Global War : a Japanese AAR

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Here not...

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Now the fun begins...
And we see the mistakes accumulating.

Here, I just forgot to support the attack with the fleet. A somewhat easy success becomes a distaster. Still, Madagascar should fall on the next turn.

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Second mistake.
Ah... bad luck, this island is not a territory, but a national one; the notional is boosted by +1. Oh well, I wonder how I should know: I see nothing on the map that informs me.

I have always said that the game is severely missing a tool showing the various states of ongoing declared combats! With such a tool, on the turn of invasion, i'd immediately have noted that the odds would not be beaten and not done that attack.
One less division. I'm happy: one less unit to bother about.

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Here, a useless invasion. I just wonder why I did it!
The invasionin the hex west of that one was sufficient, and it was under cover of strong land fighter based units. Too bad: another units goes to the bin. Yeah.

More interesting, this unit was supposed to invade near Shangai, and I forgot...
I think there are no other reserves, so Shagai will stay under Japanese hands till the end of the game, very likely.

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Berlin.

Wonderful.

Even with my previous mistake, the city should have fallen: the game did not let Russia double its artillery; at 80% chance, this would have disorganized both infantries for a +4 bonus: the net result would have been 21, enough for the city to fall.

But no. And now the Russian have lost both para corps, which means a smaller attack for the next turn.

Thanks to that bug, Berlin is likely to be kept by the German until the end of the game.

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Bremn falls.

Who really cares ?

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Another useless attack.
But that one was under the fighters umbrela, so the Japanese don't dare to risk their bombers.

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This attack was not a mistake. I know that this island is not national. I just wonder why. Anyway, that's a very nice spot that the Japanese have a hell of a time protecting!

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That one was not a mistake. The Shikoku island is the second nice spot to invade, because it is easily isolated. And as long as the Japanese don't have extra units to spare, garrisonning it is not a priority. And it may be difficult, with straights to cross...

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The USA attack on the last islands held by the Japanese in the Pacific.
Tis could have been ignored, but carries no risk, and the div can invade several times in the turn.

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In the meantime, Russia's small army in China (hum, small in number, because in factors it is worth exactly half the Japanese army in China) is cleaning up the Japanese.
No Japanese unit will now escape from China; it is to late. The Chinese hav surrounded the northern army, and the southern army is stuck in the rain, too far from the appropriate coastline (China sea).

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Germany takes a combined to send its remaining sub do some dame if possibe.
Japan takes a naval, in an attempt to break the grip of the allies and reduce the transport capacity.

In the Sea of Japan, they are wildly successful.

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The queens are sunk.
The allies could not protect in the 4 box; at best the fighters could scramble to the 2 box, which would have had no effect.

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The allies stay at sea: they want to keep supply open.
But the Japanese P1Y2 is again very successfull.

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The allies are chased from the area, with extremely heavy damage.
Lesson: a small force is often more effective than a big one at sea.

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In the North Sea, the German sub fullfils its mission, finding the british convoys.

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and sinking them.

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In the Japanese coast, both side fail to find each other.
But in the China sea, things don't go as planned...

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The air combat is likely to be bloody. The Japanese are badly outclassed.

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The air to air round goes really bad against Japn who loses its best fighter in the first round.
The allies lose nothing serious, and the Japanese decide to abort as the combat rating drops to -9/+9: a sure receipt to loase all planes. Of course, after being landed on their carriers, some of them are going to be lost anyway. But likely not all...