League General Discussion Thread

[crockett36]

What is the possibility of including the G40 2se, Gencon 42 set up and tournament rules in the league? It would be great if an A&A.org player took it down next summer.

[Daaras]

@crockett36 I would also love for this to happen. My team and I are trying to go, but family logistics can make it difficult sometimes.

[mikawagunichi]

@crockett36 I think it would be cool to have G42 as a league option here with a slight modification for fairness and to adapt to play by forum, which would be to get rid of any notion of time limits and just set it as a 6 round game (while keeping the extra Russian turn rule if the Axis have victory condition).

[dawgoneit]

where do i find the league standings?

[ArtofWar1947]

@dawgoneit

The spread sheets for the overall standings, OOB, BM4, PTV, and Classic can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Larckt6iOuBZtZ-AVzDPv-HEofZJdeN8ptXXotun0Og/edit?gid=0#gid=0.

[dawgoneit]

@ArtofWar1947
thank you

[ArtofWar1947]

@dawgoneit

Glad to see you on the Forum again.

[axis-dominion]

accessing this site has been really tough lately :(

[Booper]

@axis-dominion

Temporary server issue, or something long-term? Possibly more folks hitting the forums over the holidays.

[Karl7]

Is the league still strong?

[gamerman01]

I gotta be honest, we just had by far the weakest month since G40 was in its first year. In November there were only 6 games finished across all versions, and only 1 in the first 6 days of December. Maybe everyone’s taking a break at the same time, and/or maybe the games are more competitive and longer.

But there’s still plenty of action, and the playoffs continue to have VERY strong players in all 3 versions.
Classic has been added as a tracked league version of the game, though it doesn’t seem to have really taken hold. I’m back into Classic some, and maybe when I’m finally done with a big double elimination tournament, I’ll continually have 1 going. Pretty fun to return to the roots after actually learning the correct rules, thanks to resident EXPERT @The_Good_Captain

[gamerman01]

There were 16 in October and 23 in September, so the 11/1 to 12/6 lull isn’t necessarily the new normal.

[mikawagunichi]

@gamerman01 Since we’re coming up on the end of the year, I think we should formally consider adding G42 with tournament rules as a league game. @Daaras @Stucifer and I have been playing it a bunch, and also playing some games with folks we met at Battlefront Dayton. Could inject some fresh blood into the league and also improve the odds that a league derived team takes down the national championship at some point.

Since you can’t really do chess clocks in a PBF format, I would suggest pre-determining that the game be a 6 round game for league purposes.

[Stucifer]

@gamerman01 I’ve been taking a break from League matches for a couple months learning G42 for Battlefront Dayton. Hard to switch back to the OOB/BM map when you’ve been spoiled on the PtV map for so long… :)

I do think G42 which is unofficially Larry Harris 1940 Global 3rd edition is very interesting to play especially given the constraints of live tournament play. Throwing empty carriers out as blockers and all-bomber buys are common round 4/5/6 moves depending on the pace of play.

[Stucifer]

I realize it splits the league up further when adding add more variants which does have drawbacks

[axis-dominion]

@Stucifer said in League General Discussion Thread:

I realize it splits the league up further when adding add more variants which does have drawbacks

that’s definitely a concern.

[axis-dominion]

@Stucifer said in League General Discussion Thread:

@gamerman01 I’ve been taking a break from League matches for a couple months learning G42 for Battlefront Dayton. Hard to switch back to the OOB/BM map when you’ve been spoiled on the PtV map for so long… :)

I do think G42 which is unofficially Larry Harris 1940 Global 3rd edition is very interesting to play especially given the constraints of live tournament play. Throwing empty carriers out as blockers and all-bomber buys are common round 4/5/6 moves depending on the pace of play.

after i got into ptv this year for the first time, i thought i might lose interest in bm but picking up a couple good challenging matches with farmboy has proven that totally false. bm (imo enhanced global) is here to stay, still very fun and can (for me at least) coexist with ptv for i would think a long time

[axis-dominion]

for me, however, it’s much more about high quality matches than the quantity. there were many years where i would play 10-15 games concurrently, but these days i much prefer 1 or 2 high quality, very challenging matches.

[Stucifer]

@axis-dominion
3rd edition Global with a little redesign to incorporate the split-sea zone island groups and a couple other balance adjustments from BM/PTV (Sea Zone 36, NOs) would be a pretty good Christmas present 😅😏

[axis-dominion]

@Stucifer said in League General Discussion Thread:

@axis-dominion
3rd edition Global with a little redesign to incorporate the split-sea zone island groups and a couple other balance adjustments from BM/PTV (Sea Zone 36, NOs) would be a pretty good Christmas present 😅😏

i’m down!