Sub Overwhelm Exploit

Good morning everyone, I’m looking for some helpful advice from a more experienced (or talented) A&A player regarding the following situation.

I’ve been playing A&A (both online and in-person) for 10 years. Usually when I’m the Axis and successfully take both Moscow and Calcutta, the game is over.

However, despite taking both of those objectives as the Axis in the following game, my gut instinct tells me I’m still going to lose somehow. I think I’m losing the IPC battle (certainly Japan is way down on USA) and no matter how large an airforce I build up as Germany and Japan, I can’t get into a position to realistically defeat either USA’s or Britain’s massive naval fleets.

I’ve thought about moving both airforces over to double-attack one fleet, but I’m worried about leaving either Axis country vulnerable to invasion once the airforce has left.

It’s Britain’s turn next and they will probably retake France and Belgium, as we’ve been ping-ponging those territories for a while now.

Any advice? Should I start spamming subs everywhere? Or would it better to ignore the large fleets and simply spam infantry all over the mainland?

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Hello,

Maybe an odd question… Currently playing with just a group of friends but considering joining some other games / ranked play.

My only concern is I can really only do turns during evenings / weekends and even with that maybe 1-2 per evening. So… would always hit the 24 hour between turn warning bit but likely only get in one to two turns per day.

Is that the normal expectation or would I be slowing people down / pissing people off :)?

@leoflow Well, yes, you anonymized your account, so you’ll have to create a new Commander Name etc. But in order to do that, you need the app to work again.

@DeathByDice Yeah, in ranked matches I still tend to play it out and see how well I can counter the situation but in other games I suggest just resetting the board so we can have a good game. The only thing that’s worked at all for me so far is having Russia pump out infantry and the other allies send as many fighters and tanks there as humanly possible along with a med or northern shuck.

I made a post for a house rule to eliminate this in live games. I’m sure this problem accounts for much of the 10% win discrepancy between the axis and allies. Personally I’m happy if Russia can at least take Ukraine with 1 unit and escape with the fighters. But still, I know I’m in for a tough game if that happens and west-russia doesn’t go fabulously and my opponent is strong. You have to do the west-russia battle first so you know if you need to retreat quickly out of Ukraine.

While I really appreciate the general balance improvement made by the Gencon 3.0 rules update the 9-12 opening situation feels like the most fragile part of the game. I think there’s still room here for a 4.0 setup of some kind. Gencon 3 feels like a patch (necessary but not perfect) when the setup probably could use a bigger update.

Axis & Allies 1942 Online fix for iOS is now live, the game can be launched again.

@WHarvey All handled (in the DM).

Gonna file the two glitches I found in two separate threads.

First, the QoL changes and addition of ranked mode have breathed new life into this game for me. Thanks a ton for implementing both.

Anyway, this glitch is something I call “Sub Vortex”. Allow me to explain:

Scenario: USSR has a sub in SZ7 (English Channel). I Combat Move my German Sub into that SZ to attack. Both the Allies Player and myself have my Combat Profiles set to “Submerge Subs if no Destroyer Present”.

Battle Occurs, battle is canceled because Soviets submerge. USSR Player’s turn, battle is canceled because Germans submerge. Germany Player’s turn, I should have the opportunity to have my Submarine leave the hostile Sea Zone. This is where the possible glitch comes into play.

For whatever reason, I cannot leave the SZ with the Soviet Submarine. I can click the sub and see SZ7 come up in “yellow”, but the surrounding SZs are not “blue” and I cannot click any of them to move away from the Soviets. As this is a ranked game, I do not know if my opponent is also experiencing this glitch, or if it’s only affecting me.

Not a huge bug, but a bug nonetheless.

Thanks for listening.

Thank you! I found it and was able to create a new Defense Profile that submerges subs!