ABH and Crockett36, (A+100) tutor game
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@arthur-bomber-harris I’ll take a look. I might want that. The IJN would be radically out of position. A large Russian force would surge forward and everyone would be in “new territory” with no blue print for success. The US navy could go into the Med and drop troops into Egypt in two turns. All of a sudden, we would have a wild west game that might be to my advantage.
In short, the bear grows strong, heading toward the Balkans. Or cutting the German salient off from returning to Europe.
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looking at this today. My wife has started meeting me for lunch. good for marriage, but …
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Okay, so I’m stuck obviously. I am a little panicked at your income. Every turn you are eating into my 100 ipcs. This is a very expensive strategy, but it accomplishes a lot. Any of the battles that the Japanese undertake are going to cost them planes. 4-5 in the persian gulf. India will cost them one or two. Yunnan might cost them one. In addition, every japanese ground unit will be lost. The move against the persian gulf will put the carriers so out of position that the 54 fleet can finally start taking over money islands.
Russia moves into Manchuria and Japan’s start is on the wane.
all of the planes of the med can head towards the MEast and viola, we will have thirty units to defend Egypt. The desperation move by Germany is checked.
I’m stuck. TUV is terrible, I think. But Japan is devastated. So, can you actually show me what you would do? For some reason I think this turn is the game.
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You often use too many resources to fight losing battles. India is dead. China will fall soon. Nothing you can do to reverse that situation now. Mistakes were made in the bid and early rounds. The Pacific fleet will be able to hold out for a long time so it isn’t yet a disaster there.
I would focus on holding the Middle East with the UK forces, giving time for the United States to open up a beach head in Normandy or Norway. See a conservative set of buys and moves in the attached save file and modify as you desire.
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So I’m assuming you still think the Allies can win. I don’t remember making any big mistakes. If you can recall, I’d like to be reminded. This, to my mind, accomplishes the task of saving the Middle East too easily and by next turn.
My critique is that Japan gets the breathing room to recover and buff up. If Germany wants it can block Normandy/Norway invasion.
I do not know what you wanted to do with the navy off cairo. If you could show me what you would have done with the noncoms, that would be helpful.
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@arthur-bomber-harris wow. that is impressive.
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@crockett36 heading to Asia for four weeks. I will be back in late August. Sorry for the long delay.
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6.22.22usch4 (2).tsvg let’s go with that. The effort to get supplies to Egypt is simplified.
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@arthur-bomber-harris Bon Voyage!
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@crockett36 Are you back yet? Hope all went well.
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Back from Celebes. Sorry for such a lengthy delay
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maybe celebes instead?
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@crockett36 something seems wrong with the upload. Could you try again for that anzac4.tvsg?
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yeah it’s broke. I’ll redo yours.
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I don’t think you need to bring your cruiser over to help out in Java. An expensive sacrifice as the Japanese will sink it with a sub and fighters. There is a good chance the infantry and art will win without assistance. Maybe Borneo is a better choice than Java since it places the Japanese fleet a bit less convenient of a spot, but double check what makes sense. Alternatively, just get Dutch New Guinea this turn for the bonus.
I am also not excited with the trade of 3 anzac destroyers to sink a Japanese sub and destroyer. Not an awful trade but I think you lose a little bit in the exchanges. Perhaps consolidate your fleet in SZ54 and plan to move to Carolines next round. You leave out so many ships that get killed for little cost by the Japanese.
If you have a sub outside of SZ54, perhaps have it by the Carolines so it can do much more after the United States grabs the island on Turn 5.
For the french, you can have one of your ships move to the Med so it can join up next to Gibraltar next round. I don’t want to do an expensive battle with the Italians just to kill one French ship. Not awful for you if I do decide to attack it. I don’t see the use of joining up with the UK India fleet as those will be heading to Africa next turn as they are too small to come near the IJN.
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I might have this type of moves. The United States should have had another transport or three in the Pacific. You need a bigger threat of invasion, purchasing in Turn 2.
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@arthur-bomber-harris But I’m not meaning to invade. I’m meaning to pull the Japanese navy apart by giving them multiple enemies coming from many different directions. They will win every battle but be spread apart and weakened with every attempt to put out the fires around them. The temptation will be to use planes so that the force can stay bunched up. This will lead to losses in the air force. This will ensure that the troops supporting India can safely move out, into SE Asia.
The other option is to go all out towards Caroline and onto Japan. In all my other games I am favoring that plan. But the British navy cannot be left behind. Let me try again.
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