Mayhemizer vs AllenK: The rematch

[Mayhemizer_slith]

9 is just what I needed.

[AlbertN]

I'd have sent 2 and 2 Yugos in Trieste and Pola and supplied them via UK / London and convoys - much more tenable positions.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

German planes rebases to east.

On a 9 turn continues.

I got very lucky this impulse during naval combat and managed to mess that up. I need to be more careful in the future. That kind of mistakes during Barbarossa will cost a lot...

Edit: (Forgot to say earlier) Italy rails MIL to East Prussia.
Germany rails one artillery to East Prussia and another one to Rumania. INF HQ rails from France to Poland.

[WIF_Killzone]

The tide turns back to the Axis. Greece looks like its a goner. A little luck and some perseverance pays off. What year/month are you in?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Allied next impulse will be M/A 1941 #12.

One impulse will not chance tide of war. Greece is gone, Axis retreated there. And Yugoslavia is not taken yet. There will be a second front if I start Barbarossa next turn and it is always bad.

[AlbertN]

To start Barbie in Jul / Aug seems a terrible option in my eyes. Usually your planes give support in the opening phase and they're stuck there for the rest of the turn (unless you use your HQs, which are needed for supply ... ).

And leaving Greece as a foothold for the Allies in Europe sounds extremely bad but ...

[Mayhemizer_slith]

For sometime there has been only bad options for Axis. I try to do as well as possible as long as possible... If I'm going down I will take as many as possible with me.

Edit: Japan is doing OK. Europe is a mess...

[AllenK]

M/A 41 Allies 12

No DoW

All Combined except China Land.

US and CW moves Trans about.

Although 4 areas were available for Naval Combat, CW declined 3 (Nth Atlantic, Cape St Vincent & Italian Coast). In East Med, the Beaufighter initiates searching. Does the Italian sub wish to stick it's conning tower above the parapet?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

No thank you. Sub goes to the bottom and waits for turn end.

[AllenK]

Rolls of Allies 5, Axis 7 draw a blank.

USSR rearranges units in the North.

With things as they are in China, the Nationalists launch some last ditch attacks. The Yugoslavian army pitches in with an attack on Budapest.

Which combat tables would the Axis like to use?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

I was wondering if you go for Budapest. I almost regret taking CAV away from covering Budapest... This is getting interesting.

Assault please.

[AllenK]

The Yugoslavian army comes up trumps with a 16.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

I choose assault in every combat.

[AllenK]

A 14 is good enough to deal with the SNLF.

[AllenK]

A 19 completes a bad impulse for the Japanese marines.

[AllenK]

The final assault sees the demise of the Shanghai Mil.

[AllenK]

USSR rebases a couple of Ftr's.

On a 6, turn ends.

A partisan appears in Greece.

US adds a chit to the Jap pool. US elects to freeze Japanese assets. A roll of 9 means no effect on tension. They also transfer a number of destroyers in the reserve fleet to the RN. On a 7, international tensions begin to rise as a chit moves into the Ge/It tension pool.

[AlbertN]

It looks like Yugoslavia conquered Hungary if the turn ended!

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Indeed. And everyone in Rumania and Greece are OOS

Looks like the end is near...

[AllenK]

It did.

No breakdowns.

CW scraps the 2 Ftr losses and the Greek and Yugoslav CL losses.

Production

Germany 26
MIL
2x INF
2x pilot
LND3
FTR3
FTR2
ARM

Italy 6
MIL
LND4

Japan 17
TER
MIL
ENG div
TRANS (2nd)
CV Hiyo (2nd)
3x CP
Pilot

Vichy France
Save 1BP in Toulon

China 4
Inf
Cav Div

CW 25
FTR-2 x2
Pilot
CP x2
Marine
Para
Repair 3 CA/CL
Lnd-4
Inf

US 10
BB Washington 2nd
Sub 2nd
Ftr-2
Pilot
CVP

USSR 15
Arm
Inf HQ
Garr
Cav

Hungary conquered by CW

Factory in Zagreb is destroyed.