2007 AAMC AAR Lieutenant's Tournament - Signups Open!!!

Rules, registration form, etc. are now posted for the 2007 Singles Tournament. Links for the various relevant topics are in the Find Players and Game Discussion threads http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?board=52.0

@U-505: @newpaintbrush: @U-505: Well, Switch, the reason the Commander wants to play Low Luck is that she wants a narrower baseline with which to judge the viability of the strategy. Low Luck gives her that. If the majority of the results fall within the limits LL provides or the Allies win decisively, then it becomes a viable strategy. If the Axis can win most of the games decisively in LL, then it requires favorable dice in ADS and should be abandoned. What’s the point of playing 10 games of ADS when you can play 5 games of LL and get the same general idea about the strategy? You can hate LL for whatever reasons, but all you’re doing is limiting yourself. All LL does is eliminate wild dice swings. This game is primarily about outmanouvering your opponent and it is required just as much in LL as in ADS. ADS just provides more variability which is why I prefer it to LL, but I still enjoy my LL games just as much and if I lose, I will have a harder time complaining that I was screwed by the dice. If you have the MOST COMMON RESULT happening 5% of the time, and ninety-five variants happening 1% of the time, then it logically follows that you should expect to see the MOST COMMON RESULT every time. Never mind that something else happens 95% of the time. All I’m saying is that you are limiting yourself. You don’t have to justify your dislike for LL to me. My bad. 

Hello, Flames-of-Europe.de (FoE) is holding its annual Revised tournament. Please join under http://www.flames-of-europe.de/modules.php?name=Dicey&file=dtournament&tid=16>Dicey/Tournaments. (i.e. only a “blank” link by now, a more detailled tournament description can be found on the FoE homepage). If you´re not a member yet, no probem! Membership is free and you can join any time! Bye, Andreas Start: April, 1, 2006 End of Sign-Up: March, 30, 2006 Dice-Server: ADS is standard, if both players agree any other can be used (LL, AdvLL)

Well, no one seems to be replying…I only play TripleA, but if that’s fine with you, then I’m game.

I would happily play allies against axis without bid, I’m pretty much done with AAR, as AA50 is much better, but if someone thinks axis have advantage in AAR then I will prove you otherwise. TripleA, LL, no tech, real time. Just enter the lobby and say you want to play axis without bid, you will get seriously pwned  :evil:  :lol: :evil:

Pre-LHTR Lend Lease is insane.  Non-LHTR Super-fortresses is also pretty crazy. Colonial Garrison makes KJF much stronger.  Radar messes with things a lot.  Mobile Industry makes the Caucasus no longer a vital country, and increases the strength of a KJF.  Mechanized infantry lets you do a lot of stuff, as does fast carriers, as does island bases . . . really, MOST of the Allied NAs are quite good. Germany’s Blitzkrieg is decent because it frees up fighters.  Japan’s Banzai is okay.  (Banzai’s not great against a KJF, and even for a KGF, you need tanks and fighters for that last push into Moscow).  Most of the Axis NAs suck.  It is usually a matter of HOW MUCH they suck. How to abuse pre-LHTR Lend Lease - UK fighters, US fighters.  You haven’t seen “stupid” until you see Russia producing 8-9 infantry a turn with 14 fighters for backup.  No, seriously.  Russia just beats the hell out of everything.  LHTR changed this, thank goodness. How to abuse Superfortresses - build bombers to strat bomb, go for tech dice on US3 or US4.  With heavy bombers, you shut down Germany.  LHTR limits total damage per turn, I believe, instead of total damage per bomber, so stops this from doing more than 16 IPC damage. How to abuse Blitzkrieg - well, you take this fat load of tanks, and use 1-2 infantry to trade territories with Russia early.  Since you can use your tanks to trade territories without committing, now you can use your fighters for other things.  Like . . . getting EVEN MORE territory, or fighting off that Allied Atlantic fleet. How to abuse Banzai - use a lotta infantry, surprise.

@Mork: isee… well you made your point on the navy issue. thanks for the input on the different q’s. now about LHTR, is there a place were these rules are entirely laid out? what are the main differences? why would you use LHTR as opposed to original rules? There are various minor ajustments to the rules in LHTR that make them a bit more fair or logical. Fighters have to end their turn on the spot they end up after the turn ( in box rules they can be put on a carrier of the coast ) Some NA’s are tweeked so they are a bit more inline with the rest ( US bombers where just 2 powerfull in box rules ) Techs are applied after your turn to avoid sea-lion kinda things. Think that sums it up pretty much but read the rules i might have missed a change or 2.

I actually played a game to a draw where Germany knocked out Russia quite a few turns before Japan was conquered by the US.  Germany troops actually reached the Pacific the same turn Japan fell.  Then the US got all of Africa and the islands in SE Asia.  The US was a huge juggarnaught and so was Germany.  Germany had well over half the IPC values under their control, but the IPC’s split about even because Japan had conquered the Asian territories first, so Germany didn’t actually collect revenue for them.  The US and Britain owned the seas so we called the game a deadlock.