Posts made by dazedwit

@shadowhawk

SZ 92 is one space inside the Med. SZ 91 is outside the Med and starts the game with a UK cruiser. I’m pretty sure you want the boats in 92 as that is 3 spaces away from 109.

I already did 109 so that’s going forward this game.

I never even thought that could not be a scramble in 109. Now that I know that actually quite probable, that would change G1 buy to cover that possibility. Still send the 3 planes just in case.

I’m going to go through ignore 110 multiple times. Next time I’ll keep all your planes

Started US1 - they bought 2 AC, 2 DD to split on each coast, 1 mech. Big fleet in Hawaii. Didn’t go get Brazil. Collect $52

I tinkered with Japan opener and excited to see how that works out.

@shadowhawk

Okay, you don’t want to play Youtube wars, and that’s fine.

I’ve watched many, many, people from this forum play the game this way with very little problem. They discuss on vid, “I had to call Garg and ask him if he wanted to scramble,” and such. Thanks to technology getting a hold of someone is easier than ever.

My wife went on vacation over a month ago. While she was gone I decided to break out G40 for first time in like 7 years or so. I set it up on the floor of the great room and dogs kept knocking pieces over. I assumed I would pack it up and send it back to the basement when wife returned. She actually suggested getting a table from garage and setting it up so dogs won’t knock over pieces.

So for over a month the game has been set up on table 12 feet from my work station so I’m basically staring at the board at least 10 hours a day (I WFH 50+ hours/wk). Having the board set up and staring at you every waking moment, you come up with ideas. So now every new idea I’m going to set it up and roll it and see how it works.

I joined this forum 6 years ago just to communicate with GHG better. Forum is pretty dead, but I’m so excited playing new strats by myself I’m sharing it here and hoping to get people active again.

I’m finally starting to get constructive criticism (which I’m looking for) instead of, “Try this strat and you will lose,” comments without any comment on the strat or what they would do different, etc.

Having the game set up next to my work station has put a ding in my productivity - prob an hour a day. But I work over 50 hours a week and only get paid for 40 so I’m okay with that.

@dazedwit

SZ 92 fleet becomes really annoying to Germany, but they have counter all set up to deal with that annoyance. All the planes in Gib def could wipe out my counter but I have plans for when that happens. Wait, you said nothing but planes taking out the destroyer on Malta right? so two fighters will be in Malta, and not Gib - two less planes is good for the German counter.

SZ 110 fleet = absolute bloodbath with all planes and boats going down G2 (Italy SB would hit their AB I1 so no scramble).

92 saves offensive firepower for G3

@shadowhawk said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

@dazedwit said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

This is my first go at ignoring 110, and I’m sure each time I give it a go I’ll make some changes. There is a long term strategy beyond G1 but that’s beside the point.

Germany lost 5 planes without attacking 110. 3 of those came by joining the battle of 109 with 3 subs - I intended to lose those 3 planes so I would most likely have 3 subs convoying London for up to 8 dollars and that is what happened. Sending 3 subs to 109 forces UK hand to send all 4 fighters to scramble - you don’t even have to worry about 111 scramble as UK can’t afford to not send every single fighter to try to eliminate as many subs as possible. 3 subs should be able to convoy off 8$. The lost 3 planes were worth it for my strategy - and I knew the planes I added to the battle would take out some of the scramblers - they took out two. German subs got 1 hit, 4 ftr and 1 destroyer got 3 hits which all went to planes and German subs submerged.

Why does attacking SZ109 with subs force the UK to scramble into the SZ? IF you attack with 3 subs and say 3-4 planes im not suiciding my planes for your subs.
This also frees up the plane in 111 to scramble and do real damage. Your only attacking with airforce you committed at least 4 planes to 109 so you can only commit 5 to 111.

Convoy damage is annoying yes but im not trading planes for subs.

Lost the other 2 planes attacking SZ 111 - didn’t involve the BB because he has more important things to do G2. Germany purchased destroyer, SB, ftr with their $30 so they replaced 2 of the lost planes (well, SB for a lost Tac).

So here i would add the extra fighter so you might not even have won SZ111 or have more losses there. No subs to soak damage so everything goes right to the airforce.

Germany conquered all of France, Yugo, Bulgaria, Finland and collected $73.

NOW… you are the allies:

As UK, do you do the London Bulge (send 91 Cruiser to 110, buy two destroyers, cruiser and do Taranto and have a nice sized Atlantic fleet), or do you do the Gibralter Bulge (send BB, Cruiser to 92, and have 91 cruiser, AC and posssibly another boat join to start wrecking stuff in the Med. French Cruiser can join on their turn or stay there, or move down the coast to serve as blocker; buy IC for Egypt, trn and tank for South Africa)

I would buy airbase for gibraltar fly 3 planes from london there. Combine the fleet in the med off gibraltar with the cruiser from 91 and the fleet from 110. Use only planes to kill the italian destroyer. Now i got Fleet + airbase off gibraltar consisting of 1 destroyer 3 cruisers 1 bb 1 AC 1 fighter 1 tactical and 3 fighters on gibraltar.

Your 3 subs are hanging now, if you stay in 109 to do convoy damage i got 1 destroyer in range with 6 planes. If they move they dont convoy me anymore.
Also the italian navy is in a pickle, if they move they are dead, they have to stay together and stay near their airbase in order to live.
And good luck doing sea lion, that fleet can just as easy move back to 110.

What say you for the UK response?

See above, I would not have suicided my planes in the first place, and consolidate my fleet just inside the med. And yea the rest of the income can be inf on london ofcourse.
Good luck italy trying to get me out of there, or even moving around. Might move my strat bomber to gibraltar as well just for good measure.

thank you. I was planning on doing the SZ 92 if I got no responses. I wouldn’t have done AB in Gib so thanks for that tip.

Germany’s turn one buy was strictly to counter the SZ 92 fleet. If you guys like I can show you what happens later and why 3 subs in 109 plays a big part in it. If I didn’t send planes into 109, then UK would scramble 4 fighters and wipe them out and my long term plan wouldn’t work.

This is my first time tinkering with ignoring 110 so I appreciate all comments

@shadowhawk said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

@dazedwit said in I'm tinkering around with a new German opener - ignoring SZ 110:

This is my first go at ignoring 110, and I’m sure each time I give it a go I’ll make some changes. There is a long term strategy beyond G1 but that’s beside the point.

Germany lost 5 planes without attacking 110. 3 of those came by joining the battle of 109 with 3 subs - I intended to lose those 3 planes so I would most likely have 3 subs convoying London for up to 8 dollars and that is what happened. Sending 3 subs to 109 forces UK hand to send all 4 fighters to scramble - you don’t even have to worry about 111 scramble as UK can’t afford to not send every single fighter to try to eliminate as many subs as possible. 3 subs should be able to convoy off 8$. The lost 3 planes were worth it for my strategy - and I knew the planes I added to the battle would take out some of the scramblers - they took out two. German subs got 1 hit, 4 ftr and 1 destroyer got 3 hits which all went to planes and German subs submerged.

Why does attacking SZ109 with subs force the UK to scramble into the SZ? IF you attack with 3 subs and say 3-4 planes im not suiciding my planes for your subs.
This also frees up the plane in 111 to scramble and do real damage. Your only attacking with airforce you committed at least 4 planes to 109 so you can only commit 5 to 111.

Convoy damage is annoying yes but im not trading planes for subs.

If you don’t scramble that’s fine. I save 3 planes that way. 111, you can only scramble the scotland fighter. Germany loses one extra plane maybe two. That’s a win for Germany - instead of losing 5 planes to accomplish the same feat, they lose 3 or 4.

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris

I love the game whether I win or lose.

Back in the mid 90’s I worked with this guy and we were blood enemies. One day I just happened to mention Axis and Allies (original) and he lit up. We then became best friends and played A&A every weekend for the next year plus. We were the A&A nerds and then other coworkers insisted we teach them how to play and they joined us on weekends.

I think it took me nine months to beat him for the first time. Some of our games lasted over a month since we were just playing Saturdays. Shortly before my first win, I had him. I invaded DC with six heavy bombers, and a trn with two inf. He had 2 inf and one fighter defending. Easy win for me. He rolled his AAA and hit 5 ones - and that’s how he kept me from winning my first game against him.

IIRC, I remember games from the original, where buying AAA actually was a legit strategy - they fired at planes flying overhead both to combat and back - so SU would have all these bare territories with nothing but a single AAA

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris

Yes, I’m just playing OOB. The fact that bids weren’t mentioned in my post might have made that apparent. But what do I know.

Again, I’m just setting up the board by myself and messing around with new strats. I sometimes make posts like these to hopefully get a consensus on how whatever country should act next, and not just what I feel like doing. My solo games where strat for a country is the mission, I still get super involved in all countries in the game - and I usually play them all like a maniac which makes it really really fun. I get excited/disappointed regardless of the country on every dice roll.

I’ve been getting some comments like, “you didn’t do this and that’s why your strat is bunk, etc,” so if I can get say 5 people saying to do one thing, and 2 people saying to do another I can go forward with what the 5 people said and so forth.

Cheers

@surfer huh?

*is that an answer to my questions?

I didn’t realize I didn’t have my conquering troops in Paris in first photo. Germany took Paris with 4 tanks, 3 mech, 2 art

@dazedwit

the 3 subs in 109 is also forcing the Uk to buy at least one destroyer on turn one (Gibralter bulge) or two destroyers (London Bulge).

The 3 subs forces the UK to lose fighters, and then spend money on destroyers - or would you let Germany keep convoying?

This is my first go at ignoring 110, and I’m sure each time I give it a go I’ll make some changes. There is a long term strategy beyond G1 but that’s beside the point.

Germany lost 5 planes without attacking 110. 3 of those came by joining the battle of 109 with 3 subs - I intended to lose those 3 planes so I would most likely have 3 subs convoying London for up to 8 dollars and that is what happened. Sending 3 subs to 109 forces UK hand to send all 4 fighters to scramble - you don’t even have to worry about 111 scramble as UK can’t afford to not send every single fighter to try to eliminate as many subs as possible. 3 subs should be able to convoy off 8$. The lost 3 planes were worth it for my strategy - and I knew the planes I added to the battle would take out some of the scramblers - they took out two. German subs got 1 hit, 4 ftr and 1 destroyer got 3 hits which all went to planes and German subs submerged.

Lost the other 2 planes attacking SZ 111 - didn’t involve the BB because he has more important things to do G2. Germany purchased destroyer, SB, ftr with their $30 so they replaced 2 of the lost planes (well, SB for a lost Tac).

Germany conquered all of France, Yugo, Bulgaria, Finland and collected $73.

NOW… you are the allies:

As UK, do you do the London Bulge (send 91 Cruiser to 110, buy two destroyers, cruiser and do Taranto and have a nice sized Atlantic fleet), or do you do the Gibralter Bulge (send BB, Cruiser to 92, and have 91 cruiser, AC and posssibly another boat join to start wrecking stuff in the Med. French Cruiser can join on their turn or stay there, or move down the coast to serve as blocker; buy IC for Egypt, trn and tank for South Africa)

There are plenty of other options and variants to each of these but I think these would be the two most common UK responses. I feel like they won’t be buying inf for London after the gift of their 110 boats surviving G1. But I could be wrong.

What say you for the UK response?

Now…

How does USA respond on their turn 1? Are they spending all in Pacific or Atlantic or splitting? Or buying all land units? With Germany’s moves and buy, I assume that wouldn’t warrant the 3 loaded AC in 102 approach but I could be wrong. US goes after Japan and Japan didn’t attack and is just going after China and Russia on J1 so US is still neutral on their turn with minor factories, etc.

I think I know how each might respond but other minds might have different paths I haven’t thought of yet.

so what say you? how does UK and US respond to G1, and J1 minding their own business?

@shadowhawk

Like I said, lets bring back the Youtube wars. Each country films their turn, uploads, next guy goes. I could play a ton of games online but I will lose interest 10 minutes in and check out. That’s just me. If it were Civ II I’d be up until 3 in the morning playing lol (wow that memory brings me back to 1997).

I think the last Youtube war I saw was 1914 beta test and that was super exciting watching the event cards being pulled - and Russian Revolution happening on earliest possible point because GHG rolled a 12. Communists getting such an early start turned them into a giant.

@shadowhawk

I am on east coast (Massachusetts)

the Youtube wars of the pandemic were awesome. I was so excited to every day watch Hambone, GHG, and so on take their turns. I think we should bring those back. I know people play online and use battle calculators and what not - I just play the board game.

I’m just having fun trying to be creative as it makes the game even more exciting. It would be great to play against other humans.

I used to go into these solo games trying to play as most people would to see if strat works - I would post photos here and ask what would people do on UK turn or whatever… and always got no responses so just plowed ahead. I now go into each solo game starting with knowing the strategy and trying to stop it from turn one - live games I’d prob get at least a turn before they figure out the scope of strat and try to stop it

@MarshmallowofWar said in Red Skies:

@dazedwit said in Red Skies:

I’m sorry, why are you ignoring his PA’s on me. He’s been a complete dick to me in multiple threads. I’ve ignored him up until now. I’m just trying to have fun convos about the game we all love.

I would be shocked if @AndrewAAGamer had actually made a personal attack against you. You, on the other hand, have shown a deep immaturity and lack of experience in the game.

Disagreeing with your ideas is not disrespect. If he is disagreeing with your ideas, it’s because of the depth of his experience has taught him that your ideas are probably based on what works against inexperienced players.

And don’t worry, since he didn’t accept my challenge to a game and acted like a dick again (and why I finally hit him back) I finally blocked him. He and one other guy seem to be following me around and acting like dicks for no reason. I’ve ignored them both until today. I’m surprised the other guy hasn’t shown up yet.

I have no idea why he would accept your challenge. Inevitably he would defeat you and then you would almost certainly insist that you got “diced”. However, so far the only person I’ve seen acting disrespectably is you.

If you want to play a top tier player, improve your play. A good start to that would be listening to their opinions.

Marsh

Yeah, his last post to me was that I was playing against a two year old. Yeah, that’s not a pa.

Don’t bother replying. I was having a nice convo with you until now.

And I’m up for a game with anyone. I have complete confidence in my abilities in this game.

@MarshmallowofWar said in Red Skies:

@dazedwit said in Red Skies:

@AndrewAAGamer

are you dumb? 37 is not 42

3 bombers = $36

1 bomber, 10 inf = $42

1 bomber, 10 inf = $42

1 bomber, 9 inf = $39

Yeah, magical mystical sub can to to SZ125

I spent every Germany dollar on tanks and SB’s, and nothing else until G5 (which some inf thrown in with any extra dollars). Buying a sub to send up there takes one tank off of Eastern Front. I played Germany as ferocious offensive juggernaut to see if Red Skies could hold them off. And I went cobra kai so ignored Baltic/East Poland.

Luckily I was able to destroy the 2 year old I was playing against. He was way better at the game than you.

@dazedwit Your ad-hominem attacks are not appreciated. I know @AndrewAAGamer and he’s an amazing player, probably one of the best in the world. Before you get moderated before these personal attacks, I just wanted to warn you against them.

Marsh

I’m sorry, why are you ignoring his PA’s on me. He’s been a complete dick to me in multiple threads. I’ve ignored him up until now. I’m just trying to have fun convos about the game we all love.

And don’t worry, since he didn’t accept my challenge to a game and acted like a dick again (and why I finally hit him back) I finally blocked him. He and one other guy seem to be following me around and acting like dicks for no reason. I’ve ignored them both until today. I’m surprised the other guy hasn’t shown up yet.

@AndrewAAGamer

are you dumb? 37 is not 42

3 bombers = $36

1 bomber, 10 inf = $42

1 bomber, 10 inf = $42

1 bomber, 9 inf = $39

Yeah, magical mystical sub can to to SZ125

I spent every Germany dollar on tanks and SB’s, and nothing else until G5 (which some inf thrown in with any extra dollars). Buying a sub to send up there takes one tank off of Eastern Front. I played Germany as ferocious offensive juggernaut to see if Red Skies could hold them off. And I went cobra kai so ignored Baltic/East Poland.

Luckily I was able to destroy the 2 year old I was playing against. He was way better at the game than you.

@AndrewAAGamer said in Red Skies:
If that is the case, then your strategy, while already heavily flawed, depends on a 2 year old being your opponent.

I am always up for a game. I will even use some of my strategies against you.

@AndrewAAGamer
I played Germany super aggressive- (Cobra Kai route) to see if Red Skies would work against a determined Germany. Germany attacked on G1. so 37, 42, 42, 40 (may be off a dollar on last one but still 1 SB, 9 inf). Everyone raves about Cobra Kai so I did that. No idea how strategy would hold up on the northern route.

When I decide on a strategy I stick with it. I sacrificed a tank on R2 to take back Bessarabia and give Moscow one extra turn to stack up.

With this strategy, one option you have is to pull out all your bombers (maybe a tank?) when Germany is one space away - then bring them back in with the Siberian troops to take Moscow back next turn and cripple Germany for at least a few turns.

@MarshmallowofWar

the purpose of this strategy, besides being heretical, was to try to develop something where Russia could stand alone without the allies coming to the rescue. And I actually bought six bombers. 3 bombers, 1 bomber 10 inf, 1 bomber 10 inf, 1 bomber 9 inf.

All those bombers performed several functions that altered how Germany wanted to get to Moscow.

• The Major IC in Romania didn’t place a single unit after turn 3 (and didn’t place a full load on turn 3 thanks to bombing). You could also bomb Berlin IC if you choose.
• Germany forced to keep it’s entire force together to avoid having small pockets wiped out by Red Skies. For this strategy you want Germany to keep it’s large force together in one territory so you can finally attack with your six bombers, tank, art, and 30 inf.
• Germany couldn’t risk trying to bomb Moscow IC. Planes can’t follow the army as they can’t land in newly conquered territory. Army couldn’t split up to protect them because of Red Skies - so they mainly parked in Romania waiting for the Battle of Moscow. Germany had a ton of planes and quite a few bombers. They were going to take Moscow if and when that battle came.

For all future games I will at least be doing a version of Red Skies. Buying 3 SB’s turn one every time.

I rolled this strategy two different ways.

• Germany buying 10 tanks for Romania G2. Germany got wiped out just outside of Moscow.

• Germany buying 10 inf for Romania, and 5 tanks for Berlin. Didn’t alter Russian response. Germany won this battle with 2 tanks remaining.

Infantry is the most important unit in this game.

Anyway, I just love having fun coming up with new strategies I haven’t seen before. Some work better than others. I roll them out and see if there is any merit to them. Youtube gets to see my failures too. I just finished a series for Japan strategy I shared here last night.

My newest Japan strategy. Do you worry about your fleet getting out of position trying to sack Calcutta? This strategy has almost your entire fleet back in SZ 6 end of J2 and Calcutta falls J6. (Or you can annihilate the Serbian army and then sack Calcutta turn 9)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC5zN4iV9YdEH0yGwdDM36i0QUevTcNa6