Topics created by nikola1975

@axis-dominion

Yes, this can surprise if you are not careful - as Russia you do try to keep Ukraine and Leningrad if possible, to weaken the Germans and keep the income, and you somehow feel there is time. Especially after G1 ships purchase.

Thanks @surfer, we will play again, you will know something next time :)

@dawgoneit Sure, let’s bid via message. Send your bid :)

@nikola1975 yes, the russian attack was surprisingly close, but even if I captured it I don’t think it would have helped. I need to change my allied and axis strategies going forward. Abandoning Moscow and Stalingrad isn’t a viable plan…and to think, I was actually feeling good about this game with the naval victories in the MED & Pacific.

yes, I will play another. I’ll start the bidding at 21 for the axis…

@ArtofWar1947

Thanks. It was a good game! See you in Playoffs? :)

@simon33

Thanks for the game.

I didn’t think the same trick will work again. The German attack of this kind does not allow Soviets not to retreat immediately. They can’t hold the Ukraine or go into Scandinavia. Australia - the same. They need to defend and try to survive.

@nikola1975

Thanks so much.

@simon33

It was fun, I would like another one. Bid once again or switch sides?

Yes, Needed a break but can go a rematch. Re-bid?

@surfer Ok, so I speak with Surfer directly and we are off.

@Daaras Sorry, I was traveling, and am back today. I will send you my round tomorrow I hope…

@nikola1975 Thanks for the fun game! Good luck changing your country to the better!

ready for another game?

@nikola1975 I think your analysis is correct. Unfortunately the Luftwaffe can only be in so many places at once. Good, long, fun game. Thank you for the game sir.

@nikola1975 Thanks for a great game!

@Hythem Well, too many mistakes. I surrender.

I apologize for being below the expected level.

@nikola1975 Yeah, you destroyed me. I just missed too much on both sides. Abandoning the pacific is a strategy I often do, but you have to turtle and play max defense with your income in pacific. Not lose anzac on J3. Plus, I miscalculated gibraltar so atlantic was useless too. Japan was already up to 80 and that was just going to grow.

Japan was rich, and the allied units were grossly out of position due to poor allied play.

TripleA Turn Summary: Japanese round 7

TripleA Turn Summary for game: WW2 Path to Victory

Game History

Round: 7 Purchase Units - Japanese Japanese buy 2 armour, 5 artilleries, 13 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 6 SuicideAttackTokens; Combat Move - Japanese 1 infantry moved from Alaska to 2 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from French Indo China to 37 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 37 Sea Zone to 21 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 21 Sea Zone to Kwangtung 1 infantry moved from French Indo China to Kwangsi Japanese take Kwangsi from Chinese 1 armour moved from South Australia to Western Australia Japanese take Western Australia from ANZAC 1 armour moved from Western Australia to Northern Australia 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 7 Sea Zone to Siberia 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 7 Sea Zone to Siberia 1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from Japan to 7 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 3 infantry and 2 transports moved from 7 Sea Zone to 5 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from 5 Sea Zone to Siberia 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Japan to 7 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 7 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Southern Manchuria to Jehol 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 20 Sea Zone to Jehol 2 bombers moved from French Indo China to Jehol 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 36 Sea Zone to Jehol 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 37 Sea Zone to Kwangtung 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from French Indo China to Kwangtung 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from French Indo China to Kwangtung 2 fighters moved from 36 Sea Zone to Jehol 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 2 Sea Zone to 4 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from 4 Sea Zone to Soviet Far East 1 battleship moved from 36 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 marine moved from French Indo China to 37 Sea Zone 1 battleship and 1 marine moved from 37 Sea Zone to 21 Sea Zone 1 marine moved from 21 Sea Zone to Kwangtung 1 infantry moved from Japan to 7 Sea Zone 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 7 Sea Zone to 5 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from 5 Sea Zone to Amur Combat - Japanese Battle in Soviet Far East Battle in Amur Battle in Kwangtung Japanese attack with 1 artillery, 3 fighters, 1 infantry, 1 marine and 3 tactical_bombers Chinese defend with 2 infantry; UK_Pacific defend with 1 harbour Japanese roll dice for 1 battleship in Kwangtung, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.67 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery, 3 fighters, 1 infantry, 1 marine and 3 tactical_bombers in Kwangtung, round 2 : 4/9 hits, 4.50 expected hits UK_Pacific roll dice for 2 infantry in Kwangtung, round 2 : 0/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits 2 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Kwangtung Japanese win, taking Soviet Far East from Russians, taking Amur from Russians, taking Kwangtung from UK_Pacific with 1 artillery, 3 fighters, 1 infantry, 1 marine and 3 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6 Casualties for Chinese: 2 infantry Battle in Siberia Japanese attack with 1 artillery, 2 fighters, 3 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers Russians defend with 1 factory_minor and 3 infantry Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery, 2 fighters, 3 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers in Siberia, round 2 : 3/8 hits, 3.33 expected hits Russians roll dice for 3 infantry in Siberia, round 2 : 1/3 hits, 1.00 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Siberia 3 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Siberia Japanese win, taking Siberia from Russians with 1 artillery, 2 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6 Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry Casualties for Russians: 3 infantry Battle in Jehol Japanese attack with 2 artilleries, 2 bombers, 3 fighters, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber Chinese defend with 1 artillery and 7 infantry Japanese roll dice for 2 artilleries, 2 bombers, 3 fighters, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Jehol, round 2 : 3/10 hits, 4.50 expected hits Chinese roll dice for 1 artillery and 7 infantry in Jehol, round 2 : 0/8 hits, 2.67 expected hits 3 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Jehol Japanese roll dice for 2 artilleries, 2 bombers, 3 fighters, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Jehol, round 3 : 6/10 hits, 4.50 expected hits Chinese roll dice for 1 artillery and 4 infantry in Jehol, round 3 : 0/5 hits, 1.67 expected hits 4 infantry owned by the Chinese and 1 artillery owned by the Chinese lost in Jehol Japanese win, taking Jehol from Chinese with 2 artilleries, 2 bombers, 3 fighters, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 25 Casualties for Chinese: 1 artillery and 7 infantry Trigger Japanese Destroy Factories Siberia: has removed 1 factory_minor owned by Japanese in Siberia Non Combat Move - Japanese Trigger Siberia Has Fallen to Japanese Switch: Setting switch to false for conditionAttachment_Russian_Siberia_Factory_May_Be_Destroyed_Japanese attached to Japanese 1 tactical_bomber moved from Jehol to Southern Manchuria 1 fighter moved from Jehol to 20 Sea Zone 2 bombers and 2 fighters moved from Jehol to Southern Manchuria 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Japan to 7 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 7 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 20 Sea Zone to Southern Manchuria 1 carrier moved from 37 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone 1 carrier moved from 38 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from 38 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 tactical_bomber moved from 38 Sea Zone to French Indo China 1 battleship and 1 cruiser moved from 39 Sea Zone to 38 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 42 Sea Zone to 40 Sea Zone 1 cruiser moved from 39 Sea Zone to 38 Sea Zone 1 cruiser moved from 36 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 marine moved from French Indo China to 37 Sea Zone 1 cruiser and 1 marine moved from 37 Sea Zone to 38 Sea Zone 1 marine moved from 38 Sea Zone to Malaya 1 infantry moved from Shan State to French Indo China 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from Kwangtung to French Indo China 1 transport moved from 36 Sea Zone to 56 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Queensland to Northern Australia 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Queensland to Northern Australia 1 artillery moved from Queensland to New South Wales 1 destroyer moved from 55 Sea Zone to 38 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 38 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone 1 tactical_bomber moved from Malaya to French Indo China 1 destroyer moved from 21 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Siberia to 7 Sea Zone 1 carrier moved from 7 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 7 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone 1 battleship moved from 7 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 transport moved from 36 Sea Zone to 38 Sea Zone 1 transport moved from 21 Sea Zone to 7 Sea Zone 1 transport moved from 20 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 36 Sea Zone to 55 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 36 Sea Zone to 7 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 7 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 carrier moved from 36 Sea Zone to 7 Sea Zone 1 carrier moved from 36 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 36 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 36 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 20 Sea Zone to 7 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from New South Wales to Queensland Place Units - Japanese 1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in Southern Manchuria 1 armour and 2 infantry placed in French Indo China 1 artillery and 2 infantry placed in Malaya 2 infantry placed in New South Wales 4 artilleries and 6 infantry placed in Japan Turn Complete - Japanese Japanese collect 55 PUs; end with 55 PUs Objective Japanese 6 Home Islands: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 58 PUs Objective Japanese 4 Control Dutch East Indies: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 63 PUs Objective Japanese 3 Control Honolulu Or Sydney Or Calcutta Or Western United States: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 68 PUs Objective Japanese 2 Strategic Defense Perimeter: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 73 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Chinese regular : -4.33 Japanese regular : -0.50 UK_Pacific regular : -0.67 Russians regular : 0.00

Savegame

@dawgoneit Thanks.

Sure, why not, it was fun. Let’s bid via chat.

@Stucifer said in L24 PTV: Nikola1975 (Axis +12) vs. Stucifer (Allies):

@nikola1975 said in L24 PTV: Nikola1975 (Axis +12) vs. Stucifer (Allies):
I was worried about that armour stack coming through Ukraine for a while, but the lack of power up north let me shift everything down to Stalingrad. I think that is one of the clearest strategic errors in hindsight. 2nd was not taking Crete both to give Germans the NO and also to force a reaction from UK. For your bid as Italy if you are going to go Med I think a destroyer in 99 and an infantry in Tobruk is a better spend. Or a mech + armor between

I will probably try a sub for Italy and infantry for the Germans in Holland in our next game. Mediterranean is hard, good Allied player like you can make a strong position in Egypt and the Middle East, basically stopping Italy very early.

Like you said, Crete and Malta/Cyprus are important, but I usually tend to wait taking them until I build the carrier or German comes down to help. Which did not happen in this game.

@Hythem Yes, this was a nasty battle. What were the odds before starting it?

I didn’t see it as an easy walk forward, but you are probably right, it had put a big pressure on Americans and it would be difficult to overcome.

Thanks, it was short but nice game.