AllenK vs Mayhemizer AAR

[AllenK]

The Japs may come to regret their effort in China.

[AllenK]

However, at least one of those troublesome Cav units in Manchuria has been taken care of.

[AllenK]

Noting the arrival of Soviet air-power, two Jap fighters rebase to Mukden.

A Me-109 rebases from Germany to Belgium.

Von Rundstedt re-orgs 3 land units, an artillery and a Stuka.

The weather roll is a 3.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Overall pretty good results, CW did not hold Antwerp till 1941... I'm relieved you rolled 5 in exactly right combat.

Allies will counter attack!

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Job well done beating that bug! How many times did you go through those air to air combats?

[AllenK]

A good 20-30, possibly more as I wasn't counting. It was only by chance I got the right result to get past the bug yesterday but it did happen again with the experimentation. After that it was noting the parameters, recreating the scenario and testing the bug was worked around. Once I knew how to get around it, I could reproduce the combats in such a way as to keep the original results. I did also get past the bug on one occasion when I had started with Antwerp and ran the Belgium combat second but I never managed to recreate that.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

M/J 1940 Allied 3

No DoW

CW and US combined, USSR, China and France land.

NAVAL
CW brings MIL and 2x INF div from India to Suez. Spitfire is transported from Gabon to Cape Town.
How stupid must a man be to choose a 3 range Trans for a mission to take Spitfire from UK to Egypt? This may take a while, but once we get it there it will start raining Italian planes...

GROUND STRIKE
Nationalist Chinese are testing their luck by ground striking with factor 1 as Japanese fighters left to Manchuria. If target is hit, land troops will put them OOS and make a brave attack.
CW is bombing Brussels with Wellington, escorted by Nimrod.

Does Germany want to intercept Brussels with last remaining fighter in Belgian front? If so, where does it land (assuming it survives confrontation with mighty RAF)?

EDIT: 48,8% to hit something in Brussels.

[AllenK]

Yes please, intercept and land back where it came from.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

With expected losses bomber is trough! Nimrod did it's job: took a hit to protect bombers.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

All that effort for nothing...

[Mayhemizer_slith]

No early Christmas for Chinese...

[Mayhemizer_slith]

3 land combats are declared (China, Manchuria and Egypt)

Attack in China is a calculated risk, Japanese HQ alone is too good not be attacked when all other troops near him are disorganized.
Attack in Manchuria has 1% chance to cause casualty to USSR.
Attack in Egypt... Well, desperate times need desperate actions. With a good roll CW is doing fine. With a bad roll Italy is free to take Egypt any countries in Middle East.

Does Japan want to use HQ defensive support and is it going to be assault or blitz?

[AllenK]

Go with Blitz but no defensive HQ support.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Japanese HQ is destroyed. Communist Chinese are disorganized. Mao is very happy.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

With a cost of ARM HQ Italian MECH is shattered.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

As usual, the best roll was saved for the easiest attack

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Forgot to say earlier some rail moves:

France rails GARR from Nice to Lille.
USSR rails GARR to Vladivostok, CAV and INF from Murmansk to German front.

USSR rebases IL-4 to Manchuria.
CW rebases Gladiator on CV in North Sea. Spitfire is rebased closer to better transporter in South Africa. Beaufort is rebased to Malta.
France is setting air forces so that they can reach each hex in Belgian front line.

France uses the last HQ and reorganizes artillery and ARM. Decision was based on what intelligence people told Germany will do next. Let's see if they were right...

Back to Axis.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Egypt after impulse 3.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Northern France and Belgium.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Northern China and Manchuria.