New game of WAW U2 ( Bono V.) version

[kondor]

You should say so earlier. I am in no mood to load the game twice only to take SS. And I am in no mood to help Hitler, SU IS going to win this war and the war is going just fine... Germans will be repulsed by superrior SU army... Not a single major city will fall... so say comrade Stalin![;)]

[cveta]

Well comerade Stalin jour pathetic counterattacks were repulsed. Anather siberin units withrow after KG Hafner attack. Also forces that left Moscov forts are attached - 1 unit repulsed.
USA subsin medspoted and reduced to 1 single ship. But now we are exposed to attack from british carier air.
LRLC protected with batleship spoted and unsuscesfuly attacked near Tunisian coast. Lucky you.
Norway is lost. We will make last stand in Oslo. In gathering our forces in the city 1 British units repulsed.
France partisans become problem. We have problems to keep suplay lines open. West is gathering strong force in France. Good.They will be good training forour new recruits.

Japan theathre:
After USA main fleet take the bait and exposed their location JA carriers grouped and attack enemy. We have advantage of numbers, and we have some carier air III but enemy win air battle. Kondor will put SS but add to that 4 carier air III I lost in recon mission.
In Singapore area we closed the city. Ihope that ake we will take it next turn.
China partisans massed and now we face a ehole rebel army in Beinng ( aproximatly 50 or more partisan ). Japan soldiers were unable to take the city. Reinforcements on the way. Kondor did great job with air raid and reducing the number of defenders below 20 pp

[kondor]

Yes, those DD-s where the bait. Clever move by Cveta, but I am no stupid either. After attack on those DD-s I ordered fleet to port in Wake where they had some FT III cover.

Cveta lost 4 CAG-s on recon attack, and then he sent the rest... I am surprised by their numbers...

One sailor on USS UpYours informed his NCO that he sees a lots of ducks in the sky.[&:]
NCO sounded an alarm saing those are not ducks, but we did have a duck hunt afterall[;)].

Cveta underestimated value of FT cover + decent number of CA in fleet, by I am happy that no ship get sunked...

On my turn I did duck hunting of my own. IJN fleet easily spotted shimmerin on the sun, and I ordered an attack (again supported by FT- s III) on the most valuable target... I hopet that it was an error on Cveta's part that he singled out CV-III Junyo, making it an easier target. Ofcourse that other CAG-s intercepted but I hoped that some of my CAG-s will manage to sink that ship... But no, again even Steven occured[:)].

How hard can it be- destroy one big single ship with a bulseye... red sun painted all over her flight deck?! I will have to reduce grog rations for all CAG-s from now on!

I am sorry that I didn't take SS of my counterattack, but you can see in kills that losses where equal.. ignore those BB-s and CA-s, they belong to Italian casulties and we will get to them soon...[;)]

But all comes down to, that both fleets are still in the game, only I can replace losses better than Japs can...

Time is working against me do.

[kondor]

Other areas where hot also. In Med. Formidable task group is perfroming admirable. Regia Italia is no longer a threat, it has become home for squids, crabs and similar creachers that dwell on the seabottom[:'(].

Again USA subs in Med. did a dirty work of spotting and transfering info of Italians whereabouts, and CAG-s came in to finish them off. Finnaly! They where a pain in the ass...

[kondor]

In Atlantic last remaining Kriegsmarine BB-Tirpitz, was destroyed with his escort.
Responsable where Canadian fast DD II cleaning group. If there is no subs, they will take on anything else they can found (and sink[:D])

[kondor]

In Norway my heroic but tired soldiers tried an attack on Oslo. But the winter time, exhaustion, lack of supplies + good GE defending tactics made that an utter failure... Better luck next time...

[kondor]

Singapoure is doomed, it's defender fight valiantly but IJA is just to strong there. And there the IJ will get adittional victory points...

So far very interesting game, we will see where it would lead us... Cveta and I are still learning but it is a good striketothebone kind of a war.[:)]

[cveta]

Well Germany and Italy wont have to use any more supplay for ships. All sinked. RIP for all sailors.

[kondor]

SU is still trying to launch a proper offensive... One at Dnepropetrovsk failed with 50% bonus on top of winter bonus...[:@]
At least attack managed to make HQ immobile destroying all of it's trucks...

China nothing much... It seems that my HQ (newly made) dissapears in Beijing... I have made new one this turn to make sure... I'll see if will it dissapear next turn (if Cveta doesn't take it first).

[cveta]

Antipartisan activity in France. Spoted and sinked LRLC with troops on board near Norway. And some fighting in N. Africa.That is all in West front

[cveta]

In East German forces withrow to Smolensk. Also a smallwithrowin Leningrad area. Antipartisan activity as usual. In Dnepropetrovsk area Siberian unit attacked by LF,artilery and land forces. Here are the results. Attack was executed when rediness of SU foces were down to 5 points,but Ivan fights back

[cveta]

Singapore area - we take suplay depot near the city, and JA batleship bombed the forts. Land attack was prosponded. JA carriers withrow to refuel. 6 Chinese partisans appear. Last turn 1 partisan unit appear over JA inf. unit consisting of 10 rifles and partisans win??? This turn partisan appears over art unit and killed 4 art peaces and rest were transfred to a conected hex??? Ist his a regular partisan behavior? Usualy partisan unit that appers over enemy units dies, but this time they win. Didnot find any rule about that so can somebady explain that.
This is the hardest game I ever played,so I dont need suprises like this. Kondor gives me enought suprises

[explorer2]

The partisan unit that defeated 10 riflemen is pretty rare, that's probably just really bad luck. How much XP did your rifllemen have? That can make a big difference.

Partisans killing aritllery: did you have the artillery defended by any infantry? If not, that's not an unusual result, pretty much any infantry attack on artillery that are not defended goes very bad for artillery.

So, no, there are no special rules for partisans other than how many appear, which is based on if you meet the conditions to reduce their numbers.

One thing I have noted as I watch partisans appear that seems to be hard coded into AT code somehow, or just my imagination, but they seem to appear more often on roads than non-road hexes. I can't find anything in the coding to make this happen, so maybe it's my imagination, but when I play I focus my efforts on putting anti-partisan units on roads.

Good luck!

[cveta]

Units consist of 10 rifles,I dont know exp status. Report sed that 2-3 rifles died and 3-4 partisan dies. At the start of my turn my unit dessapear and partisan appear. Art. unit consist of 6 art. Partisan killed 4 and 2 were redeployed to a hex close by.

[kondor]

Donno about any partisans killing any arty, but I am maybe to tired...
Oslo and Dnepropetrovsk attacks stalled...

Formidable fleet in Med. did a bad air raid over Tobruk, lost few CAG-s by interceptors... Pushed few Rommel units back, encircling forward ones...

Admiral Halsey fleet in Pacific continued with good results. This time IJN forward HQ Yamamoto got hit. All transports down+1 fortress, no casulties on my own...
IJN navy got another BB II and CV II...

Beijing HQ proparly formed.

[cveta]

I still cannot belive how much luck you have. My attack on any port guarded by costal batteries will end with few loses inplanes. And if the city is guarded with 3 costal batteries myplanes will be decimated. I dont know how to hell you menage to do this, same thing in Rome, without loses.

[kondor]

I must admit I am surprised by this combat to. I was decimated at London, attacking with stronger force... I was wondering how this combat will end up. It went well...[:)]

As you stated at Rome it was similar thing, and you at Singapoure lost only few CAG-a (probably from FT-s) so my conclusion is that Coastal fort. (CF) are not efficient against CAG-s. OR CF-s built by USA&Japan are weaker (less XP or something)... I saw that English ones are soon on 100 XP...
But I think that they are weaker against CAG-s.

Srndac did attack S. Francisco in this scenario version, how did that went? Lots of casulties or?

[srndac]

I lost just 1 CAG for all the damage done - which includes 1 coastal fortress along with most of the ships and all but 1 carrier with 7 CAG.
But kondor - you have to remember - this was done on the first turn of pacific blitz!
The yanks had 100 readiness penalty - and it's surprising that I lost so little of my attacking force - exception to the rule I might say.

[82ndtrooper]

people forget that there is a random dice roll every combat round and that while most of the time things go like they should there is always a chance that anything can happen due to this roll. Sometimes it goes your way and sometimes it doesn't. This simulates how one person in a fight in the right place at the right time can change things or how sometimes in combat a smaller force wins against all odds.  

[cveta]

I know hat "lady luck" is wery important part of any game. But I belive that the problem is in so many changes in this scenario- This is the best scenario in AT serial I played so far ( 6th army is weryclose to thitle ) but I play 5 games at the moment. And in 4 of thouse 5 there are some changes made, so it make realy hard to follow the development of things.
Example - game ( I dont knowthe name of the version anymore ) in wich I am Germany, Rufus is West, Tom is Japan and VAnce is SU/China air atack on London, wich was defended by costal bateries, was a death to 50% of attacking force. No matter if we talking about fighters, LB or DB. I reopen that turn multiple times ( long after England was capured ) and in every attack I lost 50% or more in planes.
Kondor got a similar results in a game WAW Bono Wox wersion.
In wersion 2T attacks went withot any problem at all.
So I dont blame anybaydy exept myselve becouse of this. But it is unreal to attack ports with costal batteries with planes and score a major victory without loses ( 2 times). Also goes for the subs attacks. I attack ports with transport ships inside and almost always sink some or all cargo ships with small losses to the sub.