XDAP - 02 Final Draft (Axis) vs Dairy Qryn (Allies)

Scramble 1 french fighter in 110. OOL tilt, cruiser, bship, last is fighter.

Scramble 1 uk fighter in sz 111. tilt first, cruiser, dd, bship, fighter is last.

Nice open G.  Let’s hope the Dice Gods back your ingenuity.

Gambler’s opener. Either really good or really bad outcomes.

Garg you are taking Veqryn wayyy too literal. He is not the coin flipping type. Neither am I, but if you want to gamble, I’ll gamble with you with what I can. That is just how it goes.

DutchmanD, this is a fairly common G1 opener, welcome to the game.

garg you got veqryn and my email addresses?

oh right duh napoleonic wars.

who is your partner?

@Cow:

DutchmanD, this is a fairly common G1 opener, welcome to the game.

So common that it brought about several posts by your partner?  So common we see it all the time on the forum?  Give me the links to the games on the forum that have the same G1.  Just more cow crap. Â

ghr2 did this a few times already. Don’t know about others.

Veqryn criticizes it, because it is a gambler’s opener. Yes lots of coin flipping. Jokes don’t translate well over the web sometimes.

I don’t have any problems with it, until I lose both my destroyer + transport and my cruiser G1. I hate playing aa50 1942, because I could lose 3 transports on G1 (sub vs cruiser and sub vs dd), some games I have +30 ipc more stuff and other games I won’t, that’s 1 buy from uk right there.

Oh forgot, french dd and cruiser. lose DD first then cruiser (I’ll chance italy’s sub).

It is fair to note that germany’s odds in 110 if I did scramble is actually slightly more than 50% despite it saying a flat 50%.

In scenarios the defender and attacks roll low hits, say 3 hits, germany would lose sub fighter and tactical. The built in calculator assumes you lose lowest cost unit first. EG. sub 2x fighter. So in those scenarios you would have a 4 roll instead of a 3.

Real odds are closer to 51%. Plus the draw outcome is not so bad for germany either. So UK’s scramble would be a good move less than 50% of the time.

It just opens germany up for fighter losses that is all. Tanks are better than fighters when attacking russia’s capital anyway (they don’t die to aa guns). He gets the possibility of a cruiser kill off gibraltar reducing uk’s R1 attack potential on sz 97 (while maintaining 2 unit attackers for the destroyer and transport italy has by malta)

Also the french naval cleared allows italy to get away with other attacks.

It is what it is. I can’t do anything about it, but wait till the dice come in.

Another drawback is, sea lion becomes less threatening should germany get the short straw.

It sucks when you lose a couple air units in sz 110, retreat a tactical to a cruiser, and cruiser off gib is still standing or the dd + tran off canada. Sub wins it crosses canal into the med without owning gibraltar you know.

Victories, allow for stronger medit play.

It is a good move if you have a 3 man multiplayer squad. You don’t want a guy to play italy and get shut down off the bat like in some games.