A511 vs Lebatron using UV 2.0

[Lebatron]

Hey Guys, Anthony and I just started a game. I'm sure it will be challenging against him, so I will have my girlfriend help me with the hard stuff[;)]No, seriously I'll have her rub my shoulders and squirt water in my mouth between rounds.

Using the Uncommon Valor 2.0 scenario I recently posted with the usual advanced settings.

A511's first turn.
Germany attacks Poland and losses 1 Inf and 1 Arty.
Germany gets lucky and destroys transport.
Germany takes Denmark.
Japan losses 3 Mil taking Foochow because he chooses to use carrier air on changsha to hit rail. He got 2 hits.

My first turn.
Russia moves to Poland to increase WR.
China feeling it's to expensive to repair the rail or move troops decides to not reinforce Changsha.
Used 1 LF to drive sub deep of Canada's coast.
Moved all the French units to Maginot Line but left Fighter in Western France to protect transports.
Moved British Inf and a few other units to Maginot Line.
Moved an Arty and Flak to Malta.
Built 3 Inf in Western France and 1 Inf in Eastern France. Germany will think twice before taking the Netherlands early.
My British build is secret.

[Lebatron]

Turn 2 Fall 1939

A511's turn.
Germany deploys for attack in the west.
Chooses not to attack with sub and leaves it where it was.
Japan seeing that Changsha was lightly defended, with no rail to boot, chooses to attack! One Mil lost.
One of my Inf was damaged the other retreated along with my Flak.
Japan bombs in other places to no effect other than supply burn.

My turn.
Russia moves another Inf to Poland to bump WR.
China not in a position to move much(low supply)holds position. I've forgotten to use the Burma Road my first 2 turns.
I decide to see if I'm lucky and use 2 LF's and carrier air on the sub off Canada. No dice.
Now that an early attack on France has passed I decide to pull a few British back.
Redeploy a British Inf to British East Africa.
Move the British carrier by India towards the Eastern Med.
Build 4 Inf and 1 Inf combo again in France.

[Lebatron]

Turn 3 Winter 1940.

A511's turn.
Germany takes the Netherlands with zero loses.
Germany attacks Netherlands LF but only damages it.
No sub action.
I did notice however that German Fighters are at range 2 now, so I guess Anthony may give the Battle of Britain a go.
Japan advances some more into China. Zero loses. I get shafted on my retreat. My forces go to Paotow because it has rail and the Capital does not even though the Capital has a factory and more troops. Hopefully Brian can fix this. I know he's been working on better retreat code.


My turn.
Russia moves to Poland to bump WR. Hopefully this will be the last time.
China's out of supply so I can't move anything. Forgetting to use the Burma Road earlier is making this easy for Anthony.
The last English Infantry leaves France and heads to Africa.
British carrier arrives in the Eastern Med.
The Commonwealth sends some Arty to England because I worry Germany may attempt invasion.
Other top secret British plans.
US production now helping in the usual way.

[Lebatron]

Europe before my build phase. There would be 2 extra Arty in Western France and 1 extra Arty in Eastern France if I took this pic after the build phase, plus the HF I just finished. Instead of spending 4 of France's production on tech, I took a gamble in the hopes the extra Arty will cause a bit more damage. US production is enough to increase all critical techs so it's not that bad to waste(if you want to call it that) French production on extra troops that are going to die anyway.

[a511]

let me contribute my part ... as usual i forgot to take screen shots ...
 
Axis SP40
 
France has fallen (on schedule) GER is a bit lucky to got just 3 hits (3 damaged infantry units) in attacking w_france.
 
Chunking has fallen!! CHN only got 1 PP left.
 
a511

[MrQuiet]

Does Japan still lose the US gift if they invade inland China in this version?

Keepiing a stockpile of supply in the area you want possible retreaters to go also helps steer them.
Not sure if they would chose that over the rail link though but I use it to figure out where Russians will retreat to.

-MrQuiet

Love your new sea zone(s) off France/Spain

[a511]

unfortunately yes ...
but the chance to kill CHN early is so tempting. the pt whether its worth the free gifts from WA is highly debatable, lets wait and see.
 
a511

[Lebatron]

ORIGINAL: MrQuiet

Does Japan still lose the US gift if they invade inland China in this version?

Keepiing a stockpile of supply in the area you want possible retreaters to go also helps steer them.
Not sure if they would chose that over the rail link though but I use it to figure out where Russians will retreat to.

-MrQuiet

Love your new sea zone(s) off France/Spain

Changsha now has 2 resources. It's one of the small changes I left out of the readme. Maybe that was part of the reason Anthony decided to advance into Changsha. In WAW the US gift was 3 if I remember right. When it was changed to 5 that pretty much killed any idea of advancing into China because it's now a lot less worthwhile. This small change will hopefully expand players viable choices. At this point I'm holding off on adding a second resource to the Capital until I see more results and player feedback.

I was totally out of supply so that option could not be used to direct my retreat. I just feel my factory should have trumped the rail so my forces would have retreated to the Capital instead.

Glad you like the map changes.

[Lebatron]

Turn 4 Spring 1940.

A511's turn.
Germany takes Western France with 3 losses.
Moves 4 fighters, 3 bombers, and a Para within range of England.
No sub action again. 3 subs sit in Western Germany. Perhaps Anthony is worried about op-fire?
Japan takes China's Capital.

My turn.
Russia hit 13 WR so I had no need to move into Poland again.
China's last factory works around the clock.
The UN move some Militia to England to prevent any Sealion thoughts. At least I hope.

[Lebatron]

Japans attack

[Lebatron]

Chungking's attack. Note the new suppression effects of the change I made. All suppression attack rolls are divided by 2. No killer 1 results anymore(The 5% critical remains). The all or nothing effect has been replaced by a much higher average suppression result making Flak more effective in preventing damage to infrastructure among other effects I really like so far.

[Lebatron]

Part 2

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part 3

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part 4

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part 5

[a511]

GER Su40
 
As usual, Yugo became part of axis and italy has joined axis as well.
 
No luck in the IJA infra bombing ...
 
a511

[Lebatron]

Turn 5 Summer 1940.

The only action seen was Germany taking Yugo with no losses.
Again no sub action other than an Italian sub moving to Atlantic.
A lot of forces were moved to Tobrok forcing the British into retreat back to Cairo.
2 fighters deployed to Tobrok force my carrier into the Red Sea for safety along with rest of fleet.
Japan has no luck taking down China's last factory. Now I got 2 flak for next turn and he's still at 3LA so he will have only a small chance to hit it next time. I have a feeling I'm jinxing myself here by saying that.

[a511]

GER is in Egypt now!
 
IJA got lucky in the infra bombing this time ... CHN's PP down to 0.
 
a511

[Lebatron]

Turn 6 Fall 1940

Yep, I jixned myself. Because I had to say it, Japans HB rolls 3 sixes taking my last factory out. No problem, I got a devious plan to get it back online. Operation riaper is now in effect. That's repair spelled backwards[:D]

Anthony moves some subs into convoy lines and moves into Egypt. Not much else to report.

I attack and sink a transport in the Baltic sea with carrier. Germany is having a fighter shortage back in Europe because some are in the Med.
A nice spiffy new British tank gets sent to Cairo to face the German advance. Meaning no CAM bonus for Germany there. Fighters moved to Cairo last turn now allow me to return my carrier to the Eastern Med. CAP in effect. Italy has 5 transports now so I beefed up Gibraltar.

[a511]

a very very quiet turn ...
 
WA has a really solid defence in Cario and so the Afrika Corp are enjoying the sunshine in Egypt [8D]
the U-boats have very limited success in the atlantic ocean.
 
all quiet in the east [>:]
 
a511