The World at War ELO Tournament

[ThunderLizard11]

ELO ended:

arron28a (axis) [LOSS] v. Thunderlizard11 (allies) [WIN]. Axis resigns after getting bogged down in France. November '40 and Allies clinging on in Bourdeax. Axis had strong Poland start but unconvential moves in Western Europe costs some time. Axis also was making strong move into Egypt which triggered US tank unit appearing. Good game from arron28a.

ELO Started:

arron28a (axis) v. Thunderlizard11 (allies) - rematch

[DmitryN]

Hamburgermeat (axis) lost to DmitryN (allies) Hamburg just have not returned the turn December 1944 after few turns made in one month real life.

The game was interesting enough to be described.

Hamburgermeat tactically is fast the same as Fanfir, his strikes are awesome don’t know how they reach such results. However strategically his moves were at least risky not saying weird. Which is important this game lasted about a year of real life, so in the beginning my experience was much lower than in the end.

After fast and efficient France Hamburger moved everything against USSR withdrawing from NA and not protecting Abissinia. Barbarossa was the most efficient against me in any games I have played before. My forces were mainly south and Hamburger moved best troops, all motorized incl HQ’s directly to Moscow and than Perm. USSR fell say may 1942 or so. Could not do anything. Tanks were killing full stength armies in capitals in 2-3 strikes. Never seen anything like this. Actually at that moment I was ready to resign continuing playing just to learn, but here strange things began

First of all axis lost all the German and Italian fleet in the Atlantic 1940-1941 with quite a moderate allies loses. Second the Italy was unprotected at all and allies knocked it out fall 1941 (!!!) just because few cities were empty and IT morale fell below 20%.

But all of this was not enough to compensate USSR fall. The most significant thing changing the game was Japanese attack on the US with landing both on the west coast and Mexican Gulf (Panama and Mexico were taken). Axis send all the Jap fleet Mexican Gulf absolute all the carriers and other ships! They also send to US at least 3 HQ most part of best Jap land units all motorized, with level 1 tanks (!) for Japan. But UK fleet was quite strong with 3-4 martimate bombers ready+US pacific fleet. All this attacked Jap fleet first with strong air cover of all UK/US fighters from the islands around. Vast part of Jap fleet decided to retreat Pacific BUT all the US Pacific fleet with 3 Carriers and some UK ships was waiting near the transit points to Pacific. Again first strike and fast total kill of the Japaneese fleet. So no axis fleet any more. With vast part of Japan army in US with blocked ports and quite quick killed aviation.

While sending everything to US Japan failed to take both DEI and Philipins. China was quite strong as attack on it was stopped end 1940. But the total situation was still quite uncertain as death of Jap fleet was just few turns before the fall of USSR, Germany was very strong and US very weak with morale low a lot of oil wells and cities taken and all money spend on buying corps to hold Japan.

Germany developed amph transport technology and made 7-8 bulgaria/hungary/Romania/german etc amphs (which was VERY expensive). BUT axis had no fleet with part of UK fleet already returned to UK. Majority of transports were just killed in sea. Some landed aswell as paratroopers but ports were again blocked and all the army died in low supply. Attempt was good as UK had few units on the island, but after loosing all the fleet it was very hard to take UK even with air superiority

By the end of 1942 US mainly killed all the Japanese inside its territory and all the allies forces went to kill Japan. And here axis again made another strategically mistake. Instead of sending all the German units to kill China and India (which axis were very close to. China even lost all the capitals for 1 turn, but not surrendered and next turn returned one capital) germans send more than 10 units including 2 HQ’s and tanks to Japan islands. It is very weak supply for Germans there. So these troops helped Japan not a lot and all died in low supply. The same time Germans took Turkey don’t know what for.

In India 3 German tanks were very close to force India to surrender also, but after axis failed to conquer UK, UK troops landed in Europe and Germans have withdrown from India, which I guess was also a mistake as Germans killed all the UK units easily even with forces they had in Europe and killing India could be more effective decision

So all the 1943 both China and India were on ropes with Germans fighting in awful supply (especially in China) some German bombers were killed by US/UK Carriers in China. By the death of Japan close to the end 1943 a lot of US forces landed China forcing Germans to withdraw with some units dead in surrounding. Spliting forces was the worst axis mistake. They easily could kill both China and India if no attack UK sending German troops to Japan and making strange things like Turkey. After Japan was killed and China and India survived the game was already decided. Germany lost quite a lot of troops in low supply including most experienced units and HQ’s, so all the money from the USSR plunder went useless.

After it game was just a question of time with allies attacking on all the possible fronts. By the December 1944 as Hamburger did not returned the turn half of Italy, France and Balkans were in allies hands. India and UK took Iran and were already near Baku, China expanded in east Russua and middle Asia. With total superiority in production a lot of new units were coming and it was 2,5 years for taking Germany ahead.

[DmitryN]

The 1943 scenario game (not ELO) also ended. by the allies victory. With Beriand as allies. Germany was dead Fall 1946 with Japan just surrounding because of morale fall. If not morale allies had no time to take Jap islands.

Nothing especially interesting to describe. The scenario is too in favor of allies. However it was interesting experience I had fun

[DmitryN]

is it only me cant make new challenge or it is common problem?

[archmache]

is it only me cant make new challenge or it is common problem?

The PBEM Online shows no new games ... seems a bit weird normally there are six or seven. Maybe the servers are down

[HarrySmith]

Yes there are no challenges being shown, must be an issue across all strategic command games

[Pekkavilamoura]

ELO started - Pekkavilamoura (Axis) vs. Moongaz3r (Allies)

[SCOLDGAMER]

New game. SCOLDGAMER axis Yellowcactus allies

[EarlyDoors]

New Game started
DmitryN (Axis) v Earlydoors (Allies)

ELO standard with additional house rules:
Japan will not reduce Tulun (USSR) with strategic bombers until after DoW on USA
UK/Commonwealth will not attack Japanese spawn locations before DoW on USA

[SCOLDGAMER]

New ELO game SCOLDGAMER axis vs ElvisJonesRambo allies

[Jkap]

New ELO game Jkap (Allies) vs ElvisJonesRambo (Axis)

[Pekkavilamoura]

ELO ended:
Pekkavilamoura (Axis) defeats taffjones (Allies).
Game went on until end date May 1947 (!)
Game engine says 'Axis tactical victory ' but could have ended both ways. Great battle.

[moon1]

ELO game started: Moongaz3r (Axis) vs kjgokc2007 (Allies)

[Pekkavilamoura]

New ELO game: Pekkavilamoura (Axis) vs. taffjones (Allies).

[EarlyDoors]

New ELO game started,

Taifun (Axis) vs EarlyDoors (Allies)

ELO standard with additional house rules:
Japan will not reduce Tulun (USSR) with strategic bombers until after DoW on USA
UK/Commonwealth will not attack Japanese spawn locations before DoW on USA

Game ended March 1943 with complete Allied subjugation

[EarlyDoors]

ELO Rankings September update: http://scwaw-rankings.s3-website.eu-wes ... onaws.com/

Overall
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Total Axis 168
Total Allies 204

Players of the Month
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Thunderlizard11 5 wins out of 5
SCOLDGAMER continues his charge up the table with 3 wins out of 4
Firsteds 2 wins out of 2

Congratulations to ElvisJJonesRambo on his 100th ranking game
and also
Win of the Month: ElvisJJonesRambo win over Yellowcactus was worth 25.78 points

[petedalby]

New ELO game started.

aaron28a (axis) vs petedalby (allies)

No special rules agreed but I will not be doing an early DoW on Japan. Currently Feb 1940. Might be on the previous patch as I can't see any fortifications near Vladivostok? But planes are flying in poor weather so slightly confused.

[Pekkavilamoura]

New ELO game started:

Pekkavilamoura (Axis) vs. kaigab (Allies)

[moon1]

ELO game ended: Moongaz3r (Allies) - Pekkavilamoura (Axis)
Axis concede in 1943 as Allied troops were approaching Berlin and Tokyo.

[SCOLDGAMER]

SCOLDGAMER axis defeats Yellowcactus allies 11/41 as allies resign following favorable advances by axis in China/Russia.