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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/18/2014 12:36:36 PM

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Here's another, with a slightly darker gray for the Germans

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/18/2014 4:17:20 PM

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The Germans are still to close to the USSR. Either the USSR has to become darker, or Germany needs to become lighter. I'll advise the latter..

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/18/2014 4:41:34 PM

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yeah I'm not a fan of a lighter Germany. I'll see what I can do, but overall, I need to like the colors first and foremost, lol.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/18/2014 5:34:57 PM

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With 8% of the male population somewhat color blind, I think this aspect of gaming is many times ignored.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 12:16:23 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Ingtar

With 8% of the male population somewhat color blind, I think this aspect of gaming is many times ignored.

+1

That's also the reason I'm quite happy with the way the initial colors were chosen for MWIF. There really have been some guys working who knew what they had to do at the time, regarding the colorblind.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:16:22 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

NOTE: I redid the German color scheme to be lighter, but still pleasing to me. Hopefully this will help those folks having problems seeing the differences between all the brown-toned major powers...

Naval Air:
CW sends a FTR3 out to the Marianas sea area. The Allies will try to isolate Truk for the third turn in a row. The Japanese haven't really been defending Truk to agressively, but enough to prevent the Truk from going out of supply. With three sea areas to cover, the Allies have to shut the Japanese out of all of them, which has been the problem.

Naval Moves:
CW and US move their many TRSs and AMPHs off of France bringing in fresh troops.

The game is also allowing build points to get into the USSR even with Moscow taken by Germany. This is once again forcing the Allies to adjust their convoys again, setting up two lines of convoys going into the USSR through Murmansk and Persia.

In the Pacific, the US puts their main carrier force in the Marianas, and also prepares to land more troops in the Phillipines. Bypassed or not, the Allies want to clear Truk once and for all and base the fleet there.

Naval Combat:
The US fleet attempts to find the Japanese NAV in the Marianas. Japan sends up one FTR from Iwo Jima into the 3 box to escort the NAV.

US rolls a 5, Japan rolls a 5. US gets 1 surprise point and chooses a Naval Air Combat. With all US CVPs going up as fighters, they have a healthy +5/-4 odds on the Japanese.

1st round, Japan rolls a 11, no effect. Allies roll a 9, Japan chooses to abort the FTR. ratio goes up to +7/-6.

2nd round, Japan rolls a 11, no effect. Allies roll a 8, and the NAV is aborted. US really wanted a kill in one of these rounds, but didnt get it.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:23:40 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Naval Combat (continued):
Once again the Italians try to find the CW convoys in the Arabian, and once again fail.

Strat Bombing:
For the first time in a long time, the Allies successfully strat bomb a German factory. Even in the rain, 8pts does well.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:49:01 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes:
The Allies launch 3 ground strikes in Spain and 3 ARTY strikes in France.

The Axis intercepts only one of the ground strikes, trying to protect the Italian HQ in Seville. The Allies, with more and better fighters pounce at this opportunity to kill some Axis fighters. The ratio is in Allies favor at +2/-2.

1st round, Axis rolls a 6, and the Allies choose to abort their best fighter. Allies roll a 13, aborting the lead Axis fighter. Odds stay at +2/-2

2nd round, Axis rolls a 11, and the Allied bomber is CLEARED. Allies roll a 6, killing the lead German fighter. Axis aborts.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:54:16 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Results of the attack on the HQ. SUCCESS.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:55:13 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
In front of the HQ, the Allies also strike the Milan MIL guarding the line. Miss.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:56:32 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
A third hex, with two German units adjacent to the Italian HQ is a total success, both disorganized. The Allied bombers are having some good rolls now.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:57:30 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
In France, rain is halving the effectiveness of the US Artillery strikes. 1st attack misses.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:58:13 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Next, forest terrain and rain help the Germans here.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 6:59:02 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Finally, a lucky roll on the last ARTY strike, ironically hitting the German ARTY just arrived.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 7:07:30 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Rail Moves:
The Soviets decide to rail their weakest HQ (Timoshenko) right in front of the Germans. It will be destroyed easily now, but it will put around 6 Soviet units in retreat back into supply so they can maybe make it back to the rear safely. Hard decisions are being made in Russia with their annihilation at hand.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/19/2014 7:22:42 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Land Moves:
Now that some of the units are in supply the Soviet may be able to salvage a little more of the units they have left.

Russia also rails a unit down to the Persian Gulf and also takes Basra.

Here is the situation in Central Russia

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/22/2014 12:12:41 PM

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1st Allied Impulse:

Land Moves (continued):
France moves one of their territorials to the port in British Somaliland. Next turn the transport will bring it to Kuwait. That's pretty much the only useful place for the French forces at this point.

Turn now passes to the Axis..

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/22/2014 12:52:48 PM

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1st Axis Impulse:

Actions:
Japan - Combined
Germany - Land
Italy - Land

Naval Air:
Japan sends out a NAV and 2 FTR escorts to the Bismarck Sea area. The US only has light carriers there and if worst case they find the NAV the Japanese will have air superiority. This temporarily puts the Japanese defenders on Truk in supply.

Naval Moves:
Japan moves two TRS into the China Sea to pick up two heavy corps, 7-6 ARM and 7-5 MECH for duty in Russia.

Naval Combat:
US tries to find the Japanese NAV in the Bismarck, search unsuccessful.

Ground Strikes:
Germany sends two TAC bombers to hit a stack of 2 out of supply Soviet units in front of the line. Hitting both of them could give the Germans a chance to do an overrun, but with the rain that will be hard to pull off.

Well, training is good for something it seems, as the two bombers hit both defending units.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/22/2014 12:53:30 PM

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1st Axis Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
In India, the regularly scheduled Artillery bombardment fails this time. Japan may be in a little trouble here as two heavy units just landed in India last turn and will be at the front by the end of this turn most likely.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/22/2014 8:04:28 PM

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1st Axis Impulse:

Rail Moves:
Germany moves the Finnish HQ to the outskirts of Leningrad, and a white print MIL to Seville.
Italy moves Graziani to Southern Russia to lead the attack on the Caucasus.
Japan moves another corps to Russia.

Land Moves:
The rain is wreaking havoc with the Germans as much as the Russians. Even with 4 HQs in Central Russia, the pace of advanced is very slow and in fact, no attacks could be launched.

However, some good news for the Axis. the two units disrupted in the ground strikes earlier in the impulse were able to be overran by a strong stack of German mechanized forces. Two 5 strength INFs were destroyed without a fight.

The Soviets are pulling back faster than the German can catch up, for now. Next impulse, several Soviet units will likely be destroyed.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/22/2014 8:16:41 PM

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2nd Allied Impulse:

Weather:
The western allies usually use their 1st impulse to do their Naval actions. Now, the second time around, they will look for possible land attacks.

Unfortunately the weather just turned bad again, and this March/April turn so far is not lending itself to good maneuvering.

Well, at least the weather is Snow in Arctic, helping with Soviet movement.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 12:26:02 PM

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2nd Allied Impulse:

Actions:
USSR - Land
CW - Land
US - Land
Fr - Land

Land Moves:
USSR continues to pull back. Almost all salvageable units are across the river line, including 3 HQs. (3 more air will be rebased behind the river this impulse)

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 12:26:36 PM

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2nd Allied Impulse:

Land Moves (continued):
Soviet bastion in the South...

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 12:27:16 PM

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2nd Allied Impulse:

Land Moves (continued):
Finally, an update in Spain...

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 3:00:48 PM

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2nd Allied Impulse:

Land Moves (continued):
While the Marines are landing in Truk, US Army units are disembarking into the Phillipines.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 3:04:45 PM

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2nd Allied Impulse:

Land Combat:
Well, it took long enough, and the US simply got tired of waiting for the right circumstances. Right before land combat declarations, the US landed another Marine DIV and the Marine Engineers on the island adjacent to Truk. This gave them three Marine units to attack across the sea hexside. In addition, the other Marine corps unit, plus the Sydney MIL and another US DIV invaded from the sea.

The US heaped on 14 pts in ground support and 14 more points in shore bombardment to get +9.333 modifier, even without any units being disrupted.

The Japanese chose the Assault table. US did not get the fractional, but rolled a 14, good enough for a complete kill. Truk is now in the Allied hands.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 7:06:29 PM

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2nd Axis Impulse:

Actions:
Japan - Combined. move Imperial Guard to Manila.
Germany - Land. Kill the left-behind Soviet units quickly. Consider using offensive against US/CW next turn.
Italy - Land

Naval Combat:
Allies try to find the Japanese convoys in the South China Seas, but no luck.

Land Moves:
Germany was able to do overruns on two sets of Soviet troops, killing a total of two INFs and an ENG division. They surrounded two other pockets of isolated Soviet units and declared 2 attacks, both at over +20.

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 7:41:02 PM

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2nd Axis Impulse:

Land Combat:
1st of the automatic attacks in Russia...

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 7:41:29 PM

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2nd Axis Impulse:

Land Combat:
2nd of the automatic attacks in Russia...

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RE: Another Solo Global AAR - 4/23/2014 7:43:35 PM

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2nd Axis Impulse:

End of Turn Roll:
An incredibly short March/April turn, as the Axis rolls a 1 to end the turn after each side only got 2 impulses...

Losses:
Not a long turn, so not a whole lot of losses here. You can see the defenders of Truk, as well as too many Soviet units.