All right Noll, best of luck in your other games.

while there were other games outstanding, i felt no need to call the game

though if he does not return by this friday, i’ll be calling it in your favor since the game got past the first full round

2nd to last call for u505……

@Ghostglider:

We thought the same :roll:
When is the next global tournament  :-D

i thought, probably like most entrants, that we would win the tournament.

i also believed that we would be playing norse elite or atlanta axis in the final.

Okay, I (finally) started the game, at this thread, (http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=29502.0)

I wish we could have played this out a bit more. Congratulations you two. Best of luck with the rest of the tourney.

gg again.

gl next rounds

deadtombota3.tsvg

GG all. Well played.

gratz guys

Well played sir!

Thank you for the game, and I wish you luck in the next round of the tournament.

lalapalooza

ok

gg

You too!

I REALLY messed up as Macedonia. I’m thinking in most games, Macedonia probably beats Greece, and Seleucid falls to Parthia and Egypt.

yep, I know. was too early in the morning…

I suppose a strange ending is appropriate for a strange beginning, right!?!?  Sure was a fun game, and thank you both for being worthy and gracious opponents.

Good luck and hopefully we’ll meet again!

Good game.

@Stalingradski:

I’ll still take 92.5% odds 100 out of 100 times!  :-) I wouldn’t/couldn’t play any other way.

Agreed, you can’t play the game banking on odds better than that - Particularly if you are behind.

Anyways, yeah good game.  I havent played against/with this strat enough to know the best response (i have some ideas) but it is certainly strong and perhaps deceivingly so.  Round 5 is quick but not by much.  Allies need to be well ahead in the rest of the theaters by that point to have a good shot but it doesnt seem easy to do.

Thanks for the game.

i think sealion is fun and should be part of the game

i feel that any bids should go to either russia or usa, or else they will affect the intent of the game too much

i’d hate to see bids forcing players into specific “best and only best” strategy

I forgot to say Congrats Tyzoq!

Well played tourney!

Good game guys!

@Yoshi:

I agree that 10 units maximum during all the game might be tough (at some point, infantries are missing on the russian front, and you need to use expensives units - usually tanks to trade territories).

Somehow, I believe that when facing a KJF (assuming a good opponent), you cannot win if you’re not able to take and hold Caucasus at some point, and I’d say you’re in trouble if you did not manage to do that on round 6 to 8.

I pretty much agree with that.  I’ve found I usually have to go to Epl (obvious) first then Bel (to avoid Russian stacks in both Cauc and Mos, yet you can now directly threaten Mos), then to Euk (once Russia has to fortify Mos), then you can get Cauc.  So in your time frame you need to be in Euk by rd 5-6 to get Cauc the following rd.  That’s actually pretty consistant with how I do my Infantry march games.  It’s certainly reasonable to have a credible army threaten Moscow (not just a can opener threat) by rd 7,8,9.

@Yoshi:

Another point is that you need more air than you had : you were using one or two air units against Russia every turn… that’s really few, and forced you to use more grounds units in theses battles ; and gave me the opportunity to use some “small stack” (2, 3 or 4 units) that ou couldn’t trade efficiently all at once. And as air units also threat the uk navy, that force the allies to invest in some defense that will not be useful except to stand on defense in the atlantix.

Yeah, I was a little light on air.  If I didn’t buy the IC, I’d buy 1 plane per turn, but just didn’t do that this game.