Vance(axis) vs Seththenewb(allies) G40a3.9 no tech

[seth4god]

nov hw/2art - ftr retreats

wgr tw/inf loss

sz76 (2ca, 4ftr, 2bmb, bb(d) vs 2tac, bb(d))
ARolls: 6@3 3@4; Total Hits: 46@3: (3, 1, 5, 4, 5, 1)3@4: (2, 6, 6)
DRolls: 2@3 1@4; Total Hits: 02@3: (5, 6)1@4: (5)

[seth4god]

sz 76 cw/ 2ca, bb(d), 4ftr, 2bmb

ncm sz76 air to irq
arm egy > irq
mech, arm npr > irq
3inf, art alx > egy
arm tob > egy
mech, arm tun > tob
3 cv sz75 > sz72
3ss sz93 > sz97
4ss, cv sz91 > sz92
ftr, tac sz91 > mal
2ftr eus > sz92
3trn sz112 > sz91
2inf, 2art eus > spa (activate neut)
2inf eus > por (activate neut)
bmb eus > gib
2aa hol > wgr
4ftr wgr > sz112
ftr nov > fin
2dd > sz33
ss sz26 > sz6

place
minor fin
minor den
mech, 2arm nwy
arm kor
2ss sz6
ftr, 2bmb eus
collect 94 + 1 saved

China T10
collect 29 + 29 saved

[seth4god]

map

Vance_Seth_10e_China.AAM

[seth4god]

Let me know if you want to call it. Frenchie DD will block sz99 so you can’t grab egy next turn. The NB I’m buying will go to ethiopia. Anything you leave in sz99 will get countered by 10 ss + 2ca/bb + all my air. If you don’t leave anything in sz99, then I’ll be able to block again.

UK T10
2inf, 2art, 3arm, NB, save 1 EUK/2mech, 2arm, ftr PUK

com

Nov(2art)
inf, arm den v/t
ca sz112 > sz127
ARolls: 1@1 2@3; Total Hits: 11@1: (1)2@3: (5, 4)
DRolls: 2@2; Total Hits: 12@2: (5, 1)

ftr nwy > sz115

[seth4god]

nov (arm vs art)
Rolls: 20@3; Total Hits: 820@3: (3, 6, 4, 4, 6, 5, 6, 5, 5, 4, 1, 3, 4, 4, 1, 2, 6, 3, 2, 1)
Rolls: 20@2; Total Hits: 1020@2: (6, 2, 1, 1, 4, 3, 1, 5, 2, 3, 6, 5, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 6)

[seth4god]

Man, nov was tough . . .
nov tw/arm

ncm
ftr sz115 > wgr
ftr, tac nwy > wgr
2ftr sz112 > wgr
4inf uk > wgr v/t
6inf, arm, aa hol > wgr
inf, art que > uk v/t
flt sz72 > sz76
2inf, 2aa epr > irq v/t
10inf, art, 6mech, 9arm, aa, 2tac, 8ftr npr > irq
3inf, 2art, arm cpr > irq
mech, arm epr > irq
mech npr > sau (activate neut)
mech npr > syr
2mech, 2arm ind > epr
ftr ind > irq
3inf, 2art sik/tur > kaz

place
3arm cpr
2inf, 2art UK
NB eth
2mech, 2arm, ftr ind

collect 47 + 1 saved EUK/30 PUK

My map crashed several times during US’s turn and I thought I’d saved it after all the moves before it crashed for the 3rd time.

Vance_Seth_10f_UK.AAM

[seth4god]

change 1
mech ind > afg (activate neut)
mech, 2arm ind > epr

Vance_Seth_10f_UK.AAM

[Guest]

Italy 10

PURCHASE & REPAIR
2 inf
save 1
7 total

COMBAT MOVES
z92 (carrier, 2 fig, french destroyer!)
3 fig from france
aRolls: 3@3; Total Hits: 23@3: (2, 1, 4)
dRolls: 2@2, 2@4; Total Hits: 32@2,: (1, 1)2@4: (3, 5)

ya never know

[Guest]

and I guess that’s the game.  Nice one Seth!

Allies win

[Guest]

I think this experiment showed that it is possible to steam roller Russia early on, but UK became a real superpower and without Japan distracting the US, they can focus entirely on Europe and in this case you really overwhelmed Germany by round 10!  A fast win/fast lose strategy.  Ah well back to the drawing board.

[seth4god]

After games, I like to review the game. Granted this is usually done when I play ftf, so don’t take this the wrong way. I think this strat could be successful if you do one or two things differently. I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but Japan pretty much rolled over after their air left. You pulled back to Japan and then sat there. If you could force US to spend in the pacific for a couple more turns then Germany will be much better off.

And the other thing is although the atlantic fleet was threatened a time or two and I had to readjust my plan to station my fleet in the med, I never really stopped landing troops for long. That Japanese air needs to kill the RN fleet early before the USN comes into the picture in force. Couple those two together and an isolated Brit fleet with little/no US support will have to bide it’s time before making landings or risk being sunk. If US does go 100% atlantic then Japan could still start expanding again and divert some of PUK’s attention to the east and not support the middle east against a German incursion. Maybe invest in a couple ss with Germany? I dunno.

Good game though, I was literally thisclose to throwing in the towel after Moscow fell. You killed off a bunch of little stacks of Brit ground pounders and some air that I was going to fort Moscow with and/or use to kill some Germans. I thought it’d buy me another turn to prepare for Moscow demise. The shock value of losing all those troops + air several times and Moscow falling almost made me capitulate right then. I don’t know if it’s because I’m still new to the 1940s game and all that air power, but I didn’t expect you to risk it against all those ground troops time after time. I didn’t get my confidence back until a turn or two later and I started to get paranoid about where that air was going. The threat of what it COULD do vs what it actually did was almost worse.

What about me? Any flaws that you noticed in my game? I know I made some blunders, big and small. But I wanted to know what if/any mistakes you noticed? I lost a LOT of air(10+?) to your Japanese air. Part of it was me not expecting it and part of it was a lack of respect for it and boy did I pay for that.

[Guest]

Yeah i think you’re right.  The Jap air force in Europe could be used to wipe out the UK navy early on and that would make a big difference, and also so kind of annoying shenaigan in the pacific to keep USA at least occupied a little bit over there.  This strategy is a work in progress and there are a lot of bugs to work out of it, but there are a few good points about it.  Killing off Russia early is a big one; losing the game later on is not so good.

I think the only thing I noticed about your side that probably hurt you was that you refused to rebuild the Moscow IC and so you spent a lot of money on fighters instead of infantry.  Since you would have been SBRd time after time though, what you did might actually be the better way to go.  I’m not sure though; infantry is alwasy the cheapest defense.  Apart from that though i thought it was a pretty good game.

[seth4god]

Yeah, part of that was me being stupid. I overlooked the fact that the major would be downgraded and slough off 14 damage. I figured USSR was going to die anyway and you would have spend the 20 ipc to get it back up and running again. Next time I’ll remember to keep a couple fighters in moscow if an axis power has bombers in range to try and shoot them down. Because yeah I usually go a little heavier on the infantry front.

GG and I’d be happy to play you anytime.