Posts made by danejstrup

Hi,

I am very sorry about the late/lacking response.

Rasmus and I see that we are not able to do our moves on a regular basis. At times we might be able to, but often not. Often it could be weeks between our moves. We are just too busy IRL at the moment. I apologize for that.

So, we wonder how we should deal with this? We are willing to formally lose the game since we can’t fulfill any decent time table.

In any case, it is up to you whether you prefer to continue the game or not. Just now that we will probably play very slowly at times, with weeks between the moves. That is, in case you would like to keep the game going (we could agree that you are the formal winners of the game, no matter how the game goes). It is of course also quite understandable if you don’t have patience with this and prefer to just terminate the game.

Best regards,
Dan

Hi,

Sorry about the delay. We hope to get the move out on Friday. We will try to generally be quicker than this.

Regards,
Dan

No scramble please.

Good luck, may the dice Gods be with you :)

Perhaps we have to forfeit unfortunately. I am not sure. I have played very few a&a games in recent years, and none in the last six months or so. I sort of counted on my teammate to be responsible for practical matters regarding the tournament. However, I am unsure whether we are able to play. I know that he just left with his family for a 5 weeks vacation to Thailand, think they left a few days ago.

Anyway, as far as I am concerned we would be happy to loose as forfeit or whatever it is called in English. Rasmus (my teammate), please respond if you are able to participate in the game and we are able to actually play.

Sorry about the inconvenience regarding this possible forfeit.

Dan

Hi,

I am sorry that we have not made a move in a very long time. We just didn’t have the time, sorry.

The way things stand, we prefer to stop that game. It has been so long, and we prefer to devote our limited time to other active games instead. I am very sorry about this.

Don’t know if it is desired to end the game in some official way? As far as we are concerned, we are fine with being the official losing team of the match, have no problems with that.

Anyway, thanks for an interesting game. For my part, I had fun with it when we had the time. Again, sorry about our erratic response time.

Regards,
Dan

Hi, just wanted to let you know that we will make a move eventually. I think Rasmus is on vacation, I haven’t heard from him recently.

Yes, we noticed that Japan defended well in that sea battle. Too bad for the future of Earth.

Thanks for the clarification regarding the France rules

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 4

Research Technology - Germans

Purchase Units - Germans
            Germans buy 1 artillery, 2 infantry, 9 mech_infantrys and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Germans
            1 tactical_bomber moved from Western Germany to 104 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 109 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 110 Sea Zone to 104 Sea Zone

Combat - Germans
            Battle in 104 Sea Zone
                Germans attack with 1 submarine and 1 tactical_bomber
                Americans defend with 1 destroyer and 1 submarine
                retreated to 104 Sea Zone
                Americans win with 1 submarine remaining. Battle score for attacker is 2
                Casualties for Germans: 1 submarine
                Casualties for Americans: 1 destroyer

Non Combat Move - Germans
            1 submarine moved from 109 Sea Zone to 119 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 109 Sea Zone to 112 Sea Zone
            1 submarine moved from 112 Sea Zone to 125 Sea Zone
            1 battleship, 1 carrier, 1 cruiser and 1 destroyer moved from 105 Sea Zone to 112 Sea Zone
            1 tactical_bomber moved from 104 Sea Zone to 112 Sea Zone
            2 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Southern Italy to Western Germany
            2 bombers moved from Alexandria to Western Germany
            1 infantry moved from Romania to Eastern Poland
            2 armour moved from Slovakia Hungary to Eastern Poland
            6 aaGuns, 13 artilleries, 26 infantry and 4 mech_infantrys moved from Poland to Eastern Poland
            3 armour moved from Germany to Eastern Poland
            11 artilleries and 12 infantry moved from Germany to Poland
            3 armour and 2 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to Poland
            4 infantry moved from Finland to Norway

Place Units - Germans
            9 mech_infantrys placed in Germany
            1 artillery and 1 infantry placed in Western Germany
            1 infantry placed in Normandy Bordeaux
            1 transport placed in 112 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - Germans
            Germans collect 42 PUs; end with 42 PUs total
            Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 47 PUs
            Objective Germans 1 Trade with Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 52 PUs

By the way, doesn’t French West Africa belong to France? A bug in the program when USA liberated French West Africa?

At last we stopped hybernating and made a move. Sorry about the delay.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - Italians
            Italians buy 1 bomber and 7 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Politics - Italians
            Italians takes Political Action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians
                Italians succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Italians and Russians from Neutrality to War
                Italians succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and British from Neutrality to Allied
                Italians succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and French from Neutrality to Allied
                Italians succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and Neutral_Allies from Neutrality to Friendly_Neutral
                Italians succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and Neutral_Axis from Neutrality to Unfriendly_Neutral
            Italians takes Political Action: Political Action Italians To War With Chinese
                Italians succeeds on action: Political Action Italians To War With Chinese: Changing Relationship for Italians and Chinese from Neutrality to War

Combat Move - Italians
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Anglo Egyptian Sudan to Belgian Congo
            1 infantry moved from Kenya to Belgian Congo
            1 bomber and 1 fighter moved from Alexandria to Belgian Congo
            1 artillery, 2 fighters, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Alexandria to Egypt
            1 armour moved from Tobruk to Egypt
            1 transport moved from 98 Sea Zone to 99 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from Greece to 99 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 99 Sea Zone to 98 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Northern Italy to 95 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 95 Sea Zone to 94 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 95 Sea Zone to 94 Sea Zone
            1 armour moved from Tunisia to 94 Sea Zone
            1 armour, 1 artillery, 2 infantry and 2 transports moved from 94 Sea Zone to 98 Sea Zone
            1 armour, 1 artillery and 4 infantry moved from 98 Sea Zone to Egypt
            1 infantry moved from Romania to Eastern Poland
                  Italians take Eastern Poland from Russians
            1 armour moved from Yugoslavia to Eastern Poland

Combat - Italians
            Battle in Egypt
                Italians attack with 2 armour, 2 artilleries, 2 fighters, 7 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                ANZAC defend with 1 infantry; British defend with 1 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 fighter, 1 harbour, 4 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Italians win, taking Egypt from British with 2 armour and 2 fighters remaining. Battle score for attacker is 10
                Casualties for ANZAC: 1 infantry
                Casualties for British: 1 armour, 2 artilleries, 1 fighter, 4 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Casualties for Italians: 2 artilleries, 7 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
            Battle in Belgian Congo
                Italians attack with 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 2 infantry
                British defend with 1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Italians win, taking Belgian Congo from British with 1 artillery, 1 bomber, 1 fighter and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 10
                Casualties for British: 1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Casualties for Italians: 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Italians
            1 bomber moved from Belgian Congo to Alexandria
            1 fighter moved from Belgian Congo to Kenya
            1 infantry moved from Trans-Jordan to Iraq
                  Italians take Iraq from Neutral_Axis
            2 fighters moved from Egypt to Libya
            1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Algeria to Tunisia
            1 destroyer and 1 submarine moved from 95 Sea Zone to 98 Sea Zone
            1 aaGun moved from Northern Italy to Southern Italy
            1 aaGun moved from Yugoslavia to Northern Italy
            1 aaGun and 1 infantry moved from Yugoslavia to Romania
            1 infantry moved from Bulgaria to Romania
            1 aaGun moved from Bulgaria to Greece
            1 artillery moved from Northern Italy to Yugoslavia

Place Units - Italians
            1 bomber and 1 infantry placed in Southern Italy
            6 infantry placed in Northern Italy

Turn Complete - Italians
            Italians collect 26 PUs; end with 26 PUs total
            Objective Italians 3 North Africa: Italians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 31 PUs
            Objective Italians 4 Control Iraq Or Persia Or Northwest Persia: Italians met a national objective for an additional 2 PUs; end with 33 PUs
            Objective Italians 2 Roman Empire: Italians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 38 PUs
            Objective Italians 1 Control The Mediterranean: Italians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 43 PUs

Hi Eric

Thanks for your offer to reconsider. However, I still prefer to surrender, still for a mix of the 3 mentioned reasons I guess, not least that I unfortunately feel that my interest in the game is not very big at the moment. I am sorry about this.

I will let you know when I am ready to start a new game, nice that you would be interested in a low luck game.

And as mentioned, I don’t know how to register finished matches, please let me know how I should register my defeat etc.

Dan

Oh yes, that was quite bad dice.

I wish to surrender and loose the game. Several reasons:

1. Partly because of the dice so far, unbalanced game the way I see it. It would be difficult for axis to regain a position strong enough for the game to be balanced and exciting.
2. I wish to only play low luck games in the future, at least for a while. So far my experience with the game has been that the dice often contributes to weird outcomes, unbalances the game early and decisively. To the extent that i should want to play axis in the near future, I wish to play more “normal” games, see how such games unfold.
3. Perhaps more importantly, I just feel that my desire to play axis is quite low at the moment. I currently don’t have much motivation to make moves in my games. If it wasn’t for the 72 hour deadline I would probably wait weeks before making a move, because I would rather spend my time doing other things. Not a good attitude for playing the game.

I am sorry about this. 1-2 months ago when I started playing axis again, my motivation to play the game was much higher than it is now. I am sorry that this has changed.

How does one finish the game officially, register you as winner etc.?

Dan

Thanks regarding the edit.

The Italian troops showed their well known quality in Africa  :-)

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 1

Purchase Units - Italians
            Italians buy 1 infantry and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 0 PUs;

Combat Move - Italians
            1 armour, 1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Northern Italy to Southern France
            1 artillery moved from Northern Italy to 95 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Southern Italy to 95 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 infantry, 1 submarine and 1 transport moved from 95 Sea Zone to 96 Sea Zone
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from 96 Sea Zone to Malta
            1 bomber moved from Northern Italy to Malta
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Libya to Tobruk
            1 fighter moved from Southern Italy to Tobruk
            1 fighter moved from Southern Italy to 96 Sea Zone

Combat - Italians
            Battle in 96 Sea Zone
                Italians attack with 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter, 1 submarine and 1 transport
                British defend with 1 cruiser and 1 transport
                Italians win with 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 1 fighter, 1 submarine and 1 transport remaining. Battle score for attacker is 19
                Casualties for British: 1 cruiser and 1 transport
            Battle in Malta
                Italians attack with 1 artillery, 1 bomber and 1 infantry
                British defend with 1 aaGun, 1 bomber and 1 infantry
                Italians win, taking Malta from British with 1 artillery, 1 bomber and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 20
                Casualties for British: 1 aaGun, 1 bomber and 1 infantry
            Battle in Southern France
                Italians attack with 1 armour, 1 artillery and 2 infantry
                French defend with 1 artillery, 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 1 infantry
                1 artillery owned by the Italians and 1 armour owned by the Italians retreated to Northern Italy
                French win with 1 artillery and 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -6
                Casualties for Italians: 2 infantry
            Battle in Tobruk
                Italians attack with 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 1 infantry
                British defend with 1 armour and 1 artillery
                retreated to Tobruk
                British win with 1 armour and 1 artillery remaining. Battle score for attacker is -7
                Casualties for Italians: 1 artillery and 1 infantry

Non Combat Move - Italians
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Italians from Ethiopia: 1 artillery
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Italians from Italian Somaliland: 1 infantry
            EDIT: Changing ownership of Kenya from British to Italians
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Italians to Kenya: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            1 fighter moved from Tobruk to Libya
            1 fighter moved from 96 Sea Zone to Libya
            1 bomber moved from Malta to Southern Italy
            2 infantry moved from Albania to Bulgaria
            1 armour moved from Albania to Romania
            2 aaGuns moved from Northern Italy to Yugoslavia
            2 aaGuns and 5 infantry moved from Southern Italy to Northern Italy

Place Units - Italians
            1 transport placed in 95 Sea Zone
            1 infantry placed in Northern Italy

Turn Complete - Italians
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 4
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 5,4,2,1,6
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 72 Sea Zone. Rolls: 2
            Italians collect 7 PUs (4 lost to blockades); end with 7 PUs total

Just wanted to mention that worst case is that it might be a week or so untill we make our next move. Perhaps much sooner though, but hard to tell. I am in Copehagen for a short stay untill start of next week (I am Danish, but live in Norway currently). It is possible that I meet up with Rasmus who also lives in Copenhagen, and that we might make the move then. But unsure, hard to tell what time we have on our hands. I am sorry that we are so slow currently, hope to improve it a bit along the way.

By the way, regarding Axis and Allies I am currently wondering about something, perhaps you guys have an opinion?

I am considering to just play low Luck games for a while. I know I have limited experiece to judge from. However, out of my first 3 ongoing games it seems like the dice have severely skewed two of them early and that the dice have been the major cause of unbalancing the game early. One game is the one with you guys, to me it seems like Rasmus and I have had extremely lucky dice from early. In another game I actually surrendered as axis after Italy 1 because of horrible dice in each turn, the position seemed close to hopeless even that early (in another game I surrendered as allies after Italy 1, but that was because I made a total fuck up and lett axis take and hold Egypt easily, had nothing to do with unlucky dice).

I guess my question is: How often do the dice severely unbalance the game early? 50% More? Less? Your best guess percentagewise? Personally I think I would prefer low luck games most of the time, unless that number is no more than 10-20% at the most. As mentioned, I suspect that number to be much higher.

By the way, even if I would prefer low luck games for a while, it would probably change along the way. Just think it would feel nice to get a feel of what “normal” games are like at first. The dice seem to often make it somewhat difficult to gain experience at “normal” games.

OK great, thanks for the clarification and the large attitude. Of course, take your time with your moves as well, if you occasionally prefer so. Yes, I am fine thanks. Nice with summer, good weather, World Cup, Wimbledon etc., too many good things to choose from  :-)

Guess the move you talk about is a non combat move? In any case I guess it is fine to just edit the change according to your wishes, I guess that would only be fair (I have not checked the map, so at the moment I don’t know the specific move).

In any case, just wanted to let you know that be might get a move out today. I am not sure though, have not heard back from Rasmus. We try to Skype during the move, think it is fun to do it that way.

Regarding this, I wonder what preferances you have regarding the 72 hour rule etc.? If that is important to you, we will of course try our best to violate it as little as possible. However, personally (and I think Rasmus as well) would prefer a more flexible approach, e.g. that it is no problem if it is sometimes 4-7 days before a move is posted (even if we will try and do it sooner when possible). But again, I respect that the 72 hour rule is the main rule if you prefer that, and I see that there can be some pros for that rule as well, that the game could be a little slow otherwise. Anyway, what do you guys think?