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I saw ABH’s last comment after I posted. I would still stick to the tournament as we have it, but nothing stops us from also doing a larger tournament every couple of years alongside league play if there is interest in setting it up.

@oysteilo Congrats! I figured this game could go either way, but that you were the underdog given Andrew’s record. I did take a quick look and in my mind, while Oysteilo was in good shape, it was not yet a moment where I would have gambled on that battle. Curious what made you decide this was necessary now.

@oysteilo no worries. no plans on doing a walk in with France.

@oysteilo got it. I misunderstood. I thought you had done the German turn but were having trouble posting it.

Every now and then, for whatever reason, the password that I have saved to triplea gets messed up and I need to reenter it. So that might be one reason. The other issue might be the version you are using. I’m using a prerelease that has corrected the posting issue so that might be a way to fix it too.

@axis-dominion note that on the US turn I edited in a walk in combat with the sub. Had planned it but forgot on the final iteration of the turn.

@oysteilo good game! The dice definitely did not do you any favours here.

@oysteilo we are pretty close Oysteillo, but in this game the dice certainly helped me out.

a couple of more links where this is discussed including a more recent one. https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/39961/chinese-fighter-and-burma
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/16949/chinese-forces/9

@crockett36 I think I probably felt I had to do it to make sure Italy didn’t get to set up securely there. I definitely don’t like losing that air but I also don’t mind making a trade of British air for German even if it is not an even trade.

@Ghostglider said in Post League Game Results Here:

2023 BM4 Playoff - Ghostglider (axis) vs Farmboy (+15)

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/40720/2023-bm4-playoff-ghostglider-axis-vs-farmboy-15/135

Farmboy win over Ghostglider

this was a team effort between me and Marti.

@Martin thanks for sharing. Very sad to hear.

@pacifiersboard good dice for the allies in France and, I suppose 109. But 111 and 110 were brutal. Probably a good thing I didn’t scramble.

@pacifiersboard Its interesting that this issue has come up several times and I still remembered it wrong. I had thought pacifier was right but I found a thread here from panther that confirmed that you can’t do it. If you attack a neutral territory, all the units that fly over must be attacking it. Once it has been attacked (regardless of the outcome), than anything goes.

@pacifiersboard not at my computer but if you are bombing with 2 bombers and a fig and I have 3 figs on defense than definitely

@pacifiersboard GG!

I think we were probably at a point in the game where it was worth the gamble (I think I had turned the game in the pacific and so you needed the breakthrough on the Europe side. And it could have easily gone another way. I had not intended to give you those kind of odds on Russia or Bryansk. On the Soviet turn I had assumed I had an airbase in Egypt (I do in my other game) and so had thought I had at least 2 more air to place in the defense. I’m relieved that it went the way it did.

Your J4 is quite strong and tough to play against. One suggestion though is that you should mix it up. From the beginning I was pretty confident I was playing against a J4 (based on the other games I can see you are playing) and so I made choices based on that, which I think helped me a lot.

@MuddSlinger not sure if someone responded to this already but when you open a game in triplea you cna find a link to register for the dice. I believe it will take you through the steps there although its been a while since I’ve done it.

I don’t use it myself (although I think I did in earlier games). It hasn’t come up for me for a while but I do generally allow it, although I might have to think about it some more in a playoff game. Its not on the whole a major deviation from the default. The outcome is a 7-10 bonus (potentially earlier access to an NO and you avoid losing the transport) for the allies but for a minor power. But I certainly understand why folks would say no to it.

Like a lot of people I ran into trouble with my dice email a couple of years ago. I was using gmail and I found that most of the emails weren’t coming through. I switched to yahoo and that worked great until the last few months. I still get all the emails but most come in several days late. Curious if others are dealing with the same thing and if there an email service that is avoiding these issues.

@Hythem said in L24 BM Hythem vs Farmboy (Allies +18):

Ugh, that was painful, your anti-air shredded me with those two hits. Even if you were rolling 6 anti-air rolls in total.

yeah that was very lucky for me. One hit at this point was more or less expected but not two.

@Adam514 Curious if you had any thoughts/comments on the pacific side of the game. I was quite surprised when you didn’t go for Yunnan. I have seen that combat fail occassionally but never saw someone not bother with it and I had figured, wrongly it seems, that this was something that I could make you pay for. And then I was struck by how much you had to threaten India with J4. My thinking at that point was that I could stack Yunnan and hten I was going to stack Burma and delay your control of India by holding that with China. It became clear after J2 that I would have no chance to do so.

I’m guessing the good J1 and the units conserved from Yunnan helped but I’m wondering if there was anything I could do to save India early. If I had done a better job of stacking India (playing more conservatively with teh British units, getting anzac units in and in bringing the soviet air I think I may have just barely done enough to discourage it for a turn (you would have had 99% odds but with a good chance of losing quite a bit of air). But there were a lot of costs to me in doing that (Among others I really needed that soviet air back on the Europe side). In any case, I was struck by how overwhelming that attack was. For much of the rest of the game I was just trying to do enough to keep Japan from being able to focus entirely on that final VC and I guess I just managed but I felt like things could fall apart at any moment. And I thought maybe you were playing more conservatively than perhaps you needed after India fell.