12L '41 SouL(14) v Gamerman01

[gamerman01]

Nope, gonna finish it
Z12Rolls: 8@4; Total Hits: 58@4: (3, 4, 2, 6, 5, 3, 4, 6)Rolls: 8@4; Total Hits: 58@4: (5, 4, 5, 4, 3, 4, 3, 6)

[gamerman01]

@LuckyLindy:

@Gamerman01:

Oh, it’s Lucky!  I thought it strange that SouL would wink there

Looks like you are having a good day Gamerman  :-)  Maybe it is to reward for the terrible roll you took against Karl.

Cheers

Yes, a very good day  :-)
And yes I pay my dues from time to time  :-)

Z12 cleared - victorious Italian battleship stands off the rock of Gibraltar, awaiting a horrible fate from the RAF.  But will she take out another destroyer or fighter on the way to the bottom?

For the record, granting me the retreat option almost saved you that fighter.  If you hadn’t granted, I would definitely not retreat.  As it happened, it didn’t matter either way….  but thanks anyway

Blk - 2 INF, AA (Ita)
Bul - INF (Blk) 2 ARM (Ita) FTR (Pol)

Collect 13, 13 on hand

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[gamerman01]

Just noticed the Italian tanks in Poland were positioned right under the German infantry.  Sometimes people mistake Italian tanks for German tanks and that can be a big problem, so on this map I moved them to the corner of Poland to help distinguish.

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[souL]

maybe a sub, that was the entire reason it was mobilized in that region.  When you left the comfort of the med, my goal was to make you move south or go down swinging.  I wasn’t going to let you unite fleets in sz 7, should you have desired it.

With that move I expected to do a few things and they’ve all been done, minus the eventual sinking of this bb/trn. The sov sub was there to maybe keep an American plane alive but unfortunately their own ineptitude killed them.  It was nice to rescue those Brits from that desolate rock for certain.

If that happens to take an american plane with it, that shall be an unfortunate side effect, but the raf has more important things to do than to sully its hands with such… rabble.

[gamerman01]

I’m not sure I know what you mean…
Did I do anything wrong?

[gamerman01]

Besides getting lucky?

[souL]

No I just wanted to take the turn but was on my phone so I instead commented.

[souL]

I was just making light of the remaining italian cv by calling it rabble.

US3:
Purchase:
2 trn ftr dd ca save 1

combat:
sub 10, ftr eus, bmb lib -> 12
ftr 56 -> 19

12
aRolls: 1@2 1@3 1@4; Total Hits: 01@2: (4)1@3: (6)1@4: (6)
dRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (3)

[LuckyLindy]

Sad to say, that is a battleship remaining in Z12 and it just hit you souL.    :|

[souL]

ok I guess it’s up to the raf.  lousy bb.  :)

china:
conscript 2 inf

combat:
2 inf nin -> hup
ftr bmb 12 -> alg
ftr 19 -> pan
bb dd 45 -> 56

mobilize:
2 trn 10, 2 inf yun, dd ca ftr 56

collect:
44, has 45

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[gamerman01]

Been busy, but catching up on things.  Should be moving soon

[gamerman01]

G4 with 52, buy 6 INF, ART, 4 ARM, FTR

Combat moves -
Nwy - 2 INF (Ger)
EUk - INF (EPl)
Arc - INF (Bel) 4 ARM (Kar) ARM, FTR (BSt) 4 FTR (Z5) BMB (Ger)

Rolls: 1@1 10@3 1@4; Total Hits: 31@1: (5)10@3: (5, 5, 4, 4, 6, 2, 4, 4, 6, 2)1@4: (4)Rolls: 7@2 2@3; Total Hits: 67@2: (1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 1)2@3: (4, 3)

[gamerman01]

BSt - 8 INF, 3 ART (EPl) 6 INF (Pol) 4 FTR (Arc)
Pol - 5 INF (Ger)
Z5 - FTR (Arc)
Ger - BMB (Arc)

Place FTR (Z5)
Place INF (Kar)
Place 5 INF, ART, 4 ARM (Ger)
Collect 51, 51 on hand

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[gamerman01]

My roll was in the bottom 9% and yours was in the top 7%.
Median result for the battle has me taking it with a tank, losing no air.
Golden opportunity for you now

[boldfresh]

@Gamerman01:

My roll was in the bottom 9% and yours was in the top 7%.
Median result for the battle has me taking it with a tank, losing no air.
Golden opportunity for you now

ouch.  That looks disturbingly like one of my attack results.  :-(

[boldfresh]

@Boldfresh:

@Gamerman01:

My roll was in the bottom 9% and yours was in the top 7%.
Median result for the battle has me taking it with a tank, losing no air.
Golden opportunity for you now

ouch.  That looks disturbingly like one of my attack results.   :-(

I roll in the bottom 9% about 50% of the time  :lol:

Coure u didnt lose any air so theres a silver lining… Prolly i woulda lost a couple ftrs if it was a bona fide Bold signature battle.  Yoshi believes i am cursed, and i think he may be onto something  :-P

[gamerman01]

Bad day of A&A for me!
Karl took me out on a RAZOR THIN margin in 1940!

I have France making 20+, ANZ making 15, USA making 80, UK making 50, and Russia still alive with a big stack that he still can’t take over.  Germany is facing serious heat from the West, North, and South.  Italy is turtled to nothing and earning 2 IPC’s per turn.  And I lose.  Because Japan took over Phillipines, Hong Kong, India, and Hawaii and I can’t take any of them back this round.

Bleah.  :-P

Amazing game - wrong ending.  Although it’s really hard to get 6 cities with Japan, and he barely barely did.  And it was basically my first full game and I was playing the league leader in 1940.

But wow, it’s tough to have to quit playing a game and take a loss when you would probably win under normal victory conditions.  I never even lost a major capital, not even temporarily!

Guess I learned to go a little heavier on Japan in the future and not let them beat you.  Course you also saw that disastrous Z46 sea battle - that had a lot to do with it too.

[gamerman01]

@Boldfresh:

I roll in the bottom 9% about 50% of the time  :lol:

Coure u didnt lose any air so theres a silver lining… Prolly i woulda lost a couple ftrs if it was a bona fide Bold signature battle.  Yoshi believes i am cursed, and i think he may be onto something  :-P

Well, that’s the beauty of attacking, I guess.  If you have an abyssmal round, you can usually pull out and stop the bleeding.  If it happens on defense, of course, they will polish you off with very few losses against your army that has been badly depleted in round 1…

And at least if you’re used to such bad dice, you go into battles half expecting it to happen.  When it’s someone charmed like me, I don’t often have an exit strategy or plan B if I got shot to hell like I did here.  Luckily this time I was OK, but Russia’s going to be a LOT harder now.

If SouL’s ever going to beat me, this is his chance.

[souL]

@Gamerman01:

If SouL’s ever going to beat me, this is his chance.

I tend to agree.

Rus4:
Purchase:
6 inf art 2 arm

combat:
2 inf arm fin -> nwy
arm arc -> bel -> rus
6 inf arm cau, 2 arm rus -> ukr
2 inf art arc -> kar
5 inf art arm rus -> euk

nwy
aRolls: 2@1 1@3; Total Hits: 22@1: (1, 3)1@3: (1)
dRolls: 2@2; Total Hits: 02@2: (6, 5)

[souL]

I’m utterly amazed those units I sent north basically to die are still alive.

kar
aRolls: 1@1 2@2; Total Hits: 01@1: (4)2@2: (6, 6)
dRolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (3)