Guys, I’m thinking about resigning as league moderator and scoreboard operator. I don’t want to leave you in the middle of a year so intend to finish this year out and set up playoffs and everything, but maybe somebody should come alongside me and learn some of the ropes, or maybe you guys have an idea of another direction to take all this.

Contributing to this decision is that I did have my first manic and depressive episodes this year since 2005 (still pretty depressed - trying to get the right meds) but I wanted to get out anyway, since I haven’t found the time to play any league games myself.

I intend to help make a smooth transition if someone else is eager to moderate and score games (maybe a team) - I’d been doing everything with no partner for years now (Although having a partner can mean more work if they have differing ideas than you)

Please think about it - sorry - I guess this day had to come sooner or later. Thanks for understanding

Gamer

@simon33 said in WW2 Path to Victory - Feedback Thread:

I don’t understand why you liked both my post and Adam514’s contrary post.

I appreciate your statement.

The way I view likes - I don’t have to agree with a post to like it. I will like/heart posts when I’m glad they posted rather than staying silent. Or when I think the poster communicated something well/effectively. Et cetera

As for default game, I think it has to be the version that’s available to the world outside this site (out of the box version, basically) - we have very few players who refuse to play “balanced mod”, although of course it does happen, and I think it’s the way it should be… Makes more sense to force someone to play the “public” version than to force someone to play a mod, even if 95% of players only play that mod on this forum. It’s not welcoming to potential newcomers if they have to learn a different version of the game than they’ve been playing.

Crockett has videos of 1 hour interviews with
(chronological order)

AndrewAAGamer
AndrewAAGamer interview

ArthurBomberHarris
ArthurBomberHarris interview

Gamerman01
Gamerman01 interview

The Good Captain
The GOOD Captain interview

JDOW
JDOW interview

Oztea
Oztea interview

The Captain (NOT The Good Captain)
The Captain interview

Gargantua is interviewed 15 minutes by dtroy
Gargantua interview

Game reviews

OOB CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 ArthurBomberHarris v Farmboy (+41)
Video commentary by Crockett36 and ArthurBomberHarris senior,

Rounds 1-8
ArthurBomberHarris v farmboy 2023 OOB championship

Game thread and save file here

OOB AndrewAAGamer v Farmboy (+60)
Video commentary by Crockett 36 and Gamerman01

Round 1-3
AndrewAAGamer v Farmboy rounds 1-3

Round 4-5
AndrewAA Gamer v Farmboy rounds 4-5

Game thread and save file here

BM Adam514 v Gamerman01 (+22)
Video commentary of 2023 Semi-final game by Crockett36, Adam514, and Gamerman01
Game thread and save file here

Rounds 1-4
Adam514(x) v Gamerman01 rounds 1-4

Rounds 5-8
Adam514(x) v Gamerman01 rounds 5-8

Rounds 9-14 (end)
Adam514(x) v Gamerman01 rounds 9-14

OOB UHD Tech Oysteilo (+40) v Gamerman01
A “crazy” “fun” game agreed to, radically different Triple A map, quickly becomes serious
2024 regular league game
Video commentary by Crockett36 and Gamerman01

Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 1-2
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 3-4
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 5-6
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 rounds 7-9

Game is ongoing, G13
For the game thread and save file,
Oysteilo v Gamerman01 UHD thread

Balanced Mod introduction, explanation, review
and some highlights of @Adam514 /Gamer semi-final discussed, partly to demonstrate Balanced Mod features

BM introduction video

At the risk of turning people off because of my self-promotion,

You may want to know,

@Adam514 !
Does a game review with Crockett36 and myself
On the recently completed BM playoff semi-final game

Go to the stickied thread - “video interviews of league players by Crockett36”

We are amassing quite a collection of fun interviews on the opening post of that thread. Don’t miss out!

HOLY COW

All 2021 playoffs wrapped up - not bad! considering there were four brackets of 8

Also etched in the league history for ever, but a recap:

BALANCED MOD CHAMP

Axis-Dominion

BALANCED MOD 2ND CHAMP - crowned today :crown: :crown:

Oysteilo

PATH TO VICTORY CHAMP

Ghostglider

2ND EDITION RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX

AndrewAAGamer

ALL DEFINITELY worthy champions! Another round of applause
:clap: :clap: :clap:

It’s not hard in Excel, so I graph the TUV from round to round in my games. Then I look back at who won or lost and the graph shows TUV is HIGHLY indicative of who will win.

If 2 people look at this, I will be happy.

Third and final installment of a joint game review starring @Adam514 @crockett36 and me
This was the semi-finals of the BM tournament for the 2023 season.

Link added above

We need to petition @farmboy and @Adam514 to do the same with the recently completed championship game, assuming @crockett36 wants to keep spending his time this way!

It’s pretty special to hear from great players around the world, insights into A&A and their own game as well as their reactions to others. It’s the next level!

Congratulations to @Ghostglider !!

Your 2023 League Season Path To Victory Champion!! 🙌

The only one standing at the end.

Congratulations to @Daaras as runner-up. 🙌

Both are entered in the league history of championship winners and 2nd place finishers, and deserve all due awe, honor and recognition ✨✨✨

If you want to learn, to observe brilliance, or both, then you should review the game in Triple A

Ghostglider is so much on his game, he is about 110 points ahead of the next active Path to Victory player.

Path To Victory popularity has taken hold, believe it or not,
We have 79 finished games in little over 10 months of 2024 to 52 for all of 2023. You read that right.

Now get back to shooting each other with dice!

Mainah, at first that sounds very exciting and fun, but thinking about it a bit, there’s a big problem with that. If there’s money on games, there’s an incentive for people to try and help a player in the tournament to make better decisions, and also an incentive to try and sabotage a player (maybe by giving suggestions to make poor decisions disguised as clever ones).

Would mess with the integrity of the games, so as league moderator I’d have to say no.

Welcome back @koala

You may be interested that we now have lifetime ELO ratings and some new ways to find game results data.
Like I could immediately see your last game here was 2019 and that you haven’t played PtV in league yet.
You can do the same, for any player!

You should be able to find a link to the ratings from the sticky thread. Another “welcome back” to you

And yes, early 2021 is totally a COVID lockdown thing

There was a pretty sweet Risk app I found on the phone a while back, it had interesting custom maps
Have you played some of the other versions, like based on sci-fi movies or whatever? I haven’t.

It’s the little army men, tanks, planes, and battleships that makes A&A so much cooler. I chafe at people asking “is it like Risk?” Yes you take over territories from your opponent and gain more income/armies, and you get bonuses for controlling certain things, and you roll dice to resolve battles… But NO!

We offer each other so many wonderful puzzles to solve

Axis and Allies is an incredible game

@crockett36

You put on your profile:

“About 10 years ago I downloaded TripleA and played 2 or 3 games over email at TripleA War Club. Enjoyed it, but left it at that. Got TripleA again, found this site, and had a blast since then.”

That is awesome.

Yeah if I lose 110 I think it was game over. Like I said, I was almost guaranteed to sink the 5 transports, but game over losing all my air.

It’s very interesting to me how we seem to have looked at our chances in this game differently over the course, but I think this was yet another battle where if it went poorly I can’t win. Now we are still at hotly contested status

@oysteilo Well said - With such a risky attack, even slightly below average is a good result for me, there was about a 15% chance of failure to win, so I would need to save a sub after round 1 and go to the death to sink the transports for sure.

So average results in that situation are fantastic for me, and the above average I got? Huge relief.

But I totally agree, as lucky as that was I was even luckier other times

Also thanks for the advance scramble decision, that sped up the game and saved me an interruption. I probably shouldn’t have asked for it, I hadn’t studied the UK position yet like you of course did in making the move

I just knew if I attacked 110 with everything you would absolutely scramble and hoped to speed up the game, but it was more complicated than that as you said.

But you handled me tactfully once again, and I appreciate how well you treat me

Thank you for the quick casualty choice,
Now I can only dread the terrifying Red Army’s substantial increases and the war bonds roll at the end

TripleA Turn Summary: Germans round 14

TripleA Turn Summary for game: UHD World War II Global

Game History

Round: 14

    Research Technology - Germans

    Purchase Units - Germans
        Germans buy 2 artilleries, 3 fighters, 6 infantry and 2 submarines; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 0 techTokens; 

    Combat Move - Germans
        1 infantry moved from Western Germany to Holland Belgium
              Germans take Holland Belgium from British
        1 infantry moved from France to Normandy Bordeaux
              Germans take Normandy Bordeaux from Americans
        1 submarine moved from 125 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 carrier, 1 destroyer and 1 submarine moved from 113 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        3 bombers, 7 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Western Germany to 110 Sea Zone
        2 fighters moved from Southern Italy to 110 Sea Zone
        1 mech_infantry moved from Romania to Ukraine
              Germans take Ukraine from Russians
        1 armour moved from Baltic States to Novgorod
        1 infantry moved from Vyborg to Novgorod
        1 mech_infantry moved from Baltic States to Novgorod
        1 armour moved from Eastern Poland to Novgorod
        1 armour moved from Eastern Poland to Novgorod
        13 armour and 25 mech_infantrys moved from Romania to Greece

    Combat - Germans
        Americans scrambles 2 units out of United Kingdom to defend against the attack in 110 Sea Zone
        Battle in Greece
            Germans attack with 13 armour and 25 mech_infantrys
            Russians defend with 1 infantry
                Germans roll dice for 13 armour and 25 mech_infantrys in Greece, round 2 : 8/38 hits, 10.67 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 1 infantry in Greece, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Greece
            Germans win, taking Greece from Russians with 13 armour and 25 mech_infantrys remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
            Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry
        Battle in Novgorod
            Germans attack with 3 armour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
            Russians defend with 1 airfield, 1 factory_minor, 1 harbour and 1 infantry
                Germans roll dice for 3 armour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry in Novgorod, round 2 : 2/5 hits, 1.83 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 1 infantry in Novgorod, round 2 : 0/1 hits, 0.33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Russians lost in Novgorod
            Germans win, taking Novgorod from Russians with 3 armour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 3
            Casualties for Russians: 1 infantry
        Battle in 110 Sea Zone
            Germans attack with 3 bombers, 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 9 fighters, 2 submarines and 1 tactical_bomber
            British defend with 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber; Americans defend with 3 carriers, 2 destroyers, 6 fighters and 5 transports
                Germans roll dice for 2 submarines in 110 Sea Zone, round 2 : 1/2 hits, 1.00 expected hits
            Units damaged: 1 carrier owned by the Americans
                Germans roll dice for 3 bombers, 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 9 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber in 110 Sea Zone, round 2 : 7/14 hits, 7.50 expected hits
                Americans roll dice for 3 carriers, 2 destroyers, 7 fighters, 1 tactical_bomber and 5 transports in 110 Sea Zone, round 2 : 6/13 hits, 6.83 expected hits
                1 destroyer owned by the Germans, 2 submarines owned by the Germans, 1 fighter owned by the Germans and 1 carrier owned by the Germans lost in 110 Sea Zone
                2 destroyers owned by the Americans and 3 carriers owned by the Americans lost in 110 Sea Zone
                Germans roll dice for 3 bombers, 8 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber in 110 Sea Zone, round 3 : 7/12 hits, 6.67 expected hits
                Americans roll dice for 7 fighters, 1 tactical_bomber and 5 transports in 110 Sea Zone, round 3 : 4/8 hits, 5.17 expected hits
                4 fighters owned by the Germans lost in 110 Sea Zone
                1 tactical_bomber owned by the British and 6 fighters owned by the Americans lost in 110 Sea Zone
                Germans roll dice for 3 bombers, 4 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber in 110 Sea Zone, round 4 : 6/8 hits, 4.67 expected hits
                Americans roll dice for 1 fighter and 5 transports in 110 Sea Zone, round 4 : 1/1 hits, 0.67 expected hits
                1 fighter owned by the Germans lost in 110 Sea Zone
                5 transports owned by the Americans and 1 fighter owned by the British lost in 110 Sea Zone
            Germans win with 3 bombers, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber remaining. Battle score for attacker is 84
            Casualties for Germans: 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 6 fighters and 2 submarines
            Casualties for Americans: 3 carriers, 2 destroyers, 6 fighters and 5 transports
            Casualties for British: 1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber

    Non Combat Move - Germans
        1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Western Germany to France
        1 aaGun moved from Eastern Poland to Bessarabia
        7 artilleries and 3 infantry moved from Germany to Slovakia Hungary
        3 infantry moved from Baltic States to Eastern Poland
        4 mech_infantrys moved from Southern Italy to Northern Italy
        6 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to Northern Italy
        3 bombers, 3 fighters and 1 tactical_bomber moved from 110 Sea Zone to Western Germany
        1 infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Bessarabia
        1 artillery moved from Eastern Poland to Bessarabia
        1 infantry moved from Eastern Poland to Bessarabia
        2 infantry moved from Vyborg to Novgorod
        1 aaGun moved from Baltic States to Eastern Poland

    Place Units - Germans
        3 fighters placed in Western Germany
        3 infantry placed in France
        2 submarines placed in 112 Sea Zone
        Germans undo move 2.
        1 artillery and 2 infantry placed in France
        1 artillery and 4 infantry placed in Germany
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Germans from Northern Italy: 3 mech_infantrys
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Germans to France: 3 mech_infantrys
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

    Turn Complete - Germans
        Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 1
            Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 1,6
        Germans collect 51 PUs (1 lost to blockades); end with 51 PUs
        Trigger Germans 5 Swedish Iron Ore: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 56 PUs
        Objective Germans 2 Control Novgorod Or Volgograd Or Russia: Germans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 61 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Americans regular : -1.67
Russians regular : -0.67
Germans regular : -1.33

Savegame