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@mikawagunichi skipped intercept in Egypt

Or if Italy had just gotten 2 hits, then I could have taken the fighters, and had a carrier to protect my beautiful BB

@mikawagunichi Oof, dice in Sumatra were quite unkind to you

@simon-tressel First time’s always a learning experience. With this game, I think first 10-20 maybe. Hah! 🤓

@mainah British CA, but may change to carrier depending on the rest of the rolls. Technically I can wait to choose casualties on the submarine strike until you roll the others, tripleA just doesn’t support it due to the way it is coded, unfortunate in edge cases like this

Please use 2nd save with the us sub in convoy position, forgot to move it

@mainah

@simon-tressel
3 hits on fleet in 119, 1 from subs so must be taken on a ship. I assume damage to battleship for sub, other 2 hits?

@mainah Yeah Tunisia is perfect, ANZAC/France is usually quick so I’ll give you time to ruminate on German moves ;)

I’m trimming down on my games at the moment, but it would be fun to play again sometime. Need a bit of a break from all of my winter A&A play. I’ll see if any of my friends want to play a game with you and reach out on discord

Sorry, second save - forgot to NCM marine in new guinea

@Culann GG! You win game 1 :)

@mikawagunichi skipped scrambles as was still 80+% (even though I retreated Finland)

Edited to reflect a bid of a U-boat that went to 113 instead of the Italian transport, and I think landing all the planes in W Germany to entice a Taranto might not be a bad idea

@mikawagunichi The Regia Marina has served well, but her time must come to an end. Better in a blaze of glory than rusting in harbor.

Yep, had to work on the car this past weekend. As usual took about 3x as long and as many trips to hardware & parts stores as expected…

I’m heading out of town in a couple days as well, so will be sporadic

@oysteilo For another example, our comparative overall ELO is:

Oysteilo - 1621 Player A
Stucifer - 1549 Player B

The expected outcome EA is:
1/ {1+10^[ (RB - RAold = 1549 - 1621 = -72) / 500] }

this piece 10^[ (RB - RAold = 1549 - 1621 = -72) / 500]
is 10^(-72/500) = 10^(-0.144) = 0.71779

EA = 1 / { 1 + 0.71779}

EA = .58214 or 58% expected chance Oysteilo wins, 42% Stucifer wins

@FranceNeedsMorePower yep 🤓

@oysteilo said in The new ELO-based ranking system:

maybe it is explained somewhere, but there are so many pages…Now I have a question about this formula

What is RB? Is it RBold? If it is RBold then what happens if two players with the same rating meet? Well then EA =1

R(B) is only used in context with R(A) to find the Expected Outcome (should A or B win). So yes it is R(B(old)) if you want to think of it that way.

And putting EA = 1 here makes no sense for the winning person:

EA = Expected outcome for Player A

If you have two players of equal rating, EA formula looks like this:

EA = 1 / { 1 + 10^[(RB - RAold)/F] }

RB - RAold = 0 since they are equal; formula then simplifies to:
EA = 1 / { 1 + 10^(0/F) }
10 ^ 0 = 1, so formula simplifies to:
EA = 1 / { 1 + 1 }
EA = 1/2

EA is always 1/2 for equal ratings, this conceptually is that they both have a 50% chance of winning.

EA will never equal 1, but it can get close to 1 if Player A is significantly higher rated than player B.

As an example, if A is rated 2250 and B is rated 750, and F is 500; we have:

EA = 1 / {1 + 10^[(750 - 2250)/F] }
EA = 1 / {1 + 10^[-1500/500] }
EA = 1 / {1 + 10^( -3) } = 1 / {1.001}
EA = .999 or 99.9% expected chance of Player A winning

@Argothair said in WW2v3 Deluxe Argothair (Axis) v. Stucifer (Allies) - playtest #1:

@Stucifer You definitely caught my Italians napping! I thought for sure they had another turn or so with at least some presence in the Med. I guess the Greek barracks were a mistake.

I like all the differences in the Sea Zones but after playing with all the scramble options PtV offers fleets feel so vulnerable haha