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Ill post it, I don’t see allies take a vc  back indeed. Well played!! Ill set up the new game today or tomorrow

Sorry for neglecting my game, tough week!

Hey Zhukov,

I screwed up my laptop doing a Bios update, so it might be a while before I am able to make a game move.  Can’t install on work laptop so it might be a while -

It looks like you will get the win soon anyway…

It is a pity to see that an old veteran like Zhuk just disappears and drops games without leaving a note.

I try to convince Ger to do a sealion after a weak purchase from Uk 1 but I didn’t play well with Russia this game, I should not have move my Ruski stack on Baltic state, I was out of position!

But japan has so many bonuses in BM3 ouch, it hurt me a lot  😛

Economic victory for the Axis is way harder in bbm but still possible, especially in case the Allies show too little aggression and just sit and turtle in India and Moscow.

Hi, apologies for the delay, I took a quick look now and it might be fun playing some more, but nothing can be done long term unless you make a big mistake like loosing Berlin, so I prefer conceding this year that we are already 2-0. In addition my time now is very limited.

Congrats again for your Axis. For any fan of this game it is a pleasure seing your moves. I don´t think in this unbalanced version there is a breach for your Axis, but in any case if someone can find it, this should be a strong Allies player and I am not. It was a lot of fun facing the challenge in any case, my interest now is on BM, in my first games, I really liked it even loosing.

Many Thanks for this fantastic year of challenges!

GAME ON  😄

Many Thanks for your words Zhuk and JDOW.

I coincide in the point about the China combat, before it, you were 0-0 in Europe, and winning 1-0 in Asia (Pacific efficiency vs mine), and in this combat loosing (6%) was a 1-1 and winning was a 2-0, like in football…

And I agree with JDOW on a couple of elements that were not bad thoughts in my strategy, but having seen the strategies overall, mine is by far less efficient than Zhuks. I believe the distance was greater than just some execution mistakes.

I have a couple of elements in mind to improve based on that analysis, much more work and play with Allies than those thoughts would be needed, but in any case many thanks for accepting the rematch, I will try making you think a bit more next time.

So…, to finish this:

I will give ME his quarterfinal rematch now as part of 2016 league, we will be in contact privatelly about it.

I will wait my semifinal rematch vs Zhuk, no hurries at all. You will post me later in 2016 for it.

If Zhuk wants playing vs my Axis with Allies + 33 afterwards, I cannot say NO to that. This potentially will be part of 2017 league results, because I believe this could be a long game, and the previous semifinal rematch might not finish with big distance from the end of the year 2016.

See you soon.

People keep focusing on unit rebalance, technology rebalance, SBR, rebalance or perhaps economic rebalance (through NOs and Vichy) but none of those things are the problem the way that I see it.

The dynamic problem is that in making the game have so many fun options and flexibility, the game designers have given the Axis too much initial advantage to work with and that Russia is too weak to withstand a focused assault

by experienced adversaries regardless of luck or the exact way the Allies or Axis play that assault out.

If you make Russia stronger, it becomes too strong for Germany to have any options (they must attack Russia and all the Axis must help).

But based on our last few games, if you thought the German and Italian “can-openers” and SBRs and air stacks were too much to handle, the German and the Italian AND Japan “eastern 3 way can-opener” and “early, unstoppable, cannot be scrambled against and before and after you repair SBRs” makes the game devastating and not really capable of being “patched” in my opinion.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 13

Purchase Units - Italians
            Italians buy 1 armour, 3 infantry and 2 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Italians
            2 bombers moved from Japan to 31 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Germany to Poland
                  Germans take Poland from British
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Romania to Slovakia Hungary
            2 fighters moved from Southern Italy to Slovakia Hungary
            1 fighter moved from Southern Italy to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
            1 armour moved from French Central Africa to Anglo Egyptian Sudan
            3 mech_infantrys moved from Volgograd to Ukraine
            3 fighters moved from Volgograd to Bessarabia
            1 infantry moved from Romania to Bessarabia
            1 armour moved from Volgograd to Tsinghai
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Volgograd to Tsinghai
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Volgograd to Northwest Persia
            1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys moved from Caucasus to Iraq
            6 infantry moved from Northwest Persia to Iraq
            1 armour moved from Persia to Iraq
            2 infantry moved from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan
            1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Caucasus
            1 artillery and 4 infantry moved from Germany to Poland

Combat - Italians
            Battle in Slovakia Hungary
                Italians attack with 1 artillery, 2 fighters and 1 infantry
                British defend with 1 infantry
                Italians win, taking Slovakia Hungary from British with 1 artillery, 2 fighters and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for British: 1 infantry
            Battle in 31 Sea Zone
                Italians attack with 2 bombers
                Americans defend with 1 destroyer
                Italians win with 1 bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is -4
                Casualties for Italians: 1 bomber
                Casualties for Americans: 1 destroyer
            Battle in Bessarabia
                Italians attack with 3 fighters and 1 infantry
                Russians defend with 1 infantry
                Italians win with 3 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 0
                Casualties for Italians: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Italians
            1 bomber moved from 31 Sea Zone to Caroline Islands
            3 fighters moved from Bessarabia to Ukraine
            2 fighters moved from Slovakia Hungary to Western Germany
            1 aaGun moved from Germany to Poland

Place Units - Italians
            3 infantry placed in Southern Italy
            1 armour and 2 mech_infantrys placed in Persia

Turn Complete - Italians
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 4
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 4,3,5,6,1,6
            Italians collect 16 PUs (4 lost to blockades); end with 17 PUs total
            Objective Italians 4 Control Iraq Or Persia Or Northwest Persia: Italians met a national objective for an additional 4 PUs; end with 21 PUs

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Would you prefer we switch sides or rebid?

GG and WP.  Was a fun one.

Thanks for a challenging match.  Fortune favored Axis in this one… particularly in mainland Asia, starting with the China 1 dice.  In Europe, it was also a very nice play to delay my advance by stacking Bryansk on Turn 4, though fortunately for Axis Germany was strong enough to go around by stacking Smolensk.

GG wp.  Allies managed to constrain and frustrate Germany/Italy a little, but Japan made up for that in the Pacific.

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Great game to follow, well played by both.

Zhuks Axis are brutal. And supported with a great G1, Allies are in trouble from round 1.

That is the thing about the bids, especially UK bids in the med or Scotland. Such a battle in 111 turns a +19 bid into -6 or so.
In the end the bid does mean nothing else but increase the chance of an early Axis disaster from maybe 10-15% to 30-35%. If the disaster does not occur, the bid is more or less done.

You guys will certainly both make it to the play offs, maybe the third game can be a showdown the playoffs:D

Yeah I think I should beef up szech a bit more next time, but usually on a J1 especially I get away with it. Japan did have more air in range than usual for szech. However, Japan did have to choose between the air blitz and Malaya/Java, so in the end I think it was pretty even. My reasoning for leaving the 12 inf +2AA in the East is this: there needs to be at least a deterrent force to discourage Japan to take those 3 territories that don’t border Mongolia (5-6 inf) or even to invade Amur and provoke Mongolia also, so might as well leave the 12+AA there to put some pressure in the North and threaten a Korea take.

When you look at it, you can see that I didn’t send much (Zhukov also killed the UK dd in Suez that was supposed to replace one of the figs in 97, pretty brilliant considering the impact). The ideal situation would have been 2 hits total by the Italians for me to conserve the carrier by killing the planes, but I did it to kill the tps that would otherwise get things like Cyprus and to allow US and UK to focus in the North on Norway and ignore Italy for a bit. The fact that Germany didn’t buy air actually encouraged me to attack 97 on UK 2 since the ships weren’t needed as much on defence and I could afford to clean the med. Yeah I should have indeed convoyed Italy, but I really was stretched thin on most fronts, I didn’t have anything to spare.

Thanks for the game, cheers!

I wanted to join GTO in Dec. 2014, just before it closed. So i found the only other online live opportunity to play wargames (incl. some WW2 maps), the Triplea Community. I am new to AA so i had not only to study the game but also the Triplea Online Lobby.

Unfortunately it is true that gaming on the TripleA lobby seems to require alot of memory and seems to work better with up to date operating systems…  But even with my old computer pbem/pbf work fine so I have no complaints really.

I cannot say this is true, my system is 5 years old (at least), has 4 GB memory (which nearly everyone has these days) and playing online is absolutely no problem.
Triplea offers now also hosted game, so no one has to solve this by himself. Many of old GTO players are now in the lobby (“refugees” as they call themselves 😉 and show their abilities in dice and LL-Games (which they dont like so much).

How has the server software been working for TripleA for live lobby play?

The triplea programmer have done a superb job to develop this software in many, many ways. For me as new to turn-based wargames the save possibility is esp. useful, so i can repeat every game in every move/turn to learn. The second great tool (for me) is the in-built battle-calculator which is very easy to use. All in all the functions of the gaming software is quite easy to use (esp. if you are an exp. AA gamer).
I can only suggest to download the Triplea Software and to check out an online live game, which in my opinion is a quite thrilling experience. And i hope DizzKneeLand33 had already had the time to make this exp. too  … 😉

Remark: the colors in my attachment of the game have been changed by myself a bit, because of my poor eysight.

Triplea Lobby.jpg
Triplea-Game REVISED.jpg

GG Hobo you played an outstanding game.  I get the impression that almost everyone in the playoff is deserving of being champion, which means my odds of winning are only 1/4.

LL/dice is in the game options, where the bid is placed.  You can turn it on or off before a turn.  Same with tech.

GG!  Thanks!

Thanks, fun game.  Japan was sure in big trouble early, but fortunately the German blitzkrieg saved the day for Axis.

gg thanks.

Re a rematch I’m going out of town for a week so let’s hold off.  I’ll msg you when I’m back.