RE: Witness to World War 2.

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

RE: Witness to World War 2.

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> World in Flames >> After Action Report >> RE: Witness to World War 2.

Page: << < prev 89 90 [91] 92 93 next > >>

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:37:38 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Northern China. End of Impulse.

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2701

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:38:20 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Turkey/Balkans. End of Impulse.

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2702

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:40:03 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (1/9).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2703

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:40:49 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (2/9).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2704

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:41:22 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (3/9).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2705

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:50:28 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (4/9).

Attachment (1)

< Message edited by rkr1958 -- 7/4/2019 12:51:05 AM >

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2706

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:51:41 AM

Courtenay

Posts: 4003
Joined: 11/12/2008
Status: offline

On the last air action, I have a vision of two planes playing a game of chicken, neither swerves, and they crash head on into each other. The German pilot was smarter, though; he bailed out before the collision.

_____________________________

I thought I knew how to play this game....

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2707

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:51:52 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (5/9).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2708

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:52:14 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (6/9).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2709

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:52:42 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (7/9).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2710

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:53:04 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (8/9).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2711

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 12:53:26 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

Western Allies. Western Front (9/9).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2712

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 1:02:59 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

USSR. The Eastern Front (1/5).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2713

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 1:03:21 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

USSR. The Eastern Front (2/5).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2714

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 1:03:49 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

USSR. The Eastern Front (3/5).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2715

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 1:04:14 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

USSR. The Eastern Front (4/5).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2716

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 1:04:54 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Allied #1.

USSR. The Eastern Front (5/5).

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2717

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 2:49:31 AM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: Courtenay

On the last air action, I have a vision of two planes playing a game of chicken, neither swerves, and they crash head on into each other. The German pilot was smarter, though; he bailed out before the collision.

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to Courtenay)

Post #: 2718

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 2:53:22 AM

brian brian

Posts: 3191
Joined: 11/16/2005
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: rkr1958

Turn 30. July/August 1944.

Initiative.

Of course, the Germans did benefit from making a 20% end-of-turn roll in M/J 44. Although we all know we should not connect one dice result to another, the previous lucky e-o-t roll makes this loss of the initiative roll feel a little less surprising.

By 1944, there are so many die rolls that luck evens out fairly clearly for each side more rapidly than earlier in the war. So the Germans had to pause and wait for the Allies ... who then proceeded to flub a long string of ground strike and air combat rolls, leading to no attacks in France and a bad attack on Kiev forcing the Soviets to dip into Zhukov's logistical stocks far earlier in the summer offensive than had been planned.

Just curious - what is in the USMC stack in Canton?

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2719

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 2:10:43 PM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: brian brian
Just curious - what is in the USMC stack in Canton?

Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to brian brian)

Post #: 2720

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 2:18:33 PM

cfinch

Posts: 87
Joined: 6/9/2016
Status: offline

lol 2 corps of marines and an army div, all i could think was - mess hall staff and ammo runners?

(in reply to rkr1958)

Post #: 2721

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 2:30:08 PM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: brian brian

Of course, the Germans did benefit from making a 20% end-of-turn roll in M/J 44. Although we all know we should not connect one dice result to another, the previous lucky e-o-t roll makes this loss of the initiative roll feel a little less surprising.

By 1944, there are so many die rolls that luck evens out fairly clearly for each side more rapidly than earlier in the war. So the Germans had to pause and wait for the Allies ... who then proceeded to flub a long string of ground strike and air combat rolls, leading to no attacks in France and a bad attack on Kiev forcing the Soviets to dip into Zhukov's logistical stocks far earlier in the summer offensive than had been planned.

One might call that taking the good with the bad, or is it the bad with the good?

Either way, I've literally rolled the dice (or die as the case may be) this entire game. I must say that while I know the distribution and randomness of the outcomes are the same as if I let the random number generator provide me the results, I somehow feel "more connected" to the game and to the results. Also, I played by a strict code that once the dice are (or die is) rolled nothing can be changed. A corollary to this code is that until the dice are (or die is) throw is that players can adjust any or all moves during a given phase up until any reaction by the non-phasing player, and vise a versa.

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to brian brian)

Post #: 2722

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 2:50:00 PM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

quote:

ORIGINAL: cfinch

lol 2 corps of marines and an army div, all i could think was - mess hall staff and ammo runners?

Thought, the army division is the famed 4th infantry division. There's a book I read back last fall titled, "Red Platoon" by Clint Romesha. Staff Sgt. Romesha and Staff Sgt. Ty Carter were both awarded the Metal of Honor for their actions on 3 Oct 2009 at COP Keating, the most remote and isolate coalition output in Afghanistan.

Red Platoon was one of three (Red, White and Blue) Platoons of a cavalry troop assigned to the US 4th infantry division. I highly recommend this book.

< Message edited by rkr1958 -- 7/4/2019 2:51:14 PM >

_____________________________

Ronnie

(in reply to cfinch)

Post #: 2723

RE: Witness to World War 2. - 7/4/2019 4:54:13 PM

rkr1958

Posts: 23483
Joined: 5/21/2009
Status: offline

Turn 30. July/August 1944. Axis #2.

Actions.