Posts made by M4A1 Sherman

@SuperbattleshipYamato The Caspian Sea is a sea zone. See page 8 of the Rulebook. I’m not sure why it doesn’t have a number. Perhaps it’s because it’s not connected to the other sea zones.

This has nothing to do with the Caspian Sea Group.

@DonDebelak said in Axis and Allies Guadalcanal a flawed game.:

Re: Combat in GuadalcanIal?

I find Axis and Allies Guadalcanal a very flawed game. In a battle where planes attach ships, in the air combat the phase, which you have to do even though no planes for the enemy are present, the planes can’t kill a ship, - not on the battle box -but the ships can kill the plane. So ships get two chances to kill the planes and planes only get one chance to kill. That is unfair.

This is incorrect. First the sea units fire at the air units, and then the air units fire at the sea units. The sea units do not get 2 chances to hit the air units.

In a land battle where only planes are attacking, there could be ships on the zone next to the island, but they can’t kill anybody because the battle box only has land units listed.

True, sea units cannot hit air units attacking on land.

Ant the planes can kill land units without land units being able to fight back.

This is not entirely true. While antiaircraft guns are the only land units that can fire at air units, they do so before the air units can attack. This makes it unwise to leave your land units within range of enemy air attack without the protection of antiaircraft guns and/or air units.

I’m not playing this game again.

That is, of course, your choice to make, but I suggest you read the rules again and correct your errors in execution before writing this game off.

I hope this helps.

@Witt he told me that he could do that sometime today

@gamerman01 Everything OK? Japan is ready to cause chaos in Asia 😀

If u wish to keep the aa gun in Burma (instead of artillery)

feel free to do it

@SuperbattleshipYamato re: Taranto

My general ethos is that I’d rather the British keep their fleet intact, and back them up behind the canal. Even if the Italians take it by land, you can keep them from expanding into the Indian Ocean by sea.

The other side of it is like… I think air power is great, while navies are sort of “the cost of doing business” – so trading my planes to take out your navy is a bad exchange. I’m fine with taking the cheap/easy win of sniping the fleet at Malta, because in the grand scheme of things, I think the transport will cause more damage to me than the battleships and cruisers and whatnot.

I’ve seen some weird things, like 2 subs being sent against the British cruiser at Gibraltar and both subs being sunk. Generally I assume there will be a sub there, and a sub up near Canada; I tend to send the SZ109 fleet to Canada, along with a couple of fighters, and place a new carrier there on rd1. If there’s a damaged battleship (and sub/s) in SZ111, I’m usually inclined to attack it with the fighter from Scotland and/or the UK bomber.

Do German players usually prioritize the UK transports? The Ai always seems to leave those 2 sea zones alone; granted we’re talking subs attacking destroyers, and their planes are out of range (except the strat. bombers, but landing in Belgium would be pretty undesirable…)

To me, it also seems like it stands to reason that the Germans should prioritize hunting destroyers, just because I tend to assume that the great strength of the western allies is their air power; if you have no transports, your battleships and cruisers can’t influence land combat, and if you have no destroyers, your planes can’t target subs – it paints a picture that as “guy who has subs,” the German player should be targeting things a certain way, to play into that. Honestly though, it seems kind of moot, given how relatively short the battle of the Atlantic ends up being.

I’ve run a handful of test games recently where I’m using battleships as my main surface unit, with the US. I think it’s a strat that pays off later/in the long run, when you’re stacking landings over multiple rounds (usually in the Mediterranean.) If your floating bridge consists of 4 transport loads and you can pile on 4+ shore bombardments, it starts to add up. But honestly, on the Atlantic side, I’ve seen a British strategy of just stacking bombers and fighters and strafing down the French coast – the number of casualties inflicted is staggering compared to what the battleships are able to do. Not an unexpected result, but I think to me this just cements the utility of destroyers, in that convoy-escort role.

I’ve found that when I’m too aggressive with pushing the allied fleets east too early, the Germans still tend to kamikaze their planes into my ships – but this actually only serves to speed up their own demise. As long as I’m not losing a huge amount of transports all in one go…? I can afford to lose a loaded carrier and 2-3 surface ships, as long as I take enough of their planes down with me. In these instances (for the cost) I’d rather be defending with the extra shots I’d be getting from buying destroyers, as opposed to the higher attack rating of a battleship.

But I think it’s generally best to be cagey with your allied fleets, and build them up to a point where the Axis can’t afford to attack them. This feeds into why I generally don’t like the idea behind the Taranto raid; I know I can outspend the Italians, so it’s actually in my interest to keep my fleets strong while I do that, rather than do a move that at best amounts to “mutually assured destruction” in my estimation.

TripleA Turn Summary: Germans round 10

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 10 Research Technology - Germans Purchase Units - Germans Germans buy 3 bombers and 2 fighters; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Germans 1 infantry moved from Western Germany to Holland Belgium Germans take Holland Belgium from Americans 1 infantry moved from Novgorod to Archangel Germans take Archangel from Russians 2 infantry moved from Novgorod to Belarus 1 bomber moved from Novgorod to Belarus 1 bomber moved from Western Germany to Belarus 1 infantry moved from Ukraine to Western Ukraine Germans take Western Ukraine from Russians Combat - Germans Battle in Belarus Germans attack with 2 bombers and 2 infantry Russians defend with 1 infantry Germans roll dice for 2 bombers and 2 infantry in Belarus, round 2 : 1/4 hits, 1.67 expected hits Russians roll dice for 1 infantry in Belarus, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Belarus Germans win, taking Belarus from Russians with 2 bombers and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3 Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry Non Combat Move - Germans 1 bomber moved from Belarus to Western Germany 1 bomber moved from Belarus to Novgorod 2 infantry moved from Finland to Karelia 1 armour moved from Northern Italy to Western Germany 4 mech_infantrys moved from France to Western Germany 3 fighters moved from Germany to Western Germany 1 tactical_bomber moved from Germany to Western Germany 2 infantry moved from Western Germany to Germany 1 infantry moved from Western Germany to France 2 infantry moved from Western Germany to France 1 infantry moved from Romania to Eastern Poland 1 mech_infantry moved from Bessarabia to Eastern Poland Place Units - Germans 1 bomber and 2 fighters placed in Western Germany 2 bombers placed in Germany Germans undo move 2. 1 bomber placed in France 1 bomber placed in Germany Germans undo move 2. 1 bomber placed in Germany Turn Complete - Germans Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 1 Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 125 Sea Zone. Rolls: 6,1 Germans collect 48 PUs (1 lost to blockades); end with 48 PUs Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 53 PUs Objective Germans 2 Control Novgorod Or Volgograd Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 58 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Russians regular : -0.33 Germans regular : -0.67

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