A global war

[lomyrin]

Here is the situation in China.

[lomyrin]

CW land action, Belg Terr from Congo enters Angola. S African Terr takes out Mozambique.

CW Divisions invade Azores Punta Delgada and Porto and a hex south of Lisbon. A Mil is debarked into Casablanca which is Free French and from where it will rail to Algiers. China in storm is safe for now.

[Missouri_Rebel]

Hey lomyrin. What size of monitor are you using and at what resolution?

mo reb

[lomyrin]

I am using a 26 inch monitor with 1920 x 1200 resolution.

[lomyrin]

Axis third impulse (impulse # 5)

Weather in North Monsoon has rain instead of storm this impulse, Japan will attack ChangSha. Ground strike on the city failed but with HQ support Japan got a +12 after making the fraction roll and adding the HQ support. The roll was only a 7 so the net is 19 which cost the Japanese 2 units lost, both Divisions, and 5 units disorganized. The City fell but the Americans were upset and a chit was added to the Entry Pool

In Greece the Germans advanced but are not yet up to strength to attack Athens. The Greek mountain unit is being bypassed and it has been immobilized by a prior ground strike.

[lomyrin]

Allied impulse 3 (Impulse # 6) China land, all others combined action.

CW sends carrier planes to port strike La Spezia but they miss the targets completely.

CW sails a 6 speed 6 range Cruiser from Plymouth to pick up the Div that conquered P Delgada and then continue to gibraltar and debark the DIv there. Another Cruiser in Gibraltar then picked up the same Division and sails with it to the Cap Verde area

Other CW units debark into Portugal and soon will threaten Lisbon.

China moves to defend Cheng Tu from an approaching Japanese unit.

[lomyrin]

Acix impulse 4 (impulse#7) Italy combined, Ge and Jap land. Weather is now fine everywhere but Japan is not in position to hit the Nationalists in Southern China this impulse. Japan closed the Burma road, the USA did not take notice at all.


Italy sends a Mil to Sardinia

Athens falls to overwhelming force.

[lomyrin]

Allied impulse 4 ( impulse # 8) Weather is fine everywhere.

Cw, China take land, rest combined.

CW units enter Luanda and Lisbon, invades Praya in C Verde Islands. Lands Inf in Bordeaux to help hold the corner of France together with Gort who was already there.

The Portuguese Cruiser in Lisbon escaped undetected to Portuguese Guinea.

[Texashawk]

Off topic, but that's a really good screen layout you're using. I'm going to steal that shamelessly. [:D]

I'm assuming the offset of the main form is for the actionable counter window?

[lomyrin]

Yes, the main form offset if for the actionable units vertical strip along the left monitor edge.
I use the units in hex form and personally prefer that display for units in a hex over the flyout method. Both methods work just fine.

[lomyrin]

After the Axis 4th impulse (impulse # 9) the turn did not end and here is the situation on the variousfronts.

Western Europe

[lomyrin]

And the pressure is building to the East

[lomyrin]

Here is the Mediterranean Egypt position

[lomyrin]

The China theater with Chengtu fallen

There are two new Chinese units arriving for next turn to hopefully keep Chungking in their control

[Jim D Burns]

Wow, Jul/Aug 40 and China is all but gone, the new open map really cripples China. The fact Japan is that far inland, has no rear area garrison troops to speak of, yet not a single Chinese partisan is on map tells me they need to tweak the rules in China to help them deal with all the new ground that needs to be defended. At a minimum Japan should have to keep at least 1 division in every controlled city to prevent a partisan from automatically appearing at that city. Historically Japan could never have kept an army fed that far inland with almost no rear area garrison troops protecting their rail net.

Haven’t played WiF since about 1998, but played every version of it till the counters wore out before that as it was one of my all time favorite games. This will be my next game when I’m done playing AACW2, I just hope they do something to fix China by the time I purchase.

Thanks for doing the AAR, it’s a great read.

Jim

[lomyrin]

Actually the Chineee garrison needed to have 0 chance for partisans is 20. In this game the partisan risk has varied between 0 and 26 % with most of the turns about 10 %.

One of the reasons for the Japanese advance is that the focus on Japanese production has been land units. At this time the ship building has to take over most of the build points otherwise Japan would not stand a chance in the Pacific later on.

There has been only a moderate amount of Japanese units in Manchuria facing a possible Russian intervention there and in an AAR in solitaire like this one that is a potential peril much smaller than in a game with a real opponent.

The weather in the North Monsoon has also been favorable for attacks most of the time, only in this turn has it been stormy there.

[lomyrin]

Allied impulse 5 (impulse #10) All pass - turn ends

US takes Resource to Western allies option r 8, Occupy Greenland and Iceland r 7 1 chit to tension pool.

[lomyrin]

Units destroyed in July/August 40

[lomyrin]

Reinforcements for September/October 40

[lomyrin]

The July/August production: Germany and CW both lost 2 pp to strat bombing.

Ge 15 Synth, Pilot, Arm, Mil
It 6 Ftr2, BB2, SUB2
Jap 17 Div, 2pilot, NAV2, BB1, TRS1, CV2, 3CVP
Vichy 1 save
Chi 3 Inf
CW 15 Inf, 2pilot, TRS1, 2CVP, BBrep, Mil
USA 11 Amph1, TRS1, Pilot, SUB2, CVrep, CVP
RUS 18 GAR, 2Inf, Armdiv, Pilot, Lnd4 2 BP saved from prior turn.