18L axis-dominion (+4) vs farmboy (allies) bm3

[axis-dominion]

looking at it closer, I don’t think Japan is an option after all. I could be wrong tho :)

[farmboy]

I think I’ll concede here.

I was still trying to see if the extra turn I would get from taking Warsaw would amount to anything but it wouldn’t. I thought I had a plan of stacking the US in 91 with a naval build from Spain and moving all my units into Portugal. The nval build would probably have been safe although you could have attacked. The US would take Denmark back as well. the British could then set up again in 110 to attack Poland again. Maybe the Japanese air could have wiped this out but the British had the money for an expensive naval/air build and the transports and land units were more or less already ready to go. But this would simply be blocked by an Italy destroyer build in Normandy or a German one in 112-113. So a lot of thought into nothing.

I thought about Japan too. You could have had 27 land units and 7 air. The best I could do is 11 land and 9 air from the US followed by 6 land and 4 air from Anzac. its too bad I wasn’t thinking about that on the last turn. Could have set up for it more with the US. Had I built those transports in West US they could have been in position as would bombers built in the East US. Maybe that would have given you London though.

Its too bad (for me). I would have been thrilled to have, in a sense, turned the game at Stalingrad even though that was pure luck. :) Anyway, good game. Very well played and very fun.

[axis-dominion]

@farmboy yes that was a great game, very interesting and exciting at the end!

if you had built aggressively in the pac, I would’ve spotted that and held back some of my air accordingly. so not sure that would save you either.

but yah, I think italy is just so massive at this point, and now with germany able to build units again (and its income is no joke), and with IJN support (even if I had held some back to defend Japan), I think it was just a matter of time. particularly since you had to commit so much to the sacking of Berlin. I mean all those tts that got sunk really put a nail in the whole thing.

I will say, tho, I think perhaps a little bit more planning that ensured the tts weren’t all sunk might have made a little difference. not sure tho.

as for me, I totally messed up when I held some of my Luftwaffe back the turn I was setting up for the Stalingrad strike (the 6 air I used to hit normandy). like I said I was pretty distracted so I had originally neglected the possibility of samara, and the thought only came to me after I had made the initial post (but fortunately, before you rolled your turn)). I guess I still felt fairly confident I could wipe you out in Stalingrad. boy that was crazy luck for you.

[axis-dominion]

one thing I was (pleasantly) surprised that you had done is, on US13, you held back 2 US figs and 4 tacs. I thought for sure you were going to throw everything at the defense of Stalingrad. considering how luck you had gotten there, can you imagine the impact of those extra 6 planes? likely I would not then be able to take Stalingrad–at least not for a few turns, which would’ve made quite the difference!

[farmboy]

@axis-dominion The turn where I took Berlin I messed up. I could have set up better for it. I could have set up with about 35% odds of taking outright with the US. If I could have done that, I might have been able to use the UK to prevent you from taking it back immediately. That still may not have been enough, but two turns without an income for Germany and the extra turn for me to set up, might have made a difference. And as I said before, I wonder if I had simply gone for Norway, Sweden and Poland, I might have been in a position to keep taking Poland until I could have brought more pressure from the other side of the atlantic. You not losing Germany’s income and the stack on Berlin might have made this less effective than I think but it was something I should have explored. I was stuck thinking I either had to take Paris or Berlin.

[farmboy]

@axis-dominion Yeah, another point where I should have been counting units. Thought I had another turn to send those units and wanted to keep the pressure on Japan.

[axis-dominion]

@farmboy re taking Norway instead, if you wish to explore this alternate history for fun and curiosity, I’d be down for it. but not tonight as I think we should both take a break :) we could pick it up tomorrow but probably not as aggressively paced.

[farmboy]

@axis-dominion I’d be interested although I probably could use a few days honestly. My real life has started to suffer because of this game. :)

[axis-dominion]

@farmboy yea counting units becomes extremely important in endgame scenarios like this. I think your gameplay is very strong, so if you improve in this it’ll make the difference for you and easily put you at the master level, among the top.

[axis-dominion]

@farmboy yea no problem, we could take a few days break, I totally understand!

when you’re ready, feel free to redo that turn and post in the same thread. we’ll continue from there.

[farmboy]

@axis-dominion thanks for the complement. I’ve learned a lot from these two games as well. And in a few days I’ll go back to that turn and see if I think I have a viable alternate strategy.