@cwglee51 Lol! What was that first round??
2011 League Discussion
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@Battling:
@The:
OK, so the guy is now just crying like a stuck pig. Here is his best quote so far:
“There is no need to re-roll the battle. We can reconstruct the battle using the dice rolls which were made. However, the result would not be as favorable to the Axis as before.”
If you’re playing LL and the dice are the same…what changes??? Drop this dwebe like a hot potato. I thought LL was supposed to eliminate whining about dice.
I think he is hoping he will somehow get one more hit and I will mysteriously/magically get one less hit, thereby dropping the battle into his favour. And he was hoping his sub (on defence don’t forget) would get a hit. But to me, a 1 in 6 chance is pretty low.
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Can any of the mods indicate when the league should start wrapping up so scores can be tabulated and it be determined who the winners are? I know usually we’ve said sometime in early November, and, although it is only October, a nice head’s up about when to stop starting new games would be good.
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@The:
Can any of the mods indicate when the league should start wrapping up so scores can be tabulated and it be determined who the winners are? I know usually we’ve said sometime in early November, and, although it is only October, a nice head’s up about when to stop starting new games would be good.
7a - The Regular Season for each league will end on Dec. 1 and the standings will then be posted. Games must be completed prior to this date in order to count.
7b - Any games in progress that are completed after this date will be eligible to count for the next league (2011) assuming league rules remain the same or are similar.On 12/2 I will post the playoff matches.
I have some ideas, or changes to make for 2011, which might include the season ending & the next season begining on Nov 1st. I’d prefer the champ to be posted or acknowledged in 2010, 2011 etc…
On 12/1/2010 I’ll post the start of the 2011 season. If you anyone has any thoughts on improvements to the league, please let me know. JWW
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Thanks for pointing to the rules. I am obviously not too familiar with them and have made you do extra work. My bad. :oops:
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@JWW:
I have some ideas, or changes to make for 2011, which might include the season ending & the next season begining on Nov 1st. I’d prefer the champ to be posted or acknowledged in 2010, 2011 etc…
On 12/1/2010 I’ll post the start of the 2011 season. If you anyone has any thoughts on improvements to the league, please let me know. JWW
I’d like to see the optional rules be made available; particularly closed Z16 with or without access to Bulgaria.
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Will there be aby spring 1942 League games? (yeah i liked revised what can i say) =)
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@Nix:
Will there be aby spring 1942 League games? (yeah i liked revised what can i say) =)
Yes, the 2011 League will be very similar to the 2010 version.
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I think he’s asking if there will be a league for the 1942 game/ruleset (the ‘newer’ Revised).
Not much 42 gets played around here but perhaps there’d be some interest in league.
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Zukov is indeed correct =) Would be fun to play the old foxes in this updated revised edition
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@Nix:
Zukov is indeed correct =) Would be fun to play the old foxes in this updated revised edition
OH, not sure about that but it will certainly be considered.
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Yeah, we’ll have to look at things once we get a little closer to the end of the year.
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Some suggestions for next AA50 leagues: we should play to 13 or even to 12 VCs, because 15 VCs is like not having any victory condition. Also, with 12 VCs as victory condition, we’ll stop the ignore Japan strats
Also, bids should be limited to Asia if we want to prevent ignore Japan strats
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A REMINDER
The leagues end on 12/1! Any games not completed by this date will roll into the 2011 season. So let’s wrap up these games or they will effect your 2011 record.
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Has anyone heard how Nix is doing? He hasn’t been on since Nov. 24. I know he told me he was quite sick and had to put our game on hold, but if anyone has regular contact with him, I’d just like to know if he is still alive out there in the “real world.” :-P
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Some suggestions for next AA50 leagues: we should play to 13 or even to 12 VCs, because 15 VCs is like not having any victory condition. Also, with 12 VCs as victory condition, we’ll stop the ignore Japan strats
Also, bids should be limited to Asia if we want to prevent ignore Japan strats
I think do one or the other, both suggested changes at once are too much to the base game we’ve all been playing.
Personally, I prefer the asian bid idea as it opens up more pacific based strategies while allowing allied bids to get to a 6-9 level. You could even enforce an all ‘inf’ bid to keep from throwing off the pacific balance.
Using 12 or 13 VCs makes a much shorter the game with more gambit style moves and could be more subjected to the whims of the dice.
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@PGMatt:
I’d like to see the optional rules be made available; particularly closed Z16 with or without access to Bulgaria.
I agree.
Closing the dardenelles fully or partially (only access to bulgaria) would be nice to have an an option/change of pace.
Ftr Escorts are a nice optional rule as well.
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Maybe we could use the alpha+ idea for AA50: axis win if Japan controls 6 VCs or if Germany+Italy control 6 or 7 VCs
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I would be interested in a revised league it would let me play the KAF. Func knows this strat and it is quite good but with no revised league and nobody playing it on the forums I have sadly left this strategy unused for a while
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League History updated for 2010. Just awaiting the AA50-42 final game.
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what I used to do for my real life games is 1d6+3 for whoever is allies. Recently up it to 1d6+4.
For online games it’s been a long time since I took allies at anything less than 6… I am talking roughly 100 dice games of 1941 and 40 1942 games.
For serious dice games it’s always been 9 pick a side. The highest mountain I overcame as axis was against an 18 allies and no bomber buy… I really wanted to play axis that day.
I almost always do standard openers though and I expect germany to do standard opener as well. 1 sub 1 fig 1 bomber SZ 2, 3 tank ukraine 3 tank EP. 3 inf 1 art 1 fighter baltic. 1 sub 2 fighter in SZ 12. sub vs dd (add cruiser sometimes) non combat transport 1 inf 1 tank libya or if something crazy happens in the initial attacks vs russia… transport 1 inf 1 tank ukraine.
Standard Japan is either burma stack or take philippines down with 3 inf 1 art. kwangtung with 1 inf 1 tank (fighter maybe). 2 inf borneo 2 inf east indies. 1 dd 2 fighter vs bship 2 fighter vs dd tran, bship cruiser vs dd tran. 2 fighter vs tran dd sz 35. yunnan is pretty standard as well unless you really want to hold burma against india (so you can take africa).
usually UK sets up shop in SZ 2 sets up a 6 man drop. or sets up shop in SZ 7 with 2 carrier buy. USA r1 either bomberman strat (buy 3 bombers for west usa so that you can fly 5 over germany round 3 and punish japs if they try to take your NO early). or carrier 2 tran 1 inf 1 art 1 tank, or all transport and men and merge with UK fleet to take africa (you can also go to brazil seazone round 2 and threaten france if uk has other fish to fry).
If you follow the playbook with -1 here or +1 there, 9 is a fair bid.
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