Berlin? Rome? . . . all in good time comrade, all in good time.
Remember, had my defenders in London had average dice, they would be free citizens right now, and this would be a totally different game. Coming out of sea lion with all tanks surviving (albeit stranded now) plus the luftwaffe in tact, almost unheard of.
map?
map attached
The word “power” triggers a hyperlink now? the internet is getting weird. don’t know that guy.
Italy:
Buy(32)
Combat Moves:
14 Infantry, 2 Artillery, 3 Fighters to Yugoslavia
Combat:
Attacker:
Rolls: 12@1 4@2 3@3; Total Hits: 312@1: (5, 1, 2, 2, 5, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 4, 3)4@2: (4, 5, 4, 1)3@3: (1, 5, 5)
Defender:
Rolls: 3@2; Total Hits: 13@2: (4, 2, 5)
Assuming all those warships in SZ 98 can manage to do 2 damage.
Collect: 22 TT + 11 Saved + 6 NO - 2 CRD = 37 IPC
Germany:
Buy(50)
Combat Moves:
3 Infantry, Artillery to Hungary
2 Infnatry to Poland
3 Fig, 2 Tac, Strat to Hungary
2 Fig, Tac, Strat to Poland
Combat:
Poland:
Attacker:
Rolls: 2@1 2@3 2@4; Total Hits: 22@1: (5, 3)2@3: (3, 4)2@4: (2, 6)
Defender:
Rolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 11@2: (1)
Hungary:
Attacker:
Rolls: 2@1 2@2 3@3 3@4; Total Hits: 22@1: (1, 3)2@2: (3, 3)3@3: (5, 4, 5)3@4: (2, 6, 5)
Defender:
Rolls: 4@2; Total Hits: 14@2: (2, 5, 6, 5)
Hungary:
Attacker:
Rolls: 1@1 2@2 3@3 3@4; Total Hits: 21@1: (4)2@2: (5, 6)3@3: (4, 1, 6)3@4: (5, 3, 5)
Defender:
Rolls: 2@2; Total Hits: 02@2: (3, 6)
Collect 46 IPC
Japan:
Buy(73)
Combat Moves:
12 Submarines, 2 Destroyers, 3 Cruisers, 2 Battleships, 3 Carriers, 5 Fighters, Tactical Bomber to SZ 25
9 Infantry, Artillery to Midway
Strategic to SZ 32
Combat:
SZ 25:
Attacker:
Rolls: 14@2 8@3 3@4; Total Hits: 914@2: (3, 1, 4, 6, 4, 5, 1, 1, 6, 3, 4, 4, 2, 4)8@3: (5, 6, 3, 5, 6, 6, 5, 3)3@4: (1, 2, 1)
Defender:
Rolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 11@2: (2)
Convoy Damage:
Rolls: 2@6; Total Hits: 22@6: (3, 3)
Build 4 Destroyers, 2 Carriers in SZ 6
Build 3 Infantry in Kiangsu
3 Convoy Damage in SZ 44 (max)
61 TT + 5 India + 5 DEI = 68 IPC
Yes, I got lucky in England - I don’t know if that would have really helped though. I was going to win that fight, it’s just a matter of degree…if I had gotten almost wiped out, you would have liberated, but I would have had my fleet.
If you had been left with just 1 tank, and lost some planes (a very likely event), then I could have liberated England and wiped out the fleet. I am probably not going to adopt the 2nd round attack with Japan, but if you want to keep experimenting with it, more power to you. Let’s see how this game turns out.
If you had been left with just 1 tank, and lost some planes (a very likely event), then I could have liberated England and wiped out the fleet. I am probably not going to adopt the 2nd round attack with Japan, but if you want to keep experimenting with it, more power to you. Let’s see how this game turns out.
I was going to win with 5 tanks - even if I had to lose up to 2 planes to do it. I saw your fleet and figured my only hope would be to have enough there that a solitary transport and planes could retake London if necessary.
However, my biggest mistake was attacking England on Japan 2…if I had waited for Japan 3 (even if it meant not hitting that pretty stack of infantry) then the Americans would have been stuck on the coast and would not have been in range of either England or Germany’s fleet…that said, I really think it worked out the way I did it - despite it being a mistake.
You will get the VC win. Any interest in playing this out to see who would get the complete victory (14 VCs globally)?
Even with the global VC condition, I think that I’m in for a tough time because you could eventually wear down the US navy defending the west coast and do horrible CRD damage.
Then again, India will eventually be liberated.
So I can see that your India crush can result in an earlier win for Japan, in part because I did put enough in the Pacific. But that’s still a riskier style of play that could have backfired on you.
Here’s the London attack,
11 inf 3 art 8 tanks 4 ftrs 4 tacs 2 bmbs vs. 4 aa guns 19 inf 6 ftrs 1 tac
based on the ds kelley odds calc (I’ll try some other approaches), this results in an expected Axis victory but with the loss of 116 ipcs of units.
116 ipcs = 11x3 + 3x4 + 7 x 6 + ~ 3 fighters, so if you wanted to preserve 5 tanks, you would have lost 5 fighters and 2 tacs.
What you actually lost in the London attack was 11 infantry and no planes, or about 33 ipcs.
You know, I was wondering when you were going to notice that I was at 5 Victory Cities. WEG
This is why I said I think losing the German fleet worked out well for me…it only happened because you abdicated the Pacific. Sure, I lost my main panzer divisions allowing Russia in, but…
We can continue if you like.
If you had been willing to lose 5 fighters and 2 tacs to keep 5 tanks, then I would NOT have liberated London but would have attacked the fleet first. But then, even with 5 tanks plus what you would have built, I would have been able to take it back and keep it with those 4 transports.
The bottom line is that we agree that the J2 attack is too risky to try all the time, but it did work for you in this game. You can expect to get great dice against me, but you will not be that fortunate against other opponents.
Course, I may have done things differently with Italy then.
I’ll conceed the J2 attack may have been a round too early, J3 would have been better off since I could have had more transports down there by then.
