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Centuur -> RE: A musical global war AAR... (12/20/2015 6:57:27 PM)
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To be honest: I've never seen an Axis player killing France and grabbing Gibraltar in 1940(!). Sure, it took both German offensives to do so, but it was really astonishing the way the dice went in France in the winter of 1939-1940.
And there was the strange winter of 1941-1942 too to consider. Snow when the Soviets are defending in the swamps isn't that good at all. I really expected that frontline to hold until M/A 1942, but it was crushed in the winter turns. Far too soon to be able to get better defenses in play for the Soviets.
I'm realy a little bit confused at times what to do. This situation isn't like anything I've seen. I've seen quite spectacular demises of the Soviet Union, but I've never seen them getting pushed back like this after they've taken Iraq and Persia first. Normally with a "close the Med" strategy, one sees a Barbarossa 1942, not a Barbarossa 1941 with the Med all in Axis hands.
The conquest of China is probably due to the new map. I think that the only way to prevent a conquest of China is the early start of a Soviet-Japanese war. If the Japanese "throw the kitchen sink" at the Chinese and the Soviets don't interfere with that, China is gone, as was demonstrated in the early moments of this game. Next time, I won't fall into that trap again.
The war in China used to be a WW I type of war with the WiF maps. Now it has become more of a tactical war, with too few units on both sides to make a solid frontline...
If you combine this with the four die rolls for the US DoW's which all went wrong, you get the picture.
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