@Witt 95% odds on your second try against Mecca. Didn’t start off too bad, but second round got worse. And third round, you rolled 0-13. Having to purchase units before knowing combat results is a killer when you lose a sure bet and your builds are all wrong. Odds next turn will be 50/50.
Just when CPs were narrowing the income gap.
NML 1914 - Team Game #1
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@elrood You and Redrum are very good players and most certainly will choose CP. With some guidance to the third CP player, CP can still be competitive, even though the Allies (particularly me) aren’t likely to mess up the opening and early game as bad as the first game. I intend to redeem myself, which is why I chose France again, aside from the element of dice luck. I will accept what the majority decide.
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@fmerwinrommel ok then. I choose Turks (and Commies, I presume?)
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So is this when I’m supposed to choose Italy? :)
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@redrum said in NML 1914 - Team Game #1:
So is this when I’m supposed to choose Italy? :)
you so funny… ;-)
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I’ll take Germany to make things interesting.
Regarding balance, at low and high experience level 1v1, the game is fairly balanced. For intermediate experience and team games, the Entente definitely have the advantage. The main reasons for this compared to higher level 1v1 game play is that the CP openings need to be fairly optimized to get early gains before all the defensive lines are created and the CPs need to coordinate more than the Entente as they are the aggressors which is harder in team games. There is probably enough team games here on the forum to show that with fairly equal experience level teams Entente probably win 2/3 to 3/4 of the time.
I believe we have tried a few games giving the CP a small bid in the past, @Witt and @Private-Panic probably remember, which I think did make it a bit more balanced for team games. The only thing you need to be careful of is giving Germany too many land units in a bid as they can potentially steam roll France or Russia as the balance there is pretty close early on. So I would generally support either a pretty small bid that any CP can use (most will probably go to Germany) or a slightly larger bid that only non-German CPs can use.
But I’m fine either way if folks want to just play it as is or try a bid out this game.
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@redrum well put!
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I see that additional land units can wreck the early game too profoundly
What if Centrals get some Naval units or Techs instead.
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I am easy re bids. Although I think @Elrood and @redrum are the best players here and them being on opposing sides is far more likely to balance the game than anything else we might do.
Them and @witt teaming up in the last game made it an impossible challenge for the allies, but no-one worried about trying to balance the game. We just got on with it.
But just happy to play however the majority wish to organise it. I play for fun and don’t care so much about winning or losing.
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@private-panic Finally admitting that I’m one of the best after all these years… never thought I’d see the day ;)
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@private-panic we should try a game some time where we pick captains and they roll to see who picks first and they choose the teams.
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@dawgoneit or even roll and the 2 highest are captains.
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@Private-Panic Elrood and Redrum are on the same side, or were you just suggesting that putting them on separate sides would balance it out?
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@dawgoneit Sounds like a plan for our 3rd game
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@fmerwinrommel just an idea.
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@redrum said in NML 1914 - Team Game #1:
@private-panic Finally admitting that I’m one of the best after all these years… never thought I’d see the day
I might pay ypu another complement next decade @redrum, so you’ll have to make do with this one for now!
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I’ll go Italy and Arabs.
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@fmerwinrommel said in NML 1914 - Team Game #1:
@Private-Panic Elrood and Redrum are on the same side, or were you just suggesting that putting them on separate sides would balance it out?
Sort of. I am suggesting that this is more important for balance than sides. So if we are going to worry about balance this would be a much more pertinent place to start. But I was happy to play without worrying about balance.
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That’s it. Who’s setting up the game.
G Redrum
F/S Rommel
A AEV
I/A Entek
T/C Elrood
UK Witt
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Since only 2 players last turn wanted all those Marti emails, default is no emails except for the setup player. No marti emails for me please.
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I’ll set it up and just keep the same settings and dice emails from last game unless someone messages me their dice email to be added (you can always add your own dice email in during your turn as well).
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