13L Playoffs Hobo (axis) vs Gamerman01 (allies +12)


  • I did not expect you could send all 5 fighters east and buy 4 bombers, and as it happened all my Allied fighters were out of range.  That coupled with your swingback from Caucasus, and suddenly you have 73% which also surprised me.  But, with all due respect, I don’t think there’s any way you can win, even with amazing dice in Moscow


  • TripleA Move Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.8

    Game History

    Round: 9

    Research Technology - Germans

    Purchase Units - Germans
                Germans buy 13 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

    Combat Move - Germans
                1 bomber and 4 fighters moved from Bryansk to Russia
                1 fighter moved from Novgorod to Russia
                4 bombers moved from Germany to Russia
                3 mech_infantrys moved from Ukraine to Russia
                9 artilleries, 23 infantry and 6 mech_infantrys moved from Smolensk to Russia
                8 armour, 1 artillery and 18 mech_infantrys moved from Bryansk to Russia
                1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Western Germany to Denmark


  • it’s about 77-78% when I do it… here goes


  • Are you using AACalc on the A&A site?  Because I noticed earlier today when doing the calc on Moscow that it takes infantry off before bombers.  That makes a big difference.

    Well it is what it is now….  :-)


  • not good so far, aaa shot down 3, plus I lost the denmark battle which was a 90%… of course I lost 90% all the time for some reason  :lol:

    going with best def or what, 21 hits


  • Yeah, I saw the AA and Denmark dice

    Sure, I guess it makes sense to go with best defense, go ahead and take off the bombers


  • ok you win, I knew that was coming after all the dice, save MAYBE a couple turns that went my way  :lol:


  • that was pretty horrific… you won with 14 units remaining…  that’s probably a 1-2% probability outcome  :?


  • OK, Hobo,

    Congratulations on a fantastic year once you got the rust off, an amazing 21-4 record plus 2 big wins in the playoffs, and an extremely crafty and scrappy champ game

    Wish you well


  • yeah thanks for the game and congrats to you… if I had won that on the good side, this might have became an epic game  :lol:


  • I was hoping that you would win Moscow


  • uhhh using low luck I would have won with 6 tanks and 8 air left.  had I been slightly lucky there might have been 10+ ground units there, making a fairly dicey counter attack.  even if you won the counter attack I would have taken it back for good with 7 mech and 8 air…  not sure what you are saying when you wish I had won  :-P

    put it this way, you won with +13 units over average on that pretty disastrous attack.  had I won with just half that outcome which was still about a 20-30% probability, you would not have been able to take back moscow…


  • I don’t think I needed to hold Moscow, and yes on the counterattack if it failed I would probably destroy almost all of the tanks

    You said it would have been an epic game if it continued, and yes I half hoped you wouldn’t lose Moscow

    But I am also glad I won and that the game is over.  It’s called mixed feelings.


  • You won’t agree with me, but from my perspective you dodged a lot of bullets to get this far.

    You are as dangerous and cunning as I remember from 5 years ago, and played like your record.  Well done, and let’s refrain from arguing about the game.  We see it differently, and I don’t expect that will be reconciled.


  • well obviously we have different opinions. the way I saw this game if russia went, it would have been game over.  you were in no way threatening japan, and despite taking a few ipcs, really had no shot on taking germany.

    so what would have happened if I had a slightly favorable outcome with +4-5 units over average?  there would have been 8 tanks and 4 mech in russia since I would have sac’d some air in the last round and still have 5-6 air left.  if you don’t take it back I would finish what’s left of the 15 russian dudes the next turn.  if you took it back and won, you would have had 2-3 ground units in russia.  I counter attack with 7 mech, 5 air and finish every single russian guy left.  after that, everything would have gone to europe.

    oh yeah, and india would have fallen and you wouldn’t have been able to retake either, then middle east/africa fairly quickly after that.  I had the numbers on the us in the pacific so you could have done nothing other than annoying attacks, like what happened in china.

    game wasn’t as lopsided as you think.  when you opened up russia, my odds of winning the game was pretty much that moscow battle.  of course, that’s how I saw it but we will never know now  :lol:

    you should never have given that shot on russia imho.  had I been in your shoes I would have grinded the game down since you were in a fairly dominating position to attrition the game out…

  • '12

    I think gamer, as much as he will refuse to admit it, wanted a challenge in this game.  He would have had his challenge if Russia had fallen.  I am sad that the Russian winter took its toll on the war weary germans.  :|

  • '17 '16 '15 '12

    Congrats to the title!


  • @hobo:

    ok you win, I knew that was coming after all the dice, save MAYBE a couple turns that went my way  :lol:

    LOL!  :lol: LOL!  :lol: LOL!  :lol: Congrats Gamerman! The better player won. Unfortunately Hobo starts complaining about dicing from the very beginning of the game so he can blame the dice if he loses. If he wins, he attributes it to his superior strategy. NEVER that he received good dicing. He’s been doing it for decades.

  • '12

    @Commando:

    @hobo:

    ok you win, I knew that was coming after all the dice, save MAYBE a couple turns that went my way  :lol:

    LOL!  :lol: LOL!  :lol: LOL!  :lol: Congrats Gamerman! The better player won. Unfortunately Hobo starts complaining about dicing from the very beginning of the game so he can blame the dice if he loses. If he wins, he attributes it to his superior strategy. NEVER that he received good dicing. He’s been doing it for decades.

    I can attest to that  :wink:

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