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This moring our daugters gave me a few clues about their opening setups ... Lisa (she has France and Russia) will pin 1/3 of the Heer and the French will be ready to counter-intercept the Italians if they leave port. Lucille (she has the US and Britian) said she's placing the BEF in Gibraltar...

Next up: Third Reich. Our daughters have the Allies. My wife has Germany. I have Italy. I have a fairly good idea of what's going to happen. Italy: Yugoslava and the "Magic 100" in '39 before staying neutral unless my youngest does something really stupid. I am not messing with Greece...

Princess and I finished our game of 5th Fleet. She opened the canned sunshine before I did and sank or shot down practically everything the USSR, India, Iran, and their Communist allies had. I damaged or sank about 1/5 of what she had to work with. It was ugly. I did manage to bag both...

Princess and I just finished reviewing his plans. They're actually pretty good and we think his plan for Operation Barabarassa might work despite the fact that the first two times he tried it during practice sessions while he was being taught how to play the game the Fallshirmjager was wiped...

Brother-in-law just asked Princess and I for advice on how to defeat his wife in a game of 3rd Reich when he's got the Axis. Umm. He's going to lose, again, because Euphie probably already has plans for whatever he might try and she'll be more than happy to share them with you.

If you use nukes before your opponent does, you will lose. If you don't use nukes before your opponent does you will also lose. The big scenario is the Indian Ocean when the Cold War goes hot. EDIT: I'll need to use multiple nukes to take out USS Wisconsin. 7, minimum, is my guesstimate and 6...

Our next game (5th Fleet) is set up. Iran, India, and the USSR are outnumbered ~2:1 and most of my ships are worse than what she's got. She has 7 aircraft carriers (4 American, 1 British, 1 French, and 1 Italian) plus USS Wisconsin ... which is pulling triple duty as a Fast Fleet Oiler, Nuke...

Princess and I were discussing the various generals we had towards the end. Historcally ... On the Union side: - Howard screwed up big time at Chancelersville, as did Hooker - Meade screwed up The Crater - Burnside screwed up Fredricksburg - McDowell screwed up Bull Run - Rosecrans was bailed...

The game is over. To give you an idea of just how long the front lines were during the US Civil War: Vicksburg, MS to Richmond, VA is only 953 miles by car if you take I-20 and I-85.

Princess did not abandon either Richmond or Vicksburg. Howard, Sheridan, Hancock were killed. Meade and Rosecrans were wounded. The Union lost 135,000 troops taking those two fortressess. She lost both Johnstons, Longstreet, Clebourne, Forrest, Hardee, and 165,000 Confederates (most were...

Princess slapping Sheridan's corps is actually good for me and I'm hoping she does it because that means the ANV is out in the open somewhere in North Carolina instead of holed up in Richmond-Petersburg waiting for "All Quiet on the Western Front, the preview".

It's March 1, 1864 and here's the situation ... Howard, with 100,000 men, Hancock, Thomas, Pleasonton and Grierson have set out from Fredricksburg. They're now 50 miles west of Petersburg. Meade, with 60,000 men, Reynolds, and Sedgwick, are 100 miles east of Atlanta. Sheridan, with 15,000...

I feel like an idiot ... We're actually playing this: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2081/civil-war-1861-1865 Somewhere along the way in times long forgotten it got put in the box for this: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/4047/across-5-aprils

Our youngest just sleepily said "Hancock or Thomas is headed to St. Louis" while walking past me on her way to bed. Um ... She's 16. If she spotted that part of the "Kansas City Shuffle" on her own Princess already knows what I'm planning. From the Evil Overlord List: "One of my advisors will...

She's stacking the dice. Confederate supply depots ususally aren't built East of the Mississippi River and she's placed one in every single Confederate-held city East of Atlanta, GA.

Here's the plan: - Burnside sets out from Atlanta with Sheridan detached and running interference 50-100 miles ahead. - Hooker relieves Meade in Atlanta and then gets demoted after Meade and Howard switch places. I need that (3,*,0) but, as a 3-star he is more senior than Meade. Meade is more...

It's the Nov '63-Feb '64 turn and President Bintananth needs to pick a target for the spring. I've got Atlanta, GA with Meade (3,1,1), Burnside (3,-1,-1), and 95,000 Yankees there. Howard (3,0,-1) is in Fredricksburg, VA with 80,000. Rosecrans (3,-1,0) is N. of Jackson, MS with 55,000...

Belated update: Princess reinforced NW Georga with new recruits and managed to extricate 60,000 Confederates - along with an in injured JE Johnston - from NW Georgia, but I did take Atlanta along with Pemberton (3,-1,0) and the remnants of The Army of Tennessee. The casualties: 85,000 Union...

There's a trick to enjoying games like this one: don't look at the victory conditions to see who won. Princess and I will be playing the big 5th Fleet scenario when we're done with this. That's basically the USSR, India, and Iran v. everyone else. I'll be playing the Soviets and I will lose...

It did get one ... I've made my decision. Burnside is headed to Charleston, SC. Instead of "Sherman's Neckties" in Georgia there will be "Burnside's Bowties" and JE Johnston (one of Sherman's pallbearers in RL, BTW) will be facing two armies coming from different directions instead of just one...