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A lot of Axis players do this, but I see it as a good development if I’m allies. Any left over French units could be annoying in the early rounds. You have to be sure you can counter France if they take it and get the bonus infantry.

Axis won’t get the +2. Just holding Normandy for 3 turns is 2 more infantry. Axis will need a larger force in France than otherwise to prevent Allies from getting a foothold because USA will be able land their planes in Normandy right off the bat. If you don’t contest the allied landing in Normandy, Allies will be able to trade for Southern France.

A combined Italian-German stack in Normandy is strategically preferable to a stack in France, provided you have the manpower.

If USA could concentrate all its resources on the Atlantic front it would be a different story. But dual victory conditions means that if USA invests enough to make Germany pay for taking Normandy, then they likely didn’t invest enough in the Pacific to stop Japan.

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Clicking on “Active Units” or “Placement”-bar minimizes those.
Maybe you need a current prerelease to do so. I don’t know when this has been added.
It is not permanent, though.

It you don’t like this feature please let the developers know that on
https://forums.triplea-game.org/

@marshmallowofwar said in Common bid elements?:

Just so are all aware, the ANZAC infantry in New Guinea is not a legal bid.

Marsh

In face-to-face games at home or play by forum games on this website, bid parameters are whatever players agree. Although I do acknowledge that it lies outside the suggested defaults for our league here.

It wouldn’t surprise me if other venues have fixed bid rules, but you may want to specify.

Absolutely. I’ve been able to play twice a week for 3 hours each time doing this. One of our weekly players had a shift change and couldn’t make the weekend game. Setup is quick too, not as many units

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Finally, congrats. Now enjoy gaming.

I’ve disabled desktop notifications but every time I log in (because hey, who says logged into web sites and allows themselves to be tracked across the internet) I get asked again about enabling notifications.

How do I stop this (other than by staying logged in, which isn’t going to happen)?

Marsh

Since I’m not going to use the new version, how do I permanently remove the pop up about 2.x in the 1.9 version please?

For those interested, photos of our meetup are going up now. Wizards put on a phenomenal spread of food including a mountain of pizza, held a raffle for prizes, and gave us all copies of AAZ! Scott and other developers even signed boxes.

It was truly an amazing event and we’re so grateful to Wizards for their hospitality.

Marshmallow of War

I had no idea there was this kind of a group in the Puget Sound Region. This is an awesome find. Not sure I can attend that event but I would definitely be interested in other meetups

Just yesterday I read a chapter on Madagascar in Chruchill’s series, The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate.

I don’t know if you can credit this victory to the effectiveness of marines.  Chruchill considered the operation a great success because of excellent planning and execution.  Using a far superior force against a weak colony composed of Vichy, African natives, and even Frenchmen who disliked Vichy was almost a sure win from the start.

Yes, marines are effective, but they are basically regular troops extensively trained for certain situations.

Any well-trained handful of men could have done the same job given the same circumstances.

I do not want to discredits the marines, but there is no reason why they should be counted separate or special compared to other infantry divisions.

I’m going on vacation next week anyway.  :-D

Thanks for the game. I enjoyed your European effort and your Russia recapture. You’re correct that oob is unbalanced, and if BM were purely an effort to balance out of box instead of add new mechanisms and rules I would probably enjoy it more. I’ll refrain from soapboxing further.

I missed an opportunity on J13 to guarantee a win on J14. Was kicking myself for that.

Please let me know when you’re interested in another game!

I should add two things:

1. Took Allies because frankly I have zero clue on how to run this as the Axis!
2. Bid placement: tank in Egypt, artillery in Anglo Egypt Sudan, and artillery in Szechwan.

Marsh

Welcome back to the forum Marsh.

Welcome back!  Hope all’s well in your neck of the woods.

Sure.  I’m up for a new game.  Might have to wait until Saturday or Sunday, though, as I have a tight schedule today.

I think I already posted our game as a forfeit, but you can double-check, if you like.

Apology accepted.  No worries Marsh!  Glad you are back.  I hope all is going well for you.  PM me when and if you are ready for a game! :-D

sorry, missed that! More than happy to restart. As you can probably tell by my results, I’m just happy to play games and wins are a secondary consideration for me!

Thread is up!

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=39914.0

Marsh

Thread is up:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=40065.0

Need bid placement.

My original calculations did not even consider that Japan has to repair the damage it causes. That extra cost means that over two rounds of strat bombing Japan is at around zero net-gain even if no strat bombers were lost in the process.

Marsh