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A World on Fire

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After a long vacation from MWIF I am making another attempt at a Global War campaign and thought I would post its progress, or lack of progress here.

In order to get faster into the action I begin to show how I placed the French forces.

An added bonus with this is that you do not need to be bothered with looking at pictures with RN ships in ports all around the world. Who would care were they were placed anyway? [;)] And for those who know me will know where She is placed anyway. [:D]

As usual I feel that there is not enough land units for France. [:(]

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Onwards to the German set up. Germany sets up its light cruiser force along with their U-boats in Kiel. A Corps and two divisions are also located in the Kiel area.

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And a picture of the light German forces in East Prussia along with the heavy German ships.

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And a picture of Army Group von Leeb located in Silesia.

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Edit: Replaced the picture to correctly show the set up. I had moved a LND3 from the West Front to Silesia while I was making the pictures and it didn't show on any picture. Now the pictures show the German set up correctly.
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Army Group von Bock and Army Group Rundstedt is located along the Belgian and French border.


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Germany declares war on Poland. One US entry chit is drawn because of this.

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The optional rules used in this game.

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And a picture of the units scrapped during set up. As I often do I scrap a lot of units. And afterwards I wonder if I scrapped to much. I am especially doubtful whether it was wise to scrap the German mechanized Corps or not.

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Poland use a variant of a classical setup that peskpesk previously posted on the AI thread. I am to chicken to use a truly aggressive set up with Poland.




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Germany and Japan select a land impulse.

No port strikes.

Germany fly a naval bomber to the zero box in the Baltic Sea. No other naval air.

No naval movement. No strategic bombing.

Japan ground strike the two armies east of Changsha.

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ORIGINAL: Orm

Poland use a variant of a classical setup that peskpesk previously posted on the AI thread. I am to chicken to use a truly aggressive set up with Poland.




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This is an interesting set up. I am curious as to how Germany plays this.
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Germany makes no ground strikes and the Japanese ground strikes were a complete waste of fuel.

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ORIGINAL: Orm

Germany makes no ground strikes and the Japanese ground strikes were a complete waste of fuel.

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Yeah - everyone slaughtered me for ground striking with the useless Japanese bomber force - and rightly so!! [;)]
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ORIGINAL: warspite1

ORIGINAL: Orm

Germany makes no ground strikes and the Japanese ground strikes were a complete waste of fuel.

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Yeah - everyone slaughtered me for ground striking with the useless Japanese bomber force - and rightly so!! [;)]
I usually use them for ground striking with no success. I must be an optimist because I continue to do so despite the lack of positive results. [:D]
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No rail movement.

The two Japanese marine Corps move from Tsushima to Pusan. Japan also moves a HQI, CAV and a MOT from Manchuria into China. The Army in central China concentrate on Changsha.

Germany declares three attacks but only the attack versus the division is automatic so far.


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Umezu looks at the odds for attacking the Chinese armies in the mountains by declaring an attack but do not like the odds 2,7-1 without any die roll modifiers so he decides to cancel the attack and sulk instead.

Germany launch all available bombers and half of the fighters on the Polish front in order to support the attacks. This makes the other two attacks automatic as well.

Oh! Bugger me! The game unexpectedly moved on to the Japanese ground support step. It turns out that the order to cancel the attack had not reached the troops. Curses! That is what you get when letting the local commanders get to much power. And I thought that I had to put my focus on the Kwantung Army so they didn't do anything that I would regret later on.


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The ground support for the Danzig attack.

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And the ground support for the Krakow attack.

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The Polish destroyer flotilla is destroyed when the German troops enter Danzig and the convoy point escapes to Belfast.

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