Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 15:12:19 -0800 From: (Rick Heli) Subject: playback.3 >From andrewh@pyr.csuhayward.edu Wed Dec 26 00:39:26 1990 From: Andrew Hung To: andrewh@pyr.csuhayward.edu, wif@imryrr.Eng.Sun.COM Subject: Gaming this weekend & others Well, I'm so stuffed with food and coffee that I can hardly sleep!! I hope you guys all had a great X'mas. It looks like I will be free for this weekend and the same for Steve!! Phil will unfortunately be gone(once again). We tried out DoD/WiF again on last Sat.(12/22) at Steve's place. The game lasted until 1936 Jul/Aug when Steve(Axis) gave up and we went on to play 'The Con game'(Beer & Pretzel game). The options played are as followed: 1936 Jan/Feb Init roll: 4(+1),5(Axis) - 5,1(Allies) Axis - 16P Germany occupies the Rhineland 19S Germany signs NA pact with Czech, demobilizes army. Allies - 16P France occupies the Rhineland US Entry status at -3 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar/Apr Init roll: 6(Allies) - 5(Axis) Allies - 7 Russia purges officer corp Axis - 18S Germany signs NA pact with Poland, demobilizes army. US Entry status at -5 Momentous event for Axis: GE(-1), IT(+1), JA(+1) ------------------------------------------------------------------- May/Jun Init roll: 3(Axis) - 2(+1)(Allies) Axis - 32S Japan DOW on Russia, offers support to frontline country. Allies - 18S(failed) France guarentees Poland, CW offer finacial support. US Entry status at -2 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jul/Aug Init roll: 6(+1)(Allies) - 5(Axis) Allies - 42S Russia surrenders to Japan, US offers support. Axis - 10 Germany supports Nationalist. US Entry status at -2 Momentous event for Allies: US(+1), CW(+1), RU(-1) ------------------------------------------------------------------- As you can see, we(Phil & I) the Allies decided to be aggressive and see how the Axis player(Steve) react. The die rolls were in our favors(!!) for this game. Spanish Civil War broke out in May/Jun(roll of 1 by me again) and clear weather in Mar/Apr really helped. We managed to get the Russian to purge early(sucessfully) and I think Steve jumped the gun by attacking too soon. Apparently a surrender by Russia is not too bad since Japan only gain 2 resources plus whatever territory it gained(occupied) during the war.(Can you guys check this please, Steve has known to be wrong in interpreting the rule!!) The slow turn in Mar/Apr allowed Phil to redeploy a substantial amount of troops to Vlad. in a hurry. Some poor die rolls on the ground assault and in the air(the RU TAC broke thru and also shot down the 4 factors JA FTR) really doomed the attack on Vlad. which RU kept!! The Spanish Civil War went awrd for the Nationalist which took Bilbao initially(1/1 EX with a 7-3 taking the port) but a daring(lucky) 2-1 on it retook the place for the Republican. The resource NW of Madrid also fell the next turn since it was not occupied and the Allies got the initiative!! Steve also forgot to play JA gear up in Jul/Aug and we managed to surrender successfully(even got the US econ support!!). Steve gave up at that point and we played my new game. BTW, I reread the rules on US Entry afterward to see if I did any goof ups and to my horror it states that this is to be used after General War breaks out, not for DoD apparently!! Please confirm this as it would really changed thing around. I guess I'll be hosting this weekend if you are all free, so let me know!! --andrew