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Origins game report on AA1914

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questioneer
last edited by Jun 19, 2013, 5:01 AM

We won the AA1914 tournament at Origins- lots of fun. Here is a summary. Share your thoughts on the new proposed rules by Larry.

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http://www.harrisgamedesign.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=18415&p=64933#p64933
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Slip Capone @questioneer
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@questioneer

If you are still on the website do you have another link to your report as it no longer works.

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Midnight_Reaper 2024 '23 '22 '21 '20 '19 '18 '17
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The website itself was taken down. You can look on the Internet Wayback Machine, but there’s no guarantee that his thread will have been picked up.

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• • Jul 26, 2017, 4:42 PM • Wolf555 Aug 21, 2017, 3:16 AM

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GAME WRITE UP: CENTRAL POWER NAVY STRATEGY!

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• • Jan 18, 2016, 10:48 PM • Whackamatt Jan 21, 2016, 2:00 PM

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O Jan 21, 2016, 2:00 PM

From a simple math min/max perspective which some are intersested in, a naval strat is extremly unwise. Simple plus/minus math will tell you you need to add appr. 81 IPC worth of naval as CP in total accross the board (using the starting naval as ref) to even break even which means if you wanna “controll” something you will need to add more than the competition.
As CP you cant ever get into a building race with the allies as your starting income is so much less, but rather you need to as fast as possible close the incomecap.

Consider sz17. (I will assume the ottoman and russian navy cancel each out). Allies can after turn1 have 2 BS (France+Italy)+3Cruisers(UK+Italy+France which means AH wont be able to break even, even if the go all out navy. After turn2 the allies will have additional 1BS+Crusie (UK) in the zone and again AH wont be able to break even, even if they spent all during 2 turns. After this france plus Italy can with great ease together spend equal to AH for each turn.
So I have to ask how in hell are AH suppose to get controll over sz17?=)

I suppose you can counter and say “the allies dont counter my moves in my games” but then what is the point of argue the value of strats. I can ask what do you think about my “attack-AH-first-as-Italy strat”, assuming AH dont defend their borders?=)
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Minor Summary of 2nd Game - CP Win

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• • Aug 26, 2013, 3:44 PM • Jocher Aug 29, 2013, 11:31 AM

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J Aug 29, 2013, 11:31 AM

These are estimates…
USA - 23
France - around 40. France had taken Portugal and a bunch of territories in Africa.
u.k. - around 38 or so, from all the ottoman territories it took.
Italy - weak. Around 6 or 8.
Austria - no territories gained and none lost, so around 25?
Germany - powerhouse…around 60 from all the Russian territory, and now Italian territory and very close to Rome.
ottoman empire - around 6 a round.
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First Game - Allies in A Rout

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• • Jun 3, 2013, 4:07 PM • GeneralTuna Jun 10, 2013, 2:42 AM

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M Jun 10, 2013, 2:42 AM

AH softening France’s air force up to open the way for Germany to have air supremacy: this will henceforth be known as the “Happy Artillery” strategy. Thanks for making my day, WB.

@WILD:

Yep, makes sense for the CP to have Germany go full tilt in one front, and Austria the other. We have seen Germany push France back to the brink, and Austria start off defending against Russia (and those damn Italians) then actually gaining the upper hand on their front as well with an aggressive Russia (they will need some inf from Germany, and the Turks). It is also helpful to have say a 10 unit friendly force with you to take out smaller adversaries, or grab more land so you don’t splinter off your main force. This can also help you to gain air superiority for the larger partner. Like Austria sacrifices a few inf and ftrs into a French stack just to force a dog fight and kill off a couple allied ftrs. Then Germany goes in full force, finishes off the air, and has very happy artillery.
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Game length

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• • Apr 8, 2013, 6:53 PM • lazarus351 Apr 10, 2013, 9:04 PM

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@Koningstiger:

When exactly did the Americans enter WW 1? Wasn’t that 1917? In game terms they enter on round 4. War should be almost over by then following the same logic, haha…

Well, in the real war, the Germans looked at their watch, saw it was 4 o’clock in the morning, saw stacks of Brit, French, and US tanks in France, and did what half of the players I read about do….gave up :-D

I’ve found if one side or another wants to put in the time, turn 4-5 is not late enough to determine the end result of the game, especially if one side (cough, CP, cough) is able to refocus to one front instead of two.
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First impressions from first game

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• • Apr 4, 2013, 11:15 AM • Tavenier Apr 4, 2013, 2:32 PM

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K Apr 4, 2013, 2:32 PM

The tanks don’t really get rolling like you said until turns 7-9, but that is when you are going to need them. Our last game the CP won was around 16 turns, so got lots of use of the tanks.

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MOVED: Experiments in your next game

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• • Apr 4, 2013, 12:17 AM • Imperious Leader Apr 4, 2013, 12:17 AM

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I Apr 4, 2013, 12:17 AM

This topic has been moved to House Rules.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=30696.0
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Our first game

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• • Mar 21, 2013, 1:48 PM • IWillNeverGrowUp Mar 21, 2013, 9:10 PM

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F Mar 21, 2013, 9:10 PM

If I were Germany I’d feel completely cheated by the Revolution. UNLESS it created a new Bolshevik power friendly to the Central powers…

@ossel:

I find it interesting that none of the games posted on this forum have ended with the victory conditions that are stated in the rules…which doesn’t really surprise me due to the nature of the war, but I kind of wish there had been more of a design consideration for alternate game endings, besides ‘we don’t feel like playing anymore.’

Flashman, remember what Sun Tzu said:

Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

I think the Allies are giving up too soon as well, but taking Moscow is a major morale victory for the CP’s, and it seems to be very effective.

[Edit]: I guess revolution was triggered in this game, but the effect is similar.

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