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Ok i Should have germany done sometime tonight i hope

may i partake in the jen whoopin?

OK, I started a game.  Waitng for scramble orders.

OK  :-(

Pretty ingenious, definitely food for thought since it gives us options for future modifications. Nice job.

looks that way gg

thats ok with me uk and azacs france it is

And submarines / fighters on carriers can do 2 damage under the new Alpha 3 convoy rules.  (Under the old, Submarines could do up to 2 to each enemy nation bordering the convoy zone.)

Yeah, it seems to me that Alpha+3 kind of made it so Germany HAS to do Barbarossa instead of Sealion.  I mean, Sealion is still doable if Germany is able to build up enough stuff and kills the Royal Navy, but with the new rule allowing Russia to attack when London falls, it will be much harder on Germany.  At least with Alpha+2, Germany could have a round to build up against the Russians.  I think that Alpha+3 kind of forces Germany into a more historical route.

@Cromwell:

Yeah, I see the strategy you were trying out and it seems well conceived, specifically in choking America on her coasts with CRD, if an outright invasion isn’t possible.

I wasn’t committed to it until I bought the TTs on G2.

Germany 1 and 2 are Naval Builds with Sea Lion on G2. Japan Pearl Harbors on J2 with landing force on Haw. One of my mistakes seems to have been to allow you to Pearl in the first place, destroying the entire initial Pacific Fleet. That was a mistake on my part. It seems best to retreat the Americans to sz 10 with, perhaps, a DD blocker in sz 25. There, America can at least divide up their starting Naval Fleet; gives them options. Also, it would mean with more U.S. Navy, your plan (invading U.S. coastline) would only work if the U.S. failed purchase management.

My guess was you would think I was a fool for buying those TTs and be lax in the Europe side.  I also thought you’d smell blood in the Pacific and go hard there.  I didn’t think you’d see it.  Almost worked.

My second tactical mistake with America was not recognizing the EUS invasion you planned, which was obvious enough, or I would have made the sz 101 Naval odds more airtight by sending the undamaged CV I sent to sz 26 to sz 101 (the 5th FTR would have been present in EUS to scramble as well), which would have given you ~40%.

At that point, I would have gone for it anyway.  I was commited.

The overall German Plan seems to weaken Germany too much against Russia and it has low probability of success if the U.S. plays reasonably (not making my poor tactical choices). I’m not even sure at what point it’s best to conquer an under-defended UK - perhaps G2 is too early, no matter what the odds.

Keep in mind, that if I bought ground units with that $68 on G2, I would be a at least a match for Russia in terms of ground forces.

The game has been started.

@jim010:

Actually, my surrender is conditional on the disbanding of the last 3 remaining French units on the board.

Haha Sure !
Allies are so glad they can end this now that they will just kick the french units out of UK and ship them to Germany.
Peace sometimes needs some sacrifices !  :-D

@DutchmanD:

Oh, this is no more ahistoric than Italy being able to take Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and the rest of the Mediteranean when they could even beat the Greek army with their entire military. Not to mention one of the most significant ahistorical flaws of G40, which is that the French troops in Aremain loyal to the Allies for some reason, not Axis Vichy…  and, if they are not at war, why are they killing Brits mercilessly on Italy 1? Don’t get me started on the whole “orginally owned” territory nonesense either, the Germans can buld a major IC in Norway and the UK can build one in Malaya, but the Japanses cannot build one in Shanghai; the Japanese were the first to build factories in Shanghai around 1900 after the First Sino-Japanese War, and by 1937, when they fully officially occupied the city, it had more manufacturing power than the rest of Southeast Asia combined!  Dice Gods forbid the Japs actually being able to make a major IC in an actual manufacturing center that they originally created        :wink:

Ahistoric… hmpf!  Nothing like an instant 10 tnps build by the Germans and the dissappearance of essentially the entire Royal Navy in the Spring of 1940 to make you give up on all the historical aspects of the game we love…
 
All good points, but directed more at game mechanics than historical accuracy.  I agree that the production cycle is not accurate to real life, it should take 3-4 turns for a BB to be built, but the game is not made for that scale.  All units you can build are placed almost immediately.  Both the US and UK fleets are severely nerfed, most likely in order to give the axis a chance that they didn’t have in RL.

As for the other issues, I understand why Vichy is not in the game, you have to draw the line somewhere and Larry choose to add France but have them be inert, while China is also hamstrung.  Otherwise you get a community of people clamoring on the BBS from Bulgaria wanting special Bulgarian rules or some other nonsense.

I have played a game where Japan could build a major in China and it did seem overpowered.  It was maxed on production and China was quickly swallowed up.  It took massive US naval builds and tenuous fighting from India to stall the Japs.  Japan was also able to not build many trns in that game and still concentrate on the Pacific islands.

Thanks for going over the Abandon London moves again James.  One would assume they became even more potent in A3, have you had the opportunity to try it yet?  It’s playing the allies like the Axis, creating the initiative and then keeping it long enough to sack Italy…hopefully.

Oh noooooo……I had big plans for this 0$ !..

I’ll start a new thread in a few minutes.

On your place I would ask the help for users of this forum.

There is a thread going on under the Global 1940 forum that is discussing it.  Check it out.

Cheers

@KillOFzee:

i have a question, if i buy a minor IC as Italy, and the same turn I take Egypt, can I place it directly in Egypt, or do I have to hold it a whole turn.

You can only place ICs in territories that you controlled at the beginning of your turn.  You would either have to place that Minor IC on another territory worth 2 IPCs or more, or sell it back to the “bank” and buy it next round.  Then you could place it on Egypt, assuming Britain didn’t take it back.

OK.  I’ll be gone Friday and back on Tuesday.

i will play you. i will use the american pac strat as you say it does not work but i will play everything else by my own stratedies, i assume we play without tech???

The Allies won last nite ALPHA+2, last week the Axis won ALPHA+2
  To tired last week to stay focused    up at 5 work at 6 home at 5 game at 7 dog tired by midnite  but this weekend I was able to get a cat nap in and lots of strong coffee