This one I have yet to recover from… Me as Germany in round one. I set up the normal attack on Egypt; the units from Algeria, transport from France and launch ze bomber as well. Of the games I’ve played I’d say that this is 9 out of 10 times a victory for Germany, if not the Italians are there for the mop-up.
This particular time I do not score a single hit, the British player scoring on all his dices, causing soooo much laughter from one side and cursing from the other…
To add insult to injury, I do not score a single hit on my next two attacks in the atlantic. The Royal Navy is still afloat. Add more spite from the allies, and I’m sure you get the idea of my mood at the time…
Needless to say, Italy lost their fleet and were pretty much out of it, Japan made a mess out of things in the Pacific, and I called for endgame and begged to start a new game since everything went straight to h**l. Obviously the Allies would have none of that, resulting in 6 rounds of evil laughter, bad dice upon bad dice and finally conceeding after US liberated Manilla. (We have this “gentlemens” agreement of sticking it out until the very end - fun when you’re winning, not as much when you’re not…)
And the worst thing is… this was my third-in-a-row loss with same players on both sides. I lost as the Allies on the two previous games when Germany in game one got lucky with long range aircraft and took out my British unprotected transports whom I believed were safe and out of reach of everything… Never had a chance to recover and put pressure on Germany’s western front, lost Moscow and had no chance in the long run.
Something similar happened in game two, Germany again gets lucky and rolls double six for heavy bombers. I’ve firmly established myself in France with both UK and my partner coming in with the US. In our arrogance, we land a total of 4 US bombers there as well… Needless to say, we were not well established and swept back to the atlantic by 4 german bombers, soldiers and tanks, me not scoring at all in defence. All our offensive power gone, we lost Moscow again and could never threaten Germany before they became too large.
Imagine three games of beeing taunted, laughed at, and beeing totally out of luck… I’ll be playing Monopoly for a while now… :-o