4 Player AAR with new PBEM - Game 3

[rjh1971]

Wi46 Japan

I lost one battleship from a stupid move in the previous turn.
IJN retreats so it has better air cover from land aircraft.
The US has more CV on the other side of Africa (Angola) but they won't be able to join the CVs in the Indian Ocean and still have movement points left to launch an attack on the IJN.

[kondor]

WI '46 Soviets
While Churchill and Eisenhower drink wine in warm Paris, my troops are bleeding in Austria.
I hoped that the WA would move onto German borders and tie up some of the enemy troops attacking in Austria.

Only winter and lack of supplies for my foe saved my units from retreating the last turn.

This turn Germany has 46 supplies to spend, not enough to move all of the troops, and I brought all I can spare, even militia units. All close to the GE borders.

How will we deal with IJ I don't know? It will be a well-deserved axis victory soon.

[tcart]

Germany Spring 46

The Germans have enough supplies to grind up the Red Army once more. This time the results are extremely favorable to me. Plus, with a quick supply run to Sweden I can resupply and rebuild virtually all of my losses.

I'm a little stretched in E. Germany, but I think I can fight off the militia hordes. Same goes for at the West Wall. The fort, plus my airpower should keep Patton in check. But who knows. One bad battle could end it.

This shows how tough Germany can be at the end, if she can retreat with most of her army. Unless the allies can force her to split her forces, she can pull a Frederick the Great and use interior lines to really grind her opponents.

[tcart]

Worth noting, too, that I didn't want to take Austria. In fact, winning the region would have doomed me, as I needed my defenders to retreat to their starting positions. Happily massed artillery did the trick while allowing me to hold a small fortress.

Given how badly the Russians were hit, maybe I can counterattack east. Onward to Moscow!

[rjh1971]

Sp 46 Japan

The WA allies sent five of their CAGs and wiped my air force in South India, two fighters destroyed and a heavy bomber damaged for one their CAGs damaged and another destroyed.

In this turn IJN is clearly still not prepared to attack the Soviet Union, the difference in artillery attack and armour attack is what tips the balance in favour of the soviets (9 vs 6)



A big clash took place in the Western Arabian sea. First all available fighters were sent to fend off the fighter cap. Then a second wave of Japanese CAGs followed, and last all near surface vessels were sent into battle. You can see the results in the next image.

[kondor]

ORIGINAL: tcart

Worth noting, too, that I didn't want to take Austria. In fact, winning the region would have doomed me, as I needed my defenders to retreat to their starting positions. Happily massed artillery did the trick while allowing me to hold a small fortress.

Yes, this is an excellent tactic. I've used something similar in the last game as GE. When I've attacked from Rumania and didn't actually want to invade into Kiev. Just send artillery to do the job and retreat.

Great defense of the reich.[&o]

[kondor]

SP '46 Soviets turn.
RA can't take these losses anymore, troops were called back. Excellent defense of the Reich left Stalin with a bloody nose.
I've checked the rules, the end is in the fall of '46. At that time, it's doubtful if we even can get Germany out of the war, and there is no way that we'll manage to get Japan on time.

Congratz guys on the brilliant victory.[&o]

[kondor]

In this turn, I've employed the RA airforce in the first major raid. Targeting railroads in the Czech., should press the GE supply issue a bit further.

[kondor]

Take a look at the horrific losses on all sides. War, what is it good for? [:D]

[rjh1971]

I'm pretty happy with Japan's losses [;)][:D]

[kondor]

Stalin is unaware that Japan even exists! [:D]

[tcart]

Germany Summer 46.
Fun game. Thanks everyone.

Not much for the Germans to report. With the Russians backing off I can push all of my units to W. Germany. An allied attack there will surely fail, given the West Wall.

A couple of notes: Germany is critically short of resources, but not factories. A sustained effort to bomb her few remaining resources could have paralyzed her. Same goes for my one remaining transport fleet. Control of the Baltic basically doubled my production.

Because it takes less manpower to rebuild damaged units, I have the luxury of replacing losses easily provided I can also build enough supplies. So Germany rebuilds 6 fighters to keep those nasty bombers away.

It's critical for the WA and SU to pressure Germany at the same time. It's impossible to defend a two front push. In this game I was lucky enough to only face one at a time. This is why I invested first in Uboats and then later in FTRs. That kept France secure and ensured that I could face Russia with most of my army.

This turn I could shift everything West. If the Russians had stacked up a suicide army in Poland I'd have been hard pressed to clobber it and also defend WG.

Japan was the real juggernaught in this game. Even a slightly better Barbarossa would have gotten us an AV on her coattails.

[rjh1971]

Su46 Japan

The WA allies invaded poorly defended Western India massing a big army for a further attack. This situation had to be dealt with.

A first air strike with fighters was sent to dislodge aircover over WA transport fleets. In fact there was only one fighter on the air the other was in the hold of a TF.

A second air strike was sent to destroy the bombers stationed in Oman but only one was damaged.

Then the TF in the bay of India were sent to the bottom of the sea. And now that the path was cleared IJN CVs set sail to hammer the stubborn WA main fleet damaging but failing to sinking any CV.

Nonetheless I believe the IJN plans in isolating the WA army in Western India have succeeded, Southern India was reinforced with troops from Manchuria and we will try to cast off those pesky "mosquitoes" in Western India [;)][:D]

A lonesome WA sub in Australia that was threatening our naval lanes was taken care of, operating so far from his naval base made it ran the same fate as our sub when it got damaged in Southern Africa, it was destroyed!



Here is how the situation looks like at the end of the turn.

[rjh1971]

And the production chart

[rjh1971]

You can replay the whole war and see how many victory points you had at each moment pressing the strategic map button in the tool bar at the top (in the image I copy pasted in the bottom)

The Axis reached its highest peak in the Fall of 1943.

[rjh1971]

And finally the production for Japan this turn

Oh and this makes my 4900 post in the forum [8D][:)][8D]

[kondor]

WoW! 4900![&o]
SU moves into W. Poland, just to witness a victory celebration in Berlin.
Congratz on a well-deserved win.

[rjh1971]

Fa46 Japan (Last turn!)

I made a mistake forgetting to place a tactical bomber in Southern India consequently I couldn't take advantage of the combined arms attack to expel the WA troops in Western India. Nonetheless all damaged WA units were destroyed as they didn't have a path to a factory to be repaired.

The US heavy bomber in Oman was also destroyed. In order to attack the transport fleet in the E. Med and the CAG in Cairo IJN launched an attack to neutralize the WA artillery an prevent it from firing at our CVs when they entered the Red Sea.

[rjh1971]

I wonder if Germany will hold or fall in this last turn. My bet is that they will hold against the Soviets but the WA will most probably take Western Germany.

Whatever the outcome kudos to Tim who was been able to fend off the Soviet and the WA's combined attacks. [&o][&o][&o]

[rjh1971]

Here is the production chart, the cassualties chart, and signint chart.