Best posts made by FlyingBadger

@Martin You caught me out with the preliminary attack by the Italian air force, and I sacrificed the destroyer - forgetting the Germany has 4 subs… Luckily France is now the dominant force in Western Europe.

@Martin said in L24 OOB Martin (X) vs FlyingBadger (L+40):

The Führer has now fully replaced High Command, while the new High Command secretly considers replacing the Führer. Should the UK and Germany not be Allies?

For the first time in World War II history, France was building a fleet.

After the battle of SZ110, Stalin just said “hold my beer” - or was it “hold my Vodka bottles”?

The Egyptians have started to wrap the pyramids with bomb proof material

LOL

As an Eglishman, there is no greater pain than needing to rely on the French.

@gamerman01 said in L24 OOB Gamerman01 (Axis) vs FlyingBadger (Allies+51) #1:

OK to change CM like this after you’ve given decision, right? OK?

Yeah, no problem, make whatever changes. I’m very chill about people making changes or going back to make edits, I’d rather they have a fun game. In future just go ahead and make whatever amendments, unless someone is re-rolling combat dice I usually don’t care.

@Martin said in L24 OOB Martin (X) vs FlyingBadger (L+40):

Are yo not overly optimistic that Germany/Italy will make it another 12 rounds? And only one slight miscalculation can lead to the Japanese people speaking US-English…

Britain and her empire in the middle and far east under severe pressure and in decline.

The US is fully committed to an naval arms race against the Japanese, the Pacific is their only concern.

This leaves Europe ripe for COMPLETE FRENCH DOMINACE!
There will be a new Imperium Francicum!!
LONG LIVE KING CHARLES XI, the Emperor of Europe!!! All Europeans will rejoice at becoming French!!!

@Martin I must say that I have enjoyed our game, as usual it has been great fun. I think you would have won by now if I hadn’t made some desperate gambles and had a lot of luck. Also, having France is a significant nation in the game has been interesting, they don’t normally get to do much.

Typically, you have forgotten about Italy’s great contribution to the Axis effort…

@Martin said in L24 OOB Martin (X) vs FlyingBadger (L+40):

I was just figuring out how many turns it will take Japan to land in Washington DC, when I realised that I needed to adjust a ncm by bringing two inf to French Indo China instead of Korea

It will be the turn after France holds Rome, Berlin and Tokyo…

Sorry, been busy, should be able to make my tuen tomorrow.

@Martin The Armée de l’air is now equipped with state of the art French bombers!

@Martin said in L24 OOB Martin (X) vs FlyingBadger (L+40):

I don’t think there was a single battle without maximum suspense…

This is what I love about our games. Every battle feels critical and we live or die depending on a dice roll.

@Martin said in L24 OOB Martin (X) vs FlyingBadger (L+40):

Do you scramble to SZ110? Will them rusty Hurricanes make it to the sky?

Yes, scamble them both, the quality of the pilot will make the difference.

Once again - thank you for your patience! And I will need to ask you for even more patience, soon, as I will leave for vacation, on Friday…

No problem, you go into hiding from the might of the Allies.

@Martin said in L24 OOB Martin (X) vs FlyingBadger (L+40):

We will go to Malaga. This is to find a nice place to escape to in case the great war will be lost. Plan B if you want.

Usually it’s Argentina…

@Martin said in L24 OOB Martin (X) vs FlyingBadger (L+40):

As announced, I will be on a one week vacation, starting tomorrow.

Hope you had a nice holiday and uncovered some interesting intelligence on Allied naval activity in the Mediterranean. It has taken me all week, but I have formulated a plan… will post soon.

@Martin said in L24 OOB Martin (X) vs FlyingBadger (L+40):

Literally nobody likes uncle Josef Wissarionowitsch Stalin - he will be asked to leave again! First in a friendly way, and then (most likely) in a rather unfriendly way…

The results of an NKVD survey showed that 174% of Russians love Stalin! And the troops are extremely motivated to keep attacking (by the machine guns pointed at their backs)!

@Stucifer Will post later, sorry for the delay.

@gamerman01 I have some moves cooked up, will post later. You are making it difficult in the Pacific, please withdraw to you territorial waters now!

I am not so sure about that ;-)

When Churchill informed De Gaulle that the British would be withdrawing to Normandy, Charles was furious. Due to his rage it was hard to understand what he was saying, but some words heard included… perfidious Albion… betrayal… repeat of 1914… repeat of 1940…

Although Winston was unhappy at retreat, and feared this would now leave Europe in the hands of Stalin, he could at least console that he had annoyed the French.

Was it the South France carrier trick that did it?
Disappointing way to lose a big navy

I didn’t spot that as an option. Was hoping to keep the threat of the transport in play whilst I built naval reinforements, and those forces would have been needed to move to the Middle East if you kept up the mechanised push through the Caucasus. Those land units are now pretty much useless now in Gibraltar and Morocco.

It’s very unfortunate some big fleet battles can’t be rolled in TripleA. I sincerely hope you don’t have any qualms with how I handled the resolution of battles here, so please let me know if you have any concerns.

No qualms from me. Now that I know how to play them by the rules, handling those large and mixed naval / air battles when subs are involved is very tricky!

India is facing essentially 0 chance of survival, Hawaii has 0 chance, and it is impossible for the Allies to take them back, so 6 victory cities achieved.

Yes, it’s basically been over for a round or two, but I don’t mind giving my opponent a round or two to enjoy the dominance before conceeding (and before it gets boring).

Good game, and let me know if you still want my observations through UK7 and how you want to bid for game 2!

Thanks for the game, you made me nervous a lot!

Thanks you, I have enjoyed this game. I have learned a lot just from playing against you (e.g. use of forward islands with planes in the Pacific to threaten enemy fleets) and I will go back and look at the game again to see what else I can discover.

Your choice of a G2 and J2 DOW was interesting, I don’t often face those combined so I’d like to hear if that was pre-meditated or triggered by the situation on the game board. Please send me any feedback you have on my play, any opportunity to improve my knowledge of the game is gratefully received.

Before this game I didn’t know anything about you but who you’ve played and how you did.

You’re as classy and friendly as anyone!! I hope you’ll complete the bid for game 2 and that we can start anew soon!

Thanks for the compliment! I have enjoyed playing and testing myself A&A royalty. I have enjoyed this game, thank you patiently teaching me the correct rules. Thanks for this game Gamerman, I have enjoy the spirit in which this game has been played!

I’m happy to play again with you as the Allies, my Axis play is probably weaker than my Allies but I would like to see how you play the Allies and hopefully learn something from that. I’d be interested to see how you play with your +44 bid, but if you want to take my bid/placement then that is fine with me. I leave it up to you, feel free to set up you bid whenever you want to start.

L24 OOB Gamerman01 (Axis) vs FlyingBadger (Allies+51) #1

@gamerman01 over FlyingBadger

I managed to keep it respectable for the first few rounds before @gamerman01 stopped toying with me and gave me a paddlin’

Thank you Gamerman for the game, it was enjoyable and I have learned at least three rules which I have been merrily breaking for 50+ games! I promise I will complete my homework of reading the rulebook and TripleA notes…

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/41110/l24-oob-gamerman01-axis-vs-flyingbadger-allies-51-1

@gamerman01 said in L24 OOB Gamerman01 (Axis) vs FlyingBadger (Allies+51) #1:

You put on your profile:

“About 10 years ago I downloaded TripleA and played 2 or 3 games over email at TripleA War Club. Enjoyed it, but left it at that. Got TripleA again, found this site, and had a blast since then.”

That is awesome.

In our younger days, me and my friends would spend a lot of time playing Risk whilst drinking larger before heading off to he pub for the evening. One of my old Risk / Drinking buddies had mentioned a board game he had called Axis & Allies, describing it as like Risk but more comlicated. He did show me the box, looked interesting, although we never played.

As we got older and settled down we couldn’t do this anymore. Years ago I was looking up ways to play Risk online or by email as a way for us to play again, not sure how but I ended up finding a computer game called TripleA based on Axis & Allies. Downloaded and played it, seemed fun and found an online place to find opponents called TripleA War Club. I remember playing some games on there, but then didn’t play TripleA for a while. Not sure what happening to it, or how/why I started playing TripleA again, looking at my joining date for this site it was probably a lock down! I refound my love of WW2 history during Covid lockdowns so probably followed on from that.

So basically, I play TripleA because I used to get drunk playing Risk, then got old and then Covid happened…