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@gamerman01 That sounds lovely. I am hopeful I have a chance to buy my parents’ house when they move out of it. They’ve remodeled every room, built a 2-story addition, and built a lot of landscaping features over the years. Both while I was growing up and helping, and since! Hoping they can make it a few more years before they need to downsize & find a single-story house.

Scramble to Southern France, only. GL GG

@gamerman01 Definitely. Juicy target and should give Japan some extra breathing room from having that fleet swing back to India

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris Ah yes not sure why I thought it was a playoff game! 😆

It’s quite a change from the typical subjugation of China most games see. I saw a post from Andrew saying he wanted to try and tackle the China stack instead of ignore it. would be interesting to see how much of a difference it could have made if Japan had ignored them and gone for the J2 still.

@aequitas-et-veritas To cancel Siberian lend-lease NO, there must be an “enemy warship”. So Japan must be at war with Russia for it to cancel.

Yeah, I reread that comment and it sounded more pessimistic about the dice than I meant it :) I was hopeful to get a full carrier + auxiliaries, worried I’d get terrible dice and you’d be sitting on my porch with 3 CVs and 2 fresh transports in SZ 7 ready to take & hold Hawaii. Would be difficult at that point!

TripleA Turn Summary: Chinese round 3

TripleA Turn Summary for game: WW2 Path to Victory

Game History

Round: 3

    Purchase Units - Chinese
        Trigger Chinese Artillery Supplies: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Open
        Chinese buy 2 artilleries and 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Chinese
        1 infantry moved from Szechwan to Hopei
        1 fighter moved from Szechwan to Hopei
        3 infantry moved from Szechwan to Tsinghai

    Combat - Chinese
        Battle in Tsinghai
            Chinese attack with 3 infantry
            Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Chinese roll dice for 3 infantry in Tsinghai, round 2 : 0/3 hits, 0.50 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Tsinghai, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                Chinese roll dice for 3 infantry in Tsinghai, round 3 : 0/3 hits, 0.50 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Tsinghai, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Tsinghai
                Chinese roll dice for 2 infantry in Tsinghai, round 4 : 1/2 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Tsinghai, round 4 : 1/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Tsinghai
                1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Tsinghai
            Chinese win, taking Tsinghai from Japanese with 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -3
            Casualties for Chinese: 2 infantry
            Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
        Battle in Hopei
            Chinese attack with 1 fighter and 1 infantry
            Japanese defend with 1 infantry
                Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Hopei, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Hopei, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Hopei
            Chinese win, taking Hopei from Japanese with 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
            Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry

    Non Combat Move - Chinese
        5 infantry moved from Szechwan to Yunnan
        1 fighter moved from Hopei to Yunnan

    Place Units - Chinese
        1 infantry placed in Kansu
        2 artilleries placed in Yunnan
        1 infantry placed in Szechwan

    Turn Complete - Chinese
        Chinese collect 9 PUs; end with 9 PUs
        Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 12 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Chinese regular : 0.00
Japanese regular : 0.67

Savegame

@nikola1975 said in L24 PTV: Nikola1975 (Axis +12) vs. Stucifer (Allies):

It might have been too easy for you, this one?

I was worried about that armour stack coming through Ukraine for a while, but the lack of power up north let me shift everything down to Stalingrad. I think that is one of the clearest strategic errors in hindsight. 2nd was not taking Crete both to give Germans the NO and also to force a reaction from UK. For your bid as Italy if you are going to go Med I think a destroyer in 99 and an infantry in Tobruk is a better spend. Or a mech + armor between Albania and Northern Italy for a hard Barbarossa.

Although I would really stress bidding more units to Germany or Japan is more effective use of your money. If UK decides to roll the dice on the Toranto attack, even with the 3 plane scramble you are hard pressed to not lose those units as Italy, and if you do any naval buildup will be very slow and tedious. I like to try and feel the UK strategy out, let them risk the attack in 99 and take advantage of the board position that opens up elsewhere.

@mikawagunichi said in L24 PTV MikawaGunichi (X+12) vs Stucifer (Allies):

@Stucifer No scramble.

Knowing my tendencies as well as you do, I assumed your strategy to protect Hawaii was to offer me up that 50/50 battle to sink the remainder of the US fleet, which I was strongly tempted to do.

I wish I had been that clever, this was definitely just a brain fart on my end but thank you for giving me so much credit xD

@nikola1975 I agree with all of those points.

1. Iceland the battle went well for you but gave me breathing room as the UK to put more money into Egypt without worrying about a Sealion. I almost didn’t scramble the fighters because losing those ships doesn’t put me any further behind than I usually am as the UK in the Atlantic with a German naval build on round 1.

2. Definitely put Italy to the screws and kept my income as UK to the point I was barely putting resources into the Med as the US. I think if you don’t do Sealion you are probably best off with Germany focusing on either supporting Italy getting its NOs in the Med or with Italy focusing on getting some income in Russia that can’t be convoyed and supporting Germany with a strong mechanized can-opener force, going for the Southern Caucasus hard.
   I also prefer to push hard to Leningrad early and often build a 2nd transport in the Baltic to shuck 4 infantry in each round. This has the added benefit of making Norway a less tantalizing target to the Allies. It also lets me exert pressure on Moscow early while pivoting mechanized to Stalingrad, ideally forcing the USSR to retreat and only trade it by round 5 or 6. Italy if supporting can rush through to capture Southern Caucasus and at that point I should be around 80+ with Germany.

3. Guinea/Solomons is a good NO to suffocate the ANZAC but you have to have really good fleet positioning to keep the flies away. Priority is always the money islands for me, but denying ANZAC or UK is pretty high too. I really like the Wake Island hold as the US if I can get away with it.
   The Phillipines/SZ36 seems underrated in a lot of games I see as the primary staging area for your main fleet.
   I like SZ37 and use it a lot but it, doesn’t have the reach to SZ55. From 36, you are forcing the Allies to use either 2 blockers or not hold 55. 36 also supports amphib attacks on Wake, Marshall, Gilbert, all of Indonesia, Queensland, and Malaya, while being able to retreat to SZ 6/7 to defend the Home Islands if necessary.

Generally I think attacking the USSR as Japan isn’t worth it, I almost always empty out Manchuria Korea and push south. If the soviets attack me, they don’t get the infantry, and I can use a couple subs between 5 & 6 to stifle any extra income they’d be getting. Eventually my economy is going from the big money in Indonesia that I can shuck some forces into Manchuria & Korea to retake that income and eventually chase them off the coast just by having a large air force and a bunch of transports for my Phillipines/FIC shuck in SZ 7.

Most A&A games are like sniper matches, lots of movement, few shots, utter destruction most of the time something lands.

This is as you say, daggers to throats. It brings to mind competition longsword fighting: quick short bouts with some quick footwork and a lot of hits back and forth!

@Culann said in Find League Opponents Thread:

Hi all! Newish player looking to try a few games. I have some limited experience in all three games.

Welcome my friend!

@mikawagunichi No prob. I forgot to move the russian sub too. Will edit to 93 during US turn

@gamerman01 😂 you should, moderators aren’t supposed to be bribing the dicebot! 😜

Certainly seems like a good way to learn. Who were the competitors? I didn’t start playing global until a little over a year ago, only had Anniversary and that was plenty for me and my one friend I could convince to play ;)

@gamerman01 not to distract you from returning to OOB, but if you ever wanted to try it out in the Play Boardgames area I’d be down.

@gamerman01 I was planning to buy 3 AA guns if you retreated, I believe I had 21-22 IPCs, so 3 AA and a couple infantry. Wanted to maximize my chance to get kills on your the first attempt

@koala Welcome back

OOB isn’t as big as it used to be but there’s still an active community here for sure! Gamerman and I are currently playing quite a wild match with tech.

Thanks for the mention, did a little map painting and don’t mind the way it turned out

@max334 headed out of town for a few days, so no rush 😄