XDAP4 The Numenoreans VS The Fighting Mongooses

[KurtGodel7]

@wheatbeer:

The dice emails from MARTI show rolls of 1s not 3s, though the program reports it as rolls of 3s.

If you look back to past SBR, for the example the round 9 combat log (quoted above), you can see rolls of 7, which are impossible.  So when it says rolls 7, it actually indicates the dice rolled 5 because it automatically adds in the +2 bonus.

In the past, MARTI always showed 1s when displaying the damage done on strategic bombing raids, regardless of whatever was actually rolled. However, I went back through some MARTI rolls from earlier in this game, and found that there were some non-1s reported in MARTI die rolls. MARTI appears to be a good indicator of SBR die rolls now, regardless of its past uselessness for that purpose.

On my screen, I physically saw 3s being rolled during the damage allocation phase. But it’s possible those 3s already included the +2 to damage the rules specify. It’s disappointing that all three of my remaining strategic bombers appear to have rolled 1s in the damage allocation phase. I have no objection to you taking your turn without editing in the extra damage I’d requested earlier.

[wheatbeer]

It was lousy SBR dice, no argument about that  :|

[wheatbeer]

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 Alpha 3 Future, version: 3.0

Game History

Round :11

Purchase Units - Russians
            Russians repair 4 damage on 2 factory_majors and 2 factory_minors; Remaining resources: 26 PUs;
            Russians buy 2 infantry and 5 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Russians
            4 infantry moved from Volgograd to Tambov
            3 infantry moved from Volgograd to Rostov
            1 artillery moved from Caucasus to Rostov
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Russia to Rostov
            1 bomber moved from Russia to Tambov

Combat - Russians
            Battle in Tambov
                Russians attack with 1 bomber and 4 infantry
                Germans defend with 1 infantry
                    Russians roll dice for 1 bomber and 4 infantry in Tambov, round 1 :  1/5 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 1 infantry in Tambov, round 1 :  0/1 hits
                    1 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Tambov
                Russians win, taking Tambov from Germans with 1 bomber and 4 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
                Casualties for Germans: 1 infantry
            Battle in Rostov
                Russians attack with 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 3 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber
                Germans defend with 2 infantry
                    Russians roll dice for 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 3 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber in Rostov, round 1 :  3/6 hits
                    Germans roll dice for 2 infantry in Rostov, round 1 :  0/2 hits
                    2 infantry owned by the Germans lost in Rostov
                Russians win, taking Rostov from Germans with 1 artillery, 1 fighter, 3 infantry and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Germans: 2 infantry

Non Combat Move - Russians
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Rostov to Russia
            1 bomber moved from Tambov to Russia
            1 artillery moved from Caucasus to Volgograd
            2 infantry moved from Novosibirsk to Samara
            1 infantry moved from Timguska to Novosibirsk
            1 infantry moved from Dzavhan to Ulaanbaatar
            2 armour moved from Volgograd to Russia
            1 aaGun moved from Russia to Tambov
            1 aaGun moved from Volgograd to Rostov
            1 mech_infantry moved from Volgograd to Russia

Place Units - Russians
            2 infantry and 3 mech_infantrys placed in Russia
            2 mech_infantrys placed in Volgograd

Turn Complete - Russians
            Russians collect 25 PUs; end with 25 PUs total
            Objective Russians 2 Spread Of Communism: Russians met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 31 PUs

Production/PUs Summary :

Germans : 54 / 62
    Russians : 25 / 31
    Japanese : 43 / 61
    Americans : 57 / 77
    Chinese : 19 / 20
    British : 31 / 31
    UK_Pacific : 2 / 0
    Italians : 10 / 10
    ANZAC : 17 / 22
    French : 7 / 0
    Dutch : 0 / 0
    Mongolians : 0 / 0
    Neutral_Axis : 0 / 0
    Neutral_Allies : 0 / 0
    Neutral_True : 18 / 0

[Gargantua]

Is the losing side ready to admit their failings? and concede this game?

[kilroynothere]

ummmm…. Blue.  No yel--  Auuuuuuuugh!

[KurtGodel7]

@Gargantua:

Is the losing side ready to admit their failings? and concede this game?

I have obtained permission from Mababa and Fingolfin to enter into surrender negotiations with the Allies. The Axis is willing to agree to honorable peace terms.

I would like to congratulate Wheatbeer and Kilroynothere for their outstanding level of play. Good luck in the rest of the tournament.

[wheatbeer]

Thanks, you guys also had an outstanding level of play (plus significantly worse dice, especially in the latter half of the game).

Kilroynothere deserves most of the credit (he restrained many of my harebrained ideas and took the harder powers to play).

Since it’s not truly won or lost outright, let us know if you’d like to keep playing anyways.

[kilroynothere]

Wheatbeer is modest… the best ideas came from him!

Really enjoyed the game and liked the gambit of getting the US in late. Made our lives very difficult indeed.

As Wheat mentioned, very comfortable in keeping the game going outside of the tournament if desired.

Cheers

[KurtGodel7]

@wheatbeer:

Thanks, you guys also had an outstanding level of play (plus significantly worse dice, especially in the latter half of the game).

Kilroynothere deserves most of the credit (he restrained many of my harebrained ideas and took the harder powers to play).

Since it’s not truly won or lost outright, let us know if you’d like to keep playing anyways.

Thanks.

plus significantly worse dice,

That may be, but the main source of our problems was not dice. Your plan to defend Moscow was better than my plan to take it. That was the single most important factor in determining the outcome of this game.

But don’t worry–I’m sure I’ll come up with a better plan the next time we play.  8-)

I’m not totally opposed to continuing this game in an unofficial manner. But my heart isn’t really in it.

[kilroynothere]

Completely understand that. Takes all the excitement out of it really.

I say we just move on to other games and know it was a fun one!

Thanks again for the game, it was fun, exciting, and I learned some new tricks from your Axis play.