@Midnight_Reaper @Warpig
Thanks everyone! I will try to print them!
Calculating battles in your head
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“Never tell me the odds”–Han Solo (ESB)
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Nice golden rule you got there. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Now usually when I play, I always want the odds in my favor. And my sort of odds is at least 70% for medium to large-scale battles. For smaller battles if I can also make the IPC gain along with it, 60% seems good enough for me.
Of course odds are not what always matters. You have to factor in other issues. If I’m at a state where I can out produce my enemy on all fronts than I’ll even go 50/50 (maybe even less then that) to inflict as many causalities on my opponents as possible. There are other issues too, like how much the territory (and if it has an IC) I’m going after is worth. If I can 50/50 with Japan in Western USA, then by all means, why not? Or if my opponent is desperately dependant on transports, then I’ll strike again at 50/50 (though undefended transports are largely not a factor). Then there is the unit value of individual targets. What is the more inviting target: 5 infantry or 5 ARM? There are many other factors, but this is just a few.
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Personally, I add up number of hits per round, then compare numbers, then decide whether or not to attack/retreat.
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Well my favorite type of battles are the small ones. In this one game, the German sent out a fighter to attack a lone UK transport (must’ve been first turn). The only problem was that both sides couldn’t score any hits! For over 10 turns (I’m serious), there was this ever-present seesaw battle between the Transport and Fighter. Eventually after all the “evasive maneuvers,” the transport managed to hit the plane and retreat back to British home waters. From now on we place an AA gun in the sea zone where the battle took place to commemorate the “Lone Transport” that just wouldn’t sink.
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I once had a transport kill a 2 hit battleship. And it was my Battleship!
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I hear that! I think my group has some kind of super transports, we’ve lost 2 or 3 fighters this game to lone transports.
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When I play, I rarely see “super transports” that can go head to head with a BB or ftr and survive. But let me tell you, those AA guns are a pain in the flank! If I had a quarter for every ftr/bomber I lost to AA fire, I’d have enough to buy a small country. Well maybe not that much… :smile:
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HAVE YOU EVER FOUND THOUGHT CERTAIN PIECES FIGHT BETTER FOR CERTAIN NATIONS, FOLLOWING HISTORY? RUSSIAN INFANTRY CAN CHEW UP GERMAN ONSLAUGHTS BETTER THAN THEY SHOULD , GERMAN AA GUNS ARE HYPER ACCURATE AND BRITISH AIR IS AN ASS KICKER AND A NAME TAKER ETC. ? MAYBE I’M PROJECTING, WHO KNOWS.
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Johnny all caps.
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Quit the opposite for me. When I send a German bomber to attack the British isles (rarely since USSR is a better target), the survival rate is barely 3 turns! But when UK sends waves upon waves of bombers,I’ll be hard pressed to be able to shoot down just one. Russian infantry are great though, always good buys. However, what I seen when playing computer A&A, is to NEVER stack in the Caucasus, you’ll end up losing.
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Stop using all Caps plz Dark.
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Yeah, it’s not exactly easy on the eyes. :cool:
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