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19401201 : The end of 1940. This was a mixed year for us. The loss of France, the Benelux countries, Portugal, and Yugoslavia is offset in part by the holding of nearly all of North Africa. This would be even better if we held Gibraltar, but we do not. The Royal Navy now faces the navies of Italy, Germany, and Spain, which is daunting. The Norweigians have expressed a strong willingness to join the forces of freedom, and have invited the staffs of Great Britain to Oslo to meet and discuss joint defense issues. Rumor has it that representatives from the USA have joined in some discussions there. Rumor also places Icelandic representatives there too.

Will the next year bring an eastern focus to Axis interests?

What are the advantages to bring in Iceland?

One victory point, and infantry. The Americans can ship PP to Iceland when they both are neutral, and then when it enters these can be useful. I have four such divisions in Portugal-Spain in TriplePlay. In this game I am not shipping PP there, but the VP is handy, and they do slowly build units. France used her DP to bring her 2/3 of the way in, and once I get Norway in, I will go for the other third. It is a cheap VP at 15 DP per influence shot.

Also you can prevent the Axis from taking it with an amphibious assault as I did in SuD. That VP is just as valuable as any other 1 VP city.

Chuck

But other than conquests, what is the use of VPs?

You count them up to see who wins. Admittedly I have never seen a game go long enough to do that, but it is the official way to "Victory" at the end of the "Road".

Chuck

PS : At historical war's end in SuD, the Axis still had enough to win, but somebody has modified that situation a bit.

ORIGINAL: cpdeyoung


PS : At historical war's end in SuD, the Axis still had enough to win, but somebody has modified that situation a bit.

I think we can count SuD II a win for you on any count.

19410101 : Happy new year. The British in North Africa are still running about capturing ex-French cities. Here is a look at Great Britain.

On winning and losing : Everyone who plays this game in PBEM is a winner because we all get so much from it, but I am losing SuD, and I wanted to win it, and thought I was going to, but I am not. The reason I am not is because Gary Gardner correctly analysed the Le Havre vulnerability, and exploited this insight very well, too well for me to come back. If I had played better I think I would have won, but Gary Gardner is going to win, deservedly : take it from me!

Chuck

Hmmh, I actually harbored the sneaking suspicion that you deliberately left that 2-4 Italian division east of Le Havre so I'd have a chance!

19410201 : Woosh, the sound of Greek independence disappearing. Was it a paradrop, or an amphibious assault? This is a Axis command that does not fool around.

19410216 : Not much to be seen. We wonder where the next show will drop. The neutrals must be under considerable influence from the beligerents before they take advice, and this is one of the reasons why the Greeks dropped so quickly. We are concerned that Turkey may suffer the same fate, but until we have 50%+ diplomatic influence we cannot send advisers. In previous wargaming of this conflict we did not use this rule, and it is very hampering to the Allies.

We have taken all but one of the cities in the ex-French colonies.

19410301 - 19400316 : Again, not much to be seen. The British are driving on Casablanca. Ships are sailing about the sea. Everyone is waiting on the next move of the Fascists.

Romania is considering entering the war.

19410401 : Massive Axis forces on the Soviet border. The British take Tangiers.

19410416 : Barbarossa! A bit early, but we rather expected that. The Germans came at us in the north, but once Romania comes in we expect action in the south too. The Soviets present the Germans with a broad band of infantry, easy pickings for L3 Panzers, but there are a lot of them.

19410501 : I forgot to get a snap after moving my Soviets so here is one after the Axis move :

19410509 : Bloodied, we pull back. The British are gallantly fighting convoys through to the Soviets and taking losses.

19410516 : The pace of the enemy's advance is slowing.

19410524 : We pulled back, to stiffening lines. (edited date)

19410601 : Really June now. I guess I just want winter really bad!

19410609 : This was a scrambling turn, with no real chance to do any building for the future. We are being presed hard across the bard, and had to build infantry to hold vital cities. Each turn we look for some opportunity to cut units off and damage them, but never find one. We are
having to use Guards Tank Corps to hold cities when we would rather position them to threaten his lines of communication. The British are sending us convoys in the 150PP range of which we generally receive over 140PP. American Lend Lease is anothe 50PP, with no interception. We are spending 370PP per turn.