Round 1 2vs2 Polonthi/Tica vs MrQuiet/Avatar47

[Petiloup]

ORIGINAL: MrQuiet

Screenshot shows a German Fettish for Paratroops.

Always loved the movie "A bridge too far", so trying to do a German remake but with an alternate ending [;)]

Winter 1941:

Germany:

Malta is liberated from England oppression.

Some action with the UBoats for 1 UBoats down, -0- transports. The Navy is definitely not my strong point. Luftwaffe did damage a few ships but the Italian navy didn't manage to clear the Eastern Med for an invasion of Cairo. The DAK is ready to do the job.

[MrQuiet]

Su/China Winter 41

Japan launched a massive ground attack against China, although we repelled them, they did not suffer any causalties [:(]

Germany is looking quite serious about trying to gain some realestate in the Middle East [:-]

Screenshot shows a Bulgarian force poised to attack either Turkey or Greece.
Will they never stop bullying the world??

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[tcart]

Japan Winter 41
Sorry, I'm a little out of sequence here. Outside work has been interfering with Tojo's ability to scheme for world dominance. It's a good thing Phil has the Germans working in high gear. I'm also having difficulty taking screenshots on my new computer for some reason. I hope to remedy this shortly.
 
The Japanese are already looking South, West, and North for fertile ground to plunder. But to ensure that our back garden is secure we launch a combined arms attack on Changsha, where the Chinese army has conveniently massed. Using large quantities of ART and HB we manage to kill 3 INF and 8 MIL (6 of which were created by the attack itself) with no losses to myself. One more turn of bashing and the Chinese should be done as a land force, at least for a while

[Petiloup]

Spring 1941:

Germany:

Attacking Turkey might have triggered a Russian violent response against the Reich so as good friends we decided to show how peacefull Germany is. Greece has lost itself on the wrong side but the events in the Middle East did let us think that any other attempt to alienate us would be futile, still they will be closely watched.

The Luftwaffe is still achieving good results against RAF fighters!!! is there a flaw in those fighters design [&:] Egypt did welcome our Panzers after another failed Dunkerque.

Our UBoats did some screening and noticed that Iceland is occupied by Canadian forces. The King of England protests against this intrusion into the "New Pan European sphere of coprosperity". No further Canadian troops are noticed in Canada, maybe we should think of some convincing way to make them accept peace. [;)]

View of the "New Pan European sphere of coprosperity".

[MrQuiet]

Spring 1941

Looks to be the eve of Barb.
14 German Units in Finland
Lots of troops amassed in Romainia.
Times are bleak for the Allies.

Turkey even decided to become trade partners with the evil empire.
With a volitiliy rateing of (2) thats was a pretty lucky gamble.

Attached ss shows the current troop strength of the Axis.
Of note is the large stockpile of artillary, very unusal for the German player.
Russia has already called to arms a decent sized infantry force, now we just need to get there quality up and hope to give those nasty Germans a bit of a struggle in Mother Russia.

[tcart]

Japan Spring 1941
Yamamoto is so enamored of the Thai beaches that he's filing out of sequence again.
The Japanese have little to do at the moment. The Chinese wisely withdrew their forces from the border provinces and we've no intention of getting sucked into the morass of the Chinese hinterland, at least for the moment. Further preparations are made for future exploits.

[Petiloup]

Summer 1941:

Germany:

Still feeling lucky as Spain just decided to see the light and join the Axis. The huge drain of forces due to the newly open Russian front to liberate the world from Communism is partially filled with Spanish volunteers.

First turn of attack was classic. Eastern Poland, Kiev and the Baltic States did fall. Leningrad was too strongly defended to have any possible positive results even with the Prussia Panzer army. Instead all Panzers with some Paratroop support did seize Belarussia with medium losses (2 tanks damaged, 1 Para destroyed).

Russia looses 2 factory but now production will turn fully and Russian tanks are quite good (8 Evasion, 7 Land attack).

[tcart]

Japan - Summer 1941
So many targets, so little time. Clearly Japan will have to enter the war soon. With England and the Middle East firmly in German hands, the map looks more like a smorgasbord. Eastern Russia is just sitting there, India bats her eyelashes and giggles at me, and because we're playing the Uncommon Valor variant the South Pacific is a veritable treasure trove of strat points. Perhaps I should just throw darts at the thing and invade wherever the dart lands.
 
In the meantime we'll blow up a few more Chinese factories. Mao-kai-shek has retreated his ground army out of reach for the time being, so our only viable opponent is mostly out of reach. At least it keeps our losses low.

[MrQuiet]

Russia/China Summer41

All I can say is it is a mighty gray world at the moment.

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[Petiloup]

ORIGINAL: MrQuiet

All I can say is it is a mighty gray world at the moment.

From the screenshot it seems my transports fleet near Finland as been damaged/destroyed and my CAG as well. I remembered too late I hadn't any HVY Fleet anymore and should have made my convoy around Norway instead of the Baltic. Force of habit I guess [:(]

[Petiloup]

Fall 1941:

Germany:

Last turn before Winter, so needed to attack something and Leningrad was the obvious target. After bringing troops from Finland, the Baltic States and the Panzers from Belorussia I managed a ratio of 8.X to 13.X or so but I had more ART so I did go for it. Too bad I couldn't achieve Blitzkrieg and it's only afterwards I realised why reading the rules but my turn was done already. Never underestimate the need to know the rules fully. So the reason why is that my fighters are still busy protecting the Middle East and the sea zones between Scotland and Norway. Lack of planning there as with even 1 Fighter I could have been able to take care of that TAC bomber in defense and get Blitzkrieg bonus.

The attack went well overall even if I was repulsed as expected. Now the screenshot below will explain why I like ART that much.

Looking at the screenshot you can notice I have 7 ART against 4 and ART firing first I had a good chance to shot before being shot at which you can see below as the first 4 shots are done by my ART (besides the AA and Bombers) and all in all I scored a hit on each of the Soviet ART doing 18, 3, 4 and 19 suppression hits. Then at last 1 soviet ART does fire then mine and so on for a total of me firing 14 times against 8 times for the Soviet and then the Tanks and INF begin to do their show.

I'm seeing the same results in my Allied game with Russian ART but right now I can use this against Russia as I need less defense on the Western front, if not I would have a few less ART on the Eastern Front.

So now will Stalin defend Leningrad to the last man or pull out and prepare his troops for a counterattack from Kharkov???

We have spied on Western Intelligence so results shown for our Japanese allied. We noticed also that India is very lightly defended and that supplies are massed in Ethiopia. Might be to be send to Persia if Churchill again show his Warmonger face.

Of course our proposal of peace to the Allies, so we can commonly deal with Russia Communism, is still on the table.

Turn send to Japan.

[MrQuiet]

Grrrrr..... I can see from that screenshot that my computer is still infected with the 'must roll 1 on bombard evasion' bug.
The diferences between 1 and 2 on bombard evasion is to brutal.
I am surprised to only lose one milita, I think I had about 5 or six there.
Glad to hear we held it.
Time for First winter, did ya leave me any treats?

[Petiloup]

ORIGINAL: MrQuiet

Grrrrr..... I can see from that screenshot that my computer is still infected with the 'must roll 1 on bombard evasion' bug.
The diferences between 1 and 2 on bombard evasion is to brutal.
I am surprised to only lose one milita, I think I had about 5 or six there.
Glad to hear we held it.
Time for First winter, did ya leave me any treats?

Mostly could only attack Leningrad and a few MIL here and there. Your army in Kharkov did prevent any foolish idea from my part taking into account that I had still a lot of troops in Eastern Poland from 1st turn of attack. Also your tanks being place in Moscow and Kharkov do make them nicely placed to possibly mount a coordinated attack against Belorussia so I had to defend it a bit since the Panzers went venturing into Leningrad attack. All in all you are in a not too bad shape and your troops are quite good especially your tanks.

Did made a huge mistake not getting Fighters on the Eastern front but too late for that. Also I'm sure seeing that I attack Leningrad is a relief for you compared of an attack in the South to Kharkov/Rostov but your army in Leningrad would have conquered Finland easily and reopen the Northen Lend lease road which is also bad news.

Always strange to notice that even taking England is not giving you right away the means to mount an improved Barbarossa. The bright side is that I have an easier time to protect my Atlantic Wall.

1942 will surely be a War of Attrition on the Eastern front and the whole situation will now depends on what Japan is going to do.

[MrQuiet]

I was sad to count how many times I rolled 'bombard evasion 1' on that Lennengrad battle and that you did not even once. Seeing your armor get a auto hit against my armor when it would have missed was also sad [:(] But oh well things will turn around, the darkest days are about over.

Japan saw a weakness and backstabbed Russia as I expected and actually hoped for. They mounted a weak effort and applied most of there effort to starting the war with the USA. Hurray! The mighty US will out produce the Axis Scum and turn the tide!
Will Japan be strong enough on the ground and at sea? We shall see in the coming years.

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[Petiloup]

ORIGINAL: MrQuiet

Japan saw a weakness and backstabbed Russia as I expected and actually hoped for. They mounted a weak effort and applied most of there effort to starting the war with the USA. Hurray! The mighty US will out produce the Axis Scum and turn the tide!
Will Japan be strong enough on the ground and at sea? We shall see in the coming years.

So it's really WW2 now [8D] It will indeed spice the whole things up. I could have wait a few more turns but Japan has a few aces to play and the mighty British empire is just a shadow of itself.

Well with Winter coming I can see how relieved you can be and I can see Russia won't be a walk in the park because even if with the luck in results of Leningrad battle you can still bare those losses easily I think.

So the darkest hours are behind but it's just the end of the beginning not yet the beginning of the end [;)]

[Avatar47]

USA enters the War! Among the many possible decisions to take, Roosevelt decides that Portugal is no longer worthy of the Azores, and so Allied forces proceed to occupy it. As Portugal was already Axis Leaning, there wasn't much to lose. The Azores, with 5x 3 range Fighters and 1 3 range TB + Inf and Art should be able to put pressure on the mostly Militia occupied West Europe, or even Africa. With USA going into x3 next turn, relief for Russia is around the proverbial corner . The only damage however to Germany this turn was 1 sub destroyed, and another damaged.
 
To the relief of the WAllies, India and Australia were suprisingly not among the attack targets of the Japanese, as little defended as they were. Efforts were made to reinforce them with US pieces.

[Petiloup]

Winter 1942:

Germany:

The sneaky aggression of the US against the 1000 Years 3rd Reich will not be tolerated. The corrupted nature of Democracy shows it's true face by attacking the Peacefull country of Portugal. We of course volunteer our help to this friendly nation.

We are pleased to see Mussolini's navy challenging the USN and succesfully repelling the Invasion Fleet of the Azores and sinking one Light Fleet around Iceland.

The looming menace over England, France and Spain is confirmed and Goering pledges to challenge any air force send over Europe.

Leningrad is still holding unfortunately and we are worried over the strong Russian army in Kharkov.

Darker hours seems at the corner for the 3rd Reich but we will prevail.

PS: As someone put it well in a post, it is now that the Allied player smiles at the lack of a strong UBoat campaign [:(]

[Petiloup]

Are we still at war??? All so quiet...[:(]

[MrQuiet]

Well again I suffer from this darn crash when trying to view the die rolls.
At least this time I dont have any time invested in moves.
It happened durring the vcr playback which is usually the first thing I do.

[MrQuiet]

Russia China Winter 42

First Russian Winter:
The Russian Forces take advantage of the weather and launch a mjor offensive in Kiev.
Losses are fairly equall for both sides but will be measured as a success since my population can replace larger losses than the Germans can.

I found it quite lucky that the germans were able to take out a defending fighter and tac with flack support in Lenningrad durring first Russian winter with only 1 Stuka squadran thus allowing him to gain combined arms. Stuka scored auto hit in air to air against my fighter durring first Russian winter. I doubt I could have pulled that off and thus would not have even tried. Luck does indeed seem to be running very high on the German side this game, but for how long?


SS shows situation before Russin builds.
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