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    AAR: A Zapp-Dragon affair, Best out of 7. Game #4: Dragon (Axis), Zapp (Allies)

    in Strategic Command 1

    Posted

    Summary

    -we were exchanging cities an units like the hell

    >Helsinki,Minsk,Kiev,Odessa,Bruessel,Paris,Bergen,Brest changed owner several times

    >US had very strong units they headcracked me, could hardly hold line in france

    >Italians were very expierenced and after 3 Years fighting for Kiev they finally got it

    >we had endless airfights

    >finally gamebreaker was that i researched LR 1 and killed the 3rd US HQ

    Chits invested in this game

    -1 LR (very late)-->LR 1 during endgame

    -2 Jet (1 early one late) -->Jet 4

    -1 IT (early after Paris -->IT 3 (IT1 early 2,3 late

    Zapp surrenders End 1945, standing best of 7 series is 3:1 for Dragonheart

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    AAR: A Zapp-Dragon affair, Best out of 7. Game #4: Dragon (Axis), Zapp (Allies)

    in Strategic Command 1

    Posted

    After i got lazy to continue writing a short summary what happend so far.

    -In the east i mangaged to kill more ground units than own losses, standing at the gates of Kiev

    -In the north it is quiet just took Riga and Minsk and thats it

    -In Norway we had a couple of airfights where i lost 1 AF by carrier attack

    -later when he captured Bruessels again he left Bergen unguarded and i took it

    -I recaptured Brest..but not for long.

    -The US-Boys recovered from their first defeat have now a quite strong army with 3 HQ´s.

    -The new front is from Bordeaux over Paris to the Mine upwards to Bruessels.

    -After leaving Bergen airfights continued near Bruessels...his damn carrires put me a hell of a fight

    -In the west i have 4 HQ now so in the east there are only italians and some german AF´s and corps.

    -So almost the hole german army is facing the US-Boys, but these guys a well trained from Bergen traininscamp.

    Comment

    In this session i managed to kill much more ground units then he did. But i did some risky attacks with AF´s in russia which cost me some AF´s. So the gained advantage is vanished. The game is still not decided and we are already in 1944. Decinsive will be if i can push pack russia deeper in the motherland picking Kiew and Odessa too...and how the fight in the west is going.

    On both fronts we have approx. equal Air and ground units and we are all on jet4. MPP should be also equal. Whilst allies show LR 2 or even 3 meanwhile Axis still is on LR 0.

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    AAR: A Zapp-Dragon affair, Best out of 7. Game #4: Dragon (Axis), Zapp (Allies)

    in Strategic Command 1

    Posted

    Yes, apart from repair costs for air in the west the exchange rate was roughly 2000 MPP loss from allies vs 750 MPP loss for axis.

    In the east we had an exchange rate from roughly 8000 MPP loss for each of us. I was wondering how many hard stuff you was still owning after horrible losses but i think you were wondering too from where this fresh tanks were coming from :D .

    Russia has at least twice as many hard units left as germany...so this means when i have 2 left you will have 4. ROFL.

    Anyway it´s not a good deal for axis fighting with Panzer IV ag T 34/85 ...the only advantage is that they are a bit cheaper.

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    AAR: A Zapp-Dragon affair, Best out of 7. Game #4: Dragon (Axis), Zapp (Allies)

    in Strategic Command 1

    Posted

    Sorry for being lazy yesterday i will write a short summery with comments now.

    One is for sure this game raises our respect for each other. On the one hand we granted each other a mulligan as we did things which ****ed up our game, so we finally restarted and on the other hand we played rather quickly this time except some tricky situations ....so no zzzzz this time :D

    -Most facts already mentioned by zapp

    -Paris fell in September my losses were serious as this time i tried with VAN SUCK -->he was the reason for bad rolls and that i failed 2 times to get another breakthrough on costal hex and ardennen wood.

    -Besides my fighting losses of 2 AF´s, 1 Army 1 Corps i almost sold my entire army, also due to the fact as i was fed up with VAN SUCK and bought Manstein instead.

    -My Minors were late and the the other minors were the usual thing except Marseilles (Vichy) as i had no HQ support there (Manstein Denmark,Rundstet Sizily, VAN SUCK executed!!)

    -Due to the early joining of itlay they got the hole med before the fall of Paris, also Greece was dowed as Germany was very short of cash

    -I lost my hole it. navy in useless battles and i gave back Gibraltar otherwise the well trained carriers would have become monsters prior to D-DAY.

    -Dowing Greece and a minor border mistake +4% (no unit in KB) gave russian and US warreadyness a serious boost.

    -when hitting 87 % i told zapp i will gamble and wait another turn for Barby, in case of failture i would have surrendered as i had way to few units.

    -Barby was quite good only one tank survived from the usual dead stuff

    -Portugal and Irak were dowed and conquered

    WESTERN AFFAIR

    -Zapp performed D-Day very early, Rommel with 3 AF´s and a couple of it. corps and minor armies were defending the west. His Carriers together with AF´s killed a couple of corps.

    -I had no other chance but to stop my efforts in russia and to put more units in the west

    -With the arrival of most of the italian army and reaching JET 2 i countered in the west and cut off and killed almost all Yanks including one HQ and a couple of engl. corps

    -I recaptured also Bruessel when reaching JET 3 as zapp had no other choice but to hide from my air

    -his carriers lost some strengh points when attacking bruessel and when he tried to go offensive from bergen (as expected)

    -So all in all the west is secure for now just in Brest is another US Corps waiting for its dead

    Eastern affair

    Before i start with some details if have to say this was the blooiest and most exiting battle i have ever seen in my SC carrier. Zapp should not have the name Airking but Tankking. :D

    -As stated before, Barby went quite well but my lines were very thin and i had not the power to move forwards (few units, half of Air in the west)

    -Zapp bought a ****load of tanks and countered already in turn 2 killed several of my tanks

    -In my counter i killed also some of his tanks but had to step back in the north as i had no units left there.

    -In the south of russia i could capture odessa after several turns

    -Meanwhile Zapp conquered Finnland and tested the defence of Sweden which was well prepared this time.

    -With holding the keyhexes in the north zapp swifted his hole force to the south and I moved also all my forces to the south, the north was guarded only by some corps.

    -He went to offensive and we had the bloodiest battle in SC history --->both of us lost at least 20 tanks and hard stuff additional some corps.

    -I have no army anymore and did nothing but to buy tanks for almost a year :D

    -He raped my gapfillers -->HQ´s :D and recaptured Odessa but now when italians arrived from the west his offensive loses its blow and i could cause him serios losses

    -Russia should be so dead like germany concerning ground units only some hard units are left.

    -It seems zapp did not use alot of chits this time and used all the money for buying counterstuff.

    -We did not care losses and even 3,4,5 strengh units were attacking only with the purpose to kill an enemy unit. :D

    Summary

    -i was almost dead and had a rebirth

    -russia is loosing its power and will have to retreat soon -->hopefully ;)

    -his northern flank is open i think, only some corps in the cities.

    -the west is paralysed by my jet advantage (3vs2)

    -MPP is almost equal but can turn when i go to offensive

    -all in all one of our best and most exiting games so far and no decision yet.

    Edit: Can continue earliest Wednesday later in the evening (22.00)or Thursday early in the evening.(18.30)

    [ June 21, 2005, 03:30 AM: Message edited by: Dragonheart ]

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