XPAD-01 Dairy Qyrn (AXIS) vs Team MountainHIGH

oh nvm you did.

ok looks good. are you sure seth wasn’t going to scramble? I would have put a bomber over the transports just in case… but no matter. 3 fighter 2 tactical should blow out 3 fighters. I prefer 2 units to 1 when possibile.

you still should have put a bomber over it. I thought you would you adjust your other combat, because 4v1 is overkill when there is a potential 5v3 at steak balancing it out to 3v1 and 6v3 is better.

well he scrambled on a 4v3 to protect 3 transports, we went fighter for fighter. he might scramble in a 5v3, but maybe not since you should roll 3 hits with that on the first round.

maybe who knows. I’d scramble it depending on my mood.

then again germany air units always find action where as japan units often just sit in the ocean someplace.

seth go full pacific put this game on crack. :)

if you take it, you should defend it, which is not hard. depends on what america does, we have to see what happens.

veqryn that is why I been trading units with russia with italy, here and there. I still have an income advantage over russia, but I had to fight the americans for awhile, because of the whole triple threat thing it was kind of awkward (london italy west germany)… I was eventually going to have to give up london, but it became too conveniant to just stall out and hold it, especially since japan looked like it was going to win… there was no real reason for me to do anything other than be a distraction.

I honestly thought you would win the pacific, which is what I wanted you to do, but it is not happening so yeah. I thought okay he’ll move all his stuff to carolines and then stack up next to hawaii or new south wales and go all in or something. or you would take western australia and then park all your air there etc etc etc.

I pretty much eyeballed the pacific the whole game and I have seen japan win the pacific against full pacific usa from the start of the game… he was a split income usa and you had super good luck in china… logistically that was awesome because you didn’t need to drop minors or buy so many transports.

I was confused as to why japan waited so long to take calcutta, especially with china out of the picture japan had that many more ground to shove there. normally india is dead round J4-J6 depending on japan. Often times anzac will take java round 1 and shove air units on it (distracts you).

Sure I gave up lots of ground to push for and hold a VC / national objective / capital. I am used to seeing more hyper aggressive play styles for global (otherwise it turns into an extremely long game in which case I would much rather play TWW, big world, WaW, NWO, etc if I wanted to play a long game). In revised + aa50 low luck and dice games, it is easy to be hyper aggressive and harder for people to turtle up. As axis japan makes many tanks to take moscow while the allies can go back to back on france or hold NWE or usa take italy or russia push for NO. In revised I always buy strait tanks with russia early on and start attacking right away, usa goes southern europe / belly, uk hits the top, russia comes in from the east. uk / usa can hit the west as well back to back if they have to, while japan tosses tanks at russia.

I was hyper aggressive early on and you were conservative so usa had more leeway to invest in the atlantic. I calculated 2-3 rounds in advance and realized I would have 20-30% odds at taking russia and those odds would remain the same / not improve and I wanted to attack, but that would be silly if japan  was not ready to go all in yet.

so right now I am in a bit of a pickle. I wanted to buy all bombers the round before you would stack up for your attack so I could attack russia at the same time with all available units, hence go all in. I thought you would get ready to do the same. Instead we are still playing.

I will figure something out, but it ultimately depends on what the allies do.

This is a tough turn for usa/uk.  If you had just played normally and stacked up in carolines and then moved all your pieces in one direction toward an objective, you would have most likely won next round. However in the long run, if he does not claim an income advantage and the axis grow their income advantage further… it would be pointless to continue.

He has to get something going on one half of the map and it requires somewhat of a gamble.

I will say this though, if I didn’t have london, I would have attacked russia by now and we would have lost or won this game. most likely loss unless i got you to bomb russia for me with 6 bombers and a bunch of air.

20 complex damage a round makes russia easier to deal with. It really sucks for russia, I can tell you from experience.

I still would prefer bombers to do the old 1d6 damage, russia is really gimped in this version of axis and allies, which is why I only enjoy the pacific theater - it typically has most of the action, is relatively dynamic, reminds me of fortress america except you are attacking instead of defending and the kamikaze rolls are for defense instead of attacking satellite dishes that beam lightning down from the sky like zeus.

The pacific is fun, europe I usually just move stuff up to russia and attack it, that is not fun because it takes six rounds of just maximizing my odds on attacks… instead I did sea lion, got london, pushed ruskies back to his side of europe, and now I am stuck.

now you are stuck too. which is reallly funny. hey welcome to the club, mental high five buddy.