 2

Purchase Units - Chinese
            Trigger Chinese Artillery Supplies: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Open
            Chinese buy 3 artilleries and 1 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Chinese
            2 infantry moved from Shensi to Kweichow
            1 fighter moved from Burma to Kweichow

Combat - Chinese
            Battle in Kweichow
                Chinese attack with 1 fighter and 2 infantry
                Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Chinese win, taking Kweichow from Japanese with 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Chinese: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Chinese
            1 fighter moved from Kweichow to Szechwan

Place Units - Chinese
            3 artilleries and 1 infantry placed in Szechwan

Turn Complete - Chinese
            Chinese collect 7 PUs; end with 7 PUs total
            Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 13 PUs

Please help me out a little while I do the rest of the allies… My eyes are tired and the screen is not so clear anymore. I may have seen it correct the first time after all.

As far as I can see the Japanese have ~10% chance to kill the USN @ Carolines. That is totally acceptable to me but I may have missed a plane somewhere… I think Japan can only get there with 2DD, 3FTR, 3TAC and 2STR. Max. But like I said my eyes are tired (cry).
Don’t forget the ANZAC CA that will also be present before Japan can attack.

Thanx. And yes, 50-60 for Japan is indeed not bad!

PS. I knew you couldn’t get Java, because I studied on that ;-).