TripleA , very good open source remake of the old Axis&Allies board game, with and against AI (and lot of maps and modded maps to download).
Using the american side of the Allies, i lost a lot of naval units when i decided to attack the japanese fleet blob (i hoped my superior number of submarines would make a difference sadly the unlucky dice rolls decided otherwise
) still managed to retreat my 2 battleships and an aircraft carrier but the hit was nasty as it delayed a very lot my grand project there.
The japanese fleet later disembarked troops in Alaska and annihilated my defenses there , but i had enough tanks and infantry on main land to travel and retake Alaska, the japanese fleet without troops to invade had to go home.
On the another part of the Pacific my transport ships managed to bring troops to take Wake Island then Okinawa losing only a couple of infantry.
On the atlantic front, the sea were clear as the british had done a good job there, but they were failing hard in Europe, losing lot of ground to Germany numerous troops. The russian were mostly resisting the german advance on their front but were not really doing a good job at resisting the Japan army moves
I noticed that Italy was very weakly defended by the german AI, and an important thing in Italy was the presence of a factory (meaning you can build units in that location) , so i assembled my transport ships and managed to carry a lots of infantry troopers there (takes 2 turns to travel from USA to Italy), we disembarked and conquered Italy without losses.
Ah the factory, sadly i was ignoring a rule point : you need to wait a turn to use a factory you just conquered, meaning my end turn purchased troops couldn't be put there i only had factories in american ground, my invading squads were then alone to defend Italy and it would take 2 turns to get any kind of reinforcement.
With the turn order i hoped the Russia AI would manage to get some success in order to keep the german legions at bay, unfortunately they failed to conquer their target and so Italy went on the recieving end of the invasion from a horribly huge amount of infantry and tanks that, dices not helping me
, obliterated my defense, Italy was lost and that precious factory was back into Axis hands.
So i was building tanks and troops while my transport ships were back to atlantic side of the USA waiting for loading more troops , but i guess my AI allies had their share of bad luck because soon enough the Axis won by economic victory.
Damn.
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