ALLENK, MAYHEMIZER AND THEIR ALLIES ONLY (Reverse AAR)

[ashkpa]

Is this right? Should Rumanian CP provide supply to ARM in Crimea?

I had this happen in my game with Ronnie. Took a while to confirm it, but it is correct. With the weather you have two hexes to get to a secondary or primary supply source. There are none within two hexes of a port along the Baltic and therefore you are out of supply.

[AllenK]

Leave Wavell where he is and go with the better defence. I like the idea of the 6-4 INF in Paris. Wavell is possibly safer on the coast anyway.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Game 2

OK.

Game 1

Germany can’t do much and they really need to move their planes. If Italy takes land/combined so that coastal hex on BoB is secured Germany takes air action, no rail moves or other air missions than rebasing all planes.

[AllenK]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Game 2

OK.

Game 1

Germany can’t do much and they really need to move their planes. If Italy takes land/combined so that coastal hex on BoB is secured Germany takes air action, no rail moves or other air missions than rebasing all planes.

With the rain starting early in the S/O turn, I think Germany has reached the high water mark (Japan passed that long ago). Time to hunker down and prepare the defence. I suspect the only attacks from now on will be counter-attacks to restore defensive lines (keep armour in reserve for these).

Not sure what you mean by securing the BoB coastal hex. We might have discussed this but I've gone back a few pages on the thread and can't find anything.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: AllenK

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Game 2

OK.

Game 1

Germany can’t do much and they really need to move their planes. If Italy takes land/combined so that coastal hex on BoB is secured Germany takes air action, no rail moves or other air missions than rebasing all planes.

With the rain starting early in the S/O turn, I think Germany has reached the high water mark (Japan passed that long ago). Time to hunker down and prepare the defence. I suspect the only attacks from now on will be counter-attacks to restore defensive lines (keep armour in reserve for these).

Not sure what you mean by securing the BoB coastal hex. We might have discussed this but I've gone back a few pages on the thread and can't find anything.

If Italy can move division to coastal hex and HQ closer to provide supply. If disorganized, that hex can easily be lost now.

[AllenK]

Game 1 I think Italy needs to do a land to cover all the moves I need. No Biscay attacks this impulse. Japan will be naval to put out escorts and ship another unit to Manchuria.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Italy land sounds good. Gernany will rail 2 units to Italy this turn. Make some room to La Spezia.

[AllenK]

Is Germany still going for 'air'?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Yes.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Game 2

Looking bad in France. Germany gets attacks with good odds in hexes with red circle. They can also breakthrough adjacent to Paris.

Can I ask CW to move Manchester MIL to same hex with London MIL and move Wavell to Lille? Shore bombardment will cover coastal hex and after moving another HQ to France CW can send fighter to cover those MIL.

France could move some units so that they have better defense in Paris (moving Paris MIL and AT gun to Paris leaving hex east of Paris very weak), but if weather gets bad (40% chance) I would like to hold lines one more impulse.

France can take combined and move sub from Oran to Italian Coast so that CW can rail SA MIL to Oran if they like to. France could move units in south, but it doesn't really matter.

What do you think? Should France retreat to Paris or take naval and move all battleships from Marseilles to West Med?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Game 2

If you start our impulse at some point, USSR instructions:

USSR combined.

Rail GAR from Kaunas to Lvov in southern Poland.

Land move
China
Com China CAV 2 hexes NE to 71,139
Lanchow MIL one hex SE 75,133

Europe
INF from Kaunas 2 hexes west 45,46
AA gun in Lithuania to 48,48
Ski div from Minsk to Kaunas

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Game 2

One risky option is full pass (40%).

[AllenK]

Game 2

Don't think 40% is good enough for that gamble.

Only slight change I would make to CW is to bring Wavall down to the London MIL. I don't like the idea of stacking 2 HQ's together (too tempting a target) and it would also prevent them getting the option of Blitz on the stack.

If we hold back on railing the SA MIL, you could use the naval move on the combined to put the BB's to sea. For the French land moves, if you're happiest holding the line for another impulse, do so. Use the land moves to move some units in the south. The MTN and GARR look worth moving.

I'm going to send the RAF to ground strike the stack west of Brussels for (hopefully) a bit of insurance for the weakened stack on the coast. Also goind to send TRANS to the Atlantic, ready for EoT rebase to Halifax. That will allow me to ship the Canadian MIL somewhere useful like Bayonne once the oils are moved/spent.

When turn ends, I suggest we share oil (if we are allowed) and spend 2 of possibly all the French ones. After that, CW will provide the oil. Although saying that, if the turn ends and winter weather sets in, perhaps worth keeping a bit more of the French oil.

What do you think?

We're in the hands of the dice for weather and turn end.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

CW plans sounds good.

France combined

BBs to West Med

Land moves: Land units move as shown in picture.

At turn end I plan to save oil to Paris (I should have donf that before) and burn some oil for production.

What do you mean by sharing oil?

[AllenK]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

CW plans sounds good.

France combined

BBs to West Med

Land moves: Land units move as shown in picture.

At turn end I plan to save oil to Paris (I should have donf that before) and burn some oil for production.

What do you mean by sharing oil?

On the oil use form, there's a button that allows allies to share each other's oil for reorganisation. The only bit I'm not so sure about is whether CW and France count as allies for that purpose. We'll see at the use oil phase.

[Centuur]

ORIGINAL: AllenK

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

CW plans sounds good.

France combined

BBs to West Med

Land moves: Land units move as shown in picture.

At turn end I plan to save oil to Paris (I should have donf that before) and burn some oil for production.

What do you mean by sharing oil?

On the oil use form, there's a button that allows allies to share each other's oil for reorganisation. The only bit I'm not so sure about is whether CW and France count as allies for that purpose. We'll see at the use oil phase.

Sorry guys, but only cooperating major powers may use each others oil.

RAW:

Co-operating major powers may freely use each other’s oil,
provided the oil’s owner consents. Communist and nationalist
Chinese can use each other’s oil.

[AllenK]

Thanks Peter,

I had a nagging suspicion the old 'Entente Cordiale' didn't extend to sharing oil.

Still, useful to remember in our other games for Germany/Italy and US/CW.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

After nice CW ground strike, should France move 6-4 INF from Paris on hex SW and 3-3 MIL from north to Paris?

[AllenK]

Not a bad idea. Then just move the MTN?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: AllenK

Not a bad idea. Then just move the NTN?

Yes, if France has 3 land moves.