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[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #181 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allied) vs Ktonos (Axis) --- Yeah, I was my own worst enemy in this one. Was planning some sneaky transports in pre-Pearl Harbor Pacific. Only problem, I had no clue (and/or forgot) there's a no-sail-zone for the Allies (and Axis for that matter). Didn't have that white button toggle *on. Even more dumb, I wasn't reading the messages or checking readiness. Indian/British transports were slightly inside the Pacific Rim naval border. USA readiness dumped to 4%. USA didn't join war until December 1942, yep 1942. Even worse, USA had no income during that period, thus no units and no tech. Argggg. The Pacifists and Quakers were happy, but not the rest of the world.

Ktonos worked over Russia, getting them to surrender in early 1944, when I surrendered.
His Italians battles the British non-stop, East of Tobruk. Salute to the light green units, they held.
While the doom was happening to the Urals, few raids to France, were kicked out.
Even worse, the Luftwaffe held RAF to a stalemate, costing Churchill lots of MMPS.
Well played Ktonos, you played it well, no mistakes.

Ha! Now to the Pacific. This was a hodgepodge of mass war. Nothing like War in the Pacific! Yes, I had transports waiting to pounce before Pearl Harbor, which cost me the game, but I had lots of fun. The Allies (mostly Indians from India) snagged multiple ports. Then came the Aussies. The Philippines held on for a couple turns, then the Japanese took Philippines, then Allies took it back. There were Naval battles from Singapore, Legate Sea, near Taiwan, Hawaii, Truk, etc. Since the USA didn't have any tech, Yanks lost ships. On the flip side, the Japanese were getting punched in the face. Couple sneaky attacks, took Seoul (later lost), Hong Kong, Allies held half of Viet-fricking-Nam. The entire Pacific was a zoo without cages. Was fun.

I agree, could have continued just for the fun of the Pacific. But come on man, Germans were unstoppable. Russia gone, and Luftwaffe was tough.

Great game. My mistakes breaking the Pacific Rim boundary was my own. I also made the same mistake as Japanese against JackMack. This is how dumb I am. Been breaking this readiness rule for all my games! No wonder the Yanks are so emotional.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #182 [WIN] ElvisJJonesRambo (Axis) vs firsteds (Allied) --- What a game! Excellent action. Allies surrender June 1945, because of morale. Allies had massive units, but lacked the will (Morale) to continue. The Russians conducted a massive offensive in Summer 1943. Germans, by some miracle, were able to push back, a true Battle of Kursk. The battle was of suppy and exploitation of units to cutoff *key supply by both sides. This was in East was made possible by the Americans conducted a brave paratroop rescue of Paris. At least 4 Air units between USA/UK were able to sneak grab the capital of France. Only problem, those soft paratroops received a mower of Tanks that were operanded to the most counter position.

Due to the taking of Paris in 1943, Russians were able to attack in tandem. AH was able to hold on. Meanwhile, huge battle in Middle East. Allies bribed Turkey, forcing the Axis to take Turkey, before the conversion. Parking Lot battle in Middle East. Allies had the troops, but morale was low Losing some battles/units, plus Japanese holding some Yankee Guam type islands wasn't help the people in the States desire to fight. British morale was the lowest.

Fun action.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #183 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Axis) vs Ktonos(Allied) ---

The game was absolutely insane. It came down to the last turn.

Allied morale was so low near the end.
German surrendered end of 1946. Yes, 1946.
Japan held Chuang King and all Tokyo, so I was gonna win that way.
Japan gets nuked with 6 turns remaining, but still held on, dishing out damage.
Allies were oh so close, in taking Chuang King, but Japan was gonna hold it.
Japan lost Iwo Jima with 2 turns left, which buckled their morale.
It was like Rocky II vs Apollo Creed, both knocked down and had to get up.
If it would have gone to the score card, Japan wins.
But it didn't.
2 turns left loss.

Highlights:
British went very heavy in North Africa and France.
Decided to teach the Allies a lesson, don't leave weak ports.
Went thru England with decent speed from Western Side, with Paratroops and AV transports.
Decided to bribe the Yugoslavians, yes, Yugo. They joined, was bribing them early.
Yugos, Romanians, Bulgarians, Hungarians battled Russia, from June 1941 into 1946.
The Britsh Navy was completely sunk. Never sank so many naval units, won't be repeated, impossible.
Held England, and Ireland into late 1944.
The war, was in the East. Leningrad, to Smolensk, to Dnieper.
Nothing but a ping-pong match of destruction.
The Back/Forth in the East felt like WW1 or Korean War.
Offensives, just kept getting countered, by both of sides.

Allied decisive victory on April 1947 (thats 1 turn before game end!)

Well, if I ever wished to see one game of mine in an AAR, it would be this. What a brutal and close match. Up until Summer 1945, I was dead certain I couldn't win this, and I continued solely because I could give a good fight in a couple of fronts. But I managed to pull the comeback, and I am very proud I did this against a cunning and competent opponent as Elvis.

The Germans made an early France invasion, followed by a slow but eventually successful Sea Lion. Took Egypt. Italians Dominated Ethiopia. There was a point where the UK had maybe one land unit on the map, then my Indian MVPs saved UK from collapse. Defended Iraq, and Kenya. US strat bombers managed to level Egypt and hold the Axis push.

Axis pulled a double Pearl Harbor /east coast attack on US navy when they dowed America, bashing its fleet to almost nonexistance. Later the Japs captured Pearl Harbor.

Fortunately, the Soviets held the line, far more than anticipated. None of the major USSR cities ever fell, and only Leningrad was threatened. Smolensk and Kiev changed hands I dont know how many times.

I attempted a two prong Britanny/Cornwall Overlord, liberating England, but failing miserably in France. Eventually though the US managed to liberated France, but even then... Even then, US morale was below 8% at a point, and even in 1946 I thought I couldnt win. I was refraining from making any attacks with US units if there was an expected casualty of even 1 str point. Just to conserve morale.

Final kill count was absolutely insane. Something north of 250 soviet land units killed. Most of UK fleet. The US ended the game with only one BB on the map.

Amazing brutal game. Up for a rematch anytime.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

This match you just portrayed with Ktonos sounds truly legendary.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #184 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs Archmache (Axis) --- This one was complete waste of time.

Russians have Level 1, Infantry. With only 35% done with 65% to go for Level 2. It's October 1941. Level 1 infantry are worthless.

Surrender. Too bad, game was exciting in rest of parts.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #185 [WIN] ElvisJJonesRambo (Axis) vs gadjan (Allies) --- Russians held until 1944. Western Allies failed to make solid landing in time. Germans had crazy amount of MMPs from quick conquest of Turkey & Middle East. Subs went super level 5 + 3 stars from pirate work. Germany had so many MMPs, picked off Swiss, Greece, Spain, etc.

Long wars in Iraq, Norway. British grew tired of the death and the people (morale) caused them to Churchill to surrender in 1946

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #186 [WIN] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs JNaspirant (Axis) --- Axis surrenders Spring 1943. Italians played Africa quite soft. This allowed the Royal Air Force to stay healthy for couple years, and prepped for a huge Operation Husky in March 1943 combined with the Yankees and Canadians. Considered some other options, but wanted to make sure the landing would win. Russians were pushed back to Moscow and lost Stalingrad. Reds also lost Southern Russian Oil, and retreated to Persia. This front Allies were do slightly better than par. Germans still had alot of firepower, but were not happy with muddy terrain in the East. I was quite happy with the bad weather.

The real difference was in the Pacific. Due to the soft play by Italians, the Royal Navy got to counter-attack quickly after Pearl Harbor. My opponent got a taste surface ships acting more Japanese than Japanese. The Rising Sun had to pack it back to their island and possessions. This gave India some nice landing spots to invade. Though going slow, the DEI, Manilla, were receving double-supply pressure, was matter of few turns, toast.

Good game, good opponent. Will play anytime, either side.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #187 [WIN] ElvisJJonesRambo (Axis) vs noel60 (Allies) --- Allies surrender 1942. The Chinese & Russians were in the meat-grinder, constantly losing units & taking MMP damage constantly. Axis were punching hard. Starting out in the sands of Egypt with x3 Panzers. This operation went well. Afrika Corps waited in Palestine and ended up invading Syria and taking Turkey in Spring 1942. Moscow, Stalingrad, Changsta, etc were in big-time trouble. The British/Americans were in shock, when Spanish turned to the Nazi Régime after being bribed in 1942. Upto the American entrance, the Spanish were around 65%, then a pop. This was final straw.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #188 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Axis) vs Moonchild (Allies) ---

Axis surrender 1942. No point to continue.
DEI joins Allies 1941 by Diplomacy.


We're gonna flip sides, and have another go of it.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #189 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs Bavre (Axis) --- Most boring game I've ever played. Zero action. Bavre does the delay crap with Luxemburg, Norway, Denmark, etc. Leaves North Africa. Just sits there with Japan. Well, took the capital with the slog method with Elite-13 Armies, but Chinese were quite strong. But there's no action. Russian was a complete bore.

Got tired of waiting. British decided to DOW on Denmark. India DOW on New Guinea.

Might as well play the 1942 Scenario.
Surrender January 1942.

Going water my house plants.
Gonna watch some TV (without the TV even *On).
This guy is Dawn of the Dead.

Yawn.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #190 [WIN] ElvisJJonesRambo (Axis) vs Bubblebox (Allies) ---

Poland, Denmark, Low Countries, Norway, France: Par for the course
North Africa: Super Tanks bash thru, take Egypt
Turkey: Diplo, linked up Middle East for great supply for Iraqi battle against USAAF
Africa: doesn't matter
Russia: Surrendered early 1944. With no real help in Europe, Red is Dead.
China: Chinese got bashed in the head, no threat
Pacific: Yanks had super subs +5, Japs eventually ran & hid in 1943. Lost DEI, Singapore was next. Was delay time.

Conclusion: Allies put more MMPs into Pacific, didn't offer a MedFront or D-Day solution. Germans had awesome income with Turkey to Egypt. Able to fight with better supply vs Allies in Iraq. When the Caucuses final got cornered, Reds were broke.

Fun opponent, daily turns. Will play again, if I don't hit burnout. Been playing Ticket To Ride

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #191 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs Moonchild (Axis) ---

Russians toast in January 1943. Allies surrender.

Unable to even scratch the paint off the advance, the Reds rollover.
Stalingrad lost January 1943.
Persia will be toast next turn.
Leningrad very weak.
Moscow taking heavy damage.
Problem, Russians have no MMPs and cannot even get an exchange.

Americans had to land early in desperation in Italy.
Half of Sicily taken.
Northern Italy a force landed, captured 3 cities.
Doesn't matter, Russia gone.

Pacific, that's always the fun front, but doesn't matter. Russia toast.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

told a binary to "get better"

[HamburgerMeat]

told a binary to "get better"

Don't ever change bud.

[OldCrowBalthazor]

told a binary to "get better"

Jeez your getting that because of 'in game' chats?
That's the place where good smack talk is allowed, or so I thought. I know there's an art to breaking balls and some discretion is always warranted, but come on man!

[OldCrowBalthazor]

Ok here's an example of some in game smack between Jazon Chengdu and I. He created the fabulous Polish-Soviet War mod for SC-WWI. I'm playing the godless Bolsheviks and he the Catholic Poles and White Ukrainians.
We role-played the hell out of this match including scathing smack talk. Now generally this is private, but I put the whole match on YT a few years ago.

Didn't hear one complaint. Certainly not from Jazon, who delighted in ripping me back and better than I was giving.
He's actually IS Polish, but could of been from Brooklyn.

Anyways..here's some examples. Now I'm ready to get fried too....

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Elvis Presley At Pearl Harbor
On March 25, 1961, Elvis Presley held a USS Arizona Memorial Benefit Concert—the proceeds of which went to the construction of the Pearl Harbor Memorial.

Elvis initially formulated the idea after reading about how the memorial’s fundraising efforts had slowed. In fact, it appeared it wouldn’t even be built. That 1960 newspaper article inspired Elvis, who had just returned from serving in the military, to do what he could to help.

Elvis and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, decided to stage a benefit concert in Hawaii with the goal of revitalizing fundraising efforts. The concert took place just months before the 20th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks.

Lo and behold, the show raised more than $50,000 for the memorial. On the day of the concert, Elvis was surrounded by thousands of fans when his plane landed at the Honolulu Airport. That evening, nearly 5,000 fans attended to see the King.

The Concert By Elvis Presley At Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
The Bloch Arena at Pearl Harbor provided the venue for the concert. Of the 4,000 seats in the arena, 100 “ringside” seats sold for $100 each. The rest of the tickets, scaled at $10, $5, $3.50, and $3, went on sale March 13.

“You know, Elvis is 26 (last Sunday was his birthday) and that’s about the average age of those boys entombed in the Arizona,” Colonel Tom Parker said. “I think it’s appropriate that [Elvis] should be doing this.”

The benefit concert at Bloch Arena in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard helped raise money for the memorial honoring those who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Furthermore, it brought national attention to the cause. On Memorial Day the year after Elvis performed, the USS Arizona Memorial was officially dedicated.

[baarsofia42]

Elvis Presley At Pearl Harbor
On March 25, 1961, Elvis Presley held a USS Arizona Memorial Benefit Concert—the proceeds of which went to the construction of the Pearl Harbor Memorial.

Elvis initially formulated the idea after reading about how the memorial’s fundraising efforts had slowed. In fact, it appeared it wouldn’t even be built. That 1960 newspaper article inspired Elvis, who had just returned from serving in the military, to do what he could to help.

Elvis and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, decided to stage a benefit concert in Hawaii with the goal of revitalizing fundraising efforts. The concert took place just months before the 20th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attacks.

Lo and behold, the show raised more than $50,000 for the memorial. On the day of the concert, Elvis was surrounded by thousands of fans when his plane landed at the Honolulu Airport. That evening, nearly 5,000 fans attended to see the King.

The Concert By Elvis Presley At Pearl Harbor Navy Yard
The Bloch Arena at Pearl Harbor provided the venue for the concert. Of the 4,000 seats in the arena, 100 “ringside” seats sold for $100 each. The rest of the tickets, scaled at $10, $5, $3.50, and $3, went on sale March 13.

“You know, Elvis is 26 (last Sunday was his birthday) and that’s about the average age of those boys entombed in the Arizona,” Colonel Tom Parker said. “I think it’s appropriate that [Elvis] should be doing this.”

The benefit concert at Bloch Arena in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard helped raise money for the memorial honoring those who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Furthermore, it brought national attention to the cause. On Memorial Day the year after Elvis performed, the USS Arizona Memorial was officially dedicated.

On March 25, 1961, Elvis Presley organized a benefit concert at the Bloch Arena in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to raise funds for the USS Arizona Memorial construction. Inspired by a newspaper article about the memorial's struggling fundraising efforts, Elvis and his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, aimed to help. The concert successfully raised over $50,000 and brought national attention to the cause. It played a significant role in revitalizing the fundraising efforts and ultimately led to the dedication of the USS Arizona Memorial on Memorial Day the following year.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

@ baarsofia42 --- Thanks for the props. The album one of my favs (link provided). Your first post even, way to come out in style.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG4TGPrc_Bw

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #192 [WIN] ElvisJJonesRambo (Axis) vs Archmache (Allies) --- Allies soft Pacific defense + SeaLion gave the Germans all they needed. Game has an AAR thread.