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@pacifiersboard I forgot to update my dice email but seem to be getting them again on yahoo so all good. I will update on Italy

@pacifiersboard and now I just added the right email, so that won’t be an issue anymore.

@zlefin I dont mind accepting edits after the fact of a combat where no dice needed to be rolled. It happens. Just want to confirm that a fighter can reach and still land where it is now, but am pretty sure of that.

@pacifiersboard said in farmboy (X) -vs- pacifiersboard (L +56) OOB, alternate bidding:

@farmboy

it fights at least in first round of combat

right choice!

@pacifiersboard I assumed no scramble in 33 given the odds and TUV change but can redo if you prefer.

@zlefin I don’t think there is anything that limits it but I also don’t think the effect would be that dramatic either. @gamerman01 can probably speak more to it. The difference also is limited in that my OOB score is siginficantly lower than my BM score (I’ve just played a lot more BM). I’m guessing I would lose somewhere between 50 and a 100 in a loss.

And no problem if it is definitely over.

@zlefin No worries if you want to stop. And I don’t want you to exacerbate any health issues either. Rather than call it we can also just end it here without a declaration. And if down the road you want to continue it or start a new game, just let me know. It was a fun game with some unusual (in a good way) twists and turns.

@pacifiersboard and max d in 6

@gamerman01 my suggestion is that we don’t call the game at this point. It can just end without anyone being declared a winner. I dont need to claim it. And we can always return to it if Zleflin feels up to it later.

@zlefin Holding Carolinas is definitely useful for Japan. It just always becomes harder to hold India and keep China at bay if you have to pull enough air that far east. In my mind, you made a mistakes both in not making sure you could hold India (you could have at that point without giving the US too much space to operate, and then in letting me grab Korea.

THe allied landing in Norway was my major blunder and I really just threw away a good board position. Even if you hadn’t taken london as a consequence, it was a wasteful and poorly thought out move on my end. I felt a bit rushed because I knew Germany was going to get Caucasus and Volgograd so I wanted to deny another NO. But I did still have time, and I should have been abslolutely sure that I could have held it (and London). I should have just held onto Normandy. You probably could get that back eventually, but it would have been harder and I would have pulled more of your units away from the Soviets.

I find allied landings are doable usually. I sometimes can’t get Normandy, Southern France or Norway at first, (but that means again that Germany is spending away from the Eastern Front to keep those safe. And you also have to protect Germany. But if I can’t get those, I can usually get Greece so I often end up there first.

@zlefin There is still some risk to German air if they go for 110 and 111 without a bid, and the UK scrambles. But without a bid, its is now more likely that the trade off will be quite bad for the allies. And so the full scramble becomes far more of a risk.

@zlefin I don’t really have a definitive answer here as I rarely end up doing a sea lion. If I do it in the early game, it will be because the axis have a 100% odds and so likely a positive tuv exchange. If I do it later game, its either because I’m close to winning (and so again I’ll probably wait for 100% odds) or I’m desperate and the opportunity arose (where I’m probably more prepared to risk worse odds and a potential tuv loss.

I tend to scramble 110 and 111 if the outcome in each battle is a better tuv exchange. The dice can burn you and make you more vulnerable to sea lion. But more often than not, the trade in air makes sea lion harder for the Germans, and one can effectively win a game G1, if the dice burn the axis instead. I also think that aggressive axis openings are often assuming that the allies will avoid the risk of a scramble. In a league setting where how one plays becomes a bit of a known quantity, the fact that I do tends to make axis opponents more risk averse and so I often don’t see both 110 and 111 getting hit.

I also don’t usually do Taranto. I do think it is a good move, but I favour Gibastion, which has the benefit of making sea lion harder even if the dice favoured the axis G1.

@pacifiersboard phew!