WAW version 5T

[cveta]

Tips for Japan - hmm, from  my ( WEST ) side of story - sink your ships, dismiss your soldiers and surender to us.

[RufusTFirefly]

Axis Sep 40

Advance in Yugoslavia. Zagreb taken, Belgrad bombed.

Italiens launched an unsuccessful attack in Egypt and lost several rifles.

Lots of recon flights of RAF at the French Channel coast. They might look for a olace to land units. Well, they might try ...

Some bomb raids near Dresden destroyed a bridge. High skilled German engineers build it quickly up again.

[cveta]

Yugoslav forces tried to run thru Albania to be evacuated but they were repulsed by Italian army.
British forces counterattack Italians in S. Africa. Italians were pushed back. Way to Tobruk seems open. I wonder when will Desert fox interfere in this theathre. Italian subs sinked, but not all. Three of them have umbeliveble luck. They were attacked by fighters, carier air, ships and they survived sinking our sub and DD. Two bombers down in attack on Amsterdam. And that is about all in this turn.

[bwheatley]

Ran turn just tried to build more before the invasion of china.

[RufusTFirefly]

Axis Oct 40

Successful attack of Italien corps wipped out a Yugoslavian corps. German units moved deep into Yugoslavia.

In N-Africa the Italien had to retreat after having suffered heavy losses in the fight against the British army.

[cveta]

Anather wictory against Italian subs. Their luck run out. British forces executed advance toward Tobruk. We tray to suround Italians. Will they menage to escape? Wiena bombed. And in process we learn that airports are full of German LB.We distroyed 2. Then order came to attack again andwe almost completly destroyed Wiena and kill some more LB. Air battle over France was a German wictory. Few of our fighters goes down.

[cveta]

Turn done and send.
Attack on Italian ships failed. Now England Mediteranean nawy is waiting for axis to strike.
Italian inf. units pushed behind Tobruk. Mesina is surounded.
Raid on France cost. Chebour taken.
No bombing of Germany this turn.

[tweber]

Jan turn sent.  I think the Axis Europa made a mistake on the garrison and I am now at war with Germany.  The Germans did not move across the border and my troops are retreating quickly to the interior.  China is quiet for now

[ehzorg]

Uh oh... bad news for the Reich.

[cveta]

LOL - if Su is at war with Axis this early then we may expect red banner over Berlin next year. I need USA to enter the conflict to be able to inflict greter demage to Germany, so Su have a bigeer chance then me to win this game. But of course we must play the game first to discuss the wictory. I am talking about chances only. And I wonder when will JA strike.

[bwheatley]

this is the game where i am japan right?? I think there is a typo at the top it said i'm russia!

So i was a little worried. Japan going to war with china today..

banzai!

[cveta]

ORIGINAL: bwheatley

this is the game where i am japan right?? I think there is a typo at the top it said i'm russia!

So i was a little worried. Japan going to war with china today..

banzai!

Mistake fixed - at the start of this AAR we still didnot have fixed sides, so I made mistake. Sorry.

[tweber]

Feb Turn sent.  Soviets are moving East slowly.  I want to set up a good defensive line.  Same with Chinese.

[cveta]

March turn done and sended.
Advance in Italy toward Tripoli. In Greece still holding a line. Even tray to be funny and make some attack, but I was repulsed. Athens destroyed by German LB.
Italians nawy win a battle for Mediteranean see after all. But for how long?
In France - captured 2 small ports. Since no counterattack slightly building troops there. In an air battle killed 1 tank and 1 fighter and some infantry and I lose 1 fighter. LB spoted Munich without protection so we destroyed the city.
Preparations for a war with JA in full progress.
 

[tweber]

Turn sent.  Found a bug in the scenario.  I went to war with Germany on the Jan 1941 turn and my production went to 100%.  However, the event that triggers the waking up of the SU has now reset my production back down to 55% so I could be in big trouble depending if and when the production increase comes. 
 
 

[cveta]

ORIGINAL: tweber

Turn sent.  Found a bug in the scenario.  I went to war with Germany on the Jan 1941 turn and my production went to 100%.  However, the event that triggers the waking up of the SU has now reset my production back down to 55% so I could be in big trouble depending if and when the production increase comes. 

LOL - anather bug. It realy destroys the good game.
Can something be done about this? This scenario is too ggod and only things that kills it are large amount of bugs.

[tweber]

Actually, I think the German side was dead with an accidental DOW against the SU so early.  I think this makes the game more interesting and gives them a second chance.  We should keep playing and see what happens.  With the SU at full production, I think the Germans would have lost in 1942.

[cveta]

Turn done and send
 
Retreating in Greece slowly. Advancing in N. Africa [:'(]
Kiled 4 fighters in France wich intercepted my much stronger force. Slowly building in France, wondering how long will I last there.
Milan knocked out together with bridges near the city. I wonder will Germany have enought Enginers to repair the demage? Munich still down to 400.
 

[RufusTFirefly]

ORIGINAL: tweber

Actually, I think the German side was dead with an accidental DOW against the SU so early.  I think this makes the game more interesting and gives them a second chance.  We should keep playing and see what happens.  With the SU at full production, I think the Germans would have lost in 1942.

Yes, with SU having 100 percent production at beginning of the war, Axis would have lost quickly. But that is not a question of early start of war. Balancing was made presuming that SU starts with reduced production capacity. So in any case the capacity should be around 50 percent, no matter when war begins.
It would make sense to compare the chances for Axis at early start of war and at late start, but both times SU starting with reduced capacity. In case SU starts with full production Axis is lost in any case, independent from time that war begins. A late start would in this case only allow Axis to hold back the Russian counterattacks a bit longer.

The start of war in the east in this game was not intended so early, but it was intended to begin earlier than normally. The idea was not to start moving when springs comes, but already at the end of winter. So at begining of spring the German offensive should already be rolling and better weather would enable the advancing forces to speed up.

Similar strategy was done in western campaign. War against France started in winter. But my plans were not successful. My intention was to defeat France earlier and start transfer of army groups from France to Poland earlier. France was defeated nearly at the same time as normally, so no additional time for deployment in the east was won (and by the way I missed to keep the limit to avoid an immediate start of war with SU).

As you noticed I am playing a bit different than it is done in other games. Germany does not attack Denmark and Norway. Taking Scandinavia would force German to defend a very long coast line. And British naval forces could pass Skagerak and sail to Baltic Sea. I wanted to avoid this. As well there is no German effort to support Italy in N-Africa. The Italiens are retreating and it is not the aim of Axis to take N-Africa as soon as possible. If this way is successful or not we will see.

[RufusTFirefly]

ORIGINAL: tweber

Turn sent.  Found a bug in the scenario.  I went to war with Germany on the Jan 1941 turn and my production went to 100%.  However, the event that triggers the waking up of the SU has now reset my production back down to 55% so I could be in big trouble depending if and when the production increase comes. 

SU starting with 100 percent production capacity was disadvantage for Axis. SU now falling back to 55 percent is adisadvantage for SU. But is it not only a compensation of the disadvantage that Axis has had at the beginning?