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Ken Pascoe
January 6, 2025 at 7:25 am

Ken Pascoe’s Axis defeated Jonathan Lockwood’s Allies (bid 1.5).

Turn 1 Allies sent forces to NAO (four 444), SAO, NS, and Barents. Axis sent all German ships but Adm Scheer. Germans wisely held back (forgot to place) U-Boats. Germans sank three 444, lost Lutzow, held the sea. POC Axis +3.Turn 2 Allies sent forces to NAO (Eagle & Formidable), SAO, NS, and Barents. Germans ships hid in the Baltic and subs went to NAO. POC Axis +2.Turn 3 Allies sent forces to NAO (Convoy 1A & Glorious), SAO, NS, and Barents. Germans ships hid in the Baltic and subs went to NAO, where one disabled Convoy 1A. POC Axis +2.Turn 4 Allies sent forces to NAO (Convoy 1A, Glorious, Wichita), SAO (Eagle, QE, Valiant, Revenge), NS, Barents, and Baltic (both Russians). German 357, 496 fought for Baltic, subs sailed NAO, and Italian cruisers sailed SAO. POC Axis +6.Turn 5 Allies sent forces to NAO (Convoy 2B, Glorious, Illustrious, Texas, Wichita), SAO, NS, and Barents. Germans ships hid in the Baltic. Five subs and two remaining Italians went to NAO, losing badly. Lost four U-Boats and Pola. Convoy 1A landed in Russia. POC Axis +2.Turn 6 Allies sent forces to NAO (Convoy 3C, Glorious, Illustrious, Texas, Wichita), SAO, NS, and Barents. Germans went full force against Convoy 2B. U-Boats sank Convoy 3C in NAO. Decisive battle in Barents swung toward Axis. After Round 1, it looked as though the Germans would dominate the battle and likely sink Convoy 2B. Allies resigned.

Thanks to Jonathan for a great game!

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James Kramer Jr.
December 23, 2024 at 12:24 pm

Jim Kramer (allies bid 1.5) has defeated David Elkin (axis) in a game that went 7 turns. With the game score at zero David resigned. Points of interest follow:

T1: Allied deployment saw 2 4-4-4 BB to the Barents. Axis air strikes disabled both before combat. Axis +2 for the turn.

T2: Bulk of the German fleet to NA winning the zone. Remaining NA German ships move to France. Italian CA’s with 4 subs to the SA. ASW (6 shots) removes all 4 subs with allied force winning the zone. Axis +3 for the turn.

T3: Germans (4), Italians (3) and subs (5) to SA facing 5 BB and Eagle. Axis win losing 3 ships and only sinking 2. A Russian BB in the Baltic faces 4 Germans sinking a 2-2-5. Axis +3 for the turn.

T4: Axis forces in the SA (2 German, 2 Italian) and the Barents (4 ships, 5 subs and LBA). Allies win both areas. Barents 14 ASW clear the subs and combat sees 2 Germans sunk with Graf Zeppelin crippled. SA combat did not sink any axis ships. With convoy 1A to Russia., the allies get +4 on the turn.

T5: Axis forces in SA (2 damaged Germans and 2 Italian). Barents 4 subs and LBA. Baltic with Marat appearing has 2 Germans. Graf Zeppelin repairing. SA combat sees allies win with both Germans sunk. Barents 12 ASW clear the subs but LBA disables convoy 2B. Baltic has Marat sink another 2-2-5 while only being disabled. Allies +1 for the turn.

T6: Marat again sails to be faced by a German damaged BB and Graf Zeppelin. Marat adds more damage to the BB and is again disabled in kind. In the SA 2 Italians stuck there are sunk in combat with the allies losing a BB. Barents subs (5) keep the area open and with LBA sink a damaged 4-5-6. No change in score.

T7: Allied deployment is set to protect convoys in the Barents and NA. SA has a minimal force. I move 2 4-5-6 from the Barents to the NS and 4 slow BB’s to the MED (3 fail to Malta). Preparing for a MED assault on T8. Marat does not sail. Axis put the surviving damaged BB in the Baltic and LBA and Graf Zeppelin in the Barents. The 5 subs go to the SA. Convoy 2B survives the air strikes and gets to Russia. GZ is sunk in surface combat. The Italians sink the 1 BB that got to the MED with no losses of their own. The subs survive in the SA (1 sunk) and sink a BB in return. Allies +3 for the turn. Game score is now at 0.

At this point with convoy 3C to the Barents, no real German surface force and the allies prepped to move to the MED (I had 6 heavies – speed 6, and 2 carriers ready to go with the 3 BB’s at Malta) David decided to resign. T8 might have proved interesting but all the signs were in my favor. My ASW rolls were very good at times.

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Bruce Monnin
December 10, 2024 at 1:42 pm

Bruce Monnin’s Allies have defeated Hilton McManus’ Axis on a Turn 5 resignation. Bruce’s Russian allies putted off the rare control of the Baltic Sea on that turn while a convoy got through to Russia.

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Rob Drozd
November 23, 2024 at 8:23 am

In match#11, Vince Meconi (bid 1.5 POC for Allies) played Robert Drozd (Axis) the full 8 turns before Axis won. Allies had a 7 POC lead at the start of Turn 6. 20 ASW sunk 2 and disabled 4 of the 7 U-Boats in the North Sea to open up the board for Turn 7.

The Axis LBA finally came through and disabled Convoy3C to give the Axis a chance. Meanwhile, in the South Atlantic, Graf Zep disabled the Nelson. Then, Rodney, Revenge, Resolution, Ramillies, and Eagle only managed to disable Prinz Eugen and put 1 damage on Tirpitz and Gneisenau. The return fire sunk Revenge, crippled Ramillies, disabled Rodney, and disabled Resolution with 3 damage. U-Boats left the North Sea open again and Axis netted 4 POC for the turn.

The Russian again failed to show up on Turn 8, which allowed Scheer(1d) to control Baltic. Axis risked speed rolls from Neutral Port to NATL for Bismarck and Tirpitz(1d) and both made it. The U-Boats sent Washington back to USA. The Axis finally prevailed after 4 rounds of combat. Axis netted 3 POC for the turn to Claim a 1.5 POC victory after the bid adjustment.

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bodiegame
November 21, 2024 at 7:07 pm

Dennis Nicholson’s Allies resigned during turn 3 of a game that could only be explained through dice demons. Dennis bid 2.0 POC to lead the Allies. On turn 1 Renown failed to Barents, setting the stage for the rest of the game. Allied air was ineffective while Axis LBA disabled Hood and Repulse and sinking Norfolk, leaving only terriers to fight. Round 1 saw the Gneisenau scratched for 2 damage while Kent and Cumberland were sunk and Exeter damaged and disabled. Devonshire was sunk during the pursuit and Ark and Dorsetshire were disabled. POC Axis 2. In turn 2, both the Repulse and PoW failed to reach Barents but the Axis bypassed that prize for the North Atlantic guarded only by Ramillies. End result: Ramillies sunk and LBA damaged Hood. POC Axis 5. Turn 3 saw a repeat with KGV and Repulse failing to achieve Barents. Axis took the bait and came out swinging. Allied carrier air disabled both Bismarck and Tirpitz to help even the odds but Axis LBA disabled DoY and Renown to put things back in the Axis favor. After 1 round of combat the Allies had lost Ark, Sussex, Dorsetshire, against Gneisenau disabled. That left PoW, Norfolk and Formidable facing 6 Germans. Throughout the game the only 6s rolled by the Brits were during speed rolls save for sinking 1 Italian and damaging Gneisenau once. Dennis decided enough was enough and resigned.

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Ken Pascoe
October 18, 2024 at 7:40 pm

I am in for round 113!

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