WC12 AA50 US Round 2 SouL(11) v Gamerman01(x)

@dawgoneit I would much rather play our game than just take the win. I know you and your family are going through a lot but I finally learned how to play online (somewhat). I don’t really care how far I go in the tournament - I am just excited about being able to play with other people.

TripleA Turn Summary: Japanese round 12

TripleA Turn Summary for game: Classic League

Game History

Round: 12 Purchase Units - Japanese Japanese buy 5 armour and 8 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Japanese 1 armour and 5 infantry moved from Yakut S.S.R. to Novosibirsk 2 armour moved from Manchuria to Novosibirsk 3 armour moved from Sinkiang to Novosibirsk 3 armour moved from India to Novosibirsk 20 infantry moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Novosibirsk 8 armour moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Novosibirsk 2 infantry moved from Japan to Japan Sea Zone 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from Japan Sea Zone to Alaska Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from Alaska Sea Zone to Alaska Japanese take Alaska from Americans Combat - Japanese Battle in Novosibirsk Japanese attack with 17 armour and 25 infantry Americans defend with 2 infantry Japanese roll dice for 17 armour and 25 infantry in Novosibirsk, round 2 : 13/42 hits, 12.67 expected hits Russians roll dice for 2 infantry in Novosibirsk, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Novosibirsk 2 infantry owned by the Americans lost in Novosibirsk Japanese win, taking Novosibirsk from Russians with 17 armour and 24 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3 Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry Casualties for Americans: 2 infantry Non Combat Move - Japanese 2 fighters moved from Germany to West Europe 1 fighter moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Germany 2 fighters moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to East Europe 1 bomber moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Germany 10 infantry moved from French Indo China to Sinkiang 2 infantry moved from Japan to Japan Sea Zone 2 infantry and 1 transport moved from Japan Sea Zone to French Indo China Sea Zone 2 infantry moved from French Indo China Sea Zone to French Indo China 1 armour moved from Japan to Japan Sea Zone 1 armour and 1 transport moved from Japan Sea Zone to French Indo China Sea Zone 1 armour moved from French Indo China Sea Zone to French Indo China 5 transports moved from French Indo China Sea Zone to Japan Sea Zone 5 armour moved from Japan to Japan Sea Zone 5 armour moved from Japan Sea Zone to Manchuria 2 battleships moved from French Indo China Sea Zone to Japan Sea Zone 1 aaGun moved from Yakut S.S.R. to Novosibirsk 1 fighter moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Sinkiang Place Units - Japanese 3 armour placed in India 2 armour and 8 infantry placed in Japan Turn Complete - Japanese Japanese collect 47 PUs; end with 47 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Japanese regular : 0.33 Russians regular : 0.33

Savegame

@VictoryFirst

Posted it over there!
Thank you too and of course good luck in the rest of the tournament as well!

This is looking better, although you did not upload a save file. If you do the Play By Email method, you need to manually upload the turn summary and the save file.

@GeneralDisarray no scrambles

@gamerman01 @VictoryFirst

Though it might be more fun to go over this live on the call, in the interest of preserving posterity and to sharpen the discussion…

You made a horrifyingly effective Pacific strategy for the USA. I have to reshoot my classic videos to address this and how you fought in the Pacific. I’ve never been compelled to reshoot a video series but I absolutely have to now. I was delightfully appalled to be a victim of it and will be copying most if not all of that strategy going forward. I’ve seen plenty in the Pacific. I know about Wake but I’ve never seen anyone execute it with such deliberate, controlled moves. For example, the more common Pac strat until now was to build a strong fleet and float around with one or two guys to capture islands. The flaw in that is the japanese just need to kill the infantry with their air power and its basically over.

You combined a push on Wake with what i call “still birth” and pushed and choked japan so hard in the beginning i could barely keep in the game even with overall positive dice favoring me. And you did this WITHOUT building IC. omg!

This is turn forced me to realize that tech favors the pacific (jets and super subs) and to compute what each breakthrough would mean in the pacific every turn until I had to throw for tech or lose. So by transitive property you made me learn a bunch of stuff about tech and its employment I would otherwise never have uncovered.

I have played this game CONSTANTLY for six years and all that is a first. You schooled me. Only luck and dogged experience and LUCK again saved me. I raise my glass to you. I’ve never been so humbled in a game of Classic or Axis and Allies in general.

You’ll always be prepared going forward!
Pretty major rule