Game 1 EXP Trout vs beelee

[Trout]

@beelee Hey Beelee. Turn is done but I didn't know how to do the French unit conversion in UK. I purchased the $5 token on British turn but at the end of the French turn, the units had not converted yet. So I just did it manually via Edit Mode. If there is another way to do it, please share sir.

[beelee]

@trout

yea you have to use edit. I'll look at it again and see if I can make it auto change but I don't think I can or they wouldn't until France's turn.

Also, just checked rules and it can only happen in Early 42. I thought it was for the whole game

I need to make that token only purchaseable that one turn. My bad

Let me know how you wanna redo the 5 bucks or you can just load the save and edit accordingly.

Sorry about that. It's on the list now

Edit
If you don't mind my asking why did you send the loaded Trprt into 46 battle ?

Edit 2
I'll just buy 2 Inf for UK for now. We can change if you wanna do something different

[Trout]

@beelee That's fine for the two Brit dudes. For SZ 46 battle, obviously Allies are gasping for breath at this point so I went into battle hoping the dice would favor me but they went in the opposite direction big-time. Pizza Emperor flew the white flag two days ago so I have been playing all Allies since then which has sped up our turn completions. If I had thought better about it, I would have unloaded them in NG before the battle but forgot to.

[Trout]

@beelee On that thought, I am up for another game after we complete this one but just between you and me. Pizza getting discouraged with you and VF blasting us in G40 with strategies new and ingenious to us and I don't want him to lose heart on playing A&A overall. So him and I started a game with VF earlier this week but after that, I will have him take a break for a little while to lick his wounds.

[beelee]

@trout

Ok well the Trprt won't have any affect on an attack. It will retreat if the sea battle was lost and the survivors retreat, otherwise it'll be sunk too.

Yea, we don't want Pizza get too bummed out. Idk how many games you want to take on at once but this one almost complete.

You have the one with Victory and Pizza is the only other ?

If I might suggest a couple options. Panzer is ready for more action. I suggest you challenge him, as his playstyle is different as well and you will learn even more from playing each other.

Panzer and Victory have both expressed interest in a multi. These go slower by design, so i find that 1 or 2 plus a multi is fine for my play pace.

I believe Panzers to be the same. Victory is a fanatic and has had up to 15 at once lol. I think he cut back to 7 or 8 and a lot of them are D-Day or Classic.

Anyway, getting back to Pizza, I think Pairing him with Victory as a partner would be best. Victory is the strongest player of the Group, although Panzer and I both defeated him in our last games.

I was thinking
Reich and Italia
SSR
Nippon
USA and China
UK, ANZAC and France

This would require the Western Allies to coordinate in the Pacific theatre as well as with the Soviets.

At any rate, I suggest Victory and Pizza the Axis and us 3 the Allies. We can mix up the Allies however other than I don't think you should be Russia.

Wouldn't be right for a proper Texan anyway

Russia is kind of on it's own, although there is obviously some coordination still. I would be fine with playing them and actually would kind of prefer to, but I think all the Allied players will be engaging and have plenty todo.

Victory and Pizza are also closer in age and this might help keep him engaged as using chat to discuss strategy would be a big part of the game.

Anyway, I will ping @Panzerstahl-Helm-0 and @VictoryFirst and see if they're game

Edit
Also, I will do a game report and critique some thing that I think each player may have done different. You guys will gain credit for free dudes for the real board too

Just do a quick take now, If Pizza would have continued his push at the Reich, he was strong enough to push the Wehrmacht back to POL in late 42 i believe. He would've gotten Romainia for sure.

If he got loose in the Balkans, would have been an even bigger impact. Less dough for the Reich and SSR with the Bonuses, would make up a lot for lost TTy in the East.
It would still have taken JPN a while to get there and there not there yet

Anyway, point being, he played well.

Learning how powerfull Paras and LCVs are will also help going forward.

Ok enough for now

[Trout]

@beelee Beelee - those are all great thoughts but Pizza is not comfortable playing online unless it's with me. Some of that is he likes to collaborate with me before making his move and using TripleA is too complicated for him to do without me. I could go on but the point is he is not ready for your suggestion although for play balance your suggestion is probably spot on. I am ready to surrender on this one with my Pacific fleet no more and Moscow going down whenever you decide to push for it. But I am up for a game myself vs. you again or against Panzer if he can be patient with my TripleA learning curve. Does that make sense?

[beelee]

@trout

Oh absolutely. Yes Panzer is an excellent play partner and experienced with how triplea does it.

May I then suggest, that you and Pizza and Victory take the Allies. you 3 can then coordinate via chat. Panzer is German and is always up to play the Reich. Especially as his wife is Italian

Edit
I propose
Panzer Reich and Italia
Victory USSR
beelee JPN
You and Pizza the rest

What say guys

Having Victory paired on your team will help for learning the game

[Trout]

@beelee I think what we would need to do is me/VF vs. you/Panzer. That might be fun and somewhat balanced while letting Pizza observe and learn

[beelee]

@trout

Ok you know best.

Edit
Best way to learn is to play

[beelee]

@Trout

hmm I guess we ended this one at F 10 ? I don't see any other saves so

Going back in time to add the games to the standings. Still don't know if I'm doing it right but w/e lol