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@djensen said in BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?:

@Karl7 said in BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?:

Some random photos above. The one of us toasting was after the final game, which was a split decision for Vancouver. I voted for Tacoma but Juan and Joel were for Vancouver. Joel did not participate in the battle. That was a tight game.

Why is there voting for victory conditions? Why not use IPCs controlled or IPCs + TUV (which would take forever to tabulate)?

Joel, Juan and I agreed we didn’t want some gamey tourney conditions, and we felt there was enough time to finish the games or get them to an obvious point where one side would likely concede. Indeed a number of games were conceded. But we ended up having to call (I think) around four of the 9 games. So not too bad.

Anyhow, the guidelines Joel, Juan and I used to call a game was in one part subjective, i.e. looking at the game what side would I immediately be more inclined to play, and objective, i.e. who had more money, more victory cities and better overall strategic position.

Only one game was a split decision, the last one. I raised the issue because obviously you rely on human judgment which can always be questioned. Where you draw the line between arbitrary objective conditions vs more subjective conditions is a debatable balance and one for further contemplation.

@Argothair said in Post League Game Results Here:

@Karl7 It was an interesting game! Germany helped Italy take a pair of British factories in the Middle East with an airbase in Yugoslavia, and was able to take Leningrad early by sending two transports into the White Sea. Almost immediately after we switched to in-person play, I missed an American can-opener in trans-Jordan, with the American transport coming from Gibraltar and the American bomber coming from India to let British tanks from Egypt into Iraq, shutting down the factory. Meanwhile, the Russians went south to help make sure the Middle East fully converted to the Allied point of view.

Germany attacked an Allied beachhead in Normandy with 3 inf, 1 mech, 2 art, 2 ftr, 2 tac, and 1 strat bomber against 7 inf, 3 aaa guns; my battle calculator says that’s an 88% win chance for Germany…but the Allies scored 3 hits on their AAAs and then hit with 5 out of 7 infantry, virtually wiping out the German forces in one round. The Germans only scored 4 hits on 11 dice, so the Allies survived with a large beachhead.

That left very few options for the Axis – I tried hitting a Russian squad in Vologda with 1 mech, 1 tank, 1 ftr vs. 3 infantry, but that also got wiped out in one round, with all 3 defensive infantry hitting. That stopped me from moving in a stack of mechs, which stopped me from threatening Moscow.

I also tried hitting the main US Pacific fleet with the Japanese, probably at somewhat below 50% odds, but that was also a disaster on the dice – sometimes the dice just hate you!

I had fun anyway, and I will always cherish the opportunity to have repaired a damaged Italian battleship at the captured naval base in Singapore.

This was the last league game that I intend to play for quite some time; daily sessions of 1940 Global have been fun, but have been chewing up much more of my time and attention then I prefer to spend. If you’re passing within an hour of San Francisco and want to play a game in person on the weekend, let me know, and otherwise I hope to see some of you at Bloodbath 2020, the Bay Area Invitational Tournament (BAIT), and/or Gencon 2020. Thanks for all the games, and have fun!

We love you Agothair!

@Karl7

are there production limits in this game for factories? I forget.

I haven’t played this version in like 20 years so… a little rusty, lol

@Karl7 said in trulpen's 1st G40 2v2-tourney: Challenges:

@Adam514 said in trulpen's 1st G40 2v2-tourney: Challenges:

@Gargantua @Karl7 adam-dominion challenges you as well! Our preference is PTV then BM. Send your preferred version and bid to me or @axis-dominion .

adam-dominion is also open to challenges, we can play multiple games at once.

Hey Adam-dominion, we may need to see how things shake out on a couple other potential games we are working on the bid on. You guys are the “BOSS-LEVEL” team, so maybe no sense in getting killed before we trounce some minions.

But hold on. We’ll get back to you.

@Canuck12

WHAT!?!?!?

Kyle is an honest man? Careful! He’s the guy who told me I couldn’t buy 6 subs for 24 IPCs! Outrageous!

@gamerman01 said in Post League Game Results Here:

Rankings up to date

And for anyone wondering, I do plan to play a league game again after 3/31.

I only completed 1 game in 2018, and last championship won was 2014?? Time flies. I’d better get back in it so I can still answer questions and adjudicate matters fairly!

You’re a dead man! I will crush you like a malt-ball!

@colt45554

Again!

@gamerman01 said in Post League Game Results Here:

@gamerman01 said in Post League Game Results Here:

I have 35 of my games of '41 scenario in my records (61 games of '42). Bids ranged from 6 to 19 (and most are under 15)

Eh, to be clear, those 96 games were all ones I played, not the community in general. So you could play a lot of games with a lot of people.

If you were losing, it was over quick. You get diced in G40 global game, you suffer for a very long time if you don’t resign.

Just sayin’! G40 isn’t the best at everything! :D :D

My G40 BM games are now at least 18-22 rounds if they are competitive. Once in awhile you get a rout that causes someone to throw in the towel first 5-10 rounds. But not usual. Even if Germany captures Russia, it isn’t over if Allies are in good position. Almost the start of the game really.

Tomorrow Karl7 is going to break in some local NERDS of the Bay Area and make them cry at the Karl7’s Terror Drome! (i.e his house). We will be playing G40 BM.

Karl7 will take the Throne of Command as the Germans! Heil Karl7!

Ray The Killer Chacko is flying in special from IDAHO! to take Japan to victory! Ray personally plans to enact the Three Alls Policy! 鎧袖一触!

The local victims will be:

USA: Variable
UK: Corpo24
Russia: Argothair

Variable also plans to demo the new HGB Midway game.

Beers will drunk, nerds will cry, dice will be screamed at!

I’ll post pics and updates as the slaughter commences.

NO ONE WILL GET OUT ALIVE OR CLEAN!

@Karl7 said in Post League Game Results Here:

@axis-dominion said in Post League Game Results Here:

@Amon-Sul said in Post League Game Results Here:

@axis-dominion said in Post League Game Results Here:

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35055/abh-axis-vs-axis-dominion-bm3-20l

ABH over me, with an early massive dose of luck against the Russians, and that was pretty much over from round 5, altho I managed to stretch it to round 32 and could’ve kept going for another 10 rounds at least.

he openly admitted his strategy was to take whatever lucky chance he could get since he considers himself the weaker player. I do not enjoy playing someone who’s primary strategy is to get lucky. so now I know to avoid playing him and anyone who will have that mindset. while I can understand going for luck if you’re losing and feeling desperate, but to go for such odds right at the outset, before anyone has any real advantage? to make that your primary strategy? sorry but for me, this game is fun because it offers more tactics and strategies than a lot of common games out there, but that gets thrown out the window with this kind of approach (I would have same complaint if the battle went horribly wrong for him, as it would not be any fun for me if he threw the game that early on).

Maybe he only wanted to try 1 round and retreat, but got pretty lucky in that rd1 so he pressed forward?

no, he was taking big gambles like that all game actually, even earlier than that he did same kind of Hail Mary on my fleet in 110, but that came out roughly even. he later did similar big gambles in pac. I’ve actually played him a few times in the past, and while I remember he would like to gamble like this a lot, it never seemed like he would do it as his main strategy. it always seemed like he would do it on a smaller scale here and there, and only when he started losing and getting more desperate. but what bugged me about this game is that he admitted he was determined to try out any such 30 to 50% odds in hopes of getting lucky, and it was so early on that it didn’t make any sense to go for poor odds unless you were just praying for some luck as your strategy.

Ha ha, that’s funny. I guess you got to give they guy credit for having the balls to do it. But honestly, hitting a 40%-50% battle isn’t unreasonable, or even 30% if its small.

I hate to bring this ancient debate back, again, but I think while the battle calc is a useful tool, it isn’t the final word. Minor shifts in dice rolls can flip a battle hard. A few extra hits round 1, BOOM the odds go from 30% to 80% just like that…

As a gaming philosophy, though, I can see the “I am going to hit anything on chance I might win even if it’s unwise” can be annoying.

I guess theoretically if you hit game winning 30% battles all the time your a likely to win 1/3 your games. A 1/3 winning average would actually improve my record against Axis D! HA hahahahahah!

@Elrood Ru8.tsvg

Russia holds on!

Sort of…

@jim010

Jim! I received one of my first major drubbings from you! Jim is back! Gamerman is back! Me1945 is back! Watch out and Cow and Mr. Roboto will be back!

The Earth is healing.

@Elrood

Russia cries at the injustice of it all!

@trulpen said in Post League Game Results Here:

@Karl7 said in Post League Game Results Here:

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35303/l20-1-trulpen-x-vs-karl7-a-9-bm3/75

Trulpen over Karl 7 Allies

Good germany opening.

KILL! KILL! KILL!

;)

Yup I was killed! Felt good.

Oystleilo over Karl7 Axis.

I attacked Hawaii for the win w/Japan, I rolled this round 1:

Japanese roll dice for 5 fighters, 9 infantry, 2 marines and 4 tactical_bombers in Hawaiian Islands, round 2 : 3/20 hits, 7.33 expected hits

Didn’t get much better. I got diced hard.

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35264/g40bml-2020-oysteilo-allies-8-vs-karl7-axis-this-will-not-end-well/186

@Karl7 said in Post League Game Results Here:

Oystleilo over Karl7 Axis.

I attacked Hawaii for the win w/Japan, I rolled this round 1:

Japanese roll dice for 5 fighters, 9 infantry, 2 marines and 4 tactical_bombers in Hawaiian Islands, round 2 : 3/20 hits, 7.33 expected hits

Didn’t get much better. I got diced hard.

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35264/g40bml-2020-oysteilo-allies-8-vs-karl7-axis-this-will-not-end-well/186

Ok, hold this one in abeyance as Oysteilo thinks I still have a chance. Not sure I do, but I will give it a shot.

@oysteilo said in Post League Game Results Here:

@Karl7 said in Post League Game Results Here:

Oystleilo over Karl7 Axis.

I attacked Hawaii for the win w/Japan, I rolled this round 1:

Japanese roll dice for 5 fighters, 9 infantry, 2 marines and 4 tactical_bombers in Hawaiian Islands, round 2 : 3/20 hits, 7.33 expected hits

Didn’t get much better. I got diced hard.

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35264/g40bml-2020-oysteilo-allies-8-vs-karl7-axis-this-will-not-end-well/186

actually it is karl who wins after two massive USA dicings and one Japan dicing. So good game!

Yeah, what the dice takrth, they apparently giveth back…

@aequitas-et-veritas said in Post League Game Results Here:

@Karl7 woah, woah, what happen’???

I did sealion, and Oysteilo dog piled Germany, effectively containing it and started to close in. Japan went hog wild, took India and moved in to take Hawaii for the win. USA attacked Jap fleet off Midway in 20% odd attack, thinking favorable reduction could save Hawaii in long run. Dice smacked USA down, Japanese fleet was left mostly intact, but then Japan attacked Hawaii and got crushed. But Japan had 2nd round option on Hawaii. USA moved to nuke remaining infantry available to Japan sitting in Wake, but lost. End game.

@oysteilo said in G40BML 2020 Oysteilo Allies +8 vs Karl7 Axis, this will not end well!:

@Karl7 said in G40BML 2020 Oysteilo Allies +8 vs Karl7 Axis, this will not end well!:

@Karl7 said in G40BML 2020 Oysteilo Allies +8 vs Karl7 Axis, this will not end well!:

@gamerman01

I think I only had 3 bombers. 4 fts at 12 vs 5 units at 7… dicey.

BUT – you kill the 2 inf and block 26, game over

that was the only possibility at around 34% chance for you to survive

Well, tight game!

@gamerman01

sorry to hear that… passing of the guard!