G40 League House Rule project

souL

If the bomber were disallowed as a bid–I wouldn’t be shocked to see it get up to between 12-14.

gamerman01

If the bomber were disallowed as a bid–I wouldn’t be shocked to see it get up to between 12-14.Â

I actually don’t mind giving up a bomber bid. I know about the bomber on Bry to Z51 gimmick, but that has a pretty good chance of failing, too. If someone has a bid under 15 and they take a bomber, that means no units to Egypt or anywhere else, too. I think multiple lower cost units in places that are critical and hard to get to are a better bang for your bucks. I don’t want to get into a big discussion about bids here, though - there are other threads for that…. Just couldn’t resist replying on the bomber bid :-)
Stats - Bomber vs. destroyer and 2 transports - 57% chance of sinking everything
28.6% chance of sinking destroyer only, and losing the bomber
14.3% chance of sinking NOTHING and losing the bomber

gamerman01

Updated with 3 more results

Axis wins in Tournament championship game, giving Axis a 70% winning percentage in the 2011 tournament, with one game to play.

2012 League standings.xls

gamerman01

2 more results
2 more Axis wins
Axis are at .696 in league and .700 in tournament play, and that’s with bids

Apparently most people are bidding too low! Don’t be a hero! The Allies need help!

2012 League standings.xls

boldfresh

to get the allies against mojo i had to go to -1 :-D

gamerman01

I know what you mean.
To get Billy to play me I had to agree to 4 as Allies or 15 as Axis

I think with 65+ results these things would even out…. Sometimes better players take Axis, sometimes Allies…
But it is interesting the Axis are persistently winning 70% of games with average bids of 8-9.

gamerman01

@Gamerman01:

To get Billy to play me I had to agree to 4 as Allies or 15 as Axis

And he proceeded to lose 6 fighter planes on G1 and J1 - just another example of how first round dice is much, much more deciding than any puny little bid.

boldfresh

@Gamerman01:

@Gamerman01:

To get Billy to play me I had to agree to 4 as Allies or 15 as Axis

And he proceeded to lose 6 fighter planes on G1 and J1 - just another example of how first round dice is much, much more deciding than any puny little bid.

he crushed me with dice to write home about. ALL GAME LONG

gamerman01

Yeah, I saw you guys saying that when looking up your game to get the bid from it.

gamerman01

Updated

2012 League standings.xls

DarthMaximus

@Gamerman01:

@souL:

If the bomber were disallowed as a bid–I wouldn’t be shocked to see it get up to between 12-14.ï¿½ï¿½ ï¿½

I actually don’t mind giving up a bomber bid.ï¿½ ï¿½ I know about the bomber on Bry to Z51 gimmick, but that has a pretty good chance of failing, too.ï¿½ ï¿½ If someone has a bid under 15 and they take a bomber, that means no units to Egypt or anywhere else, too.ï¿½ ï¿½ I think multiple lower cost units in places that are critical and hard to get to are a better bang for your bucks.ï¿½ ï¿½ I don’t want to get into a big discussion about bids here, though - there are other threads for that….ï¿½ ï¿½ Just couldn’t resist replying on the bomber bidï¿½ ï¿½ :-)
Stats - Bomber vs. destroyer and 2 transports - 57% chance of sinking everything
28.6% chance of sinking destroyer only, and losing the bomber
14.3% chance of sinking NOTHING and losing the bomber

I’d love to discuss this (bids in general). Not sure if another thread in AA50 would be worth it???

I’d agree that bids for the Allies have been too low. And while a bomber in Bry could be initally scary. I have no doubt placing 3-4 units is better.

G1 can be deadly! I’ve moved to the much more agressive G1 (regardless of opponent) of hitting Sz 6, Sz 2, Sz 9, and Sz 12 if there are no Russian units bid. It can be crippling to the Allies. Germany just has free range to go hard after Moscow if they sink both trns. At that point Japan can just be extremely conservative and simply stay alive.

And even a failure in Sz 2 or 9 (or both) can be overcome which makes it worth the risk IMO.

gamerman01

Yeah, if you set up the thread, just let me know and/or provide a link - that is a great subject for a thread

DarthMaximus

Thread started.

I started with bomber bids, but all bid topics are open.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=27499.0

gamerman01

Rankings updated

2012 League standings.xls

gamerman01

Updated

Axis v. Allies not updated since OBG’s result was after only 7 rounds and TUV was comparable. cts17 pulled one of his disappearing acts and OBG rightfully called it early

Note that OBG was Axis :-)

2012 League standings.xls