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Okay tes - let me know when you are in a position to play.

Looking forward to it! :-)

Always.

As previously this all day 1942.2 event will be held in Derbyshire, UK.

We currently have 7 players, including 4 from this forum, and can include up to 3 more.

If you are interested please either reply to the thread in Events or PM Private Panic.

Glad you enjoyed it Credulous.

My West Russia miscount was a disaster for G and absolutely the biggest error of all errors in our game. Just amazed that after that the axis both gained a second opportunity (that failed) to take Moscow and even so successfully kept R bottled up for sufficiently long for a replacement G European stack/threat to be in place.

After the West Russia disaster I thought I had lost. Either that perception of impending doom was wrong (as I know you believe) or the axis military commanders played a blinder to claw back a draw, with their own “hopes” of final victory. I quite like the second interpretation! :-)

After the West Russia catastrophe I couldn’t afford too many more mistakes and think I pretty much managed to avoid them.

What would have happened if I had not bogged up in W Russia? I probably would have discovered another game changing error to make instead!

Looking forward to our next game. We’ll see how I manage to bog that one up! :roll:

Someone moved the same posting placed in 1942.2 to this board, so I now have it twice here.

What did you say? I am afraid I fell asleep before the end.

@wittmann:

You will love it. PP and his friends are a great bunch.

Well - they put up with me!

I will return as time allows to flesh out the sections in blue :)

Thanks again everybody

Thanks for the well informed post KG7. Nice to know that someone with your level of knowledge is able to support my ill-informed hypothesis!

If you ever decide to try anything like this let me know what you think ….

I don’t think any of that stuff would have been immediately apparent to me either, it’s just hard to parse the rulebook sometimes, and the official wording. In TripleA you get a clear visual, like the first time you see Karelia or Caucasus or Soviet Far East turn from Gray/Yellow to Green! and it opens up this whole other world of the endgame, post Moscow collapse. Or if you’ve ever played long enough post KGF to see Japan take control of Italy, or long enough in KJF to see Germany take Manchuria. Then it starts to make a lot of sense in the 2v2 match up, why sometimes it makes sense NOT to take certain territories from a vanquished enemy. Similarly if you still have Russian ground units alive, who could conceivably retake a place like Caucasus, but there’s just no point if the Germans already hold Moscow, better to leave it alone for UK or America to take, so they can collect the income for it :)

The stuff is kind of weird to be honest, and can definitely change the situation on the ground, once capitals start falling.

We currently have six or seven players, including three (or hopefully four) from this forum - Dukla passer, wittman, Private Panic (me!) and hopefully Spirally.

So now intending two games on the 24th May and can accommodate 3 or 4 more players.

I will be finalising arrangements for this event before I go on holiday on 7th April, so can anyone wishing to join us please let me know by 3rd April latest.

Thanks
PP

We currently have six or seven players, including three (or hopefully four) from this forum - Dukla passer, wittman, Private Panic (me!) and hopefully Spirally.

So now intending two games on the 24th May and can accommodate 3 or 4 more players.

I will be finalising arrangements for this event before I go on holiday on 7th April, so can anyone wishing to join us please let me know by 3rd April latest.

Thanks
PP

That sounds rather like me in my 42.2 forum game against witt!

@innohub:

My humble opinion is if your J strategy’s top priority is about capturing India, consolidating J Navy is perhaps a better option than PHGL so that you have 100% focus on Middle East.

Looking forward to your battle report :roll:

Thanks innohub. Good to hear that I might be on the right track, as you always wonder whether your “lessons” are just blind alleys created by basic newbie errors elsewhere.  :-)

Just to register the value of Pearl Harbour light, I can imagine playing it if G has control of the N Atlantic. BM probably uses PHGL because he always achieves that. Then there is value to reducing the US fleet that will challenge G.  Plus there is a little more time for J to get to Moscow before the Allies get across the Atlantic. So not given up on it yet, just trying to place it within the strategic “map” of the game. :|

Thanks innohub

Somehow my posting has been duplicated on this board and you’ll see from the other thread that I had the same thought.  The joy of trying out different things and learning for myself ….

Cheers
PP

Happy to help and would try my upmost to make a date(!). You will enjoy 42. Lovely sculpts!

Yes - those extra infantry certainly do help  :-)

@Private:

In that case, Herr Hauptsturmfuhrer, I would be honoured to serve as your Rottenfuhrer.

The Tommies await us at Villers Bocage.
(I had a beer there in a cafe’, on the main thoroughfare, dreaming of that 13th June day.)