• TripleA

    You never redo whole turns especially after battles were conducted. You just take back a few moves, he didn’t know bob could scramble and if bob is a good friend, bam he’ll let him undo it. simple as that.

    What is wrong with keeping things simple. Either escort the transports with fighters or put it back in london. What is wrong with that? would to redo the normandy battle without 3 usa air units to escort the usa transports, west germany probably wouldn’t scramble vs usa, when uk only has 2 fighters and west germany only has 3. So he’d fight UK where he has 95% odds to defend.

    Either fight or back to london you go. Then play on. It’s just that simple.

    The program does not teach the rules.

  • TripleA

    west germany would not scramble 112. he would scramble 113.

  • TripleA

    sz 112 usa just needs need to send something to cover those boats, or back to london you go.

    sz 113 west germany would scramble, you either send uk’s available escorts which is just 2 fighters and duke it out against 2 fighter 1 tactical, or back to london you go.

    These are compromise scenarios. Compromises are lose lose situations. 1) gazza gets his boats back, but cannot use them, back to london they go. 2) gazza fights it out, not the best odds, but it is a reasonable battle to conduct, the risk is fairly minimal, 2 fighters 1 transport 1 infantry, the reward all of germany’s income and germany, the odds 4-5%, 1/20 games (you want to win or draw), it is not an insane move or request to make. You should have to fight for your victories and be allowed to do that.

    Just pick one and go with it.

  • TripleA

    As a player, I don’t like free kills just because someone doesn’t know a rule, so it goes back. Also I don’t like prevent someone from attacking if he knew the rules so I allow him to put something to escort.

    I don’t know. This is interesting though.

    I know you can’t scramble adjacent zones in out of box, it came in an alpha update.

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    @Cow:

    sz 112 usa just needs need to send something to cover those boats, or back to london you go.

    sz 113 west germany would scramble, you either send uk’s available escorts which is just 2 fighters and duke it out against 2 fighter 1 tactical, or back to london you go.

    These are compromise scenarios. Compromises are lose lose situations. 1) gazza gets his boats back, but cannot use them, back to london they go. 2) gazza fights it out, not the best odds, but it is a reasonable battle to conduct, the risk is fairly minimal, 2 fighters 1 transport 1 infantry, the reward all of germany’s income and germany, the odds 4-5%, 1/20 games (you want to win or draw), it is not an insane move or request to make. You should have to fight for your victories and be allowed to do that.

    Just pick one and go with it.

    This is my last attempt at trying to get some logical conversation with you…

    Just try to answer these simple questions :

    1- what is the logic in letting USA send 2 more fighters to get a bad odds battle in sz112 (so basically CHANGE HIS MOVES), but refusing that he add the dd and the AC, which would suddenly make odds for this battle favorable to USA ?

    2- Why UK would be forced to attack from sz113 while they could do it from sz114, thus not allowing any scramble ?

    3- You make some statements that, in your head, are worth gold and are THE unique reference one should accept… Are you apointed by Larry Harris to judge gaming situations between players ?
    Example, you said : “You never redo whole turns especially after battles were conducted. You just take back a few moves”.
    Why is that ? What is the problem if no dices have been rolled ? What are “a few moves” ? 1 move, 2 moves, some moves but not others and all this according to Cow ? (like ok for adding 2 planes, but not a dd and a carrier ?!!???)

    4- Also, you didn’t say anything at all about all what i said about Gazza’s legitimate point of view (he could have test his turn in Local mode, see that it was ok and then post it).  So do you intentionally just ignore anything that can possibly weaken your statements ?

  • TripleA

    Ah thought uk’s naval base was damaged and not repaired, touche.

    He did attack from 113 and 114 for some reason. I guess if gazza knew what he was doing bob would have lost. Bob be dead then.

    Still it is a crappy win for gazza to get, I mean bob didn’t know the canal rules, you may as well have told him and had this discussion before the start of russia’s turn and see a real game.

  • TripleA

    Either way, everyone learning rules, learning game all good. The whole round rule for canals from before was stupid, glad they made the change, one less thing to remember.

  • TripleA

    hell I even forgot you had to hold the canals for a whole round in aa50. I think revised germany would try to take suez and then japan would go into the med on the same round. But in aa50 japan couldn’t take suez and italy bail out of there same round. That was always weird and people would forget.

  • TripleA

    I don’t play with myself in local mode, I just play, I don’t take long unless I am faced with a tough decision. I prefer live games for this reason.

    Still it is like, well bob f’d up germany’s purchase by not spamming inf for germany, because he didn’t know the current canal rules. Then USA / UK both f’d up because of scramble.

    So w/e who cares. bob can table pouce, scramble and no opportunity for gaza. better to just undo it and play on. Do you really want to win this way, like really? Invest all this time just to drop 1 inf on germany because a guy didn’t know the rules?  That is so silly.

  • TripleA

    Axisplaya we have different perspectives.

    I value the game experience. Why would anyone want to play someone who leaves their 60 ipc collecting capital empty? That is really boring and too anti climatic, all the build up for a showdown and then nothing. Probably was best to just have told bob before russia went.

    Either way, bob is gone.

    Still, this is such a weird scenario. You guys are way too polarized. Point a gun to my head, scramble orders were never called, bob scrambles and fires :roll 1@4 2@3: those xports are dead back to london they go.

    Still don’t understand why getting the xports back to london is such a hard compromise to make.

    It is very logical, both players didn’t know a specific rule, so why not just pretend nothing happened and move forward? This is such a stupid thing to fight over.

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