Great!
Axis vs Allies Win Ratios
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Couldn’t say it any better!
P IV’s warming up!!
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A good standard Germany strategy for an aggressive Germany at least from what ive read on the forums and will probably gain you those axis victories, is turn one, take out the British navy, France, and east Poland. If you wait on Russia for just one turn, thats almost 40 extra ipc you have to deal with. Build a major on turn one and place it in Romania. You will also do the standard Yugoslavia strafe. Move your forces from Berlin to Poland. you can put in like seven guys and up to six tanks in east Poland. Then make the decision to either go north or south. You can do a mix which is the move your initial forces from Berlin, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Leningrad. Then usr your romanian factory to pump out tanks and mechs + your southern German forces you strafed from Romania into Ukraine. After that, Moscow looks like a piece of cake IF you play correctly and bring your Luftwaffe in and dont waste em.
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If you wait on Russia for just one turn, thats almost 40 extra ipc you have to deal with. Build a major on turn one and place it in � Romania.
6 artillery / 2 inf or buy 6 inf / 3 artillery G1 followed by faster movers. I think the Major IC goes back to the 1st edition where Berlin had a minor IC.
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A good standard Germany strategy for an aggressive Germany at least from what ive read on the forums and will probably gain you those axis victories, is turn one, take out the British navy, France, and east Poland. If you wait on Russia for just one turn, thats almost 40 extra ipc you have to deal with. Build a major on turn one and place it in Romania. You will also do the standard Yugoslavia strafe. Move your forces from Berlin to Poland. you can put in like seven guys and up to six tanks in east Poland. Then make the decision to either go north or south. You can do a mix which is the move your initial forces from Berlin, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Leningrad. Then usr your romanian factory to pump out tanks and mechs + your southern German forces you strafed from Romania into Ukraine. After that, Moscow looks like a piece of cake IF you play correctly and bring your Luftwaffe in and dont waste em.
You won’t find experienced Axis players doing such moves. G1 DOW is not preferred, for a start.
Normally: G2/G3 DOW, focus on USSR, don’t fight UK much after G1 (perhaps SBR G2). Italy can opens. J1/J2 DOW in the Pacific.
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@Arthur:
The data from lots of League games suggest that an Allies +40 bid is now necessary to balance the game. That doesn’t mean that Allies have no chance: a bad first round for Germany alone could result in a -40 outcome compared to expectations. A bunch of planes could crash and burn going after the UK fleets, or a bunch of fast movers could be blown up in the Paris attack. It doesn’t take too many tanks or planes to reach a 40 TUV swing. I have had such horrible dice rolls that I gave up after G4. Almost all of my air force was gone despite being relatively conservative in attacks. Issues tend to compound themselves, making bad luck turn into horrible luck.
ABH speaks the truth.
Where are all these opponents who are giving the Allies +40? I want to play some of those.
Marsh
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Veritas, thank you for reminding me of the only anime I watch. I still need to finish watching GuP. Basically WoT animated ha.
Getting back to the topic, I find Axis to win about 60% of the time. Interestingly, statictics repeatedly show that the Axis do better with reduced luck variants. For some reason, it always seems that getting diced on an attack is worse than a poor defense (assuming the attacker is not purposely going against odds). Theoretically, as long as the Axis don’t make any mistakes and the dice come out 100% as expected, the Allies will lose every time. Now that is a long stretch because we are all liable to make mistakes, but the lower the luck, the more I see Axis winning. A j1 attack that swings out of Japan’s favor is much more influential than a J1 attack that is overwhelming in Japan’s favor.
The Axis advantage is largely based on concentrated force and straightforward goals. It takes a certain discipline and cool-headedness to play as the Axis. It’s hard to ignore the same temptations that ruined those great powers. We never use bids here but rather add house rules. There is a pervasive mentality in my group that it is no fun to win with a typical Axis strategy. This results in unique and interesting wars that aren’t as imbalanced as OOB. Am I saying that the Axis purposely play poorly and that is how the game is balanced for me? Well, yes. The script for Axis victory is very precise, but the real fun is finding out how you can alter or (from the Allied perspective) halt this.
And then there is the dice—the gem that makes those georgous messes.
I have never been a fan of letting players add a unit of their choice (a bid). I need to have a firm foundation to build strategy on, not just a reaction based upon a pre-game unit placement. If you feel the game is out of balance, a very simple and easy way to fix that is by adjusting NOs, particularly the U.S.'s.
I should also note that alternate setups are the best thing you can consider. There is only so much you can do with OOB. Larry’s 1942 made Russia need an entirely new approach.
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Thank you CdG.
Interesting read.
@Charles:
Veritas, thank you for reminding me of the only anime I watch. I still need to finish watching GuP. Basically WoT animated ha.
I should also note that alternate setups are the best thing you can consider. There is only so much you can do with OOB. Larry’s 1942 made Russia need an entirely new approach.
Isn’t this alternatively like a bid?
Triple a is like a box of chocolates, you never know…. 8-)
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@Marshmallow:
@Arthur:
The data from lots of League games suggest that an Allies +40 bid is now necessary to balance the game. That doesn’t mean that Allies have no chance: a bad first round for Germany alone could result in a -40 outcome compared to expectations. A bunch of planes could crash and burn going after the UK fleets, or a bunch of fast movers could be blown up in the Paris attack. It doesn’t take too many tanks or planes to reach a 40 TUV swing. I have had such horrible dice rolls that I gave up after G4. Almost all of my air force was gone despite being relatively conservative in attacks. Issues tend to compound themselves, making bad luck turn into horrible luck.
ABH speaks the truth.
Where are all these opponents who are giving the Allies +40? I want to play some of those.
Marsh
In league? Check the statistics for the top players, and check the bid for playoff games.
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@Marshmallow:
@Arthur:
The data from lots of League games suggest that an Allies +40 bid is now necessary to balance the game. That doesn’t mean that Allies have no chance: a bad first round for Germany alone could result in a -40 outcome compared to expectations. A bunch of planes could crash and burn going after the UK fleets, or a bunch of fast movers could be blown up in the Paris attack. It doesn’t take too many tanks or planes to reach a 40 TUV swing. I have had such horrible dice rolls that I gave up after G4. Almost all of my air force was gone despite being relatively conservative in attacks. Issues tend to compound themselves, making bad luck turn into horrible luck.
ABH speaks the truth.
Where are all these opponents who are giving the Allies +40? I want to play some of those.
Marsh
In league? Check the statistics for the top players, and check the bid for playoff games.
Adam is being modest.
He IS the guy you’d need 40+ for allies in regular G40 2nd. :lol:
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I would need at least Allies+60 to have an even chance against Adam. He will find that small strategic mistake somewhere on the board and ram it down your throat. A couple expensive units here or there, or a few high-value territories and he now has the advantage as Axis. Furthermore he will never make a big mistake to let you back into a match.
With your additional Allied starting units you will get strong control of a couple theaters of operation on the board (Africa, Russia, Atlantic, Med, India, Money Islands, China, Pacific, Siberia, Middle East), but that still leaves a bunch of other theaters where he can press his strategic advantage to ultimately win late-game victories. Just because the Allies controls Moscow and India on G7 and J7 in a PBEM game doesn’t mean that the Axis can’t create enough threats to prevail. That is a huge difference compared to a face-to-face match where usually one side yolo’s it and gets in a big fight because they have become bored during the many hours of play.
Eventually the Axis mobility will allow Adam to quickly pivot faster than you can foresee, pressing a killer attack while maintaining just enough defense to stall or delay the Allies’ plans. You are celebrating that the stack in Moscow is holding strong and all of a sudden there is sufficient fleet with Luftwaffe support to crush Egypt. You think that the combined forces in the Middle East will provide adequate defense against the Italians+Germans when all of a sudden he gets his Japanese forces to swing the difference in odds. You think that you have appropriate ship blocks in the Pacific and he will bring in German bombers to force your Allied forces to consolidate into a non-strategic sea zone. He will find something and you will lose. Soooo many great people have learned that lesson the hard way. The Axis have control of the momentum and can maintain it throughout the game if the player has sufficient skill and the dice don’t wreck havoc.
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Agreed. Bids are a little overrated.
The one unit per terr. limit dumbs down the effect pretty good.
Not to mention, 40 is only 4 ftrs…… not a huge difference, which is why the bid is usually dumped in the unit starved middle east where it can more impact.
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Bids allow some opening Axis attacks to be blocked, such as SZ111 and Yunnan and also allows some allied attacks to be strengthened (Taranto, Ethiopia).
This differs from Balanced Mod’s approach which is to strengthen the allies later in the game. Both approaches have weaknesses IMO.
I’m struggling to find a counter to strong Axis play in either version. If Axis play well and dice are even, they should win easily.
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Allies win 80% or more. Have played over 200 games and despite Japan size it comes down to the Atlantic board, if played properly.
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@rscerie I’d say in reverse for the Axis Powers (probably even More), when playing with players with equal experience & expertise- haven’t lost an OOB game yet when playing the Axis!!!
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I agree that it is heavy Axis unbalanced, some say the US has to focus all in Europe and then the Axis can’t win but if they do so Japan becomes soooo strong and then it’s simply a game of numbers, you can’t compete with Japan’s economy and China, UK, and Anzac can’t really fight back much, they just try not to die quickly.
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@nolimit be interesting to see what strategy is played by the Axis. A US balance is required to keep Japan as bay but also pressure Europe. We play YouTube wars with another group who also felt the Axis had the advantage but since then realized a pattern for allied victory
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@tincanofthesea yea it’s a fun game. I remember some saying early that Pacific was only way for USA to win
@RSCERIE been a lot of league games played and Axis has a big advantage from the elite players. Not played that much anymore, as most have gone to BM3 and “Path to Victory” which is a different game.
You can look at the old games if you have triplea https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/17147/gargantua-s-k-i-s-s-triplea-instructions/11
There’s also some strategy guides https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/19929/germany-playbook-overall-strategy-guide?page=1
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/17005/the-japan-playbook/346
but mostly it’s cool af you’ve played 200 games :+1: :grin:
Anyway Rock On !
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@rscerie Only way to convince me is to play against me as the Allies over the YouTube, Yes I have thrown down the Gauntlet!!!
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