2017 Find League Opponents Thread

[Omega1759]

One issue with BM is that no the rules are not accepted outside of this community. I think a bid does the job just fine.

[JDOW]

@ussgordoncaptain: I agree with your logic that a bid is a perfect balancing system. At a certain point you will be at 50/50. The only “mistake” this community made over the past 3-4 years was to fail the appropriate bid to create the equality. All the community learned from season to season was that the bids used during last season weren’t high enough.

This was biased by the fact that in the lower tiers Allies had a higher winrate. However, clashes between top rated players, Axis almost always won because there weren’t enough games to find the equilibrium.

The reason of the high winrate was based on a misconception in my opinion: In the old days it was “common knowledge” that “time plays for the Allies, the clock is ticking for them, the longer the game gets, the better the Allied chances are”

This was proven to be wrong because experienced Axis players managed to establish a strategy that created an almost unbearable pressure towards an economic lead. Axis could at least equalize the income and due to the inefficacy of the Allied spread IPCs across many nations combined with long transport rules resulted in easy Axis bin by economic dominance.

And here comes the point what makes the difference between Vanilla 40+ bids and BM.

The 40+ bid is kind of a hammer. You skew the first round into your favor and try to avoid that the axis will be ever able to blow up the balloon to the size they need to win.
In a nutshell you more or less force the Axis to either break this initial bid with power or lose slowly.

The potential outcome at the equilibrium could possibly be: Allies stack Yunnan J1, Japan still needs to attack, dicey battle, whoever gets lucky has the advantage for the rest of the game.

In BM you do not try to balance the early Axis over-power by breaking it with more Allied units but by making this plain and simple “eco-dominance” plan way harder for the Axis.

I simply believe that this is a more elegant way to balance the game and gives new strategies and skill more room to breathe, because I am afraid that in Vanilla the optimal strategy would be to take dicey battles in the first 2 rounds and hope for a good outcome.

I give you an extreme example: Assume you would allow multiple units per territory: In this case Allies could put enough units to France to make the G1 a dicey game decider. And I think this would lower the fun.
Still, there is nothing “wrong” about playing Vanilla, but I think BM is a bit more sophisticated in a way to keep the game interesting.

[gamerman01]

Very well said

[JuanSpain]

Indeed

[majikforce]

Truth!  That is why JDOW is a master!  A bid can never make up for skill, I know people I could give a 100 bid to and still whip their butt!

[aequitas-et-veritas]

Well said JDOW.

[cyanight]

Looking for another game. BM 3

[JuanSpain]

@JuanSpain:

Game vs Lou finished before it was expected.

I am able to start vs the next opponent. Tier M or E. BM3. No bid, Axis or switch sides please.

Post me if interested.

No opponent yet.

BTW, Today was D-Day. Last year I was in the water at Omaha beach looking at the hill, and hair stand on end.

[cyanight]

@JuanSpain:

@JuanSpain:

Game vs Lou finished before it was expected.

I am able to start vs the next opponent. Tier M or E. BM3. No bid, Axis or switch sides please.

Post me if interested.

No opponent yet.

BTW, Today was D-Day. Last year I was in the water at Omaha beach looking at the hill, and hair stand on end.

Incredible.  I need to visit there someday.  My Father landed on Omaha beach on D-Day and fought all the way up to The Battle of the Bulge with Patton.  My father told me he had the privilege of saluting Patton face to face as well :)

[JuanSpain]

That must have been an indescribable extreme situation, many thanks for sharing Lou, you must be very proud of it, a lot of people in the world, and I of course include myself in that list, are in debt with men like your father.

You definatelly have to go there sometime + France is a beautiful country and there are other amazing locations to visit near to the landing coasts (like Mont Saint Michel for example). When you visit the coast, you ask yourself why the Saint Michel area was not selected for the landing, with a very flat and huge sand area, and no hills at the end of the beach as opposed to Omaha for example.

If you come, let me know and I will help you organize the route, and of course you are invited to a stop in Madrid, I would be very interested in learning a lot more about your father.

In terms of the opponent for BM, still waiting + Adam will soon smash me as expected, so I may have even room for 2 opponents, jeje

[cyanight]

Will do Juan. I will keep you informed :)

[simon33]

Can all players starting new BM3 games make sure they are using 3.3? The latest version check is broken in the current stable release. Hopefully, the stable release can be updated soon.

[JuanSpain]

@cyanight:

Will do Juan. I will keep you informed :)

It is incredible to find how huge this war was, and if you make questions you find so many people connected to you that were directly engaged on it, not Spain as you know, we had just months before finished a devastating civil war, but my wife is from Ukraine. We married last year and she is now visiting her grandma, I haven´t had the chance to meet her yet.

Yesterday we were speaking at skype and asked her about what happened to her when the nazi invasion in ukraine, she was a beautiful 16 year old miss at that time (she is now 93). She mentioned she scaped to Siberia and worked on a weapons factory + other relative of my wife fought in the russian front, he was driving a T34 tank.

Come on gents, I have plenty of time for 2 more weeks before she returns, no opponents declared war yet.

[simon33]

@JuanSpain:

Come on gents, I have plenty of time for 2 more weeks before she returns, no opponents declared war yet.

I’d play ya but I’m only tier 2.

[JuanSpain]

Thank you very much Sir.

At this point for league games I am only taking tier E or M.

If you wish a fast game, I am happy to play you outside the league.

BTW I will be visiting the US in August. Will go with my wife so difficult to organize a board game, but would be great meeting some of the players I have played here guys. I will be in various big cities: NY, Chicago (I think Gamer lives there), Vegas, SFCO and LA. We can coordinate through private messages just in case.

[gamerman01]

It’s my nephew, Boldfresh, who lives in Chicago.  I live several hours from there, sorry
Otherwise, would be very cool to meet an A&A.org player for the first time

Thanks for sharing the family story with WWII in Russia - fascinating

[Karl7]

Whatever happened to Boldfresh?  He was a campion player, and now… pooof!  Gone.  Got a wife?  Kids, now?

I’d be up for a BM game, is anyone is interested.

[gamerman01]

Yeah, 3rd kid recently, and he has a pretty demanding job

[Flesh_finder]

looking for 1940 2nd edition opponent you can choose side no bid.

[Flesh_finder]

looking for an opponent, global 1940 2nd edition. you chose the side, no bid