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I think he deployed counting on 5 dannish cps, and I avoided for that reason to attack Denmark in 39 .

ORIGINAL: Jaimainsoyyo

5 sea areas search rolls [X(] all failed during a surprise impulse with Italy against the CW. It seems the program rolled over 4, 10 times consecutively (and over 6 when I had a NAV in the 4 box with CW´s CPs in the sea area or over 5 when I have cruisers in 4 box and CW´s CP´s present in that sea area) , during that phase the chance of that event was 0,0074, so LESS than 1%, nonetheless that wasn´t enough, program rolled 3 more dieroll over 4 until the first low number appeared, in fact during land combat rolling 3 ( 2+1) but I counted on that and I did only one automatic attack with +22 modifier. [&:] I prefer using a dice server than the diceroller of the game, anyway it is always fun to see how a good plan goes down to the drain thanks to luck ( or an algorithm [8|]) . It was a pity because the CW hadn´t ( hasn´t yet) enough cp´s to replace ANY losses, and even the convoy lines couldn´t bring enough resources to UK from the start of the game.

Perhaps the Nov/Dec 1939 turn giving the Axis 5 impulses after going second made up for this? With two of those impulses (first and last) being Fine weather on the entire map.

ORIGINAL: paulderynck

Not sure on that one. You get 81 CPs and that's enough to get what you need to the UK with at least 6 left over.

It depends on optional rules. I set up for playing with oil (we weren't) which meant saving oil wasn't possible. So all the convoys I positioned to save oil were worthless. Sigh.

Not really a "moment," and I have to brush the cobwebs off this memory, but I played a game of WiF/DoD around 1995. I don't remember too many specifics, but my opponent, as the Axis, managed to align Sweden, take Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Gibralter, Egypt, and Yugoslavia. Barbarossa was quite successful, and he was able to align Turkey. Japan mostly stood on the defensive in China and made their historical gains in the Pacific, but put in a maximum effort in the Indian Ocean and was able to take India, meeting up with the Italians somewhere in the Mideast.

My one success, if it can be called that, was in defeating his Sea Lion invasion by throwing his successful landing off the beach.

My opponent and I were both serving in the US Army at the time, me as a sergeant, he as a lieutenant. When he offered to play a game and I asked him if we should be concerned about the perception of officer/enlisted fraternization, he said wargaming was NCO professional development. [;)] The beat-down he proceeded to administer was certainly a lesson.

Way back in the day, before 1994 at least I was playing Germany in a WiF/DoD(1st edition) game. I'm struggling to remember the year, but I successfully performed a coup in Czechoslovakia and the next turn declared war on the Soviet Union and defeated them utterly with almost exclusively Czech units.