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@oysteilo Can you pinpoint something in BM that makes games last longer? My only answer is that sides are more equal, and since it’s a newer game people continue for a few more rounds before realizing they don’t have a chance.

@666 Thanks for the game! You need to be more aggressive as Axis for sure.

@oysteilo I’m not saying it’s not true, it is true. And it’s the result of a more balanced and new game. There isn’t that much more money going into the match though. The extra money mainly allows the Allies a better chance of not losing economic superiority to the Axis (which is good). Axis should be more aggressive or they’ll generally be grinded out if they take too long.

I’d say reroll the convoy.

@Amon-Sul Yeah, a damaged BB can do everything an undamaged BB can do.

Bid: sub in 98, sub in 91.

Good luck and have fun!

@freh Around 10 for Allies seems to be the average.

@Amon-Sul It’s good.

@farmboy Mechs are no longer just fast cannon fodder. They are more expensive and pack a punch themselves. Trading territories with mechs will now be more costly, as opposed to global where they weren’t much more useful than infantry once they reached the front.

Regularkid did a great job for the Russian territories, it’s much more dynamic for both sides with more choices to make. Perhaps he can talk more about his thought process if you want, but by playing it you’ll see what happens.

Farmboy (Allies+10) defeats Adam514 (Axis) BM3.

Thread: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35038/bm3-bombers-cost-14-adam514-axis-vs-farmboy-allies-10/572?page=23

First league Axis loss, congrats to Farmboy!

@Amon-Sul If Japan attacked a Russian territory bordering Mongolia, Mongolia would turn Russian. If Russia attacked a Japanese territory bordering Mongolia or Korea, Mongolia would stay neutral. We removed those rules.

@Amon-Sul I play Allies more.

@Misterblue said in WW2 Path to Victory - Rules Discussion:

On that topic; Can you build a harbor and a capital ship in the same turn or do you need to wait until the next turn?

No you can’t, you need to have a functional harbor at the beginning of the round, so you need to wait a turn after building the harbor (TripleA handles that correctly).

@Amon-Sul Yup happens.

@Amon-Sul Precisely.

@Amon-Sul Oops sorry.

@Gargantua The Allies did delay taking Paris even though they could have earlier in the real war. There are situations where taking Paris back is advisable, and it is useful to the Germans because of the factory and the airbase. Fast units are more expensive to mass just for defense too. If we give the option of liberating France, it would never be liberated and would be kept in US/UK hands.

@Amon-Sul That is always the plan.

@gamerman01 There was a map change, you’re still looking at the old map overlay while the code (saved game) was started on the new version of the map. Korea is fully enclosed in sz7 in the new version, hence why it takes 2 moves to get to sz20. You need to delete the existing PTV map and then install it again.

@AndrewAAGamer said in Find League Opponents Thread:

@Omega1759 said in Find League Opponents Thread:

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@Omega1759 said in Find League Opponents Thread:

Would take a Global 1940 Second Edition game, been out of it for two years. Used to be tier 1-E at peak. Fine with league game or non-league game (warning, I play under influence most of the time).

Edit: reached tier M in 2017, tier E in 2018 when I stopped playing.

welcome back omega! funny like a day before you resurfaced, I was thinking about how so many ol’ timers started showing up again, and I remembered you, and sure enough, here you are! lol

if I may suggest, please do make an effort to learn the latest balanced edition (BM3), which has significant improvements in the rules and objectives, making the allies far more viable. if you wish to do a practice game with me to learn the rules (not so hard, many are just common sense improvements), I’d be happy to get you started on it.

Hi AxisD. I mentioned this before.

I’m old school, continue to believe that the community should hang on to the original game in order to not fragment the community / intimidate new players looking at this forum.

I agree with your sentiments @Omega1759. Being new I am surprised that, from my perspective, a lot of people here do not like OOB and prefer BM3. While I have only played one game of BM3 my initial impression is OOB is better. I think the main detriment to OOB is that it requires a high Allied bid to be even. That is totally accurate. However, with a large enough bid OOB is an even game and still has that tension of the early game “Am I going to stop or accomplish the VC path to victory or not.” Then if the VC win is stopped the money is close enough that the game turns into a fairly even long term battle.

BM3 seems to dramatically lend itself to the Allies in a long term money game forcing the Axis Player to either a) go for a VC win and if failing loses the game for sure or b) play a long term money game initially to have any chance of success. To me that lessens the options for the Axis Player and reduces the fun of the game for both sides. Since the game is played on the exact same board I am not sure why BM3 is preferable to OOB.

Now if you do want a long term money game then Path to Victory seems to be a good choice. It is a completely different game than OOB played on a different board so to me it is a different game versus a different version of the same game. @surfer and I are both playing our first game and so far so good. It is very different and challenging and my initial impression is it is a good game.

Statistics say otherwise, BM3 is still Axis tilted.