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@Adam514 @666 Please discard testing, my mistake.

@ksmckay Yeah let’s see what happens in the playoffs first.

@Adam514 said in Adam514 (Axis) vs axis-dominion (Allies +9) BM3:

@simon33 You’re forgetting the German bomber in the Pac which severely limits the options of the smaller US fleet, can’t block without wasting many ships.

Good point that does explain why you can’t stack the Caroline’s but it doesn’t explain why kiangsu wasn’t attacked. There would have been a real loss of momentum for Japan in that instance. In fact, if the German bomber had moved up to Tokyo g10, the midway stack would have been off.

Perhaps enough Monday morning quarterback there though.

@farmboy Good game! It was close for a while, I had to strategize as the Axis to gain the advantage, which doesn’t happen often :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: . You played well, it was one of my closer Axis games.

Japan would indeed be in trouble, but it’s still way too healthy when you consider the Europe situation.

Thanks for the game!

@VonAlba Thanks for the game!

Thanks for the game!

@JDOW:

@Adam514:

@JuanSpain:

Diced again in med. Holding Italy for a couple of rounds would have provided some fun.

I�ll post.

Please restart for fun since Japan without the 1st attack to allied fleet. Key practise for me and I think will be some fun.

Thank you!

Juan

I’m quite busy and the playoffs start soon. Are you sure that it’s worth it to continue from many rounds ago?

So you gonna join the playoffs this year?

If it’s BM yeah.

You should have set japan up different for a possible allies victory.
Either I take japan with first us then anzac attack and move the fleet away. than you can just take japan back because I’ll only end up with 1-2 anzac land troops. I could leave the fleet but I lose all american fighters and almost all the anzac so my navy cant stand yours and you have a 99% 230 TUF swing battle in sz 6 and still take Japan.
Or I take some money island and put all my fleet in sz 6. I survive there but japan will get fortified and it’s gone.
I can’t get it to end well.

Alright take Axis. My dice email is in this match.

Thanks for the game!

Round 6 is a classic for Axis.

@JDOW:

hmm… +51 for the Germans and -59 for the Allies. Looks like this is it already :(

Yah I resigned this one already. We started a new one already.

I resign, good game.

@Adam514:

Good game! See there’s always hope even if you get diced G1!

:lol:

Thanks for the game, and you too!

@Adam514:

@Karl7:

@Adam514:

Thanks for the game!

If you want to have the best chance to defeat me, it’s by playing Axis according to statistics  :wink:.

Ha, well, I feel I am a much weaker Axis player.  I probably could only do it if I had like a 12 bid or something… plus I feel I kind of f’d up this game by that UK attack, so I am jonesing or a replay.

No one is a weaker Axis player!

I’ll start the next one.

ha!  Ok, after next game, I’ll take Axis if you feel up for it!

Haha sounds good!

Thanks for the feedback. Its quite helpful.

I see your point about the US naval buys. I was thinking that your choice to do a later JDOW meant that you were setting up for a Europe victory and that I needed to get units in the Atlantic first to open the route. I’ve got in the habit of buying mostly Atlantic in the first two rounds so that I could react to Germany and thinking that I have enough in the Pacific already to slow Japan. But yes, the later JDOWs mean that the impact of that spending gets delayed and I suppose the ANZAC DOW made it easier to postpone JDOW as well. That is something I’ll revisit and I think too that my early choices are now too habitual rather than responding to the game.

My hope in Scandinavia was that as the Russians grabbed Finland, the US and UK could drop into Norway. But couldn’t put any pressure on the German fleet soon enough and couldn’t coordinate it.

My Axis play lately has also been to focus on Gibraltar first and Egypt second. This is partly because my opponents have stacked Egypt but its also to deny the med and that naval base. Once I’ve taken it, I’ve been able to hold it at the cost of committing a fair bit of German air. I figured that you were going for it and that I needed to hold it to be able to threaten the coast and slow down Italy. I tried to save the UK BB there too which essentially wasted a chunk of UK spending.

I’ll be up for a rematch in a few weeks I think. I’ve decided I need to limit myself to two ongoing games (for life reasons) and I have a couple of other folks I owe rematches to as well.

Thanks for the game!

Feedback:
After my mistake in Gibraltar giving you the attack to save Egypt, I thought it was going to be a long match. But with India taken sooner than you probably expected and Euro Axis getting through to Volgograd/Caucasus, it was only a matter of time.

1. The US cannot afford 3 carriers in the Atlantic. If you really needed 3 carriers to defend against the German navy/air, you need to have UK supply its fair share of defense. But with the factories you built in the Middle-East (too many in my opinion considering the US strategy in Europe), UK didn’t have the income for it. Many of the issues later in the match, for example losing India and getting pushed back to Hawaii, stemmed from that 3rd Atlantic carrier. My US strategy would have been to attack Gib as you did, and then send everything into the Pacific and go full Pacific, since the investment to overcome the German fleet is too high.

2. With your UK investments in the Middle-East, you should have made sure that India would not fall when it did. UK had loads of troops in the Middle-East, but they never took part in the fighting.

3. China fell too easily. As Japan, trading a few air units to take over China is a great deal. Merging is the right move, unless you are being aggressive with Russia and UK Pac.