@axis-dominion sounds good fire it up whenever you want
L26 G40 OOB Zlefin v Farmboy +44
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either way’s fine. I’d been meaning to ask btw, does your elo system use a modification that prevents new players from draining too much elo from high ranked players if they win? some elo systems put those in to make sure playing players not previously on the list isn’t a huge elo risk, especially since they may be good and just not calibrated yet. Or maybe all elo systems do that. Aye, it was a fun and interesting one, for awhile at least; I tend to get too stressed when I play tight games thoughtfully.
I guess that means I won’t be able to get clear enough data on my balance questions, because playing tight enough games to get that will tend to cause me problems.
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oh andI definitely want to classify that game as ‘over’ and never come back to it. It has to be removed from my plate fully; but just calling it with no result is fine.
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@zlefin I don’t think there is anything that limits it but I also don’t think the effect would be that dramatic either. @gamerman01 can probably speak more to it. The difference also is limited in that my OOB score is siginficantly lower than my BM score (I’ve just played a lot more BM). I’m guessing I would lose somewhere between 50 and a 100 in a loss.
And no problem if it is definitely over.
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I’ve been pondering postgame analysis a bit as I’ve calmed again. My Japan was underperforming I think, it should’ve done better with US only going part on it. The attempts to force clear carolinas never worked well; I’ve been mathing out some alternative early turns, to see how well Japan can push on US to limit its actions. Nothing all that clear, other than that it may be worthwhile to try to hold carolinas earlier as Jap, preventing the US from ever taking it. A number of things to try really.
I’m wondering how often your allied landings in Europe have worked out? I’ve tended to abandon any efforts to land in the France area, and most european landing efforts, as I find they seldom seem to have enough effect or work well, at least compared to how well you can sweep Japan. Transports just seem weak in this version, and the supply lines are long to sustain inf. I’ve never managed to put enough pressure on Germany to really let Russia take major advantage of it, thoug hI do have a few other ideas to try on that. Not that I plan on any real games, I might just play against myself some though, with free editing to avoid any surprises I may realize.
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@zlefin Holding Carolinas is definitely useful for Japan. It just always becomes harder to hold India and keep China at bay if you have to pull enough air that far east. In my mind, you made a mistakes both in not making sure you could hold India (you could have at that point without giving the US too much space to operate, and then in letting me grab Korea.
THe allied landing in Norway was my major blunder and I really just threw away a good board position. Even if you hadn’t taken london as a consequence, it was a wasteful and poorly thought out move on my end. I felt a bit rushed because I knew Germany was going to get Caucasus and Volgograd so I wanted to deny another NO. But I did still have time, and I should have been abslolutely sure that I could have held it (and London). I should have just held onto Normandy. You probably could get that back eventually, but it would have been harder and I would have pulled more of your units away from the Soviets.
I find allied landings are doable usually. I sometimes can’t get Normandy, Southern France or Norway at first, (but that means again that Germany is spending away from the Eastern Front to keep those safe. And you also have to protect Germany. But if I can’t get those, I can usually get Greece so I often end up there first.
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what opening would germany use if the bid didn’t add anything to the british at all? Do people hit multiple british navy stacks? Is there any consensus on what the best opening would be there? Or is there a lot of variation in what people think would be best? Or does nobody think about it because bids so often shore up britain?
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@zlefin I think without a british bid one is able to go for 111 and 110 and at least 1 sub against 106. So that becomes more common. But some form of British bid is pretty common and it does make sense since that is one of the places where you can immediately limit German attacks.
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@farmboy
aye it does; I’m just slowly pondering alternate openings, and putting the bid elsewhere. A hit on both 111 and 110 seems like it would put german air at risk, and is one of the few ways to try to push a german air death.so many tradeoffs with bid placements.
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@zlefin There is still some risk to German air if they go for 110 and 111 without a bid, and the UK scrambles. But without a bid, its is now more likely that the trade off will be quite bad for the allies. And so the full scramble becomes far more of a risk.
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thanks for the thoughts, i’m gonna start on my play vs myself game trying out one of my various bid plans to get a feel for how the numbers work as it goes.
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