AllenK vs Mayhemizer III: Oil be back.

[AllenK]

Germany reorganizes everything using 4,45 oil (oil used: 2x Gorki, 2x Breslau)

Italy reorganizes everything using 1,9 oil.

Japan reorganizes everything else but 5 BB's (Hyuga, Mutsu, Ise, Nagato and Yamashiro) using 2.4 oil. 2 oil points in Bangkok are used.

Allies reorganise everything except China can only afford Stillwell. CW spends 5 oil, USSR 2, others 0.

Germany scraps FTR2 and FTR3.

USSR scraps 2 Ftr-2's.

[AllenK]

Production:

Germany 25
3x INF
ARM div
PIL
FTR2
2x FTR3
2x Sun (2nd)

Italy 11
Sub (repair)
CL Attendolo (repair)
2x PIL
LND2
NAV3

Japan 5
Sub (2nd)
PIL
CVP1
CA Atago (repair)

Vichy 2 (9 saved)
Save all BB's

China 8
Mil
Factory repair
Garr

CW 25
Trans repair
Lnd-4 x2
Pilot
Amph
CL 2nd x2
Mot
Mech
Sub 2nd.

US 20
Lnd 4
Pilot
Amph 2nd
BB 2nd
Inf x2
Ftr-2
Pilot

USSR 16
Inf x4
Ftr-2 x2

[AllenK]

Reinforcements
Germany assigns pilots to FW Condor, 2x FW 190, Bf110 and Bf109.
FW Condor in Munich
Bf109 in Karlsruhe
FW 190 A-1 in Berlin
Bf110 and FW 190 A-2 in Vienna
INF, MOT and ARM div in Vienna

Germany removes Fokker from Helsinki

Italy assigns pilot to NAV Erone
Sub and CL in La Spezia
NAV in Naples

Japan assigns pilots to 2x CVP B5N1 (air to sea factor 4 and 3) and CVP A5M4 (air to sea factor 1)
2x B5N1 in Tokyo on CV Zuikaku
CA in Tokyo
A5M4 in Osaka on CV Shokaku

China: Mil to Chungking

CW assigns pilots to Hurricane (RSA) and Halifax. CPx2 and CLx2 to Liverpool. Inf Div and Mar Liverpool, Halifax to London, Ftr to Cape Town

US: CVP San Diego, Clarke and Ike on East Coast.

USSR: Mil to Astrakhan, Ftr-2 to Stavropol, Inf Hq and Mech to Krasnodar, Inf x2 to Tiflis, Inf to Magnitogorsk.

Germany modifies deal with Italy: 6 res (3 oil) and 6 BP's

Initiative: Allies 9, Axis 7. Do Axis wish to re-roll?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Yes please, let's try reroll

[AllenK]

Re-roll. Axis 4, Allies 6. Allies go first.

[AllenK]

J/A 41 Allied 1

No DoW.

CW & France Naval, USSR & China Land, US Combined.

No port-strikes or naval air.

[brian brian]

I never noticed that one of the 1941 FW 190 counters was a model "A-1" - I have a hunch that there haven't been all that many A-1 models of aircraft that made it to combat deployment, though I could see Teutonic efficiency at work there. Maybe also in the Me-262.

In the middle of the game I like putting pilots _into_ the Axis Minor aircraft. Depending on their current roster of land units, it might allow one more land unit to leave the country, generally on anti-Partisan garrison detail. It's like a 2 BP garrison unit...and a pilot reserve if air combat goes bad a few too many times. The pilot can be withdrawn back to a Controlling Major Power aircraft but the land unit need not return to the Minor Home Country. Could be what the Finns/Germans just did I guess.

Ditto for all the bad aircraft designs the Japanese have in their force pools - off to Korea they go, ready to return to new planes to fight the B-29s late in the war if needed.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: brian brian

In the middle of the game I like putting pilots _into_ the Axis Minor aircraft. Depending on their current roster of land units, it might allow one more land unit to leave the country, generally on anti-Partisan garrison detail. It's like a 2 BP garrison unit...and a pilot reserve if air combat goes bad a few too many times. The pilot can be withdrawn back to a Controlling Major Power aircraft but the land unit need not return to the Minor Home Country. Could be what the Finns/Germans just did I guess.

That is what they did [:)]

[AllenK]

Clever. It's all these little nuances and subtleties that make this such a great game to play.

[AllenK]

J/A 41 Allied 1: Naval movement.

CW sends out all the various escorts. Ark Royal sails back to Liverpool. Queens take London Mil to Red Sea. CP from Gib to East Med. The CW CV task force sails from Malta to Italian Coast.

The French continue their escort contribution in West Med.

US sends a CV and 2 CL to East Coast 0-box.

The RAF send their shiny new Halifax's to Lille, with the Spitfire II's as escort. Does the Italian Macchi wish to party?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Sure, while waiting FW 190's to arrive France...

[AllenK]

Looks like the Macchi's don't need the FW's [:(]. Bomber chosen I presume?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Bomber thanks [:)]

[AllenK]

Factory finish to burnt out wreck in one easy lesson. That was supposed to be a bit of a training milk run. Belatedly, the escorts exact their revenge but the Group Commander has some explaining to do.

[AllenK]

CW ground-strikes Naples. USSR ground-strikes Guderian, the OOS Inf in the south and Seoul. Only the Japs can intercept. Who wishes to fly?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Ki27 thanks

[AllenK]

The Ki-27 is aborted, where does it wish to land?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

To an island 3 hexes south.

[AllenK]

The final result.

[AllenK]

The strike misses Guderian.