I’m about to get nailed in my other game, I think. Took a risk, and may have to pay for it.
Ok, back to our latest game:
@AcesWild5049 said in Classic 2nd edition, CrazyIvan (Allies) vs AcesWild (Axis), RR no bid regular dice, Game 2:
yes, the dice were hot for the Germans when the actual capital attack occurred, not on the karelia attack. in fact, you brought down two fighters with the AA gun. That one came through almost exactly par for the course.
I noticed the extra fighter loss (two AA hits out of 6) in the Karelia battle, but have to disagree with the assessment that the dice were not ‘hot’ in that battle, as well. I’ll post an analysis via screen shots of the ingame dice rolls. I’m not great at that, so it may be some time before I can get them up and running, and if gribble hits me tonight, I’ll have to respond, so it may not be till tomorrow…heh heh, it’s already tomorrow, lol. That said, even had you suffered bad luck instead of good luck in the Karelia battle, it is almost always going to be a German win, the only question is what they have left, and if the UK can come in and retake.
And to go a step further, on the entirety of turn one, of the 10 dice where you needed a four or less to secure a hit, you did so 9 out of 10 times. All your other columns were more or less on par. I record all the hit stats and will publish them after I rack up more games but would be willing to share them with you if you give me an email to send them to.
I did? :)
Just to clarify, during the battle for Moscow, I agree I had very good luck with the 3 column, but 60% of the time, I would have had the same result, it was just a matter of what was left over and I was ready to burn my entire air force to save one tank and secure that territory.
Oh, I agree. Both the Karelia and Russia battles were likely German wins, but that is what happens when we break the game with the whole RR. If we play without RR, the Germans are not handed a choice of which (freebie) they want to pursue in a particular game, but have to make some hard choices.
I’ve seen Russia be able to be as badly over aggressive that the game ends early on, like ours just did, but I think that there are three areas I would address to try to balance out the game, and those would be a less restrictive RR, LL vs regular dice, and the house rule stuff I’m working on for the naval situation.
Basically, the way I see it is that with the current RR rule, Russia has to turtle up, and the most daring thing they be allowed to do is, (maybe) send some tanks to the middle east, instead of, you know, getting some licks in! :)
Otherwise, can you imagine a 5 player game, where one player is stuck with playing a RR Russia? No one is going to enjoy that experience, with the possible exception of experts, and that is likely as not going to kill the game. If no one wants to play Russia, and folks start to drop out for having to play that way, then the game dies (as it has). Make the RR less restrictive, and more folks will be willing to at least try their hand at Russia, what with only one hand tied behind their back. :)
Anyway, I don’t like to lose (especially in less than two turns), but I do want to work with you towards a fun and balanced version of classic! Hopefully, we can succeed in getting a variation that works for most folks, and brings this great game back into popularity.
I have some work to do from now till tuesday, and so will have to wait till next week to start our game three. What is your playing time calendar looking like next week? :)
