pacifiersboard ( ? ) OOB _ thread for alternate bidding

[pacifiersboard]

@farmboy and I agreed on trying a new way of bidding: We will alternately put an additional Allied unit of any type (according to general bid rules) on the board until one of us prefers to play Allies instead

[farmboy]

@pacifiersboard can maybe start this now. I’m wondering if we need to discuss bid units. Is everything fair game or should we limit it to units and not infrastructure

[farmboy]

but to move things along I will start with an UK sub in 91

[Booper]

Interesting!

What are the actual mechanics - after you place a piece you can choose Allies, or it goes to the opponent to either pick Allies or place another unit?

[farmboy]

@Booper said in pacifiersboard ( ? ) OOB _ thread for alternate bidding:

Interesting!

What are the actual mechanics - after you place a piece you can choose Allies, or it goes to the opponent to either pick Allies or place another unit?

trying it out so it might be a work in progress. But right now the plan is that you can only pick allies after your opponent places a bid.

[Booper]

@farmboy

I like the concept. You can get people throwing down some never-bought units, like BBs and CAs as well, so will definitely increase the variety of starting positions!

[farmboy]

@Booper yeah. I’ve been wondering about that too

[farmboy]

@farmboy it might still default to something close to what we end up. Both players have to be thinking both that they don’t want to give anything to their opponent and they want to a good position if htey end up with allies. I think that might lead to well placed but low cost units (which along with a fig or two makes the most sense in a standard bid game.

[pacifiersboard]

@farmboy said in pacifiersboard ( ? ) OOB _ thread for alternate bidding:

but to move things along I will start with an UK sub in 91

inf to Caucasus

[pacifiersboard]

@farmboy said in pacifiersboard ( ? ) OOB _ thread for alternate bidding:

@pacifiersboard can maybe start this now. I’m wondering if we need to discuss bid units. Is everything fair game or should we limit it to units and not infrastructure

I consider it not too late for discussing units limitations, but am also fine with having it all possible

[farmboy]

@pacifiersboard I’m fine with going with anything this time. And fig in Moscow

[pacifiersboard]

@farmboy
so we got
Sub sz91
Inf Caucasus
Ftr Moscow
+Art Volgograd

[farmboy]

@pacifiersboard said in pacifiersboard ( ? ) OOB _ thread for alternate bidding:

@farmboy
so we got
Sub sz91
Inf Caucasus
Ftr Moscow
+Art Volgograd

Inf in Yunnan

[pacifiersboard]

@farmboy said in pacifiersboard ( ? ) OOB _ thread for alternate bidding:

@pacifiersboard said in pacifiersboard ( ? ) OOB _ thread for alternate bidding:

@farmboy
so we got
Sub sz91
Inf Caucasus
Ftr Moscow
+Art Volgograd

Inf in Yunnan

AC in sz98 (off Alexandria)

[farmboy]

@pacifiersboard fig in Scotland

[farmboy]

@pacifiersboard I’m guessing you are having a hard time deciding whether to claim allies or too bid again?

[pacifiersboard]

@farmboy said in pacifiersboard ( ? ) OOB _ thread for alternate bidding:

@pacifiersboard I’m guessing you are having a hard time deciding whether to claim allies or too bid again?

kind of, but it was my daughter’s birthday, too!

Now I remember that it is a game and put an airbase in S-France!

[pacifiersboard]

so we got

Russia:
1 Ftr in Moscow
1 art in Volgograd
1 infantry in Caucasus

China:
1 infantry in Yunnan

UK:
1 sub in sz91
1 carrier in sz98
1 Ftr in Scotland

France:
airbase in Southern F.

[farmboy]

@pacifiersboard Hopefully the site is back up. Happy Birthday to your daughter and apologies if I was rushing you there.

An airbase in Souther France seems more like a bid for the axis :) so I will keep it going and bid an art for Burma

[farmboy]

@pacifiersboard I’m realizing infrastructure bids in this format might not be a good idea. Unit bids can be wasted, or used to prevent better bids but their existence still represents a potential problem for the Axis. But infrastructure bids can be placed for the purpose of their capture by Axis. I would suggest we either step back a round and you revisit the s France air base or we proceed with it but with no further infrastructure bids.