@nosho said in New Season, has there been any change to dice in ranked games?:
@brian-cannon Yes. I feel it should be done, unless there are juicier targets out there (Chinese fighter undefended, UK fleet spread out, etc)
Doing pearl or not is a reasonable point of disagreement. I’ve shifted my thinking from generally yes to generally no.
My motivation:
@nosho We are in agreement on that, I feel it is a must
British turn 1, Again waiting for that attack on German battleship to go bad, Mazing how accurate those British fighters are!!! Battle to retake Sea zone 7 kill 2 subs and a Cruiser without loss, AMAZING!
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As we’ve discussed, the Germany med fleet is like the Ukraine bomber. You expect it to be killed and it’s a bonus if you get any compensation. Looks like you didn’t this game.
The UK player actually made a major mistake that can be punished. the UK units should be in trans Jordan. Japan has a fairly free India R3 timing that will be very expensive to handle with 3 less infantry.
@marineiguana said in New Season, has there been any change to dice in ranked games?:
@brian-cannon
As we’ve discussed, the Germany med fleet is like the Ukraine bomber. You expect it to be killed and it’s a bonus if you get any compensation. Looks like you didn’t this game.The UK player actually made a major mistake that can be punished. the UK units should be in trans Jordan. Japan has a fairly free India R3 timing that will be very expensive to handle with 3 less infantry.
Actually, the Germany player did get compensation, and I don’t know that I can say bulking Egypt was a “mistake”.
@aardvarkpepper stacking Egypt R1 is not good because it weakens allies defense to Japan’s R3 India timing. Losing India R3 is a big loss so this can force Russia to cover with fighters and even tanks.
UK can easily deadzone Egypt R2 and South Africa infantry deadzone Anglo-Egypt Sudan. So UK doesn’t gain much stacking Egypt compared to Transjordan.
@marineiguana said in New Season, has there been any change to dice in ranked games?:
- Japan by doing Pearl, places 5 units out of position for a volatile battle moderate profit. These units are important for the India round 3 timing.
Interesting. I think I never attempt to get India by J3, which is probably a mistake. Not doing Pearl Light might help me achieve that goal. Do you usually get to India on J3 by building an IC in French Indochina or just by maximizing transports use?
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@marineiguana We agree India is weakened. We disagree about consequences.
New players don’t understand what “deadzoning” is. Call it overextension.
As to referencing “deadzone” like it’s a final answer -
http://donsessays.freeservers.com/deadzone.htm
“The first sure sign of the A&A novice is to simply move forces to attack attack attack, and react react react, without recognizing the immediate and future effect it has across their fronts, over the future turns.”
Overextension is just one application of the core issue of players not thinking through the consequences.
I am saying the India/Africa situation is not as simple as it’s being made out to be. I am saying a lot of things are not as simple as they’re being made out to be.
A typical optimized India R3 timing is 11 inf, 4 art, 1 tank, 6 fighters, 1 bomber, 2 battleship bombard, 1 cruiser bombard. Japan can apply additional pressure by buying art instead of inf R1 and bombers R2. This assumes 3-4 infantry lost in the R1-2 trading.
I recommend that the allied player before uk1 movement think through the plan to defend this timing. By my analysis, UK’s starting Egypt units are more efficient to use towards India defense than pulling Russia units.
@marineiguana Boston, I expect to lose the battle and lose the transport and battleship, what amazes me is that the attack never goes bad, they never lose more than a bomber and I have never seen the Axis units survive. As opposed to the Axis attack on Sea Zone 7, this just occurred
Round 1 1 hit from 3 subs, 1 cruiser and 2 fighters
https://imgur.com/a/mYBZZlj
Round 2 1 hit by fighter/cruiser trio
https://imgur.com/a/xSPWehc
and finally round 3 1 hit
https://imgur.com/a/RERVYs6
As I have said repeatedly, I cannot buy a hit with fighters or anything whether its a 3 or less or 4 or less.
@brian-cannon said in New Season, has there been any change to dice in ranked games?:
@marineiguana Boston, I expect to lose the battle and lose the transport and battleship, what amazes me is that the attack never goes bad, they never lose more than a bomber and I have never seen the Axis units survive. As opposed to the Axis attack on Sea Zone 7, this just occurred
Round 1 1 hit from 3 subs, 1 cruiser and 2 fighters
https://imgur.com/a/mYBZZljRound 2 1 hit by fighter/cruiser trio
https://imgur.com/a/xSPWehc
and finally round 3 1 hit
https://imgur.com/a/RERVYs6As I have said repeatedly, I cannot buy a hit with fighters or anything whether its a 3 or less or 4 or less.
I can’t quite tell. Did Germany kill the battleship and transport and lose everything but 1 fighter? That’s unlucky but fine. If the battleship and transport both survive, then that’s really unlucky and game-changing. Most important part is that the UK R1 transport dies. Germany is fine with 4 fighters, though 5 would obviously be better.
@marineiguana 1German fighter survived,UK battleship and transport died
@brian-cannon said in New Season, has there been any change to dice in ranked games?:
@marineiguana 1German fighter survived,UK battleship and transport died
That’s a bottom 15% result, but totally fine. Germany is in real trouble in the bottom 2-3% when both battleship and transport survive. It’s still winnable, I’ve won from that position but relies on the opponent playing worse or getting unlucky somewhere.
@marineiguana Nothing wrong with those dice LOL
@marineiguana You tell me of the importance of Japan’s timing to India? I’m the one that added “timing” to the lexicon of the 1942 Online meta.
You’re saying UK2 has a deadzone against Egypt, you’re saying Japan captures India, I’m saying there’s more to it.
