NORDIC CHANNEL: Orm and Mayhemizer

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Nord 1

That was a nice impulse from Axis.

CW plans is to take naval and send only class 1 CV to West Med. Looks like Italy waiting Ark Royal to West Med, but she will wait in Gibraltar.

I send bigger fleet to North Sea and try to shoot down that fighter.

Wait a minute.

Do we plan to DOW Italy here?

Otherwise I do not think we should send ships into the Med where they can be surprised.

I wouldn't mind to wait a while and see if we can boost US entry by a Italian DOW.

[Orm]

Nord1:

You will port strike Kiel on the surprise?

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Nord 1

That was a nice impulse from Axis.

CW plans is to take naval and send only class 1 CV to West Med. Looks like Italy waiting Ark Royal to West Med, but she will wait in Gibraltar.

I send bigger fleet to North Sea and try to shoot down that fighter.

Wait a minute.

Do we plan to DOW Italy here?

Otherwise I do not think we should send ships into the Med where they can be surprised.

I wouldn't mind to wait a while and see if we can boost US entry by a Italian DOW.

I'm not yet playing, just planning. I plan to send weak CV with CVP that has 2 air to sea factors. Escorted by 1-2 old BB's.

Let's see if Italy declares war. If not, let's see what they do. We don't have to declare war.

[Orm]

French reserve placement.

Two GARR in Strasbourg
4-3 in Metz
5-3 in Lille

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Nord 1

That was a nice impulse from Axis.

CW plans is to take naval and send only class 1 CV to West Med. Looks like Italy waiting Ark Royal to West Med, but she will wait in Gibraltar.

I send bigger fleet to North Sea and try to shoot down that fighter.

Wait a minute.

Do we plan to DOW Italy here?

Otherwise I do not think we should send ships into the Med where they can be surprised.

I wouldn't mind to wait a while and see if we can boost US entry by a Italian DOW.

I'm not yet playing, just planning. I plan to send weak CV with CVP that has 2 air to sea factors. Escorted by 1-2 old BB's.

Let's see if Italy declares war. If not, let's see what they do. We don't have to declare war.

Ok. I understand. It is bait. Lets hope we do not lose it.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Nord1:

You will port strike Kiel on the surprise?

I think not. Germany has AA gun there (AA total 22, lowest of 3 for 1 plane). If I use air moves now to send Polish planes to safe, I can do something else next impulse.

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

ORIGINAL: Orm

Nord1:

You will port strike Kiel on the surprise?

I think not. Germany has AA gun there (AA total 22, lowest of 3 for 1 plane). If I use air moves now to send Polish planes to safe, I can do something else next impulse.

Not sure how you counted that. Or I counted wrong.

My count is:
13 from ships
12 from AA gun
Equals 25 and that is halved to 13 because of surprise.

So that is lowest die out of 5. And that use up the 4 surprise points that you are guaranteed to get so that the AA is negated entirely. On average you should get at least a D result on a ship on your choosing. It is nice to begin whittle down the Axis navy as soon as possible. Less units for them to cause mischief.


Edit: CW has three air moves. Two to get rid of the Polish planes and may I suggest that the last one is used to port strike their fleet?

Although USSR would like the Polish AC gone this impulse since we plan to advance into Poland next impulse.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

ORIGINAL: Orm

Nord1:

You will port strike Kiel on the surprise?

I think not. Germany has AA gun there (AA total 22, lowest of 3 for 1 plane). If I use air moves now to send Polish planes to safe, I can do something else next impulse.

Not sure how you counted that. Or I counted wrong.

My count is:
13 from ships
12 from AA gun
Equals 25 and that is halved to 13 because of surprise.

So that is lowest die out of 5. And that use up the 4 surprise points that you are guaranteed to get so that the AA is negated entirely. On average you should get at least a D result on a ship on your choosing. It is nice to begin whittle down the Axis navy as soon as possible. Less units for them to cause mischief.


Edit: CW has three air moves. Two to get rid of the Polish planes and may I suggest that the last one is used to port strike their fleet?

Although USSR would like the Polish AC gone this impulse since we plan to advance into Poland next impulse.

Yeah, I counted it wrong and forgot half it.

CW takes naval, if they have 3 air moves CW goes for port strike.

[Orm]

Nord 1:

CW has indeed three air moves on Naval. I've checked. And I played CW a lot lately. [:D]

[Orm]

Nord 1:

I might be doing close to nothing with France. No naval moves, no ground strikes, no strat bombing, no rail, and land moves, and no reorganization. [X(][:(] Nothing feels pressing enough.

I am thinking that the TRS should stay for a while in Syria so it wont be a target at sea.

Sending a CA to the Baltic Sea seems less important as well when Germany has no CPs there. It could sail there in wait for CPs but then it has to risk combat before any CPs are there. And is it strong enough to handle air escorted CPs without the surprise?

And, as there might be no threat against France this turn, I am hesitant to reorganize any units. That way saving one oil. And the only fun thing for the French bomber might be strat bombing but I dislike using it this early when I want to try avoiding reorganizing it.

Assistance and suggestions are welcome. [:)] Because it feels bad doing nothing. And even worse when it is a surprise impulse. [:(]

Thank you for listening. [&o] [:)]

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Nord 1

French situation: Strat bombing is a good option, don't reorganize it. Germany has so many units in Poland they can't do much in the West.

Edit: or ground strike Rundstedt to prevent German reorg and attack to Netherlands.

[Orm]

Nord1:

Here are the Soviet, French, and the Communist Chinese orders. Questions about them, or suggestions to change them are encouraged.


Combined: USSR
Naval: France

No Port Strikes. No naval air.

Naval Movement:
1) France send a CP from Dakar to the West Med
2) CP from Oran to East Med.
3) The two battleships in Brest sail to the 3-box in the North Sea.
4) The CA in Brest moves to the 4-box of the Baltic Sea.
5) The CV in Morocco sail to the 0-box of Gulf of Guinea.

CW may use French ships to activate in sea areas, or for intercepts, as they desire.

The French bomber Strat Bombs Dusseldorf. It lands in the hex it flew from.

No rail movement.

Land Movement:

1) The Mongol Cavalry moves Northwards to hex 51, 134.
2) Warlord in Ningsia moves SE to hex 73, 135.
3) The Langshow MIL moves one hex to the SE (76, 138).
4) Eighth Route Army moves one hex to the NW (75, 137).
5) Mao relocates his HQ one hex to the SE (76, 138).

The Communist Chinese would appreciate some flank protection in the mountains.

No land combats. No Air Rebase. No reorganization.

New weather roll. A 10 is preferred. [:)]

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Sounds like a plan, including the weather roll [:D]

[Mayhemizer_slith]

I bet Italy declares war if CW has TRS in Toulon after bringing Wavell to France and few ships in East Med. Losing TRS in port strike might be worth it.

Other option is to send Wavell to BoB and land him to France later. But I prefer Toulon even if Italy attacks there.

[Orm]

Give me a minute.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

Nord 1

Incoming a good result from port attack: If they use AA gun, X D (without AA fire even more). I would like to place X on BB Scharnhorst, guaranteed D and they can't send it to North Sea next impulse.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Give me a minute.

No worries, there will a break now as opponents are not present.

[Orm]

Why do you prefer Toulon for Wavell?

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: Mayhemizer

Nord 1

Incoming a good result from port attack: If they use AA gun, X D (without AA fire even more). I would like to place X on BB Scharnhorst, guaranteed D and they can't send it to North Sea next impulse.

Sounds good.

Our goal, in my humble opinion, is to get as many German, and Italian ships, off the map and into the different pools. So they have to either see their fleet diminished or having to spend precious BPs on it.

[Mayhemizer_slith]

ORIGINAL: Orm

Why do you prefer Toulon for Wavell?

CW takes naval, Marseilles and Toulon are in range so that TRS can sail to port and Wavell can reorganize it. Next impulse I can send that TRS to BoB or North Sea to bring more troops cross the channel. If I send them to BoB these is a minor chance that Italy with awesome rolls can sink TRS.