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

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.

@axis-dominion I figured out how to sort the overall standings without screwing up the formulas.
So you can gaze at the leaderboard and revel.
Shall I put it in flashing lights? Well, I thought of a way to highlight your feats and achievements.

11 games completed this year? Almost no one has more, and they’re not playing at your level.

Now I’ll stop interrupting you so you can bomb something.

Looks to me like that’s a big win for @peirce !

I wonder how high your rating will get. What do you think about PtV? Just discover it recently, or?

One of the most devastating things that can happen in Axis and Allies is really bad dice on a German airstrike of Allied fleets.

I had it happen to me twice this Spring, and that was Classic where you don’t have as much time invested.

I feel for you, and I am able to offer to play you again whenever this game is over, because my other games have frozen or gone really slow. Maybe game 2 I will get the terrible luck

TripleA Turn Summary: Russians round 4

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 4

    Purchase Units - Russians
        Russians buy 1 fighter, 5 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Russians
        1 armour moved from Caucasus to Ukraine
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Volgograd to Ukraine
        3 armour and 1 fighter moved from Russia to Ukraine
        7 artilleries, 40 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Bryansk to Ukraine
        1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Tambov to Ukraine

    Combat - Russians
        Battle in Ukraine
            Russians attack with 5 armour, 7 artilleries, 2 fighters, 40 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber
            Germans defend with 3 aaGuns, 14 armour, 5 artilleries, 1 factory_minor, 21 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Germans roll AA dice in Ukraine : 1/3 hits, 0.50 expected hits
                1 fighter owned by the Russians lost in Ukraine
                Russians roll dice for 5 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 fighter, 40 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber in Ukraine, round 2 : 11/56 hits, 14.17 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 3 aaGuns, 14 armour, 5 artilleries, 21 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Ukraine, round 2 : 15/41 hits, 16.00 expected hits
                15 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Ukraine
                3 aaGuns owned by the Germans and 8 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Ukraine
                Russians roll dice for 5 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 fighter, 25 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber in Ukraine, round 3 : 14/41 hits, 11.67 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 14 armour, 5 artilleries, 13 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Ukraine, round 3 : 17/33 hits, 13.33 expected hits
                17 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Ukraine
                1 artillery owned by the Germans and 13 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Ukraine
                Russians roll dice for 5 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 fighter, 8 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber in Ukraine, round 4 : 14/24 hits, 8.83 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 14 armour, 4 artilleries and 1 mech_infantry in Ukraine, round 4 : 7/19 hits, 8.67 expected hits
                7 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Ukraine
                4 artilleries owned by the Germans, 9 armour owned by the Germans and 1 mech_infantry owned by the Germans lost in Ukraine
                Russians roll dice for 5 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 fighter, 1 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber in Ukraine, round 5 : 7/17 hits, 7.00 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 5 armour in Ukraine, round 5 : 0/5 hits, 2.50 expected hits
                5 armour owned by the Germans lost in Ukraine
            Russians win, taking Ukraine from Germans with 5 armour, 7 artilleries, 1 fighter, 1 infantry, 2 mech_infantrys and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 59
            Casualties for Russians: 1 fighter and 39 infantry
            Casualties for Germans: 3 aaGuns, 14 armour, 5 artilleries, 21 infantry and 1 mech_infantry

    Non Combat Move - Russians
        1 infantry moved from Persia to 80 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Persia to Northwest Persia
        1 mech_infantry moved from Persia to Caucasus
        2 aaGuns moved from Bryansk to Ukraine
        2 aaGuns and 17 infantry moved from Korea to Amur
        1 submarine moved from 109 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
        6 infantry moved from Russia to Bryansk
        1 fighter moved from Ukraine to Bryansk
        1 tactical_bomber moved from Ukraine to Bryansk

    Place Units - Russians
        1 fighter, 5 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys placed in Russia

    Turn Complete - Russians
        Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 3
            Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 6 Sea Zone. Rolls: 4,1,4,6,3,2,3,4,3,2,5,4,4
        Russians collect 34 PUs (3 lost to blockades); end with 34 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Germans AA : 0.50
Germans regular : -1.50
Russians regular : 4.33

Savegame

4 destroyers, hit carrier

That’s bottom 13%…

Yes 2 fighters and American tactical
I’ll check back from time to time because you’ll probably need a casualty choice

TripleA Turn Summary: French round 3

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 3

    Purchase Units - ANZAC
        ANZAC buy 1 factory_minor and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - ANZAC
        1 fighter moved from Java to 41 Sea Zone

    Combat - ANZAC
        Battle in 41 Sea Zone
            ANZAC attack with 1 fighter
            Japanese defend with 1 transport
                1 transport owned by the Japanese lost in 41 Sea Zone
            ANZAC win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
            Casualties for Japanese: 1 transport

    Non Combat Move - ANZAC
        1 fighter moved from Java to India
        1 fighter moved from 41 Sea Zone to India
        1 infantry moved from Tobruk to Alexandria
        1 cruiser moved from 26 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
        1 carrier moved from 62 Sea Zone to 54 Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from Dutch New Guinea to New Guinea
        1 aaGun moved from Queensland to New South Wales
        1 infantry moved from Queensland to New South Wales
        1 artillery moved from Queensland to New South Wales

    Place Units - ANZAC
        1 transport placed in 62 Sea Zone
        1 factory_minor placed in Queensland

    Turn Complete - ANZAC
        ANZAC collect 14 PUs; end with 15 PUs
        Trigger ANZAC 1 Control Original And Malaya: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 20 PUs
        Objective ANZAC 2 Control Strategic Islands: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 25 PUs

    Combat Move - French

    Non Combat Move - French
        1 infantry moved from French Equatorial Africa to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
        2 infantry moved from Morocco to Algeria

    Turn Complete - French

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

Please do not worry about me. Even though I finally had no moves to make this weekend, I’m fine
Thanks!!

TripleA Turn Summary: UK_Pacific round 3

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 3

    Purchase Units - Americans
        Americans buy 5 fighters, 2 infantry and 3 submarines; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Americans

    Non Combat Move - Americans
        1 submarine moved from 54 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
        1 destroyer moved from 25 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
        1 transport moved from 32 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Western United States to 10 Sea Zone
        1 artillery moved from Western United States to 10 Sea Zone
        1 artillery, 1 carrier, 1 infantry, 2 submarines and 1 transport moved from 10 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
        1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 26 Sea Zone to Hawaiian Islands
        3 fighters moved from Midway to Amur
        1 fighter moved from Western United States to Hawaiian Islands
        1 carrier, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter and 1 submarine moved from 91 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
        1 tactical_bomber moved from 91 Sea Zone to Malta
        1 infantry moved from Eastern United States to 101 Sea Zone
        1 mech_infantry moved from Central United States to 101 Sea Zone
        1 destroyer, 1 infantry, 1 mech_infantry, 1 submarine and 1 transport moved from 101 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
        1 transport moved from 91 Sea Zone to 101 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Morocco
        1 mech_infantry moved from Western United States to Central United States
        1 transport moved from 26 Sea Zone to 10 Sea Zone

    Place Units - Americans
        1 infantry placed in Central United States
        5 fighters and 1 infantry placed in Western United States
        3 submarines placed in 10 Sea Zone

    Turn Complete - Americans
        Americans collect 52 PUs; end with 53 PUs
        Objective Americans 1 Homeland: Americans met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 63 PUs
        Objective Americans 3 Defense Obligations: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 68 PUs
        Objective Americans 2 Outer Territories: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 73 PUs

    Purchase Units - Chinese
        Trigger Chinese Artillery Supplies: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Open
        Chinese buy 1 artillery and 3 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Chinese
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Anhwe
              Chinese take Anhwe from Japanese
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Kiangsi
              Chinese take Kiangsi from Japanese
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Kwangsi
              Chinese take Kwangsi from Japanese

    Combat - Chinese

    Non Combat Move - Chinese
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Kweichow
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Anhwe
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Yunnan
        1 infantry moved from Hunan to Yunnan
        1 fighter moved from Burma to Szechwan

    Place Units - Chinese
        1 artillery and 3 infantry placed in Shensi

    Turn Complete - Chinese
        Chinese collect 10 PUs; end with 11 PUs
        Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 17 PUs

    Purchase Units - British
        British buy 2 airfields and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs; 

    Purchase Units - UK_Pacific
        UK_Pacific buy 2 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - British
        1 bomber moved from Gibraltar to 97 Sea Zone
        1 tactical_bomber moved from Malta to 97 Sea Zone
        3 fighters moved from Malta to 97 Sea Zone
        1 mech_infantry moved from Yunnan to Malaya
              UK_Pacific take Malaya from Japanese
        3 infantry moved from Yunnan to French Indo China
        2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from India to French Indo China
        1 mech_infantry moved from Yunnan to Siam
              UK_Pacific take Siam from Japanese

    Combat - British
        Battle in 97 Sea Zone
            British attack with 1 bomber, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber
            Italians defend with 1 destroyer
                British roll dice for 1 bomber, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber in 97 Sea Zone, round 2 : 1/5 hits, 2.83 expected hits
                Italians roll dice for 1 destroyer in 97 Sea Zone, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 destroyer owned by the Italians lost in 97 Sea Zone
            British win with 1 bomber, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 8
            Casualties for Italians: 1 destroyer
        Battle in French Indo China
            British attack with 2 fighters, 3 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
            Japanese defend with 2 infantry
                British roll dice for 2 fighters, 3 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in French Indo China, round 2 : 1/6 hits, 2.17 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 2 infantry in French Indo China, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the British lost in French Indo China
                1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in French Indo China
                British roll dice for 2 fighters, 2 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in French Indo China, round 3 : 2/5 hits, 2.00 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 infantry in French Indo China, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the British lost in French Indo China
                1 infantry owned by the Japanese lost in French Indo China
            British win, taking French Indo China from Japanese with 2 fighters, 1 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
            Casualties for British: 2 infantry
            Casualties for Japanese: 2 infantry

    Non Combat Move - British
        3 fighters moved from United Kingdom to Gibraltar
        1 fighter moved from 97 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
        1 bomber, 2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 97 Sea Zone to Malta
        1 armour and 1 mech_infantry moved from Kenya to Egypt
        2 infantry moved from Union of South Africa to 71 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Kenya to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
        1 cruiser and 2 destroyers moved from 81 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
        1 destroyer moved from 91 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
        2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 71 Sea Zone to 80 Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from 80 Sea Zone to Eastern Persia
              British take Eastern Persia from Neutral_Allies
        1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Egypt to 81 Sea Zone
        1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 81 Sea Zone to 79 Sea Zone
        1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 79 Sea Zone to West India
        1 transport moved from 91 Sea Zone to 106 Sea Zone
        2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from French Indo China to Yunnan
        1 destroyer moved from 109 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
        1 artillery moved from Yunnan to Shan State
        1 aaGun moved from Yunnan to Shan State
        1 aaGun moved from Yunnan to Hunan
        3 infantry moved from Burma to Shan State
        2 infantry moved from Burma to Yunnan
        4 infantry moved from India to Burma
        1 submarine moved from 91 Sea Zone to 93 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from Morocco to Algeria

    Place Units - British
        1 mech_infantry placed in Union of South Africa
        1 airfield placed in Malta
        1 airfield placed in Gibraltar

    Turn Complete - British
        British collect 29 PUs; end with 30 PUs
        Objective British 1 Original: British met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 35 PUs

    Place Units - UK_Pacific
        2 infantry placed in India

    Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
        Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 2
            Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 36 Sea Zone. Rolls: 4,2,5,4,4,6,3,6
        UK_Pacific collect 11 PUs (2 lost to blockades); end with 11 PUs
        Some Units in India change ownership: 2 infantry

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Japanese regular : 1.00
Italians regular : -0.33
British regular : -3.00

Savegame

Time to start loading veterans into the G/J/I slots?