An advanced beginners AAR, and what i've learned so far and hope to learn

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The Chinese force pool.

With no real prospect for serious reinforcement this year, the Nationals must do all they can to keep their force intact.

They cannot count on any relief pressure from the Chicoms, as they to are facing manpower shortages.

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The Chinese must pull their forces back in order to get into the best defensive terrain that they have.

The area in yellow is roughly where they need to form a general defensive line, with the intent on protecting the areas in red.

Their fallback positions and routes are marked in yellow.

Chiangsa can be manned by the Garrison, in order to make the Japanese take an impule to capture it.

The circled hex to the south can be manned temporarily to maybe make them deploy to take it.

Stilwell HQ will appear next turn to command the forces defending the Burma Road, While Chiang commands the southern railroad.

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Chinese moves

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The French only had three moves available.

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The Italians send a CL to the Italian Coast.

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When I moved the French in the last impulse, I wanted to leave the two corps back one hex so as not to have the units bunched up if they had to redeploy nest turn.

This was a mistake, because of the potential empty hex that the Germans can possibly breakthrough in this attack.

I must now decide whether to make two attacks as originaly planned or one attack for the possible breakthrough.

Since it is the groundstrike phase, I need to consider how much air units to commit, vs how many HQ will be needed to reorganize after everything is said and done.

More strikes increase the chances of disorganized French units. The wooded hec reduced the strikes by 1.

I might have to decide this in the morning.

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Two attacks at 4:1 is better than one at 3:1.

I can perform a paradrop on one of the hexes.

Three 5 str. Stukas and one 4 str Stukas.

Time to brush up on Paradrops, and work on the rest in the morning.

No rash decisions when I'm tired.

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The first Groundstrike misses.

The French decided to withold their fighters to defend Paris with them.

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The second strike fares a little bit better.

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It is slow going for the Japanese HQ moving around the flank through the jungle. Had I understood HQ movement, I would have moved it through the open ground. Yamamotos command range, will do the job for now.

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The Germans decide not to use their armor and mech. units in the attack, and moved infantry in their place. A 5 str Stuka is needed to bring the attack on the wooded hex up to 4:1.

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The French choose not to use their ART, HQ, or fighters at this time.

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This is not what I was expecting. I needed 4 points to bring it up to 4:1.

I thought that 5 minus 1 for the wooded hex would make it four.

Time to read the books again and find out what is wrong here. I would not have used the 5 str Stuka, had I known this.

It is another case for a reload.

[markb50k]

Forest halves air factors not -1

[Banjo]

Mark, you saved the day again. My wife had dinner on the grill, and never had a chance to look it up. Thank you.

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Now we should have a 4:1 ratio.

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That will slow things down a bit. Will need to reorganize the big units.

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In the excitement, I forgot to get a screenshot of the second attack. Half of the attars were disorganized. Three divisions and one 6-3 infantry.

The defenders chose to eliminate a 3-3 INF. The Germans chose to have the AT and 4-3 retreat.

The French AT was automatic to Rheims, and the 4-3 was placed away from Paris, so as not to have a disorganized unit adjacent to Paris, this early in the turn.

The French position is still not too bad. They have the two units south of Paris that can be used to replace losses in the line if the Germans take another hex in their next impulse.

The lines after the attack, before air rebase.

The Germans have a lot of air uncommitted. They face the probabilty of having to decide to use an Offensive chit to reorganize their HQ units if they want to keep the offensive going this turn.

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I am having doubts after this bad impulse for the Germans, that Paris will fall this turn.

This is what I am facing in my reorganizing phase.

There is a minimum of four ground units that need to be reorganized in order to make any serious attack next impulse. There is only one 5 str Stuka unorganized for a good groundstrike.

The decision to not use the armor paid off this impulse. There are still several infantry units that are still available.

If I use two HQs this impulse, and have a successful attack in the next one, I will not have to use the chit.

There will probably be a 10% chance that the turn will end after the Allied impulse. If I use the chit, the will most likely not end.

This morning I was thinking that I should have chosen an Air action this impulse, but it was too late at that point.

A land action with an offensive chit played on Rundstegt would have been another option that I should have cosidered to help break the French.

I think the best thing to do now is reorganize as much as I can with all HQs and reorganize them with the chit next impulse, and pray the weather holds up and the turn does not end.

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I only used two HQs this turn. There is only one hex that I want to attack, and can do so from three sides, unless the French pull back, which in unlikely to happen. I have enough air units for a strike, and still have the paratroopers. If the attack is successful, I still Have Rundstedt to reorganize my Stukas, and my uncommitted infantry.