Max scramble sz113 and sz114.
FYI, the tactical bomber that went to sz114 only has 1 movement left so it wouldn’t be a legal move since you can’t have a potential carrier landing as your only legal landing spot in PTV. Here you were supposed to send the 1 movement tactical to sz113 instead and swap another to sz114. It doesn’t change anything in this case.
All good with the edits. I’ll add your bomber to Queensland since you wanted to retreat.
@axis-dominion said in League General Discussion Thread:
@Adam514 said in League General Discussion Thread:
Looks like OOB might be played differently now than 10 years ago.
In any case, just play the game you think is the best.
well, i would imagine that’d be the case with doubling of the bids
one might even say that has radically changed the game
i kid i kid :)
Was referring to how Andrew said Axis were on a timer. That was not my experience and I never lost an OOB Axis game.
@pacifiersboard said in 2024 BM Playoffs Adam514 (Axis) vs pacifiersboard (Allies+22):
too late to land UK bomber on Crete instead of Gib I guess?
Yeah it’s too late, sorry. Italian move was affected by bomber position.
Thanks for the game!
Went through the history quickly. A couple of points:
Solid early game which is the most important part of the game. Mid game, I much prefer taking the German fast units and taking over the Middle-East and potentially Egypt/India instead of staying in front of Moscow. You do give Russia some breathing room and income, but it’s strictly defensive and can’t be used anywhere other than in the defense of Russia, while German increased income and reduced UK income has impacts everywhere.
If Japan doesn’t fight Russia, doesn’t take India and doesn’t kill China, then the minimum it should be doing is keeping the DEI. You had to focus enough on naval power to have the DEI at the end of the Japan turn nearly every time, or else that’s a lot of missing income and it’ll get harder to contest naval.
@pacifiersboard It’s East of Gib, will move it West.
Thought I could stack Egypt but I also thought I had just sent a mech there during combat moves, but I sent a tank. Will swap tank for mech if that’s okay.
Hit differential is just 1 way of trying to have some sort of measure of “luck”. Its far from perfect but better than nothing IMO which was why I decided to add it. Each dice roll and battle have different strategic importance which is close to impossible to capture in any automated way.
I have considered adding a sort of TUV differential as well (actual TUV outcome of all battles - expected TUV outcome of all battles) but one problem with this is that its no longer a purely mathematical statistic as it takes into account casualty selection. Example being if you attack a stack of units that has say bombers then the battle calculator is optimized to try for best win percentage not best TUV swing where as a player may choose to save bombers longer than the battle calc chooses. This can cause somewhat subjective choices in casualty selection and the battle calc may not select the best which skews the TUV differential. This is even more drastic for maps that are more complex than Global such as Total World War as casualty selection is much less automatic and requires more thought.
Casualty selection difference is such a small difference on the scale of a match. Only a handful of battles require different casualty selection, and of those only a few changes the TUV swing significantly.
Good game! You had some interesting strategies that I hadn’t seen in practice, like the Wake to Guam naval base.
@666 Good game! Was a challenge to win this one, and I think you still had a decent chance of winning here for what it’s worth.
@axis-dominion said in Post League Game Results Here:
@Stucifer said in Post League Game Results Here:
@Ghostglider Gods bleed!? Incredible! 😊🤓
Clicking through the game history…and @axis-dominion used the NH opener!
of note, this was a G4/J4
Must mean the game offers a variety of opening moves ;).
@axis-dominion said in L25 PTV axis-dom (axis+14) vs adam:
hold on, might adjust my ita ships in atlantic
No problem, won’t change my Anzac and French moves. Can edit on my map.
Regarding that Russian win against the big German stack, here are the stats:
Top 8% outcome. Thought it would be top 1% or so.
Already created the game thread, I sent you a DM.
Yeah that sounds good. Keep in mind it’s not just the DD there, it’s also a fighter sent on the carrier.
Done. Won’t move for a while I think.
Yes it is intentional, thanks for asking.
Use latest map with the DD edit please.
If I remember correctly I did this manually in a game I felt I had very poor dice. My calculations ended up with - 60 ish ipc, meaning I lost units worth 60 ipc more than I was supposed to throughout the game. Note, this was for axis combined. I believe this is hardly important over more than 10 rounds. Luck is such a subjective term and if overall dice luck was important to win games I am surprised that the same people are top of the league year after year. Again I don’t see the harm in adding this and my prediction is, everyone is equally lucky over time. I think it will “prove” to people claiming bad luck that there luck is pretty good after all……
Dice becomes important when the skill difference is small, or if you’re playing Allies in vanilla G40 :lol:.
