League G40 Team Game - Stucifer/Crockett36 v Daaras/FranceNeedsMorePower

[crockett36]

@Daaras Thank you sir!

[FranceNeedsMorePower]

@crockett36 @Daaras @Stucifer Just to let you guys know I more than likely will not get to this till monday or tuesday.

[Stucifer]

We will all be busy this weekend at the tournament! See y’all there

[FranceNeedsMorePower]

@Stucifer @Daaras @crockett36 I don’t know but you guys but I had a great time. Really hope they do it again. I’d be curious to hear about your games in small detail if you don’t mind. If you would like to hear about mine look below if no no worries.

• Game 1, my Father and I played the Allies and we gave a bid +7 to the axis. I have never seen my Father roll better dice in my whole life. We rolled so many 1’s, for example our AAA took down 2 fighters and a tac in a battle in Leningrad, and the two China guys in the round 1 yunnan battle took down 8 guys and 1 cannon. Eventually we lossed in the pacific due to victory city conditions. The Americans and Jap’s tried switching capitals, they tried taking San Francisco we tried tokyo but both of us failed. He won by getting Hawaii and India.

• Game 2, my Father and I played the Allies we gave a +9 bid to the axis. Again great dice from my Father. He must have got some trick or something. Our entire fleet of the Solomon islands survived and Japan did the standard attack to, and they lost all of their units. Germany was actually about to get to Moscow maybe in 3 more rounds or so. That game we won, using a middle earth fleet to take the dutch islands.

• Game 3, my Father and I played the Axis and got a 10 bid. As Japan we lost 7 transports for free so that changed the whole game. We did not do bad and maybe given another turn or two could still have had a shot but we lost.

I had a great time hope you guys did to! I will get my turn in tomorrow hopefully.

[crockett36]

@FranceNeedsMorePower

It was great to meet you all. I had a great time, but was tempted with envy, watching you all play, wondering how I would have done. Look forward to doing it again.

[Stucifer]

@FranceNeedsMorePower @crockett36

We played Allies all three games and had a ton of fun. Looking forward to the next tournament!

• Game 1 we played against Panzercraft (they won the tournament). They took Axis at +10 and bid a fighter to attack the Indian Ocean fleet in 39. Round 1 of battle they had four @3s and one @4 and rolled all misses. Then the final battle on Italy’s turn came down to a 55-45 chance battle in Spain…and I rolled all misses round 2 to defend. We had a tiebreak loss at 125 IPCs - an epic game! (about 9.5 hours all said and done)
• Game 2 & Game 3 were a lot of fun. Game 3 we did a VC defense of Sydney and India in case they tried to win with 6 in the Pacific. We bought 4 bombers with Russia round 5 but these games both only went 5 rounds so they didn’t get used which was too bad haha

We really think having a set 6-round game and then doing the chess clocks to keep both teams honest on using too much time would be really good for the competitiveness of the game. Not knowing for sure if the game is going to go 5 or 6 rounds (or 7 if you’re playing fast? is that possible!) I thought made it really hard to plan as you need to know for your round 2 buys with a lot of powers especially USA.

What do you think about this?

[crockett36]

@Stucifer Totally agree that rounds might be a better standard. I do think that past round x (depending on the version) the only units that will make it will be the bombers.

[crockett36]

@crockett36 US is up!

[FranceNeedsMorePower]

@crockett36 You should try the tournament next time :)

[FranceNeedsMorePower]

@crockett36 I know I have just been really busy getting back in the swing of things. It’s also my birthday weekend and we are doing activities (meaning my family and I), so I should be able to take it soon like on tuesday.

[FranceNeedsMorePower]

@Stucifer About round numbers, our first and second games we could have made it to 6 rounds. But we did/could not due to victory conditions and there being no way to overturn them. What was the time for you guys like, was it skewed? We did a lot of pre-turn planning to the Axis were spending way more time than us. I would recommend that, no one else we played quite did that on the scale we did. It is also the first tournament for many folks like myself, usually in GenCon you can at least make it to round 6. My strategies as the Axis also aim for a round 7, which… became an issue on the last game, (we only did 5 rounds). All of our opponents spent way to much time as the Axis. Even the last time our Allied opponents spend almost 2 hours more than us, and spent 10 mins on purchasing. I get it, btu still they should be doing more pre-planning. The USA’s buy’s do not need to and should not plan for anything pass a round 5. All you need to do is defend Hawaii and maybe Sydney, and drop some drops off in Europe or something. My tip is, first buy is all Europe, then the rest of the game is all Pacific. And that worked really well for us! Does that answer the question?

[crockett36]

@FranceNeedsMorePower happy birthday!

[FranceNeedsMorePower]

TripleA Turn Summary: Americans round 10

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 10

    Purchase Units - Americans
        Americans buy 2 armour, 1 carrier, 2 destroyers, 2 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 transports; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Territory Summary for Americans :

Formosa : 1 flag
Korea : 1 flag
Okinawa : 1 flag
Philippines : 1 airfield, 2 fighters and 1 harbour
Guam : 1 airfield
Wake Island : 1 airfield
Western United States : 1 airfield, 1 factory_major and 1 harbour
Hawaiian Islands : 2 aaGuns, 1 airfield and 1 harbour
Midway : 1 airfield
Sakha : 1 flag, 1 infantry
Yakut S.S.R. : 1 flag, 1 mech_infantry
Buryatia : 1 flag
Java : 1 flag, 1 mech_infantry
42 Sea Zone : 1 transport
36 Sea Zone : 1 flag, 2 battleships, 3 cruisers and 4 transports
20 Sea Zone : 1 flag
19 Sea Zone : 1 flag
6 Sea Zone : 1 flag
Central United States : 1 factory_major
Eastern United States : 1 airfield, 2 armour, 1 factory_major, 1 harbour and 2 infantry
Morocco : 1 flag, 2 aaGuns, 3 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 fighter, 21 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
Algeria : 1 flag
Tunisia : 1 flag
104 Sea Zone : 1 destroyer and 1 submarine
101 Sea Zone : 1 carrier, 2 destroyers, 2 fighters and 2 transports
91 Sea Zone : 2 carriers, 8 destroyers, 2 fighters and 19 transports

Production/PUs Summary :

Germans : 65 / 85
Russians : 5 / 0
Japanese : 38 / 67
Americans : 67 / 92
Chinese : 22 / 24
British : 35 / 41
UK_Pacific : 5 / 0
Italians : 13 / 14
ANZAC : 13 / 22
French : 2 / 0
Dutch : 0 / 0
Mongolians : 0 / 0
Neutral_Axis : 0 / 0
Neutral_Allies : 0 / 0
Neutral_True : 18 / 0

Dice Statistics:

Total
        1 was rolled 247 times
        2 was rolled 238 times
        3 was rolled 210 times
        4 was rolled 234 times
        5 was rolled 223 times
        6 was rolled 222 times
    Average roll : 3.447
    Median : 3.000
    Variance : 0.638
    Standard Deviation : 0.799
    Total rolls : 1374

Germans Combat
        1 was rolled 33 times
        2 was rolled 36 times
        3 was rolled 41 times
        4 was rolled 37 times
        5 was rolled 43 times
        6 was rolled 39 times
    Average roll : 3.603
    Median : 4.000
    Variance : 0.284
    Standard Deviation : 0.533
    Total rolls : 229

British Combat
        1 was rolled 29 times
        2 was rolled 31 times
        3 was rolled 19 times
        4 was rolled 22 times
        5 was rolled 21 times
        6 was rolled 28 times
    Average roll : 3.393
    Median : 3.000
    Variance : 0.819
    Standard Deviation : 0.905
    Total rolls : 150

Italians Combat
        1 was rolled 15 times
        2 was rolled 18 times
        3 was rolled 16 times
        4 was rolled 20 times
        5 was rolled 17 times
        6 was rolled 21 times
    Average roll : 3.645
    Median : 4.000
    Variance : 0.253
    Standard Deviation : 0.503
    Total rolls : 107

French Combat
        1 was rolled 2 times
        2 was rolled 5 times
        3 was rolled 5 times
        4 was rolled 6 times
        5 was rolled 5 times
        6 was rolled 7 times
    Average roll : 3.933
    Median : 4.000
    Variance : 0.483
    Standard Deviation : 0.695
    Total rolls : 30

Americans Combat
        1 was rolled 34 times
        2 was rolled 31 times
        3 was rolled 24 times
        4 was rolled 31 times
        5 was rolled 25 times
        6 was rolled 34 times
    Average roll : 3.469
    Median : 4.000
    Variance : 0.533
    Standard Deviation : 0.730
    Total rolls : 179

ANZAC Combat
        1 was rolled 5 times
        2 was rolled 5 times
        3 was rolled 3 times
        4 was rolled 2 times
        6 was rolled 4 times
    Average roll : 2.947
    Median : 2.000
    Variance : 1.046
    Standard Deviation : 1.023
    Total rolls : 19

Neutral_Allies Combat
        1 was rolled 1 times
        2 was rolled 3 times
        3 was rolled 1 times
        4 was rolled 2 times
        5 was rolled 3 times
        6 was rolled 2 times
    Average roll : 3.750
    Median : 4.000
    Variance : 0.364
    Standard Deviation : 0.603
    Total rolls : 12

Chinese Combat
        1 was rolled 16 times
        2 was rolled 18 times
        3 was rolled 15 times
        4 was rolled 17 times
        5 was rolled 13 times
        6 was rolled 9 times
    Average roll : 3.227
    Median : 3.000
    Variance : 0.613
    Standard Deviation : 0.783
    Total rolls : 88

UK_Pacific Combat
        1 was rolled 19 times
        2 was rolled 7 times
        3 was rolled 10 times
        4 was rolled 9 times
        5 was rolled 11 times
        6 was rolled 10 times
    Average roll : 3.242
    Median : 3.000
    Variance : 1.323
    Standard Deviation : 1.150
    Total rolls : 66

Russians Combat
        1 was rolled 41 times
        2 was rolled 35 times
        3 was rolled 37 times
        4 was rolled 34 times
        5 was rolled 39 times
        6 was rolled 29 times
    Average roll : 3.381
    Median : 3.000
    Variance : 0.415
    Standard Deviation : 0.644
    Total rolls : 215

Neutral_Axis Combat
        1 was rolled 1 times
        2 was rolled 1 times
        3 was rolled 1 times
        4 was rolled 1 times
        6 was rolled 3 times
    Average roll : 4.000
    Median : 4.000
    Variance : 0.806
    Standard Deviation : 0.898
    Total rolls : 7

Japanese Combat
        1 was rolled 51 times
        2 was rolled 48 times
        3 was rolled 38 times
        4 was rolled 53 times
        5 was rolled 46 times
        6 was rolled 36 times
    Average roll : 3.379
    Median : 3.000
    Variance : 0.883
    Standard Deviation : 0.940
    Total rolls : 272

Savegame

[Daaras]

TripleA Turn Summary: UK_Pacific round 10

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 10

    Purchase Units - Americans
        Americans buy 2 armour, 1 carrier, 2 destroyers, 2 fighters, 2 infantry and 2 transports; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

[Stucifer]

TripleA Turn Summary: Italians round 10

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 10

    Purchase Units - Italians
        Italians buy 1 fighter; Remaining resources: 4 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Italians

    Place Units - Italians
        1 fighter placed in Southern Italy

    Turn Complete - Italians
        Italians collect 12 PUs; end with 16 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

[Stucifer]

There’s a bugged infantry from UKP turn @Daaras

[Daaras]

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: French round 10

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 10

    Purchase Units - ANZAC
        ANZAC buy 1 bomber and 1 fighter; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

[Stucifer]

TripleA Turn Summary: Germans round 11

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 11

    Research Technology - Germans

    Purchase Units - Germans
        Germans buy 3 artilleries, 3 fighters, 3 infantry, 3 mech_infantrys and 2 tactical_bombers; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Germans
        1 infantry moved from Volgograd to Kazakhstan
        1 bomber moved from Southern Italy to Kazakhstan
        1 destroyer moved from 110 Sea Zone to 104 Sea Zone
        2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 110 Sea Zone to 104 Sea Zone
        1 fighter moved from Western Germany to 104 Sea Zone

    Combat - Germans
        Battle in Kazakhstan
            Germans attack with 1 bomber and 1 infantry
            British defend with 1 mech_infantry
                Germans roll dice for 1 bomber and 1 infantry in Kazakhstan, round 2 : 0/2 hits, 0.83 expected hits
                British roll dice for 1 mech_infantry in Kazakhstan, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 1 bomber and 1 infantry in Kazakhstan, round 3 : 1/2 hits, 0.83 expected hits
                British roll dice for 1 mech_infantry in Kazakhstan, round 3 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 mech_infantry owned by the British lost in Kazakhstan
            Germans win, taking Kazakhstan from British with 1 bomber and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 4
            Casualties for British: 1 mech_infantry
        Battle in 104 Sea Zone
            Germans attack with 1 destroyer, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber
            Americans defend with 1 destroyer and 1 submarine
                Germans roll dice for 1 destroyer, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber in 104 Sea Zone, round 2 : 3/5 hits, 2.50 expected hits
                Americans roll dice for 1 submarine in 104 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.17 expected hits
                Americans roll dice for 1 destroyer in 104 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 submarine owned by the Americans and 1 destroyer owned by the Americans lost in 104 Sea Zone
            Germans win with 1 destroyer, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 14
            Casualties for Americans: 1 destroyer and 1 submarine

    Non Combat Move - Germans
        3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 104 Sea Zone to 112 Sea Zone
        2 fighters moved from 112 Sea Zone to Western Germany
        2 carriers moved from 110 Sea Zone to 112 Sea Zone
        1 submarine moved from 105 Sea Zone to 119 Sea Zone
        1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Western Germany to France
        2 mech_infantrys moved from Bessarabia to Rostov
        3 mech_infantrys moved from Bryansk to Rostov
        3 mech_infantrys moved from Ukraine to Rostov
        2 artilleries and 1 infantry moved from Tambov to Rostov
        1 aaGun and 2 infantry moved from Rostov to Volgograd
        2 mech_infantrys moved from Rostov to Volgograd
        3 mech_infantrys moved from Russia to Rostov
        2 mech_infantrys moved from Rostov to Volgograd
        1 infantry moved from Rostov to Volgograd
        1 bomber moved from Kazakhstan to Rostov

    Place Units - Germans
        3 infantry placed in Volgograd
        3 artilleries placed in Ukraine
        3 mech_infantrys placed in Russia
        2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber placed in France
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber placed in Western Germany

    Turn Complete - Germans
        Germans collect 66 PUs; end with 66 PUs
        Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 71 PUs
        Objective Germans 2 Control Novgorod Or Volgograd Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 15 PUs; end with 86 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Americans regular : -0.50
Germans regular : -0.17
British regular : -0.67

Savegame

[crockett36]

@Stucifer Hey what does no major neutral powers mean? Read that on headlesshorseman2. It’s part of the 42 tournament rules.

[Stucifer]

@crockett36 I believe it refers to the fact that the playable countries like Japan, USA and USSR start fully at war with all the relevant powers. They aren’t neutral to any of the unaligned powers like they are in G40 at the start.