Slitherine

rkr1958 wrote:

Morris wrote:BTW , Can you still view the screenshots before this turn now ? Since I can't view them now . If no please advise , I will try to fix it .

I have no problem viewing screenshots in the previous posts. So ... everything seems fine from what I can see.

Yes , I just fix part of this AAR . Since the web which I load screenshot from upgrade the system & change all original screenshots address , I have to change it one by one manually (if I can still find the original ones) . I will try to recover the AAR with Diplomaticus . I don't know whether I have time to recoverr all others ! Sorry for that !

Mar 8th 1942 mud


Axis Dow & conquer Yugo . USA troops will arrive in Scotland next turn .


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Yugo








after move :

Mar 29th 1942 fair/winter


USA troops finally arrive the coast of Scotland . In Africa , Axis have no action after they conquer Suez canal . So we move 8th army back to Jordan .

Apr 18th 1942 fair


Americans land in Scotland & British start their liberation war !

In Eygpt , it seems some Italian reinforcement arrived . We will see whether they will go to Irac .


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Eygpt






After move

May 8th 1942 fair

Axis Dow USSR ! A 1942 Babarosa! Of course ,it will be a traditional defence style . Axis rush into USSR & kill many GARs , but it won't hurt USSR anymore . We will see when will they stop to defence , then it will be Allies turns !

In Scotland , we start our UK liberation war .



Scotland :








Babarosa :



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middle line :








south line :

Initially I wondered why you put your Russian tanks so close to the front line, but that is not a very strong Barbarossa. You should be able to attack the Germans pretty soon. And we all know you love to attack

joerock22 wrote:Initially I wondered why you put your Russian tanks so close to the front line, but that is not a very strong Barbarossa. You should be able to attack the Germans pretty soon. And we all know you love to attack

Yeah... it doesn´t look that strong. If Morris spent his russian PPs right then they should be able to roll right over the germans pretty easily. The only thing that could be a problem is oil for the russians, they only got 200 spare to start with

The Russians mobilized in October and weren't able to focus their tech. Full-tilt German infantry production and (hopefully for the Axis) better quality everything can make a difference. So I wouldn't write the Axis off yet. But otherwise I agree Russia is going be very, very tough!

joerock22 wrote:Initially I wondered why you put your Russian tanks so close to the front line, but that is not a very strong Barbarossa. You should be able to attack the Germans pretty soon. And we all know you love to attack

Since I guess & hope axis would not dow USSR ,so after USSR join the war ,I will use them to attack at once . But Peter did the right choice to Dow USSR so USSR got the morale loss for 10 point ! & the tank is too weak to attack .

Crazygunner1 wrote:

joerock22 wrote:Initially I wondered why you put your Russian tanks so close to the front line, but that is not a very strong Barbarossa. You should be able to attack the Germans pretty soon. And we all know you love to attack

Yeah... it doesn´t look that strong. If Morris spent his russian PPs right then they should be able to roll right over the germans pretty easily. The only thing that could be a problem is oil for the russians, they only got 200 spare to start with

Yes , the 200 oil is too little for a red army with 7 ftr ,7tac ,10 arm ,12 mech ! We have to wait & save the oil first , anyway we also need time to concentrate our troops to front & upgrade & deploy generals ,it needs at least 3 turns .

ncali wrote:The Russians mobilized in October and weren't able to focus their tech. Full-tilt German infantry production and (hopefully for the Axis) better quality everything can make a difference. So I wouldn't write the Axis off yet. But otherwise I agree Russia is going be very, very tough!

Not only USSR ,but also a strong allies USA & UK fighting in liberating UK .

Morris wrote:Not only USSR ,but also a strong allies USA & UK fighting in liberating UK .

Maybe that's what ended up happening, if your AAR is delayed. But the US and UK don't look very strong to me yet.

ncali wrote:

Morris wrote:Not only USSR ,but also a strong allies USA & UK fighting in liberating UK .

Maybe that's what ended up happening, if your AAR is delayed. But the US and UK don't look very strong to me yet.

Yes , they are not strong ,but Axis have to pay a lot to deal with them .

May 28th 1942 fair

In Russia , we have to retreat a bit to escape from the high tec & effective Axis arms . but Axis seems start to think about their defence , their units were not moving forward in a hurry .

In Scotland , USA & UK begin to fight .

no after move screenshot in Russia , since we had no fight in this turn at all .



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after move


Scotland

since the web of our screenshot is upgrading its system , I will continue the AAR later .

june 17th 1942 fair


In Scotland , Americans is learning to fight & grow up with blood .

In USSR , axis retreat to their well planed position & begin to defence . Since it is only the summer of 1942 , three years is too long for Axis to hold !



Scotland








USSR

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south line

By the way I think something has to be done with this Scapa Flow base.
The place is almost impossible to take (harder then Malta, no even hex to land paras) AND it can supply entire allied army in northern Britain, like in this AAR, for example.
I think its way exploitable and probably should be fixed. Ofcourse it was major naval base, but its not even city technically, I doubght that it should supply anything.

Plaid wrote:By the way I think something has to be done with this Scapa Flow base.
The place is almost impossible to take (harder then Malta, no even hex to land paras) AND it can supply entire allied army in northern Britain, like in this AAR, for example.
I think its way exploitable and probably should be fixed. Ofcourse it was major naval base, but its not even city technically, I doubght that it should supply anything.

Did my Scotland defence strategy lead you to this idea ? Am I the first one use this strategy ? The rule seems like this from the very beginning ,& I never heard anyone complain about it. But whenever I use it , It comes !

But , actually I agree with Mr Plaid 's complain , It is a little unresonable to supply a big amount of army on level 3 by a naval port which maybe seiged by enemy subs . How about change the Scapa's supply level to 1 ? or Make scapa just a port & plus a no production town in Scotland like Thurso ?

Actually I have nothing against your Scotland defence - you hold there for long time, your troops might have some supply depots availiable from older, pre-Sealion times.
Its much more wierd, when you do reversed Sealion and use tricky system of partisan controlled hexes (you know, thats lots of partisans in that rocky hexes) to supply your landing forces from Scapa Flow without need to capture any port - here the fun begins.
To fix all this moving port one hex say north-east may be enough - port will no longer serve as a "bridge" providing supplies.
In fact thats all minor matter ofcourse - Sealion is rather rare event on its all and allies have this foolhold in Scotland only in some % of Sealion scenarios.
P.S. Found airfield near fortress hex, so there is mistake in my initial message.

Plaid wrote:Actually I have nothing against your Scotland defence - you hold there for long time, your troops might have some supply depots availiable from older, pre-Sealion times.
Its much more wierd, when you do reversed Sealion and use tricky system of partisan controlled hexes (you know, thats lots of partisans in that rocky hexes) to supply your landing forces from Scapa Flow without need to capture any port - here the fun begins.
To fix all this moving port one hex say north-east may be enough - port will no longer serve as a "bridge" providing supplies.
In fact thats all minor matter ofcourse - Sealion is rather rare event on its all and allies have this foolhold in Scotland only in some % of Sealion scenarios.
P.S. Found airfield near fortress hex, so there is mistake in my initial message.

I have to invent the Scotland defence since there are so many people launch sealion to me !(75% of the pbems which I play Allies )

But in fact , if UK was really invaded by sealion in real history , UK would be able to make a huge reserve of war resource for a long term defence as they did in Singapore( although they did not use them after surrendered to Tomoyuki Yamashita 's last attack). So at least they should get lvl 1 supply .