2013 G40 League Post Game Results Here - Thread

gamerman01

@Eggman:

Sure I could keep trying with higher and higher bids, but I don’t find it that satisfying to win when your opponent has a huge handicap.

Yeah, dude, the point of bidding is to make the game 50/50. Even if it’s a high amount, it’s not a “handicap”. You or your opponent just agreed to what you think is fair… You and your opponent are just essentially saying that the maker of the game failed to make it a 50/50 game with the starting setup, and your modification (bid) makes it closer to 50/50…

So like Bold said - giving the Allies extra units is REMOVING the handicap, not creating a new one… :wink:

gamerman01

Interestingly, the latest tweak (2nd edition) REMOVED a UK infantry from Egypt! Larry must not think the Allies are disadvantaged!

Eqqman

@Boldfresh:

…but are you not stating that the allies are handicapped? so that is the point of a bid, to even the playing field.

@Gamerman01:

So like Bold said - giving the Allies extra units is REMOVING the handicap, not creating a new one… :wink:

Yes, I get the idea. But even with thinking that I am removing an advantage of my opponent, they are still being punished in a way which diminishes the value of victory (for me). I think handicapping works better in games like golf that are not zero-sum.

Call me Don Quixote, if you like. La Mancha is nice this time of year…

Regarding the 2e changes, yes, the Egypt INF was clearly unimportant as nobody bids an extra INF to replace it. I would have instead tweaked the Italian NOs, as they are too closely dependent. An Italy good enough to get one of them is probably going to get all of them (especially if the Axis started by clearing out the Allied warships), and once it does, it is pretty much equaling the UK in income. That’s a topic for a different thread though.

Odonis

Jeff (Allies +10) over Odonis (Axis)
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=29534.0

Leave-Russia-alone-hybrid-goes-wrong

gamerman01

@Eggman:

Call me Don Quixote, if you like. La Mancha is nice this time of year…

Yes, I will call you Don Quixote

Regarding the 2e changes, yes, the Egypt INF was clearly unimportant as nobody bids an extra INF to replace it.

I guess I’m nobody, because I just did. I think I saw somebody else that did, and I don’t look at many of other people’s games.

As you said, if Italy gets one NO they tend to get more. Isn’t the UK infantry in Egypt quite key, then? It is difficult for UK to get reinforcements to this vital area.

But yeah, we’re cluttering up the game results thread… :oops:

Eqqman

@Gamerman01:

Regarding the 2e changes, yes, the Egypt INF was clearly unimportant as nobody bids an extra INF to replace it.

I guess I’m nobody, because I just did. I think I saw somebody else that did, and I don’t look at many of other people’s games.

Plenty of stuff to possibly discuss there, but I’ll just ask 1 follow-up: I was really meaning to say that nobody bids Allies +3 just to give themselves a UK Egypt INF. You might have put one there, but was that the entire bid, or was that just the leftovers after you placed the unit(s) that was actually really important? Obviously any extra units are helpful to some degree, but that one guy by himself isn’t turning the tide in the Med.

gamerman01

Yeah, mine was a +9 and I did arty to Sze, inf to Egypt, +2 to UK

We should play some time :-)

miamiumike

Eggman win against MiamiUMike in my last game on the boards for a LONG time…

Take care all!

Peace!

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=29688.0

Eqqman

Ziggurat (Axis) beats Eggman (Allies +3) after the Allies get too cocky and leave Cairo open, not thinking that Germany would be ready to sacrifice the Air Force to help take it.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=29680.0