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This is aequitas et veritas from Germany.
In 2007 after i relocated to the United States, i found a Store with Axis and Allies games and got interested in it.
My first Game was the 1999 Europe edition and we (my cousin and friends) set up a small playgroup.
I learned to know the game better and bought the next game, Pacific.
No turning back from this time on.

When i moved back to Germany with my family i left all my games there.

I found this site while i was in the U.S…
The feed back to my questions,the warm welcome, the sometimes funny and sometimes interesting discussions made me stay on this site.

The Play Boardgame section gave me a very good replacement for my missing copies and the League a very strong replacement for my playgroup.

After the years i sharpend my skills in playing and met a lot of new Friends.

If you are new to triple a you are welcome and enjoy this site like i do.

I would like to take the Chance and ask for forgiveness, were i was bad or not polite to you.
I would like to take the Chance and thank you, were you helped me out on this forum.
I would like to take the Chance and wish you the best for your future.

Sincerely AetV

Happy Thanksgiving AAA brothers!

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year.

@trulpen tue question behind all this is:

Is it really worth it, to put all that effort and resources for one single BB in?

Or is it more like Cpt. Miller states in SPR:
Yeah, all for one single man.

The G BB has a Task, that point is clear.
It depends on you as GPlayer if it fills the task to the fullest!

Help destroying the RN and protecting the Kriegsmarine to the bitter end to folk and fatherland!!

If you are planning on saving the BB for the purpose of another Task, then you should Strafe sz111 with BB/1×Ftr/1×TacB/2×SS and 1xBmbr only.
Retreat after one round of combat.
Your Pruchase for this case should be:
1xDD, 1xSS, 1xCV placed in sz112.
And land your remaing planes accordingly to max out the protection for the Kriegsmarine.

But!:
To buy an AB for a single BB in Holland makes no sense and has no gain nor benefits.

Why?:
The US will come, sooner or later.
-you as Gplayer will lose any Navy build race against the US and US/UK combined.

• you will very likely lose that AB to the US/UK and they will have a way better use for that then G will ever have.
  -you are comming short on eastern front b/c 15ipc’s are missing there.
  15 ipc equal= two Arms plus Inf.
  Or 3 Mech and an Inf.
  Or a Bmbr plus Inf.
  It’ll cost you flexabilty and power of your punch on Moscow.
  The AB can be bmbd by US and your Fleet be taken out via UK by a 1-2 punch.
  An AB also means that at up to three Ftrs will be missing on E-front, five planes if you have a CV loaded.

You may playtest an AB buy in your group and may have some success, but in all actuallty it will not become a solid strategy.

Just some food for thoughts.

Easy on the Veterans here @bretters.

I totally understand your point @dawgoneit and I think it will be considered since a lot of people here do still play OoB here. Maybe just not more frequently than the BM in League games these days.

Arround 140 PBF games and 8-10 online games so far, since 2016.

Used to play F2F games in the States. Back then we played the '99 Europe Version and the 2001Pacific one though.
What a blast.

Now i only play BM and loving it.

@oysteilo I agree with you and would welcome your solutions.
This brings huge credit to, since you seem like a person who aknoledge issues/ problems and also files on solutions and present them.
Very good!

I would add that it could also easily maintained with specific league badges wich are showing that you either a prefferable Oob or BM or PtV Player or have a multibadge wich reflects that you are good to play all or certain two versions of G40.
We discussed a badge solution for League members a while ago, when this site became a New facelifting.
Maybe it is this time to get more serious about that.

I suffered this season to play a version where i am less comfortable with. And would be open to the ideas of three different brackets.

And i would also mention, that i was beat fair and square and accepted it without a mourning!

@oysteilo right on!
As soon as Africa is becoming more and more yella file for loss as Allies.

@Amon-Sul my experiance was, that I personally couldn’t follow up my line bc i was getting tempted to rely more on the techs than on my abilty to perform my strategy.

@oysteilo is a very competent player and it made lots of fun.

I would implement tech in a certain way that differs from the most opinions that people have arround here.

They are:

All nations get three techs they can develop and are equal.
AA Radar
Airborne forces
Increased Factory Production

Plus they get 3 additional
Nation related Techs and would be:

GERMANY:
Super Subs
Jetzt Power
Improved Mechs

RUSSIA:
Tank production (Tanks cost 5 instead of 6)
Improved Arty Support 1 (pairing mechsnism)
Improved Arty Support 2 (( purchase mechanism buy four Inf get an additional Arty) reflecting that almist every soviet Infantry men in '42 had a mortar along with them)

JAPAN:
Shipyards
Improved Mech
Heavy Bomber

US:
Warbonds
Shipyards
Longrange Aircraft

UK:
Shipyards
Longrange Aircraft
Heavy Bmbrs

As a total of six techs you may develop dringend the whole game.
More specified Techs would even be better for the nation only related techs.

As an Axis Player i would welcome your idea of Russia building an mIC in Caucasuss, it makes the NO even more tempting.

Like Colt allready explained, please provide a few games as evidence that this will work and prove us wrong.

I highly recommend to reconsider your thoughts on the mIC.

Best regards

AetV

I really enjoy reading this discussion and am a huge fan of it. We are going in the right direction and it is neccessary to make a change. But i am also a fan of K.I.S.S., Keep It Simple as Someonewhowantstoplayget’stoplayit.

I would also recommend to Design a League badge wich is for free but makes the Player recognizable about his prefrence he has in game versions he plays.
Infantry man for OoB, Mech for BM and Arty for PtV. Also a Tank for a multi Player who plays all three versions.
This makes it easier to find the peoole with the same game style and also helps maybe Gamerman01 to distinguish us in our preferences.
My few cents on All that for now.

@Gargantua , i rather be destroyed then to submit to france! (DGAC)😜
To England maybe.

Fröhliche Weihnachten from Germany!
I wish you all Love,Strength and Peace for this Season and the next Year!

@Sovietishcat thank you for the heads up.
I’ve been very busy lately and caught a cold as well.
Will try to post tonight or tommorow the latest.
Thank you for your patience!

@CWO-Marc good to hear from you.

I rather think of the movie Demolition Man by the way…what are the three Shells good for again?..

It is none of all the above!

What some guys want is, that a diffrent ranking system will benefit their effort to gain more skill Level while playing a higher ranked player.
But this is not the case.
Most of the E and M Players have played tons of games and their Tier is reflecting that.

The actual ranking System is more then just sufficant bc it reflects the Level of your skills.
Thanks to @gamerman01 here who does an incredible job on keeping track and adjust the spreadsheat.

If you ask for advice or a little coaching here and there, none of the Players here will reject that if you ask kindly.

You will get better the more you play ( not meaning at the same time).
We all pitch in to support as many player as possible, but sometimes it happens that people also tend to stop listening or getting frustrated bc it takes a while before it sometimes bares some fruit.
It doesn’t happen overnight.
It took me nearly three years to become a solid Tier 1. I will continue bc my goal is M and with some time I am going to be one, one day.

@Gargantua said in 1914 Dom. NML 8 Players:

So much money to spend… I dont even know where I will place it! B ut I bet the kaiser is stretching his dollars pretty thin these days :)

@Sovietishcat @wizmark I accidently rolled convoy dmg dice to show brxxx something. plese disregard these dice mail. It was not on purpose.
I apolgize for the inconvinient.

@Amon-Sul i meant your suggestion to let either the high or the low Tier decide.