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.

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 2 carriers, 1 fighter, 2 infantry, 1 submarine, 1 tactical_bomber and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Americans
        1 artillery moved from Hawaiian Islands to 26 Sea Zone
        3 infantry moved from Hawaiian Islands to 26 Sea Zone
        1 artillery, 3 infantry and 2 transports moved from 26 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        1 artillery moved from 33 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands
        3 infantry moved from 33 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands
        1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Queensland to 54 Sea Zone
        1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 54 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 33 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands
        2 cruisers moved from 54 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        1 battleship moved from 54 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        1 cruiser moved from 26 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone

    Combat - Americans
        Battle in Caroline Islands
            Americans attack with 2 artilleries and 4 infantry
            Japanese defend with 1 aaGun, 1 airfield, 1 harbour and 2 infantry
                Americans roll dice for 1 battleship and 3 cruisers in Caroline Islands, round 2 : 1/4 hits, 2.17 expected hits
                Americans roll dice for 2 artilleries and 4 infantry in Caroline Islands, round 2 : 3/6 hits, 1.67 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 aaGun and 2 infantry in Caroline Islands, round 2 : 2/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits
                2 infantry owned by the Americans lost in Caroline Islands
                2 infantry owned by the Japanese and 1 aaGun owned by the Japanese lost in Caroline Islands
            Americans win, taking Caroline Islands from Japanese with 2 artilleries and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 5
            Casualties for Americans: 2 infantry
            Casualties for Japanese: 1 aaGun and 2 infantry

    Non Combat Move - Americans
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 54 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        1 carrier moved from 54 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        1 carrier moved from 26 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        2 destroyers moved from 26 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        2 submarines moved from 54 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        3 destroyers moved from 54 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        2 fighters moved from 26 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        1 destroyer moved from 10 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
        2 submarines moved from 10 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
        1 submarine moved from 26 Sea Zone to 33 Sea Zone
        1 mech_infantry moved from Western United States to Central United States
        1 fighter moved from Eastern United States to Western United States
        1 transport moved from 91 Sea Zone to 101 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Brazil to 86 Sea Zone
        1 infantry, 1 mech_infantry and 1 transport moved from 86 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
        1 mech_infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Morocco
        1 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Morocco
        1 destroyer moved from 91 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to United Kingdom
        2 infantry moved from Brazil to British Guiana
        1 carrier and 1 submarine moved from 101 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone

    Place Units - Americans
        1 submarine and 1 transport placed in 101 Sea Zone
        2 infantry placed in Central United States
        1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber placed in Western United States
        2 carriers placed in 10 Sea Zone

    Turn Complete - Americans
        Americans collect 52 PUs; end with 52 PUs
        Objective Americans 1 Homeland: Americans met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 62 PUs
        Objective Americans 3 Defense Obligations: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 67 PUs
        Objective Americans 2 Outer Territories: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 72 PUs

    Purchase Units - Chinese
        Trigger Chinese Artillery Supplies: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Open
        Chinese buy 3 artilleries; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - Chinese
        1 infantry moved from Yunnan to Kwangsi
              Chinese take Kwangsi from Japanese
        1 infantry moved from Sikang to Shensi
        1 fighter moved from Sikang to Shensi

    Combat - Chinese
        Battle in Shensi
            Chinese attack with 1 fighter and 1 infantry
            Japanese defend with 1 artillery
                Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Shensi, round 2 : 0/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery in Shensi, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                Chinese roll dice for 1 fighter and 1 infantry in Shensi, round 3 : 0/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits
                Japanese roll dice for 1 artillery in Shensi, round 3 : 1/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Chinese lost in Shensi
            1 fighter owned by the Chinese retreated
            Japanese win with 1 artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is -3
            Casualties for Chinese: 1 infantry

    Non Combat Move - Chinese
        1 fighter moved from Shensi to Yunnan

    Place Units - Chinese
        3 artilleries placed in Yunnan

    Turn Complete - Chinese
        Chinese collect 5 PUs; end with 5 PUs
        Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 11 PUs

    Purchase Units - British
        British buy 1 fighter, 4 infantry and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Purchase Units - UK_Pacific
        UK_Pacific buy 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Combat Move - British
        1 infantry moved from Algeria to 92 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 92 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from 110 Sea Zone to Holland Belgium
        1 infantry moved from Morocco to 91 Sea Zone
        1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 91 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from United Kingdom to 110 Sea Zone
        2 infantry moved from 110 Sea Zone to Normandy Bordeaux
        1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to Normandy Bordeaux
        1 bomber moved from Gibraltar to Normandy Bordeaux
        1 cruiser moved from 92 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 battleship moved from 92 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 tactical_bomber moved from Malaya to 41 Sea Zone
        1 mech_infantry moved from Yunnan to Kwangtung
              UK_Pacific take Kwangtung from Japanese

    Combat - British
        Battle in 41 Sea Zone
            British attack with 1 tactical_bomber
            Japanese defend with 1 transport
                1 transport owned by the Japanese lost in 41 Sea Zone
            British win with 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
            Casualties for Japanese: 1 transport
        Battle in Holland Belgium
        Battle in Normandy Bordeaux
            British attack with 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 2 infantry
            Germans defend with 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 1 infantry
                British roll dice for 1 battleship and 1 cruiser in Normandy Bordeaux, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 1.17 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Normandy Bordeaux, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Normandy Bordeaux
            British win, taking Holland Belgium from Germans, taking Normandy Bordeaux from Germans with 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 2 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
            Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry

    Non Combat Move - British
        1 fighter moved from Normandy Bordeaux to 110 Sea Zone
        1 carrier, 2 destroyers and 1 fighter moved from 92 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 fighter moved from Gibraltar to Egypt
        1 armour moved from Algeria to Morocco
        1 infantry moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Egypt
        1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 80 Sea Zone to 76 Sea Zone
        1 armour moved from British Somaliland to 76 Sea Zone
        1 infantry moved from British Somaliland to 76 Sea Zone
        1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 76 Sea Zone to 80 Sea Zone
        1 armour and 1 infantry moved from 80 Sea Zone to Eastern Persia
              British take Eastern Persia from Neutral_Allies
        2 infantry moved from Union of South Africa to 71 Sea Zone
        2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 71 Sea Zone to 81 Sea Zone
        1 tactical_bomber moved from 41 Sea Zone to India
        1 aaGun moved from Burma to Yunnan
        2 aaGuns and 3 infantry moved from Burma to India
        2 mech_infantrys moved from India to Yunnan
        2 fighters moved from Malaya to Yunnan
        3 infantry moved from Malaya to Shan State
        1 bomber moved from Normandy Bordeaux to Scotland
        1 aaGun moved from United Kingdom to Scotland
        1 aaGun moved from United Kingdom to Scotland
        1 mech_infantry moved from Trans-Jordan to Northwest Persia
        2 infantry moved from 81 Sea Zone to Trans-Jordan
        2 artilleries and 5 infantry moved from Egypt to Alexandria

    Place Units - British
        1 transport placed in 110 Sea Zone
        1 fighter and 4 infantry placed in United Kingdom

    Turn Complete - British
        British collect 34 PUs; end with 34 PUs
        Objective British 1 Original: British met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 39 PUs

    Place Units - UK_Pacific
        2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry placed in India

    Turn Complete - UK_Pacific
        UK_Pacific collect 13 PUs; end with 13 PUs
        Objective UK Pacific 2 Kwangtung And Malaya: UK_Pacific met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 18 PUs
        Some Units in India change ownership: 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Chinese regular : -1.33
Americans regular : 0.17
Japanese regular : 1.67
Germans regular : -0.33
British regular : -0.17

Savegame

@AndrewAAGamer And I suggest that you strongly consider adopting the bidding method that occurred to me when starting the playoffs this year.

@pacifiersboard liked the idea and we did an open bid, where each bid we stated what the placements with that bid would be.
If you’re bidding 50-60 or whatever, I wonder if you would really enjoy the face up cards better before agreeing to their bid.

I saw mikawa was doing some face to face gaming this weekend!

I’m struggling a bit to get control of my schedule again. Don’t hurry on my account, and after J3 hopefully I won’t be a big bottleneck

Life has been in a bit of an upheaval the past few days.

I’m looking forward to sitting down and playing the next move, but not sure when, right now
I hope you don’t mind, thanks

It’s not uncommon. Two players matched up not by choice necessarily, maybe haven’t played before (just checked - according to league records they’ve never matched up) and have different ways of doing things and different expectations.

We’ll wait. It’s A&A.org league forum play and the playoffs are a big deal here.

This is not resolved yet.

Maybe we need a cooldown period. Or maybe we just need @GeneralDisarray to weigh in again.

I can wait.

I’m in a 20+ rounder myself right now, and for the past 7 rounds or so I think both me and @oysteilo would have been happy to just resign to the other because it’s been exhausting. So maybe there’s a little bit of that going on here.
I don’t know your personalities, unfortunately, so I just suggest you guys sleep on this some more. How many hours have been invested in the game? It’s understandable to just be tired and something like this just an opportunity to end it all, but just looking at map and TUV for a minute, seems you’ve got a real barn-burner going here and no A&A fan wants to watch it end on an OOL deal.

Use filter view, show all, show active, maybe back again, it should work - always does for me (see my reply to Simon)

The top 4 entries in the Balanced Mod playoff were titans.

It’s a farmboy back-to-back… no.

It’s a THREE-PEAT

That’s farmboy for 2022, 2023, and 2024. Can you call that luck? Of course not.

Well. 2022 was maybe.

🔥🔥🔥🔥
▄︻デ══━一💥
ᯓ ✈︎

Bask for 3 months, and then we expect a 4th crown from you next year!

I would do this for you, but I’m not entirely sure whether others are able to do this themselves:

Through sorting or filtering, sometimes players’ lines are not visible.
I think if you go the the filter view (right next to the filter icon toward top right) and go to all players, and/or all active players, toggling that will correct it.

Let me know if you can’t change your filter views. It would be valuable information to me.

Sorry about the disappearance - I blame it on Mr Roboto for designing it and disappearing before I fully learned all features. We’re lucky it’s working at all

Please wait, I want to ask booper to reconsider his decision for Siberians to stand still and not invade