In addition, the battle of Taranto didn’t happen until November 1940 and this game starts in May of 1940. The ridiculously compressed time scale led Larry to the conclusion that the English needed to be able to attack R1. Anybody have any games where R10 felt like 1945?
I agree that the Italian looks under-represented, but you would probably have to also increase the number of English naval units as well, to scale things.
sorry, that’s Noll’s decision not mine, I’m just giving advice!
Scramble 2 Italian fighters! Let’s take the English navy with us!
believe it or not, once I survived the aa gun shots with only 1 hit, my chances were even above 90%, the chance of the aa hitting 2 or 3 planes is what kept the original odds around 90%.
you hit 54 out of 121 in your opening round, in your simulated results right now, you didn’t even get close to that, best of 10 was 47 hits, 7 less than what actually occurred, so I stand by my statement that the result was flukey.
and thanks for at least acknowledging that I had some bad dice in that last battle.
the fact that it came down to a battle the axis could have won, and possibly won the game if they won the battle, is some indication that the game isn’t horribly unbalanced – now I realize that you and Jen want to teach me how a crush Russia strategy will unbalance this setup.
Truthfully, although this is interesting for me - and I really believe this plays out like WWII more than any other version, I think we need to give the new Krieghund modifications a chance.
Amazing how we had a major battle in Ukraine in the Winter of 1943-44, how the italians pushed on Stalingrad - albeit from a different direction in Winter 1942-43, how the destroyer-submarine warfare in DEI played out.
The stalemate in the Pacific is a bit of a problem; however, even the standard 1940 game doesn’t really promote action that reminds me of the actual war. I think we need cheaper transports and amphib assault rules.
try 121 shots at 2, 10 times or even a hundred times. Then try 12 shots at 2, you’ll see there’s a lot more variability as a percentage of the expected in the smaller number of dice.
I said certainly greater than 5%.
since the expected number of hits is 6, probably greater than you believe, certainly greater than 5%,
1.) UK fleet in 91, 98, 110, 112 move to 111 (includes tac bomb on cv)
2.) Naval base in Scotland
3.) airbase on Gibraltar
4.) fighter on Malta and gib removed, moved to Scotland
5.) interceptors shoot at 2
6.) USSR Dow rights delayed to Round 6
7.) USA DOW rights delayed to Round 8
8.) One consolidated income for UK, to be used as they see fit
9.) Amphib Assaults attack at -1
10.) France and Italy switch sides?
anyway, at the end of the day, I’m not ready to comment on balance after 1 game, but I do believe that it played out like WW II.
I think we agree that this is a game of dice, and the dice can be crazy.
although it is a shame, because it would have been awesome to play out the game with the expected result.
I’m not crying here, I’m just trying to confirm that I can trust the odds calculators or not.
but you sacrifice more than 13 to get it. Â
ok - but I don’t believe that the game came down to that.
and you didn’t have even 50% odds, you were playing for luck.
I might have been able to retake, in any case, you were actually taking shots at battles with less than 50% odds.
