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@rulebook_reviewer said in Bombardments - no Incentive to invest in BBs and CAs?:
I do not have TripleA and I always see it written in the forums. Quite frankly I do not know what it is.
It’s a computer program that allows playing Axis and Allies, along with some other games.
Update: I decided to manually trace a brand new vector map so that I can squash and enlarge continents as I see fit and then rescale when I’m done so that the smallest tiles will still be enough pixels wide to hold a few unit types each. Here’s Europe and Africa – you may notice that Africa is only half the height it ‘should’ be compared to Europe, and that the UK is about 140% of its proper size, and that the English Channel and North Sea are about triple their proper sizes. I plan to continue abusing geography for our wargaming convenience until I’ve finished the whole globe. This project is taking several years longer than I originally anticipated, but I do not plan to quit. Thanks again for all your support. 
TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Balanced Mod3, version: 3.4
Game History
Round: 5
Purchase Units - Japanese
Japanese buy 1 armour, 4 artilleries, 1 destroyer, 8 infantry, 1 marine and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 6 SuicideAttackTokens;
Combat Move - Japanese
1 battleship, 1 carrier, 1 fighter, 1 marine and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 35 Sea Zone to 42 Sea Zone
1 transport moved from 35 Sea Zone to 36 Sea Zone
1 fighter moved from Kiangsu to 19 Sea Zone
1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from French Indo China to 36 Sea Zone
1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 36 Sea Zone to 42 Sea Zone
1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 marine moved from 42 Sea Zone to Java
1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 42 Sea Zone to Java
1 armour moved from French Indo China to Yunnan
Japanese take Kwangsi from Chinese
Japanese take Yunnan from Chinese
2 bombers moved from Japan to Shan State
1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from French Indo China to Shan State
Combat - Japanese
Battle in 42 Sea Zone
Japanese attack with 1 battleship, 1 carrier and 1 transport
Americans defend with 1 transport
1 transport owned by the Americans lost in 42 Sea Zone
Japanese win, taking 42 Sea Zone from Neutral with 1 battleship, 1 carrier and 1 transport remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
Casualties for Americans: 1 transport
Battle in 19 Sea Zone
Japanese attack with 1 fighter
Americans defend with 1 transport
1 transport owned by the Americans lost in 19 Sea Zone
Japanese win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
Casualties for Americans: 1 transport
Battle in Java
Japanese attack with 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 1 infantry, 1 marine and 1 tactical_bomber
Americans defend with 2 infantry
Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 1 infantry, 1 marine and 1 tactical_bomber in Java, round 2 : 0/5 hits, 2.17 expected hits
Americans roll dice for 2 infantry in Java, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits
1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Java
Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 1 marine and 1 tactical_bomber in Java, round 3 : 2/4 hits, 1.83 expected hits
Americans roll dice for 2 infantry in Java, round 3 : 2/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits
1 fighter owned by the Japanese, 1 artillery owned by the Japanese and 2 infantry owned by the Americans lost in Java
Japanese win, taking Java from Americans with 1 marine and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is -11
Casualties for Japanese: 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 1 infantry
Casualties for Americans: 2 infantry
Battle in Shan State
Japanese attack with 1 artillery, 2 bombers and 1 infantry
British defend with 1 infantry
Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery, 2 bombers and 1 infantry in Shan State, round 2 : 2/4 hits, 2.00 expected hits
UK_Pacific roll dice for 1 infantry in Shan State, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
1 infantry owned by the British lost in Shan State
Japanese win, taking Shan State from UK_Pacific with 1 artillery, 2 bombers and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
Casualties for British: 1 infantry
Non Combat Move - Japanese
1 tactical_bomber moved from Java to 42 Sea Zone
2 bombers moved from Shan State to French Indo China
3 artilleries and 4 infantry moved from French Indo China to Yunnan
1 mech_infantry moved from Kwangtung to Yunnan
1 infantry moved from Anhwe to Kiangsu
1 infantry moved from Hunan to Anhwe
1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Hunan to Korea
1 battleship, 4 carriers, 1 cruiser, 3 destroyers, 1 fighter, 1 submarine, 2 tactical_bombers and 4 transports moved from 35 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone
2 aaGuns, 2 artilleries and 4 infantry moved from Japan to 6 Sea Zone
2 aaGuns, 2 artilleries and 4 infantry moved from 6 Sea Zone to Korea
2 tactical_bombers moved from 6 Sea Zone to Korea
1 fighter moved from 19 Sea Zone to Korea
2 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from French Indo China to 6 Sea Zone
1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Kiangsu to 6 Sea Zone
4 artilleries moved from Hunan to Yunnan
8 infantry moved from Hunan to Yunnan
1 aaGun moved from Hunan to Yunnan
7 infantry moved from Hunan to Kiangsi
1 submarine moved from 23 Sea Zone to 6 Sea Zone
Place Units - Japanese
1 destroyer placed in 6 Sea Zone
1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in French Indo China
3 infantry placed in Kiangsu
4 artilleries, 4 infantry and 1 marine placed in Japan
Turn Complete - Japanese
Japanese collect 54 PUs; end with 54 PUs
Objective Japanese 6 Home Islands: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 3 PUs; end with 57 PUs
Objective Japanese 4 Control Dutch East Indies: Japanese met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 62 PUs
Combat Hit Differential Summary :
Americans : 1.67
UK_Pacific : -0.33
Japanese : -2.00
Cruisers are even worse than BBs. At least with BBs you have the potential to clean up stray ships and then repair the damage for free.
Improved shipyards could indeed change the equation. Most people don’t like to play with tech.
Regarding 80 bid low luck G40 game.
@JDOW said in Post League Game Results Here:
Also not sure if I would take all those figs except 111 and take plenty of ground units instead.
In fact, all those fighters were awesome. Game is still ongoing but I’m expecting a narrow allied win, with an asterisk from when oysteilo reminded me I had forgotten a blocker. Game was nearly lost in China of all places, with the Chinese unnecessarily allowing the Japanese through to take India J5 after a J2 DOW, by China spreading themselves too thin.
I would still be pretty confident with a minimal bid of 54:
DD SZ91
ftrs Scotland, Moscow, Stalingrad, Malta
Sub SZ98.
Take it up to 61 and you can add a mech in Burma and an inf in Yunnan which makes most of the battles more sure and also deters the J1 DOW. A couple of battles still aren’t certain and could go against you but in most cases I think the allies should win out there.
@Panther said in Bombardments - no Incentive to invest in BBs and CAs?:
You are correct, until and including Revised Offshore Bombardment was part of the “Opening Fire Step”, so casualties don’t fire back in those editions.
Which is probably why there is a rule that you have to decide your bombard casualties before the main attack roll. I think it’s a bit silly now but it works that way in Triple-A.
@rulebook_reviewer Yeah few people buy any Cruisers or Battleships. Even in Balanced Mod where there is an additional land unit (marines) which can be carried on these ships. Loaded CVs are what people buy rather than huge numbers of DDs. You know the difference in combat ability is not that great actually - the defender always has the edge, I guess mostly because the 0/2 combat ability of CVs. But carrying planes is also useful for attacking land units, particularly islands. Keeping starting BBs is useful but if you lose them, rebuilding with CVs only is a better option.
Ya. Had no idea how it work until 30 minutes before game started. Learning the stuff yet. Will have future dates.
@Ferrousgryphon said in Find League Opponents Thread:
looking for a BM3 game.
I’ll play you. Got some games winding down. Bid for allies? I’d really rather we turned off the IJ/Ok objective, which might make it bid for Axis.
TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0
Game History
Round: 2
Purchase Units - Americans
Americans buy 2 carriers, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 submarine; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;
Combat Move - Americans
Non Combat Move - Americans
1 transport moved from 26 Sea Zone to 10 Sea Zone
1 armour and 1 infantry moved from Western United States to 10 Sea Zone
1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 10 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
1 armour and 1 infantry moved from 26 Sea Zone to Hawaiian Islands
1 carrier moved from 10 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
1 battleship and 1 carrier moved from 26 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
1 destroyer moved from 26 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 26 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Hawaiian Islands to 26 Sea Zone
1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 26 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
1 fighter moved from Guam to 26 Sea Zone
1 infantry moved from Central United States to Western United States
Place Units - Americans
1 carrier and 1 destroyer placed in 101 Sea Zone
1 carrier placed in 10 Sea Zone
1 submarine placed in 101 Sea Zone
1 fighter placed in Eastern United States
Turn Complete - Americans
Americans collect 52 PUs; end with 53 PUs
Purchase Units - Chinese
Trigger Chinese Loses Burma Road: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Closed
Chinese buy 5 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;
Combat Move - Chinese
3 infantry moved from Szechwan to Yunnan
2 infantry moved from Szechwan to Yunnan
1 infantry moved from Shensi to Suiyuyan
1 fighter moved from Szechwan to Suiyuyan
1 infantry moved from Shensi to Suiyuyan
Combat - Chinese
Battle in Yunnan
Chinese attack with 5 infantry
Japanese defend with 2 infantry
Chinese roll dice for 5 infantry in Yunnan, round 2 : 1/5 hits, 0,83 expected hits
Japanese roll dice for 2 infantry in Yunnan, round 2 : 0/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits
1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Yunnan
Chinese roll dice for 5 infantry in Yunnan, round 3 : 0/5 hits, 0,83 expected hits
Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Yunnan, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
1 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Yunnan
Chinese roll dice for 4 infantry in Yunnan, round 4 : 0/4 hits, 0,67 expected hits
Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Yunnan, round 4 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
Chinese roll dice for 4 infantry in Yunnan, round 5 : 2/4 hits, 0,67 expected hits
Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Yunnan, round 5 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
1 infantry owned by the Japanese and 1 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Yunnan
Chinese win, taking Yunnan from Japanese with 3 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
Casualties for Japanese: 2 infantry
Casualties for Chinese: 2 infantry
Battle in Suiyuyan
Chinese attack with 1 fighter and 2 infantry
Japanese defend with 1 infantry
Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 2 infantry in Suiyuyan, round 2 : 0/3 hits, 0,83 expected hits
Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Suiyuyan, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 2 infantry in Suiyuyan, round 3 : 0/3 hits, 0,83 expected hits
Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Suiyuyan, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
1 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Suiyuyan
Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Suiyuyan, round 4 : 0/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits
Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Suiyuyan, round 4 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Suiyuyan, round 5 : 1/2 hits, 0,67 expected hits
Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in Suiyuyan, round 5 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in Suiyuyan
Chinese win, taking Suiyuyan from Japanese with 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
Casualties for Chinese: 1 infantry
Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
Non Combat Move - Chinese
1 fighter moved from Suiyuyan to Sikang
2 infantry moved from Szechwan to Sikang
1 infantry moved from Szechwan to Sikang
Place Units - Chinese
1 infantry placed in Suiyuyan
1 infantry placed in Suiyuyan
1 infantry placed in Suiyuyan
2 infantry placed in Sikang
Chinese undo move 4.
1 infantry placed in Suiyuyan
1 infantry placed in Sikang
Turning on Edit Mode
EDIT: Removing units owned by Chinese from Sikang: 1 fighter
EDIT: Adding units owned by Chinese to Suiyuyan: 1 fighter
EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
Turning on Edit Mode
EDIT: Removing units owned by Chinese from Suiyuyan: 1 fighter
EDIT: Adding units owned by Chinese to Sikang: 1 fighter
EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
Turn Complete - Chinese
Chinese collect 7 PUs; end with 7 PUs
Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 13 PUs
Purchase Units - British
British buy 1 airfield, 1 destroyer, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;
Purchase Units - UK_Pacific
UK_Pacific buy 1 armour, 4 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;
Combat Move - British
2 infantry moved from Union of South Africa to 71 Sea Zone
2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 71 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone
1 infantry moved from Kenya to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
2 infantry moved from 81 Sea Zone to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
1 fighter moved from Egypt to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
1 bomber moved from Malta to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
Combat - British
Battle in Anglo Egyptian Sudan
British attack with 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 3 infantry
Italians defend with 1 artillery and 2 infantry
British roll dice for 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 3 infantry in Anglo Egyptian Sudan, round 2 : 2/5 hits, 1,67 expected hits
Italians roll dice for 1 artillery and 2 infantry in Anglo Egyptian Sudan, round 2 : 1/3 hits, 1,00 expected hits
2 infantry owned by the Italians and 1 infantry owned by the British lost in Anglo Egyptian Sudan
British roll dice for 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 2 infantry in Anglo Egyptian Sudan, round 3 : 0/4 hits, 1,50 expected hits
Italians roll dice for 1 artillery in Anglo Egyptian Sudan, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
1 infantry owned by the British lost in Anglo Egyptian Sudan
British roll dice for 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Anglo Egyptian Sudan, round 4 : 2/3 hits, 1,33 expected hits
Italians roll dice for 1 artillery in Anglo Egyptian Sudan, round 4 : 0/1 hits, 0,33 expected hits
1 artillery owned by the Italians lost in Anglo Egyptian Sudan
British win, taking Anglo Egyptian Sudan from Italians with 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
Casualties for British: 2 infantry
Casualties for Italians: 1 artillery and 2 infantry
Non Combat Move - British
Turning on Edit Mode
EDIT: Removing units owned by UK_Pacific from Shan State: 1 infantry
EDIT: Adding units owned by British to Shan State: 1 infantry
EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
1 fighter moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Egypt
1 bomber moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Egypt
1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Tobruk to Egypt
1 artillery moved from Tobruk to Alexandria
1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Quebec to 106 Sea Zone
1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 106 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Gibraltar
1 transport moved from 91 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone
1 fighter moved from Malta to Gibraltar
1 tactical_bomber moved from Malta to Gibraltar
1 infantry moved from Eastern Persia to Persia
British take Persia from Neutral_Allies
1 infantry moved from Sumatra to 41 Sea Zone
1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 41 Sea Zone to 44 Sea Zone
1 infantry moved from 44 Sea Zone to Celebes
UK_Pacific take Celebes from Dutch
1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from India to Burma
3 aaGuns, 1 armour, 1 artillery, 6 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Burma to India
1 destroyer moved from 39 Sea Zone to 56 Sea Zone
1 cruiser moved from 39 Sea Zone to 45 Sea Zone
1 infantry moved from Shan State to Burma
Place Units - British
1 airfield placed in Gibraltar
1 mech_infantry placed in Union of South Africa
2 infantry placed in United Kingdom
1 destroyer placed in 106 Sea Zone
Turn Complete - British
Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 4
Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 109 Sea Zone. Rolls: 3,1
British collect 26 PUs (4 lost to blockades); end with 27 PUs
Place Units - UK_Pacific
1 armour, 4 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in India
Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
UK_Pacific collect 24 PUs; end with 24 PUs
Some Units in India change ownership: 1 armour, 4 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
Combat Hit Differential Summary :
British : -0,50
Italians : 0,33
Chinese : -2,00
Japanese : 0,00
That Yunnan stack was scaring me. I was surprised though that the stack evacuated to the north. Planning to meet up with the forces moving south I’m guessing.