<t> Interesting strategy and I will be very interested in seeing it how it will play out. I've repeatedly heard WiF veterans saying it can't work, but I'm not sure I agree. I've read about a few failures, but I felt the Axis made mistakes in these games.<br/>
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Beyond the obvious thing about ...

Lisbon is an excellent naval base, I'd take it as soon as Gibraltar falls.

Great game! I'm following it with a great deal of interest. The axis had a hard time in France but the complete conquest and excellent progress in China seem to have tipped the balance a little bit toward the axis side.

Do you have a blitz loss taker in southern Spain?

It might be a good idea to build out your navs and fighters that can get into the 2 box. The siege of Southern Spain and Gibraltar could drag on. It's also an excellent way to inflict casualties on the RN.

<t> That said, since that stack is entirely made of spanish units who will be in supply anyway, and it's already fully flipped (I think) - you might not get better odds and you probably need that hex eventually. So I think that attack is a good idea, especially since the turn might not last much ...

<t> I would tend to go along with JT's take on this. You should have sufficient troops to contain the CW in the NW and keep pushing for Gibraltar.<br/>
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Eventually you can turn the Bay of Biscay and NW spain into a deathtrap for the CW. You'll need sufficient fighters and Navs to swarm the 2 ...

I think there should be just 1 US entry roll for Spain, not 1 for Italy and Germany each. Is that a bug? I think I have seen that happen before too.

I'm enjoying this AAR immensely! Thanks for taking the time to write it up.

Excellent progress in France. You may be trying to do too much in Poland though. I wouldn't rush it - you can't deploy most of the units there back to the western front anyway, there's no room.

Nice! Thanks for keeping this going. I'm getting my daily fix of WiF through this AAR.

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I'm going to wrap this game up as a conclusive Axis victory.<br/>
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Although the Allies initially did pretty well against Italy and Japan is weaker and lost China, the Germans are already in a pretty unbeatable position (in terms of ...

<t> I would say it's making the attack on Belgium a lot more difficult, not just a little. Like Jagtiger said, the cost is at least an O-chit to crack the Dyle, with a chance of failure as well.<br/>
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Now if your opponent is not setup to move into the Dyle on the 2nd S/O axis impulse... then ...

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I think you pumped Tension way too much high up.<br/>
Usually my companion stops when he can get the 2nd Gear Up (Tension 17 about in both pools) and stops playing options.<br/>
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If you ...

It's strange and gamey, but not worth the 1.2 chits imo.

Thanks for keeping this up guys! Fascinating and instructive game, with cliffhanging moments at every turn.

Most likely

I was pointing it out because until then, the US have a +3 to their DoW roll - so it seems to me like it's premature.

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S/O 41 Axis 1

Japan declares war on US and CW. Japan had only 2 saved oil points left...

I thought the US didn't do their 2nd gear up yet?

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I need to learn to play this game. Even J/A is not long enough for me to move all my planes to correct places...

To be fair you only had 3 impulses.

There's a great Fall Gelb walkthrough thread by Warspite on this forum. Rotterdam truly is the key to defending the low countries. You need to be ready to deploy 2 corps into Rotterdam at all times. Failure to do so makes a Fall Gelb strategy much more reliable and deadly.