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I have been looking for your excellent advice previously given - but I cannot recall whether it was AARse 1 or 2. So far I have only picked Chinese Aircraft and intern the Bearn.

OK. Your first priorities should be resources to Western Allies and resources to China. What comes next depends on how the tension is going. There are no bad options, but some are better than others. The immediate aim is to get gear up; for this you need 11 tension against both Ge/It and Ja. This might take only a few entry options, it might take a great many -- you are at the mercy of the dice. (Which frequently are not at all merciful. [:)] ) To repeat, though, you should pick the two resource options immediately.

Once you have picked resources to China, the Japanese have to decide if they are going to close the Burma road.

warspite1,

Was unable to send this zip file in PM because limit is only 2meg.
Figure this is as good a spot to upload as any for you to download.

Everything you need to mod your game as requested is inside.

Good Luck

Thanks - I'll take a look at the weekend.

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

It's time (or past time) to pick some US entry options. You need tension. Which options have you picked already?


OK. Your first priorities should be resources to Western Allies and resources to China. What comes next depends on how the tension is going. There are no bad options, but some are better than others. The immediate aim is to get gear up; for this you need 11 tension against both Ge/It and Ja. This might take only a few entry options, it might take a great many -- you are at the mercy of the dice. (Which frequently are not at all merciful. [:)] ) To repeat, though, you should pick the two resource options immediately.

Once you have picked resources to China, the Japanese have to decide if they are going to close the Burma road.

warspite1

Washington - July 1940

FDR's military advisor, Courtenay, has recommended some tension needs to be added re the Japanese and US Entry. FDR heeds the advice.

FDR (picks up the phone and speaks to the telephanist): Patch me through to that Japanese Mutha would you?
Telephanist: Certainly sir
FDR (hears the phone click but wastes no time on pleasantries); now listen here you little ****. What the **** do you think you are ******* playing at in ****** China? Now you listen to me and you listen real close you ****** ****. I am going to give you 24 hours to get the **** out of China or I'm gong to kick your ****** bony arse all the way from Peking to ***** Tokyo. Got that?
Sara Roosevelt (FDR's mum - sounding somewhat shocked and puzzled): Is that you Franklin?
FDR (horrified and struggling for words): Er.. no... er there's no Franklin here mom...I mean Ma'am..er and I'm definitely not the President...er...uhm...good day to you ma'am (slams the phone down).
FDR (composes himself and picks up the phone once more): I said Japanese Mutha not my mother! Whoever just put me through to my mom is sacked!!

Well that little exchange did nothing for the US Entry chart - but I suspect Tension will be running high in the Roosevelt household tonight....

May/Jun 1940
Impulse: 10

...anyways back to the game. In order to try and end the turn the Allies only move with the Chinese.

Chiang Kai-shek order the evacuation of Changsha. If the Japanese march in then there will be a US Entry event, but more importantly it gives a chance to reinforce positions in the mountains.

May/Jun 1940
Impulse: 10

And on a throw of 5 the turn ends.

May/Jun 1940
Impulse: End of Turn

The Chinese get a Partisan that they place in Kaifeng.

May/Jun 1940
Impulse: End of Turn

The US choose sending resources to the CW and to China. The Tension levels move slightly....

May/Jun 1940
Impulse: Production

Germany:
Tirpitz (2nd Cycle)
Prinz Eugen (2nd Cycle)
2 x FTR
1 X LND
One Build Point saved
2 x Pilots

Italy:
FTR
Pilot

Japan:
2 x INF DIV
Takao (Repair)
Shinano (Build)
Submarine (2nd Cycle)
ART
CONV

May/Jun 1940
Impulse: Production

China:
INF
MIL
CAV DIV

Commonwealth:
HMS King George V (2nd Cycle)
HMS Anson (2nd Cycle)
Battleship (Build)
MECH
MOT

France:
INF
FTR

USA:
USS Washington (2nd Cycle)
USS North Carolina (2nd Cycle)
USS New Jersey (Build)

USSR:
2 x INF
GARR
ARM

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: Reinforcement

Germany:
FTR
LND
Bismarck
ARM

Italy:
Nothing

Japan:
Yamato has been placed in the Construction Pool
Atago
INF
MOT

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: Reinforcement

China:
MIL
INF
INF DIV (Communist)

Commonwealth:
INF (Ind)
INF HQ
HMS London
SUB

France:
Richelieu
FTR
ARM
AT

USA:
Nothing

USSR:
FTR
2 x INF

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: Initiative and Weather

The Allies win the initiative roll 3:2. The Germans seek a re-roll and its an 8:5 victory to the Axis. The weather is a 2 which means its Fine everywhere except the Northern Monsoon.

Japan closes the Burma Road.

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 1

We now reach a crucial stage for the Axis. The German advance into the Low Countries has been somewhat of a mini disaster.

The Luftwaffe are ordered to undertake a major effort. All four air moves will be used up on ground strike missions against the French. The land attack target will be the same south-western Belgian hex they were eyeing up previously.

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 1

The heavily out-numbered French air force do not contest the attack.

The first attack goes well. The Do-17 recreates its form from the Polish campaign and successfully ground strikes both targets southwest of Brussels.

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 1

To the south the vaunted Ju-87 Stukas go into the attack. Once again its a clean sweep! This is not like the Germans from previous AARse's. The French are beginning to wish they had flown in defence now....

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 1

Further south still and its two out of three for the second Ju-87....

Jul/Aug 1940
Impulse: 1

...while the final attack, with the weakest bomber, has a 25% hit rate. Hermann Goering is mightily pleased with the overall result.