League General Discussion Thread

@axis-dominion

LOL! Dawg is King by a mile!

Whatever happened to Boldfresh? Stand up guy.

Podium finish for me, there you go. I guess the freight train in 2017 helped that one massively.

@gamerman01 please send him my regards. I am very sorry to hear that sad news.
@Karl7 good pick up, re Boldfresh. I Miss him. We played a few competitive games.
I lost them all

Praying 👐🏾

All the best from Sweden.

@gamerman01

Wow, sad to hear about the troubles. Sounds like Bold is on his way back. That is good news indeed. I went to college in Chicago and spend many years there. I used to have a lot of connections there, but time has faded many of them. But a trip back once things finally return to normal could be in order.

When Bold is ready to pick up the sword, let him know I am ready! LOL.

@gamerman01 said in League General Discussion Thread:

And please pray for his wife who has divorced him, that she would get her mind back and realize that they should be re-united, and she can be the mother of the children again. Thank you all, and God bless you.

wow gamer thanks for sharing, everyone can seem so anonymous on here, yet we all have our story of life going on and so it’s nice for us to be able to connect to that every now and then. we definitely miss our old-timers, and bold for sure is one of them! we’ll be keeping him in our prayers and hearts.

@karl7 said in League General Discussion Thread:

@gamerman01

Wow, sad to hear about the troubles. Sounds like Bold is on his way back. That is good news indeed. I went to college in Chicago and spend many years there. I used to have a lot of connections there, but time has faded many of them. But a trip back once things finally return to normal could be in order.

When Bold is ready to pick up the sword, let him know I am ready! LOL.

boy Karl ain’t kidding there, he’s been kicking my butt lately!

@gamerman01 All the best from Victoria, Canada. It’s been a trying time for many, I hope things work out for Bold and his family.

I’d like to also thank everybody on this forum for all of the games in the past year - my wife and I have been staying at home since March 2020. We both work at home, our college age daughter is taking remote courses and I’ve had a much easier time of it because of all the A&A games I’ve been able to enjoy.

STREAMING ON TWITCH TONIGHT:

@Adam514 and I will be playing @mikawagunichi and @avandoo in a live game of WW2 Path to Victory. The game will be streamed in its entirety, with live commentary from Adam and me.

Adam and I are playing Axis with no bid. Mikawagunichi and Avandoo are playing Allies.

Come hang out. Have a snack. Talk some A&A.

Time: 10 pm EST, tonight.

Place: https://www.twitch.tv/dudewithopinions

League stats show 121 BM games finished in the 2021 year so far, vs 40 PtV games. I think the major factor restricting the popularity of PtV is the division of SZ38.

@simon33 I don’t think so. It seems like even the skeptics recognize it as improvement after playing it a couple of times. And I seriously doubt a one-sea zone division would deter someone who is otherwise willing to try a substantially redrawn map.

BM caught on quickly because the game looks and feels identical, in most respects, to G40. This was by design. When we made BM, one of the limitations we placed on the project was that it must have a completely familiar feel for G40 players— to encourage wide acceptance by the community.

PTV, on the other hand, is a bolder departure from G40. As soon as you open it, you know it is a completely different game. That means there is a somewhat higher bar to entry.

That being said, the enthusiasm with which the G40 community has embraced PTV has surpassed my wildest expectations. And the fact that over 10% of league games are now PTV games is highly encouraging.

@regularkid Yeah well 2016 showed 387 G40 games vs 261 BM games in the league, even though BM only came out in May.
2017 showed 110 G40 games vs 294 BM games in the league.

PtV came out in June 2020, to some excitement which seems to have dissipated. But if you just want it the way you say, I guess that will be it.

Just checked again. Its actually 25% of league games. Not too shabby!

There is a bit of a threshold to get going with P2V. Primarily the different map (Russia and China) and land- and carrier-scramble changes the dynamics of the game quite a lot.

I belong to the apparent sceptics regarding the division of z38, but after having played a few games I’m not really opposed to the change anymore. I feel it does make things around the islands more interesting, for both sides.

I believe there’s a more serious issue regarding Japan. It was @Ghostglider who showed me this in a game of ours. Because of the extra scramble-options grabbing first Queensland and then Sydney in the early game is very powerful. The thing is that Japan can quite easily force the hand here, since US isn’t ready for the challenge yet.

This might be a bit of a flaw regarding strategy and balance. I don’t really see how it can be avoided and then there’s a scripted path for japanese superiority, which would be bad for the game.

@simon33 I for one enjoy PtV much more than BM, and for a variety of reasons. A few players I have reached out to, to play PtV, have told me it is the increased complexity of PtV that keeps them playing BM.