League General Discussion Thread

All of the above for me

Will be another couple days before I can get to our games, sorry for the delay
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@GeneralDisarray
@surfer

Merry Christmas, warriors!😀

Merry Christmas. May Santa deliver lots of ELO

@gamerman01 said in League General Discussion Thread:

Although league participation is slowly waning as G40 ages, this is going to be a hot year of playoffs, I can assure you.

Man, I lost a lot of interest when I decided that Germany should just leave Normandy French. That stops USA from using the factory and makes defense much easier for the Axis. May be only one of many silly things in G40 but Balanced Mod does fix most of the other ones, like multiple plunders for taking capitals, SBR rules, propaganda bonus in Africa etc. That’s why I came up with the Parisian Rebalance but didn’t seem like anyone was interested.

@gamerman01 i have 4 games in various states of winding down. Is the deadline end of this week (dec 28th), or Dec 31 to finish and qualify?

@surfer said in League General Discussion Thread:

Is the deadline end of this week (dec 28th), or Dec 31 to finish and qualify?

I’m sure @gamerman01 will confirm, but I think the deadline to make the required number of games is the end of December.

@gamerman01 said in League General Discussion Thread:

You are eligible for BM playoffs postseason for the 2024 regular season, starting 1/1
This is the last week for signing up, let me know if you want in, by 12/31

I didn’t want to sign up too early as it would intimidate anyone else from joining.

@gamerman01 said in League General Discussion Thread:

@simon33 You have a lot more experience than me, but I think it depends on how you play and who you’re playing, regarding Normandy. The complex and naval base can be fantastic for Germany, and in my experience it is not a given that USA will take and hold Normandy

You are pretty accurate here. Normandy adds some positive value to Germany/Italy but it also represents a pretty significant weak spot. It’s two spaces from the major factory and has a factory ready to go. If USA lands on Holland, they have to hold it for two turns before being able to build anything. Germany can probably ignore this threat (unless more than about 5 US TTs are in the Atlantic) and react if it materialises but it can’t ignore the threat of Normandy with only a small landing force. Normandy earns only 2ipc which can be easily convoyed. Southern France can be similar to Normandy but it has Italy’s major factory next to it which needs a number of troops to defend itself. Also, leaving that French means planes can attack North Italy from a Gibraltar airbase and land on Southern France. I think leave Southern France French isn’t a winning move at least in BM and probably not in G40. Relatively easy to defend that one unless Italy has already been neutered. It makes less sense to leave Normandy French in Balanced Mod because you can give up a USA objective if it puts troops on Holland or Sth France. Still this requires troops next door to an axis major factory unless someone is blitzing Holland and that allows Germany or Italy to pick them off. Sorry for the long rant.

Been playing online again and I would have to say that the league is great and Balanced Mod is mostly great. Online most people only play G40. At least if you start a league game you know the strength of the opponent unless they are a newbie. Shouldn’t be any unintentional mismatched games. The play by forum takes a long time to play though.

There are a lot of other limitations in G40 which are improved in Balanced Mod and not the least is no propaganda for Soviet Africa. That is really silly. Also allowing Moscow to live a bit longer more easily really improves the game in my view. It’s been weird to play G40 again and see how easily Germany can pick off Moscow G6. Stoppable but requires a lot of allied effort.

Some people hate the extra objectives in Balanced Mod for USA such as the North African and Carolines objectives and I would have to say I agree with this criticism. There wasn’t a need for these changes nor for the penalty for Japan to DOW on USSR. The plunder changes also seem a bit meh in retrospect.

@axis-dominion said in League General Discussion Thread:

@gamerman01 said in League General Discussion Thread:

I almost overlooked!

The 2024 playoffs for the championships hold another unprecedented POSSIBILITY!

Folks, we have 2 back to back champions looking to go for
THREE
IN
A
ROW

And I think there were only 2 other back to back champions in the history of G40 play in the league.

That’s right, the 2024 playoffs hold the possibility of TWO
THREEPEATS!

I’m talkin’ 'bout
@farmboy and @Arthur-Bomber-Harris
Balanced Mod and Out of the Box, respectively

Don’t hold your breath for the answers, because that could take about a year, right?

These guys are good. And these guys get the luck when they need it. You can’t win A&A against top competition without being good and lucky, both!

But I do know a mathematical impossibility…
Yes, that’s right, we can’t possibly have General Disarray win Triple Crown, and also farmboy and ABH defend their championships!

OK, I think I’ve hyped enough. It’s not easy to do by text. 🎲🎲🎲

ehem

actually nvm, you were specifically referring to a 3-peat, not 3 championships, which i would be aiming for