Game Report

Please forgive my english. I talk quite fluently, but i'm not that good at writting. Anyway, i'll correct any mistake you can find.
We started the campain in october 1997 here in Toulouse (France). The game report contents all the following subjects :

Scenario

   Lebensraum (May/june 1941 to July/August 1945).
   Maps used : the 4 usal maps only.
   The main optional rules used :

Bids : Axis bet more than 10 times than Allies. No need to say they have to be aggresive.
Number of Players : 4

About the players

  Cedric : There is no real lacuna in my play, except that i'm not that good to invent new tactics. I like playing offensive, moving in gaps to oblige retreats. I try to conscentrate my forces in weak points, that means mobility ! I used to play Axis major power, and i don't feel that good in the pacific.
  Vincent : He plays quite well land units. That was my opinion before he plays USSR ;-) His favorite tactic consists in surrounding his opponent. He loves defending, letting his adversary to go deep in his defense and get trapped there.
  Serge : He is an excellent Naval player. The pacific is a nightmare for me ! He loves mobility and is good at it. He always hesitate attacking at less than 5:1, but as he combines naval, land and air units so perfectly, he always reach high ratios.Anyway, i bet he sometimes cheat a little.
  Manuel : He is the less experienced of us. He's not that bad, but doesn't learn of his mistakes and keeps asking the same questions (that gets on my nerves). He does not hesitate attacking at low ratios, which makes him difficult to contain. He plays very slowly, and still makes a lot a mistakes.

May/june 1941, Turn 1

The East Front	The Pacific War	The Atlantic War & West front	The Mediterranean War
War goes on !	Honolulu Invaded !	Gibraltar saved !	Gibraltar saved !
The bad weather slows the German progression in USSR.	Japan plays an offensive chit to make unlimited moves. Japan DOW the US. I feel great, i'm in the war ! He intends to invade Honolulu in the fisrt impulse. He surround the island and ground strikes it (my units are now unsupplied and some are face down). He only has 3 chances out of 10 to take the position, but he makes it without a single unit lost... All my naval units are overruned : 40% are destroyed, none captured ( The japanese start saying they have no luck ! ). The naval units rebase in some ports around Honolulu, where they get overrun once more... Almost all the pacific US Fleet is unsupplied. The japanese dominates the pacific.	The figth start seriously. Germany uses an offensive chit to make unlimited moves. All his naval units (setted up in France !) sails at sea next to Gibraltar in order to invade the city. Gibraltar might be unsupplied, which mean no chance of survival ! The German player is not used to play naval units, all his naval units are spread in the sea boxes, and he gets surprised by my only naval unit at sea ! his TRS sinks, and finally my naval unit stays at sea so Gibraltar is still in supply... the invasion fails (i breathe again).	The Italian player wants the med to be his. To achieve that goal, still in that dam first impulse, he tries to invade Gibraltar... We choosed to play with the Divs (option 2) and without the Amphibious rules (option 26). This combinaison gives the Axis a great chance to take Gibraltar in the first impulse of the scenario ! But the Italian did not set up his units properly, he can't invade with more than one unit. The invasion fails. The Axis immediately turn towards Egypt. All my naval units are defending the convoys, so Egypt is left on it's own for the whole turn.

Initiative : The Axis start and end the turn. The init shifts on the 0..
Weather : 9, 2, 10 ,8, 9.

July/august 1941, Turn 2

The East Front	The Pacific War	The Atlantic War & West front	The Mediterranean War
USSR Attacked !	US fleet unsupplied !	Subs against convoys !	Egypt under presure !
Germany aims east, attacking quite succesfully USSR, crushing my partner's units in a blitzkieg offensive. Lucky for him, the german player does not intend to ever move in the 2nd hex on a breakthrough result (I leave his partner remind him this rule). Most of his units are moving north to attack Leningrad. Hopefully for the russian, the weather gets bad...	The great mobility of the japanese fleet let them invade the Netherland East Indies with the honolulu marines. The US sends reiforcement in the pacific.	The axis subs spread in all seas. A full CW TRS is intercepted and sunk.All the CW naval units are used to escort convoys and reinforcements.	The east italian forces and the west german forces move both towards Cairo. The three CW corps defending Egypt get reinforcement at the end of the turn. Anyway, Egypt is isoled east by the italian naval units and west by the japanese naval untis.

Initiative : The Allies start (after asking for re-roll) and the Axis end the turn.The init is on Axis +1.
Weather : 8, 10, 4, 6.

September/october 1941, Turn 3

The East Front	The Pacific War	The Atlantic War & West front	The Mediterranean War
Moscow under pressure !	Camberra attacked !	Brest invaded !	Naval battle won !
North, the german units manage to move up to Moscow. South they are blocked at Kiev.	The rescue fleet did not manage to supply the US fleet in Australia. Meanwhile, the japanese land forces take the Philipines.they declare Madagascar theirs. To sum up, Singapore is an island in the japanese sphere. Japan units lands in Australia and helped by invading forces attack Camberra at 4:1. hopefully he rolled a 1 !	The occasion was too good. I invaded the unsuplied port of Brest : it was full of subs and flipped Navs ! A german sub was captured, the rest destroyed ! The axis threat in the atlantic is over (at least for a few turns).	Huge battles in the med and nearly all the italian and vichy french naval units are sank. The rusults were : 10X and 2A for the axis, 5X and 1D for the allies Last turn's reinforcement managed to cut the italian forces supply. Despite being unsupplied, those italians decided to take Cairo.But there are then easily destroyed.

Initiative : The Axis start and end the turn.The init counter shifts on 0.
Weather : 6, 5, 3, 3, 2.

November/December 1941, Turn 4

The East Front	The Pacific War	The Atlantic War & West front	The Mediterranean War
Moscow lost !	Autralia lost !	Peaceful atlantic.	Egypt invaded !
The german land units progress in north USSR. They now hold everything from north of Moscow. The russian can't prevent them taking Moscow. Nevertheless, all the german advanced too deep and where about to be unsupplied. There was 50% chances the turn would not end, and then 10% the weather would be fine...the german played and the fine weather keep all their units in supply to counter attack !	My luck could not last. The next japanese attempt to take Camberra at 4:1 was the good one.Anyway, Sydney is still under US control !	The only threat are dispatched german naval units based in Africa..	The german units transported by what's left of the italian fleet invades Egypt. They re-embark immediatly to reinforce Syria.

Initiative : The Axis start (after the allies ask for a re-roll) and end the turn. The counter stays on the 0.
Weather : 8, 4, 7, 2.

January/febuary 1942, Turn 5

The East Front	The Pacific War	The Atlantic War & West front	The Mediterranean War
No hope for USSR.	Threat on Australian US base !	Axis back in the Atlantic !	Med under control.
The russian plan to unsupply the german army failed last turn. He became all the more hopeless when the axis won the initiative. This meant they were going to play twice in a row. The northen russian forces blowed away...	The japanese land forces are blocked in Australia. They slowly move toward Sydney to attack the US HQ (guarding the US fleet).	The subs are back, italian this time.	No battle fought, everyone tries to keep its forces supplied.

Initiative : The Axis start (after the allies ask for a re-roll) and end the turn. The counter stays on the 0.
Weather : 7, 6.

March/april 1942, Turn 6

The East Front	The Pacific War	The Atlantic War & West front	The Mediterranean War
Russian front established ?	US fleet rescued !	No subs in sight !	No troop movement.
The russian airforce managed to destroy many german airplanes so almost all the german attacks fail. The baltic sea is forever free of german convoys: the CW Nav destroyed germany's last convoy!	The very bad weather let the Royal navy and a US rescue fleet to supply the US fleet stuck in Australia for nearly a year ! Meanwhile, China starts an offensive (without fighting). The communists' units go north round the front. The nationalists' forces moves takes Taiwan and also liberates Indochina !	The italian subs sail in the whole Atlantic, but no battle is fought.	The bad weather prevent all sea interceptions.

Initiative : The Allies start the turn (after the Axis ask for a re-roll) and the Axis end the turn. The counter shifts on the Allies +1.
Weather : 8, 9, 2.

May/june 1942, Turn 7

The East Front	The Pacific War	The Atlantic War & West front	The Mediterranean War
Russian desperated.	Catastrophic withdraw.	Allied Reinforcement.	Allied victory ?
The Russian kept asking for a west invasion. Germany was still progressing further in USSR.	The US fleet sails far away from Australia. The low range of some ships prevent the fleet to reach the American Map. Japan sails out for a huge naval conflict ! The forces are almost the same, but as usual my whole fleet is surprised... and 80% of my rescued fleet sank. The survivors reached the French polynesia.	The Axis subs are a real threat to the convoys. The escort is greater than ever. Most of the TRS sailed to the US to carry more units to England.	Instead of heading south, the strongest Axis forces went east towards Persia. No need to say the axis units left had to withdraw further not to be crushed. Meanwhile the invade Saudi Arabia and walks to the capital..

Initiative : The Allies start the turn and the Axis end the turn.
Weather : ?.

July/august 1942, Turn 8

The East Front	The Pacific War	The Atlantic War & West front	The Mediterranean War
Little hope for Russia.	The US surrenders !	Confident Allies.	Allied victory ?
It was a relief for the Russian player to hear about UK's northen plans. Germany has nearly no units in the west, so all the troops will be taken from the east front. In addition, if the Allies manages to take Finland, Russia would then send reinforcement towards Turkey.	As the US, i wanted the initiative to invade an island where the japanese fleet went back to port. I left Half of my fleet at sea to prevent the enemy to be a threat... and i lost the initiative, and he had exactly the same idea: invade my last major port out of the USA. He swept my protection as i was surprised (as usual), and then he invaded the island with success ! Half of my fleet was destroyed or captured, the rest sank trying to pass the Japanese fleet... 100% of the US fleet consisted in 2CV, 1 SCS and 3TRS. No one would be able to stop Japan from taking the pacific, threating the Atlantic and reinforce the Axis in the Med, so the USA surrended.	As no damage is done by the axis' subs, allies units will be in position to invade/paradrop both Danemark and Norway next turn. The goal of this tactic is to capture Finland in 2 turns! Then, land units will land north of Germany and air units will bomb German's factory.	The axis units go through Persia and arrive in USSR. Germany might align Turkey this turn ! Anyway, the axis units left will not last long, except if turkish units reinforce the front.

Initiative : The Axis start the turn(after the Allies ask for a re-roll) .
Weather : too good !.

Game 1	Introduction	The Players
1941	~~Jan/Fev~~	~~Mar/Apr~~	May/June	Jul/Aug	Sep/Oct	Nov/Dec
1942	Jan/Fev	Mar/Apr	May/June	Jul/Aug	Sep/Oct	Nov/Dec
1943	Jan/Fev	Mar/Apr	May/June	Jul/Aug	Sep/Oct	Nov/Dec
1944	Jan/Fev	Mar/Apr	May/June	Jul/Aug	Sep/Oct	Nov/Dec
1945	Jan/Fev	Mar/Apr	May/June	Jul/Aug	~~Sep/Oct~~	~~Nov/Dec~~

2 Divisions	5 Fortifications	7 Engineers	14 Oil Plants	16 Lend lease	22 Sea mines
31 Saving BP	37 Restricted inv.	39 HQ support	46 Partisans	48 Oil	61 Offensive chits

US / CW / CHn	USSR / FR / CHc	JA / IT	GE
Cedric (Me)	Vincent	Serge	Manuel

	Germany	Italy	Japan	CW	China	USA	Free French	USSR
Total BP	18	6	10	21	6	35	-	28
Oil spent	?	?	?	?	0	?	0	?

	Germany	Italy	Japan	CW	China	USA	Free French	USSR
Total BP	24	8	10	16	7	35	0	22
Oil spent	9	?	?	6	0	3	0	2

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