Does the defender decide to spend supply in any or all attacked territories at once or is it per territory in the order the attacker chooses?
Example here, the UK could raid Benghazi to destroy supply while attacking Mersa Brega and Tobruk.
If Axis can spend all supply up front they can defend both territories, if not the Attacker could choose to resolve Benghazi first and has a good chance of there not being any supply remaining for Germany to defend in Mersa Brega.
@gamerman01 I have 1914, I actually really like the contested territory mechanic. I think it’d be a better game if it was a little more focused, drawing the scope out to include all of Africa just made the pivotal spaces on the board like Belgium uselessly small for how many stacks of units end up in there…
Should check out the good captains YouTube series on 1914 if you want a deep dive on it!
@tmartin Thorpe Thump won the tournament at GenCon in 2023 for the Allies.
https://youtu.be/uBMCB0AUciI?feature=shared&t=448
Keep in mind the gameplay is largely focused on the tournament format, so you’d want to adjust the strategy some for non-tournament play.
@FlyingBadger said in League General Discussion Thread:
"Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”
Terry Pratchett, Mort
Love Terry Pratchett’s writing, always good for a chuckle. Figure if something only happens 1 out of 10,000 times, we give MARTI enough opportunities every month that there’s at least a 50% chance it happens to someone
My limited understanding was that it was a lot like the Spanish Civil War where there were some attachés/advisors sent and a lot of equipment but not actual regiments.
I read a bit and discovered there was a significant Soviet Volunteer force, similar to the Flying Tigers but far greater in number. The Kuomintang had been whittled down to 100 outdated airplanes by the time they arrived and the Soviets made a big impact on morale and developed combat tactics that would be taught by Gen. Chennault of the Flying Tiger volunteers. The unit was withdrawn sometime after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was signed in 1939, but the USSR continued to supply the Chinese with aircraft until the German invasion in 1941.
I am also presently motivated to make some strategy videos using my printed PTV vinyl mat, hopefully will have one detailing my super-secret strategy posted soon on YouTube. If anyone has suggestions for a video topic on PTV, strategies, introduction, changes? please let me know!
Link to strategy reveal:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/post/1729346
Will make another post once the video is uploaded. 🤓
@barnee said in League General Discussion Thread:
If you hit “OK” in the screenshot, it will select zero casualties and move to the next step. Then you would essentially have 1 hit in the bank for future use that you would need to remember.
Exactly what I was trying to say, but with more clarity. Thanks! Posting the turn summary & save also means it is easy to track in case your opponent cannot give OOL immediately, which is usually the case.
I’ve seen most people do this already for big battles, so the only “extra” step is putting edit mode on first! 🤓
Back from my weekend playing PTV live, but will need a few days to catch up on work & then league games with y’all: @surfer @Ghostglider @Argothair @666 @crockett36 @GeneralDisarray
Most players here probably know statistics better than me actually so I hope that doesn’t come across as patronizing. 🤓
I recall vividly in one of my first league matches here, with @ArtofWar1947 and I recall winning a ~30% battle. I was elated of course, but he was a superior strategist and ground me down for a victory. I do admire the tenacity of some players that continue to battle despite the odds seemingly stacked against them. Like the Brits in the dark days of 1940-41, sometimes the grit pays off.
@barnee Thanks, still down, but I was able to subscribe to updates from Linode and will post here when I can verify MARTI is operational again. I have games to throw
Love the idea of a World Cup, looking forward to hopefully participating too!
New to league player, interested in any of the games. No experience playing against a human in anything other than OoB, but like the ideas PtV adds and would love to learn it…just can’t find anyone to play it with!
Hello everyone, with the new year and a new support drive beginning, @mikawagunichi and I have decided to sweeten the pot a bit and generate some interest for our favorite league game variant. For any player who has never played PTV or whose most recent PTV league game was completed in 2023 or earlier, we will pay for a Gold badge for any player who completes 3 PTV League games this year.
For players who pay for their own badge, we will still make an equivalent dollar amount donation to the forum. Limited to the first 5 sign ups, please DM if interested, thank you!
More info on PtV:
Also, in case anyone reading this thread missed this post:
Hello everyone, with the new year and a new support drive beginning, @Stucifer and @mikawagunichi have decided to sweeten the pot a bit and generate some interest for our favorite league game variant.
For any player who has never played PTV or whose most recent PTV league game was completed in 2023 or earlier, we will pay for a Gold badge for any player who completes 3 PTV games this year.
For players who pay for their own badge, we will still make an equivalent dollar amount donation to the forum. Limited to the first 5 sign ups, please DM if interested, thank you!
The fact is, with lifetime ELO, some players start the year out ahead of others, and the ELO at the end of the year is largely reflective of most recent games, but not entirely. This is not necessarily a problem. It’s just one of the issues that needs to be discussed since we have a significant system change.
One idea: make a separate sheet for the Yearly rankings that takes the player’s Lifetime Ranking at the start of the year as their starting ELO, then only include the games from the year. Not sure how to calibrate the K value for that, maybe have all at the middle number for 10+ games played (90). Can be discussed.
That way, Lifetime players with high ELO are still recognized for their skill but someone that makes a lot of progress in a new year can move up more rapidly even if they played a lot of games previously. And someone that loses a lot of games that year would move down more rapidly.
However to @MrRoboto 's point, the K value is already large with the K at 70 giving a 35-point swing for even ELO matchups, and upsets quite a bit more than that, it seems like just using the Lifetime rating should suffice for making brackets. 🤔🤔
Sneaky Karl is a way UK & ANZAC can ‘abuse’ the turn order and create a hostile sea zone so that Japan cannot load transports. Typically you would exploit this in SZ37 off French Indochina.
Deep dive into the Sneaky Karl:
https://youtu.be/Pkj_9K3lfQk?feature=shared