Why AnA players should play TripleA (a 12 minute video).

The unofficial home for modern-day “East & West” discussion is right here, on the A&A .org forums! ;)

Have a look if you’re interested or have questions:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1266842

Check out my latest video in my “In Defense of” series where I argue for the use of calculators in EVERY game of AnA allowed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4o46DrA7Cw&feature=youtu.be

Punchline:

Precedents: Most war strategy games (even those more complex than AnA) operate under simpler dice probabilities or have calculators built in (analogized as a ‘general’s staff’) The probability of success/failure in a battle exists whether you chose to know it or not. Not using a calculator is to chose to be ignorant (granted, for the ‘fun’ of the game). Calculators make you a much better player much faster (reasons given in the video).

Just me and a bud. Played 1 turn. Don’t have video. Sorry

Here is my first attempt at a “session report”. This game was played on 2/15/2020 at “Orc Con” in LA. Please like, comment, subscribe. Any and all feedback is welcome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVjxDrx4TbM&t=1380s

@Young-Grasshopper this game is fun throughout and I highly recommend it to anyone a fan of world war 2 like me been playing it my whole life and I like playing both sides with victories for both but I find it more achievable to win as the axis I like using subs and fighters a lot to scare the English most of the time

Great article and yeah sounds like your past games were about the same as mine. ONly a few good old friends we olny the occasional “beep” while throw a dice in disguse. As long as it’s just that….quick. Sometimes you just have to blow off a little steam and then realize “It’s just a game”. Plus later it’s great comical material against you. “Hey man don’t blow up if you lose this battle” and so forth. HAHA

I’m not sure I agree with your numbers under section 1 but the other sections are spot on.  Section 2 is particularily good advice.  If you need to win 3 ‘deadzones’ to block blitz avenues to lighly defended air assests behind ‘the lines’ you better think carefully about HAVING to win ALL 3.

Perhaps we are looking at things from a different angle for section 1 but I get these odds:

10 infantry vs 6 infantry; probable outcome is 4 attacking infantry (12 IPCs) surviving.

50/50 mark of casualties is 6 Inf, like you state, although a 26% chance the attacker loses.  The 50/50 mark means you are equally likely to get better or worse.

5 infantry and 3 tanks vs 6 infantry, probable outcome is 1 attacking infantry and 3 tanks (18 IPCs) surviving.

50/50 mark of casualties is 2 Inf not the 4 Inf you state, in fact, there is a 90% chance the the loses are lower than you state and there is not statistical likelihood of attacker losing or even losing more than a single tank.

5 tanks vs 6 infantry, probable outcome 2-3 tanks (10-15 IPCs) surviving.

The 50/50 mark is 1 tank surviving.  In fact, you are nearly going to lose that attack 50% of the time and about 60% you have 1 or less surviving tanks.