ETO Game 3 Allied View

[82ndtrooper]

its the end of turn 4

I haven't posted anything before now because other than the fighting in Poland I haven't moved any troops or produced anything but PP and supply with the UK. Only producing units in mainland France and that mostly Infantry and light tanks and armored cars.

I am going a completely different strategy this time as the west compared to what I did the first Game. The reason for this is twofold.

1. I always like to do different things each game I play, this prevents my becoming predictable and I enjoy trying out different strategies.
2. Changes to the scenario require a completely different approach for my play style as the west.

When playing as the west/allies in a WWII scenario my priorities are always as follows.

1. Build and maintain a strong navy, Historically this was the only advantage the UK had early in the war.
2. Defend Britain at all cost. Number 1 is the key to number 2. A strong navy prevents the Germans from doing Sea Lion.
3. everything else. Its my belief that if I can accomplish numbers 1&2 then everything else will fall into place.

New changes to the scenario , mainly a raise in price for building ships and changes to carriers in that they can only carry 4 planes now to start and only certain planes which are not good enough to waste production on building at this point, have forced me to focus on producing PP so I can tech up my air-force first to see if that will allow me to build viable naval planes. This will also allow me to make land based planes that I can use to defend against the axis navy both in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.

So for now my carriers are in reserve until I can equip them properly and I will focus my defensive efforts on the Battle fleet and land based aircraft. (except for France)

This also means I will produce no tech-I aircraft at all since I know I will have tech-II soon. This will severely limit the size of my air force but it will be of higher quality.

in the first game I raised my war-footing slowly and built units as I went. My focus now is to build nothing in the UK until my war-footing has been raised. Higher war footing = more production = more PP built per turn = higher war footing faster.
England's War-footing starts at 60% and its now at 66%, France starts at 30% and its now at 33%.
War footing also effects the combat efficiency of your military, so its important that I raise Frances also. So except for France my economy is 100% supply and PP.
it cost me 150PP per turn to raise France and England's war-footing 3% each.
we will see how this goes.

a look at my production.





notice i am only making around 140PP per turn but as I raise my War-footing that will increase every turn by 3% until I am making more than 140PP per turn.

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now a look at why I am doing this strategy this game.

first a look at ship cost.



as you can see carriers are very expensive and take a long time to build so I wont put them in harms way until I can outfit them properly

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a look at the planes available for the carriers

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and the one plane that is supposed to provide CAP.



I could get by with the torpedo planes but I will not go without proper CAP.
so we will see if Tech-II planes have a decent fighter to use.

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and a look at the carriers themselves.

notice the carrier total is 20 and all land based planes weigh 20 and the carrier planes weigh 5. this is how the scenario makes it so only certain planes can be put on the carriers (correct me if i am wrong Grumpy)

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and a look at the spitfire so you can see what a real fighters stats are compared to the Skua.

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Now a look at one of Italy's starting fleets.

its very powerful and would eat my carrier planes alive.

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ok now a quick look at France.

The first game I went for a mostly static defense but this game I am going for a fluid defense with a beefed up Maginot line. I may even try a counter attack in a different area then where he invades from.

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Playing as the Germans in game 2 I did an airborne invasion of France. So I have to defend against that because I would feel really stupid if I let that happen to me after I did it.

these are the little units I am making for a rapid mobile defense. I will have several of them placed strategically around west and southern France.

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now a look at Poland.
for the first three turns I mostly fell back and last turn I decided to stop and fight. So I set all my units on no retreat and stood my ground.

this is the results.



really nice results for the poles since their war-footing is only 30%. Ill bet that came as a shock to the Germans.

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and a look at the situation in Poland.

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turn 5

a quick look at the ending position for Poland.

we wont last long the axis is already bombing Warsaw.

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and a loot at the war footing

[ezto]

Keep it going trooper. I enjoy reading your AAR's very much. Cheers!

[82ndtrooper]

Not much to report Poland falls much faster this time. My opponent has learned to not worry so much about casualties.

just making PP and supply with the UK and some infantry and such with France.

a look at where the war footing stands this turn. this is after I played both increase war footing cards so it comes into effect next turn.

oh and winter has hit.

its nov 30th ,1939.

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been a couple turns and not much to report on my end. germany did declare war on denmark and has all but defeated it the first turn. The also sank the small danish navy in port.

notice i am still mainly making supply and PP.

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Same thing going on just making PP mostly, will start making planes soon though and will post a couple screenies next turn.

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I forgot the screen shots sorry all. but nothing has changed.

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its turn 25 and the axis is hitting my lines hard through the low countries twice he has crossed the river and twice I have pushed him back but if he can do it again I am sure he will break my lines.