HOF V3 - "From Here to Eternity"

[Lanzelot]

Sorry, the usual things, daughter ill, stress at work, and then the prospect of re-doing something on which I had already spent hours didn't appeal to me. But then it wasn't that bad: just set the production and tile assignment as good as I remembered, moved the ships at sea and pressed end of turn...

Next turn will be worse... Hope I can still remember all the details. BTW: do we need to recreate everything exactly? I think I was quite successful, so no need to change anything, but I had one mouse-slip (when switching back from notepad to the game, the mouse-click was somehow interpreted as an "order" and the currently active unit went off in a random direction ), which sent one inf corp 1W (instead of 1E into the captured Rostov as I had intended)...
In the end it didn't matter much, since Hasdrubal didn't counter-attack at Rostov anyway, but perhaps I can send the unit to the correct square this time? (And I guess Hasdrubal doesn't want to repeat the experiment of sending a partisan next to a border guard. But then I was so glad of getting rid of one of these nasty buggers! )

GPS to Hasdrubal

 

[Hasdrubal Barca]

Soviet GPS to Minor Allies, Elephantium

This is a fresh start, you can play as you like, i will make some minor changes to my strategy, although as i can´t move or reinforce cities, the probabilty of german sucesses occur again is high , in another note i´ll use the soviet secret weapon of eye glasing your divisions to a vegetative state in the whole month of november (inspired on "the man who stare at goats" american techinique) .

 

[Lanzelot]

in another note i´ll use the soviet secret weapon of eye glasing your divisions to a vegetative state in the whole month of november (inspired on "the man who stare at goats" american techinique) .

Don't let the smoke get in your eyes, though...

 

[Elephantium]

Minor Allies GPS to Brits, Sully.

There was a lot to look at, but with no units to move, that sped things up a bit

 

[aksully]

CW GPS to Minor Axis, Bowsling. Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving to those that celebrate it!

Sully

 

[Bowsling]

GPS to M60ATT3S

 

[M60A3TTS]

gps to eric

 

[eric_A]

Nature report:

Gales batter Hokkaido and the Seattle area, no damage.

Malaria attacks militia on rubber colony in Borneo, Malaria dies.

 

[aksully]

Its a relief to finally get through the Preturn and get this game underway!!! I hope everyone can make a good effort to move the game forward at a good pace? We've hit quite a few speedbumps so far!

OK Muz...Sock it to us!!! Cheers!

Sully

 

[muzbang]

JAPAN REPPORT

China : Furs bombarded near Lanchow

Near Ichang
Chinese inf1 (3/5) bombarded by field artillery
Chinese inf2 (2/4) bombarded by betty bomber
Chinese inf2 (1/4) bombarded by ValDive
Army kills it

Hong Kong :

Field artillery bombarded HK Garrison (2/3)
Inf Corp (4/7) destroys HK Garrison (2/3)
55th Inf.div (3/5) kills artillery
CIty captured

Manilla :
Betty bomber destroys bomber
Torpedo destroys fighter in the ground
Convoy bombard ship (2/3)
CA Mikuma bombard ship (1/3)
BC Haruna sinks ship
BC Kongo bombard South luzon force (1/3)
Marine (3/4) kills militia
Marine (4/5) kills coastal defense
Marine (5/5) kills South luzon force
SNLF (1/4) kills militia
SNLF 2/3 kills militia
CIty captured

Near Manilla :
Tank (1/2) bombarded by artillery
Tank destroyed by inf. div

Near Singapore :

CA Haguno bombard Prince of Wales (1/3)
CA Suzuya destroys it
CA Ashigara (4/5) sinks BC repulse
I-62 (3/5) sinks CW destroyer


Singarpore :
CL destroys coastal fortress
DD bombard ship1 (2/4)
DD bombard ship1 (1/4)
DD bombard ship2 (1/3)
CL bombard plane (2/3)
CA destroys plane
CA bombard singapore fortres (1/3)
Sasebo kills singapore fortres
Convoy bombard flack (1/2)
Marine kills flack

City captured

Near Singapore (on the ground)
Heavy artillery bombard 3rd indan (2/4)
Torpedo bombard 3rd indan (1/4)
Inf. Div (4/5) kills 3rd indan (1/4)

Torpedo bombard 8th Australian (2/3)
Val Dive bombard 8th Australian (1/3)
Inf. Div kills it.


Rangoon :
18th inf (5/5) Kill militia
City captured

Davao :
South sea div (5/5) kills militia
City captured


Surabaya :
Yokohama marine (3/4) kill garrison

city captured

Sarawak :

SNLF (2/4) Kill garrison
City captured

Palembang :
SNLF Kills militia
city captured;

Near Palembang :
Inf. Div (3/5) kills militia


North Davao :
I-124 (3/4) sinks sub
DD (3/5) sinks sub
DD (5/5) sinks sub


Near Hanoi :
Inf. Div destroys invisible unit on the road

Near Palembang:
I121 (2/4) destroys sub


Wake island :
CA bombard garrison (3/4)
CL bombard garrison (2/4)
DD bombard garrison (1/4)
SNLF (3/4) kills artillery
SNLF kills garison
Islan captured

Midway :
SNLF (3/4) kills militia and capture the airbase

Pearl Harbor :
DD destroys coastal fortress
BC bombard BB (1/3)
BC bombard BB (2/3)
CA bombard DD (2/3)
DD bombard CA (1/3)
DD bombard BB (1/2)

South of Pearl Harbor :

Torpedo => CA northhampton (2/4)
Torpedo sinks CA (?)
Val DIve => DD Dunlap(2/4)
Valdive => sinks CA northhampton
Zero Fighter => CA indiana (4/5)
Val dive=> CA indiana (2/5)
Zero Fighter bombard DD ward (3/4)
Val dive bomber sinks CA indiana
Torpedo bombard DD maury (2/3)
Torpedo bombard CV entreprise (2/3)
Val Dive sinks DD maury
Torpedo sinks DD Ward
Fast transport (4/4) sinks CV entreprise



===> lanzelot

 

[aksully]

Actually Muz.....I think you are giving the Japanese and not the US Report??? Are you thinking of defecting???

Sully

 

[muzbang]

Oh yeah !

It's was just because i used to play US in the previous game.

GPS to Lanzelot since sunday

 

[Lanzelot]

Please be patient one more day... I had planned yesterday evening for HoF, but then the ISDG unexpectedly started...
I'll try again tonight.

(muzbang: as long as you only confuse the title, but not accidentally attack the wrong cities, it's ok... )

 

[Lanzelot]

Tobruk:
FA bombards 4th Indian and this time misses (4/4), Afrika Korps kills it anyway (4/12).

Russia:
4 MB bombard targets near Gorki: one fails, one destroys railway, two destroy roads.

HA bombards 9th Army/II 2E of Karkov (1/3).

Battle of Rostov:
FA fails. MB hits 44th Army (2/4), Stuka hits 44th Army (1/4).
Ok, the walls are still there, and the 44th Army is no longer on top, so I need to play differently this time.
14th Panzer Korp (8/8) vs 138/157 Divs (3/3): wins (7/8)
1.Infantrie Armee (13/13) vs 302/417 Divs (2/2): wins (8/13)
1.Infantrie Armee (8/13) vs 44th Army (1/4): wins (5/13)
5th SS Panzer Div (5/5) vs Rostov Guns (2/2): wins (5/5)
1st Panzer Grenadiers (5/5) vs Flak (2/2): wins (4/5) and captures Rostov!

FA bombards Fortress div N of Sevastopol and misses this time.

Around Moscow:
FA bombards 58/100 and misses. 9. Armee kills it (14/15) and pillages.
9.Armee kills 22nd Army/III (3/3) goes to (12/15) and pillages railway.
Stuka destroys road.

3. Panzer Gruppe (13/13) kills 29th (wasn't it called 22nd last time?!) Rifle Army (4/4) NW of Moscow and promotes (11/14).
HA bombards VDV (4/5).
1st Panther Div (6/6) vs VDV (5/5) wins (6/6) this time.
FA bombards 133/271 (4/4), but fails.

5. Korps moves to VP location W of Moscow and accidentally rolls over an invisible unit. (6/7)

Warsaw:
No partisan to be seen this time...

North of Narvik:
Z4 bombards Force 9 Gale (2/3).

England:
Prinz Eugen butchers a cow at Plymouth. Scharnhorst destroys rails at London.

 

[Bowsling]

Please be patient one more day... I had planned yesterday evening for HoF, but then the ISDG unexpectedly started...
I'll try again tonight.

(muzbang: as long as you only confuse the title, but not accidentally attack the wrong cities, it's ok... )

ISDG just started? Wow, I thought that this time the start would be delayed by another CiFo issue...

 

[Elephantium]

ISDG just started? Wow, I thought that this time the start would be delayed by another CiFo issue...

Those seem pretty common...

 

[eric_A]

I going to be doing some traveling this month. Next week I'll be in
California on a business trip, coming back on the 12th. Any Axis
player can take over while I'm gone.

Then on the 22nd I'm off again for the holidays until Dec 29th.
Here's the Allies chance to get even, any Allied player can play my turn.

Remember, Nature has no password.

 

[Hasdrubal Barca]

Russia, Dec. 1941 GPS to Minor Allies, Elephantium

The german blitzkrieg has fortified its spearhead divisions, the enemy commanders are no stranger to warfare. In the face of such overhelming numbers all russian men, women and child are put to the war effort, new military units are conscripted in every soviet towns, old men and women are put to ammo production, dogs are provided with metal teeth and chickens are straped with anti-tank mines.

Report
-Soviet sub loses to unknown sub in the baltic sea.
-2nd soviet sub sinks enemy unknown (U-Boat no doubt);
-Medium Bombers hit german back lines;
-Cossack Cavalry Corp catches isolated Field Art behind Rostov and kills it;
-Several Hvy Art and Field Art units damage enemy spearhead outside Moscow with minimal casualties;
-Center Front Armor Army hits German Infantry Corp killing it, retreats with (5/12) health.
-4 Soviet Dive bombers damage 4.Panzer Armee;

Far East:
-Dive bomber damages japanese static div.(3/4)
-2 FAs damage it to (1/4)
-Far East Front kills it;
-Rifle Army captures japanese worker.

Spoted 2 german workers near the east front, i trust these are not the construction brigades, that i remember cannot cross the Warsaw barrier.

 

[Elephantium]

Got it. I'll play tonight.

 

[Elephantium]

Oi. Now my password isn't working.