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After Action Reports / Playtesting / Re: summer 2011 playtest, Europe
« on: June 03, 2011, 04:34:08 AM »
So last night John and I played another 4 turns which brought us up to Summer 41. Pics will be up soon.
Mediterranean-Italy sunk the remaining british subs with hunter killer bombers. Rommel is stuck at Mersa Matruh with 5 infantry, a fort, an artillery, 2 panzers, 2 88's and a grenadier while Gort is defending alexandria with 4 forts, some troops, 2 artillery and 3 AA guns. We are both digging in and have been engaging in a staring contest for the last 4 turns. Meanwhile Italy has flawlessly taken out Malta(in the winter) and Crete in spring with paradrops and amphibs. Cyprus is out of supply and there is a force ready to take it out next turn.
Western Europe-No fighter or bomber activity in Britain or germany at all. Lots of sub activity though. Subs have destroyed more than 150 points of production for this whole 7 turns. There was a turn where Germany had too many subs which means to me that there was such overkill in the convoy zones that it wasn't worth it to risk the sub in the off chance that I didn't max out damage there. So instead I had that sub ace go after a destroyer and I sank it. I am under the firm belief that maxing uboats until you run out of uboat pieces is a good strategy. I am starting to lose them more frequently though as John has 3 destroyers in all the major ports at this point.
Also, the uboats have also really slowed the brits down, I don't think john asked me once if I wanted to use sub interdiction which tells me that he is waiting for the noncombat move to relocate troops via transports.
Balkans-They fell without much incident. Not much to say.
Norway-Germany finally cracked norway in Spring 41. I consider the british defense of trondheim an overall success. It blocked me from 8 dollars a turn if you consider that finland did not make it into the war until spring. Finland is a really spectacular territory and so it has deeply saddened me that I could not start pulling out a few extra finnish troops before barbarossa and send some germans to finland as well. They start in great terrain and help to loosen the grip Russia holds on Leningrad as well as the surrounding forest areas.
Barbarossa- Wait till you see the pics! Russia attempted a really aggressive strategy. The russian front sported tanks, troops, aa guns, plenty of artillery and AT guns. Some artillery and aa guns were removed as they were surrounded with nowhere to retreat but heavy german casualties were inflicted as well leaving both sides just ragged. Germany had sent almost all their fighters on the board to pin russian fighters at a 2:1 ratio for most planes. 1 german fighter lost, while 4 russian fighters were lost. Germany has also invested a lot of money in stukas, bombers and long range fighters(lr fighters have reached "max forever" status in my book) and they have been raining hellfire down upon the russians.
Vichy Iraq is all axis but britain quickly put them out of supply and mopped them up so thanks for nothing Iraq.
Mediterranean-Italy sunk the remaining british subs with hunter killer bombers. Rommel is stuck at Mersa Matruh with 5 infantry, a fort, an artillery, 2 panzers, 2 88's and a grenadier while Gort is defending alexandria with 4 forts, some troops, 2 artillery and 3 AA guns. We are both digging in and have been engaging in a staring contest for the last 4 turns. Meanwhile Italy has flawlessly taken out Malta(in the winter) and Crete in spring with paradrops and amphibs. Cyprus is out of supply and there is a force ready to take it out next turn.
Western Europe-No fighter or bomber activity in Britain or germany at all. Lots of sub activity though. Subs have destroyed more than 150 points of production for this whole 7 turns. There was a turn where Germany had too many subs which means to me that there was such overkill in the convoy zones that it wasn't worth it to risk the sub in the off chance that I didn't max out damage there. So instead I had that sub ace go after a destroyer and I sank it. I am under the firm belief that maxing uboats until you run out of uboat pieces is a good strategy. I am starting to lose them more frequently though as John has 3 destroyers in all the major ports at this point.
Also, the uboats have also really slowed the brits down, I don't think john asked me once if I wanted to use sub interdiction which tells me that he is waiting for the noncombat move to relocate troops via transports.
Balkans-They fell without much incident. Not much to say.
Norway-Germany finally cracked norway in Spring 41. I consider the british defense of trondheim an overall success. It blocked me from 8 dollars a turn if you consider that finland did not make it into the war until spring. Finland is a really spectacular territory and so it has deeply saddened me that I could not start pulling out a few extra finnish troops before barbarossa and send some germans to finland as well. They start in great terrain and help to loosen the grip Russia holds on Leningrad as well as the surrounding forest areas.
Barbarossa- Wait till you see the pics! Russia attempted a really aggressive strategy. The russian front sported tanks, troops, aa guns, plenty of artillery and AT guns. Some artillery and aa guns were removed as they were surrounded with nowhere to retreat but heavy german casualties were inflicted as well leaving both sides just ragged. Germany had sent almost all their fighters on the board to pin russian fighters at a 2:1 ratio for most planes. 1 german fighter lost, while 4 russian fighters were lost. Germany has also invested a lot of money in stukas, bombers and long range fighters(lr fighters have reached "max forever" status in my book) and they have been raining hellfire down upon the russians.
Vichy Iraq is all axis but britain quickly put them out of supply and mopped them up so thanks for nothing Iraq.