How is it that AA guns hit so frequently on a 1 and Battleships miss nearly all the time on a 4??

hey all,

I used to be on spring1942, and now have just started (1 year) playing A&A online. I was a low (700) gold last season (my first) and a 200 silver for allies. I do not pick a side, just random. I am finding this a bit of a problem as I have only 2 games as Axis, and 19 (complete, 3 ongoing) as Allies (57%).
Do others find this? or is it that since i do not have a ranking as Axis it is a problem getting a game as Axis? Thoughts?

Thank you,

royroger66

Hi guys, first post. I did try searching but didn’t come up with anything but apologize if this has been covered before!

I play regularly with a couple buddies and we’ll often team up as either the Allies or Axis and play the AI. The AI has a couple odd quirks that we don’t get. Just curious if anyone had any input on this.

When the AI is running the US it almost never defends the East Coast and the Capital! If you invade Alaska as Japan the AI will stack 40 units on the West Coast and leave nothing or very little on the East Coast. So you just roll through Canada and walk in. It does this consistently.

It often doesn’t make much effort to retake a captured Capital. We see this when the AI runs Germany often. It will have plenty of units available to retake Germany, but it doesn’t commit everything.

I mean, we know it’s AI, but there are humans involved in the programming somewhere. These seem like major glitches that have been in place for a long time now.

Merged now!

Hello,

Maybe an odd question… Currently playing with just a group of friends but considering joining some other games / ranked play.

My only concern is I can really only do turns during evenings / weekends and even with that maybe 1-2 per evening. So… would always hit the 24 hour between turn warning bit but likely only get in one to two turns per day.

Is that the normal expectation or would I be slowing people down / pissing people off :)?

@DeathByDice Yeah, in ranked matches I still tend to play it out and see how well I can counter the situation but in other games I suggest just resetting the board so we can have a good game. The only thing that’s worked at all for me so far is having Russia pump out infantry and the other allies send as many fighters and tanks there as humanly possible along with a med or northern shuck.

I made a post for a house rule to eliminate this in live games. I’m sure this problem accounts for much of the 10% win discrepancy between the axis and allies. Personally I’m happy if Russia can at least take Ukraine with 1 unit and escape with the fighters. But still, I know I’m in for a tough game if that happens and west-russia doesn’t go fabulously and my opponent is strong. You have to do the west-russia battle first so you know if you need to retreat quickly out of Ukraine.

While I really appreciate the general balance improvement made by the Gencon 3.0 rules update the 9-12 opening situation feels like the most fragile part of the game. I think there’s still room here for a 4.0 setup of some kind. Gencon 3 feels like a patch (necessary but not perfect) when the setup probably could use a bigger update.

@brian-cannon I think the key is for Germany to stack ukr, trade cauc, and prevent russia from stacking cauc. Russia is forced to trade karelia and cauc. Russia will want to trade belorussia. Russia can’t afford to stack karelia because germany will move into Caucasus. This 3 territory trading, especially if germany leaves more than 1 inf in karelia and cauc will quickly exhaust Russia.

Germany buys max infantry every round and allows uk to trade france & northwest europe. Germany shouldn’t overcommit to defending western europe. Focus resources on pushing to moscow. Once Cauc is stacked, winning is within sight.

@salocinx The factory’s air defense is not affected by damage.