Sounds good to me, Gekkepop.  Enjoy your holiday!

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II v4, version: 2.7

Game History

Round :10

Purchase Units - Americans
            Americans buy 5 bombers; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Americans
            6 armour, 5 infantry and 6 transports moved from 51 Sea Zone to 50 Sea Zone
            6 armour moved from 50 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands
                  Americans take Caroline Islands from Japanese
            5 infantry moved from 50 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands
            5 battleships moved from 58 Sea Zone to 50 Sea Zone

Combat - Americans

Non Combat Move - Americans

Place Units - Americans
            5 bombers placed in Japan

Turn Complete - Americans
            Americans collect 60 PUs; end with 61 PUs total

Territory Summary for Americans :

Midway : 1 flag, 1 infantry
    Alaska : 1 flag, 1 infantry
    Southern Europe : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 1 armour and 1 factory
    Philipine Islands : 1 flag, 1 bomber
    Western United States : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 1 factory and 2 infantry
    Borneo : 1 flag, 1 bomber
    Hawaiian Islands : 1 flag, 2 infantry
    Solomon Islands : 1 flag
    Wake Island : 1 flag
    Eastern United States : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 2 armour and 1 factory
    Okinawa : 1 flag, 1 armour
    Japan : 1 flag, 2 aaGuns, 11 bombers and 1 factory
    Caroline Islands : 1 flag, 6 armour and 5 infantry
    50 Sea Zone : 1 flag, 5 battleships and 6 transports
    55 Sea Zone : 1 flag, 1 destroyer
    60 Sea Zone : 1 flag, 1 cruiser, 4 destroyers, 1 submarine and 4 transports
    58 Sea Zone : 1 flag, 1 transport

Production/PUs Summary :

Russians : 49 / 51
    Germans : 0 / 0
    British : 57 / 61
    Japanese : 0 / 0
    Americans : 60 / 61

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3 Future, version: 3.1

Game History

Round :6

Purchase Units - Japanese
            Japanese buy 1 airfield, 8 infantry and 8 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Japanese
            3 fighters, 1 infantry and 3 tactical_bombers moved from Shensi to Tsinghai
            1 armour, 3 artilleries, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Shensi to Sikang
            2 armour moved from Hopei to Sikang
            1 infantry moved from Siam to Shan State
                  Japanese take Shan State from UK_Pacific
            1 infantry moved from Yunnan to Burma
                  Japanese take Burma from UK_Pacific
            1 infantry moved from Yakut S.S.R. to Yenisey
                  Japanese take Yenisey from Russians
            2 artilleries and 7 infantry moved from Yakut S.S.R. to Dzavhan
                  Japanese take Dzavhan from Russians
            1 infantry moved from Central Mongolia to Dzavhan
            2 armour and 2 mech_infantrys moved from Buyant-Uhaa to Dzavhan

Combat - Japanese
            Battle in Tsinghai
                Japanese attack with 3 fighters, 1 infantry and 3 tactical_bombers
                Russians defend with 1 infantry
                    Japanese roll dice for 3 fighters, 1 infantry and 3 tactical_bombers in Tsinghai, round 1 :  4/7 hits
                    Chinese roll dice for 1 infantry in Tsinghai, round 1 :  1/1 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Russians and 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Tsinghai
                Japanese win with 3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry
            Battle in Sikang
                Japanese attack with 3 armour, 3 artilleries, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Russians defend with 1 infantry
                    Japanese roll dice for 3 armour, 3 artilleries, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Sikang, round 1 :  5/9 hits
                    Chinese roll dice for 1 infantry in Sikang, round 1 :  1/1 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Russians and 1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Sikang
                Japanese win, taking Sikang from Chinese with 3 armour, 3 artilleries, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Japanese
            1 aaGun moved from Shensi to Sikang
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Kweichow to Sikang
            3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from Tsinghai to Yunnan
            2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Hunan to Malaya
            1 mech_infantry moved from French Indo China to Yunnan
            1 armour moved from Kweichow to Yunnan
            1 armour, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Hunan to Yunnan
            2 bombers moved from Hunan to Kwangtung
            1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys moved from Kiangsu to Hunan
            3 armour and 7 mech_infantrys moved from Korea to Buyant-Uhaa
            2 transports moved from 37 Sea Zone to 19 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 6 Sea Zone to 19 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 39 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone
            3 fighters moved from Japan to Anhwe

Place Units - Japanese
            1 airfield placed in Malaya
            3 infantry placed in Kiangsu
            3 infantry placed in Shantung
            2 infantry and 8 mech_infantrys placed in Korea

Turn Complete - Japanese
            Japanese collect 70 PUs; end with 70 PUs total
            Objective Japanese 4 Control Dutch East Indies: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 75 PUs

Territory Summary for Japanese :

Shantung : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 1 factory_minor and 3 infantry
    Korea : 1 flag, 1 factory_upgrade, 2 infantry and 8 mech_infantrys
    Kiangsu : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 3 infantry
    Japan : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 1 airfield, 1 factory_major, 1 harbour and 2 infantry
    Shensi : 1 flag
    Yunnan : 1 flag, 2 armour, 3 fighters, 3 mech_infantrys and 4 tactical_bombers
    Suiyuyan : 1 flag
    Kweichow : 1 flag
    Hunan : 1 flag, 1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys
    Hopei : 1 flag
    Szechwan : 1 flag
    Chahar : 1 flag
    Sikang : 1 flag, 1 aaGun, 3 armour, 3 artilleries, 1 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys
    Anhwe : 1 flag, 3 fighters
    Shan State : 1 flag, 1 infantry
    Burma : 1 flag, 1 infantry
    Malaya : 1 flag, 1 airfield, 1 artillery, 2 fighters, 1 harbour, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
    Borneo : 1 flag
    Kwangtung : 1 flag, 2 bombers and 1 harbour
    Philippines : 1 flag, 1 airfield and 1 harbour
    Sakha : 1 flag
    Yenisey : 1 flag, 1 infantry
    Soviet Far East : 1 flag
    Amur : 1 flag
    Yakut S.S.R. : 1 flag
    Siberia : 1 flag
    Buryatia : 1 flag
    French Indo China : 1 flag
    Celebes : 1 flag, 1 infantry
    Java : 1 flag
    Sumatra : 1 flag
    37 Sea Zone : 1 flag, 2 battleships, 3 carriers, 2 cruisers, 4 destroyers, 3 fighters, 2 submarines, 3 tactical_bombers and 1 transport
    Dzavhan : 1 flag, 2 armour, 2 artilleries, 8 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys
    19 Sea Zone : 1 flag, 1 destroyer and 2 transports
    Central Mongolia : 1 flag
    Buyant-Uhaa : 1 flag, 3 armour and 7 mech_infantrys
    Ulaanbaatar : 1 flag

Production/PUs Summary :

Germans : 57 / 67
    Russians : 29 / 36
    Japanese : 70 / 75
    Americans : 53 / 82
    Chinese : 2 / 3
    British : 17 / 0
    UK_Pacific : 5 / 3
    Italians : 17 / 22
    ANZAC : 10 / 20
    French : 5 / 0
    Dutch : 0 / 0
    Mongolians : 0 / 0
    Neutral_Axis : 0 / 0
    Neutral_Allies : 0 / 0
    Neutral_True : 18 / 0

Super Bump from Gargantua?

Here a post from him in another thread:

@Gargantua:

Yea I wont have the time to play :(

Sorry boys.

I announced I am out and I wont change my mind.

Pug

@DizzKneeLand33:

I understand what you are saying.  At the same time, perhaps my experience is a bit different as I started playing tournament chess about 30 years ago.  When I retired as a life master (U.S., not FIDE), I learned a few things (or few hundred lol).  One, I will forever remember all of the rants and raves about this position or that being a losing position.  Well, not necessarily was the position lost.  Difficult to defend?  Perhaps.  But, then a high level player could sit down and easily defend the position that looked “lost”.

There is a difference between having an advantage, and having a WINNING advantage.  Learning how to defend is how I became a master.  I could attack with the very best of the best, but then when the attack went south or it was a position when I never had the attack, well, then I would fold in earlier days.  But when I learned how to defend, to tenaciously defend and put difficult questions to my opponents who had the advantage, then and only then did I actually achieve my best level of play.

So, I do understand what you are saying when you say that you are not going to make your opponent earn every inch of ground he or she already rightfully deserves.  Then again, “deserves” is a bit of a charged term.  If your opponent “deserves” to earn the win, then he/she should graciously play on.  This game is SO FULL of undiscovered possibilities!

Let’s just put it in perspective… chess consists of 64 squares and 32 pieces.  Now, if there are so many possibilities to defend there, then think about THIS game which has more squares, more pieces, and DICE.  :)

I believe that you have an advantage.  I also believe that the German capital is under NO immediate threat, the Italian capital even less so, and then there is Japan.  I would think it appropriate to at least continue play as Axis until one of my capitals falls.  The rules say all three, and I know that is overkill (unless some weird VC thing is happening).

I’ll post here what I’ll edit the 20 IPC’s to before too long (have a few work emails to attend to) and we can go from there.  Oh, and as a final note, I have no idea who really has the advantages in this game quite yet, which is why you are graciously playing me this series.  So, you could be completely correct in your assessment – once again, no disrespect is meant whatsoever, my friend.  :)

Well, I know that positional advantage is usually more important than unit and income advantages but, in this case, I have such a massive income and unit edge that I can leverage them into a positional edge pretty easily. You are an excellent player judging by you AA50 play, but I think you’re a little overwhelmed by the increased scope of Global in that you are making quite a few mistakes:

You left me with the option of sinking 3 undefended Italian TP’s with UK aircraft this turn.

You also let China get behind your advanced Japanese units which allows me to sandwich them between China and Russia while still being able to produce units on the Chinese front lines.

You don’t have to defend Europe as heavily as you are. As long as Germany and Italy keep enough units behind to retake France every turn and trade Belgium and Southern France, they can afford to let the Allies keep Normandy because they will never get past the coast. Because Germany has so many units in Europe it let the Russians be aggressive everywhere and collect an amount of income that the Axis can’t afford to allow.

I don’t have a problem will playing this one out for information purposes, but there’s also no harm in starting a new game (I thought we were going to be playing quite a few for practice purposes, anyway) when one becomes lopsided.

Ok sir.

ALRIGHT!

The link URL you gave me is…

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?action=post;topic=27901.0;num_replies=0

So that means the GAME ID is 27901

Now… RUN Triplea…

Click CHOOSE GAME

then after you select one, click Play by email/forum (PBEM)  Then enter your email, my email joelg_88@hotmail.com, and start!

BE AWARE you may need to register your email… if you haven’t done this, just leave my email in there

I can understand that.  I’ve had to cut way back myself.

Take care.

V

Axisplaya we have different perspectives.

I value the game experience. Why would anyone want to play someone who leaves their 60 ipc collecting capital empty? That is really boring and too anti climatic, all the build up for a showdown and then nothing. Probably was best to just have told bob before russia went.

Either way, bob is gone.

Still, this is such a weird scenario. You guys are way too polarized. Point a gun to my head, scramble orders were never called, bob scrambles and fires :roll 1@4 2@3: those xports are dead back to london they go.

Still don’t understand why getting the xports back to london is such a hard compromise to make.

It is very logical, both players didn’t know a specific rule, so why not just pretend nothing happened and move forward? This is such a stupid thing to fight over.

Cool, but if you want, both triplea versions can be downloaded separately and run separately, so you can play games in either if you choose.

Up to you…

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 2.8

Game History

Round :7

Place Units - UK_Pacific
            1 armour, 1 artillery and 3 infantry placed in India

Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
            UK_Pacific collect 19 PUs; end with 19 PUs total
                Some units change owners in territory India

yes, good game. I do want to play again, but need to take a moment to focus more on work, less on AA.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3, version: 2.8

Game History

Round :5

Combat Move - French
            Giving bonus movement to units

Non Combat Move - French

Turn Complete - French

Game resulted in full Axis surrender with Japan owning most of Asia, but unable to move any further, and with USA/UK dominating the bombing runs due to ownership and having an airfield in Oslo (total easy access to any factories in east or any in northern germany).
Cairo had fallen, but Rome fell in the next round resulting in the end for Axis partner Italy.
No landing yet in france, but a heavy one was only 2 rounds away and would have succeeded 100% with UK and USA after each other dumping 20+ infantry in western france.

starting a new game with 1.6.1 and switching sides.

Well, the arms race grows. I now have war bonds with Germany, not exactly a game changer. But at the least it’ll be worth an extra couple of units over the course of the game.

What do you think of leaving this game and start a new one using TripleA 1.61 with the latest map version (3.1 as of now)?

(I would surrender before of course  :wink: )

Test summary from TripleA 15:05:12

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II v4, version: 2.7

Game History

Round :8

Purchase Units - Americans
            Americans buy 1 artillery, 3 fighters and 1 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Americans
            3 armour and 3 infantry moved from Eastern Canada to Western Canada
            1 fighter moved from Western United States to Western Canada

Combat - Americans
            Battle in Western Canada
                Americans attack with 3 armour, 1 fighter and 3 infantry
                Japanese defend with 1 armour
                Americans win, taking Western Canada from Japanese with 3 armour, 1 fighter and 3 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 5
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 armour
                Americans win with 3 armour, 1 fighter and 3 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 5
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 armour
            Recording Battle Statistics

Non Combat Move - Americans
            1 fighter moved from Western Canada to Western United States

Place Units - Americans
            1 artillery, 3 fighters and 1 infantry placed in Eastern United States

Turn Complete - Americans
            Americans collect 35 PUs; end with 35 PUs total

London taken with 3 Armor, 3 Fig, 2 Tac and 2 Strat remaining

That went well for me. A very nice alternate reality :)

Thx and grats again, Trajan.

Japan 9

Purchases: 49
8inf 24
2ftr 20
Saved 5

CM: sz1: SS sz6 trn before I forget
Kwe: art anh
Sik: tnk She blitz through Sze, AA Gun, art She
Tsi: inf She
Buy: inf Jeh

NCM
2ftr Ros > Egy
Tac Hop > Cau
3ftr She > Cau
5ftr, 3Tac Ros > Cau
ftr Bry > Cau
ftr, sbmb Jap > Sui

Mobilization: 8inf Japan
                2ftr sz6
Income: 44 + 5 Saved = 49

Japan 9.AAM