I don’t even miss the BM modifications… :O
L25 PtV axis-dominion (L) vs peirce (X + 14)
-
yep, it’s about time lol
i guess this all the more proves my point… at some point your luck streak should run out, and instead of playing cautiously to secure wins more consistently–and that’s the key word here–you’ll end up losing even in situations where you had the edge. like in this game if things had gone sideways for you instead of me.
trust me. i’ve seen guys like you who like to gamble… great players honestly, but they can’t win consistently enough to reach and stay at the very top. it’s a dice game but with a lot of skill you can still play it like chess and have consistent results, like chess.
-
TripleA Turn Summary: Germans round 9
TripleA Turn Summary for game: WW2 Path to Victory
Game History
Round: 9 Purchase Units - Germans Germans buy 1 aaGun, 2 armour, 6 artilleries, 1 fighter and 8 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Germans 8 armour moved from Bulgaria to Romania 1 fighter moved from Albania to Romania 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Northern Italy to Romania 7 artilleries and 3 infantry moved from Slovakia Hungary to Romania 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Western Germany to Romania 1 bomber and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Southern Italy to Romania Combat - Germans Battle in Romania Germans attack with 8 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 bomber, 6 fighters, 3 infantry and 4 tactical_bombers British defend with 1 fighter; Americans defend with 2 armour, 11 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber; ANZAC defend with 2 fighters; Russians defend with 9 armour and 3 infantry Germans roll dice for 8 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 bomber, 6 fighters, 3 infantry and 4 tactical_bombers in Romania, round 2 : 12/29 hits, 13.50 expected hits Russians roll dice for 11 armour, 14 fighters, 3 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Romania, round 2 : 21/29 hits, 16.33 expected hits 7 artilleries owned by the Germans, 1 fighter owned by the Germans, 3 infantry owned by the Germans, 8 armour owned by the Germans and 2 tactical_bombers owned by the Germans lost in Romania 3 infantry owned by the Russians, 7 armour owned by the Russians and 2 armour owned by the Americans lost in Romania 1 bomber owned by the Germans, 5 fighters owned by the Germans and 2 tactical_bombers owned by the Germans retreated Russians win with 2 armour, 14 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is -52 Casualties for Germans: 8 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 fighter, 3 infantry and 2 tactical_bombers Casualties for Russians: 7 armour and 3 infantry Casualties for Americans: 2 armour Non Combat Move - Germans 3 fighters moved from Romania to Yugoslavia 2 aaGuns moved from Bulgaria to Yugoslavia 1 fighter moved from Yugoslavia to Southern Italy 1 fighter moved from Romania to Yugoslavia 1 fighter and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Romania to Slovakia Hungary 1 aaGun moved from Albania to Yugoslavia 1 infantry moved from Leningrad to Archangel 1 transport moved from 128 Sea Zone to 115 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Baltic States to Poland 4 artilleries and 11 infantry moved from Germany to Slovakia Hungary 1 aaGun moved from Northern Italy to Southern France 1 infantry moved from Normandy Bordeaux to Southern France 3 infantry moved from Northern Italy to Southern France 2 infantry moved from Austria to Northern Italy 4 infantry moved from Austria to Yugoslavia 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Western Germany to France 4 infantry moved from Western Germany to Austria 1 bomber moved from Romania to Slovakia Hungary Place Units - Germans 1 aaGun and 2 infantry placed in Southern France 1 infantry placed in Normandy Bordeaux 2 armour, 4 artilleries and 4 infantry placed in Germany 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 1 infantry placed in Western Germany Germans undo move 1. 1 aaGun placed in Southern France 1 artillery and 2 infantry placed in Western Germany Turn Complete - Germans Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 2 Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 95 Sea Zone. Rolls: 6,2 Germans collect 50 PUs (2 lost to blockades); end with 50 PUs Trigger Germans 7 Atlantic Wall: Germans met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 53 PUs Trigger Germans 4 Presence In Egypt: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 58 PUs Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 63 PUs Objective Germans 2 Control Stalingrad Or Leningrad Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 68 PUsCombat Hit Differential Summary :
Russians regular : 4.67 Germans regular : -1.50 -
@axis-dominion You’re using you dicing me in this battle to prove your point about gambling? Ok, let’s see how this plays out.
-
you’re the one who attacked me, you made the decision to take that risk, which yes i consider gambling since 1) the overall odds were not favorable to you (along with a poor tuv average and 2) one-round strafe, while avg tuv ~0, is also risky… if you’re in a winning position, why take those risks?
-
i reiterate, i would not be taking such risks, and my overall ranking/rating over time proves this out to be a more consistent approach to winning. i’m not alone, as that’s how all the top players play. only way if you’re going to have any kind of consistent results in a dice game.
-
@axis-dominion Because it wipes out your ground stack. The odds of it going that badly in both directions were infinitesimal.
Anyways, hopefully this will stop your complaints about dice, since that went far more poorly than anything has for the Allies all game.
-
@peirce said in L25 PtV axis-dominion (L) vs peirce (X + 14):
@axis-dominion Because it wipes out your ground stack. The odds of it going that badly in both directions were infinitesimal.
Anyways, hopefully this will stop your complaints about dice, since that went far more poorly than anything has for the Allies all game.
definitely helps to balance things, yes.
was that far more poorly than the yugo disaster? not sure, but i have to run for now. catch up later
-
later on today when i do my russian turn, i plan to attack anhwe with my russian inf + fig, if you can let me know your scramble decision ahead of time.
-
@axis-dominion You got a mulligan on the Yugo disaster, so it’s not reflected on the map at all.
I’m a bit confused about the point you’re making about my “gambling” here. Apart from my Italy move to soften up your stack in Yugo (which I agree was a risk, but part of a larger strategy, and was only +2 hits than odds), what attacks of mine have you seen to be hail-mary gambles that got me a result I didn’t deserve? Can you point to one that was a real game-changer?
-
The yugo, and now this one, are the two big gambles that I’m referring to.
-
@axis-dominion Ah, ok. So on the map as it stands, the only “gamble” that I took went horribly against me. You should be able to mop me up pretty quick here, with my poor play…
-
Nah it’s not poor play, I just don’t think you’ll get consistency required for top play taking big risks like that that aren’t necessary. Your position was strong as is, you didn’t need to clear Russian land units.
-
@axis-dominion Suppose we’ll see.
-
So far in my experience with SL in ptv, G doesn’t have a problem pushing the red army out of Europe. As I stated in a different thread yesterday, this wasn’t the case in BM where Russia could dominate in Europe.
-
@axis-dominion Dunno about that. A Russia earning 70+ on this map is pretty terrifying. And posted up in Yugo, you were threatening 6 Axis territories, and I definitely couldn’t protect them all - that’s a ton of N.O. points waiting for Russia to snap up.
-
In fact your play is quite good, you managed to trap my Chinese stack, which I didn’t expect. Tho I take some comfort in that it cost you two air bases and I managed to squash a couple planes as well. But yeah my main point is especially applicable given you’re actually quite good.
-
@axis-dominion I had to buy the 2 ABs to make up for not buying one the previous turn. Needed my fix.
-
@peirce said in L25 PtV axis-dominion (L) vs peirce (X + 14):
@axis-dominion I had to buy the 2 ABs to make up for not buying one the previous turn. Needed my fix.
😂
-
@peirce said in L25 PtV axis-dominion (L) vs peirce (X + 14):
@axis-dominion Dunno about that. A Russia earning 70+ on this map is pretty terrifying. And posted up in Yugo, you were threatening 6 Axis territories, and I definitely couldn’t protect them all - that’s a ton of N.O. points waiting for Russia to snap up.
That’s very temporary given my thinning front lines and weak supply lines. At some point I’d have to start skirmishing with heavy units which I usually won’t do, and all the while you’re supply lines are much shorter and stacking on me hard. Anyway I know this from experience being in a string of sea lines lately
-
@axis-dominion Granted, I’m new to the Forum style of play, but I think that if a player isn’t willing to take gambles sometimes, that can be used against them. I appreciate that risk-tolerance has to increase as a player’s situation becomes more desperate, but if I know that someone isn’t going to take a 70% gamble when they’re ahead, then I can commit fewer troops to hold objectives, to use them elsewhere. Anyways, time will tell.
Suggested Topics
