13L G40 Jenn vs Boldfresh (+48 Allies) + no tech

[Karl7]

@Boldfresh:

Jenn, I look forward to it.  Have you played a tripleA game yet?

I will set up and start the game asap.  Time is very tight right now with the baby about to come any moment but let’s see what we can do.  This one should be fun.  As for the peanut gallery please keep this in mind - I gave Jenn a 48 bid because she is new and inexperienced.  Please refrain from giving her advice/pointers.  And Jenn, you are on the honor system for not consulting others.

GL and HF

Cheers

What?!  You wish!  Jen feel free to ask me for advice any time.  However, I will say Bold is unpredictable, so not sure how much I could help.

Just: KILL! KILL! KILL!

[boldfresh]

@Karl7:

@Boldfresh:

Jenn, I look forward to it.  Have you played a tripleA game yet?

I will set up and start the game asap.  Time is very tight right now with the baby about to come any moment but let’s see what we can do.  This one should be fun.  As for the peanut gallery please keep this in mind - I gave Jenn a 48 bid because she is new and inexperienced.  Please refrain from giving her advice/pointers.  And Jenn, you are on the honor system for not consulting others.

GL and HF

Cheers

What?!  You wish!  Jen feel free to ask me for advice any time.  However, I will say Bold is unpredictable, so not sure how much I could help.

Just: KILL! KILL! KILL!

guess i will have to rely on Jenn’s honor and the fact that she prides herself on fair play.  I would never give an experienced player this bid.

Cheers

[seth4god]

Bold, I’m giving her all the advice I can think of! Deal with it!  :evil:

Jenn,
I find the single most important terr is Greenland. You should build an airbase and naval base on it as soon as you can. Also, ensure that you keep at least 10 ground units backed up by fighters and bombers on it as a garrison. It also helps if you have a nice fleet around it. I usually find that 4 loaded carriers + dd/subs is enough, but sometimes you might need a 5th or even 6th carrier. Another often overlooked terr is French madagascar, although you should be fine with garrisoning it with half the above forces.

[boldfresh]

@seththenewb:

Bold, I’m giving her all the advice I can think of! Deal with it!  :evil:

Jenn,
I find the single most important terr is Greenland. You should build an airbase and naval base on it as soon as you can. Also, ensure that you keep at least 10 ground units backed up by fighters and bombers on it as a garrison. It also helps if you have a nice fleet around it. I usually find that 4 loaded carriers + dd/subs is enough, but sometimes you might need a 5th or even 6th carrier. Another often overlooked terr is French madagascar, although you should be fine with garrisoning it with half the above forces.

Seth, you BASTARD!!!  :x

[Karl7]

@seththenewb:

Bold, I’m giving her all the advice I can think of! Deal with it!  :evil:

Jenn,
I find the single most important terr is Greenland. You should build an airbase and naval base on it as soon as you can. Also, ensure that you keep at least 10 ground units backed up by fighters and bombers on it as a garrison. It also helps if you have a nice fleet around it. I usually find that 4 loaded carriers + dd/subs is enough, but sometimes you might need a 5th or even 6th carrier. Another often overlooked terr is French madagascar, although you should be fine with garrisoning it with half the above forces.

:roll:

Wow Seth… pretty bad.  Everyone knows Crete is the key to the entire game.

[seth4god]

Yeah, but Bold knows this as well and I’m sure he’ll win the race to garrison it. I bet that Jenn won’t be able to crack Crete before turn 15.

[Omega1759]

I’ll give advice to Jen in exchange for popcorn! :-D

Where is the popcorn smilie when needed!

[Omega1759]

@Karl7:

@seththenewb:

Bold, I’m giving her all the advice I can think of! Deal with it!  :evil:

Jenn,
I find the single most important terr is Greenland. You should build an airbase and naval base on it as soon as you can. Also, ensure that you keep at least 10 ground units backed up by fighters and bombers on it as a garrison. It also helps if you have a nice fleet around it. I usually find that 4 loaded carriers + dd/subs is enough, but sometimes you might need a 5th or even 6th carrier. Another often overlooked terr is French madagascar, although you should be fine with garrisoning it with half the above forces.

:roll:

Wow Seth… pretty bad.  Everyone knows Crete is the key to the entire game.

I disagree, the best Allied strategy is for Russia to build a minor in Caucasus and build a battle fleet there. Once the fleet is strong enough, you build transports and put all your original land units on the transports to keep them safe.

[boldfresh]

Jenn this thread title looks like i have the allies with +48 can you please edit?

[boldfresh]

Test summary from TripleA, engine version: 1.7.0.3, time: 22:04:54

[Jennifer]

I distrust the advice of my cohorts.  Those who succeed rarely enjoy having a large throng of others who succeed with them, just ask Dogbert!  (Dogbert’s Book of Managerial Rules.  Get a copy, heathens!)

I’ve played one round of this game in TripleA.  Bid placement worked great there, Arathorn’s afraid to come out and play round 2…okay okay, fine, so he also got smushed by the dice a little, nothing drastic, I just think he over extended so a bad set of dice is compounded…he claims to be coming back or be back by now, I dunno, told him he could post in July again. :P

As for my balanced approach, part of that is to do with the 1 unit per territory restriction.  Otherwise, AC+2 Fighters+2 Submarines in SZ 98 would be really nice to have, kill Italy off and keep them from growing through application of CRD!!

BTW, that’s a typo on Sea Zone 99, it should be 98.  Per league bidding rules, you cannot place naval units in sea zones you do not start with naval units present in anyway, but yea that cruiser’s supposed to be with the Egyptian fleet, just to clarify.

• 1 Infantry in Belarus (Russian)
• 1 Infantry in Western Ukraine (Russian)
• 1 Artillery in Novgorod (Russian)
• 1 Artillery in Caucasus (Russian)
• 1 Armor in Buryatia (Russian)
• 1 Artillery in Szechwan (Chinese)
• 1 Artillery in Kweichow (Chinese)
• 1 Destroyer in SZ 91 (British)
• 1 Cruiser in SZ 98 (British) {corrected for typo}

Note, I checked the others, just to make sure I had territory names correct.  Infantry/Artillery for Russia should be behind the front lines a step (or Caucasus) with an Armor on the Far East.  China’s got a pair of Artillery flanking Yunnan, honestly couldn’t think of a better place to put them and wanted a pair for China since they rarely get to build more (at least they rarely did in Alpha 2) and the British have a naval unit added to the warships on both sides of the Med. Â

[Jennifer]

@Boldfresh:

Jenn this thread title looks like i have the allies with +48 can you please edit?

Nope, don’t have mod powers here.  Probably a good thing overall, what with a certain mister someone who used to always bellyache that I was cheating or whatever (even though he refused to ever PLAY a game here!) and I avoided using his name specifically so we wouldn’t get into a discussion about it in a game thread!

It’s fine, I shoulda put Axis/Allies after our names, but I’m sellin the house, starting a new job outta state and have kids on summer break, been a bit busy!

[boldfresh]

TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.7

Game History

Round: 1

Politics - Germans
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Belarus: 1 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Western Ukraine: 1 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Novgorod: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Caucasus: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Buryatia: 1 armour
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Chinese to Szechwan: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Chinese to Kweichow: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Adding units owned by British to 91 Sea Zone: 1 destroyer
            EDIT: Adding units owned by British to 98 Sea Zone: 1 cruiser
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 1 carrier and 2 transports; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 fighter moved from Norway to 111 Sea Zone
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Germany to 111 Sea Zone
            2 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from Western Germany to 110 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Holland Belgium to 110 Sea Zone
            1 battleship moved from 113 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 108 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 117 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 103 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 118 Sea Zone to 111 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 124 Sea Zone to 111 Sea Zone
            2 bombers moved from Germany to 111 Sea Zone
            1 armour moved from Romania to Yugoslavia
            1 armour moved from Slovakia Hungary to Yugoslavia
            1 armour moved from Poland to Yugoslavia
            2 armour moved from Greater Southern Germany to Southern France
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to Southern France
            2 artilleries and 6 infantry moved from Greater Southern Germany to Yugoslavia
            1 armour moved from Greater Southern Germany to France
            1 artillery, 3 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to France
            3 armour, 2 artilleries and 4 infantry moved from Holland Belgium to France
            1 fighter moved from Slovakia Hungary to Yugoslavia
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Poland to France

[boldfresh]

the cruiser has to go to z98 which is what i think you meant

[boldfresh]

need your choices in 110 and 111

[Jennifer]

@Boldfresh:

need your choices in 110 and 111

Gyah ANOTHER new version of TripleA?  Gotta get the 1.7 engine, still on 1.6.1.4 or whatever it is (1.6 something) Might have to give you scramble in the morning or something not sure yet.  It’s always a major hassle upgrading TripleA for me, I have too many OS’s and partitions on my drives to make anything java based work the first time. lol

[Jennifer]

and we’re back to the whole “needs java runtime environment” bug again…

I’ll screw with it tomorrow and see if I can recreate the file in 1.6 which is currently working and I don’t have a clue what I did anymore to make it work.

PMed you to get an email address so I can recreate the file in the last stable platform of the game that worked. (ya know, never had these problems with battlemap, just sayin! :P  Simple, lightweight, I can make it work on my DROID! heck it even works on crapples without effort, battlemap.  lol.  I’ll get 1.7 one day, probably in October when the playoffs start cause I like to actually see the games of the playoffs as they progress…)

[Jennifer]

Starting map:

[Jennifer]

German map as I have it.  Assuming it’s right (it should be) no scramble for SZ 110 or SZ 111

[boldfresh]

TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.4

Game History

Round :1

Politics - Germans
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Adding units owned by British to 91 Sea Zone: 1 destroyer
            EDIT: Adding units owned by British to 98 Sea Zone: 1 cruiser
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Caucasus: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Novgorod: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Belarus: 1 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Western Ukraine: 1 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Buryatia: 1 armour
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Chinese to Kweichow: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Chinese to Szechwan: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 1 carrier and 2 transports; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 fighter moved from Holland Belgium to 110 Sea Zone
            2 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from Western Germany to 110 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 108 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 battleship moved from 113 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 103 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 117 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 118 Sea Zone to 111 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 124 Sea Zone to 111 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Norway to 111 Sea Zone
            2 bombers and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Germany to 111 Sea Zone
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Poland to France
            3 armour, 2 artilleries and 4 infantry moved from Holland Belgium to France
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to Southern France
            2 armour moved from Greater Southern Germany to Southern France
            1 armour moved from Greater Southern Germany to France
            2 artilleries and 6 infantry moved from Greater Southern Germany to Yugoslavia
            1 armour moved from Romania to Yugoslavia
            1 armour moved from Slovakia Hungary to Yugoslavia
            2 infantry moved from Slovakia Hungary to Yugoslavia
            1 armour moved from Poland to Yugoslavia
            1 fighter moved from Slovakia Hungary to Yugoslavia
            1 artillery, 3 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to France