Cmdr Jennifer Hijacks “Enhanced” – How do you really feel about it.


  • @Cmdr:

    But you cannot specify what nation will get a certain technology out of the box.

    Yes, you can. It’s specified by by whoever’s turn it is.

    @Cmdr:

    Just like you can’t say “well, my armor missed last round, so it’s going to hit this round” you also can’t say “I’ll only get Super Submarines if Japan rolls a 6, I’ll get one of the other 5 if Germany or Italy roll a 6.”  It’s an invalid method of calculating probability.

    What does this have to do with anything in my post? The ironic thing is, I was explaining this concept to you a few weeks ago.  :lol:

    @Cmdr:

    You two seem to want to discount the odds that you get super submarines with one of the other nations and not with Japan.

    No, I never said anything of the sort in post at all.

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    @Unknown:

    “HAVING THE CORRECT NATION” IS NOT A PROBABILITY EVENT

    It is if you are attempting to get technologies with all your nations and you don’t want super submarines for two of them, but only with the third.

    You mean, it’s not in the sample set if Japan gets nothing, Italy gets nothing, but Germany gets Super Submarines?  Can’t do that.  It’s part of the possibilities, it’s part of the population.

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    @Unknown:

    @Cmdr:

    Just like you can’t say “well, my armor missed last round, so it’s going to hit this round” you also can’t say “I’ll only get Super Submarines if Japan rolls a 6, I’ll get one of the other 5 if Germany or Italy roll a 6.”  It’s an invalid method of calculating probability.

    What does this have to do with anything in my post? The ironic thing is, I was explaining this concept to you a few weeks ago.  :lol:

    In your case, I was joking and you should have known it.  After I explained that to you, it clicked, or at least, it seemed too.  Funny how you selectively forgot that.


  • @Cmdr:

    You could have the correct nation and get a 6 but roll one of the other 5 technologies. {1-(1/61/61/3)}
    You could have the correct nation, not get a 6, and can’t roll for a technology. {1-(1/61/3)}
    You could have the correct nation and get a 6 and roll the correct technology. {1/6
    1/61/3}
    You could have the wrong nation, get a 6, but roll one of the other 5 technologies. {1-(1/6
    1/62/3)}
    You could have the wrong nation, not get a 6 and can’t roll for a technology. {1-(1/6
    2/3)}
    You could have the wrong nation and get a 6 but correct the right technology. {1/61/62/3}

    Please explain.  If I’m playing the Axis.  It’s Japan’s turn.  Japan wants Super Subs.  How can it be the wrong nation?  Japan’s odds of getting Super Subs are:
    1/6 to roll a 6 (assuming only 1 tech token)
    1/6 to get Super Subs

    1/6 * 1/6 = 1/36.

    I’m not trying to be annoying, I truly want to know.  Because as I see it there is a disconnect from what is mathematically probable and how the game is played.  Some variables are known at the time of rolling that I think you’re not accounting for; like who’s turn it is and how many tech tokens are purchased.  Again, please explain.  Thank you.

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    Point is:

    Heavy Bombers are powerful, but not game changingly powerful.  There are a myriad of ways to negate the power of the heavy bomber.

    Super Submarines were way too powerful to give you the ability to get them whenever you wanted them with whoever you wanted them for.  There was no way to negate their power.

    To defeat a Super Submarine you have to buy a Destroyer.

    Super Submarine: Attack 3
    Destroyer: Attack 2

    Super Submarine: Cost 6
    Destroyer: Cost 8

    On top of it, just having the destroyer did not even mean you’d be able to kill the submarine!  You had to find the blasted thing first and you only have a 33% chance per destroyer to do that.

    The way it is in Enhanced is:

    Super Destroyer: Attack 3
    Submarine: Attack 2

    Super Destroyer: Cost 8
    Submarine: Cost 6

    This is in line with a more balanced game, since the Super Destroyer is only slightly more powerful than the submarine for only slightly higher cost.  The Destroyer is unable to pass through enemy ships without being attacked and does not have to be found first before it can be destroyed.

    Your allusion to Heavy Bombers has been shown to be not nearly as powerful as the super submarine.  A quick run down:

    Battleships get to shoot bombers down before they can attack, so there’s a 1 in 6 chance your bomber won’t even get an attack.
    Battleships cannot sink submarines before they can attack, so there’s a 6 in 6 chance your submarine will get an attack

    Battleships can be upgraded with radar giving them a 1 in 3 chance of shooting down your bomber before it even gets an attack.
    Battleships cannot be upgraded to give them a chance to sink an enemy submarine before it gets a chance to attack

    A bomber has a chance to sink a battleship in one round if it is a heavy bomber.  That chance is 44%.  A battleship has a chance to kill a bomber in one round, that chance is 67%.

    2 Submarines have a chance to sink a battleship in one round.  That chance is 25%.  The battleship in that battle would not get a chance to fire back.

    So the Bomber can be killed before it gets a chance to attack (and with a 33% chance as well) and only a 44% chance to sink the battleship if it is not shot down in opening fire with a 67% chance of being shot down itself.  Cost: 14 IPC with very poor chances of sinking the battleship.

    The submarines can kill the battleship without even letting the battleship return fire.  Cost: 0 IPC, Gain: 20 IPC.  Submarines are WAY better than Heavy Bombers.

    If you up that:

    7 Submarines with a 21 Punch have a virtual 100% chance to sink a battleship without loss.
    3 Bombers will drop to 2 Bombers because of AA Gun fire with a punch of 16 which is virtually assured of killing the battleship, but with the loss of a bomber.

    So do you want to lose no equipment, or a third of your equipment?

    Most people say no equipment, especially since those submarines can now do 7 CRD to the enemy, the bombers have to survive the AA Gun fire before they can do any damage to the enemy.

    They’re just a piss poor investment if you want dominance of the ocean.  At least, when you want dominance and can get any tech you want whenever you want.

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    @Cmdr_Jennifer:

    @Cmdr:

    You could have the correct nation and get a 6 but roll one of the other 5 technologies. {1-(1/61/61/3)}
    You could have the correct nation, not get a 6, and can’t roll for a technology. {1-(1/61/3)}
    You could have the correct nation and get a 6 and roll the correct technology. {1/6
    1/61/3}
    You could have the wrong nation, get a 6, but roll one of the other 5 technologies. {1-(1/6
    1/62/3)}
    You could have the wrong nation, not get a 6 and can’t roll for a technology. {1-(1/6
    2/3)}
    You could have the wrong nation and get a 6 but correct the right technology. {1/61/62/3}

    Please explain.  If I’m playing the Axis.  It’s Japan’s turn.  Japan wants Super Subs.  How can it be the wrong nation?  Japan’s odds of getting Super Subs are:
    1/6 to roll a 6 (assuming only 1 tech token)
    1/6 to get Super Subs

    1/6 * 1/6 = 1/36.

    I’m not trying to be annoying, I truly want to know.  Because as I see it there is a disconnect from what is mathematically probable and how the game is played.  Some variables are known at the time of rolling that I think you’re not accounting for; like who’s turn it is and how many tech tokens are purchased.  Again, please explain.  Thank you.

    Who is to say that Japan will get the super submarine not the other nations?  You can’t just negate their chances.

    Let’s put it this way:

    You have 1 Super Submarine Tech to give out.

    You have 3 Nations looking for Technology with a 1 in 6 chance of getting a technology and a 1 in 6 chance of getting the Super Submarine tech.

    Who’s to say that Japan will be the one to get the technology break through and not Italy or Germany?  Doesn’t Japan have the same odds as Germany or Italy even if Germany and Italy are hoping for something else on the tech chart?  Why are we saying with absolute certainty that Germany and Italy WILL NOT get the super submarines tech because they want something else and Japan will get it if it is gotten at all?  That doesn’t make statistical or mathematical sense!  Just because Germany and Italy don’t want the technology does not mean they won’t be the ones to get it if it is all random!


  • Jen, true or false:

    Japan has a 1/36 chance of getting super subs.

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    They way you are doing it you get:

    Germany has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules
    +
    Italy has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules
    +
    Japan has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules

    Therefore:

    The Axis have a 3/36 (or 1 in 12) chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules

    Don’t think that’s valid.


  • @Cmdr:

    They way you are doing it you get:

    Germany has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules
    +
    Italy has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules
    +
    Japan has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules

    Therefore:

    The Axis have a 3/36 (or 1 in 12) chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules

    Don’t think that’s valid.

    Yes, that’s right.  The Axis have a 1/12 chance of one of their nations getting super subs on the first round, with any specific nation having an individual chance of 1/36.  However that’s assuming that all three nations select the group of tech that contains Super Subs.


  • @Cmdr:

    They way you are doing it you get:

    Germany has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules
    +
    Italy has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules
    +
    Japan has a 1/36 chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules

    Therefore:

    The Axis have a 3/36 (or 1 in 12) chance of getting Super Submarines in OOB Rules

    Don’t think that’s valid.

    Well, this is incorrect and not what I was saying anyway.

    Technically, you can’t add those probabilities to get 1/12 because they are not mutually exclusive events (although 1/12 is a decent approximation in this case). Germany and Japan could both gets super subs, for example. The correct way to calculate the odds of one or more Axis nations acquiring super subs, if they each roll exactly one die and have no technologies, is to find the odds that none of them get the tech and subtract that from 1:

    1 - (35/36)^3 = 8.1%

    But we’re not interested in the odds of at least one Axis nation getting super subs. We’re interested in the odds of Japan getting super subs right? Since they are one of the nations you say can “break” the tech.

    The odds of any particular nation getting super subs is 1/36. Since one nation acquiring a tech (or failing to acquire one) doesn’t affect the probability of other nations acquiring a tech, they are independent events. Thus, whether Germany or Italy get super subs in no way affects the probability of Japan getting super subs.

    Japan can always buy a tech token on their turn. If they do so, they get a 1/6 chance of tech. If they get a tech, they get a 1/6 shot at super subs. That’s 1/36 to get super subs; there are no other random events to account for here.

    Don’t make it more complicated than it needs to be: you roll 1 die to get a 6, then 1 die to get a 1… if you do, boom, super subs. 1/36 chance, end of story.

    I can’t believe I’m still explaining this.

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    I can believe you are still explaining it.

    What I can’t believe is that you are off on this tangent which has absolutely nothing to do with Anniversary Enhanced since Super Submarines don’t even exist in Anniversary Enhanced.


  • Thank you for the ‘C’ section answers.

    Now for the direct answers to the last section: ‘D’.

    @Cmdr_Jennifer:

    WHO MAKES THE RULES:

    1. Who submits the ideas for changes to the rules?
    2. How is the decision made as to which rules get enacted/changed?
    3. What ratio of votes are needed to make a change or prevent one?
    4. What level “expertise” does the voting people possess that gives them the right to place a vote?  There are several people here on the site that may have this expertise.  Most of them are listed as people I don’t know up in my disclaimer.  I’m assuming that not every person testing has a vote on which rules get enacted/changed/removed.
  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    It’s not BS logic.

    Here’s the logic:

    1)  Tech is assured
    2)  Submarines are really cheap
    3)  Cruisers are really expensive
    4)  Submarines have sneak attack abilities
    5)  Submarines have to be detected before they can be attacked
    6)  Super submarines turn submarines into cruisers

    Conclusion:  Super Submarines tech is unbalanced with Enhanced rules.

    Remedy:  Instead of making Submarines upgradable, make Destroyers upgradable.  Cost difference between Revised and Anniversary for the unit is nil; attack power change is nil; destroyers don’t get sneak attacks; destroyers don’t have to be detected before they can be sunk; destroyers are not immune to air power only attacks.

    It’s the perfect solution to a blatant and obvious problem.


    BadSpeller:

    Read all the replies I have given.  The answers to your D section of questions are all there.


  • Are you going to concede that your probability calcs were wrong or not?

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    @Unknown:

    Are you going to concede that your probability calcs were wrong or not?

    Just after you concede your probability calcs are wrong.

    You fail to take into account the number of nations AND you fail to take into account the number of rounds.  A success could occur on the wrong nation or in the wrong round both of which negate the “success.”

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    1/36 is valid if you are ONLY considering ONE round for ONE nation.  But you cannot do that.  That’s like saying you have a 50% chance to hit with the fighter in a battle with 80 units.  Yea, so what?  It’s not really relevant if the fighter hits, what you want to know is if you’ll WIN and to do that, you need to figure out what the probability is for all of your units to hit and miss and the most likely outcome.

    Just like in a mass battle, you need to know what the odds are for Japan to get Super Submarines on Round 3 if one die is purchased.  It’s NOT a success if Germany gets it or Italy gets it.  It’s  NOT a success if you get it on Round 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, …. inf.  If that happens, it’s a FAILURE.

    (Capitalization used for emphasis.)

    For someone who claims to get paid in this you sure seem to have a severe lack of understanding.  Either that, or you are REALLY confused as to what is being discussed.  No one is talking about the chance that a player discovers a certain technology at any point in the game.  We are specifically talking about a single instance where a technology is discovered by the right nation at the right time.  That has more parameters than just the odds of getting a 6 on a d6 and then the odds of getting a 1 on a d6.  It has to happen only in those scenarios where you are playing the correct nation (1 in 3) and only on that round you need it (1 in 20-25 for some typical games.)

    You cannot claim that you “succeeded” in getting Super Submarines in round 20 when the game has evolved to a situation where you no longer have a navy.  That’s a failure.  You cannot claim that you “succeeded” in getting Super Submarines if you are playing a different nation at the time you make the discovery.

    The only time you can claim a success is when you get super submarines with the nation you need it for in the round you need it.  So you absolutely MUST account for the chance you are playing the wrong nation and you must account for the chance that it is not yet, or no longer, the round you need the technology.


  • @Cmdr:

    Just like in a mass battle, you need to know what the odds are for Japan to get Super Submarines on Round 3 if one die is purchased.  It’s NOT a success if Germany gets it or Italy gets it.  It’s  NOT a success if you get it on Round 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, …. inf.  If that happens, it’s a FAILURE.

    Let me get this right.  You’re saying that if Japan will need Super Subs on Round 3 because of the strategy they are attempting but they get them in rounds 1 or 2 its a failure?
    @Cmdr_Jennifer:

    Because as I see it there is a disconnect from what is mathematically probable and how the game is played.

    So if I have to account for the probability that Germany or Italy will get Super Subs (SS) instead of Japan (according to your calculations), then the probability of Japan getting them on Round 3 would change if both Germany and Italy already have them?  So if by luck/chance/stupidity (whatever you want to call it) Germany gets SS on G1 and Italy gets SS in I1, then the probability that Japan would get SS on J3 is 1/6 * 1/6 * 3/3 = 1/36?  Because I could no longer be playing the wrong nation; both other Axis nations already have SS.

    Unfortunately, I don’t get paid for my math skills…or maybe fortunately.


  • OK, I’ll take one last crack at explaining this to you Jen. I know you don’t like me, but please try to actually listen to what I’m saying this time. And hopefully this post doesn’t get deleted. :roll:

    Suppose I flip a coin. What are the odds it comes up heads? Well, I hope we can agree that its 1/2.

    Now, suppose I flip a coin on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. What are the odds of the coin coming up heads on Friday?

    Thus far you have reasoned like this: the odds of the coin coming up heads is 1/2, but we must also take into account what day of the week it is. There is only 1 “correct” day of the week (Friday) in which a coin gets flipped, while there are 2 “incorrect” days (Monday, and Wednesday). So there is only a 1/3 chance of it being Friday when the coin is flipped. Therefore, the odds that the coin comes up heads on Friday is (1/2)*(1/3) = 1/6.

    Correct?

    No. Here’s why:

    What you’re trying to do is find the joint probability of two events using conditional probabilities. The problem is, you have the conditional backwards. See, we’re not deciding whether to flip a coin, and then assigning the result of the flip randomly to a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday. So we don’t want to know the probability of it being Friday, given that the coin is flipped. Instead, we’re seeing what day of the week it is, and then determining if the coin gets flipped or not based on whether or not it’s a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday. Thus, we want to know the probability of flipping a coin, given that it is Friday.

    Of course, the probability of flipping a coin, given that it is Friday is equal to 1, since it’s stipulated that a coin always gets flipped on a Friday. So, the joint probability of flipping a coin on friday and flipping heads is: (1)*(1/2) = 1/2.

    Do you see the difference? And do you see that you’re making the same mistake when calculating the odds of getting super subs?

    We don’t want to know the odds of it being the “correct” nation, given that super subs has been discovered, we want to know the odds of super subs being discovered, given that it’s the “correct” nation.

  • '18 '17 '16 '11 Moderator

    Yes, if your strategy is to get the submarines on round 13 and you instead get them on round 11 or 12, this is a failure.

    Why?

    If you get them too early, you might not be able to trap your opponent.  In other words, he might slip out of the trap before you are ready to spring it.

    But that’s easy to fix, just don’t roll on rounds 11 and 12.

    The more serious problem is:

    If you need it on round 13 and you get it on round 17 after all your submarines are sunk.

    That’s why you have to factor in the rounds into your chances.  It’s more than “getting the tech” it’s getting the tech at an opportune time to use it.


    I see what you are saying Unknown.

    Does your rational work if you need that coin to come up heads on a specific day in a specific week and a specific month - keeping in mind, that once you get a head you can no longer get a head.  Remember, this is not sampling with replacement, once you get a tech, you cannot get it again.  (not to mention, as I mentioned above, getting it too early or too late can really screw up your entire plan by either not having the units anymore or showing your hand too early.)

    All these things come into play.

    And:



    That’s exactly the nice thing about Enhanced.  You don’t have any of those worries anymore.  (Which is what made SS too powerful, which, come to think of it, I think OOB should be changed to make SS be SD just to bring the tech back in line.)


  • @Cmdr:

    I see what you are saying Unknown.

    Thank you! Now we’re getting somewhere. :)

    @Cmdr:

    Does your rational work if you need that coin to come up heads on a specific day in a specific week and a specific month - keeping in mind, that once you get a head you can no longer get a head.  Remember, this is not sampling with replacement, once you get a tech, you cannot get it again.

    Well, admittedly the coin analogy does break down when we start talking about tech rolls over multiple rounds, because, as you say, you can’t roll the same tech twice while you can flip heads on a future Friday even if you did the first time. I just wanted to illustrate the problem (i.e. the backwards conditional) in the simplest way I could think of.

    What’s crucial is how the question is framed. Do we want to know, for example:

    The chance Japan gets super subs on exactly turn x?
    -OR-
    The chance Japan gets super subs on or before turn x?

    If we’re talking about the first thing, then all we really need to know is how many tech rolls Japan bought that turn, and what techs they already have (if any). Very straight forward to calculate, and the actual turn number is irrelevant. However, if we’re talking about the second thing, the turn number does matter, as does how many tech rolls Japan will purchase on each of the turns leading up to turn x. This question is much harder to answer. We’d end up with a probability distribution for the chance of acquiring super subs over the turns 1 through x, with the probability increasing over time due to more and more tech rolls and the possibility of other techs being acquired as you go. I think perhaps this is what you were getting at.

    However, all that said, one thing we can say for sure is that the probability of getting super subs for any nation will never be more than 1/36, since this is the worst case scenario where no techs have been discovered and only one roll is purchased. Thus 1/108 simply has to be wrong.

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