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MagicMissile -> The Rematch MM (Allied) vs HB (Axis) No HB for now (10/22/2021 10:10:20 AM)

And the mirror match.

How to improve in this game? I have ideas of changes in both the UK and Soviet build. We will see how it plays out.

One idea I have is to maybe not defend the French much at all with the UK. It is way harder to inflict losses anyway nowadays and delaying the fall 1 or 2 turns if that not sure it matters that much. I rather prefer to prepare the defense of Egypt and UK properly instead. I think I might only send 2 uk inf corps to France but I might change my mind and send those usual 3-4 we will see.



MagicMissile -> RE: The Rematch MM (Allied) vs HB (Axis) (10/22/2021 10:12:40 AM)

And the tech.

France and USSR as usual. I will let the Uk do intercept and Groundsupport and the US will make Fighter bombers (they look pretty good and I have never used them) and excortfighters. Like last game UK will do the escorting. US Strat bombing and detection if I will ever use them.


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Nirosi -> RE: The Rematch MM (Allied) vs HB (Axis) (10/22/2021 12:27:31 PM)

Good luck to both players!



MagicMissile -> RE: The Rematch MM (Allied) vs HB (Axis) (10/23/2021 7:34:35 AM)

Thank you at least I will need it [:)].

/MM



MagicMissile -> RE: The Rematch MM (Allied) vs HB (Axis) (10/23/2021 7:35:43 AM)

And we have some house rules if anyone interested

1. French colonial troops cannot be moved at all until Italy joins the Axis. This is to prevent them from being replaced by UK units or weaker French Units.

2. Neither side can invade in the Caspian Sea.

3. Axis can’t enter the Far East Box (or whatever it is called). I think currently they can paradrop into it.

4. After the Winter War the Finns can’t enter the ceded territory until after they are at War with Russia, even if not occupied by Russian troops.

5. The Western Allies can move fleets into the Baltic (which of course requires that they deactivate the mine fields). But if the Axis subsequently reactivate the minefields then they can’t use oilers on any fleets trapped in the Baltic.

6. The French can’t build any escorts or MS until 1941.
7. The WDF armour unit can’t leave the Middle East until Italy joins the Axis.
8. The Axis cannot invade Portugal unless Spain is either conquered by one side or the other or is an Axis Ally. This is to prevent the Axis from conquering Portugal via an invasion from France so it can do a one turn take down of Spain.




MagicMissile -> RE: The Rematch MM (Allied) vs HB (Axis) (10/23/2021 7:51:01 AM)

End of September.

Not much to report. Denmark and Poland has fallen of course. The only thing of note is the randomness of the BoA. The British obviously were prepared for the Sub war in this alternative universe. After 3 turns the losses are 3 merchants for 5 sub factors. Crazy.



MagicMissile -> April 26 1940 (10/29/2021 1:39:19 PM)

April 26 1940

The calm before the storm. As can be seen I havent sent much to France but I think I will send one arm corps next turn might be able to do something. Got lucky with the weather as well a snow turn lowers effectiveness a bit. Not sure if it makes any difference but I take what I get [:)].

Launched a preemptive invasion of Luxemburg. TGry to make invasion of Belgium a bit more difficult. HB did the same in the other game.



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MagicMissile -> RE: April 26 1940 (10/29/2021 1:46:33 PM)

Forces and casualties as the war in the west begins.

Not much losses. After a bad start the German subs are doing a bit better.

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MagicMissile -> RE: April 26 1940 (10/29/2021 1:48:27 PM)

And the tech. Nothing insanely good or bad to report. But UK arm and assault still at 39 tech will make it even harder to do anything in France.



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MagicMissile -> May 10 1940 (10/29/2021 1:49:36 PM)

May 10 1940

Very lucky with the weather. A rain turn. Delays the fall with one turn at least [:)].



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MagicMissile -> May 24 11940 (10/30/2021 2:19:23 AM)

May 24 1940

HB also dont touch Belgium but gobbles up the Netherlands. I did not contest the air as the UK fighters still 1939 tech. A mistake of me not to upgrade them [:(].

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MagicMissile -> June 7 1940 (11/16/2021 3:42:17 AM)

June 7 1940

Ok some real life events made me put the game and AAR on hold for a bit. Life can be interesting sometimes.
1 I will become a father (very good)
2 we were without internet for 6 days. The price of living in the middle of nowhere Thailand [:)] (not so good)
3 My wifes pigfarm all the pigs have died in African Swine flu. A fincancial blow it will probably be ok but she was/is very sad. (very bad).

So there we are but now it is time to get back to the game!

Germany gobbles up Belgium.





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MagicMissile -> June 21 1940 (11/16/2021 3:45:01 AM)

June 21 1940

There is no stopping the German advance. Not sure what HB does that is different from myself but he accomlishes more with less all the time. Fewer attack smaller losses and still making better progress.

The UK did a counterattack and shattered one inf corps.




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MagicMissile -> RE: June 21 1940 (11/16/2021 3:46:40 AM)

What is going alright is the BoA the German subs do have a hard time.

But I have not built any extra shipyards or begun any MM so I might still be in trouble later.



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MagicMissile -> July 5 1940 (11/16/2021 3:47:57 AM)

July 5 1940

Teh Germans approach Paris.

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MagicMissile -> August 30 1940 (11/17/2021 2:22:46 AM)

August 30 1940

I forgot some screen shots but France fell on August 2 1940 and the UK lost one inf corps.

The Italians invade Vichy North Africa. Germany take Vichy France and invade Yugoslavia.



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MagicMissile -> October 11 1940 (11/17/2021 2:26:47 AM)

October 11 1940

The Axis close in on Alger. Tobruk well defended not much to do there.


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MagicMissile -> October 25 1940 (11/17/2021 2:29:45 AM)

October 25 1940

Forgot to say lost a Uk small corps in Alger.

Now have some units in place so thinking situation is stabilising. Well as we will see I guess it wasnt [:)].



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MagicMissile -> November 22 1940 (11/17/2021 2:33:34 AM)

November 22 1940

Again underestimating what HB can do. In a lightning offensive involving 2 paradrops and 2 invasions he overrun 1 HQ and 2 airunits and isolate 1 arm corps 2 large inf corps and 1 small inf corps. A disaster to say the least. I will lose West africa and the UK will be handicapped for at least a year.

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MagicMissile -> RE: November 22 1940 (11/17/2021 2:38:21 AM)

November 22 1940

In the Royal Navy tradition of offensive spirit the fleet sail to at least try and punish the Italian navy even though the enemy control the air.

The result is satisfying. Uk navy do suffer some losses but inflict a lot on the Italians. Sinking 6 out of 9 surface ships I think.

There have been some naval action in the Atlantic as well with some losses for the German navy. With the addition of the Vichy French navy and the fact that the BoA so far is going pretty well the Allies can almost declare Victory at sea. Unfortunately though the only thing that is going well so far [:)].

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MagicMissile -> Dec 6 1940 (11/17/2021 2:42:42 AM)

Dec 6 1940

The UK 1st army are slowly dying in the mountains of Algeria. Sad to see.
After the naval victory last turn the Navy is lucky to find heavy rain grounding the Axis airforce and the navy sails safely back to Gibraltar.



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MagicMissile -> End of 1940 (11/19/2021 10:01:18 AM)

End of 1940

Forces and casualties end of 1940. I am happy with the naval side but unhappy with UK landlosses. UK losses will go up as the last units surrender in Africa.

1941 will be a sad year for the UK. I consider maybe taking Norway since the Axis didnt. Maybe try to do something around Tobruk but I know that is hard we will see.


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MagicMissile -> RE: End of 1940 (11/19/2021 10:03:06 AM)

Tech

Happy with UK escorts but unhappy with Soviet land tech being slower than the air tech.



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MagicMissile -> End of April 1941 (11/19/2021 10:04:46 AM)

Before the guns start blazing in the east this is how it looks.

Nothing has happened so far except the Subs in the Atlantic.



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MagicMissile -> May 23 1941 (11/20/2021 7:35:34 AM)

May 23 1941

Again I was a bit lucky. The weather first half of May was rain so the attack done start until 23rd of May. As I wrote earlier not sure if it really is so bad to wait one May turn considering the effectiveness recovery but I guess it is a bit of personal taste.
Anyway HB have mastered the art of taking Riga on turn one. Again I feel he does more with same or less than me.
I retreat trying to stay away from the infantry. 8 corps elimninated. I disbanded 5 bad mechcorps and put 7 inf army on the build queue.




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MagicMissile -> RE: May 23 1941 (11/20/2021 7:37:09 AM)

May 23

And in the south. Silly me I forgot to move the AA from Odessa.

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MagicMissile -> RE: May 23 1941 (11/20/2021 7:39:25 AM)

May 23 1941

And just to do something the UK invade Norway.

I also advance a bit in Africa but there are 4 German corps there so no chance in hell to do something there.





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Harrybanana -> RE: May 23 1941 (12/4/2021 5:11:47 AM)

MM has also resigned this game due to his real life commitments. I don't think there was much doubt that the Axis were going to win this game anyway. Again we played until September 41.

The BOA was a bit of a stalemate. I built more U-Boats (8) than MM did in our other game, but I don't think I sunk that many more MS. My recollection is that MM had about 200 UK MS.

The Axis conquered all of French North West Africa. Nothing much was happening in Libya. The UK did conquer Norway.

As usual, the War was won in Russia. Geographically there wasn't too much difference from our other game. The Axis captured Leningrad and were within a couple hexes of Moscow. But it was unlikely that Moscow would be captured in 1941. The difference was that the Russians sustained a lot more casualties. I forget the exacts numbers, but I think Russian force strength was less than 1700. It had also lost several Armies, some Mechanized and a Tank Corps or two. 1942 was going to be a bad year for Russia. On the plus side, MM did tell me that Russian Army National Experience was at 39%. So it went up triple what mine did.




MagicMissile -> RE: May 23 1941 (12/6/2021 2:44:17 AM)

Yes sorry I havent updated the AAR so much things going on right now.

Well I didnt resign only because of the real life issues. I was being outplayed and would have lost [:)]. Generally I like to play to the end but because of some real life stuff I felt I wanted to resign. I thought I was good at this game but HB is one level higher for sure. I can blame the fact that I havent played much since the terrain and corps changes with the Soviets and now it seems I am no good any longer [:)]. Well played and thanks for the game.

My Soviets evaporated but in the other game when I was axis they didnt in fact I would say it was my worst Barbarossa ever. Cant really explain it. We had the same Soviet setup basically and the same sized German army. As Germany I also had better weather and I got rid of two Soviet good leaders Vatutin and Rokossovsky. But somehow I failed to kill units I felt they just retreated all the time [:)]. I tried to be careful with mech moves and attacks but still the mech units were worn out pretty early. And that was that. The soviet army in 42 would have been huge and sure I could have inflicted some damage but probably not enough. So it looks like with the patch changes making it even harder in the east my hopes of conquering the Soviets is gone forever [:)].

Really like the game and every patch I want to try it again but there are so many games to play so we will see. Will probably take a bit of a break anyway from PBEM as my mind is not quite into it right now.



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