WW2 V3 - 41 Tournament

+1 for Cairo as a VC to eliminate ties and to act as a proxy for that 10 IPCs of game-swinging Africa money. The controller of Cairo likely has (or will soon have) control of Suez and the rest of Africa as well, and would therefore be in good standing for the “IPC Income” tiebreaker that would be necessary if Cairo was not a victory city.

Tourney starts Saturday. One day left to sign up. 25 people so far. Cash Prizes : )

Double elimination tournament for both 41 and 42 to start at release of A&A anniversary rerelease.

Signs up here.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=40246.0

May the dice be with you.

My personal impression:

I played my first tournament of AA50 being a complete Noob. AA50 is my first AA-game - and starting the tournament with the “experience” of only one PBF-game finished at that moment (and I only play PBF) I had the same thoughts as you.

What I found out is that my (two) opponents were very friendly and patient. I learned a lot from these games, and my opponents helped me with some good analysis after the games.

So you have to start at a point in order to become “an expert player” in the future.

What I recommend is to watch some games in order to get a feeling for the atmosphere and the common notation. Learn the rules and the FAQ and then start playing.

You may want to try playing some other forum games before … but I personally did not have the impression that this was obligatory for joining a tournament.

Just my thoughts…

Good luck :-)

I still view the Allies with a slight adv b/c of the number of Round 1 attacks the Axis must do, particularly Egy.

As for bids, we didn’t use them in our tourney and the Allies are holding their own quite well.  I think they are up a few games thru 23 games.  It might be like 13-10 Allies right now.

In the League we do use bids, but that is also used to determine sides.  A lot of times both players may bid 0 and just let sides be chosen at random.

I did just post a few stats in the League Forum (thru the first 12 completed) in the discussion thread and the Allies hold a 7 - 5 Adv in wins.  Avg bid was 1.3, but 7 games were played with a 0 bid and 2 were played with a 1 bid.

Interested ones please visit the Team Games forum, please  :-D

That file … yummy …  8-)