unbeatable grudge match II: series vs. Me262

[series]

So Me262 decided to challenge the might of Series. I'll post some info on how its going in a few minutes, but until then, a funny screen shot.

As a side note, in my match with AllWeNeedIsLove, I didn't stick to the strategy 100%. In this game, I am planning on doing so (round 2 is a bit early to tell that for sure).

If you don't get why the screenshot below is funny, I'll explain.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

So much for the combat value of those units. I'm sure they'll survive, so I'll have them all shot after the game.
Hey, I play Stalin!

[series]

Not every day you see the Soviets and British banding together to repel a German/Japanese Joint Assault!

[pagan]

your infantry got OWNED !

[series]

huh?

__________________

[series]

Propaganda Fliers: $300.

5 Star Generals: $8,000.

Watching every Soviet tank defeated in a single round: Priceless.

There are some things money can't buy.

For everything else, there's mastercard.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

But it's all in MY masterplan!
I'll give you all an update soon. Have to check out making screenshots, I'm gonna try and find out now.

Russian tanks are no more. But Mussolini has something to explain as well....
This game is to be continued.

[RuHurt]

Hoo boy, this is fun :D.

By the way, that first screen shot was hilarious. A similar thing once happened to me, in a game I was playing with a friend; he made an amphibious assault of 2 Infantry vs. my 1 Infantry. I took out the first guy right away, but it took about a dozen rounds to kill the last one :o.

[series]

If you think the first one is funny, look at this:

[series]

Anyway, let me just sum up what's going on:

The Japanese have all of the Middle East (as well as 2 conveniently placed complexes), however lost Manchuria but has China (not Sinkiang). The Allies are fighting hard against Germany, pretty much now it is a race to Moscow and a race to Berlin. However, and ironically, both Germany and Russia are doing very well.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

Series plays Axis: 7 IPC bid (added to German Reichsbank)
Me 262 plays Allied (what other powers are left? :D )
We play a no tech game.
We quit at G4. Series had to leave.

Series sums it up right. Russia isn't beaten at all and UK and US are putting preassure on Germany. But the Pacific is completely abandoned. Only one US sub in these waters now...... I left General Space in charge here.

I'd like to show you some screenshots, but I can't get the screeshots below 57 Kb. This will take me the whole weekend! Man I s*ck at handling computers. But I'll try to get them up here.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

Screenshots will be posted tomorrow (I found out how to get them to the right size). No time today, cause playing face-to-face A&A all day today.

But here is round 1 written out:

R1

Buys: 3 Arm, 3 Inf

Attacks West-Russia with 1 Art, 1 Arm and 8 Inf
Russia wins, losing 2 Inf

Attacks Ukraine with 1 Art, 3 Inf, 3 Arm and 2 Ftr
Russia destroys everything 1 two combat rounds except for 1 ftr
Russia retreats to Caucassus with 1 Art, 2 Inf, 3 Arm, 3 Ftrs.

Most important movements: 6 Inf to Buritya, 2 Inf to Sinkiang

Places 3 Arm and 1 Inf in Caucassus, 2 Inf Moscow

G1

Buys: 1 Carrier, 10 Inf

Attacks Anglo Egypt, 2 Arm, 2 Ftr, 2 Inf
Wins losing 2 Inf and 1 Arm
UK destroyer lost to German Battleship and Bomber in the seazone attack

Attacks UK Gibraltar Battleship with 1 sub and 3 frts
Germans win but lose 1 sub and 1 ftr

Moves: Algeria units to Lybia
2 Inf from Norway to East Eur

Places: Carrier in Blatick Sea, 9 Inf in ger, 1 Inf S Eur

UK 1

Buys: 1 Carrier, 1 Tran, 2 Inf

Attacks Norway: 2 Inf, 1 Arm, 2 Ftr, Battleship
Takes it no casualties

SBR on Germany: damage 4 IPC’s

Moves Bomber to Caucassus
2 Inf and AA from India to Persia
Pacific fleet (India and Aus) to SZ 38 (off the Australian west coast)

Places Carrier (fighters move to it) and Transport in SZ 3, 2 Inf in UK

J1

Buys: 1 Factory, 1 Tran, 1 Art, 1 Inf

Attacks China with 3 Inf , 2 ftrs and 1 Bomber
Wins, losing 1 Inf

Attacks UK fleet in SZ 38 with 1 sub, 1 Dest, 2 Carr, 1 Battle and 4 Ftrs
J loses only 1 Sub and 1 Des

Moves 2 Inf to Manchuria and 1 Inf and 1 Arm to FI China
1 Battleship moves to coast of FI China

Places: Factory in FI China, Tran in SZ 61, Inf and Art in Japan

US1

Buys: 1 Carrier, 2 Trans, 2 Inf

Attacks absolutely nothing

Moves: Pacific fleet, fighters and grounforces moved towards the Atlantic region as far as they can.
Only the sub moved to SZ 54 (West USA coast).

2 Trans on US Eastcoast pick up 2 Inf, 1 Arm and 1 Art and move to SZ 9 (off Canadian coast).

Places: 2 Inf East US, Carrier and 2 Trans SZ 10

More to come, but it'll have to wait as I said.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

R2
Buys 1 Arm, 7 Inf

Attacks both Ukraine and Belorussia with 2 Inf and 1 Ftr.
Both territories occupied by only 1 Ger Inf.
Russia wins both, loses 1 Inf in Ukraine battle

Moves 2 more inf to Sinkiang, 5 Arm now in Kazakh SSR.
Moves 1 Inf to Norway to reinforce the 2 UK Inf and 1 UK Arm
Pulls 5 inf back from Burytia to Yakut.

Places 1 Arm and 3 Inf in Caucassus, 4 Inf in Moscow

Collects 31 IPC

G2
Buys 9 Inf and 2 Arm

Attacks lone UK Inf in TransJordan with Battleship, 1 Arm, 1 Art and 1 Inf. German losses 0.

Non-combat: heavy concentration of German forces in Eastern Europe.
Baltic fleet (Car + 2 Ftrs, 1 Tran, 1 Des and 2 Subs) moved to SZ 6 (North Sea)

Places 1 Arm in S-Eur, rest in Germany

Collects 33 IPC

UK 2
Buys: 1 Sub, 1 Des, 1 Arm, 2 Inf

SBR FI China from Caucassus. No AA present, Japan loses 3 IPC.
Bomber returns to Caucassus

Moves Atlantic fleet to SZ 8 (1 Battleship, 2 Trans, 1 Carrier + 2 Ftrs)

Places all land units in UK, 1 Sub and 1 Des in SZ 8.

Collects 30 IPC

J2
Buys: 3 Arm, 1 Ftr

Attacks India with 2 Battleship, 5 Inf, 1 Arm, 1 Bomber, 2 Ftrs. Japan wins, no losses.

Moves 2 Inf, 2 Art from Japan to FI China. 1 Inf from Manchuria to China.

Places 3 Arm in FI China, 1 Ftr in Japan.

Collects 35 IPC

US2
Buys 3 Trans, 2 Arm, 2 Inf

Takes unoccupied Algeria with 6 Inf, 1 Art and 1 Arm (2 Destroyers moved with the trannys).

Non combat: Carrier and 2 ftrs reinforce UK fleet in SZ 8.
Battleship to SZ 11, Tranny to SZ 10, Carrier + 2 Ftrs to SZ 19, 2 Inf from Central to East US

Places all buys in East US and SZ 10

Collects 41 IPC

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

NW Europe at the end of round 2:

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

End of round 2: Eastern Europe

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

End of round 2: Asia mainland (5 Russian inf in Yakut not in picture)

[series]

we did get farther than that right?

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

Strong Japanese forces in India and Indian Ocean.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

yup, I'm just posting up till now. So the gentleman can place their bets.....
We got to Germany combat moves round 4. If I can find the time it will be all up here.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

US ship in the mid-Atlantic

[series]

i put 5 bucks on series!

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

I put 5 € (worth more than 5 $ :D ) on Me 262 Schwalbe!

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

Let's skip turn 3 and 4 because I really don't have time to post it all. Yesterday we played for an hour. We will continue the match asap with G5, here are the pictures of the board after R5.

If someone is really intersted in the how I can send you the saved game file, so can upload it in Triple A. If you want to know the why, just ask (and on some issues maybe just don't.... :D ).

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

And some more pictures

[Maj.Striker]

Wow, things are not looking all that well for the Axis yet again...

[newaxis]

wow, that looks an old fashioned schooling of the Axis! What happened to the "unbeatable" strategy this time?

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

In a few moments Series 'll be all over the board. I have to admit defeat, he actually won......
If you'll all excuse me now, I'm gonna get drunk. :o

[newaxis]

Would either of you care to fill in the gaps here? What happened between round 5 and the end of the game?

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

I'm not gonna tell you, Series wants to keep it secret. You'll have to go Enigma on his posts to find out I guess.

Take Moscow but fail to take Berlin. There isn't much more to it. Bad dice? Bad play? It's not up to me to judge.

[newaxis]

Ah, I see, were the original pictures were after Russia 5 or Round 5? Because if the original pictures were after Russia 5 then I am amazed, because WR is way overdefended and Caucasas will fall.

[series]

I'm not gonna tell you, Series wants to keep it secret. You'll have to go Enigma on his posts to find out I guess.

Take Moscow but fail to take Berlin. There isn't much more to it. Bad dice? Bad play? It's not up to me to worship.



See, you shouldn't check out my posts too much. After all, what would there be to hide? Tell me. And trust me, I wouldn't put subliminal messages. Never trust shuditkosuk.

[series]

So much for the combat value of those units. I'm sure they'll survive, so I'll have them all shot after the game.
Hey, I play Stalin!

Hey, i shot them for you! Then I shot you! Haha.

[newaxis]

I want to see all the maps. Either A) the posted maps were misleading B)Me262 botched the game, or C) Series is a beast. Once I see the R5 map, I might make the challenge that I could win in Me262's position. Without knowing the "unbeatable strategy", the game would perhaps be interesting.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

Ah, I see, were the original pictures were after Russia 5 or Round 5? Because if the original pictures were after Russia 5 then I am amazed, because WR is way overdefended and Caucasas will fall.

The pictures were taken after Russia 5. Germany is to make combat moves at that point.
The massed Russian forces in Beolrussia are the result of a big mistake I made in round 4. I left a huge gap there. I made some more mistakes like this. I am just a sloppy player I guess. But in my defense: in Triple A you can't see the whole map and I really need to have oversight. Otherwise I miss things. Next time I play Triple A, I will have the board on the table so I can see the big picture.

Maybe I am the nut the blind squirrel accidentially ran in to, maybe I am not.
I never said I had an unbeatable strategy, or bragged about my A&A qualities. I just like playing this game and although I hate losing, I had a lot of fun playing Series.
I won't say Series strategy is unbeatable, or even revolutionary in it's design. But it's up to you. The only way to find out is play him, I guess.


And how do you botch a game? English is not my native speech, so what does it mean? Screwed up, gave away?

[RuHurt]

To botch something is to mess it up, particularly when you should have been able to avoid the mess-up.

And I think I get Series' strategy now; it's very clever indeed :D.

[Me 262 Schwalbe]

Well the botching was on Russia 4 already. Moscow should not have been under so much German pressure, I could have avoided it.
And Series was lucky to capture Moscow. I did the battle 10 times again today (I had the game saved just before this battle was fought). Russia won 8 out of 10. Had he not taken Moscow, the Allies would have knocked out Germany before Japan could take Moscow.
And the second botch was everything I did after Series took Moscow. I should not have gone after Berlin right away, not have taken Moscow back directly etc.

But, bottom line: game over, Series did better than I did, so he deserved to win. Those are my final words on this game.

We agreed a "revenge match". Then I'll play the Axis on the same bid as he did (7 IPC). We'll see what happens then. :eek:

[AxisRoll]

there are always times where we make a mess. LOL