Bob Flemin's MWIF AARse IV - Nice AArse

[Braig]

Glad to have you back doing AAR's Warspite. Love your style! Well done, and looking forward to it!

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

The Chinese have a major disadvantage -- they set up before the Japanese. Your set was relatively strong in the center, with the Communists left to themselves. As the Japanese player, I would respond to this by setting up defensively in the center and the south, and driving as hard against the Communists as I possibly could. The fact that the Nationalists are not defending Chengchow makes this strategy feasible. Of course, if the weather goes bad, the strategy falls apart; however, that is true of any Axis strategy that I know of. There aren't very many Communist units; if a few die, the Communists can be in real trouble.

When I set up the Chinise, I put two good, cheap units in Chengchow. I don't expect them to survive, but dealing with them uses up the most valuable Axis commodity -- time.

warspite1

The Japanese plan is a pincer attack from Canton and Nanchang toward Changsha-Hengyang.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Braig

Glad to have you back doing AAR's Warspite. Love your style! Well done, and looking forward to it!

warspite1

Thank-you sir! [:)]

[warspite1]

Well, well. Chamberlain and Daladier have not reacted well to the invasion of little Poland!

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Neville Chamberlain broadcasts a sombre speech to the nation just after 1100 on 3 September.


I am speaking to you from the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street.

This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note stating that, unless we hear from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

You can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me that all my long struggle to win peace has failed. Yet I cannot believe that there is anything more or anything different that I could have done and that would have been more successful.

Up to the very last it would have been quite possible to have arranged a peaceful and honourable settlement between Germany and Poland, but Hitler would not have it. He had evidently made up his mind to attack Poland, whatever happened, and although he now says he put forward reasonable proposals which were rejected by the Poles, that is not a true statement.

The proposals were never shown to the Poles, nor to us, and though they were announced in a German broadcast on Thursday night, Hitler did not wait to hear comments on them but ordered his troops to cross the Polish frontier the next morning.

His action shows convincingly that there is no chance of expecting that this man will ever give up his practice of using force to gain his will. He can only be stopped by force.

We and France are today, in fulfilment of our obligations, going to the aid of Poland, who is so bravely resisting this wicked and unprovoked attack upon her people. We have a clear conscience - we have done all that any country could do to establish peace.

The situation in which no word given by Germany's ruler could be trusted, and no people or country could feel itself safe, has become intolerable. And now that we have resolved to finish it I know that you will play your part with calmness and courage.

At such a moment as this the assurances of support which we have received from the empire are a source of profound encouragement to us.

When I have finished speaking, certain detailed announcements will be made on behalf of the government. Give these your closest attention. The government have made plans under which it will be possible to carry on work of the nation in the days of stress and strain that may be ahead...

Now may God bless you all. May He defend the right. For it is evil things that we shall be fighting against - brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution - and against them I am certain that right will prevail.

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The Germans call out their reserves - the CW and French are quick to follow suit.

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Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The Home Fleet puts to sea to escort the BEF to France. HMS Southampton is used as a picket in the 4-sea-box.

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Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The French navy also put to sea to get their colonial troops back to Metropolitan France - starting with an infantry corps in Syria.

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Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The RAF have been tasked with taking the war to Germany and decide to launch a strategic bombing campaign.

Only a solitary Blenheim can make the journey to Germany, but the French are persuaded to put the Armee de l'air into the skies too. Hanover and Stuttgart are the targets.

The Blenheim causes 1 production point to be lost

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Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The French ran into an AA unit they were not aware of. The AA fire caused a reduction in bomb load but the French still succeeded in hitting 1 production point too.

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Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The BEF arrive in France. The war will soon be over - I can feel it in me water....

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Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The Polish air force decide to fly en masse to Lithuania where they are interned. The brave pilots manage to escape to Blighty. Ohh err it's just like that film, Battle of Britain!

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Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The Polish HQ manages to organise the Poznan Army and the remaining Polish units bravely await the coming storm.......

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Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 3

A 1 is thrown for the weather - it will be fine everywhere.

The Germans and Japanese take a Land Action and the Italians a Combined.

[Orm]

I just realized that you forgot to replace a TSR with The Queens. [:(]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm

I just realized that you forgot to replace a TSR with The Queens. [:(]

warspite1

I didn't forget - I never have done in my 3 previous AAR's. Have I made a boob?

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The French navy also put to sea to get their colonial troops back to Metropolitan France - starting with an infantry corps in Syria.

Germany suggests that it can be in Italy's best interest to declare war on France and sink the French transport in the Mediterranean.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: warspite1

Turn: Sep/Oct 1939
Impulse: 2

The French navy also put to sea to get their colonial troops back to Metropolitan France - starting with an infantry corps in Syria.

Germany suggests that it can be in Italy's best interest to declare war on France and sink the French transport in the Mediterranean.

warspite1

Yes but because I am playing with a historical bias, Mussolini tells Hitler where he can stick his suggestion [:D]. Benito will only commit the Italian nation once he is sure the war is about to finish.....

[Orm]

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Orm

I just realized that you forgot to replace a TSR with The Queens. [:(]

warspite1

I didn't forget - I never have done in my 3 previous AAR's. Have I made a boob?

The Queens is so fast that I value that counter more in the beginning of a war than I value a CV. CW will receive reinforcements all around the world and then she will do the work of two TRS. Later on, when it could be even more important, she can reach the four box. She is also more expensive than the regular TRS. Besides, the troops like to travel in luxury and they do deserve it.

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No idea if you made a boob or not since I do not know what it means in this regard.

Fnarr, fnarr. He made me say boob. [:D]

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Orm

ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Orm

I just realized that you forgot to replace a TSR with The Queens. [:(]

warspite1

I didn't forget - I never have done in my 3 previous AAR's. Have I made a boob?

The Queens is so fast that I value that counter more in the beginning of a war than I value a CV. CW will receive reinforcements all around the world and then she will do the work of two TRS. Later on, when it could be even more important, she can reach the four box. She is also more expensive than the regular TRS. Besides, the troops like to travel in luxury and they do deserve it.

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No idea if you made a boob or not since I do not know what it means in this regard.

Fnarr, fnarr. He made me say boob. [:D]

warspite1

The answer is always boobs.....fnar, fnarr

Anyway. So can I change a TRS for a Queen now or was it a one-time use it or lose it deal?