Tourney AAR room vs mika

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May 41

Last turn was eventfull.

In the UK, The Newcastle line has been destroyed. For once the German paid the price for it: after an intense airbattle, a para was sent unescorted while I had still one intercept to take the city and lost 7 ou 8 strengh before being put down at my turn. First axis ground troop destroyed of the entire war... I would champaighn if the situation was not that dire.

In Egypt, lost a one more corps and I'm on the retreat.

At sea I lost one more vessel in the german turn.

All in all I am still losing much more mpps than the axis are.

On the diplomatic front... Franco is impressed by the german prowess in England... while I surprisingly (I thought Mika matched my chits but seems not) scored a 15% success in SU to reach... 90%

SU is coming very soon.
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The worst thing that could happen really happened. Another diplo hit on the USSR just one turn before I was ready. The USSR had a very high mob but I hoped to have at least one more turn. I was disappointed... giving room the chance to evacuate some of the troops. That will make the Russians even stronger.

The only good thing is that I could sink another battleship and another carrier near Alexandria. The British are broken. Alexandria is mine and I think another HQ there is captured soon.

I really have to think about my further strategy. The British are out of the game but the USA and USSR will be extremely strong very soon. I have to keep the US danger away as long as possible and have to drive back the USSR as fast as possible. Not sure how to do that.

At least Franco should join the Axis forces in short time.
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If I want to play under a different name do I need to buy the game again or can I change it another way?

Anybody seen Leadweight? I miss that guy.

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What's the USA mobilization %? What about Spain?

Unit count per country?
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US is somewhere below 60% (should change soon... Egypt will fall in the next turn I think)
Spain is around 95% or higher. Had a diplo hit last turn. They should join too. That might change a bit.

My biggest hope is that it will be very very very hard for room to transport his troops to Europe (or Africa or Asia or whatever). The UK is missing so many ships that the Kriegsmarine, the Reggia Marina and the few ships of Spain will be an incredible danger for the US navy.

Will post the unit counts next turn.
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First some numbers:

GER prod 15426 and lost 14580 (excluding pillage MPPs)
IT prod 3284 and lost 2244
UK prod 7679 and lost 19273
SU prod 9177 and lost 2450

USA just entred the war!

The game is interesting but my position is largely compromised because prod differential in my favor is pretty low without UK and Egypt ressources. Also I'm still only INF 1 with SU and it s not quite enough.On the bright side. Axis motale is... 115 (both GER and IT)while UK is 52 and SU/US 100.
On the bright side, SU haven't lost much ground yet as German and axis minors were not well positionned to start the invasion (and had some elite troops and the UK but they will come at me now that UK is all conquered.

I ve just got the Persia event... Did I chose to conquer it or leave it be?
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Of course you conquer it... what else should you do?

The troops in the UK were missing in the east. Very true. On the other side I can afford a "long" war with Franco joining the axis. Egypt is conquered pretty fast and I'm still doing well. In fact I don't care too much about the USSR. My elite troops will start the real offensive next year. There are still some other tasks to do. And you can be sure: there will be the one or other surprise for you. It is no conventional game so far and I plan to keep it that way.

When the decision to try operation sealion was made it was clear that the US and USSR will join very early. And that means a loooooooong war in the east and the US trying to press hard in the west. I don't want to reveal too much.

But I have to confess that I'm still waiting for a big surprise from your side. My advance in Africa/Middle East was too fast. Where are the units? Did I already destroy them in UK and Egypt or is the big counter attack coming soon?

I only hope that the UK are too weak and took to many losses to be a danger for a very long time. Almost no losses for Germany and for the UK?
3 HQs
7 Corps
5 Armies
18 ships
8 air units

Will take a long long time to rebuild all that AND do some research.

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September 1941

almost no progress in Russia. The Romanian Army is doing well and the Germans destroy the one or other unit but everyone is waiting for the well experienced HQs. The next year will be a big difference. That is clear!

In the desert Syria was conquered and the Iraqi unit guarding Baghdad was reinforced. German troops arrived in time. The government is stable now and it is very unlikely that it will collapse. A few British are still holding some oil fields but they are out of supply and should be no danger at all. Some more might be retreating in the area around Basra.

Every city and every port of GB is conquered. Only one city in Northern Ireland is left. But since there are only two air units there is not much room could do about that. The positions will be conquered too very soon.

I will try to get Finland as ally asap to increase German income even more. Seeing no danger of an invasion coming from GB is a very comfortable situation. I wonder where and when the US will try to put a foot on German/conquered soil.
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Well I hesitated to let persia neutral as a buffer... But that s too experimental for me [8|]

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Be sure to post a map around December to give an idea of how much head-way the initial Barbarossa ended up having.
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Sorry... can't post a map without revealing too much of my strategy. But I can tell you that the USSR still holds Riga, Kiev and Dnjeprpetrovsk. You can draw a line. That's our front line. More or less...

Soviet winter just hit my units. I was very late and it was no surprising Barbarossa. That's why I have to start in 1942. But you can be sure that I will be ready then.

Iraq is almost cleared. Just destroyed an American army that tried to secure a port. I hope to secure the last two ports very soon. If that happens I think it will be very very tough. Then I have only one front left. No second, no third... nothing, just the USSR.

As it seems the USSR is not receiving any lend-lease help from the USA. Probably to get the US ready as soon as possible.
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Fate of the World fall upon Stalin's shoulders it seems and Roosevelt doesn't know better while Churchill is wisky wasted in Toronto...

Winter did not strike german too badly... A nasty consequence of the feeble german advance in the Holu Motherland.

Shall the convoy line be somewhat secure again, Stalin should receive all help available.



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The allies started some diplomatic efforts to prevent Finland from joining the Axis. Finland went down to a percentage close to zero so I thought it might be wise to advance northeast to show Mannerheim that there is still someone willing to help.

And indeed - Finland just joined the Axis forces.

In Iraq another US unit was destroyed, another unit is cut off from any supply and will be shattered soon. With all those units destroyed the path is clear. German forces will advance, conquer Persia and threaten the oil fields forcing Stalin to split up his troops.

Getting tricky for the Allies but who knows... maybe room is just building up a nasty surprise for me.

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Well i'm full of surprise [:D]

For myself mainly... [8|] I have no clue why Finland joined the axis tbh. I did not see you take any town in the northern front. I'm obviously missing something [&:]

It was a costtly and retrospectively wrong investment to diplo Finland. The Allies are very disapointed and discouraged.

Axis now have all historical members in their alliance plus Spain and Yougoslavia while UK is about as strong (or weak) than Italy. I don't see a way out of this but I'll play , it s the way to learn.
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Is it possible to adjust lend-lease?

Do people not send the Soviets everything they can?
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Yes lend lease is adjustable. It is my decision to not send (mainly because I am not able to secure the convoy over the long USA to SU convoy line).
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To adjust convoys:
Click on the maps butto/tab.
Click on the convoys button in the window.
Click on the USA circle flag or the UK one (US for US -> UK, UK for UK -> USSR).
Then in the lower left box you will see the percentage, max percentagw allowed, and the actual amount sent. There are also little up and down arrows to adjust the percentage.
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ORIGINAL: room

Well i'm full of surprise [:D]

For myself mainly... [8|] I have no clue why Finland joined the axis tbh. I did not see you take any town in the northern front. I'm obviously missing something [&:]

It was a costtly and retrospectively wrong investment to diplo Finland. The Allies are very disapointed and discouraged.

Axis now have all historical members in their alliance plus Spain and Yougoslavia while UK is about as strong (or weak) than Italy. I don't see a way out of this but I'll play , it s the way to learn.


from the manual:

1.21.2. Finland
Finland will join the Axis providing it has a pro-Axis
leaning and Axis forces have a unit within 1 hex of
either Pskov, Ostrov, Polotsk, 4 hexes of Leningrad
or 5 of Novgorod.
The USSR will have the opportunity to sign an
armistice with Finland when at any point from the
1st January 1940, Viborg, Leningrad, Moscow, Paris
and Rome are in Allied hands, and the UK, USA and
USSR are all Allied and not surrendered.
If the Soviets wish to sign an armistice, Germany
will be presented with an opportunity to stiffen
Finnish resolve to remain in the Axis. Otherwise,
Finland will sign an armistice and withdraw from
the war. See DE 404 and DE 619 for further details.

I was close to Polotsk and sent one unit next to the city (within 1 hex) to fire this event. That was just to get Finland into the war before you can score another diplo hit and make it more or less impossible for me.
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Well that was bad on my part but the part goes on [:D]

Germany just agressed Vichy, Ireland and Algers (Spain already joined so it s not too bad). All surrendered but Vichy who moved capital to Monaco (seriously? should be Marseille)

Just played the turn and tried to punish the finnish for their treachery as well as finding out that Von block doesn't really block tanks... Couldn't destroy him thought. Waiting for retaliation, hope I didn't srew up even more [:)]

Most dommage russian have done so far (beside winter ofc) [8D]
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Retaliation annilated one of my tank (in supply), it was worth it I think.

I continued a moderate offensive in Ukraine and Finland, destroying 4 or 5 already dammaged corps (at least one was not in supply I think) and one finnish garnison. Those were sub corps, only one german and most not upgraded fully. Still I'm enjoying it while I can, german redeployment is slower than expected (with the war on minors maybe) but they re coming en masse and in quality I don't have. I already see tanks level 4 is it?

In southern Persia, the american army finally met his fate and was killed off supply sadly.

Vichy fleet exchanged 5 dammage with a german battleship in the med.

Turkey is close to the axis.

Siberian are here!
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