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I assumed you wanted to take an infantryman as casualty in Russia (and not an AAA). Please edit in case my assumption was wrong.

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Game History

Round: 5

    Purchase Units - Italians
        Italians buy 1 artillery and 1 carrier; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Italians
        1 mech_infantry moved from Vologda to Russia
        1 armour moved from Nenetsia to Russia
        1 armour moved from Ukraine to Russia
        1 armour moved from Eastern Poland to Smolensk
              Italians take Smolensk from Russians
        2 destroyers moved from 97 Sea Zone to 92 Sea Zone
        2 fighters moved from Southern Italy to 92 Sea Zone
        1 bomber moved from Southern France to 92 Sea Zone

    Combat - Italians
        Battle in Russia
            Italians attack with 2 armour and 1 mech_infantry
            French defend with 1 fighter; ANZAC defend with 1 fighter; Americans defend with 1 bomber and 3 fighters; Russians defend with 2 aaGuns, 1 airfield, 10 armour, 1 artillery, 1 factory_major, 3 fighters, 36 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Italians roll dice for 2 armour and 1 mech_infantry in Russia, round 2 : 1/3 hits, 1,17 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 2 aaGuns, 10 armour, 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 8 fighters, 36 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Russia, round 2 : 27/57 hits, 23,33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Russians, 1 mech_infantry owned by the Italians and 2 armour owned by the Italians lost in Russia
            Russians win with 2 aaGuns, 10 armour, 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 8 fighters, 35 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is -13
            Casualties for Italians: 2 armour and 1 mech_infantry
            Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry
        Battle in 92 Sea Zone
            Italians attack with 1 bomber, 2 destroyers and 2 fighters
            British defend with 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber; Americans defend with 1 submarine
                Italians roll dice for 1 bomber, 2 destroyers and 2 fighters in 92 Sea Zone, round 2 : 4/5 hits, 2,33 expected hits
                British roll dice for 1 submarine in 92 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0,17 expected hits
                British roll dice for 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber in 92 Sea Zone, round 2 : 2/4 hits, 1,83 expected hits
                1 submarine owned by the Americans, 2 destroyers owned by the Italians, 1 destroyer owned by the British and 1 carrier owned by the British lost in 92 Sea Zone
                Italians roll dice for 1 bomber and 2 fighters in 92 Sea Zone, round 3 : 3/3 hits, 1,67 expected hits
                British roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber in 92 Sea Zone, round 3 : 1/2 hits, 1,17 expected hits
                1 tactical_bomber owned by the British, 1 fighter owned by the Italians and 1 fighter owned by the British lost in 92 Sea Zone
            Italians win with 1 bomber and 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 25
            Casualties for Italians: 2 destroyers and 1 fighter
            Casualties for Americans: 1 submarine
            Casualties for British: 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber

    Non Combat Move - Italians
        1 fighter moved from 92 Sea Zone to 93 Sea Zone
        1 bomber moved from 92 Sea Zone to Western Germany
        1 infantry moved from France to Southern France
        1 aaGun and 1 artillery moved from France to Northern Italy

    Place Units - Italians
        1 carrier placed in 93 Sea Zone
        1 artillery placed in Northern Italy

    Turn Complete - Italians
        Italians collect 16 PUs; end with 17 PUs
        Objective Italians 1 Control The Mediterranean: Italians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 22 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Italians regular : 2,83
Russians regular : 3,67
British regular : -0,17

Sorry, could you please kindly edit a ncm - the sub from SZ39 to SZ80? Thank you :+1:

I obviously have a contrarian view ;-)

Thank you very much as well for the game, Giallo! I think you played very well. I think the turning point was in round 11 or so when you moved the Air Force away from West Germany. This allowed the Allies to take it. As Italy could not take it back, Germany could only re-take it but never land planes and never could scramble.

Then of course round 16 was very much in my favor, when attacking Caucasus with the British. I did two test runs locally. The first one was a disaster with only one hit. The second time went fairly bad. When I still did it “in real life”, my dice were fantastic, killing five of these nasty tanks.

I also had to be careful to never “accidentally” take Ukraine from Italy. Starting the following round, the factory in the Ukraine would have been a German one.

Good luck in your other games, and have a good weekend as well!

Thank you, Lennard!

It is fine, no scrambling decision needed. I was considering attacking Moscow with the Japanese, but this is too expensive.

Only now, I detected the annoying French destroyer, LOL :-)

Japan will take a while - I have to get our daughter ready for school in-between. I guess you will have the Japan move for breakfast.

No worries - just happy to see a sign of life! :-) Enjoy your vacation and take all the time you need.

Ah, sure. Let me know your bid spending, and I can launch the game, tomorrow.

@gamerman01 @elche

Gentlemen, it is served. Good luck and have fun!

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I didn’t mean to stress :-) I just thought Russia will be a quick turn, and as you already posted text, you just might have forgotten to post the turn with it.

Japan will continue its world tour, tonight.

Take your time. I will make my turn with Japan most likely only on Wednesday or Thursday.

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/27451/g40-balance-mod-rules-and-download

I just checked the BM rules, and it speaks about Axis control, not only Japan, so Germany must also garrison captured Chinese territories:

I can play Germany either on Sunday or Monday. I will be travelling to two big events away from town - a 50th Birthday, tonight, and a 70th Birthday, tomorrow… Have a good weekend!

Thank you for letting me know. Take your time - I am busy as well. Let’s continue end of the week…

I will be travelling over the weekend and should do my next turn on Sunday or Monday. Have a good weekend!

Thank you for your nice welcome :-)

I am just in the middle of the German combat and realized that I accidentally moved a tactical bomber to Finland instead of Karelia. I will reverse the fight in Finland, if you do not mind. I will edit back the tactical bomber and any casualty that yo might have.

Take your time - I might only be able to make my next turn on Thursday or Friday.

You are right - I think it is about time to give up. Japan is no monster and Yunnan out of reach - it cannot threaten to win in the Pacific. With the Western Axis falling, the US can use all of its economic power to fight Japan. Japan can just be happy that Russia cannot build a factory in the East…

Congratulations - well and patiently played! I will post the result.

No, please go ahead.

Good morning, you seem to be a very early bird… Ah, the kids wake you up - understood ;-)

Yes, Dawgoneit already told me about the snowy weather. No snow in sight, in Germany. The forecast is 7 days of rain at 45 degrees…

I will do Germany’s turn most likely tomorrow.

Have fun making snow men! :-) :ice_skate: :ski: :snowman:

@gamerman01 I will play anyone. Just give me names! :-)