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@Gorshak Yeah, did not anticipate the air attack in Northern Caucasus. Or see that the Queensland fighter could land on the CV from SZ 66. A worthwhile sacrifice by the Americans to keep their ANZAC comrades from certain destruction.

@CraigViau

Hi Craig, you are correct that there is another game that the Balanced Mod uses for its baseline objectives, that would be Global 1940 so you were starting in a good spot on your search. And I’m not sure there is a handy comprehensive list of the National Objectives listed on the rules since they used Balanced mod to build off of.

However I quickly summarized them here, let us know if you have more questions!

Germans

• 5 IPCs if not yet at war with Russia.
• 5 IPCs for each German controlled territory: Leningrad or Stalingrad or Russia.
• 5 IPCs if Axis controls Southern Caucasus.
• 5 IPCs if there is at least one German land unit in either Egypt or United Kingdom.
• 5 IPCs if Germany controls both Denmark and Norway and Sweden is not allied-controlled or pro-allied.
• 3 IPCs if Normandy and Holland Belgium are both Axis controlled at the beginning of Germany’s turn and each garrisoned with at least one German land unit at the end of Germany’s turn.
• 2 IPCs for each German controlled territory: Iraq, Southern Persia, or Northwest Persia.
• 3 IPCs if Romania, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Crete are Axis or Pro-Axis controlled.

Russians

• 2 IPCs if Russia is at war with European Axis beyond Round 2, Archangel is Russian-controlled, and sz128 has no enemy warships (“Northern Route”).
• 2 IPCs if Russia is at war with European Axis beyond Round 2, Southern Persia is Allied-controlled, and sz82 has no enemy warships (“Persian Corridor”).
• 2 IPCs if Russia is at war with European Axis beyond Round 2, Amur is Russian-controlled, and sz5 has no enemy warships (“Pacific Route”).
• 3 IPCs if Russia is at war with European Axis and there are no allied units in any originally Russian territories.
• 3 IPCs for each originally German, Italian, or Pro-Axis neutral territory in mainland Europe that Russia controls.

Japanese

• 10 IPCs if not yet at war with USA, has not yet attacked or taken control of French Indo-China, and has not declared war on UK or ANZAC.
• 5 IPCs if Axis controls Dutch New Guinea, New Guinea, New Britain, and Solomon Islands.
• 5 IPCs for each Japanese controlled territory: Hawaii, Eastern India, New South Wales, and Western United States.
• 5 IPCs if Axis controls all of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes.
• 5 IPCs if Midway, Wake Island, and Guam are Axis-controlled.
• 3 IPCs if Japan controls Kyushu, Hokkaido, Okinawa, and Iwo Jima.
• 5 IPCs if Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, Palau Island, Marianas, and Gilbert Islands are Axis-controlled.

Americans

• 10 IPCs if USA is at war and EUS, WUS, and CUS are American-controlled.
• 5 IPCs if USA is at war and Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Hawaiian Islands, and Johnston Island, and Line Islands are American-controlled.
• 5 IPCs if USA is at war and Mexico, South Eastern Mexico, Central America, and West Indies are American-controlled.
• 5 IPCs if USA is at war and Manilla and Davao are American-controlled.
• 5 IPCs each turn the USA has one land unit in France.
• 5 IPCs if Allies control at least 2 of: Normandy Bordeaux, Holland Belgium, Southern France, and USA has at least one land unit in any of these territories.
• 5 IPCs if Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia are Allied-Control and the USA has at least one land unit in any of these territories.
• 5 IPCs if Midway, Wake Island, and Guam are Allied-controlled.
• 5 IPCs if Marshall Islands, Caroline Islands, Palau Island, Marianas, and Gilbert Islands are Allied-controlled.
• 5 IPCs if Americans have a land unit in at least one Axis capital.

Chinese

• 3 IPCs and may build artillery if the Allies control Eastern India, Burma, Yunnan, and Szechwan.

British

• 3 IPCs for UK Europe if UK Europe controls all of its original territories.
• 3 IPCs for UK Europe if Allies control two of: Sicily, Sardinia, Greece, Southern Italy, and Allies have at least one land unit in any of these territories.
• 3 IPCs for UK Europe if there are no enemy submarines in any Atlantic Ocean Sea Zones, excluding sz115 and sz128,…,sz130.
• 3 IPCs for UK Europe if Malta, Crete, and Cyprus are Allied or pro-Allied controlled.

UK_Pacific

• 3 IPCs for UK Pacific if UK Pacific controls both Kwangtung and Malaya, and is at war with Japan.
• 3 IPCs for UK Pacific if UK Pacific controls Western India, and either Egypt or Union of South Africa is Allied-controlled, and there are no enemy submarines in the western half of the Indian Ocean: sz73,…,83.

Italians

• 5 IPCs if no Allied ships are in the Med: sz94,…,sz101.
• 5 IPCs if Axis control at least 3 of: Gibraltar, Egypt, Southern France, and Greece.
• 5 IPCs if Axis controls all of: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Tobruk, and Alexandria.
• 2 IPCs for each Italian controlled territory: Iraq, Southern Persia, or Northwest Persia.
• 3 IPCs if Malta, Crete, and Cyprus are Axis controlled.

ANZAC

• 3 IPCs if the Allies control Malaya, and ANZAC controls all of their original territories, and is at war with Japan.
• 3 IPCs if the Allies (not including Dutch) control all of Dutch New Guinea, New Guinea, New Britain, and the Solomon Islands, and ANZAC is at war with Japan.
• 3 IPCs if the Allies control all of Gilbert Islands, Fiji, and Samoa, Solomon Islands, and ANZAC is at war with Japan.

@Culann I did the exact same thing my first post, to be expected 😂

@Gorshak True, but looking ahead, I do not see a route to anything other than prolonging my defeat.

For Japan- Sniping those 3 transports makes it so I cannot land in Queensland and hope to it this round. Reinforcements are 2 turns away if I try.

UK’s air force makes holding Burma this round also highly unlikely, I would need to build an airbase to scramble defenders. Even if I hold it, India will be unassailable for 2 more rounds, depending on buys.

The opening moves against USSR were a gambit I thought might serve to make it easier on Germany to take Stalingrad and Caucasus, but my follow-through with Germany was poor.

@barnee said in New Support Tier?:

@djensen

Platinum ?

Element 115 ?

Valor and Distinguished both good. I know there’s people who are able and desire to donate more.

XCOM Fan I see :D

For myself:

A tangent here, I have been thinking how bids factor into games. Playing a game as a new player, against an M- or E-ranked player, there should be a way to make an allowance for a larger bid for the lower-ranked player palatable. It currently is not in those players’ interest from a PPG standpoint, as Mr Roboto has pointed out; bid has no impact on the points scored in the game, and winning against a Tier 3 opponent will bring down your PPG average if it is over 4.

Perhaps there is a solution, where we use the terms/bid and “current” player ranking at the start of the game to determine the points the game will award to each player upon completion?

For example, in PtV the average bid is ~Axis +9. If an E-ranked player instead grants the Tier 3 opponent an increased bid of +18, perhaps a victory over that opponent should then result in 5 points instead of 4.

To be fair, in the example given you do not hold India. I do not consider “Japan first” as a strategy that works in Anniversary edition. Japan starts with 9 Fighters, 3 Carriers, a Battleship, and will have most of that left after turn 1.

At a minimum Japan will probably have a fleet with:
6 Ftr, 1 CV, 1 BB, 1 CA. Add in a DD for ASW on round 2/3 when USA starts buying subs for the Pacific.
Offensive power 30 Defensive 39

To match the combat power offensively against their fleet, while having defense proof against their attack, America needs to spend two rounds of buys (again, just to be able to move off SZ 56). Something like 1 BB, 2 CV, 1 Ftr, 5 subs.

74 IPCs to let you move out, without any transports to capture territories, while Japan and Germany are ground-pounding China and the USSR sucking IPCs out of your Allies’ economy. Or instead you unplug from the Pacific, scoot your carrier group to the Atlantic, build transports, another carrier round 1, and are contesting North Africa by round 3 at the latest. Any fleet units Germany buys are doomed (eventually) and taking IPCs away from the fight for Russia.

@cloud7707 Max defense but how many hits you get in the first round will matter. If only 2, remove 1 carrier and 1 fighter. If more than 2 remove both carriers

Not attacking G4 is probably unwise, unless you have been completely focusing elsewhere, Russia can DOW on R4 if they choose (and why wouldn’t they)

@MrRoboto Thanks for the detailed post, I don’t have much input at this time but love the presentation!

as @Martin pointed out, an annual or lower per month might be a better spot for decay if implemented. 3% would take someone at 2400 ELO down to a 2126 after a full year of inactivity, probably okay. 5% would be 1765 which feels quite low for taking a break. I know the floor would be 1500. Maybe 3% or at least no more than 5% in my opinion :)

Big whiff in Leningrad, at least losses there tempered somewhat by British commandos deciding the war was over. Probably after they landed in the French countryside and got lost in the bocage

@barnee Ah, I thought you were asking specifically about attacking Russia with japan on J3.

@MrRoboto I can help with this shortly

@Culann Gotta work for a bit, in the middle of tax audit 😩😩

thanks for the distraction though ❤️

@The-Janus

A little feedback for you. I think you tried to do too much on round 1. Your forces are very thin. Only an 82% chance to win France? You don’t need to capture Normandy or Southern France on round 1. The extra 2, 3 IPCs isn’t worth how many extra units you can lose because of the narrower advantage in all the locations. As an example, if you hit France with all of those units instead you lose on average 7 infantry. Instead your average outcome between those 3 battles with your setup losses 5 infantry, 2 mech, 3 artillery.

Also spreading those attacks leaves the British fleet in 110 alive, which means he can start building transports and attacking Normandy/Holland for a big boost in income and keeping a lot of resources facing West. Without a bid you should be absolutely murdering both British fleets with your air and navy.

G1 attack on Russia can be good, but you have to be very committed to it. Otherwise G2 is much better. It’s a swing of 10 IPCs from the NOs, so you want to be in position to block SZ 125 when you do attack. Failing to take Eastern Poland is something that can happen, but we also try to do the Yugoslavia “bump” attacking and retreating so you have that stack of infantry and artillery from GSG into Romania in 1 turn instead of 2. You want to push South.

You left Bulgaria for Italy. This isn’t always a bad move, but I do consider it a bad move when doing G1 Russia. You want those extra ground units to control the southern Russian front and push past Bryansk.

Looks like you let the AI control Italy, you should be playing both of them. Italy is incredibly useful to help Germany blitz on the Eastern front. Another reason to wait until G2 to attack is that you can get 2 tanks into position to can-open for Germany if Russia has a weak stack hidden behind a single infantry. Don’t give Italy Ukraine, even if Russia leaves it open. You want that free IC for Germany.

Generally top-League players don’t buy tanks. Mechs are so efficient that the extra attack power from tanks is overrated. You want mechs and air basically from round 2 if you are pushing Moscow hard.

@MrRoboto sent you a PM as well, look for an email with a link to my spreadsheet for copying data over. I rearranged the columns on my end for faster entry the way brain reads the posts.

Got back to early november 2021 (page 93 fully completed)

@Culann Oof on Southern Caucasus. I had a pretty good chance of holding that…c’est la vie, dice giveth and they taketh away!

Also to your question about the strategic bombers, they serve two primary roles for Germany:

1. Giving a large threat range where the Allies must protect their fleet, especially transport flotillas;
2. Strategic bombing of Moscow

Strategic bombing of London is also useful, but early damage in Moscow before it gets stocked with Allied (UK typically) fighters can pay serious dividends.

Generally I feel Europe OOB needs an Allied bid, which is usually going to to go to the UK since they are the only power that start at war with the Axis. So handicapping them is harder, and Sealion is typically not an appealing trade-off against skilled opponents.

@mikawagunichi Went max D on your Carrier since you had some landing spots, and didn’t scramble to maximize.