AAR Terif (axis)- Dalmatian (allies)

[DalmatiaPartisan]

bid is 250 1:5:30 system

gonna loose some prestige again

[Terif]

Hmm, Dalmatia asked me to write an AAR...so here it is :

Another game against the kamikaze pilot Dalmatia Partisan (Allies)

Standard campaign so far:

LC turn 2, Poland turn 3, Denmark turn 4.

Glorious carrier damaged during the sub hunt to str 7.

French HQ + UK army/UK HQ + AF defence in France (Ireland fell turn 2 due to spotting mission for subs).

Aggressive french defence, but only one german corps lost. France surrenders June 30, 1940. In the turn Paris fell, Allies went berserk, started kamikaze mode and attacked with their UK units...while Germany had 2 spots near the capital, 6 AFs in striking range and the UK army in Paris unentrenched. No chance to survive, but no thoughts of Allies to evacuate France... . So 2 UK corps in Vichy surrender together with France and others were used as training objects after the fall.

Obviously the other allied corps didn´t learn from the deterrent example. So 1 turn after France fell, an allied transport moved to Sicily and got sunk, another one survived at str 1...since Germany expected that Allies wouldn´t learn from their experiences, they placed several AFs + Manstein at Sicily and waited...some turns later Allies attacked with an AF from Gibraltar, carrier and their fleet...heavy allied losses during the airfights, many damaged and several sunk ships were the unescapable consequence.

Same procedure in Egypt: UK cruiser had been left, together with UK air – cruiser got sunk immediately, UK air escaped the slaughter unfortunately.

September 1941, all usual countries conquered, preparing for Barbarossa. Another UK transport sunk in front of Brest...UK (3 AFs) now reveals jets 3 while Germany is still at lv 1...Germany researching with 10 chits, UK with max 2-3 chits (no mpps to invest in research with all the costly battles...and UK even reinforced all its damaged ships to full strength !)

October 19, 1941 - Barbarossa starts with 6 german AFs (+3 in France) and lots of ground units in action: All russian border armies cut off or destroyed, together with both tanks and 2 AFs. Portugal, Greece and Iraq conquered.

With the ~8500 starting mpps Russia bought a lot of corps at the front and 9 ! AFs near Iraq.

During the following turns Russian tanks/corps attack via the mountains in Iraq, supported by the 9 AFs...until April 1942 they conquered 3 hexes so far...still 3 rows of entrenched axis units (corps now AT 2) between them and Baghdad...in the meantime Axis AFs in the west (now jets 2) play „sink the transports“ near Brussel...russian transports wanted to take part and moved towards Sweden...with 2 german cruisers just bombarding near Riga and the sub watching wales there...no transport any more...Riga, Odessa and Kiev conquered.

Stand at the moment:

Allies have lots of AFs,

UK 3 AFs, 3 carriers, USA 3 AFs, Russia 9 AFs vs Germany 8 AFs (2 lost, 1 replaced).

I.e. 18 allied air units vs 8 axis ones – but since a war can´t be won with air alone, this is positive for Axis .

This way Allies are extremely weak on the ground and therefore loosing unit after unit while Germany advances with 12 armies and 6 tanks without having to fear counterattacks...Western Allies unable to land in France, Russia defending with mainly corps...all their AFs near Iraq. Axis increased the unit ratio from slightly in favour of Allies after turn 1 Barbarossa to now nearly 2:1 towards Axis...game saved by Allies, at the end of the turn Germany catched up to Jets 3.

[ April 30, 2005, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: Terif ]