Asynchronous Play - Some Questions

Yeah you could make that work. Just choose amongst yourselves which country you want to play on the same team and hand over the device. Also, the local “hot seat” mode makes your computer into a virtual boardgame if you want to play against each other

@juliusborisovbeamdog thank you alot! 🙂 We sure will have a lot of fun!
In the next weeks, I probably will dive deep into strategy discussions. 😄

@drdachel said in newbie with a bunch of questions:

@aardvarkpepper
I assume by what you’re saying that I can go backwards in the game and relive the various moves.

Nope. You could try setting up a game with you playing all powers, and try to recreate the situation though.

I wasn’t trying to eliminate them, but in the videos, the swooshes appeared to be 1/4" or so and on my screen they were like 3/4 of an inch. They pretty much covered the width of Japan making it hard to see what else I had left. No biggy.

They used to have the lines connected to the UI, with individual lines for each unit (not merely unit type), which resulted in literally uncontrollable situations when there were too many lines.

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog I started playing first as Allies because I hadn’t played the 1942 edition before. I have played the original version a lot in the past. When I played that, the Allies had a big advantage. I didn’t really know this was a different version until I started playing it and saw all these new unit types. I thought Allies would be easier, so I started with that. Didn’t know it had an advantage for Axis. Seems ahistorical.

Agreed, @djensen , it looks like the decision for what they call “asynchronous play” dominates the development of the software, causing some “side effects”.

Thank you for your answers,

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog

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@DoManMacgee

Yeah there are some funky dice results. Worst one is they exacerbate the RNG problems by doing a multiplier–so in one battle they rolled 1,2,4,4,5,6 but the x6 marker fell on the 1 and 2, giving them 12/18 hits on 18 '2’s. Disappointing given how hard it would be to roll 1,1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,4,4,4,4,5,6.

Some of the players are plenty good, its not really a good idea to let noobs on your team its better just to play the whole dang team yourself.

Still some problems with lag but already seeing improvement.

Cool, cool, cool. I just lost my second game because of my incompetence at remembering when I had to get my round done by. I missed it by 40 minutes.

I’m having a good fun game that’s not ranked. It’ll be hard to match that game. I might just chill on the ranked games for a long while.