Need Help - Operation Pressure Cooker

@Bunnies:

I wonder whatever happened to this game.

Re:

So what makes you say it’s completely over?

If you’re trying to go KGF, and Germany controls/contests Africa on the fifth turn, and you’re asking for advice, it’s probably an uphill battle.  You would only be asking for advice if you were unsure that you could protect Moscow / crack Berlin, and with Germany fueled by African IPCs, and without a veteran’s perspective on how to run a tight logistic game with the Allies, I would guess probable loss for the Allies.  All the Axis need to do is pump out a bunch of tanks and run a bit of interference with Germany’s airforce, which as you mentioned was quite strong.

It sounds like Japan is screwing around (no industrial complexes by turn five), which means you may have a chance, but again, I lack context.

If US was building some Pacific fleet, and Japan went infantry with very light naval/air support (pumping IPCs into 1 destroyer, then subs and/or fighters to match the US threat) then the Allies really are in  trouble, because then probably Japan has some idea of what it’s doing.

If Japan was unopposed in the Pacific and built battleships and carriers, though, the Allies are probably going to win because Japan can’t just lay back and make Germany do all the work.  Same if Japan used its transports to screw with Alaska/Hawaii/Australia/etc. instead of establishing a fast hard unit core in Asia/India to help support Germany’s push against Caucasus.  You might see Japan doing both (i.e. hitting island targets plus hitting Asia/Africa) with five transports, but four transports on turn five with no industrial complexes built means SOMETHING weird is going on - like I said, either Japan was prepared to meet some unusual threat, or Japan was screwing around.

Yeah - what happened in the game?
I agree with Bunnies analysis - against a decent axis player, this game is probably over. But against novice players anything is possible, they may perform unfeasible or uncoordinated moves. In that case it is all about putting yourself in the position to exploit this. By this I mean armor for Russia, establish atlantic navy to threaten Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.

No. Your one movement is the loading onto the transport. Any land unit on a transport can be loaded and offloaded on a single turn but it takes up all their movement.

use a battle calculator and use fighters(at least 10 of them)

@skinny1:

@Keredrex:

I made a save game chart for the 1942 version.  a Map and a list to record the units and positions. will post it soon

Can’t wait to see it.

check the link for the save game chart
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=18681.0

@lasttactics:

So couple questions.
1. Do you need to have a transport unloading onto a coast for an amphibious assault to take place?

Yes!
@lasttactics:

Can it just be one battleship on the coast and maybe some land units already on an adjacent territory moving towards the coast?

No!
@lasttactics:

2. Assuming no enemy sea units are in the way and its purely a land fight, does each battleship get one shot only for the entire coast battle?

No. The number of ships that can make bombardment attacks is limited to one ship per land unit being offloaded from the transports
in that coastal territory. And it is only one shot (per ship allowed) for the entire amphibious assault.

@lasttactics:

Can the battleship be hit by the enemy land units?

No!
@lasttactics:

3. Completely unrelated to amphibious assaults, but if there is an enemy territory with no units in it, am I only allowed to capture it during my combat phase, or can I capture it during my noncombat phase?

Combat phase only!
HTH :-)

thanks for your help.

@Lithiume3:

Thanks how the bomber rule for the factory

First, if the territory with the factory has an aa gun, it fires one die at each bomber. Roll one die per bomber and if it’s a one, then the bomber is shot down and can’t attack. Then roll one die for each surviving bomber. Add up the rolls and their sum is the amount of damage to the factory. A factory can’t be damaged more than two time’s its territory’s production value.

Yes.  However, in this particular example there would be no need for them to do so, since with the bomber unable to hit them any longer the battle would be effectively over.