2013 - AAG 40 League

[nerquen]

@Boldfresh:

i want to play Karl again!!!

well, nothing restricts you from playing an off ladder game with Karl.

[boldfresh]

if it’s off ladder it doesnt COUNT…  :wink:

[Karl7]

watch out!  My luck seems to have turned for the better lately

[boldfresh]

@Karl7:

watch out!  My luck seems to have turned for the better lately

my skills have taken a turn for the better while my luck (almost impossible to believe) has taken a turn for the worse.  overall, a net negative for me i would say…  :wink:

[lexgreat]

@Gamerman01:

I agree.  When the 2 win limit was made at the start of the year, no one dreamed of the explosion of activity that followed.  There are at LEAST a handful of players who are actually running very thin on opponents because of this rule.  Why not relax it?  What’s everybody else think?

It doesn’t bother me personally, but I can see it’s becoming problematic for some of our most active league players.

I dont know. Seems to me that the higher ranked players have a lot of room for games against each other before seriously considering playing 3 or more matches against lower ranked. I did not play a lot of games myself, but I dont think its necessary. You should be forced to face everyone first before allowing more games the way suggested.

[boldfresh]

@alexgreat:

@Gamerman01:

I agree.  When the 2 win limit was made at the start of the year, no one dreamed of the explosion of activity that followed.  There are at LEAST a handful of players who are actually running very thin on opponents because of this rule.  Why not relax it?  What’s everybody else think?

It doesn’t bother me personally, but I can see it’s becoming problematic for some of our most active league players.

I dont know. Seems to me that the higher ranked players have a lot of room for games against each other before seriously considering playing 3 or more matches against lower ranked. I did not play a lot of games myself, but I dont think its necessary. You should be forced to face everyone first before allowing more games the way suggested.

handled easily enough.  caveat can be that once you have played at least X number of different opponents, you can go from 2 games per opponent to 3.

[Jennifer]

The rule with the maximum number of games was originally devised by Mr. Switch back in 2007 when we first started having league games.

Furthermore, given the lack of interest we had last year in the league, there seemed to be no reason to change the rule.  Heck, we had to adjust the championships down from 4 people to the top 2 players because we only had, like what, Gamer, 5 people total who would have qualified, and even then, it was close to less with the Nov. 2nd cutoff!

We are now 6 months into the season (December 1st to May 1st.)  If we run out of opponents, we can always let there be more games!  Far be it from me to be called the lass who prevented axis and allies from being played!

Here’s the revised ruling:

• If both opponents have more than 12 completed games with at least 6 other players, then they may engage in another game.  If this should make it so each player has the same number of wins against the other (2 and 2) then a 5th tie breaker game may be played. 
  Considering the limit is currently 2 games with any specific pair of opponents with a 3rd game possible in the case of a tie, then having 6 unique opponents should not be hard to accomplish, if you have 12 games.

And for the record, I think I have ONE game in league right now, and my inbox is severely lacking in requests to play me.  :P  So you all can’t possibly be out of opponents, now can ya?  Eh?  Of course, I only play on battlemap currently - I don’t have the experience or trust for tripleA as good as that platform may or may not be, to use in league/tournament play.

[DizzKneeLand33]

Cmdr, the reason why everyone else is playing like 50 games this year and your inbox isn’t filling up is exactly due to the fact that you are not using TripleA.  Why you would make any new player who is not familiar with Battlemap try to learn that software is beyond me.  It doesn’t even work for Mac.  It’s dead.  Let it go.  Give it a good burial….

And then PM me your bid for a good new-fashioned TripleA game.  :)

[gamerman01]

Long live Cmdr Jennifer
Let it never be said that she can’t be reasonable.

On behalf of many other players (it hasn’t become a significant issue for me yet - but like you said - only 6 months in), I would like to be the first to heartily thank you for your flexibility.

[Jennifer]

@DizzKneeLand33:

Cmdr, the reason why everyone else is playing like 50 games this year and your inbox isn’t filling up is exactly due to the fact that you are not using TripleA.  Why you would make any new player who is not familiar with Battlemap try to learn that software is beyond me.  It doesn’t even work for Mac.  It’s dead.  Let it go.  Give it a good burial….

And then PM me your bid for a good new-fashioned TripleA game.  :)

Yea, I am not getting into a fight over the merits and demerits of TripleA.  Suffice it to say, I have yet to win a game on TripleA or MapView (the latter, thank goodness really IS dead!)  Not to mention, “learn that software” it’s not exactly a learning curve thing.  If you can drag and drop, you’ve master 98% of it. lol.

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G’luck all, and happy hunting!

I’ll mail a kiss to the first player who gets 35 completed games in normal league play!  (no, I won’t, so no sitting at the mailbox waiting, dang it, it’s a joke!)

[DizzKneeLand33]

No worries, but I do think Mac users should also matter to the club.  And, in additon, I am seeing that a "4th"game could be added against an opponent, and if that resulted in a 2-2 tie, then a 5th game could be played (after so many games).  But, what if a series is at 2-0?  Is it again over after 3-0, and if the other player wins to make it 2-1, then a fourth game can be played and so forth?

Just wanted to check, otherwise it only sounds like opponents can add a game only where the series is currently 2-1.  :)

[gamerman01]

Dizz has a good point, I was wondering the same thing.

Is it basically just best of 5?

Jennifer, this ruling is truly a boon for the league.  We have a lot of active players, and I’m pretty sure many of them will be thrilled that they can try and win a best of 5 series against some of their favorite foes.

I played Karl 3 games that have been over for months now, and knowing that we had to wait until the latter part of 2013 to play a league game that counted was a bummer.

This is the best thing to happen to the league all year.

[gamerman01]

@Gamerman01:

I played Karl 3 games that have been over for months now, and knowing that we had to wait until the latter part of 2013 to play a league game that counted was a bummer.

<ahem>My bad.  Only TWO games because I won them both  :-D
But that makes my point even stronger.  It’s a bummer when you play 2 games (especially early in the year) and boom, you’re done and can’t play that person in an official league game for another year.

So thank you thank you - this adds a lot more excitement to an already exciting league year.</ahem>

[DizzKneeLand33]

I totally concur.  Thank you Jennifer for allowing even more games to be played – the energy from all of these games is amazing!

[Jennifer]

Yes, as it stands now, it is the best of 5 games. Â

If it becomes an issue again, in a few months, we may go best of 7 games.  I don’t want to see players just sitting around because they have no one left to play.  The game limit is to encourage everyone to play everyone, not to limit players from playing! Â

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And I have nothing against MAC users.  I have something against MACs and the Apple Corporation as a whole, but I won’t let that influence me in preventing MAC users - who through no fault of their own, happen to own a MAC - from fully engaging in any axisandallies.org event or activity! Â

I have many issues with TripleA, most of them stem from version 1_2 through something like 3_5 or something silly like that and I am sure most of them have been corrected.  There were also quite a few issues with TripleA when the module was made for Global 1940 (most of which to do with errors in allowing illegal moves to be performed.)  That too, I hope, has been fixed - although my version still allows the computer to move 50,000 screaming Chinamen into the Himilayas, don’t ask me why!

It’s a personal preference.  If given a choice between Battlemap and TripleA, I’ll opt for battlemap.  Feel free to use whatever platform you want to.  Hell, if you can make Hasbro’s Iron Blitz work for Axis and Allies Global 1940, 2nd Edition more power too you!

[gamerman01]

@Cmdr:

If it becomes an issue again, in a few months, we may go best of 7 games.

Brilliant.  Glad to hear it

[Jennifer]

@Gamerman01:

@Cmdr:

If it becomes an issue again, in a few months, we may go best of 7 games.

Brilliant.  Glad to hear it

You may have to remind me I said that, however.  =^_^=  I am in the process of selling my house and moving to any other state except Illinois, New York, California, Virginia or Washington.  I am leaning towards TN (so tired, I am not even going to TRY and spell it right tonight.)

[gamerman01]

@Cmdr:

although my version still allows the computer to move 50,000 screaming Chinamen into the Himilayas, don’t ask me why!

You didn’t know about the Himalaya rule in Alpha4??

:wink:

There are still a number of illegal moves allowed by Triple A and unfortunately Veq is often loathe to work on them anymore - probably burned out.

You can land the flying tigers on a territory you just took, you can fly over neutrals you shouldn’t be able to fly over, and a few other things, but it’s a lot better than those older versions you speak of, I think.

I shelved Triple A for a long time because when I gave it a shot with AA50-42, on the very first move - J1 - it wouldn’t let me do the standard attack on the British fleet off India - it wasn’t allowing legal fighter/carrier moves, and that was a deal breaker for me, after putting up with some of the glitches of GTO.

Trust me, as a fellow Triple A skeptic I have been won over and you can play a LOT faster with Triple A than battlemap, and I was very efficient with battlemap and typing.

Download 1.6.4 or whatever the latest number is (something like that) and give it another shot.
ABattlemap actually died around 6 months ago (the remaining faithful, and quite notably myself and Karl, quit it)

It takes a little bit to get used to (like where does it show cash on hand, where does it show my purchases, etc etc), but only a game or 2.

[gamerman01]

@Cmdr:

You may have to remind me I said that, however.  =^_^=  I am in the process of selling my house and moving to any other state except Illinois, New York, California, Virginia or Washington.  I am leaning towards TN (so tired, I am not even going to TRY and spell it right tonight.)

Trust me!  Most of the people who read that phrase that escaped from your typing fingers, will NEVER FORGET!!!

Karl or Bold or somebody will be pestering you about it in a month or two, when they’ve gone 3-2 with an arch-“enemy” and want to play more!!

[Jennifer]

Floating with: triplea_1_6_1_4 right now.

And I love battlemap, I have the last game map from my epic battle with NCSCSwitch!  The one where he swore up down and sideways you couldn’t have America do a KJF game and leave England/Russia to fend for themselves against the Germans, in AA: Revised.  Oh man, I really wish I coulda seen his face when the red army marched into Berlin!

How can I relive that, if I don’t have battlemap?