I haven’t played this in a while. Maybe my group missed something. It always seemed to me thought that France could easily hold its coast while running over Austria and even Prussia if necessary and then slowly over power Russia since they are making so much money at that point. I always found that Britain’s only chance was to try to run through Spain and hopefully do it faster than France gets through Prussia and Austria, then kill France from both sides. However, it has been a while and my opponents tended to also make major mistakes so that could have lead to me finding this game very one sided.
World War II in Europe turn by turn
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Another quiet turn. Germany is keeping a large enough force that Britain can’t land with anything meaningful. Also slowly building up in Poland. I think Germany took France out early at too heavy a price. Maybe should have gone slow and steady into France and taken them out by the summer instead of the spring. Italy finished its conquest of Yugoslavia and is now preparing for Greece. But having lost its transport in the convoy, it needs to build another one before it can start to do anything in Africa. But its only the end of fall 1940 right now.
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A little bit more action here. Greece has fallen to Italy, and Britain decided to land in Algeria and set up a convoy to keep the army supplied there. If Germany hadn’t have lost so much in France, they would have had the option to hit Spain or Turkey. As it is, they are busy rebuilding to hit Russia, which looks like will happen later, rather than sooner.
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Spring 1941. Italy is cautiously moving into Egypt while the British expand in Algeria. Germany continues building on the frontier with Russia. The sub war against the convoys is weakening for the Germans.
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Italy got bold. Invaded Lebanon and threatening to come at Egypt from 2 directions. Germans successfully sank the convoy supplying the 2 British infantry in Algeria, forcing them to cease operations until resupplied. Britain reinforced its fleet in Gibraltar. The front in Poland now looks ready to explode!
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Italy advances on Egypt, but Britain reinforced the Middle East and Cairo. The expand their conquest in Algeria as well. Germany is playing a dangerous game by waiting so long to attack Russia. It is now the end of fall 1941.
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Italy Hit Alexandria amphibiously as well as with its Libyan units, while the army in Syria turned towards the Middle East. Germany looks ready now. But They have to hit next turn, as Russia is allowed to declare war. It is the end of the winter 1941 turn.
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cool. i like the way the convoys look. How exactly do they work ?
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In order to collect for money over seas, You have to use transports to carry the income from the overseas territories back to your capital. 1 transport can carry $10. You also need to supply your units over seas. You must be able trace supply to each of your ground units ( or an Ally’s). Again, if the unit is overseas, you need to use transports to carry supply to that unit. 1 transport can carry supply for upto 10 ground units. You have to set up a convoy (which is the white strips you see on the board. The line you make with the strips is the convoy route. It must start from a port and end at a port. Then you put however many transports you need into that convoy. You can have destroyers and other ships in there too to escort.
The convoy is considered to be continously running back and forth, so if an enemy attack a space that the convoy runs through, it will encounter all the ships in that convoy and can attack them. -
Germany attacked in spring 1942. Very late, but they still hit strong. Look at all the missing Russian units! However, the USA is now in the war too, and just set up a convoy to give money to Russia. Because of the loses in France and the late attack on Russia, I don’t know if Germany has time to pull this off.
Italy is doing well. The British are now building up in Iraq to hold the line against the Italians. I think the Italians have an eye towards attacking Turkey …
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That’s it for tonight. I’m going to have a difficult time plugging the holes in the Russian front. I’m going to try to form a defense behind the rivers and let the Germans come to me. The 2 counterattacks I did in Minsk and Kiev hurt him, but I can’t keep losing my heavy hitting units. Need to pull back.
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By chance do you have a setup pic of the Atlantic ? How many German subs in game ?
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The first post shows the starting set up. This game starts in fall 1939. There is a spring 1941 and summer 1943 set up as well, but this game is the fall 1939 set up. Germany started with 2 subs with 3 more in the build boxes.
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Please explain the convoy train idea and do you need those pointed sticks and where do you get them? I just bought the vinyl map
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@jim010 said in World War II in Europe turn by turn:
The first post shows the starting set up. This game starts in fall 1939. There is a spring 1941 and summer 1943 set up as well, but this game is the fall 1939 set up. Germany started with 2 subs with 3 more in the build boxes.
Is the 41 setup on HBG site ?
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Check a few posts up, IL, as I tried to explain the convoys there.
Both set - ups HBG should have, but I don’t think they have the latest revision of the rules or set-ups. I have them, though. You can get them from me. I also don’t think HBG has the revised maps, but there isn’t too much difference, if at all.
As for the convoy markers, I am using wood painted white. I bought a dollhouse white picket fence set from Michael’s, so what you are seeing is the wooden fence strewn out all over my map, lol!
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Summer 1942. Germans reclaimed what I took back from them, but this advance is not as stellar. I definitely now believe they lost too much in France and attacked Russia too late. Italy is building up in Syria. It was a mistake for me to relocate the Egyptian fleet to Gibraltar. I have no way of intercepting Italian convoys. However, I am making progress in French north Africa. The Italians will have to split their attention soon. Americans are building full crank, but slow to get stuff over.
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Ok thanks Jim. Just don’t think there’s enough Ger subs in game. Not knocking game but seems not enough of them in all games to represent convoy raiding.
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Germans started the real war with less subs than the Italians had. And only 24 could go into the Atlantic for operations, so the set-up is quite accurate in that regard.
Up to the German player to decide if he wants to invest in a sub fleet.
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Also, do you have issues with items like the Battleship taking 8 turns to build, Carriers and Cruisers also taking pretty many turns. One might think once they are gone it becomes a matter of the enemy staying nearby ready to pounce. Also, i would think Germany should build alot more subs and remove the threat of landings with huge stacks of cheap subs and planes in France, keeping any Allied ships away…
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Reminds me of Xeno’s War in Europe
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