GD1938 Game 15

[ironduke1955]

Germany 1938 January

All is quiet, no rumblings of war or expectation of War.

[ironduke1955]

Italy 1938 January

Italy suffers from a bad winter, heavy snows block most mountain passes in Liguria, For the first time in decades.

[cpdeyoung]

Notes from the Imperial General Staff

A quiet month in China, but our troops did capture the enemy airfield at Kalgan.

[ironduke1955]

February 1938 Germany

The Germans awoke this morning to find themselves at War with the Soviet Union, their allies and Friends in the Balkans Rumania have been invaded by the Soviets with no warning. Germany must go to their aid unfortunately the only available routes to Rumania. Lie via Austria and Yugoslavia we have apologized to these countries and their main supporter Italy but Rumania needs aid and all other considerations will and must take a back seat

[cpdeyoung]

I cannot open my Japan turn.

I get a "wrong password" message.

I wrote the password down when I created it, but it is not correct now.

I could have fumble fingered it twice, on creation, and rekeying it for access to turn 1, but I have never done so before.

Could any of the issues with the Soviet turn caused an issue? In any case what remedies are available?

Sorry,

Chuck

[ironduke1955]

Not sure you could try variations on various potential passwords fumbles other than that, I can only think of a restart. Perhaps the computer literate have a way of accessing passwords.

[cpdeyoung]

I tried variations, but I got it right when I set it, and when I logged into the first turn. Passwords can be reset by the players, and we may have to go that route.

Chuck

[ironduke1955]

"Passwords can be reset by the players" ?

How would this work.

Ok Germany can reset the Japanese password but I will have to replay the German turn. If cpdeyoung does not mind what password I use I will do that.

On second attempt Japanese password was reset, I played through to the Italians on the second attempt, then realized I should have done the change on the German turn DUH?

No Change to outcomes and no advantages gained. Since not much happened.

[cpdeyoung]

The password problem was only a symptom of much larger problems.

I have no idea what this file is. Kalgan is not captured. No victory condition was chosen.

There was no military activity of any kind. No units lost, no units killed. This looks like a beginning turn 1 before any activity.

China player : Did you see a lot of dead conscripts "littering the ground" when you logged in? I assure you I killed quite a few. Did you not launch a single attack in your turn, not an artillery bombardment, not an airstrike?

I do not know where this all went wrong, but I suspect there must be a lot more wrong.

Tom were your German and Italian first turn moves accurately present in turn 2?

It seems when the Chinese player got to open his turns the Japanese turn was gone. I have no idea how this could happen unless some one opened the Japan Turn One, rather than the Soviet Turn One. Created a password, logged in, saw they were in the wrong nation, finished a null turn, and then did a soviet turn, with the null turn instead of my Japanese turn. Does anyone remember putting in a Japanese password?

Chuck

[cpdeyoung]

Here is the situation around Kalgan in the current T2 file. Compare it to the one I posted on the 14th.

[ironduke1955]

[:)] Odd I played turn 2 Rumania had been invaded by the Soviet Union, so no change from the previous turn 2 I played a couple of days back. Also odd the file GD1938-Game15-turn2-Japan (new password) is still showing the 11:57 time stamp indicating that it has not been opened since I finished with it before lunch. Curiouser and Curiouser.

I vote for restart assuming everyone is in agreement.

That's a interesting point if the Japanese first turn had been opened in error then closed before finishing the turn, the initial password may still be in place, but allowing you to open Japanese turn one enter a password but the original password would remain in place.

Ok NP no mal intent just need a restart required all in favour(English spelling[:)]) say yea

[cpdeyoung]

Hai!

Chuck-san

[cpdeyoung]

Japan continues its campaign against the warlord bandits.

[cpdeyoung]

Further progress against the bandits.

[ironduke1955]

Germany Turn 3 March 1938

No military action to report, peace time life continues and Germany hopes it stays that way.

[cpdeyoung]

The Chinese, oops we mean "bandits", are counter-attacking vigorously. We are taking losses on defense and offense.

We have made some more progress against the bandits.

[ironduke1955]

Germany invaded Holland a diplomatic request made to France and the United Kingdom fell on deaf ears, as they immediately declared War on Germany drawing Italy into the war. This is not what Germany intended.

[cpdeyoung]

We made some progress against the bandits but the West has decided to intervene in Asian affairs again. The Empires
of Great Britain and France have allied themselves with China, and Germany and Italy have gone to war with China.
None of this had to happen.

Our campaign in China is about integrating Asia. While we do not appreciate Europe's colonial treatment of their
Asian territory we are not at war with them either. The warring European nations do not need to bring their war to
the Far East and Pacific. With the tangled web of alliances nonbelligerent nations must be scrupulous about any
national troops being in a war zone.

Here is a map of the current state of the bandit territory we have been watching.

[falco148]

The USSR has finally made a move. Perhaps this game is back on track again!

[falco148]

Just a small query here. After I played my turn as Chinese and changed the title of the file to Germany turn 5 just before I put in the Dropbox, I got a pop-up message saying 'Operation is cancelled'. Anybody know what this means or may mean?