Well like I said it was an epic fail and in my opinion all boiled down to an error in my purchase to not prepare for the first shot hit.
The cruiser should not have been used that way, or lost that way… after you read the rules about subs, you won’t make that attack again.
I did read the rules about this which is why I brought 2 fighters which allowed me to roll 3 3’s. I hit 2 of them when i ended up rolling so if he had not rolled the 1 for his sub then the battle is over. I did however overlook the scramble but so did my playing partner which neither of us will do next time.
Your cruiser means nothing in this scenario, you need a destroyer to engage his sub, this makes your G1 attack on the Russian boats unessasary this early in the game because you don’t have a destroyer.
Actually my cruiser means I can get the sub if he chooses to stay and fight and the rule states that you roll all dice of the same attack value at the same time and the defender must take the max amount of hits. This means if I get two hits with my 3’s he cannot say that my cruiser hit his cruiser and my airplane hit nothing since they can’t hit subs.
I did mean baltic states.
The sz 111 battle I rolled with my son about ten times before my buddy came over to play and not once did the UK remain with a unit. With that being said I will try to get another plane there.
Bombers are best used when hitting sea zones G1 or using them in Strategic Bombing Raids.
Again, this is another repercussion of him rolling the 1. IF he didn’t roll that 1 I have 2 2’s and 2 4’s on three 2’s. More than likely I will take them out and keep both bombers. A risk I was willing to take in order to take out 3 more guys. That in turn would eliminate the counter attack on finland.
Germany didn’t move enough units into these attacks, and therefore left themselves weak to take the Russian territories needed to provoke Russia into countering.
He did counterattack and I was able to take them all out very easily with my second wave and all I lost was some inf and 3 armor. All I had was three more tanks available and I figured they would get lost in the counter attack. Of course not the case in finland but that was discussed.
I wouldn’t continue this game because the misunderstanding of the sub vs cruiser battle really hurt your chances to win.
That doesn’t seem to fair for my playing partner “My first turn didn’t go like I wanted so lets start over”
I really enjoy reading your posts grasshopper but I don’t take anybody’s first moves and do exactly what they do. If like the idea, I try to figure out the best way that I can think to do it. I will try this opener again with a few tweaks here and there and hopefully my next post will be how good it worked:)
