Guys, I’m thinking about resigning as league moderator and scoreboard operator. I don’t want to leave you in the middle of a year so intend to finish this year out and set up playoffs and everything, but maybe somebody should come alongside me and learn some of the ropes, or maybe you guys have an idea of another direction to take all this.

Contributing to this decision is that I did have my first manic and depressive episodes this year since 2005 (still pretty depressed - trying to get the right meds) but I wanted to get out anyway, since I haven’t found the time to play any league games myself.

I intend to help make a smooth transition if someone else is eager to moderate and score games (maybe a team) - I’d been doing everything with no partner for years now (Although having a partner can mean more work if they have differing ideas than you)

Please think about it - sorry - I guess this day had to come sooner or later. Thanks for understanding

Gamer

@simon33 said in WW2 Path to Victory - Feedback Thread:

I don’t understand why you liked both my post and Adam514’s contrary post.

I appreciate your statement.

The way I view likes - I don’t have to agree with a post to like it. I will like/heart posts when I’m glad they posted rather than staying silent. Or when I think the poster communicated something well/effectively. Et cetera

As for default game, I think it has to be the version that’s available to the world outside this site (out of the box version, basically) - we have very few players who refuse to play “balanced mod”, although of course it does happen, and I think it’s the way it should be… Makes more sense to force someone to play the “public” version than to force someone to play a mod, even if 95% of players only play that mod on this forum. It’s not welcoming to potential newcomers if they have to learn a different version of the game than they’ve been playing.

Crockett has videos of 1 hour interviews with
(chronological order)

AndrewAAGamer
AndrewAAGamer interview

ArthurBomberHarris
ArthurBomberHarris interview

Gamerman01
Gamerman01 interview

The Good Captain
The GOOD Captain interview

JDOW
JDOW interview

Oztea
Oztea interview

The Captain (NOT The Good Captain)
The Captain interview

Gargantua is interviewed 15 minutes by dtroy
Gargantua interview

Game reviews

OOB CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 ArthurBomberHarris v Farmboy (+41)
Video commentary by Crockett36 and ArthurBomberHarris senior,

Rounds 1-8
ArthurBomberHarris v farmboy 2023 OOB championship

Game thread and save file here

OOB AndrewAAGamer v Farmboy (+60)
Video commentary by Crockett 36 and Gamerman01

Round 1-3
AndrewAAGamer v Farmboy rounds 1-3

Round 4-5
AndrewAA Gamer v Farmboy rounds 4-5

Game thread and save file here

BM Adam514 v Gamerman01 (+22)
Video commentary of 2023 Semi-final game by Crockett36, Adam514, and Gamerman01
Game thread and save file here

Rounds 1-4
Adam514(x) v Gamerman01 rounds 1-4

Rounds 5-8
Adam514(x) v Gamerman01 rounds 5-8

Rounds 9-14 (end)
Adam514(x) v Gamerman01 rounds 9-14

OOB UHD Tech Oysteilo (+40) v Gamerman01
A “crazy” “fun” game agreed to, radically different Triple A map, quickly becomes serious
2024 regular league game
Video commentary by Crockett36 and Gamerman01

Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 1-2
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 3-4
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 5-6
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 7-9
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 1-6 w Oysteilo
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 7-12 w Oysteilo
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 13-16 w Oysteilo

Game is ongoing, G13
For the game thread and save file,
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 UHD thread

Balanced Mod introduction, explanation, review
and some highlights of @Adam514 /Gamer semi-final discussed, partly to demonstrate Balanced Mod features

BM introduction video

At the risk of turning people off because of my self-promotion,

You may want to know,

@Adam514 !
Does a game review with Crockett36 and myself
On the recently completed BM playoff semi-final game

Go to the stickied thread - “video interviews of league players by Crockett36”

We are amassing quite a collection of fun interviews on the opening post of that thread. Don’t miss out!

HOLY COW

All 2021 playoffs wrapped up - not bad! considering there were four brackets of 8

Also etched in the league history for ever, but a recap:

BALANCED MOD CHAMP

Axis-Dominion

BALANCED MOD 2ND CHAMP - crowned today :crown: :crown:

Oysteilo

PATH TO VICTORY CHAMP

Ghostglider

2ND EDITION RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX

AndrewAAGamer

ALL DEFINITELY worthy champions! Another round of applause
:clap: :clap: :clap:

It’s not hard in Excel, so I graph the TUV from round to round in my games. Then I look back at who won or lost and the graph shows TUV is HIGHLY indicative of who will win.

If 2 people look at this, I will be happy.

Third and final installment of a joint game review starring @Adam514 @crockett36 and me
This was the semi-finals of the BM tournament for the 2023 season.

Link added above

We need to petition @farmboy and @Adam514 to do the same with the recently completed championship game, assuming @crockett36 wants to keep spending his time this way!

It’s pretty special to hear from great players around the world, insights into A&A and their own game as well as their reactions to others. It’s the next level!

Congratulations to @Ghostglider !!

Your 2023 League Season Path To Victory Champion!! 🙌

The only one standing at the end.

Congratulations to @Daaras as runner-up. 🙌

Both are entered in the league history of championship winners and 2nd place finishers, and deserve all due awe, honor and recognition ✨✨✨

If you want to learn, to observe brilliance, or both, then you should review the game in Triple A

Ghostglider is so much on his game, he is about 110 points ahead of the next active Path to Victory player.

Path To Victory popularity has taken hold, believe it or not,
We have 79 finished games in little over 10 months of 2024 to 52 for all of 2023. You read that right.

Now get back to shooting each other with dice!

Mainah, at first that sounds very exciting and fun, but thinking about it a bit, there’s a big problem with that. If there’s money on games, there’s an incentive for people to try and help a player in the tournament to make better decisions, and also an incentive to try and sabotage a player (maybe by giving suggestions to make poor decisions disguised as clever ones).

Would mess with the integrity of the games, so as league moderator I’d have to say no.

@trimlinger I’m glad you hung in there, e-mails are in order, proper module installed, thread set up, and Russians have made their move! Here come the jets

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 1

TripleA Turn Summary for game: Classic League

Game History

Round: 1

    Research Technology - Russians
        Trigger GermanStartTech: Germans activates Jet Power
        Trigger JapaneseStartTech: Japanese activates Super subs

    Purchase Units - Russians
        Russians buy 1 aaGun and 6 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Russians
        Trigger Russians Can Move: Setting movementRestrictionTerritories cleared for rulesAttachment attached to Russians
        Trigger Russians Can Move: Setting movementRestrictionType to disallowed for rulesAttachment attached to Russians

    Non Combat Move - Russians
        3 infantry moved from Yakut S.S.R. to Novosibirsk
        1 armour moved from Soviet Far East to Novosibirsk
        2 infantry moved from Soviet Far East to Yakut S.S.R.
        4 infantry moved from Caucasus to Karelia S.S.R.
        2 armour, 1 fighter and 4 infantry moved from Russia to Karelia S.S.R.
        2 infantry moved from Evenki National Okrug to Russia
        1 aaGun moved from Russia to Novosibirsk

    Place Units - Russians
        1 aaGun placed in Russia
        6 infantry placed in Karelia S.S.R.

    Turn Complete - Russians
        Russians collect 24 PUs; end with 25 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

I think I set up the game options correctly. Go to Game - Game Options to check

Testing Forum poster

Test summary from TripleA, engine version: 2.7.15256, time: 6:49:11 PM
Savegame

Classic game league defaults modified by the following:

Besides all other neutrals, Spain is in play. 3 IPC cost
Germany starts with jets, Japan with super subs
May NOT build in enemy-occupied sea zones

trimlinger takes bid transport to the Carolines

TripleA Turn Summary: Germans round 8

TripleA Turn Summary for game: Classic League

Game History

Round: 8

    Purchase Units - Germans
        Germans buy 1 armour and 10 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Germans
        1 armour and 42 infantry moved from Ukraine S.S.R. to East Europe
        5 armour moved from Germany to East Europe
        1 bomber and 2 fighters moved from West Europe to Karelia Sea Zone

    Combat - Germans
        Battle in Karelia Sea Zone
            Germans attack with 1 bomber and 2 fighters
            British defend with 1 carrier and 4 transports
                Germans roll dice for 1 bomber and 2 fighters in Karelia Sea Zone, round 2 : 2/3 hits, 1.67 expected hits
                British roll dice for 1 carrier and 4 transports in Karelia Sea Zone, round 2 : 3/5 hits, 1.17 expected hits
                1 bomber owned by the Germans and 2 fighters owned by the Germans lost in Karelia Sea Zone
                2 transports owned by the British lost in Karelia Sea Zone
            British win with 1 carrier and 2 transports remaining. Battle score for attacker is -23
            Casualties for Germans: 1 bomber and 2 fighters
            Casualties for British: 2 transports
        Battle in East Europe
            Germans attack with 6 armour and 42 infantry
            Russians defend with 1 aaGun and 12 infantry
                Germans roll dice for 6 armour and 42 infantry in East Europe, round 2 : 15/48 hits, 10.00 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 12 infantry in East Europe, round 2 : 2/12 hits, 4.00 expected hits
                2 infantry owned by the Germans lost in East Europe
                12 infantry owned by the Russians lost in East Europe
            Germans win, taking East Europe from Russians with 6 armour and 40 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 30
            Casualties for Germans: 2 infantry
            Casualties for Russians: 12 infantry

    Non Combat Move - Germans
        12 infantry moved from Germany to East Europe
        1 aaGun moved from West Europe to South Europe
        14 infantry moved from West Europe to Germany

    Place Units - Germans
        1 armour and 10 infantry placed in Germany
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from East Europe: 6 infantry
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to Germany: 6 infantry
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

    Turn Complete - Germans
        Germans collect 31 PUs; end with 31 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Russians regular : -2.00
Germans regular : 5.33
British regular : 1.83

Savegame

Dawgoneit asked me to inform you.

I’m sorry to say, Dawg and his wife were in a bad car accident a week ago. He didn’t indicate that her life is in danger, but that his wife was worse off then he. Airbags did not deploy. 55 mph into a vehicle that did not stop.

I strongly regret to inform you,

Dawgoneit messaged me this morning and told me that he and his wife were in a serious car accident a week ago. 55 mph and broadsided a vehicle that did not stop. Airbags did not deploy.

Wow, I must have missed the 2 fighters, you caught me!

Refer to updated tournament spreadsheet. The link is in opening post of this thread. There you can see what I just tried to narrate. I don’t want anyone to be unaware of the tournament bracket