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League 2025 Farmboy (X) vs Axis-Dominion (L+15) BM

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G40 cwglee51 allies 20 vs Mike64 axis for fun

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@mike64 no scramble
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L25 PTV Booper (X+13) v Simon33(L)

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No scramble in z93.

If I’m limited to only 3-plane scramble in z31, no scramble. If I can scramble 4, I will do 4 fighters. Not sure on the rule here.
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L25 BM4 Ghostglider (Axis) vs Avner (Allies+18)

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Round: 10 Purchase Units - ANZAC ANZAC buy 1 destroyer and 2 submarines; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - ANZAC 1 destroyer moved from 54 Sea Zone to 44 Sea Zone Combat - ANZAC Battle in 44 Sea Zone ANZAC attack with 1 destroyer Japanese defend with 1 transport 1 transport owned by the Japanese lost in 44 Sea Zone ANZAC win, taking 44 Sea Zone from Japanese with 1 destroyer remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7 Casualties for Japanese: 1 transport Non Combat Move - ANZAC 1 infantry moved from New South Wales to 62 Sea Zone 1 artillery moved from New South Wales to 62 Sea Zone 1 artillery, 1 infantry, 1 submarine and 1 transport moved from 62 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 33 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands 1 destroyer moved from 54 Sea Zone to 55 Sea Zone 3 fighters moved from Queensland to Caroline Islands Place Units - ANZAC 1 destroyer and 2 submarines placed in 62 Sea Zone Turn Complete - ANZAC ANZAC collect 10 PUs; end with 10 PUs Objective ANZAC 3 Pacific Supply Lines: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 13 PUs Objective ANZAC 2 Control Strategic Islands: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 16 PUs Combat Move - French Non Combat Move - French 1 destroyer moved from 81 Sea Zone to 98 Sea Zone Turn Complete - French
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Gamerman01 v TheGoodCaptain (+8) Loser bracket final

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Round: 2 Purchase Units - Japanese Japanese buy 8 infantry and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; Combat Move - Japanese 1 infantry moved from China to Sinkiang Japanese take Sinkiang from Americans 1 infantry moved from Soviet Far East to Yakut S.S.R. Japanese take Yakut S.S.R. from Russians Combat - Japanese Non Combat Move - Japanese 1 transport moved from Japan Sea Zone to Wake Island Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Wake Island to Wake Island Sea Zone 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from Wake Island Sea Zone to Caroline Islands Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Caroline Islands Sea Zone to Caroline Islands 1 battleship, 1 carrier, 2 fighters, 1 submarine and 1 transport moved from Japan Sea Zone to Caroline Islands Sea Zone 1 bomber and 2 fighters moved from Manchuria to French Indo China 1 infantry moved from China to French Indo China 2 infantry moved from Manchuria to China 1 aaGun, 1 armour and 2 infantry moved from Japan to Japan Sea Zone 1 battleship moved from Japan Sea Zone to Caroline Islands Sea Zone 1 aaGun, 1 armour and 2 infantry moved from Japan Sea Zone to Manchuria Place Units - Japanese 8 infantry placed in Japan 1 transport placed in Japan Sea Zone Turn Complete - Japanese Japanese collect 36 PUs; end with 37 PUs
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Axis & Allies Stalingrad: Early Review and Balance Impressions

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@DoManMacgee

Hey thanks so much for the response, I’m especially interested in hearing from the playtest team experience. My opinions in that post genuinely match my experience but I’m not going to lie, I was also poking a little hoping to be proven/shown wrong.

I’m very familiar with the imbalance in OOB G40, which is interesting especially since the current 2nd edition of G40 already had quite a bit of playtesting and balance incorporated into it; just goes to show how tricky and layered balance is for these games. My opinion here is not that Stalingrad is more or less unbalanced overall, simply that G40 often plays fairly balanced between very new players (who don’t know how to break the game with Axis air) while Stalingrad feels like it is typically going to play very heavily balanced toward the Soviets between new players. I think the learning curve for the Axis is very steep, which you seem to acknowledge; steep to the point for me that I haven’t been able to scale it yet. Your statement that the playtest team eventually reached something like parity in win-rate is encouraging, assuming you are talking about both scenarios (as I still think the tournament scenario feels superbly balanced right from the start).

When I refer to the early Axis learning curve I refer to things like:
Playing with awareness of and trying to take advantage of “No Step Back” Gaining some experience on approaching and attacking into the city from the 3 possible options Gaining familiarity with the force multiplier ability Having played through the scenario at least a couple times and seen how Operation Uranus and Winter Storm actually play out Being sufficiently aware of the supply system to take advantage of attacking the Volga ferries on specific turns etc. Understanding how to play to the victory conditions
I think part of my dilemma is the Axis success seems very dependent on maintaining a good attack tempo, which in turn depends on getting dice when you need them. Having battles not go well without any replacements can quickly lead to a slippery slope quickly.

As for the Soviets getting 100s of RPs worth of units, I don’t see how the Axis can prevent it. The Axis can’t truly penetrate into the city until Turn 4 at the earliest; by that point the Soviets have already picked up ~50 RPs directly, plus another ~40 from the factories, and they’ll continue to get a lesser amount depending on how the fighting in the city goes. That’s in addition to the easily ~100-150 RPs worth of units from Operation Uranus. There simply aren’t enough Axis units to push through the starting Soviet units, deal with these constant reinforcements, AND garrison the RP spaces so that the Axis can eventually get some RPs of their own.

You are correct that bidding was included in the rules as an optional rule, per page 28. I have not attempted this yet but it’s in theory an easy fix for boosting the Axis starting forces. It just feels wrong to have to rely on it immediately without at least trying to understand how the OOB balance is supposed to feel.

Lastly, your historical comments match my thoughts perfectly. I think the Axis victory conditions do an OK job replicating Hitler’s obsession with holding onto his gains in Stalingrad even at the cost of the larger offensive objectives and flank security. However it does feel like the entire box ix focused on a narrow popular view of the campaign rather than the full picture of what the Axis were trying to accomplish. I guess these type of sacrifices are just integral to the Axis&Allies brand, and I can’t overly fault for it.
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while i have 1 game going i can manage 1 more…league or friendly i don’t mind. just have some down time from work now to play! message me if you’re interested in a game of g40!
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League G40 Team Game - Stucifer/Crockett36 v Daaras/FranceNeedsMorePower

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TripleA Turn Summary: Chinese round 9
TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History
Round: 9 Purchase Units - Chinese Trigger Chinese Loses Burma Road: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Closed Chinese buy 8 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;
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Territory Summary for Chinese :
Shensi : 1 infantry Yunnan : 4 infantry Kweichow : 3 infantry Anhwe : 1 infantry Burma : 1 flag, 2 aaGuns, 8 artilleries, 1 fighter and 27 infantry
Production/PUs Summary :
Germans : 63 / 85 Russians : 8 / 0 Japanese : 44 / 47 Americans : 61 / 84 Chinese : 24 / 24 British : 34 / 34 UK_Pacific : 3 / 0 Italians : 13 / 18 ANZAC : 13 / 14 French : 2 / 0 Dutch : 0 / 0 Mongolians : 0 / 0 Neutral_Axis : 0 / 0 Neutral_Allies : 0 / 0 Neutral_True : 18 / 0
Dice Statistics:
Total 1 was rolled 266 times 2 was rolled 247 times 3 was rolled 223 times 4 was rolled 260 times 5 was rolled 249 times 6 was rolled 231 times Average roll : 3.455 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.922 Standard Deviation : 0.960 Total rolls : 1476 Null / Other 1 was rolled 42 times 2 was rolled 39 times 3 was rolled 32 times 4 was rolled 44 times 5 was rolled 40 times 6 was rolled 33 times Average roll : 3.435 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.512 Standard Deviation : 0.716 Total rolls : 230 Germans Combat 1 was rolled 33 times 2 was rolled 36 times 3 was rolled 41 times 4 was rolled 35 times 5 was rolled 43 times 6 was rolled 39 times Average roll : 3.599 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.322 Standard Deviation : 0.568 Total rolls : 227 British Combat 1 was rolled 26 times 2 was rolled 26 times 3 was rolled 16 times 4 was rolled 21 times 5 was rolled 21 times 6 was rolled 20 times Average roll : 3.346 Median : 3.000 Variance : 0.568 Standard Deviation : 0.754 Total rolls : 130 Italians Combat 1 was rolled 15 times 2 was rolled 18 times 3 was rolled 16 times 4 was rolled 20 times 5 was rolled 17 times 6 was rolled 21 times Average roll : 3.645 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.253 Standard Deviation : 0.503 Total rolls : 107 Americans Combat 1 was rolled 27 times 2 was rolled 20 times 3 was rolled 15 times 4 was rolled 25 times 5 was rolled 19 times 6 was rolled 24 times Average roll : 3.469 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.770 Standard Deviation : 0.878 Total rolls : 130 Neutral_Axis Combat 1 was rolled 1 times 2 was rolled 1 times 3 was rolled 1 times 4 was rolled 1 times 6 was rolled 3 times Average roll : 4.000 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.806 Standard Deviation : 0.898 Total rolls : 7 Japanese Combat 1 was rolled 42 times 2 was rolled 39 times 3 was rolled 32 times 4 was rolled 44 times 5 was rolled 40 times 6 was rolled 33 times Average roll : 3.435 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.512 Standard Deviation : 0.716 Total rolls : 230 French Combat 1 was rolled 2 times 2 was rolled 5 times 3 was rolled 5 times 4 was rolled 6 times 5 was rolled 5 times 6 was rolled 7 times Average roll : 3.933 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.483 Standard Deviation : 0.695 Total rolls : 30 ANZAC Combat 1 was rolled 4 times 2 was rolled 1 times 3 was rolled 3 times 4 was rolled 2 times 6 was rolled 2 times Average roll : 2.917 Median : 3.000 Variance : 0.909 Standard Deviation : 0.953 Total rolls : 12 Neutral_Allies Combat 1 was rolled 1 times 2 was rolled 3 times 3 was rolled 1 times 4 was rolled 2 times 5 was rolled 3 times 6 was rolled 2 times Average roll : 3.750 Median : 4.000 Variance : 0.364 Standard Deviation : 0.603 Total rolls : 12 Chinese Combat 1 was rolled 16 times 2 was rolled 18 times 3 was rolled 15 times 4 was rolled 17 times 5 was rolled 13 times 6 was rolled 9 times Average roll : 3.227 Median : 3.000 Variance : 0.613 Standard Deviation : 0.783 Total rolls : 88 UK_Pacific Combat 1 was rolled 16 times 2 was rolled 6 times 3 was rolled 9 times 4 was rolled 9 times 5 was rolled 9 times 6 was rolled 9 times Average roll : 3.276 Median : 3.000 Variance : 0.971 Standard Deviation : 0.985 Total rolls : 58 Russians Combat 1 was rolled 41 times 2 was rolled 35 times 3 was rolled 37 times 4 was rolled 34 times 5 was rolled 39 times 6 was rolled 29 times Average roll : 3.381 Median : 3.000 Variance : 0.415 Standard Deviation : 0.644 Total rolls : 215
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