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The first post shows the starting set up. This game starts in fall 1939. There is a spring 1941 and summer 1943 set up as well, but this game is the fall 1939 set up. Germany started with 2 subs with 3 more in the build boxes.

Nothing beats playing a live game with friends, snacks and beer.

@crockett36 need to leave this for a few days

OK, so I filled up my convoys again and added more destroyer escorts. I am backing off from the Germans in Russia, leaving him the Donets basin. I did have a successful attack in Rostov, but he has heavy hitting power in the area, so I need to keep my distance until I get a better defensive line.

I’m ready to land in spring 1943. Probably Brest so I can get the port so I can keep my units supplied. I bombed him in France, but his fighters took out a coupe of mine.

Italy has just one more push to get the British out of the Middle East. I will make my stand in Kuwait.

From the major sea battle, I decided to damage the BB instead of losing the fighter. A slip up. I had to add the fighter back in at the end, as it flies back t the newly built carriers.

@cwglee51 Need to leave this for a few days.

Well, I lost what I had in North Africa due to being unsupplied. So much for that. But I have pushed Italy back from Kuwait. And I don’t think he’s going to reinforce.

Germany went around Stalingrad, but pretty sure he will hit next turn. He’s also poised to hit Leningrad next turn as well. But I am now in northern France quite solidly with air superiority. I think next turn will be his peak. He’s not buying anymore subs, so I have that to look forward to.

@erinmores unless you live in Alberta, that would be hard.

I am not actually refering to Axis & Allies, but other games where an air unit has to be based on a space and it conducts operations from there but always flies back to that space. So by rebasing, I would mean not just the air unit, but the ground crews, fuel, spare parts etc … everything an air unit needs to operate.

Same with a naval unit. All ships have a home port. Rebasing to a new port means more than just moving the ship.

And even ground units are pulled from combat and shuttled to other parts of a front.

I suppose all this would be ‘redeployment’ rather than railing.

But I am not content with let’s say Germany having its entire airforce move from one side of europe to another. Is that even doable? Or UK’s entire fleet rebasing to Malta. Is that doable? What is more realistic?

Again, not Axis & Allies. Think more Rise and Decline of the Third Reich.

My how things can turn when you are not paying attention! I cut off all of the Germans in the South of Russia, and took Stalingrad back. This is huge, as he cannot resupply them. They will surrender at the end of his next turn.

I now have half of France, and he’s pulled back into Germany. Looks really bad. It is the end of fall 1943. Next turn is winter 1944.

No battles. I changed the bids, but rather than edit, I just did it over.

This was the official way of bidding in the league many moons ago. But I suppose I’ll have to get used to the new bidding rules. I definitely understand why teh bids are so high with the unit placement limits.

These are from the Xeno games. Again, what you see is what I have.

Lol. This was way bigger than just the 6th army! Thing is, if he was paying attention, he could have prevented me from cutting him off. All he needed to do was reinforce just one of the spaces I had to attack, and that would have done it.

Regardless, he wasn’t winning anyway.

Some extra Axis & Allies pieces. I have much more, but didn’t get around to taking photos of them yet.

Well, managed to cut off the Chinese on the coast. Don’t think he’ll be able to supply them, so sayonara!

HBG pieces. I have much more as well

Etransfer or Paypal only, please.

So the Chinese counterattacked to free the units in the coast and succeeded. Small victory, though. I have air power, and they don’t. But they have consolidated their infantry into several armies (this game, like World War II in Europe, has stack limits so can’t put everything into one space like Axis & Allies).

I need to back off now and think about how I am going to hit all the islands and kill as many western units as possible. Will need to pull some planes and ground units from China.

Eagle games pieces in Axis & Allies scale.