XDAP 01 Team Imhotep (Axis) vs The Headless Neds (Allies)

It was a pleasure Stalingradski, playing against you and your friends of the Headless Neds.

Here is our new game :

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=27443.0

May you be luckier this time.

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"It was a pleasure Stalingradski, playing against you and your friends of the Headless Neds.

Here is our new game :

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=27443.0

May you be luckier this time."

Allies, if it makes you feel any better I have had some very rough dice in my game as well.

• Taranto cleared with just 1 fighter after sending everything but the kitchen sink
• Italian dd/trn survived against cruiser(I went light, choosing instead to send the fighter that lived against taranto)
• China losing fighter turn 1
• Rolling only 2 D hits against J2 DOW out of a possible 16 rolls

I’ve had some good battles along the way, but rds 1-2 were so bad for the allies that rule #7 was invoked to add a French bb at the tip of S. America. Oh and I too was sealioned as well. Best of luck to both teams in the rest of the tourney.

I would like to say that if you are going to quit after UK falls, you may as well have had russia in east poland regardless of the odds. that way when uk falls you can at least make a push for rome with russia, germany will  have to attack that and if he fails it will be VERY FUNNY.

also you quit before japan even entered war.

russia can take manchuria which is funny, if he counter attacks that he will most likely have to pull xports and not take cash islands.

allies are still in this, but they have to do some desperate moves. Why quit when there is still some gamble left?

J3 DOW is really bad, you have to take advantage of the pacific situation, allies can still pull this off.  Hell I might even go for a usa convoy on japan waters if ruskies put 1 inf on korea. Japan will have to catchup on too much late homework to get the task done. J3 DOW is really bad, allies can just shove everything at japan and hope for the best, why the heck not?

So what if germany is strong, take your chances in the pacific, spend all your dough to liberate uk quickly then go full pacific.

I still feel you guys rolled over too soon. A couple desperate moves can turn this game around big.

@Cow:

So what if germany is strong, take your chances in the pacific, spend all your dough to liberate uk quickly then go full pacific.

excuse me but…are you on drugs ??

Almost all the content of your 3 last posts in this thread is pure and total BS…

Is it? I don’t see why quit before the pacific even got rolling. Also russia should have been in east poland, but that is in the past. Russia can take manchuria and korea this round, japan does not have an airbase, if enough infantry survive say 11 inf japan would have to use transports to take it back and forgo a couple islands this round. USA is in hawaii… may as well push to japan waters especially if korea is russian, you can move the ships non combat and kill small fleets with air units, if not head to queensland.

There is no reason to quit, when you can be hyper aggressive and take a few chances. At least you would go out like a champ, it is called ball till you fall. If you feel you lost early in the game, just go nuts, you will be surprised how many times you can win doing this.

J3 declaration is really bad, if you disagree you are bad.

In anycase I couldn’t go out like this man, not with this many units left on the board. I would just shove everything at the axis roll some dice clankity clank and have fun then quit, if it means taking 10% odds then take it, 10% is better odds than the state lotto, LOL. Just think of all those times you see on TV a guy is all in on the flop and his opponent hits him with a river. It is what it is, this is a dice game, shooka shooka.

Besides most live dice games are crazy, because everyone is drunk and screaming random insults at each other, and we got loud music of random stuff like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNsAPwxl_Tk

See TIP makes a great point about life, big stuff always poppin and little stuff always be stoppin, you got to do it like a ball player and do it death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcPtxELXmDU

ball till you fall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daLpNk6QOHw

and wild out like a Samoan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPsMR7HvuZM

Then drop some random 90s trance or euro beats.

or just listen to modern day trance off of www.di.fm I really like the Ali and Fila show live from Cairo Egypt. Egyptian moosic is really good these days, the Netherlands is awesome too. America sucks, it sucks USA is always a country in these WWII games.

I understand like PBF is kind of boring because you are not drunk enough, but that is why I am an alcoholic and a pot head. I just do what the moosic tells me to do.

You just got to pick one big battle as the allies to change the whole game one crazy russian attack or USA in the pacific or atlantic move.

To be honest I think the allies are not that far behind, because japan does not look good in the pacific.

@Stalingradski:

Could we have stacked in E Poland the round before? Absolutely. It was a strong consideration. But an opportunistic German player (our opponent’s MO, who would have done it based on other aggressive moves) would have absolutely smashed Russia’s forces, used the transports to back it up repeatedly, and Russia would have been done in 4 more turns.

I confirm : that was the plan !

@Stalingradski:

All of that having been said - go Team Imhotep! They won fair and square, played a more solid game, and I’ll root for them until we play them again in the tournament, for the championship  :-D  They were classy and honorable opponents.

Thanks for saying this. I so wish we meet again in that tournament like you said !

I could easily win this game with allies. J3 looks so bad, usa does not have to invest a single ipc in the pacific and can liberate london no problem.

the problem is russia has too many men in nov and not enough in position to go for his objectives. Germany devoted all that cheddar to uk and russia got nothing on him, you are just rolling over.

Let me tell you how russia ought to play, R1 = germany bought naval = grab mech for nov and ukraine. nov only needs 8 guys to defend it you got karelia and that other spot which has to move to nov and you place 3 and you got 3 air units. all available units move in range of east poland.

Then when G2 comes he bought already, so you can calc your odds of holding london and compare to the odds of holding east poland, if the odds of holding east poland is better than london, the answer is simple you move up. No guts no glory.

As it stands, usa does not have to invest a dime into the pacific for awhile. russia takes manchuria and korea right. Can japan take 5 islands, malaya, and manchuria with 3 transports? No, he can’t. you will have a pacific income advantage for awhile, so if losing london really bothers you, you can just liberate it with 3-4 rounds of full atlantic buys.

You don’t have to worry about the pacific victory for awhile.  Japan has very limited options for j3, you just have to take advantage of his bad setup.

Also losing russia is not game over especially if japan had to DOW on round 3. japs lose out on so much cheddar, so risking russia not a bad play at all. If KJF and manage to keep india alive India will be your russia walling off egypt… and if not if you shut japan down in time, you can buy full atlantic when russia falls and germany will be hard pressed to take london or egypt being by himself in the game.

You guys will always lose as allies no matter what the axis do, because you limit your options so hard and roll over at the first sign of defeat. The pacific is bad for axis and europe is good for axis… you just have to capitalize on it and you will do good.

The pacific is far more important in this version of axis and allies than an any other versions, it is actually on par with europe. Larry Harris did a very good job as far as forcing pacific upon us goes.

Larry Harris made the pacific equally important as the atlantic, because he was tired of seeing an empty pacific and the allies rushing berlin while japan rushes moscow… he did a good job making the pacific matter like it did in the real war. Japan blew up in the real war, Europe failed the battle of Britian, instead it is the opposite in this board game yet allies still look good, which shows good game balance as far as how much each half of the board matters goes.

OK nevermind, ruskies weren’t in amur on round 2. also you should have blocked japan’s transports with dds. You have to move up in this game and play the objectives. East poland is critical in countering sea lion always buy mech when facing g1 naval purchases.

Just be more aggressive next game and you will get more awpertunities.

@Cow:

Let me tell you how russia ought to play,

Cow, my friend, please don’t take offense at this, but Stalingradski does not need you to tell him how to play Russia.