Unfortunately the game between me and Broccolini was discontinued. Broccolini just was not feeling any will to play. He seemed honestly unsure why he could not muster any enthusiasm. In the 27 or 28 years I have been playing I think I know what he was experiencing.

Your in that heady rush of ...

traowchris007 wrote: Sat Sep 27, 2025 3:31 pm I know the scenario well, willing to play either side.

I'd take you up on that.

Absolutely Yes. You see it in lots of scenarios.

Amazing
The brackets appear to be the problem. Once the turn was sent without them the turn worked.

Of note you don't appear to be able to fix this on your end. I did try renaming the file that was sent to me to something without brackets and that did not work.

Not Zipped but the turn was called something like (A1). Maybe that can be an issue?

So Brocolini and myself tried to start a new game of Fall Grau. I sent him a turn he sent one back and for some reason my password would not open the turn. I just click the password 3 times and it boots me out for constant failure.

Well that is very odd... maybe I somehow screwed up entering ...

So Brocolini and myself tried to start a new game of Fall Grau. I sent him a turn he sent one back and for some reason my password would not open the turn. I just click the password 3 times and it boots me out for constant failure.

Well that is very odd... maybe I somehow screwed up entering my ...

1st turn sent!

We have a game.

Hi Broccolini
Yes I am still very much interested in a game. Sorry it took me so long to notice the message. I had stopped checking particularly regularly after about three weeks though I honestly should be more patient.

Have you had a chance to download the most recent version of the scenario ...

I would like to get into a game of Fall Grau

Worth noting that I am one of the designers of the scenario so I know it well - though I don't think the scenario has any secret tricks or anything that would give me some out of left field advantage.

Here is a Zip of ODD I had lying around on my computer.

Phew yeah turns out its pretty difficult to find time to get on my computer now

After the second encirclement of the Allies in the North West I attack along every axis of advance diluting my assault. This was a gamble that no longer worked because here, finally, Ben was really able to find ...

Conclusion
I had a lot to learn during the course of this scenario and it took the whole scenario to learn the lessons. The net result was that I would take very high losses over the entire course of the match and the fact that I was still launching successful offencives even into the 70’s is ...

StuccoFresco wrote: Mon Jul 31, 2023 4:26 pm I love the commentary on the AAR, they reveal so much about the scenario and the commanders' thinking.

Glad you enjoy.

Turns 70-90
During the final 20 turns of the match I make some mistakes but in my mind I had lost the match prior to this point and my play here is mostly not too terrible. During this period both Ben and I are on the offencive in different parts of the map. I very much think that if I had simply ...

Turns 60-70
In many ways this period is just a continuation of the last period of the match with my Axis reacting to continued offensives by Ben’s Allies. However, here we do, finally begin to see me transitioning slowly from a defencive posture to an offencive one. If I had not been so crippled ...

Turns 50-60
The Nadir of the Axis though that really starts more like on turn 49 and ends in and about turn 64. What I describe here is more about the long Axis Nadir even though I split these posts up into 10 turn posts.

Reading back through the AAR both Ben and I actually seem to far ...

Turns 40-50

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This chart shows the spread of the Loss Rate throughout the Scenario. I reach the peak of the spread on turn 39 with it reaching 51. Not actually all that good for the Axis but after this period it enters a massive decline which is only recovered on turn 65 where ...

Turns 30-40
In a match of Fall Grau if the period from around turn 30 until the something like turn 43 are really extremely key because the Axis advantage is now acute and it just keeps climbing until something like turn 43 when an absolute stream of Allied units starts to pour onto the map… right ...

The question I have pertains to the air war. Near the end I seem to recall Jeremy claiming he had air superiority - probably due to the jets. Meanwhile, during this phase, Ben was shifting forces by rail extensively (it seemed). Costly to do against air superiority. Was Jeremy making good use of ...