@the_good_captain said in Find Opponents Here!:
@mike64 to “play by forum” now you need to copy and paste the turn summary into the posting field of your thread and then attach the latest game file to the post.
The automatic post feature has been disabled for about a year now…
I did not know this. Very good. Thanks cap!
General,
Hey, I’ve been playing around in the Middle East lately as well. I no longer do Tobruk or Taranto. I’ll post a vid soon. I find the big choice to be made is India or Egypt. With one of the current metas putting Japan in India turn 3 or 4, I drain India significantly and stymie the Italians. Then double back East as America attempts to grab their attention.
Interestingly I love how certain battles happen during different rounds. Turns one and two and three your planes could be protecting London or Egypt. Those same planes might make it to India to defend it. turn 3, 4 or 5. Potentially those very same planes might make their way to Russia during turn 5 or 6 to defend the motherland.
We play Catan because my wife likes it we have a lot of the expansions. And never the regular game always cities and knights. Boys like risk or occasionally diplomacy. Just got in the seven wonders not sure I like it. I like pandemic wits & wagers for party games flu and monopolies are great standby conquest of the empire must be in the list.Love that game
@Argothair So, I support the French navy with the aircraft carrier and two fighters, maybe two cruisers. That stays where it is–in the Med. It invites an attack by the Italian navy. Meanwhile the Indian Ocean fleet approaches from the East. Into the Med t3. My forces in almost abandon Egypt to capture Iran and Persia and the Horn. Two transports are dropping soldiers where needed with bombardments. The Indian air force comes to Syria.
Purchases. 3 destroyers off England, 109, mech in S Af. Second turn, factory in Persia and more destroyers in 109.
I will try to do a t1, t2 video for the Allies tomorrow, but it might have to wait until Sunday or January. I’m a UPS guy.
Fantastic! Young guys rolling the dice! Awesome!
@aardvarkpepper That s the Captain. The Good Captain is already a playtester for n africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtziXSzJR6o&t=240s
give it a try and let me know what you think.
@weddingsinger ouch! and sweet! that’s the kind of losing I can get behind! bombers, yummy.
argothair,
Is there a map you like, one that you are thinking of? I would like to blow up Europe, the Med, Eastern Russia and the area around the Burma Road. I would also like piece markers for the plane movements.
You seem a little cynical. I’m guessing there are plans in the works for a new release. I’m hoping that the game after that can be more of a hybrid. I am sure some of this info is making it’s way to the top.
@DermMannInDerHochburg Yes, it’s playable history and what if, but I get jazzed when I can make it happen the way it did.
We all need at least one staff officer!
I have to return the black Elks points that I’m not sure about the idea if a balanced game because of different skill levels experiences Etc rather we need a system 2 handicap the game the product because you can’t do enough platyests to see down the road what a thousand playtests will bring. And I m one of his playtesters so I want the optional rules in the back I want complex mods add expansion packs that will accommodates the novice as well as the advanced player and unforeseen strategies.
Let me also make the point that if the bids are between 6 + 10 that’s pretty close to balance. Thats a patch. Even 30 to 50 for global, a game with as many moving parts and rules as Global 40 is pretty impressive. If you can balance it with 10 Russian Troops or a tank and plane that’s pretty good.
I just still want the voice from on high. By the way what does a r g o t h a IR mean? And did you love axis and allies Europe 1999? The map I mean. I did.
This is actually part of a larger plan. As I’ve emphasized above. Save London by bringing the US fleet into the Atlantic. Secure the Atlantic by building a British navy that is backed by the Americans. Thus insisting early on that Germany build an Atlantic wall. Save Moscow by preserving air power and positioning it to be in Russia t5, possibly including a fleet of American bombers that can either act as fodder or better blitz a column of straggling armour or mechs.
Note there is a play like progression. The axis attempt for London is normally t3. check. They do that by dominating the Atlantic. check. They turn toward Moscow. t5 or 6. check.
This stuff in the Med takes place because of initial set up. My hope is for parity. I am trying to scratch my way back to even and to not needing a bid by saving English units, making the Axis pay the higher price, stay wealthy and play for good position t5.
I think Italy will not be able to keep up with the production from South Africa and India and Persia. Having secured North Africa by t3 or 4, that material then turns East. The ground forces to fight the Japanese. The air to support the Russians.
These strategies are obviously a Germany first model. I do think, given the tip toward the Axis inherent in the game, the Americans have to go 100% the first four round in one theatre or the other.
If Moscow is defended, the planes there then become what I call super tanks. They will, can and must engage small forces or important enemy armies to slow the Japanese advance.
My definition of wealth is “having options.” Poverty, therefore, is a lack thereof. Mechs until the wolves are outside the walls.
