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TripleA Turn Summary: Romanians round 10
TripleA Turn Summary for game: World At War

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Round: 10 Combat Move - Romanians 2 Adv.Fighters and 1 Fighter moved from Kiev to Erzurum 1 Bomber moved from Bucharest to Erzurum 2 Artillerys, 3 Infantrys and 3 Tanks moved from Kiev to Donetsk Purchase Units - Romanians Romanians buy 3 Infantrys and 2 Tanks; Remaining resources: 4 PUs; Combat - Romanians Battle in Donetsk Romanians attack with 2 Artillerys, 3 Infantrys and 3 Tanks Russians defend with 1 Artillery Romanians roll dice for 2 Artillerys, 3 Infantrys and 3 Tanks in Donetsk, round 2 : 5/8 hits, 3,00 expected hits Russians roll dice for 1 Artillery in Donetsk, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits 1 Artillery owned by the Russians lost in Donetsk Romanians win, taking Donetsk from Russians with 2 Artillerys, 3 Infantrys and 3 Tanks remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4 Casualties for Russians: 1 Artillery Battle in Erzurum Romanians attack with 2 Adv.Fighters, 1 Bomber and 1 Fighter British defend with 1 Infantry Romanians roll dice for 2 Adv.Fighters, 1 Bomber and 1 Fighter in Erzurum, round 2 : 2/4 hits, 2,00 expected hits British roll dice for 1 Infantry in Erzurum, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits 1 Infantry owned by the British lost in Erzurum Romanians win with 2 Adv.Fighters, 1 Bomber and 1 Fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 2 Casualties for British: 1 Infantry Non Combat Move - Romanians 2 Adv.Fighters and 1 Fighter moved from Erzurum to Georgia 1 Bomber moved from Erzurum to Georgia 4 Mot.Infs moved from Kiev to Georgia Place Units - Romanians 3 Infantrys placed in Kiev 2 Tanks placed in Bucharest Turn Complete - Romanians Romanians collect 18 PUs; end with 22 PUs
Combat Hit Differential Summary :
Romanians regular : 2,00 Russians regular : -0,33 British regular : -0,33
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Gen Con 2025 - AAR

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FINAL NOTES:
In hindsight, the main reasons for my severe shortcomings in the final game (mostly the obvious missed moves, which are very painful to discover when going through the game notes line by line to try recreating them) are the following:

Lack of a partner. Gen Con’s format is 2v2. I do not like this format as I believe A&A is best played 1v1, but I did not go solo to “prove a point” or anything like that. It just happened that everyone I knew who could have teamed up with me had other commitments and couldn’t make it to the convention. Maybe another time. I even agreed to be paired with the only other solo player at the convention to reduce bracket size, but in the end that would have caused an odd number of players, so we both went solo (I believe the other solo guy lost in round 1, which was sad as he seemed nice enough).

Overdoing it on practice right before the tournament. In short, the night before I drove out to Indiana I stayed up until about 5:30 AM doing last-minute practice work. This accomplished nothing but trashing my sleep schedule before the convention. If anything, it’s remarkable I played as well as I did in the early games (although there are still plenty of minor piece movement mistakes and sub-optimal attacks that I should not have taken).

Not bringing snacks into the floor. I did all my eating at the stalls outside, as for some reason I convinced myself that foodstuffs weren’t allowed in the actual hall. I really should have known better, since I was drinking water basically constantly and opponents were drinking water/soda/etc. with no issues. My opponents in the last round had energy bars, so they were clearly better prepared than I was.

Playing too fast. I was a bit nervous during my games due to wanting to 100% make sure to play 6 full turns, since that’s the turn count I practiced for. Against my Round 3 opponents, I even especially made sure to play as fast as I could to force the game to go for extra turns (if you check my report, you’ll actually see that I was technically losing on turn 6. It was only during turns 7 and beyond that the Allies really started to overwhelm the Axis). Similarly, I feel that the Semifinal game could have become a win if I had a 7th turn to work with (this isn’t a complaint, we mutually agreed during the very start of J6 that it would be the final turn, and my opponents were even generous enough to let me modify my US unit placement to accommodate the fact that it was the final turn).

That being said, me playing fast caused me to miss a lot of obvious errors across all my games. I got away with it during the early rounds, but in the semifinal things like missing the Soviet sub movement R1, miss-counting the size of my own US Navy A3, and miscounting the range on the Japanese Air Stack during the final turns basically cost me everything. If I had played more slowly/carefully, I probably would have noticed at least some of the more obvious blunders.
Letting my physical fitness decline in the month before the event. Self-explanatory. I cut gym days to grind A&A instead and it probably impacted my ability to play/think effectively for longer stretches of time. You may think this is a strange thing to comment on but at least personally I need to keep good cardio to be able to put out A&A-levels of focus for multiple 5.5 hour stretches without getting tired or distracted.
I am attaching three files here. They are my best efforts at recreating the 3 games I played off-camera in TripleA. They’re based on notes + memory, so they are likely not 100% accurate. You should mostly just use them as a visualization tool to follow along with the summaries above.

Shout-Outs and Thanks
Even though I lost in a very sloppy fashion at the Semifinal, there are still two people I would like to thank.

First, @The_Good_Captain, for always being a friend and at least dipping your toes into F2F-style play for a fewrounds (since we both know your true calling is strict Online Play). You listened to my crazy ideas/theories much more than you really needed to, and were a good support system while I was between matches at the convention. You also put a lot of work in for pre-gaming Battle Calcs on a lot of common fight patterns (Without which I would not have been able to play as quickly as I did during Round 3, and I would have likely lost the tournament right there). One day when our actual lives are more settled we’ll have to actually make a team and sweep through.

Second, and more importantly (sorry TGC), @Slip-Capone, who spent almost as much time as I did labbing out the strategies for both sides, stayed up with me until God-knows what time discussiong strategies, hypothetical counters-to-counters-to-counters, and even ran his own solo games to test strategies he would never even get to use personally (If it comes down to it one day, I will pay to fly you up here from Australia so we can team up properly). If anything, this performance was a disservice to the sheer amount of blood/sweat/tears you selflessly put into helping me prep, and I owe you the world for it.

@djensen tagging you because at Gen Con you asked for my write-up/calcs sheets during our game so you can have a more complete data set for whatever you’re getting up to with the one YT Channel (BGN?) that was taking recordings. They’re in the relevant section on our Semifinal Game. Thanks again for the fun match even if it was stressful at the time.

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L25 OOB Martin (X) vs. Knusperheinz (L+50)

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TripleA Turn Summary: Japanese round 4
TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod3

Game History
Round: 4 Purchase Units - Japanese Japanese buy 1 carrier, 1 factory_minor, 2 fighters, 4 infantry and 1 submarine; Remaining resources: 2 PUs; 6 SuicideAttackTokens; Combat Move - Japanese 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Kwangsi to 36 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 36 Sea Zone to 21 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 21 Sea Zone to Guam 2 bombers moved from French Indo China to Guam 1 fighter moved from Japan to 21 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Shan State to Burma Japanese take Burma from UK_Pacific 4 infantry moved from French Indo China to 36 Sea Zone 4 infantry and 2 transports moved from 36 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone 4 infantry moved from 39 Sea Zone to India 2 marines moved from French Indo China to 36 Sea Zone 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and 2 marines moved from 36 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone 2 marines moved from 39 Sea Zone to Ceylon 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from French Indo China to India 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from French Indo China to India 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from French Indo China to Kweichow 1 infantry moved from Kansu to Tsinghai Japanese take Tsinghai from Chinese 1 infantry moved from Anhwe to Kweichow 1 infantry moved from Hunan to Yunnan Japanese take Yunnan from Chinese 1 infantry moved from Hopei to Shensi Japanese take Shensi from Chinese Combat - Japanese Battle in Ceylon Battle in 21 Sea Zone Japanese attack with 1 fighter and 1 transport Americans defend with 1 transport 1 transport owned by the Americans lost in 21 Sea Zone Japanese win, taking Ceylon from UK_Pacific with 1 fighter and 1 transport remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7 Casualties for Americans: 1 transport Battle in India Japanese attack with 4 fighters, 4 infantry and 4 tactical_bombers British defend with 1 aaGun and 4 infantry; UK_Pacific defend with 1 airfield, 1 factory_major and 1 harbour British roll AA dice in India : 0/3 hits, 0.50 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 1 battleship and 1 cruiser in India, round 2 : 2/2 hits, 1.17 expected hits Japanese roll dice for 4 fighters, 4 infantry and 4 tactical_bombers in India, round 2 : 6/12 hits, 5.33 expected hits UK_Pacific roll dice for 1 aaGun and 4 infantry in India, round 2 : 2/4 hits, 1.33 expected hits 2 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in India 1 aaGun owned by the British and 4 infantry owned by the British lost in India Japanese captures 9PUs while taking UK_Pacific capital Japanese converts factory_major into different units Japanese win, taking India from UK_Pacific with 4 fighters, 2 infantry and 4 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 11 Casualties for Japanese: 2 infantry Casualties for British: 1 aaGun and 4 infantry Battle in Guam Japanese attack with 1 artillery, 2 bombers and 1 infantry Americans defend with 1 airfield and 1 infantry Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery, 2 bombers and 1 infantry in Guam, round 2 : 2/4 hits, 2.00 expected hits Americans roll dice for 1 infantry in Guam, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Americans lost in Guam Japanese win, taking Guam from Americans with 1 artillery, 2 bombers and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3 Casualties for Americans: 1 infantry Battle in Kweichow Japanese attack with 3 fighters, 1 infantry and 3 tactical_bombers Chinese defend with 2 infantry Japanese roll dice for 3 fighters, 1 infantry and 3 tactical_bombers in Kweichow, round 2 : 5/7 hits, 3.67 expected hits Chinese roll dice for 2 infantry in Kweichow, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Kweichow 2 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Kweichow Japanese win with 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3 Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry Casualties for Chinese: 2 infantry triggerUKPacificDestroyPUsJapanese: Setting destroysPUs to true for playerAttachment attached to UK_Pacific Non Combat Move - Japanese 1 carrier moved from 37 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from India to 39 Sea Zone 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from India to Shan State 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 37 Sea Zone to French Indo China 2 fighters moved from Sumatra to French Indo China 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from Kweichow to French Indo China 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Malaya to Shan State 1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Shan State to Burma 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from French Indo China to Shan State 2 transports moved from 37 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Kwangsi to French Indo China 1 mech_infantry moved from Anhwe to Hunan 1 infantry moved from Suiyuyan to Kansu 1 infantry moved from Chahar to Suiyuyan 1 artillery moved from Anhwe to Hopei 1 infantry moved from Jehol to Chahar 1 infantry moved from Jehol to Anhwe 1 infantry moved from Jehol to Anhwe 1 submarine moved from 36 Sea Zone to 39 Sea Zone 1 artillery moved from Hunan to Kwangsi 1 marine moved from French Indo China to 36 Sea Zone 1 battleship, 1 carrier, 2 destroyers and 1 marine moved from 36 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from French Indo China to 37 Sea Zone 1 destroyer and 1 submarine moved from 6 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 37 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone 1 submarine moved from 36 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone 1 fighter moved from 21 Sea Zone to Kiangsi 2 bombers moved from Guam to Kiangsi Place Units - Japanese 1 factory_minor placed in Kwangtung 2 infantry placed in French Indo China 1 carrier placed in 36 Sea Zone 1 submarine placed in 6 Sea Zone 2 fighters and 2 infantry placed in Japan Turn Complete - Japanese Japanese collect 64 PUs; end with 75 PUs Objective Japanese 4 Control Dutch East Indies: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 80 PUs Objective Japanese 3 Control Honolulu Or Sydney Or Calcutta Or Western United States: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 85 PUs
Combat Hit Differential Summary :
Chinese regular : 0.33 Americans regular : -0.33 Japanese regular : 2.83 British AA : -0.50 UK_Pacific regular : 0.67
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mike v entek (axis) G40

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@mike64 hope it’s nothing serious, I’ll be here when you’re back
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medical issue. hope to be back playing soon
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LionelR v Mike G40

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medical issue. hope to be back playing soon
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L25 PTV Surfer (X+12) v Mikawagunichi (L)

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TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: French round 25
TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: WW2 Path to Victory

Game History
Round: 25 Purchase Units - ANZAC ANZAC buy 1 destroyer and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - ANZAC Non Combat Move - ANZAC 2 destroyers moved from 32 Sea Zone to 34 Sea Zone 1 destroyer moved from 65 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone 5 fighters moved from Queensland to Caroline Islands 1 fighter moved from New South Wales to Queensland 8 fighters moved from Sumatra to Eastern India Place Units - ANZAC 1 destroyer and 1 transport placed in 64 Sea Zone Turn Complete - ANZAC ANZAC collect 10 PUs; end with 10 PUs Objective ANZAC 3 Pacific Supply Lines: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 13 PUs Combat Move - French Non Combat Move - French 2 infantry moved from United Kingdom to Scotland Turn Complete - French
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