12L, AA50-41, Ol' Blood&Guts (Axis) vs. Boldfresh (Allies+7), no tech, + NOs

[Guest]

@Boldfresh:

that’s just crazy, that must be about a 1%er

according to dskelly…1.2%  8-)…blind squirrel

Ita14-Buy: 3 inf, arm…save 0

No combat

NCM
2inf Fra => Ger
3inf arm Ita => Fra
arm Bul => Cau
10inf art arm Euk => Cau

Mobilize
3inf arm in Ita

Collect: 14

OBG_vs_Bold_14eI.AAM

[gamerman01]

Dice are crazy
This week I was playing a Settlers of Catan offshoot, and we rolled like 5 3’s in the first 20 rolls… (2 dice)  Also, sometimes snake eyes keep popping up

Played Monopoly with the speed dice with my boy about a week ago, and I rolled triple 1’s twice in a row.  (Triples allow you to go anywhere you want on the board)  The speed die has one 1, one 2 and one 3 on it, so the odds of triples are 3/216.  The odds of rolling triples twice in a row are then .000193 or .02%, and the odds of rolling triple 1’s twice in a row are .0000214335 or .002%.

You can draw your own conclusions - just wanted to throw a few things out there from recent experience

[Guest]

Having played board games IRL, I have never seen dice as lucky as on here.

[boldfresh]

USA14 - with 58 buys 3 sub, 2 bat

CM

fic (2 arm) - 2 inf (ngu) via z37, 10 ftr (z50)
z36 (des) - sub, 6 bom (bor)
z60 (sub) - des, 9 ftr (z50)
z61 (sub) - des (z50), 9 ftr (haw)

combat:

fic - 2 inf, 10 ftr vs. 2 arm
Rolls: 2@1 10@3; Total Hits: 42@1: (5, 3)10@3: (1, 4, 5, 1, 6, 1, 1, 5, 6, 5)
Rolls: 2@3; Total Hits: 02@3: (6, 6)

[boldfresh]

that’s more like it

fic twol

z36 - sub, 6 bom vs. des
Rolls: 1@2 6@4; Total Hits: 41@2: (5)6@4: (2, 1, 5, 4, 4, 5)
Rolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 01@2: (5)

[boldfresh]

z36 cwol

z61 - des, 9 ftr vs. sub
Rolls: 1@2 9@3; Total Hits: 41@2: (6)9@3: (4, 6, 6, 1, 2, 2, 6, 5, 2)
Rolls: 1@1; Total Hits: 01@1: (6)

[boldfresh]

z61 cwol

z60 - des, 9 ftr vs. sub
Rolls: 1@2 9@3; Total Hits: 31@2: (4)9@3: (6, 5, 4, 1, 5, 1, 4, 2, 6)
Rolls: 1@1; Total Hits: 01@1: (4)

[boldfresh]

fighters underperforming per usual but no matter…  :lol:

NC

bur - aa (ind), 6 bom (z36)
per - 2 ftr (bur), 2 ftr (z38), 11 inf (kaz)
z50 - 9 ftr (z61), 9 ftr (z60), 2 ftr (fic), des, acc (z38) (one UK acc is empty)
z51 - 2 sub (z56)

place 3 sub (z56)
place 2 bat (z50)

collect 57, has 57

OBG_vs_Bold_14fUSA.AAM

[boldfresh]

my troops are getting itchy trigger fingers!!

[Guest]

Hey Bold….the 9ftrs in sz61 came from Haw…that is 4 spaces traveled and they cannot go anywhere.

[boldfresh]

@Ol’:

Hey Bold….the 9ftrs in sz61 came from Haw…that is 4 spaces traveled and they cannot go anywhere.

sorry obg, had 61 and 60 reversed in my mind when i typed up the combat move.  the haw ftrs went to 60 and the z50 ftrs went to z61, my bad on the typing there.

[boldfresh]

@Boldfresh:

@Ol’:

Hey Bold….the 9ftrs in sz61 came from Haw…that is 4 spaces traveled and they cannot go anywhere.

sorry obg, had 61 and 60 reversed in my mind when i typed up the combat move.  the haw ftrs went to 60 and the z50 ftrs went to z61, my bad on the typing there.

technically the typing was of course wrong and that’s my fault entirely of course.  it was a pure and simple mistake of thinking i had the map memorized in my head while typing the move.  there would be no reason whatsoever to force my fighters to remain in z61, as i’m sure you can see.  you have caught me again and it’s up to you on how you want me to proceed.  if you insist that i adjust my noncombat move to match the combat typing, it’s your right.

[boldfresh]

@Boldfresh:

@Boldfresh:

@Ol’:

Hey Bold….the 9ftrs in sz61 came from Haw…that is 4 spaces traveled and they cannot go anywhere.

sorry obg, had 61 and 60 reversed in my mind when i typed up the combat move.  the haw ftrs went to 60 and the z50 ftrs went to z61, my bad on the typing there.

technically the typing was of course wrong and that’s my fault entirely of course.  it was a pure and simple mistake of thinking i had the map memorized in my head while typing the move.  there would be no reason whatsoever to force my fighters to remain in z61, as i’m sure you can see.  you have caught me again and it’s up to you on how you want me to proceed.  if you insist that i adjust my noncombat move to match the combat typing, it’s your right.

by no reason whatsoever, i’m referring to me not having a reason.  you of course would have a reason…  :-)

[boldfresh]

once again, i have to apologize for a typing error.  let me know what you want to do.

[boldfresh]

i guess if you were to insist that i move 5 acc to z60, it would probably be the game right there.  i promise you i had no intention of moving the fleet to z61 and that this was a simple sea zone dyslexia.  i hope you will agree and this very good game can continue rather than focusing on a technicality.  as i said in the G opening, i would have been willing to allow you to reroll your entire turn if you wanted to change the combat move and add two tanks going to bst.  if you want, i’d be happy to reroll the US round (where the US took no casualties).  if you feel like i actually intended to leave the fighters in z61 without movement, let me know, but if we were playing IRL, i promise you that you would have seen me lift the fighters off haw and place them in z60 on the map.

[boldfresh]

i commend your attention to detail. i think there are only a few players on the site that would have even noticed.  i just hope you wont insist to hang me on these reversed sea zones…  :|  again, i wish i had handled the G1 differently and i would have for SURE if i had known how much it upset you.  i am at your mercy obg, completely caught with my hands down.  i haven’t studied the map to see if there is any way that moving the acc to z61 could be mitigated, but my gut reaction is it would be complete disaster for the US and cost the allies the game pretty much immediately.

[boldfresh]

for purposes of honor in this game, which i believe by now we are both interested in, i am willing to redo the US turn, even to sacrifice material.  but to say that accidentally reversing those two sea zones should cost me the game outright doesn’t sit quite right with me, and i doubt it does with you either.  i hope you were just pointing it out as a discrepancy and are not implying that i move at least 5 acc to 61.  and if you are, that you are doing it tongue in cheek since you know it would cost me the game.  and of course to make me squirm for a while since you have the cold hard facts of the typing sitting right there on the page…  :-) i think it very unlikely that you will actually insist on a full scale change in the game over this.  i can appreciate all these possibilities, and the jury is out, looking forward to hear what you think is the best way to handle it.

[Guest]

Well, I can honestly say I am not sure yet. It looks to me if I let it stand as you intended instead of as typed, that pretty much means Japan is toast and it would cost me the game. Still thinking about it and have not made up my mind yet.

[boldfresh]

yeah i think japan is in some real trouble which has taken a lot of hard work as your pacific game has greatly improved, but it needs to be since Russia already fell.  if i lose a big chunk of the US fleet, i think it’s game over for me.  as i said, it truly was just an accidental switching of the sea zones when typing - it came as a complete surprise to me this morning when you pointed it out.  there is no reason i would ever have wanted to move only a portion of my US fleet to z61, obviously.

just take your time and think it over.

[boldfresh]

@Boldfresh:

yeah i think japan is in some real trouble which has taken a lot of hard work as your pacific game has greatly improved, but it needs to be since Russia already fell.  if i lose a big chunk of the US fleet, i think it’s game over for me.  as i said, it truly was just an accidental switching of the sea zones when typing - it came as a complete surprise to me this morning when you pointed it out.  there is no reason i would ever have wanted to move only a portion of my US fleet to z61, obviously.

just take your time and think it over.

To me the honorable question to be asked is whether you think i intended to send the fleet to z61 then changed my mind in noncom or if you believe it was a simple accident and there was no intent of sending the haw ftrs the extra space to 61.  Since it was 9 ftr and des to each zone, everything was identical except for a 0 or 1 after the 6 :-(