Iron blitz all out war?

To compute EV profit for all sub-problems, the recurrence relation is:

EV(i, j) = profit of state i attackers and j defenders. profit(ii, jj, i, j) = the incremental profit for moving from state (i, j) to (ii, jj). p(ii,jj) = probability of reaching state ii,jj from i, j EV(i, j) = sum( all next states ii, jj) { p(ii,jj) * profit(ii,jj, i, j) + EV(ii,jj) }

This doesn’t consider that you might retreat in the future… to handle that:

EV(i, j) = sum( all next states ii, jj) { p(ii,jj) * profit(ii,jj, i, j) + EV(ii,jj) > retreatThreshold ? EV(ii,jj) : 0 }

Initial state:

EV(i, j) = 0 for all terminal states. // e.g. 0 attackers or 0 defenders, or any retreat conditions met.

To compute Pwin for all sub-problems, the recurrence relation is:

Pwin(i, j) = probability of winning Pwin(i, j) = sum (all next states ii, jj) { isRetreat = Pwin(ii, jj) < threshold; isRetreat ? 0 : p(ii,jj) * Pwin(ii,jj) }

Initial state:
Pwin(i, j) = 1 or 0 depending on win conditions. E.g. if takes then at least one land unit attacker.

Does anyone know any A&A-like games that are free and require no download?

@Bolfry I hope not, but judging by how it’s been a year since this thread ended & the link still expired, I think it may be done.

Thankfully, there are some A&A discord servers out there, you can find them through the discovery feature.

@TheGheko91 Are you wanting to make it harder to beat the AI when playing solo?
If so you can use the unit edit.Make the nation you are playing weaker by removing some starting units and/or add a few staring units to your AI controlled opposition.I find the AI will never capture 2 enemy capitals,so set it for economic victory,which you can adjust the numbers when setting up your game.

Somewhere way down the road, perhaps that mobile Holographic version will be available. Perhaps for the 50th. Anniversary of the 1980s GameMaster Series, thanks, Pellulo

@fasthard Thank you.

@Derwood:

Good evening again folks!

I assume many of you have this game.  Which version do you feel gives the Axis the best odds without going through a whole pile of trouble using the editor feature to level things out?

You are talking about that old computer game, aren’t you?

This subforum is dedicated to the Axis&Allies 1942 2nd Edition Boardgame, released in 2012, so a very different game.

Better look in the software subforum:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?board=53.0

Good luck  :-)

Edit: Thread has been moved to the correct forum, now.

@gamerman01 Thanks, I have 34 different variations/editions now :D