Here is the full slate of Round 4 tournament games - all game results have now been recorded. (All results are listed in terms of the final POC total after the bid has been taken into account - this means the modified total may be greater than +10 POC if the player who lost the bid wins the game.)
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Robert Drozd (Thursday, 22 July 2021 05:12)
In Game#1, Drozd (Axis) vs Passacantando, Axis wins by 2.5 POC. All 3 U-Boats were sunk on Turn 1, but by Turn 8, heavy losses to the Allied fleet depleted available ASW and allowed U-Boats to leave two zones uncontrolled.
Axis had lucky results in a critical Turn 6 battle for North Atlantic. It started with a U-Boat putting 1 damage on the Glorious, so no airpower or convoy escort. Then the 2 Allied BBs whiff on Tirpitz and Scharnhorst, the convoy whiffs on PrinzEugen, and 2 CAs only manage to disable the Graf Zeppelin. Axis return fire disabled the Texas with 4 damage, sunk the New York and disabled the Augusta. Eventually, Prinz Eugen was sunk along with Wichita, Glorious, and Convoy3C.
Hilton McManus (Monday, 26 July 2021 00:35)
Game #5, above, which went the full 8 turns, Hilton McManus playing Axis won vs Vince Meconi, playing Allies and giving up 2 points in the bid process. Score at the end of Turn 8 was +1 Axis (+3 with the bid). We have never played before.
The game centered around combat in the SAtl, as the Axis attacked during T1 and were able to control. T2 saw the Allies abandon the Barents to stop any Axis incursion into either the NAtl or SAtl. This forced the Axis hand, sending 3 German ships and the Italian CA's back to the Med. T3 saw a furious battle back in the Barents and T4, T5 and T8 saw more action in the SAtl.
Ultimately, the luck of the Axis held, as convoys were turned away with Axis LBA and the Allies ASW, which ultimately sank 12 Uboats, came up 1 Uboat short at the end, allowing the SAtl to be contested on T8.
Vince was a worthy opponent, and I certainly enjoyed a very tense game from start to finish.
Jonathan Lockwood (Tuesday, 27 July 2021 17:30)
Report on Game 6 above
Allies: Jonathan Lockwood
Axis: Darren Kilfara
Allies bid 3 POC
Allies won
Game lasted the full 8 turns
Allies won by 1 POC after bid was applied
We have played before.
This game was characterized by wild swings of luck, both good and bad, hitting both sides, especially during the beginning and ending turns. When the smoke cleared near the end of Turn 8, a badly damaged Convoy 3C (-2) had managed to evade a U-boat shot and a desperation airstrike by the Graf Zeppelin to put into England for the 1 POC margin of victory, and this after Convoy 3C had miraculously escaped 5 German pursuers the previous turn with a disabled and 2 points of damage after its escorting fleet had been demolished by the Axis. And this does not even describe all of the good luck/bad luck events. Prior to that miraculous escape, the game seemed headed for a tie. Darren is welcome to describe any other unusual events of our game for which "barnburner" would be too mild a term.
James Kramer Jr. (Wednesday, 28 July 2021 20:28)
Andy Choptiany (allies - bid 2 POC) has defeated Jim Kramer (axis) in game 4 of round 4. The game went the full 8 turns but the play on turn 8 by my axis was a long shot attempt at a mathematical tie. How long of a shot was it? At the end of T7 Andy had a +6 allied lead. All 3 convoys (1 max damaged) had made it to port (2 Russia and 1 England). But most telling was the attrition results. After T7 the axis losses stood at 8 German and 6 Italian ships VS allied losses of 6 UK, 1 US and 1 USSR ship sunk. Oh my! So I bow out of the tournament humbled after my great run in 2020.