@CorporalClegg Hey Corp. Unless you have something better to do with the bombers then they are worth it. Each bomber on average throws 3.5. So average ipc benefit per bomber is 3.5 x 5/6 = 2.92 damage less bomber lost cost of 1/6 x 12 = 2. Which is a 0.92 ipc gain per bomber on average. But when the AAA keep throwing 1s it does not feel like it!!!
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RE: Are Strategic Bombing Raids Worth It?
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RE: NML 1914: 3 Americans (Centrals) vs 3 Brits (Entente) #2
@Wittmann I will rescue you Leo. I always do!:relaxed:
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RE: What are you reading
@barnee said in What are you reading:
all of the “Sharpe” novels by Bernard Cornwell. Not quite halfway through. Only read 3 or 4, years ago. Kinda dime novel type reads but he has them based on real events.
I’ve always liked a ruthless protagonist anyway. Probably why I like “Jack Reacher” too. lol
If you like Sharpe, barnee, you should try his The Last Kingdom series. In my view they are even better.
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Autumn 2021 Battle of Britain on 10 October - See Battle Report
Our first post Covid BoB will be on the 10th October. :hand_with_index_and_middle_fingers_crossed: As usual our venue is in Derbyshire, UK.
Thus far we have 11 players, with space for another 2 at the venue. Those places will be allocated to those that come forward first. Since we have 4 listed players that have not yet responded it is possible that someone may be disappointed.
Typically we would run three games - one each of 1942, Anniversary and 1914 - for the day.
If anyone else wishes to join us then please either reply to this thread or drop me a PM.
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RE: Which is the best sea unit?
The whole point of a fleet is to allow you to move land (and air) units around, or to stop the enemy doing so. So I am going to vote for transports (and carriers)!
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RE: 1914 NML TEAM GAME
@Wittmann said in 1914 NML TEAM GAME:
Britain, who else? PP, I await your onslaught, with delighted glee.
Too scared to take France Leo?
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RE: What are you reading
Recently finished “Churchill: Walking with Destiny” by Andrew Roberts. I thought it was a marvellous book. But then I am as much of a Churchill fan as the author and now rather better informed as to why I am right to be!
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RE: Autumn 2021 Battle of Britain on 10 October - See Battle Report
For various understandable reasons some attendees cancelled and we ended up with 6 players. So we played 2 games:
1. 1914
Played with 2 house rules: max 4 builds in India; land units move 2 if every territory is friendly. Powers were allocated at random:
CPs - Ste
Entente - Andrew (h0lym0nk) as GB, Italy & USA; Adam (Private-Panic) as F & R.Which may have been a bit unfair as Ste had not played 1914 before!
R was able to consolidate it’s units and overpower a number of G & A-H attacks, eventually advancing into Galicia. G’s advances into France were successfully beaten back by F with GB’s help. And A-H were pushed out of Italy as it’s forces were diverted to the R front and to help G against F.
However, T had some success against GB, resisting GB attacks on Mesopotamia and advancing into Egypt. Also G went on the rampage in Africa, killing off most of the GB & F units sent to knock them out. G’s dreams of an African empire were short-lived, with the USA eventually arriving and creating their own instead.
G & GB navies cowered in their North Sea ports, neither able to find the courage to attack.
With R in Galicia, Italy advancing from the West and the arrival of the USA in Albania, Vienna was increasingly under siege. GB also eventually managed to push T out of Mesopotamia (with R help) and Egypt (supported by some Italian Infantry landings). Virtually all G’s forces were in the West facing F & GB incursions, but giving R space to expand.
The CP surrender was graciously accepted by the Entente!:blush:
2. Anniversary
Allies - Rob (Dran Black)
Axis - Dave played G; Simon as J; jointly played ItalyI was not in this game, but here is what I think I know!
J took India, but lost a naval battle with the USA in the Pacific. Furious J naval builds recovered some level of maritime parity, but at the cost of limited ground units being dispatched to Asia.
G struggled against R in the early stages, but by the end of the game had attained unit superiority on the eastern front. This was partly because some R units had headed south to recapture India.
The Allies managed to sink the Italian fleet, but at some cost. Consequently they only managed to take F once and promptly lost it to an Italian counter attack. In doing so they put their remaining Atlantic fleet in jeopardy.
G made significant incursions in Africa, but looked certain to lose them again, due to a GB factory in S Africa sending units north.
At the end neither side had sufficient advantage to claim victory. But it was agreed that the Axis were in a stronger position, with quite a lot more income, the possibility of making headway against R and the impending sinking of the Allied Atlantic fleet.
I invite my fellow players to post their own views on these games. Especially to correct my mistakes or fill in any gaps.
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RE: are players from germany here
@comet I am from the UK and cannot read your post but I do know three forum members from Germany - Aequitas et Veritas, Elrood & JDOW. You could always try contacting them using the chat facility.
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RE: Why is enemy rolling dices without AA gun ?
@salocinx An IC has its own AA guns. These defend against an SBR but not against an attack on the territory.
If an AA gun unit is present it does the opposite. It defends against an attack on the territory involving air units, but not against an SBR.
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RE: 1914 NML TEAM GAME
@Wittmann said in 1914 NML TEAM GAME:
Battle in Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean
Britain attack with 1 cruiser
Germany defend with 1 battlecruiser and 1 transport
Britain roll dice for 1 cruiser in Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0.50 expected hits
Germany roll dice for 1 battlecruiser and 1 transport in Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.67 expected hits
1 battlecruiser owned by the Germany lost in Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean
1 transport owned by the Germany lost in Sea Zone 112 Pacific Ocean
Britain win with 1 cruiser remaining. Battle score for attacker is 23
Casualties for Germany: 1 battlecruiser and 1 transportYou lucky blighter!!!
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RE: What are you reading
@barnee That’s them. I have read all of them and love the way the Uhtred develops from a young hot head into a wily old warrior.
The BBC / Netflix series is difficult for lovers of the books to swallow at first. There are lots of changes to the story to get to Uhtred the warrior much more quickly than the books do. But then the series settles into a much more recognisable story and gets better and better. I particularly like the depiction of Alfred the Great. Unfortunately there are no plans to make more series.
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RE: Winter 21/22 Battle of Britain on 23 Jan 2022 - SEE BATTLE REPORT
Again 6 hardy souls braved the pandemic! We decided to play a game of 1914 so we could all participate in the same game.
1. 1914
Used 2 house rules: max 4 builds in India; land units move 2 if every territory is friendly. Powers were allocated at random:
CPs - Mike (Aftertaste) as AH & T; Adam (Private-Panic) as G
Entente - Andrew (h0lym0nk) as Italy & USA; Mark (Credulous) as F; Jon (jon1988) as R; Dave as GB.R was able to consolidate virtually all it’s units into Poland and so put the fear of God into AH & G, who countered with almost equal stacks in Silesia (G) and Galicia (AH and some G). The Entente decided to pursue a G first strategy and R advanced it’s stack into E Prussia. The CPs rubbed their hands with glee! While this might create a possibility of the Entente capturing Berlin it certainly gave the CPs an easy route to Moscow. G put everything it could into E Prussia to fight a battle in which it might have had a slight advantage, so as to prevent the R stack retreating. In order to do this G accepted the need to fall back on the Western Front.
The battle in E Prussia resulted in quite a few more losses for R than G. The dwindling R stack was stuck there without reinforcements while G could add units easily if it wished.
Meanwhile F pressed forward against G’s western borders, reaching the Ruhr. Perhaps F had a slight advantage in that territory and it also had a sizeable stack in Munich to follow up. Unfortunately F lost badly in the Ruhr, effectively ensuring that G would recapture with sufficient force to stall the F attack.
G took out the GB North Sea fleet for the loss of only 2 subs.
Turkey kicked GB out of Mesopotamia and captured Egypt.
All of this in just 2 turns.
The Entente abjectly surrendered!
2. 1941
With some hours of the day left to play we decided to follow with a game of 1941. Dave had to leave so we now had 5 players. Only house rule was an additional GB destroyer off Canada to balance the game. Sides allocated at random.
Allies - Mike (Aftertaste) as GB; Andrew (h0lym0nk) as R; Mark (Credulous) as US
Axis - Adam (Private-Panic) as G; Jon (jon1988) as J.The Axis decided on a strategy of jointly pressing hard on Moscow, probably linking up in the Caucasus. And this is what they did!
However, a GB & US fleet was established off the coast of Western Europe by the end of turn 1. Normally this takes longer so G was not happy! By the end of turn 2 the Allies had 7 units in Western Europe, including a US and a R fighter, with a combined defensive power of 19. G decided to attack this with the 8 units it had available, with an attacking power of 21. I have just used triple a to discover an attacking success probability of 70%. Risky. But absolute disaster!
Clearly it still hurts!
In the meantime J captured China, the Spice Islands and the Phillipines.
Aware that G would be unable to afford units for the Caucasus given Allied Pressure on Berlin the Axis decided that their chances on Moscow were not going to improve. G’s sacrificial attack was another dice disaster, doing far less damage to R than J needed if its follow-up was to have any chance of success.
After J duly undertook its kamikaze assault, the Axis tearfully surrendered.
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RE: TripleA start issues
@CrazyIvan Hi. Our forum colleague Panther is very helpful on such matters. I see that he has posted a link for help on such matters, though, and suggest you use that. Here is his forum post with the link:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/32516/triplea-has-an-own-dedicated-forum
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RE: NML 1914: 3 Americans (Centrals) vs 3 Brits (Entente) #2
@Wittmann Has the Kaiser has rediscovered his martial spirit? Or stopped crying into his beer at least?
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RE: Spring 2022 Battle of Britain - See Battle Report
We had 9 players and ran three games. It was good to feel that the event was getting back to normal after Covid. :grin:
It’s hard to play in a game yourself and also follow what is happening in the others, so I can only hope that this battle report is accurate. If not, perhaps we shall see some corrections from maligned players!
1914
CPs - Andrew
Entente - Ste & RobThe CPs followed a Moscow first strategy, with G and AH combining to push R back. T also advanced on India. The Entente surrendered when Moscow and India both fell.
Anniversary
Two games were played on the day as the first was over so quickly.Game 1
Axis - Mark (J) & Lee (G and I)
Allies - DarrenThis game was declared an Axis victory when Moscow fell.
Game 2
Axis - Lee
Allies - Darren (R and USA) & Mark (GB)In the last round of play J launched a powerful attack on India, but lost 5 of 8 planes to AA fire. Disaster! Although India was taken J was no longer able to compete against the USA in the Pacific. But the clincher for the allies was GB’s capture of Berlin.
1942.2
Axis - Adam
Allies - Dave (GB) & Colin (R and USA)Following an absolutely awful run of luck in the first turn J was in a mess and G already facing a North Atlantic Allied fleet. G did manage to grab and hold Leningrad but began to struggle to reinforce the eastern front as it fought off ever more powerful allied landings in the west. Meanwhile J lost the money islands and felt sorry for itself.
However, G then managed to pull off an opportunistic raid into Moscow and pinched R’s treasury, which at least shut up the Axis player’s complaints for a while!
Then J unexpectedly found itself with even odds on the Combined GB/USA Pacific fleet and decided to risk it. Superior J tactics and fighting spirit delivered a glorious J victory.
G also gained an even odds attack on Moscow and, inspired by J’s example, launched an all-out assault. Again the Axis won with significant forces surviving.
The Allies surrendered. The Axis decided that the dice were not so bad after all!
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RE: 1914 NML TEAM GAME
@Gargantua Are you letting the side down Garg?! That is usually my job!
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RE: Autumn 2022 Battle of Britain - 9th October - See Battle Report
@commander-puffin Good to hear from here and by PM. Glad to have you on board! :blush:
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RE: NML 1914: 3 Americans (Centrals) vs 3 Brits (Entente) #2
@Wittmann That’s not where the Maginot Line was witt. Get it right!!!
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RE: Autumn 2022 Battle of Britain - 9th October - See Battle Report
@witt said in Autumn 2022 Battle of Britain - 9th October - See Battle Report:
We are the best of friends!
That’s what you think!!! :angry: