Round 2 2vs2 Sandeman/MarshallArt vs GKar/MrQuiet

[Sandeman]

Germany Win'40

Axis screenshot powers are indeed weak today as I was in a hurry[:(] However, TLC fell with no loss to the Germans and the Luftwaffe sent a transport to the bottom of the Bay

Turn sent to Marshall Art

[Marshall Art]

Winter 1940 in Asia - as usual Chinese targets are sought, with 2 militia being killed among some resource bombing.

turn sent to GKar.

[GKar]

SU/China, Winter '40: Business as usual...

Turn sent to MrQuiet.

[MrQuiet]

WA Winter40

Happy to finally have the Yanks in on the Wartime Production.
Shuffled some troops around France and cancelled everyones leave. Gray skies loom in the French Countryside.

Did light sub hunting in the Atlantic with zero results to show for our supply that was consumed (see SS) maybe next season..

Turn sent to Sandman

[Sandeman]

GE Spr'40

E.France falls as it is lightly defended, however our Soviet friends have not had their border war with Rumania yet [:@]

Not to worry MrQ, that sub that escaped you last turn more than made up for its good luck this time. Here's the result of it attacking transports...

[Marshall Art]

Japan Spring 1940 - continued bombing raids, one factory destroyed, another damaged, see SC. Boy we like those auto-hits if they happen on OUR side [;)]
One Chinese factory remains operational.

turn sent to GKar.

[GKar]

SU/China, Spring '40: You know the deal. The Chinese have seen better times though.

Turn sent to MrQuiet.

[MrQuiet]

WA Spring1940

We threw a lot of fleets at one elite sub off of Africa with no results [:(]
English CAG group did a bit of air to ship fighting in the Baltic Sea with the result of 1 damaged HF.

Not much else to report

[Sandeman]

GE Sum'40

Yugo and Norway welcome our army, and the Luftwaffe hits Scotland again with a little less success. Mussolini apparently needs another month to prepare for war [:@]

Turn sent to Marshall Art

[Marshall Art]

Japan Summer 1940 - more destruction of the Chinese Infrastructure. slowly our pilots get some practice, medals...

SC shows results of our heroic spies...

turn sent to GKar.

[GKar]

SU/China, Summer '40: Still not much to do.

Turn sent to MrQuiet.

P.S. Sorry for the slight delay, I'm not at home right now.

[GKar]

One more thing: Is it normal for Germany to get "attack help" bonus points on the dice rolls when fighting against neutrals like Yugoslavia or Norway? The combat reports showed such bonuses for Sandemans troops, but I never saw that before.

[MrQuiet]

ORIGINAL: GKar

One more thing: Is it normal for Germany to get "attack help" bonus points on the dice rolls when fighting against neutrals like Yugoslavia or Norway? The combat reports showed such bonuses for Sandemans troops, but I never saw that before.

After you mentioned this I checked and indeed there was attack help modifiers in the battles against the neutrals.
I looked in the game settings and no attack help is set up in there but I did notice the difficulty was set to 'easy' and possibly this applies to battles vs neautrals.

Of the Neutral battles from last turn the attack help made no difference in what the battle results would have been from what I could tell.

Ok, WA Summer40

The Germans had sent there FJ on up to Norway to rattle some cages and stake a claim on the peaceful neutral nation. With no German reinforcements sent in to help quell the population the WA was called upon to help liberate the people before any more real damage could be done. FJ was pushed into a corner and destroyed with no escape route.

Norway has be re-fortified and the Allies are cranking out lots of war machines to put an end to Axis aggression.

Turn sent to Sandman

[GKar]

ORIGINAL: MrQuiet

After you mentioned this I checked and indeed there was attack help modifiers in the battles against the neutrals.
I looked in the game settings and no attack help is set up in there but I did notice the difficulty was set to 'easy' and possibly this applies to battles vs neautrals.

That was my guess as well, but I wondered why Germany got +1 and +2 bonuses while the defending unit usually had -1. Or is attack help doubled for bombardment attacks (before the final doubling)?

[Marshall Art]

Correct me if I am wrong but when Russia, WA are attacked for the first time, they have to face the surprise rule penalty, or the Axis powers enjoy a free shot almost, respectively. Maybe the other neutral Nations are falling under the same rule? (Except that the first battle is in most cases the last) I looked into the rules but did not find a reference to that so I is just a guess... I would be surprised that the EASY setting would be applied towards the neutrals in an PBEM.

[Sandeman]

Germany Fa'40

Sub war is still dismal...my elite u-boat finally took a hit from a transport [:@] MrQ caught me unprepared in Norway, however it did cost him a few destroyed transports afterward.

It seems odd that the difficulty setting could impact combat vs neutrals in PBEM, if that's the case we'll have to remember to make sure it's always on normal. I never considered it would be a factor when starting up the game...

[Marshall Art]

Fall 1940 - Japan's glorious Airforce succeeded to torch another Chinese factory despite heavy AA with no losses. It was noticed WA seem to be interested in Japan's secrets...

Turn sent to GKar.

[christian brown]

Correct me if I am wrong but when Russia, WA are attacked for the first time, they have to face the surprise rule penalty

IIRC, the "Surprise Rule" affects any FROZEN region......neutrals qualify.

[MrQuiet]

Yougo and Norway are not frozen.
Surprise Rule does not effect neutrals.
 
I never noticed any combat help in any other pbem.
I am still guessing it is the 'easy' setting in the game settings.

[GKar]

ORIGINAL: Marshall Art

Correct me if I am wrong but when Russia, WA are attacked for the first time, they have to face the surprise rule penalty, or the Axis powers enjoy a free shot almost, respectively. Maybe the other neutral Nations are falling under the same rule?

It's not the "frozen" rule, it's "combat help" which you normally set up in the game settings.

As long as it occurs only against neutrals, I don't think it's much of an issue.