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USA TURN 19 - SPRING 1944

PURCHASE
East: CV, Air, CA, Sub Tranny, 4 FTR, TAC, 9 BMB
LL to UK: 2 Trannies, FTR, tAC, BMB , Tank
LL to USSR: FTR, Tank

COMBAT EUROPA
BOMB CAMPAIGN
UK: 3 BMB SBR> Ge (Berlin) 3 FTR
Loss US: 2 BMB + Loss GE: 1 FTR + Berlin = damaged

UK: 2 BMB SBR> W. GE: 3 FTR + Naval Base
Loss US: BMB + Loss GE: FTR + NB = damaged

UK: 2 BMB SBR> France (Paris) FTR
Loss GE, FTR + Paris = damaged

OIL CAMPAIGN
Egypt: 2 BMB SBR> Romania (Ploesti) FTR (Rom) + Oil field
W. Ukr: FTR escort> Romania
Loss US: FTR + Loss Rom: FTR + Oil Field = total damaged

OPERATION STRANGLE
Sicily: 2 BMB + FTR escort SBR> N. IT: FTR + Factory
Loss US: BMB + Loss Ge; FTR + Factory = total damaged

THE MISHAP
Sicily: BMB SBR> Swiss city by accident (or was it a warning?)

NON-COMB MOVE
BOLERO CONVOY 2 land units to UK

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JAPAN TURN 19 - SPRING 1944

PURCHASE
CV, Air, Tranny, 3 FTR, TAC, BMB, 3 Inf, Art AA

COMBAT

OPERATION ICHI-GO
Anhwe: 3 Inf, 2 Art, Tank + TAC attack> Hunan: 3 Inf
Loss JAP: Inf + Loss KMT: all units

OPERATION U-GO
Burma: Inf, Art + BMB attack> India (Bengal) 10 allied Inf total
Loss JAP: all units + Loss Allies: Inf

COLLECT INCOME
CONVOY DISRUPTION
Sub in sz 6 = loss 2 IPC
Sub in sz 19 = loss 2 IPC
Sub in sz 20 = loss 2 IPC
Sub in sz 36 = loss 1 IPC
Sub in sz 35 = loss 1 IPC
Sub in sz 42 = loss 1 IPC
CV, BB, CA, DD in sz 41 = loss 4 IPC

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USSR TURN 19 - SPRING 1944

PURCHASE
4 FTR, 4 TAC, BMB, 7 Tanks, 4 Art, 6 Inf, AA

COMBAT
Nov: 2 BMB SBR> Baltic States = total damage

VIBORG OFFENSIVE
Nov: Inf, 3 Art, 2 Tanks + FTR, 2 TAC attack> Viborg: 2 Inf, Art, FTR, AA
Loss USSR: 2 Art, 2 Tank, FTR, TAC + Loss Fin: all units

FIRST JASSY OFFENSIVE
W. Ukr: 3 Inf, 2 Art attack> Bessarabia: 3 Inf (Rom)
Ukr: 3 Inf, 2 Art attack> Bessarabia
Loss USSR: 2 Inf, Art
attacker retreat

NON-COMB MOVE
200 000 crimean tartars deported to GULAG in Usbekistan

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ROUND 19 - march april may 1944

GERMANY TURN 19 - SPRING 1944
THE KLESSHEIM MEETING
Adolf (GE) meet Horthy (Hun) at Schloss Klessheim in Austria.
Adolf tell Horthy to quit the peace talk with the Allies and don’t desert Germany

PURCHASE
2 Sub, 6 FTR, TAC BMB, 5 Tanks, 4 Art 16 Inf
Atlantic Wall: 1 Fort
East Wall: 1 Blockhouse
Gothic Line: 1 Blockhouse

COMBAT
OPERATION STEINBOCK
W. GE: BMB SBR> UK 10 FTR
Loss GE: all units

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
2 Sub attack> sz 104: CV, DD
Loss GE: all units

Sub attack> sz 102: DD
Loss GE: all units

Sub attack> sz 107: DD
Loss GE: all units

NON-COMB MOVE
OPERATION MARGRETHE - OCCUPATION OF HUNGARY just to be sure Horthy comply
GE: 10 Inf to Hungary
HOLOCAUST
550 000 hungarians to camp

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Thank you, sir. Your Stalingrad video on Youtube was very cool too, so you too keep up the good work. :-)

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I believe I explained that well in the starting post, but will be happy to do it again. This is a study in how it would look if the real WWII leaders, like FDR, Churchill, Adolf, Musso, Stalin etc were casual players in a game room, playing A&A. I look into how decisions were made. When you and me play, we figure out the math, do calculations based on a D6 die. But in the real WWII it looks like decisions were based on feelings and backstabbing (not an option in A&A since you can’t change team). But not so much math.

I am awere that A&A is an abstract KISS game, based on playability and balance. A&A even has a Turn order that is missing in the real world. But A&A is in fact based on the real WWII, so it’s only logical that I made this Blog. A great A&A player had a Homepage back in the 1990’s were he compared the real WWII to the MB Classic A&A game from 1984. It was so nice and professional done, I got inspired. Now I want to do the same with A&A 1940. It’s as simple as that.

This is only the Beta 2 version. I will make a Homepage or my own Blog at some moment, more professional than this. As you propably know, in case you are a history buff, the estimats differ between the different sources and historians, some times by millions of men, and thousands of aircrafts. Making it a puzzle. What numbers are correct? Opionons differ on that. But when the history book says Germany purchased like 40 000 Fighters the last month, but only had 250 Fighters operational, then we know someting is wrong. Same with US, officially made 130 000 planes but only 1000 operational at the peak. What happened to the taxpayers money?

I know that A&A is an infantry game. The designer surely was in the infantry (82’nd Airborne is kind of infantry) I figure that is the reason A&A lack a playable naval part. A&A don’t have the Battle of the Atlantic, which was the major part of the real war, as this Blog so blatantly show. Come to mind, A&A Europe 1999 ed did in fact have convoy boxes in the Atlantic and a working game mechanic. I loved that game, best A&A game ever. This new improved “Convoy Disruption” system don’t make my day. It looks like the civilian merchant shipping is trespassing the submarines wet territory.

Another thing I learned from this project is that Fighters supported by Airfields in supply could make 4 sorties every day, compared to 1 sortie if taking off from a corn field. US B-17 and B-25 Bombers taking of from Airfields in UK could make 3 sorties to Berlin every week, and that is like every single B-17 made a total of 36 sortis during the 3 months one of my Round is. But, the same B-17 Bomber taking off from Sicily or Algeria or Egypt could only make 1 sortie every other month, because they were always out of supply. I learned 2 things from this. OOB A&A Rules limit SBR to one dice roll in each Turn. But in the real war a B-17 would keep on bombing until it was shot down or out of supply. On the contrary, an Infantry unit in the real war could only engage in combat like once in a month, but in A&A Infantry can roll unlimited number of dice in a Turn. That is not historically correct. I suggest a House Rule for that.

Anyway, hope this was helpful to your question

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FRANCE TURN 18 - WINTER 1944

A very quick turn, literally nothing happened

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 18 - WINTER 1944

THE AFGHAN TRIBAL REVOLT START (end in january 1947)

King Zahir Shah (strict neutral Afg. player) ask earl Wavell (de facto UK Pac player) for aid.
and of course the viceroy of India can help a good neighbour.

NON-COMB MOVE
India: FTR to strict neutral Afghanistan
contestet territory: Afghan Army: 2 Inf against Rebels: 1 Inf

Now this is something you don’t see very often, even in casual games

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ITALY TURN 18 - WINTER 1944

Horthy (Hun) start peace talk with the Allied players.

Except from that, literally nothing

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UK TURN 18 - WINTER 1944

SECOND CAIRO CONFERENCE - FDR, Winston & Mustafa
-Mustafa agree to let FDR and Winston build and use Airbases in Turkey (no longer a strict neutral)

PURCHASE
UK: DD, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, 2 Inf + LL to USSR: Tank
CAN Pac: Tranny + LL to USSR: Mech
Turkey: Airbase

COMBAT

BATTLE OF BERLIN
UK: 4 BMB SBR> Ge: 4 FTR + Berlin
Loss UK: 2 BMB + Loss GE. 2 FTR + Berlin = damage

RAID ON ADRIATIC SEA
Malta 26: FTR + DD attack> sz 97: Sub (GE)
Loss GE: all units

BATTLE OF MONTE CASSINO
S. IT: Inf, Tank + FTR, TAC attack> S. IT: Blockhouse, Tank, Para, AA, 2 FTR
Loss UK: Tank, FTR + Loss GE: Blockhouse, Tank
contestet territory

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CHINA TURN 18 - WINTER 1944

PURCHASE
KMT: 3 Inf
CCP: Inf
ROC: Inf

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USA PART 2

PURCHASE
West: CV, Air, CA, DD, Tranny, FTR, TAC, BMB

COMBAT PACIFIC

John Isl: 2 BMB SBR> Caroline Isl: Airbase = total damage

OPERATION FLINTLOCK - INVASION OF MARSHALL ISL
TF 52 + 53 + 58 + Tranny to sz 32 + Mar, Inf amp> Marshall isl: Inf
Loss Jap: all units

OPERATION HAILSTONE
6 cv-air (from TF 52, 53, 58 in sz 32) attack> sz 33: CA, DD, Tranny + FTR scrambled
Loss Jap: all units

BOMBING OF RABAUL
Aus: 2 BMB + 4 cv-Air (from 2 CV in sz 48) attack> sz 47: 2 CA, DD + FTR scrambled
Loss US: 2 cv-Air + Loss Jap: all units

NON-COMB MOVE

CA, DD to sz 49 Sol

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USA TURN 18 - WINTER 1944

FDR propose a “Second Bill of Rights”
US-PORTUGAL AGREEMENT Salazar let FDR too use the Airbase on Azores island

PURCHASE
East: CV, Air, CA, Sub, Tranny, 4 FTR, TAC, 9 BMB
LL to UK: 2 Trannies, FTR, TAC, BMB, Tank
LL to USSR: FTR, Tank
LL to France: TAC
W. UKR: Poltava Airbase
Azores: Airbase

COMBAT IN EUROPE
BIG WEEK
UK: 6 BMB SBR> W. GE: 4 FTR + factory
Loss US: 1 BMB + Loss GE: 2 FTR + factory = damage

Algeria: 2 BMB SBR> N. It:
Loss US: 1 BMB + Loss IT: factory damaged

OPERATION INTRUDER
UK: 2 TAC + 2 escort FTR SBR> Holl/Belg: 3 FTR + V-1 rocket site
Loss US: 1 TAC + Loss GE: 2 FTR + V-1 site damaged

BOMBING OF MONTE CASSINO
Sicily: 3 BMB SBR> S. IT: 2 FTR + monastry (unusal target, not an option w OOB rules I assume)
Loss US: 1 BMB + Loss GE: Monastry 50 % damaged

OPERATION SHINGLE - BATTLE OF SOUTH ITALY
S. IT: Art, Tank attack> S. IT: Blockhouse, Tank, Inf, Para, AA
Loss US: Tank + Loss GE: Inf
contestet territory

NON-COMB MOVE
US: FTR, TAC to Azores Isl
Brazil: FTR + Tranny w Inf to sz 95 + offload in S, It

OPERATION FRANTIC JOE
Egypt: 2 FTR to Poltava Airbase in W. Ukr

BOLERO CONV
US: Tranny w 2 land units to sz 109 + offload in UK

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JAPAN TURN 18 - WINTER 1944
Subas Bose proclaim pro-Axis Indian government in exile

PURCHASE
DD, Tranny, 3 FTR, TAC, BMB, 3 Inf, Art, AA

NON-COMB MOVE
FTR + CA, DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 33 + offload in Car Isl
FTR, + CA, DD, Tranny w Inf to sz 47 + offload in New Brit
Sub to sz 34

COLLECT INCOME - CONV DISRUPTION
Sub in sz 6 = loss 3 IPC
Sub in sz 19= loss 3 IPC
Sub in sz 20 = loss 3 IPC
Sub in sz 36 = loss 3 IPC
Sub in sz 44 = loss 2 IPC
Sub in sz 42 = loss 2 IPC
CV, BB, CA, DD in sz 42 = loss 4 IPC

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USSR TURN 18 - WINTER 1944

TEHRAN CONFERENCE- EUREKA First meeting of Big 3 (Stalin, FDR & Winston)
-Stalin agree to let FDR build Airbase in W. Ukr and place US aircrafts there.

Stalin (USSR-player) tell FDR (US-player) and Winston (UK-player) that Adolf (the German player) plan to assassinate them in Theran, with Operation Long Jump. Luckily this never happened, but FDR and Winston would now be on alert.

Tito proclaim Yugoslavian government in exile

PURCHASE
4 FTR, 4 TAC, BMB, 7 Tanks, 4 Art, 6 Inf, AA

COMBAT

BOMBING CAMPAIGN
Nov: 4 BMB SBR> Finland (Helsinki) FTR AA
Loss USSR: 2 BMB (The finns had moved all searchlights and AA-guns out of the city to islands, and since it was a night raid and winter with frozen water and snow, the Bombers dropped all the bombs in the sea, and when returning to base in Leningrad, finnish bombers had followed them and bombed them when landing. You can’t make this up)

Nov: 1 BMB SBR> neutral Sweden (Stockholm) by accident = 0 damage.
(But was this really a mistake, or a warning?)

Nov: 1 BMB SBR> Baltic States (Tallin) = damage

RAID ON TIRPITZ
Nov: BMB attack> sz 126: BB, DD + scrambeld FTR.
Loss USSR: all units

NOVGOROD OFFENSIVE
Rus: 4 Inf, 2 Mech, 3 Art, 2 Tanks + TAC attack> Archangel: 4 Inf
Loss USSR: 3 Inf + Loss GE: all units (This lifted the siege of Leningrad)

DNIEPER-CARP OFFENSIVE
Bry: 7 Inf, 3 Art, 3 Tanks + FTR, TAC, attack> W. Ukr: Blockhouse, 8 Inf, AA
Loss USSR: 5 Inf, Art, 3 Tanks, TAC + Loss GE: all units

Ros: 7 Inf, 3 Art, 2 Tanks + FTR, TAC attack> Ukr: Blockhouse, AA +2 Inf (Hun) + 2 Inf (Rom)
Loss USSR: 5 Inf, Art, 2 Tanks, FTR + Loss Axis: all units

NON-COMB MOVE

OPERATION LENTIL
Forced deportations of chechens and ingush from Caucasus to camps in Kazakhstan

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ROUND 18 - (dec 1943 + jan, feb 1944)

GERMANY TURN 18 - WINTER 1944

Adolf build the Gothic Line to keep the Allies out of North Italy

PURCHASE
GE: 2 Subs, 6 FTR, TAC, BMB, 5 Tanks, 4 Art, 16 Inf
Westwall: Fort
Eastwall: Blockhouse
Gothic Wall: Blockhouse

COMBAT

OPERATION STEINBOCK
W. GE: 2 BMB SBR> UK: 8 FTR
Loss GE: all units

BATTLE OF THE NORTH CAPE
sz 126: BB, DD attack> sz 125: JW-conv + BB, CA, DD escort
Loss Ge: BB damaged + Loss UK: BB damaged
attacker retreat

THE BARI STRIKE
W. GE: TAC attack> sz 97: Tranny (IT) = sunk

BATTLE OF ATLANTIC
2 Subs attack> sz 104: CV, DD
Loss Ge: all units

2 Subs attack> sz 103: Conv = loss UK 3 IPC

NON-COMB MOVE

Nor, Den, Fra, Pol, Yugo: 6 Inf to Ukraine

Ge: Inf, Tank, AA + 2 FTR to S. It

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FRANCE TURN 17 - FALL 1943

Tranny w Inf to Corsica

Tranny (US) w Tank offload in Morocco

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ANZAC AND UK PAC TURN 17 - FALL 1943

PURCHASE
Aus: FTR
Ind: 2 Inf

COMBAT
Ind: BMB SBR> Siam (Bangkok) = damage

OPERATION CARTWHEEL
New Guin: 2 Inf attack> Dutch N. G: Inf
Loss Jap: all units

NON-COMB MOVE

India: Inf (Punjab) to Burma - join Free India Army

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ITALY TURN 17 - FALL 1943

Badoglio (IT) DOW Adolf (GE)

Musso form Republic of Salo in N. It.

PURCHASE
Italy: Inf on Sicily
Salo: 2 MNT Inf N. It
Hun: Inf

NON-COMB MOVE
Italy: BB, Sub, Tranny to Egypt for internation + 2 CA to Atlantic Sea

Salo: Holocaust: Raid on the Roman Ghetto, all jews to camp.
Pope Piux XII is silent

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UK TURN 17 - FALL 1943

CAIRO CONFERENCE - SEXTANT - Winston, FDR, Chiang
-The Cairo Declaration

Persia DOW Germany

PURCHASE
UK: DD, 2 FTR, 2 BMB, Tank, Art, Inf + LL to USSR: FTR
CAN: TAC + LL to USSR: Mech

COMBAT

BATTLE OF BERLIN
UK: 3 BMB SBR> GE (Berlin) FTR
Loss UK: BMB + Loss GE: FTR + Berlin = damage

Alg: BMB SBR> N. IT: = damage

RAID ON TIRPITZ
UK: Sub attack> sz 126: BB, DD
Loss UK: all units

OPERATION AVALANCHE
TF 85/88: Tranny w Inf, Art attack> S. It: Para
Loss UK: Inf
contestet territory

Force H: Tranny w inf attack> Sardinia: empty