Pat vs Ronnie GW AAR

[ashkpa]

Round 2 resulted in no contact on rolls of 6/8. Note, I never committed your subs to the combat - made no sense for them to be involved.

[rkr1958]

ORIGINAL: ashkpa

Round 2 resulted in no contact on rolls of 6/8. Note, I never committed your subs to the combat - made no sense for them to be involved.

Thanks!

[ashkpa]

ND40 i3: Ground Strikes
There were two in Europe, the one on Paris, shown below, hit its targets. The fighter bomber attacking the neighboring ARM missed on a 6 (needed a 2) - missed the image on this one.

[ashkpa]

ND40 i3: Ground Attacks
There are three ground attacks. Two in China and one on Paris.

First in China, center of the line. Resulted in losses on both sides. The Japanese do not advance.

[ashkpa]

Second on the north part of the Chinese line. Thinks went perfect here and finally an engineer survives it's first combat.

[ashkpa]

Third on Paris, for the third time (my heart rate was going up as I approached this roll). Again, I rolled low with another 5, but I made the fractional this time and did get a shattered result. So Paris falls, though most of the German troops are too tired to care.

P.S. three attacks on Paris. First, last turn (SO40) at +11 rolled a 5. Second, last impulse at +15.5 rolled a 4 and missed the fractional. And this third at +15.5 rolled a 5 and made the fractional. Hopefully I now have all of these poor rolls on critical cities out of my system before the battle in the East starts.

Which unit do you wish destroyed?
{sorry, had to edit the post to get the right image up}

[rkr1958]

Destroy the 5-4 infantry corps.

[ashkpa]

Here is the finally tally in Paris.

[ashkpa]

ND40 i3 end: Europe situation:

[ashkpa]

ND40 i3 end: China situation

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. Actions.

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. Port Strike. Tirana.

In an effort to avenge their fallen allies that so valiantly held on to and fought for Paris to their last bullet, the CW hatches a brilliant plan to port strike and target the two Italian transports docked in Tirana and La Speiza.

The first strike is a bust.

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. Port Strike. La Spezia.

The second strike doesn't go much better. It only manages to disorganize the Italian transport.

Like all "brilliant" military plans, if the execution is not their they don't work. [:(]

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. RAF Strategic Bombing. Lille, France.

The RAF decides to see if they can do better and carry out a strategic bombing raid against German run factories in Lille, France. One wonders if the aircrews forgot to load bombs?

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. RN Ground Strike.

In a final attempt to redeem the reputation of British pilots and aircrews, RN swordfish launched from the aircraft carrier Ark Royal operating in the Bay of Biscay ground strike Italian command and control (i.e., Graziani's HQ unit). Reputation NOT redeemed!

At this point one has to wonder, well at least I wonder, if RAF aircrews are suffering a morale problem due to the fall of Paris?

[ashkpa]

Your air crews can't tell bombs from pamphlets either. [:)]

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. France. Land Combat 1 & 2.

In a desperate attempt to do something, anything the pitiful remnants of the French army launch two desperate counterattacks against the Germans. Both attacks fail miserably.

Pat, I selected Blitz for both attacks (Germany had the option for both) assuming that you would want to choose the table that minimize the chance of German losses. In the end, I don't think it mattered.

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. France.

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. RN. West Med. No Combat.

By the way I forgot to add that the RN choose NOT to attempt to initiate combat in the West Med. Because the allies neither moved additional units into the sea area or moved units down in boxes within the sea area, the axis didn't have the opportunity to try.

[rkr1958]

Turn 8. Nov/Dec 1940. Allied #4. East Med. Libya. Egypt.

Post movement, no air or land combat.