P40 VonLetto (x) v Gamerman01 Pointlessly Broken, USA is doomed game 1


  • TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Pacific 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.0

    Game History

    Round :1

    Politics - Japanese

    Purchase Units - Japanese
                Japanese buy 3 transports; Remaining resources: 5 PUs; 6 SuicideAttackTokens;

    Combat Move - Japanese
                1 infantry moved from Jehol to Chahar
                      Japanese take Chahar from Chinese
                1 infantry moved from Kiangsu to Anhwe
                      Japanese take Anhwe from Chinese
                1 infantry moved from Kwangsi to Hunan
                1 infantry moved from Kwangsi to Hunan
                1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Kiangsu to Hunan
                1 fighter moved from Formosa to Hunan
                2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Manchuria to Hunan

    Combat - Japanese
                Battle in Hunan
                    Japanese attack with 4 fighters, 2 infantry and 3 tactical_bombers
                    Chinese defend with 2 infantry
                    Japanese win, taking Hunan from Chinese with 4 fighters, 1 infantry and 3 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                    Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
                    Casualties for Chinese: 2 infantry

    Non Combat Move - Japanese
                4 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from Hunan to Kiangsi
                1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Kiangsi to 20 Sea Zone
                1 infantry moved from Okinawa to 19 Sea Zone
                1 artillery moved from Kiangsu to 19 Sea Zone
                1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 20 Sea Zone to 19 Sea Zone
                1 cruiser moved from 20 Sea Zone to 19 Sea Zone
                1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
                1 artillery, 1 battleship, 2 carriers, 1 cruiser, 2 destroyers, 2 fighters, 1 infantry, 1 submarine, 2 tactical_bombers and 1 transport moved from 6 Sea Zone to 14 Sea Zone
                1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Jehol to Manchuria
                1 artillery and 3 infantry moved from Shantung to Jehol
                2 artilleries, 1 battleship, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 2 infantry, 1 submarine and 2 transports moved from 19 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone
                1 fighter moved from Okinawa to Japan
                1 fighter moved from Korea to Japan
                1 infantry moved from Manchuria to Korea
                2 infantry moved from Kiangsu to Anhwe
                1 infantry moved from Kwangsi to Kiangsi
                1 artillery moved from Kwangsi to Kiangsi
                1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 33 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands
                1 carrier moved from 33 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone
                1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
                2 artilleries and 2 infantry moved from 6 Sea Zone to Japan

    Place Units - Japanese
                3 transports placed in 6 Sea Zone

    Turn Complete - Japanese
                Japanese collect 29 PUs; end with 34 PUs total
                Objective Japanese 1 Trade With America: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 44 PUs


  • There it is. If this starts stretching into days what can be done in a couple hours I might just bow out.


  • Is it possible to unsubscribe from the dice emails spamming up my inbox without unsubscribing from the dice service? I want to make sure before clicking the unsubscribe link.


  • Just create a rule in your e-mail program to automatically route all e-mails from “MARTI” to a separate folder, and then they won’t be filling your inbox.

    Dude, quit your whining!

    First of all, there are a lot more than 11 interested players in the world.
    Second of all, Krieghund is about to change the rulebook after one player presents a strategy, with no demonstrations?  And now you’re not willing to play a game or two on a format you’re slightly unfamiliar with to prove it?

    What’s the deal, man?  Are you for real?


  • I’m beginning to wonder if you’re doubting your bullet-proof strategy now!

    If it’s so great, put in a little time to prove it to all of us other A&A fans!  This game has been out for 2 1/2 years (it’s still basically the same thing).  If you can’t wait a week or two to play through a game claiming that it’s all busted, I don’t know what to say.


  • Actually, E40 came out 2 1/2 years ago.  P40 is 3 years old - it’s growing a beard!


  • Unfortunately, I have to leave for a couple hours.  I have several other games going, but hopefully I can complete round 1 tonight.

    I can’t remember for sure, but I think the other strategy involved declaring war on J1, so that might be a big difference.  I think it also involved crushing Hawaii on round 1 too, but again, I can’t remember for sure.

    Doesn’t matter - I’ll play this out.  Even if I only do a round a day, this should take less than a week.


  • @vonLettowVorbeck1914:

    There it is. If this starts stretching into days what can be done in a couple hours I might just bow out.

    :? Not showing a lot of belief in the strategy you spent hours typing out for everyone to see.  Put up or shut up.


  • One of the many issues here is that you come on acting like you are god’s gift to balance testing and then challenge my findings and then have the audacity to demand that your challenge be carried out at your convenience. I have played this a dozen times on TripleA, where were you during those tests? Why only now after I am quite tired of this whole thing do you come on and act as though there is no issue?

    I have demonstrated it plenty. I have had an open invitation to come play me on tripleA for some time now.

    You challenged me, and I was willing to try this forum hassle out to an extent but it is just a headache.

    2 1/2 hours of getting nothing done is a waste of my time.

    I’m on TripleA right now. I got a room open with your name on it. Come on in.

    Not really sure what your E40 comment is about btw.  I am literally the only person I have ever seen hosting Pac 1940 on TripleA, and I have been quite active in the lobby for at least 5 months now, and slightly active for a while before that.


  • That’s because a lot more people play by forum than live.

    I told you I have to go for several hours.

    I haven’t played a whole game in one sitting for years.

    If you have so many games played out, then why don’t you upload the TripleA files for these games for all to see?  Or is that not possible with “live” playing?

    I’m sorry I came across as so offensive.  Understand that I’ve heard this song and dance before, about how the game is broken and there is this unstoppable strategy to wipe out the USA 80% of the time and the game is broken.

    Why so huffy?  Jeez, you’re not really so polite yourself.  All we’re asking is that you show us your strategy in action.  We prefer two different ways of playing, that’s all.  I never dreamed it would take ANYONE 3 hours?? to play a J1.  How long does it take you “live”

    No need to be so freaking hostile.  Take a chill pill, dude, you aren’t accomplishing anything by getting all upset.


  • I am NOT going to waste hours of my time playing a game with someone who is not polite and respectful.

    Few people give a crap about P40 anyway - everybody’s playing G40 BY FORUM.  About 100 games have been completed in just the past 2 months.

    If you can’t show us your strategy on a game board, then I’m going to tell Krieghund to ignore all your “findings” and not change any rules.  What are you trying to accomplish, anyway, other than to show everyone how smart you are?


  • Whoops, just saw you were leaving for a couple of hours. PM me when you are available for a live game. If this gets anywhere close to a week for one game on the forum, forget it.  When I originally agreed to play you I thought we were going live.

    I got plenty of belief in it. What I don’t have is plenty of time to waste checking back to this forum over the course of a week or more to prove a strategy to someone who challenges me and actually declares every term of the challenge while acting like they are god’s gift to playtesting. Let me know when it is convenient for you to play live. I am not so sure why you are so scared to play live. I am quite sure why I don’t want to play by the forum; we could have been already done with the first game had it been live!


  • @Gamerman01:

    Few people give a crap about P40 anyway - everybody’s playing G40 BY FORUM.  About 100 games have been completed in just the past 2 months.

    My point exactly. If pac is insignificant, why should we bother?


  • I am up for humoring you in a couple live games, but commiting a couple weeks to this; I just don’t care enough for that.


  • What a hypocrite.  You call me scared to play live, but you’re making excuses to not play by forum.

    My reason for not playing live is that I play this game like chess, not like checkers.  I put a lot of work and thought into my moves.  I have other reasons as well.

    CAN YOU POST SOME OF YOUR SAVE FILES FROM COMPLETED GAMES OR NOT?  That’s all I’m asking.  I’m more than willing to play you on your chosen program - TripleA - but I don’t do live like you don’t do PBF.  What makes your preference greater than mine?

    In my experience the people who call me arrogant (you’ve said “God’s gift to playtesting” 3 times now - which is offensive to me) are very arrogant themselves - that’s why they are so quickly offended by someone else who is confident.

    You don’t have to play me and suffer humiliation.  You started the Play By Forum and quit.  Just upload your save games and we’ll be done.


  • @Gamerman01:

    That’s because a lot more people play by forum than live.

    I told you I have to go for several hours.

    I haven’t played a whole game in one sitting for years.

    If you have so many games played out, then why don’t you upload the TripleA files for these games for all to see?  Or is that not possible with “live” playing?

    I’m sorry I came across as so offensive.  Understand that I’ve heard this song and dance before, about how the game is broken and there is this unstoppable strategy to wipe out the USA 80% of the time and the game is broken.

    Why so huffy?  Jeez, you’re not really so polite yourself.  All we’re asking is that you show us your strategy in action.  We prefer two different ways of playing, that’s all.  I never dreamed it would take ANYONE 3 hours?? to play a J1.  How long does it take you “live”

    No need to be so freaking hostile.  Take a chill pill, dude, you aren’t accomplishing anything by getting all upset.

    I have had an open invitation to show my strat in action. I have a few files, where and how would you like them uploaded?

    I accept your apology and apologize myself for being huffy. Please understand how frustrating it is for me to get 1 turn done of a game in the time it would have taken to get at least 6 rounds in, while the person who challenged me to a game demands that I play it in the way most convenient to him while ignoring my prefences.

    I realize that I am not accomplishing anyting by getting all upset, but I feel I am also accomplishing nothing by trying this PBF business. Like we both said, Pac really doesn’t seem all that important to too many people.

    Again, I am willing to play you in a couple live games, just let me know when you got the time. It’s not worth it to me to spend a week checking back repeatedly on what can take the time of a semi-long movie for a game that probably doesn’t get enough play to warrant even half the time I have already spent.


  • @Gamerman01:

    CAN YOU POST SOME OF YOUR SAVE FILES FROM COMPLETED GAMES OR NOT?  That’s all I’m asking.  I’m more than willing to play you on your chosen program - TripleA - but I don’t do live like you don’t do PBF.  What makes your preference greater than mine?

    For the record, the fact that you challenged me to the game means that from my experience with such things, I would state the terms.

    Also for the record, don’t you admit that your “enter gamerman” comment comes off as exceptionally arrogant?


  • Let me know if you think that is out of line for me to be upset at the fact that you challenge me to a game and expect I commit a week or more to it when at least the first game can be over and done with in 2 hours. All of my posting in the thread in the pac forum that offered games offered them live on TripleA. I don’t see why I should be under any obligation to immensely inconvenience myself over the course of potentially multiple weeks when my incredibly reasonable offer to play a game against anyone who would like to work out with me a time when we can meet to play online is standing.

    It’s one thing if I say to you “Let’s play, you name the time and place” and then I bow out when you demand to play PBF, but I told you before trying it that I would try it, but I did not guarantee I would finish it.

    You challenged me, so if you don’t want to play live, then I guess we won’t be playing.


  • @Imperious:

    As soon as Gamerman01 whips your idea into ashes, perhaps no more arrogant threads like “Pointlessly Broken?”

    Perhaps saying less would be a better idea.  :roll:

    Don’t expect to be taken too kindly when you just show up on the scene and announce you have this killer strategy that proves the game is broken.  That’s the same as telling us we’re all stupid for not seeing it for the past 3 years.  We thought about it too, tried it, it doesn’t work.  So I am up to the challenge to see your new innovative idea, and I say “enter Gamerman” which is a play on words of “enter Sandman”.  Whoopdedoo - you’re offended by that?  That’s your problem.  I don’t care what you think about every comment I make - I don’t even know you.

    Thanks for finally posting 2 game threads.  We will look at them and get back to you.

    I thought I already said this, but I had no idea that I was asking you to take on some kind of monumental undertaking that was going to take un-told hours of your time.  I also said that we seem to have strong preferences for 2 different methods of play, and maybe those differences are irreconcilable.  I don’t think you need to start pointing fingers and trying to prove that I’m the unreasonable one.

    It’s simple.  I’m one of the top league players on the site for the past several years, and I offered to test your strategy before you get the game developers all excited and change the official rules for all of us.  I don’t see anything inappropriate about that - I think you’re just being defensive.  And as IL pointed out, the very creation of your thread and your whole premise is arrogant, so if arrogant people like me take issue with that, you shouldn’t be surprised.  :-)


  • There are dozens of players playing league games by forum as we speak.  Are you saying we’re all taking way too long to play our games, and that “live” play is superior in every way? 
    But as you’ve shown, you don’t even know how to play by forum and have never done it.  How can you legitimately and informatively criticize something you have no experience with?  You can’t.

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