A Game of Balance

[JLPOWELL]

Gary,

Must disagree re CV vrs surface units. I posted this a while back on another thread, but it really belongs here as it is part of this AAR.

>> 13 April Post >>
Just got some results in. The Peter Strasser has finally been sunk in my PBEM game. I kept a log of the attacks to support my contention that naval combat 'needs work'.
7 weeks of chasing this ship + 1 BB +1 CA around the Atlantic (BattleVonWar too cagey to move where TAC could hit it with laser guided bombs)

Based on the forces involved this should have been 'over' in seven hours not seven weeks.

Strikes on hex with 'reported' German CV present.
USN CV strikes 31 (including the one which finally sunk it.)
RN CV strikes 9
4 Turns ending in in sea zone with 'spotted Ge CV' (large task forces 3+BB 3+CA 4+ CV) (big stuff here bigger than battle of Midway forces on Allied side)

Port strikes (based on 'someone' getting a hit on the Strasser in that port that turn
USSR 3
USAF 5
UK 3

So 11 port strikes (actually nearly half of the damage was done this way and this is likely the least effective based on the historical record which indicates : CV strikes most deadly Surface engagements second most Port strikes third (of the three) {Pearl harbor is a special case of a surprise attack when at 'peace'})
40 CV strikes plus whatever happens when 5 CV's end a turn in the same zone (mostly nothing)50 days of 'action'. Wow if the Japanese had a few of these they could have anchored them in San Francisco bay and Bombed Sacramento. All this is about as plausible as the movie about the nuclear Carrier which went thru a wormhole back to WWII.

So ANYONE tell me that if this is WAD that the design does not need a 'bit' of tweaking.

[battlevonwar]

1942(first snow fall in the East)

Axis Throw up the White Flag. Imagery Later. The Middle East/With Turkey are being swallowed up. The German Eastern Front is evaporating(I think it's 3 to 1 in Units on just that front alone, not including Minors)

The Axis have done well in Brittany but can spare so few Armies and Tanks to battle the Allies there. Therefore they're going to end up grinding down to the last man. It's likely by '43 that Paris will be liberated and perhaps '44 Berlin by either side depending on the ground forces available to the Western Allies. It is quite possible to delay both into late '44 but unlikely at the current rate of things...

This is by far the finest enemy I have faced.

[battlevonwar]

Here are the death tolls for each side. As you can see France took a chunk of the German Military out. I do not believe I ever fully recovered from this loss. Also the heavy losses to a Fully Mobilized and Fully Prepared Russian Army. You can also see DAK running in the Western Deserts of Iraq away from likely 15-20 Caucasus Front Russian Armies and Tanks. Another 10 free, from the Turkey Even Firing! : ( At the time I began the invasion of the Ukraine, I was -600 PPs, which continued the entire Summer of the Invasion of the Soviet Union. I am sure that Powell shall have nicer Screenies if he took some but I did not have time to Screen Capture and window every 5 minutes.

Germany never was able to take more than a handful of Russian cities, besieging only Kiev(in front of it's fortifications) alone of Major Russian Capitols