Posts made by zosima

true, but losing it is NOT the end of the world….

see, i personally feel that if germany can’t destroy russia, or least take out the vast majority of russia, they are NEVER going to be able to win…

yeah, even with revised i wsh tehre were more zones.  even more land zones as well…

those are good points.  I will try it with america next time.  basically if germany is only building 6 infantry a turn, then they wont be able to replenish the losses from combat.

I have lost to the AI once.  I was the Axis, and I made russian infantry cost only 2IPCs, British fighters attack at 4 and transports that travel 3, and US all US ships cost 2-4 IPCs less, and tanks only cost 4.  And i lost then….

@losttribe04:

Would any of you make an effort to dive the enemy out if they were occupied?

-LT04

I take a page out of world war two, and America’s strategy book and island hop.  Skip the ones I dont HAVE to take….

yeah, hte solomons are my favorite.

the thing Ive done, and only once or twice but it can be fun…i ssave some money and just keep putting it away and save it for one massive counter-attack or offensive when the allied player starrts focusing somewhere else.

i agree with Jennifer on this one.  It seems like a waste of IPCs

@losttribe04:

Ouch! Thats cold.  :evil:

colder then a witche’s somthing…

i’ve done that on occasion but very rarely.

@Jennifer:

Axis and Allies is much more dynamic.  You can attack with 30 fighters and not get a single hit.  Or you can get 15 hits (LL) or you could get 30 hits.Â

But odds are, if you have 24 infantry, 6 Armor and 4 Fighters attacking you will get 9 hits.  And that’s what reactionary, formulaic players count on.  They don’t think for themselves.  They just know that X% infantry + Y% artillery + Z% armor with n-number of fighters and bombers will win the space for them.  They rely too heavily on calculators and not enough on tactics and strategy.  And worse still, they don’t utilize luck.

The best thing you can have happen to these people is get 33% accuracy with your attacking infnatry in round 1 of a major engagement. (I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been tracking my infantry and fighter accuracy lately, because they seem wrong.  I’ve averaged 32.476215% accurate with Infantry on attack; 12.978248% accurate with attacking fighters over the past 9 games so far.)

BTW, for the record, in Math we consider 6 decimal places to be accurate.  It’s a Newton thing.  Anyway, the point is, sometimes it pays off to attack a superior force with just infantry because you lose 3 IPC units and you might throw his entire strategy off because now his formula is all screwed up.  You’d be surprised how often they count on those infnatry units to sit as a defensive wall ONLY and how surprised they are when you take their stack from a 3:1 ratio of infantry to artillery to a 1:1 ratio and totally discombobulate their entire stack building strategy.

Fun times!  Fun times.

@Nukchebi0:

It is googol, just to correct you.

And Nuk’s right, minus the plex.  But I wasn’t going to mention it.  Since it was a petty correction and you’re just a lawyer, not a mathemetician.

My room mate is once of those guys.  and I get a great joy from discovering his strategy and throwing a wrench into it and then watch him just fall apart.  At this point I’ll be the axis with no bid and beat JUST becasue of this.

it will if it can’t build anything……

wow…I’m ths same way LT04.  I oscilate between 6 and 8 inf every turn and buy some fun toys with the change.

Ive played by buying two bombers every other turn and strategic bombing germany into submission, and even slipping some into the pacific to bomb any ICs japan builds in asia…

ive played with buying 2 bombers every turn with britain and pounding germany into the ground with industrial bombing….thought?

i tried it.  Its failed.  However I think with more practice it could be pulled off.  I just thing the technique eneds to be refined.

@Bashir:

@zosima:

im confused…wht does U.S. have to be aggresive with? at the gbeginning of the game that is. I guess they can invade algeria…

You were assuming they went KGF!!! From that quote, while were talking about KJF… So don’t turn this around on me so you make that I asked the ‘stupid’ question. You go for Japan first! So why should they land FFS in Algeria? You tell me boy!

If you go KJF you are going to island hop and threaten Japan itself, that is why its called KJF!

relax bud.  Aggresive america against japan….
the aggressivness that hte US can do is simply to LEAN on japan and gradually wear the Japs down

why take panama?  woudlnt it be better to take brazil so you could actuall maybe put an IC there and build stuff.  like bombers…

@Imperious:

details?

What turn?

What was used?

Did you get to shuck stuff to russia? did that work in your favor?

I did get to “shuck” stuff at russia which was nice, and the extra tranport helped infantry get online against russia alittle earlier.  but I think a detroyer and a tranport would have had the same effect plus given me 6 IPC’s extra…sooo

I was destroyed on turn 2 or 3.  i forget.  I’ll look back at my notes.