Best posts made by Martin

Looks goo so far :-)

@trulpen :grinning: Give me a few weeks to improve my skills a bit, and we can have a re-match :sunglasses: :+1:

@Ragnell804 @The_Good_Captain Dear both,

I have a quick rule question. I thought I was sneaky, doing a strategic bombing before conquering that territory same turn, but this leads to an error message. Can you please advise if it is still possible? If bombing raid comes first, this should be possible. Thank you :-)

TripleA version 2.6.14476 Good luck and have fun!

Economic victory: Germany and Japan are victorious if they have a combined National Production Level of 84 Industrial Production Certificates at the end on one complete round of play meaning every player has had a turn). Russia is free to attack on turn 1.

@martin I corrected my losses in Yougoslavia from 2 to 3 in order not to have an advantage from restarting the match. And I added two fighters to your scrambling against my sub, as it is w/o risk for you.

Normally yes, and nothing in the spam folder. I receive all other dice emails through.

As the need for extra dice is really rare, I can live with the command line in the forum. But thank you!

TripleA version 2.5.22294 No Tech, Russia cannot attack on turn 1

Good luck and have fun!

@myygames I give up. Congratulations - well played! I already posted the result.

Of course my actions around Caroline Islands were a desaster. But apart from that, I didn’t make any progress around the globe but just stepped sideways and backwards. Somewhat you overwhelmed me. At least I held Moscow ;-) Good luck for your next games!

@Ragnell804 @The_Good_Captain @dawgoneit @elche

It looks like the rule that “Russia cannot attack on turn 1” pays off - 75% of Axis victories so far. This rule is new to elche, Dawgoneit, and me, and I guess we still need to adapt. At least when playing the Allies :-)

As there is some apparent interest in playing Classic competitively, e.g., from @kwaspek104 and potentially a number of additional players, we could consider starting a Classic league, in 2025, similar to the ones in place for 1940 Global OOB, Balanced Mode, and Path to Victory. The question is which rules shall be played, and if there shall be some bidding process.

I do not know why, but TripleA didn’t let me move the US AA gun in the non-combat movement phase, so I edited the gun to Western Europe.

I will do Russia, in the evening.

40651 Classic Round 06 US.tsvg

Game History

Round: 6

    Purchase Units - Americans
        Americans buy 1 armour, 2 infantry and 2 transports; Remaining resources: 9 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Americans
        1 bomber moved from Russia to Karelia S.S.R.

    Combat - Americans
        Strategic bombing raid in Karelia S.S.R.
                Germans roll AA dice in Karelia S.S.R. : 1/1 hits, 0,17 expected hits
            1 bomber killed by AA
            Bombing raid costs 0 PUs

    Non Combat Move - Americans
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        1 armour and 4 infantry moved from Finland Norway to North Sea Zone
        1 armour, 4 infantry and 3 transports moved from North Sea Zone to West Spain Sea Zone
        1 armour and 4 infantry moved from West Spain Sea Zone to Algeria
        3 fighters moved from Finland Norway to Algeria
        1 bomber moved from East US to Russia
        2 infantry moved from East US to East US Sea Zone
        2 infantry and 1 transport moved from East US Sea Zone to North Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from North Sea Zone to West Europe
        1 transport moved from East US Sea Zone to North Sea Zone

    Place Units - Americans
        2 transports placed in East US Sea Zone
        1 armour and 2 infantry placed in East US

    Turn Complete - Americans
        Americans collect 33 PUs; end with 42 PUs
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Americans to West Europe: 1 aaGun
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Americans from Finland Norway: 1 aaGun
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Germans AA : 0,83

@myygames thank you - no scramble at all

@dawgoneit @The_Good_Captain @Ragnell804 @elche

Dear all,

We can already congratulate The Good Captain for the undisputed victory of our small tournament! There are still games going on or to be started, but no player will be able to reach TGC’s current 7 points. Congratulations - very well played!

The US have also taken the lead in the nations’’ ranking.

In the 15 games played so far, the Axis have won in 47% of the cases. This shows that restricting Russia from attacking on turn 1 makes sense with the Allies still having a slight advantage.

https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=120069D2430781F6!846&authkey=!AJaivysx6pBsGhQ

As always, please check and let me know in case I did some mistake with the results or with the table.

40651 Classic Round 07 UK.tsvg

At this state of the game, I would appreciate a bit more luck - which I always (!) have, when doing a local test run, LOL.

I don’t know why, but TripleA is always giving me a hard time with the British ncm. There was one transport which I didn’t use, and which was free to move in the ncm phase. Maybe it forgot that the AA gun was on the Russian transport. But I do not think so - when I try again locally, it lets me move four transports after unloading the AA gun - see the “transport test” file below".

40651 Classic Round 07 UK TRANSPORT TEST.tsvg

Game History

Round: 7

    Purchase Units - British
        British buy 2 armour, 1 fighter and 3 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - British
        1 transport moved from West Spain Sea Zone to North Sea Zone
        1 armour and 2 infantry moved from United Kingdom to North Sea Zone
        1 armour and 2 infantry moved from North Sea Zone to Finland Norway
        1 armour and 2 fighters moved from Algeria to Anglo Sudan Egypt
        2 armour moved from South Africa to Anglo Sudan Egypt
        2 infantry moved from United Kingdom to North Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from North Sea Zone to Finland Norway

    Combat - British
        Battle in Finland Norway
            British attack with 1 armour and 4 infantry
            Germans defend with 2 infantry
                British roll dice for 1 armour and 4 infantry in Finland Norway, round 2 : 1/5 hits, 1,17 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 2 infantry in Finland Norway, round 2 : 0/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Finland Norway
                British roll dice for 1 armour and 4 infantry in Finland Norway, round 3 : 0/5 hits, 1,17 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Finland Norway, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                British roll dice for 1 armour and 4 infantry in Finland Norway, round 4 : 1/5 hits, 1,17 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Finland Norway, round 4 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Germans and 1 infantry owned by the British lost in Finland Norway
            British win, taking Finland Norway from Germans with 1 armour and 3 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
            Casualties for Germans: 2 infantry
            Casualties for British: 1 infantry
        Battle in Anglo Sudan Egypt
            British attack with 3 armour and 2 fighters
            Japanese defend with 1 armour and 8 infantry
                British roll dice for 3 armour and 2 fighters in Anglo Sudan Egypt, round 2 : 3/5 hits, 2,50 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 armour and 8 infantry in Anglo Sudan Egypt, round 2 : 5/9 hits, 3,00 expected hits
                3 infantry owned by the Japanese, 2 fighters owned by the British and 3 armour owned by the British lost in Anglo Sudan Egypt
            Japanese win with 1 armour and 5 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -30
            Casualties for British: 3 armour and 2 fighters
            Casualties for Japanese: 3 infantry

    Non Combat Move - British
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Adding units owned by British to West Spain Sea Zone: 1 transport
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        2 fighters moved from Russia to North Sea Zone
        1 aaGun moved from North Sea Zone to Finland Norway
        1 transport moved from South Africa Sea Zone to Mozambique Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from West Canada to East Canada
        1 fighter moved from North Sea Zone to United Kingdom

    Place Units - British
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by British from North Sea Zone: 1 transport
        EDIT: Adding units owned by British to Algeria: 1 armour
        EDIT: Removing units owned by British from United Kingdom: 1 armour
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        2 armour placed in South Africa
        1 fighter and 3 infantry placed in United Kingdom

    Turn Complete - British
        British collect 23 PUs; end with 23 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Japanese regular : 2,00
Germans regular : -0,33
British regular : -1,00

TripleA Turn Summary: ANZAC round 5

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0.0

Game History

Round: 5

    Purchase Units - ANZAC
        ANZAC buy 1 fighter and 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - ANZAC
        3 transports moved from 52 Sea Zone to 28 Sea Zone
        1 armour moved from New South Wales to Queensland
        1 artillery moved from New South Wales to Queensland
        1 infantry moved from Queensland to New South Wales
        1 fighter moved from New South Wales to Queensland

    Non Combat Move - ANZAC

    Place Units - ANZAC
        1 fighter and 2 infantry placed in New South Wales

    Turn Complete - ANZAC
        ANZAC collect 8 PUs; end with 9 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

Dear all, excuse my longer silence. I share the situation of TGC with full time job, family, and currently moving.

I still need to post the final table of our 2024 tournament. By occupying Spain for the first time, I finally won against elche and claimed 2nd position in the ranking :-) As I was so unfortunate to delete the table from OneDrive, I need to re-create it and publish it here, shortly.

I like the idea of a “real” league, like everybody playing everybody twice with switched sides. This is how we played in our tournament. But as this is not soccer and a game last longer than 90 minutes, the maximum was already reached with five participants. After a speedy start, we barely finished all 20 games during the calendar year.

So with a “real” league with return games being out of the question, how would the sides be decided, as there is no bidding process?
A tournament like the Playoffs in OOB, BM, and PtV will not satisfy everyone, as 50% of the players will be kicked out in round 1 and will only have one official game during the calendar year.

One possible way to do it is the way the Champions League is organized. You have a group phase, and the best one or two players of each group qualify for the final stage (semi or quarter finals). And there could be some seeding with the top players playing in different groups.

The disadvantage of the above is clearly that no new player could ever enter during a calendar year! This is the clear advantage of how the existing A&A leagues are organized and played. And we should definitely at all times enable new players to join and to market our leagues, that way.

Yet another way of getting some ranking and frequent playing is the “pyramid scheme” I know from tennis clubs. You have a pyramid with the #1 on top, #2 and #3 in the second row etc. And any player is entitled to challenge any player from the row above. I hope I explained that well. So player #7 could always challenge players #2 and #3

	               #1
                #2		#3
        #4	#5		#6	#7

In my humble opinion and long story short, it appears that the league style à la OOB. BM, and PtV is the perfect set-up for such an anticipated number of 8-14 active and regular players. There should just be a strict limit to the minimum number of games played before having a rematch (2nd game) with another player.

I like the idea of restricting Russia from attacking in round #1 and forbidding the conquest of neutrals. Personally, I like tech but not in official matches. Tech should not be the standard but allowed if both players agree on that.

Last but not least, an ELO would be very nice. I had started to look for Chess tournament software which could do the job, but for time reasons I did not get far. It would be nice to get away from Excel.

For 2025, I could set-up another “fancy” table (thank you for the compliment 😊), but it would initially only be with ranking, no rating, while looking for other solutions. The table would always be work in progress, as I like to add features like country ratings (based on international matches only), statistics etc. No guarantee for 2026 though.

All of the above is food for thought only. Excuse my disorderly post – I am writing this between first coffee and leaving for work, LOL.

Ouch, I didn’t realize that South Africa has three coast lines including one with the Mozambique Sea Zone, LOL.

Well, I guess it is time to resign. The US can bring Japan down to below 84 IPCs, this round, but it will no longer be possible afterwards.

When KGF doesn’t work and Japan turns into a monster, there is not much you can do.

Very well played - thank you for the lesson.

TripleA Turn Summary: French round 5

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0.0

Game History

Round: 5

    Purchase Units - ANZAC
        ANZAC buy 1 fighter and 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - ANZAC
        3 transports moved from 52 Sea Zone to 28 Sea Zone
        1 armour moved from New South Wales to Queensland
        1 artillery moved from New South Wales to Queensland
        1 infantry moved from Queensland to New South Wales
        1 fighter moved from New South Wales to Queensland

    Non Combat Move - ANZAC

    Place Units - ANZAC
        1 fighter and 2 infantry placed in New South Wales

    Turn Complete - ANZAC
        ANZAC collect 8 PUs; end with 9 PUs

    Combat Move - French

    Turn Complete - French

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

@VictoryFirst I would strongly favor playing with new complexes.

@gamerman01 said in L24 OOB cwglee51 X vs Martin L+44 #2:

I don’t see any Russian aggression on Japanese territories bordering Mongolia, or Korea, so Japan’s blitz of Amur should have triggered the Mongolians

Maybe the odd combination of Russia DOW + Japan blitzing Amur rather than attacking a unit
confused it?

@gamerman01 said in L24 OOB cwglee51 X vs Martin L+44 #2:

I don’t see any Russian aggression on Japanese territories bordering Mongolia, or Korea, so Japan’s blitz of Amur should have triggered the Mongolians

Maybe the odd combination of Russia DOW + Japan blitzing Amur rather than attacking a unit
confused it?

Thank you very much for your quick help, @gamerman01 !

Have a good weekend and Happy Easter!🙂

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 6

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0.0

Game History

Round: 6

    Purchase Units - Russians
        Russians buy 9 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Russians
        1 fighter moved from Timguska to Russia
        1 tactical_bomber moved from Kansu to Russia
        4 infantry moved from Timguska to Kansu
        2 infantry moved from Yakut S.S.R. to Yenisey
        1 submarine moved from 119 Sea Zone to 125 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Tsinghai to Shensi
        1 fighter moved from Russia to Rostov
        1 armour moved from Russia to Rostov
        1 infantry moved from Russia to Tambov

    Combat - Russians
        Battle in Rostov
            Russians attack with 1 armour and 1 fighter
            Germans defend with 1 mech_infantry
                Russians roll dice for 1 armour and 1 fighter in Rostov, round 2 : 1/0 hits, 1,00 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 1 mech_infantry in Rostov, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                1 mech_infantry owned by the Germans lost in Rostov
            Russians win, taking Rostov from Germans with 1 armour and 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
            Casualties for Germans: 1 mech_infantry
        Battle in Shensi
            Russians attack with 1 infantry
            Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Russians roll dice for 1 infantry in Shensi, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0,17 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Shensi, round 2 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Shensi
            Japanese win with 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -3
            Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry

    Non Combat Move - Russians
        1 fighter moved from Rostov to Russia

    Place Units - Russians
        9 infantry placed in Russia

    Turn Complete - Russians
        Russians collect 22 PUs; end with 22 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Japanese regular : 0,67
Germans regular : -0,33
Russians regular : -0,17

Savegame