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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/14/2014 8:09:33 PM   
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Music, music. The more I seek on the internet, the more I find. It's amazing what's around when you are searching for music out of the World war era...

Here is: Michael Jary - Es sind viele Jahre vergangen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBlUK_XKXLM

Germany rebases aircraft.

Here is the Western Med:





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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/14/2014 8:10:13 PM   
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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/14/2014 8:11:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Japanese Imperial Command, after having been informed of the huge Portuguese presence in Eastern Timor, decides not to attack the Island. Japan railmoves units into Manchuria out of China, moves units into better positions and occupies Macao.

Here is Manchuria:




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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/14/2014 8:11:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Finally: here is the weather report for the next couple of impulses:





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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/15/2014 2:33:42 PM   
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Incredible... November becomes december but the weather is still fine everywhere....

Only if all Allied nations would pass, there would be a chance of 10% that the turn might end. Not worth it. So the USSR takes a land, the CW and France naval and the US a combined action. However, there isn't a lot to do...

But first: music: “I don’t want to walk without you” played by Harry James and his orchestra. Helen Forrest sings:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vzdtE5k4BI

The Commonwealth make some minor adjustments to the positions of the ships around the globe. Of course, they try to initiate combat in the Faroes Gap, hoping to catch the German. Again, the ocean is large... Allies roll an 8 and the Axis a 4, so no combat starts. In the Cape Verde Bassin, no combat is initiated.

Again, sirens are howling in Seoul. Soviet heavy bombers appear. Again a Japanese CVP planes intercepts the Soviet planes and an air to air battle commences:





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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/15/2014 2:35:10 PM   
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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/15/2014 2:35:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		The USSR rails more units towards the West and rebases aircraft towards that area. That concludes the Allied impulse...

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/15/2014 4:43:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		The Sovs are railing stuff west presumably because they expect a Barbarossa in the coming year, yes? What is the current date?

I'm impressed with how well the Axis has gobbled up the Med, including Spain and Gibraltar. But Russia will be a different story, I'm guessing.

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/15/2014 8:12:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's november/december 1940. Bad luck for the Allies in France caused a rapid collapse of the country. That led to Spain being attacked in 1940 (and it is than one unit short to make a good defense along the Pyrenees). Axis also got very lucky in both China and at Gibraltar (where an attack was made on the Rock which was meant to make the Allies use one unit, but cleared the hex totally and unexpectedly) and that was about it...

However, the USSR is doing pretty good at the moment. Full production and a lot of oil saved for the bad times. Stalin only made one mistake (hoping to save China) by going to war against Japan too late. The CW is doing what it must do in this stage of the game. That is to throw cheap units in the Axis way to make them loose the timetable. Only, they are very unlucky, until now.

Also, the German fleet is behaving very, very aggresive. That is surely a risk for Germany, but high risk gives high gaines if it succeeds.

Timetable is in favour of the Axis now, but the real question is: what's Uncle Sam going to do and when? A lot of early succes usually means the US entering the war early and that than gives the Allies more time to crush the Axis in the end game...

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/15/2014 8:17:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		One thing however, is good for the Allies. The German offensives have been spend on France and Gibraltar...

And the CW isn't doing that bad. It does what it did during 1940 and 1941. That is to be an annoyance to the Axis and to keep throwing cheap units in the way of the Axis advance. Now, if luck would shift their way...

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/16/2014 3:52:02 PM   
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Three november-december turns with good weather. That's something which doesn't happen often...

Germany and Japan take land actions, Italy takes a combined action.

Germany moves a He flying boat into the Cape St. Vincent. Italy flies a Gabbiano flying boat into the same sea area. Guderain and a German MECH arrives in Bardia.

Music. German Swing: here is Walter Raatzke and his Orchestre playing; Küss mich! Bitte bitte küss mich!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkfs1X6HVIs

Next, Italy tries to initiate naval combat in the Cape Verde Bassin:
The French cruiser and her escorts forces the Axis SUB's to dive to avoid the combat (Allies use 4 surprise points):





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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/16/2014 3:52:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		Italy doesn't want to initiate combat in the Italian coast. Finally, they want a combat in the Cape St. Vincent. If they can get rid of the French cruiser there. It appears they can:




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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/16/2014 3:53:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Since four air to sea factors have the same power as 11 surface factors, the Axis decide to call a naval air combat. The French AA fire is to weak to get any result on the attacking Axis naval bombers. However, the crew of the Montcalm is capable of saving the ship...





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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/16/2014 3:54:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		Von Leeb, a MECH and a division are railed into Poland. Positions in Poland are strengthened. Two fast German INF move into Malaga, ready to be transported eastwards. Graziani moves next to Casablanca and the Italian division on Cyprus captures the port on the island. The Italian units in Morocco attack Casablanca.

Time for a piece ot Italian military music. Here is the Reggimento Artiglierria a Cavallo: Voloire:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKLM-tMids

That will be almost an automatic victory...





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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/16/2014 3:54:43 PM   
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Here is the Eastern Med:





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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/16/2014 3:55:56 PM   
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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/16/2014 3:56:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		Umezu arrives by rail at the USSR-Manchurian border, close to Vladivostok. Japan improves positions in Manchuria and moves slowly along the Birma Road towards the border. Japanese units also take on positions on the Chinese coast. Here is Manchuria:




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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/16/2014 3:57:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		It's winter in the next couple of impulses. Music: Ernst van t´Hoff Orchestra plays: In The Mood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEkSHnyPuB0




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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/18/2014 5:36:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm lovin' the tunes. That's a great rendition of "In the Mood."

You mentioned earlier that the Free French played the "Marseillaise," just like in "Casablanca." Should Vichy France also play the Marseillaise, as it does in MWIF? Wikipedia does say the song remained the official anthem of Vichy, but some internet sources contradict this assertion, and even Wikipedia says that "Marechal, nous voila!" was a popular alternative. Do you have any thoughts on this?

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/18/2014 2:14:05 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Centuur

Also, the German fleet is behaving very, very aggresive. That is surely a risk for Germany, but high risk gives high gaines if it succeeds.



Hi Peter, I'm curious about your thoughts on that comment - what is the risk? I see a lot of players almost forget the Germans even have a fleet, and it just sits around, bombards Leningrad once or twice, then finally D-Day arrives and it goes out for one final Jutland style sortie and accomplishes little.


I'm starting a new game on cardboard soon; I think we will use the new Khaki counters for the British Army and the original blue counters for the Royal Navy. Should make the map even more colorful than ever before.

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/18/2014 5:38:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Oh and I wanted to add - with the capital ships, they kind of represent the one area where Hitler grew quite concerned about casualties, and he operated them with almost a sense of "losing face" as in Asian cultures. He could casually order that an entire division of troops make a pointless last stand somewhere, but he put plenty of his emotional capital into his few battleships, for quite a period of the war at least.

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/18/2014 5:39:55 PM   
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Also, the German fleet is behaving very, very aggresive. That is surely a risk for Germany, but high risk gives high gaines if it succeeds.



Hi Peter, I'm curious about your thoughts on that comment - what is the risk? I see a lot of players almost forget the Germans even have a fleet, and it just sits around, bombards Leningrad once or twice, then finally D-Day arrives and it goes out for one final Jutland style sortie and accomplishes little.


I'm starting a new game on cardboard soon; I think we will use the new Khaki counters for the British Army and the original blue counters for the Royal Navy. Should make the map even more colorful than ever before.


A fleet in being consists a continuous threath regarding any enemy fleet which wants to do things.

So: if the small German fleet isn't in the North Sea, it means that it gets easier for the Allies to invade along the North Sea coast after the US comes in, since there isn't anything opposing the Allied big guns there anymore. And that's pretty close to the home country of the Reich... That's a risk I'm taking with the way I'm using the German fleet. There's no way I can get those capital ships back into Kiel later, I'm afraid, since the Allies will get stronger and stronger in the air (and that's what is happening already if you look at the UK. There are a lot of planes stationed there). On the other hand, those big evil long range German battleships can go raiding Allied convoys on the Atlantic after Egypt is captured. That's also something.

It's the first time I've decided to use the German fleet this way, and to be honest, I'm having a ball. I really like the way this fleet can be used (especially with the captured modern French battleship "Wien" included) in this game.

Thing is, I never have seen a game with Gibraltar captured in 1940. I haven't got a clue how to handle things (it's a luxury problem I'm having) at the moment. I have decided to keep the goal: close the Med and finish this first. But after that? Barbarossa 1941? Don't know if I can get the necessary garrison ratio to break the pact with Germany. It wasn't in my builds in 1940 to go for this. I'm starting to think about invading South Africa or India or something crazy like that now... I really don't know what I will do with the Euroaxis after Egypt will be taken out. I really don't. Now, that's a dangerous thought, because one should know how to proceed. A Sea Lion comes in mind too, but I don't have the TRS and AMPH to get this done...



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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/18/2014 5:43:51 PM   
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I'm lovin' the tunes. That's a great rendition of "In the Mood."

You mentioned earlier that the Free French played the "Marseillaise," just like in "Casablanca." Should Vichy France also play the Marseillaise, as it does in MWIF? Wikipedia does say the song remained the official anthem of Vichy, but some internet sources contradict this assertion, and even Wikipedia says that "Marechal, nous voila!" was a popular alternative. Do you have any thoughts on this?


Wikipedia is right. The Marseillaise is the official hymn of both Vichy and Free France. However, it was outlawed by the Germans in occupied France and to avoid having to play the Marseillaise in occupied France or when German and Italian officials visited Vichy, they played "Marechal, nous voila!"

It's only too bad, that it's so very difficult to find out if a recording of that song is copyrighted or not, otherwise "Marechal, nous voila!" could have been put in as the Anthem of Vichy...

Sometimes I wish that somebody with knowledge of copyrights would be in the forums, so we could add more music into the game. Matrix hasn't got the money available to pay for use of copyrights...

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/19/2014 2:22:31 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks for your reply. I have a couple close friends who are copyright attorneys, so I'll ask them how I might go about finding a royalty-free version of "Marechal, nous voila."

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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/19/2014 11:27:13 AM   
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Thanks for your reply. I have a couple close friends who are copyright attorneys, so I'll ask them how I might go about finding a royalty-free version of "Marechal, nous voila."




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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/20/2014 5:33:34 PM   
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Status: offline 		November/december 1940, Allied impulse number 7:

There isn't anything to do for the Allies. Current positions are about as good as can be at the moment. If they all pass this impulse, there is a 30% chance of the turn ending. Not that good, but if you've got nothing to do, this is the right decision to make. And after the die is rolled, it was a right decision...





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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/20/2014 5:34:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		November/december 1940, End of Turn phase:

No partisans appear. Germany draws two offensive markers and moves one marker from the defensive to the offensive pool. The USSR draws one defensive marker.

The US draws one entry marker for both the Ge/It entry and the Japan entry pool. Now, things are gettting interesting. A bill concerning the installment of an oil embargo against Japan is passed on to Congress by the President. After quite some heated debate, Congress passes the bill (one chit moved to the Japanese tension pool). Also, a bill to send resources to the USSR is also passed by Congress.
This also gives a heated debate, since anti communist sentiments are heard in Congress (one chit moved to the Ge/It tension pool).

The Japanese Imperial Government immediately rations all oil products. It is estimated that the Japanese armed forces have to go to war in N/D 1941 at the latest, provided the war against the USSR doesn't use a lot of oil.

Time for Japanese music: 麦と兵隊　松平晃

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBotBrCLkQ

There are now: 7 markers in the Ge/It entry pool, 8 markers in the Japan entry pool and 3 markers in each tension pools. Axis intelligence believe that the next bill which will go to Congress will be the Gear Up...

Let's put a picture in of the destroyed pool of the last turn of 1940:




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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/20/2014 5:35:25 PM   
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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/20/2014 5:36:36 PM   
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During the return to base phase, the German AMPH together with the two old BB's arrive in Lisbon (interception fails). Italian and German ships rebase at Malta and ports along the Eastern Med.

Germany produces 19 build points, of which 2 are send to the USSR. 5 oil are saved. Germany uses 4 oil to reorganise it's units. Germany breaks down the SS INF into an SS INF and MOT division.
Germany builds are: TERR, MTN, MIL, 2 LND2, 1 FTR3 and a pilot. At the end of the turn, Germany has 8 oil saved.

Time for another German March: Gluck auf! Der Steiger kommt!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McxDS3jgzIw

Italy produces 8 build points. 3 oil are saved. 2 oil are used for reorganisation, however the ATR and some cruisers aren't reorganised due ot oil shortages. It builds two pilots and a NAV. The Littorio is repaired. At the end of the turn, Italy has 3 oil saved..

Japan produces 14 build points. No oil is received. One oil is used for reorganisation. The Junyo is finished. Builds are a TRS, 2CP, 2 CVP and an ATR. At the end of the turn, Japan has 8 oil saved.

The United States produces 10 build points and saves 1 oil. No oil is used in reorganisation. It finishesthe Masschsushets and start two cruisers. Builds are one pilot, e CVP and a convoy point. At the end of the turn, the US has 3 oil saved.

The USSR produces 15 build points and receives 2 from Germany. 2 oil are saved. The USSR uses the two oil it can't send towards the USSR from Persia for reorganisation. It builds: a pilot, 4 MIL, and INF and a MOT. At the end of the turn, the Soviets have saved 9 oil.

The Commonwealth produces 17 build points and saves 9 oil. 6 oil is used for reorganisation. They build: 2 FTR2, Gort, London MIL, 2 pilots, 2 CP, 1 CVP. At the end of the turn, the CW has 13 oil saved.

France produces nothing and saves 2 oil. One oil is used for reorganisation. At the end of the turn, France has 3 oil saved.

During the return to base phase, the German AMPH together with the two old BB's arrive in Lisbon (interception fails). Italian and German ships rebase at Malta and ports along the Eastern Med...

January/February 1941: Start of turn phase:

Here are the reïnforcements of this turn. Of course, the Portuguese are not coming unto the map, since this picture is taken from before last turns conquest phase.




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RE: A musical global war AAR... - 11/20/2014 5:37:42 PM   
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Status: offline 		Since it is the beginning of the new year, a lot of countries are scrapping obsolete plains out of the forcepools...

During reinforcements, the Germans put an obsolete bomber into the reserve pool, to retrain the pilot. The trade agreements from the US to the CW is changed. The CW now gets 4 oil out of the US.

Here's Glenn Miller and his Ochestra playing: Always In My Heart. Ray Eberle sings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzPjPceLwTI

Since it is winter, the Axis don't want a reroll when the Allies win the initiative. They let the Allies decide whether or not they want to go first, without interfering. Now, when the weather is very bad, this might mean that there is only one Axis impulse this turn...
The Allies decide to go first, especially the Commonwealth wants to have the convoy defenses in place...

And there it is: the weather in the first couple of impulses:





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