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@barnee Correction the ‘chat’ and ‘notification’ buttons display if you click on the profile picture. Try using CTRL + F, seems to use the web page search rather than the one for the browser.

@martin Round 13! The siege of Moscow continues…

I’ll just a take a moment from our epic war to say thank you for this game. I have found it very enjoyable! So much going on across some many different fronts, every decision feels critical, with moves and counter moves. I hope my future games of A&A are as much fun.

@cds said in FlyingBadger (Axis) vs CDS (Allies) - PtV:

@flyingbadger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yph7j9sugqs

Its in dutch, but look at 1.04.00 and youll see what the russians did to stop the blitzkrieg…

Just use more bodies until it slows then down… a little different from the steel rather than flesh approach of the Brits and Yanks. Stalin never seemed too bothered my the body count.

@martin No problem, just let me know when you decide.

Snapshot of the situation.

@avner said in Tutor game: trulpen (X) vs Avner [and everyone else] (A+23) BM3:

Damn … not even a shot … can I ask for Cunningham’s head?

Careful, I think he tried to have Kesselring assassinated but he’d moved hotel… he might come after you too.

@martin said in L21 Martin (Axis) - FlyingBadger (Allies + 30) OOB 2nd ed -low luck:

@FlyingBadger holy… I was awfully careless. When I checked your scrambling question on the mobile phone, I assumed that the Americans go for Denmark again to open the straight for the British once more. SO this did not happen, and the British go for Norway. So please no scrambling at all :pray:

Looking at it, I really should have gone for it again :face_with_rolling_eyes: .

You can add the roundals in the View menu

@avner Are we going to try and stall the fall of Novgorod by placing 3 infantry there?

@martin I had just assumed you had it covered so never looked if I could repeat it. I did wonder why you had upgraded a factory and not used it. Good to know that rule.

I had a shock when I loaded the game and a lot of my ships had gone! You’ve wiped my out of the Pacific a few times, thank goodness for the American economy!

@avner said in Tutor game: trulpen (X) vs Avner [and everyone else] (A+23) BM3:

Staying in Szechwan, however, even with the Russians helping, could mean China out of the game in the third round…

Reattaching yunnan I don’t think is possible… retreat to Sikang?

If the primary goal is to stay alive then Sikang is the only realistic option I think, anywhere else and Japan can wipe out China next turn and then move onto India. If China can give India an extra turn, maybe India can give Sydney and Hawaii two extra turns to build up and hold onto the last Pacific VC.

@martin No problem.

It’s taken a while to build up the French so they can defend themselves, but hopefully freed up the UK to help out Russia and the US to try and deal with those pesky Japs!

@martin Oops, I did make the moves. Must have forgotten to post it. I’m out today, but will do that this evening.

@martin If you want to plan then I didn’t do anything exciting with the French. Just took the last African territory and Holland with the fighters and minimal infantry. I think I placed 3 artillery in France and 1 in Southern France, also maybe 1 infantry in Normandy and another in the South.

@martin said in L21 FlyingBadger (Axis) - Martin (Allies + 30) OOB 2nd ed - low luck:

@flyingbadger Yes please with two fighters

There’s some fight in these Russians. Very well, let battle commence! :guardsman:

@martin No problem.

Hope you had a good German Father’s day.

@aequitas-et-veritas said in L21 PtV FlyingBadger (AL) vs AetV (AX+8):

We agreed on a slow paced game.

We are also relaxed about edits if we may fall foul of an expected mechanic (Scrambling ,Land scrambling etc…)

@FlyingBadger
I wish you Good Luck and Have Fun!

Yep, totally happy with playing it this way. Good luck to you, hope we both have fun and also mutually improve our play!

@aequitas-et-veritas said in L21 PtV FlyingBadger (AL) vs AetV (AX+8):

@FlyingBadger Scramble to Normandy and or sz113?

Note: also allready a minor mistake by me. I took three Ger Inf into Normandy instead of just two. Are you ok with ignoring one German Inf during this battle to leave him stay in Belgium, bc of the NO Bonus?

Let me know if you are fine with it.
Thank you.

No scramble into the Channel (SZ113).
Yes to scramble to Normandy from France.

I’m completely fine with you making that change.

@aequitas-et-veritas

I’ve probably played about 6 or so games of PtV as the Allies, most German openings have been taking Normandy and Paris whilst attacking chunks of the Royal Navy. Triggering Vichy seems the right thing to do also. Your purchase of the major IC was interesting and would like to see the long term affect of Germany being able continually drop a lot of units close to both Russia and the Middle East.

That purchase does free up the British to buy offensively on UK1. My initial reaction was that it would allow Germany to aggresively push through Ukraine and into the Middle East and get around Moscow or towards India depending on strategy, dice, etc… but at the expense of giving Russia or the UK opportunities elsewhere on early turns.

I liked the mix of units purchase G2 and G3. You’re not badly poised with Germany for the assault on Russia, especially in the south, and the only Allied shipping is on the other side of the Atlantic. Italy is controlling most of the Med as well so that’s one less thing for Germany to have to worry about at the moment (I have been much more aggresive towards Italy in more recent games as the PtV objectives can let Italy become a difficult problem for the Allies if not given enough attention).

Russia does have a bit more of a sting in PtV, in another game I have captured Finland with nothing in Norway to stop me and have nearly 60 IPCs of income on turn 3!

I’ve attached the save file from the best German play I’ve experienced so far, Adam514 is kicking my butt in this game (I have just offered him a draw if he asks nicely :wink: ).
triplea_37205_8jap.tsvg

I’m not the most experienced player but those are my thoughts for what they are worth. If you have specific questions I’m happy to try and answer them. I will be asking you for feedback once the game is settled.

@aequitas-et-veritas said in L21 PtV FlyingBadger (AL) vs AetV (AX+8):

@flyingbadger said in L21 PtV FlyingBadger (AL) vs AetV (AX+8):

@aequitas-et-veritas

I’ve probably played about 6 or so games of PtV as the Allies, most German openings have been taking Normandy and Paris whilst attacking chunks of the Royal Navy. Triggering Vichy seems the right thing to do also. Your purchase of the major IC was interesting and would like to see the long term affect of Germany being able continually drop a lot of units close to both Russia and the Middle East.

That purchase does free up the British to buy offensively on UK1. My initial reaction was that it would allow Germany to aggresively push through Ukraine and into the Middle East and get around Moscow or towards India depending on strategy, dice, etc… but at the expense of giving Russia or the UK opportunities elsewhere on early turns.

I liked the mix of units purchase G2 and G3. You’re not badly poised with Germany for the assault on Russia, especially in the south, and the only Allied shipping is on the other side of the Atlantic. Italy is controlling most of the Med as well so that’s one less thing for Germany to have to worry about at the moment (I have been much more aggresive towards Italy in more recent games as the PtV objectives can let Italy become a difficult problem for the Allies if not given enough attention).

Russia does have a bit more of a sting in PtV, in another game I have captured Finland with nothing in Norway to stop me and have nearly 60 IPCs of income on turn 3!

I’ve attached the save file from the best German play I’ve experienced so far, Adam514 is kicking my butt in this game (I have just offered him a draw if he asks nicely :wink: ).
triplea_37205_8jap.tsvg

I’m not the most experienced player but those are my thoughts for what they are worth. If you have specific questions I’m happy to try and answer them. I will be asking you for feedback once the game is settled.

It was very interresting to read your thoughts and opinions about our game and PtV in general. For my self, i have nearly the same thoughts as you.

If one side does bad, you still have the other side of the whole theatre.
What really frustrated me was the fact that PtV has a much greater impact than BM3/4 on this matter I think. While you now have more options with Japan, the time window for Germany is closeing in faster.

Maybe that would be the propper solution to play PtV without a bid at all by simply extend the supplyline EUS vs Gibraltar by one additional SZ.
But this needs to be discussed elsewhere and should not come now from me since I play Axis and would wish for some sort of inner relief :blush:

At least I also know that I am doing not sooo bad, wich is something.

You’re doing fine, I’ve only played 8 games of PtV about 7 of those as Allies and most opponements have struggled with Germany even though they are experienced in other versions of the game.

I’m new to G40, BM and PtV so I’m learning each at the same time, but I maybe players who are used to G40 and BM are having a hard time unlearning that Russia is easy to take. They have a bigger income and the map is harder for a quick strike towards Moscow, perhaps the most improtant change is the loss of Russian factories on capture. These all mean the Germany can quickly lose momentum against Russia, however if it’s other fronts hold then they will grind down Russia eventually. I experience this in G40, BM and PtV because I’m learning how to optimally play Germany all all forms of the game. Maybe you are just not matching your own expections, but maybe the expectations need to be recalibrated for now!

I like your idea of making the mid-Atlantic bigger, and could balance well with Russia’s ability to stand for longer. I would find it nice if the Allies were forced to convoy via Iceland as I’m always interested in doing things the historic way (but only if it makes competitive sense).

@trulpen said in L21 #1 trulpen (X+6) vs FlyingBadger (A) P2V:

Oh, sorry, missed this post somehow.

No problem, I just assumed my Russian moves were so amazing that they blew your mind and you were re-evaluating all your life choices… or you were busy.

@StickyBomb Edited a non-combat move, hope that’s okay. This was the original “plan” but panicked as I thought the ANZACs would can open the screen and let the US in to destroy the fleet if left off the Philippines. Just remebered that the US go before the ANZAC… :drooling_face: