L25 PtV axis-dominion (L) vs peirce (X + 14)

[peirce]

@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.

[axis-dominion]

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?

[axis-dominion]

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.

[peirce]

@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.

[axis-dominion]

@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

[axis-dominion]

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.

[peirce]

@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?

[axis-dominion]

The yugo, and now this one, are the two big gambles that I’m referring to.

[peirce]

@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…

[axis-dominion]

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.

[peirce]

@axis-dominion Suppose we’ll see.

[axis-dominion]

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.

[peirce]

@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.

[axis-dominion]

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.

[peirce]

@axis-dominion I had to buy the 2 ABs to make up for not buying one the previous turn. Needed my fix.

[axis-dominion]

@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.

😂

[axis-dominion]

@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

[peirce]

@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.

[axis-dominion]

@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.

This helps to explain your motivation which from your perspective this was more of a necessary risk, vs how I’m seeing it as unnecessary (more based on my recent direct experience with sea lion games in ptv).

[axis-dominion]

@peirce said in L25 PtV axis-dominion (L) vs peirce (X + 14):

@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.

more to say on this later, at my daughter’s soccer game