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@Adam514
Yeah, @AndrewAAGamer is right, I can tell already after a few games.

Just going from the 20-25 bids we used to have in 2015 to 40-42 now, it changed the game

I played a lot of 0-10 bid (when everyone was), and 10-20, and some low 20’s (which is when you started playing here)
and I only lost 1 as Axis, but several as Allies, so a similar experience to yours.

But you get it up to 40 and you’ve got a game. And it is a much better feel (than bids 0-22). When Russia can actually resist you and make more money, you do not have unlimited time and some of the gravy options the Axis used to always be able to count on are not really there.

Thank you ,
Did a couple little noncoms during placement phase, too, was trying to get it posted for you tonight

Players like @Karl7 were particularly fond of the re-roll years ago, like 1 per player.
League rules are not changed for things like this, including some tweaks to the OOB game that crockett36 was bringing up, which led to this whole discussion.

Preferences like the re-roll, even if popular among a number of players, will not make its way into the league rules or defaults because they are departures from A&A.

So you will probably not have a hard time finding a player who likes your idea and agrees to do it, but there is no way I’m changing the league rules for house rules because everyone has the right to play pure A&A.

League rules address issues like declaring fighters on carriers because Triple A doesn’t do it, or time limits for making a move.

I appreciate everyone’s participation and ideas, but I want to make it clear that the vast majority of these discussions will not change league rules because #1 is not pushing or requiring players to play a house rule. The BM and PTV mods are fully supported by the league because they are separate from the OOB. In the case of BM, it is a collection of many “house rules” but no one is pressured to play it, is the point. The OOB version is the default that will not be changed.
The BM version, also, has a default that is what the designers made it, so again, even with BM no house rules are incorporated in league rules for the same reason.

@pacifiersboard That’s true, I almost didn’t even consider/calculate it, and then was surprised at the odds

Checking situation -

Wait, I was confused again, wasn’t I, the fighter can land on North Italy.

I will scramble to the UK attack.

@pacifiersboard said in 2024 Playoff OOB Round 1 Pacifiers Board (+42) v Gamerman01:

@gamerman01

do you want me to wait with rolling so you can reconsider after you slept?

I do understand the scramble factors, what occurred to me (I mean, I can’t see finished US turn yet) is that UK planes will be able to land in North Italy, so as you said, I do not scramble, although scrambling has a 10% chance of stopping the whole thing.

As you said, I will not scramble to 95 OR to 97 either because more planes will be stuck on North Italy

@pacifiersboard said in 2024 Playoff OOB Round 1 Pacifiers Board (+42) v Gamerman01:

@gamerman01 said in 2024 Playoff OOB Round 1 Pacifiers Board (+42) v Gamerman01:

@gamerman01 said in 2024 Playoff OOB Round 1 Pacifiers Board (+42) v Gamerman01:

I will scramble to the UK attack.

Check that, I’m tired.

I will NOT scramble to the UK attack because you can only land one plane on the carrier and get away with 2 bombers. But after all the confusion you have me second guessing myself on everything. All planes will have 1 movement left, so 1 will land on carrier and the rest on North Italy.

this may make you think over scramble to US assault … I gonna wait

That is very considerate of you, but I’m confident I figured out what I want to do.

Do not scramble to 95, and do not scramble to 97. Those Italian pilots are heaving a sigh of relief now.

@pacifiersboard said in [2024 Playoff OOB Round 1 Pacifiers Board (+42) v Gamerman01]

I have wondered about your hope like this - dice coming

I think I understand,

It’s because I couldn’t bear to watch such a plan destroyed by dice

I asked Panther how to rearrange pinned topics, and I’m happy there is the capability,

So all I’m saying is, the pinned league topics have been organized and are in a different place than you’re used to - enjoy!

(I didn’t want the new Classic discussion to be the topic on the top!)

@gamerman01 said in Classic 2nd edition discussion:

I can go on if this is not enough for you to see what I’m saying

Actually, what I’ll do if you’re not satisfied, is ask a couple of my super ace players to write up a short explanation and pass that on to you, or have them post here directly.

If the ELO + bid system was broken, believe you me several players would have cried bloody murder years ago

To your second response, I’m glad I was able to communicate it well enough that it’s not a misunderstanding anymore.

To your first response, OK, thanks for that, I know where you’re at, better now

So the game by game bid is a beautiful thing.

If you set a bid (for global for our example) at 30, then both players may want the same side. You could flip for it, but then someone is disappointed they lost the flip. Since you are going back and forth, when one player has gone as low as he is willing to, both sides are satisfied.

I totally understand the argument against a bid, that it is changing the game setup. This is why @The_Good_Captain set official optional rules that get the game quite close.

So in the tournament, if it’s not easy like it was easy between you and me, then either bidding can be done or some other way to come to an agreement that no one is disappointed, getting the side they didn’t want.

Bidding is so popular in the league I’m not used to anyone questioning it or complaining, so if you really don’t have much experience with it yet, of course it would be a good idea if you tried it a few times

I believe I can prove you wrong.

This isn’t chess. The huge difference is the sides are definitely not equal, chess of course has 64 squares, alternating colors, and exactly the same pieces on both sides. Therefore, no bid is necessary, but white has tempo and I believe has a slight advantage if I recall correctly, so sides are switched. Soccer is the same. They switch sides in football and basketball at halftime because there are slight differences.

Axis and Allies is massively different. Even playing 2 sides and keeping the same setup does not make the sides equal.
In Classic with base rules, the Allies probably win 75% of the time or something, it’s horribly “imbalanced”. So if equal players played 2 games, each would win with the allies the vast majority of the time.

A bid necessarily gets the game onto even footing. It is not a handicap at all, which is what your extra queens are. This is where the huge difference lies, in that you are not putting extra pieces on an even board.

Global is also uneven, as proven by hundreds and hundreds of games. We tracked for many years the win % of each side, and as the Axis kept staying above 50%, the bids need to increase. The bid is game by game, determined by each player. The bid will always stop when one player says nope, I can’t go that low. That means he is satisfied with the setup, and so is the other player, who probably would have gone a bit lower.

IT IS NOT A HANDICAP, I think that is the major piece you’re missing. It is essentially what both of the players agree is a fair setup. You are not giving more bid to the other player because you think he is weaker than you. I can go on if this is not enough for you to see what I’m saying

LOL I see how I was ambiguous,

I mean I need to destroy all your units in the world, only then could I stop you from surprising me

No scramble

@VictoryFirst said in L25 Classic VictoryFirst (Axis+3) vs. The_Good_Captain (Allies):

For the ratings of this year to make sense I think we should stick to the ruleset of the ongoing Classic tournament.

Of course I am very happy you guys are playing a regular season league game already. I didn’t post my default league Classic rules yet, but I will now, in the main post of the Classic league discussion thread.

It won’t be final, especially in the likely event th @The_Good_Captain points something out,

BUT do not worry, you and your opponent in league can play whatever Classic rules you agree to, game by game. This is how the league works. The default is for when you don’t agree on something. So if one player wants Russian restricted attack, and the other doesn’t, but wants a bid to make up for it, then you will not be able to play until you agree. The fallback is the league default, which is Russian restricted attack.

@gamerman01 said in L25 Classic VictoryFirst (Axis+3) vs. The_Good_Captain (Allies):

@VictoryFirst said in L25 Classic VictoryFirst (Axis+3) vs. The_Good_Captain (Allies):

For the ratings of this year to make sense I think we should stick to the ruleset of the ongoing Classic tournament.

Of course I am very happy you guys are playing a regular season league game already. I didn’t post my default league Classic rules yet, but I will now, in the main post of the Classic league discussion thread.

Actually, I’ve put it in the overall 2025 league rules instead. Classic has made its entry to the League Rules, and so is very officially in the league.

Way to go @elche , you brought me back to the roots

This thread is to separate the discussion of the Classic edition as it (hopefully) makes an entry into the league.

Links to Classic rules and clarifications have been inserted in the 2025 league rules, along with the default league settings.

If a rule in the default league settings is really significant and needs to be added or removed from the league default settings, talk to me about it and maybe it’ll be modified.

The minimum # of games required for the playoffs is that a player complete 6 games in 2025. This is tentative, but the games are often pretty quick, so I think it should be about right, if we get the participation I predict.

@simon33 said in League General Discussion Thread:

I really like this idea although the actuality of the details might make it less likeable. It’s always struck me as weird that you invest in research and can’t direct where the investment goes!

The way I think of it is the nation is pouring a lot of money into all kinds of research, but only breakthrough here or there, or the breakthrough comes too late, and it is very unpredictable.

Think German rockets, German jets (too late), atomic bombs (never), for example

Someone liked a post (not this one) on a 12 year old Sealion thread (shortly after the rules had been firmed up from the Alphas), and I bumped into this nearby post

Apparently I forgot the lessons I had learned. It’s long, but thought you would enjoy:

I wrote this in 2013:

I have never lost as Allies when G attempts Sea Lion
We are getting to the point where we invite a Sea Lion attempt
If you don’t pressure Russia, Russia will kick your butt.  Especially now with the 3 IPC NO per territory, which was another change as of Alpha2/3 somewhere in there.

Dog pile Russia.  If the Allies don’t lose, they win.  If the Allies don’t lose Russia, they will almost always win.  There are exceptions, of course.

To answer the question of the thread “Sea Lion worth it?” I would say, yes, when UK has a lot of money to plunder and you can take it fairly cheaply (without losing your entire fleet to Allied strike after taking) and/or you can take it and hold it at least for awhile.

I would not attempt Sea Lion with less than about 80-90% odds and also a very high chance of losing only a couple of aircraft.  If you’re looking at a 60% chance of taking London with 1 tank and losing most or all of the Luftwaffe - no way.
You don’t win G40 2nd edition just because you successfully took London.
Again, I have never lost after losing London.  It’s best to go full bore after Russia, because Moscow is the biggest threat to the Axis win.

Show me a game where the Axis win after taking London first (in the first 5 or so rounds) and I will show you an Allied player who didn’t do his job, or got horribly diced, or both.  A good Russian player will be licking his chops when he sees the Germans attack London, and should absolutely mop up (assuming London is reasonably defended and G loses most ground units and several air craft, which they almost always will)

New rules that make Sea Lion less rewarding since OOB, Alpha1 version -
Russia AND USA immediately enter the war if London falls
No more NO for London for Germany
AAs can be taken as casualties and UK gets 5
Transport in 113 moved out of range to 114
UK can scramble 3 aircraft from Scotland and UK (for those who don’t remember, weren’t aware, you could not scramble from the UK or Scotland at all, OOB)
Russia gets 3 IPC NO for every single original Axis, pro-Axis Europe/Africa territory (this is a pretty serious deterrent)

@VictoryFirst I’m going to put that in the first post for you