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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/19/2014 8:20:33 PM)

May/Jun 1940

3rd Allied Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
In Belgium, the attack last impulse put many German units disorganized. France attacks one of those stacks and with the Disruption bonus and HQ support get a nice over +9 modifier.

Germany again chooses the Blitz table and it works again. All three units are shattered. France doesn't lose any units.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/19/2014 8:22:59 PM)

May/Jun 1940

3rd Allied Impulse:

Situation in Belgium after Allied attack:

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 10:35:23 AM)

May/Jun 1940

4th Axis Impulse:

Weather:
A roll of 3 puts bad weather in the Arctic, and both Monsoon areas.

Actions:
GE Land
IT Land
JA Combined

Naval Moves:
JA moves some of the forces from Singapore back towards mainland China.

Land Combat:
Italy decides not to attack Athens yet, but 4 other attacks are declared this impulse.

The first is in Vladivostok where the Japanese look to take the factory city. Even with shore bombardment a low roll keeps the city in Soviet hands. They kill off the MIL who can probably be put right back in next turn. Sigh.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 10:36:19 AM)

May/Jun 1940

4th Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
The next three are near automatics.

Spanish forces cleaning up that pesky French MIL.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 10:37:15 AM)

May/Jun 1940

4th Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
German forces killing a stack of Polish units, who did their job, forcing a German FTR to rebase AND delaying an attack on the Soviets for another impulse at least.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 10:38:11 AM)

May/Jun 1940

4th Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
Finally, Turkish forces take another Allied territory (in fact 2, they also walked through Amman, Transjordan on their way to Jerusalem). Egypt is next?

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 11:41:08 AM)

May/Jun 1940

4th Allied Impulse:
Axis rolls a 9, turn keeps going.

Actions:
All Allies PASS, giving them a 40% chance of ending the turn. They roll a 1. Turn Over.

very short May/Jun turn. The Axis margin of error is already pretty small here, and a short prime-attack turn is death.

Here are the losses for the bloody first turn of the war

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 12:37:21 PM)

May/Jun 1940

End of Turn Phase:


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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 12:40:29 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Reinforcements:



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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 12:52:52 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:


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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 6:45:01 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Initiative:
Axis 10, Allies 7. Axis chooses to go first.

Weather:
9 - Fine everywhere, Storms in N. Monsoon

Actions:
Germany wants to use at least one of their offensives this turn.
GE Land
IT Land
JA Land

Ground Strikes:
Axis launches multiple ground strikes, with only one, a strike on the Soviet Zhukov HQ, resulting in air-combat. Axis has the +1/-1 odds advantage.

1st round, Allies roll a 14, Germany must abort, and chooses their front fighter. Axis rolls a 12, no effect. Even odds.
2nd round, Allies roll another 14, Germany aborts the last fighter. Axis rolls a 8 and aborts the Soviet fighter.

the bomber gets through.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 6:46:08 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Zhukov only one hit. 1 out of 3.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 6:46:45 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Ju88 misses both.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 6:47:48 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Italian ARTY hits the defender in Nice.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 6:48:39 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

Beginning of Turn Phase:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Italian mission over Marseilles is a failure. 0 out of 2.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 6:49:13 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Final strike is against Mao, a miss.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 9:04:13 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Land Combat:
Overall, not much movement in Belgium/France, but the Germans are moving some second echelon forces south thru Switzerland to assist in the efforts down there.

Italy declares an attack on Nice, France, bringing some ground support as well

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 9:19:58 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
Here is the results of that attack. Italy has a +10.75 modifier (including Graziani HQ support). A victory here will close up the Italian supply lines.

France chooses the Assault table.

... are you kidding me? Italy gets the fractional (+11) but rolls a 4! They lose 2 units, all disorganized, but Nice is taken.

Italy's turn is over in France on the first impulse, pretty much.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 9:22:11 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
The Axis moves on to two Japanese attacks. Japan chooses to attack the Nationals again, this time in the city of Ichang. They are able to get a +10.5 modifier. China chooses the Blitz table.

Japan gets the fractional, and rolls a 14, killing the unit.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 9:25:57 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Axis Impulse:

Land Combat (continued):
Still can't believe that roll of 4... anyways, Japan then rolls a 20 on an attack where they have a +16.333 modifier. Waste, but Vladivostok is now in Japanese hands.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 10:04:17 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Actions:
CH Land
CW Naval
FR Land
US Combined
SU Land

Naval Moves:
US sends a CA fleet off of Brazil to assist the invasion force, also bringing two artillery divisions.

US also sends their CVs to the Bismarck Sea to see what the Japanese do.

CW sends a Blenheim out of Gibraltar into the West Med

CW sends their smaller CV fleet to South China Sea to disrupt Japanese shipping. Search fails.

CW sends their larger CV fleet to West Med. Germany sends out a NAV to assist the Italian NAV. Search fails.

CW sends Greek SCS to East Med. They find the Italian CONVs, killing 1 and aborting the rest.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/20/2014 10:05:01 PM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Strat Bombing:
CW bombs Hamburg. No effect.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/21/2014 10:31:08 AM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes:
Allies launch 6 ground strikes. 3 have air combat.

The 1st is on the strongest stack on German units in Belgium. One CW bomber and escorts vs Axis fighters. Even odds.

1st Round, Axis rolls a 10, clearing the CW bomber. CW rolls a 17, killing the lead German FTR. Air combat over.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/21/2014 11:17:16 AM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Result is all misses.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/21/2014 11:18:11 AM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Also in Belgium, CW ARTY strikes the next hex. Again, all misses.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/21/2014 11:19:01 AM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Air to Air over Southern France, where the Allies are trying to disrupt another Italian corps. French FTR & TAC vs Italian FTR. Even odds.

1st Round, Axis rolls a 9, clearing the French TAC. Allies roll a 3, killing the Axis FTR. Air combat over

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/21/2014 11:20:34 AM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Result is a miss. Allied bombers aren't doing what theyre supposed to, but Axis fighters aren't either, and Allies have killed two Axis air to boot so far.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/21/2014 11:23:30 AM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Air to Air over Poland, where three Soviet strikes are all launched. Germany can only intercept one, a Russian long-range TAC trying to disrupt Germany's strongest armored stack. Axis has +2/-2 advantage.

1st round, Axis rolls a 8, aborting the Soviet TAC. Allies roll a 16, aborting the German FTR. Air combat over.

In three Air to Air, Axis roll 10, 9, and 8, crappy middle of the dice rolls. Allies roll 17, 3, and 16.

This war is pretty much a stand-up fight and it seems that in a stand up fight you are going to get even damage on both sides. Only problem is that the Axis margin of error is so small, that 'normal' losses are not sustainable. I'm really not sure how the Axis, who have to attack in this war, can ever win. The luck they have to have over a consistently long time is not reliable.

I may have to rethink this scenario. At least so far no units disrupted for the Axis, but we still have a couple of other strikes to show.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/21/2014 11:25:16 AM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Another Soviet strike, this time on a stack of Swedish units. All misses. Each side has something to complain about so far this impulse.

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markb50k -> RE: Alternative History: The Great War that never happened (5/21/2014 11:26:19 AM)

Jul/Aug 1940

1st Allied Impulse:

Ground Strikes (continued):
Final strike against Von Bock HQ. Another miss and as if by magic, the one hit the Soviets get is probably the most important one, the HQ.

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