Revised Tournament of Champions 11 (ToC 11)

Comorv

Hi Deltium, I'd like to join in

don't know if you still have slots

Deltium

OK Master Blaster and Comorv, both of you have just managed to register before I posted the brackets -- good timing !!

We are now full. Brackets will be posted in one hour!

Cheers, Deltium

Deltium

OK the ToC 11 bracket is officially posted !! Our dedicated link is below:

http://challonge.com/ToC_11

As you can see in the bracket, we have a total of 24 participants, indicating that we need to have a qualifying round for 16 participants, before we can start the 2nd round.

I'm familiar with about half of you, in terms of your strength, and I did my best to seed everyone appropriately. For some of you that I did not know, I opted to put you into the qualifying section, so please don't take any offense.

You may begin immediately. The bracket will be updated as I receive results. In keeping with tradition, please post your results here with some detailed commentary of the game (because it is enjoyable to read), and please also send me an email at 5683deltium@gmail.com so that I may update the bracket immediately online.

OK, I hope that each of you have fun !! As a reminder,

1st prize = USD 100
2nd prize = USD 50

Warm Regards, Deltium

prastle

@deltium WOOT! WOOT!

sneakingcoward

@deltium

sneakingcoward is in for tournament.

Deltium

Hi, very sorry but we started the tournament already. The registration deadline was Friday (see above posts). However, I will keep you in mind for ToC 12. Thanks for your interest !

Cheers, Delitum

Deltium

OK, a couple of results have been posted.

Abeldbest defeats AFatCat (please post a brief game summary here), and
Tulkas defeats Rtoolooze (Buddy), and here is the game summary sent to me:

Tulkas (axis +10) over Buddy in R4. Axis had good dice in Round 1 and beyond putting allies in a defensive position and enabling Russia to fall in R3. From there the battle moved to attacking UK from Germany and US from Pacific.

Deltium

A few more results have posted, but I encourage everyone to post here on their own, along with some game commentary please.

Hammond defeats NoOne Dares
Tulkas defeats LeeMorrison

Bracket is updated real-time as I receive results.

http://challonge.com/ToC_11

hammond

Hammond axis def. NOD allies

Axis got the bid at 11 and although Germany got off to a good start, its buddy Japan was fighting for its survival in the early rounds as UK, Russia, and USA (planes) made for some delicate Japan play that could have very easily been Japan's downfall. This did create some light for Germany and it rolled towards Russia and took Caucaus, but could go no further as USA and UK put the brakes on any more territorial gains. However, after Japan escaped from immediate danger, it finally began its march towards Moscow. Cut-off, Russia had to endure a double hit just in the knick of time as UK and USA were about to make Germany and English speaking country. GG NOD

Master_Blaster

MB lost once again in round 1 of our ToC versus odor...poor mb

Deltium

Deltium (Allies) defeats Cdnadjustment. Axis get some tough dice early, which created a material IPC swing, which was hard to recover from. Axis captured and held Karelia early, only to pull back to Berlin as the KGF took hold. Japan advanced methodically to Moscow, but the Allied economic advantage was too high for the Axis to capture, and Berlin soon fell, sealing the Axis fate.

Thanks Cdnadjustment for a good game, and hope you to play you again sometime, perhaps in v3 where you're clearly more experienced!

Cheers, Deltium

hammond

Hammond (Allies) defeats Wasp. It was a fairly quick game that probably came down to whether or not Japan could get its fleet into the Med. The Allies had to sacrifice good equipment to keep that from happening. After the smoke cleared, German was in defensive mode and Allies could control aftrica and East Europe. Wasp could have kept going, but made an honorable surrender. Thanks for the game! GG

Dark

@hammond great reports, they make me want to take a look at the saveGames

prastle

@dark save games are uploadable to this new forum now. Good stuff for a TOC I agree. Also i edited the toc link to top of thread @Deltium . Great Job!

hammond

@dark Thanks! Its fun to put a documentary flare to the game. Let me know if you want to see the games.

Deltium

Hi - just received a post from Erik26 that he defeated AAgamer in Round 1. Here is his summary of the game:

*Erik26 (axis) vs aagamer_kc03 (allies)
Erik26 accepted axis control with a 9 bid and bought 3 infantry (spread the bid between Africa and Europe)

Russia started out the game strong and made it a point to pick up at least one tank per round. This gave Russia incredible attack power and of course the ability to blitz, keeping Germany from attempting to over-extend itself, else face potential a punishing blow. The game went 15 or so rounds before surrender, and Russia was still several rounds away from falling, albeit, it had finally lost all of its territory by about round 10 with the typical advance from Germany in the west, and Japan in the east.

Germany made an effort to take and hold Africa, but found limited success. Africa was under mixed control between the axis and allies for most of the game. Japan came to Germany's aid as soon as it could and helped Germany maintain a healthy production with the few territories it held in Africa along with Germany's strong presence in Europe. Germany focused on adding to its air force and amassed a whopping 9 fighters and 1 bomber at it's peak, posing a constant threat to UK and US navy, and allowing it to trade territories on the cheap. Germany's production remained strong throughout the game and finished with a TUV in excess of 400. Production was commonly above 40 by the end of its turn, making Germany a very difficult threat to deal with.

The UK did a good job of landing figs in Russia to keep Russia safe from attack as well as grinding Germany down in Europe and WE by late game. UK's presence definitely kept Germany from being able to build up the necessary forces on the Russian front to be able to overtake Russia.

Japan started out somewhat slow thanks to the UK, but managed to become a force to reckon with by late game after building 3 factories and 6 transports. The rush of Japanese forces through Asia and towards Caucasus greatly helped Germany and kept the USA away from Germany for quite a few rounds.

The US took a while to build up as usual, but once it was established, it became a threat that almost spelled the end for the axis. In the final rounds, the allies invaded and held WE and were trading SE. Germany was forced to spend all it had on fending this offensive off and lost half of it's airforce in the process.

Conclusion:
The axis was in dire need of help, and only got the help it needed with Japan was able to drop enough troops into Caucasus so that Germany could pull back a large tank division and fend off the invasion. It wasn't until Germany's sneak attack on Egypt that the allies didn't see coming that finally tilted the game into the Axis' favor. With the Suez canal opened up, the US fleet in the Mediterranean was exposed to a large Japanese fleet on the other side, spelling the end.*

Blasherke

Blasherke (Axis, 9) defeats KJF in round 5, after an honourable surrender.

Unlike his nick would suggest, KJF immediately demonstrated his KGF-intentions by an interesting factory build in Brasil. Unfortunately, he was unable to develop his strategy due to an unforseen gap in the Russian lines, which allowed me to take Moscow in round 2. Though not sustained, this capture caused a 28 IPC-swing and a decisive delay in the Allied build-up. By the start of round 5, Japan was in control of the Pacific and Asia, while preparing for a final march on Moscow.

Thanks KJF for the quick and fun game!

Blash

Comorv

Comorv (Axis) vs Odor (Allies)

After a huge strike on West Russia on the beginning of the game both russians and axis were very low on units, which made for high pressure on Germany for the rest of the war; then came a big chance for Allies, as Germany fails to get a hold of Italy (with a 100% chance to take, according to calculator), USA had 20 units to land and keep the ground, if not for a desperate japanese landing in Egypt, which stopped a huge amount of units from being transported to Italy. Japan had a great and very aggressive foothold in Caucasus, with lots of tanks and really few infantry. Russia was cautious but still exchanging terrain, even after losing it's fighters in turn 2. but the offensive came to fruition by round 10, when Japan finally took over moscow with 40 tanks (6 left after battle). Taking all UK air force in the process. While germans were under high pressure, but a few turns far from being taken.

Great Game Odor, hope we have a rematch soon

Deltium

Another game update received:

*Erik26 (axis) surrenders to Gonz (allies) in r10

Game Details:
Axis picked up a generous 10 bid and gave 9 of it to germany, and 1 to japan. Germany put the bid to work in both Europe and Africa.

Allied strategy was mostly status quo, but very effective. Very disciplined. KGF tried and true.

Germany played a little outside the box and focused on air, probably one of its bigger mistakes, in addition to attempting to hold onto Africa despite constant pressure. Nevertheless, Germany held on and amassed a large tank division in addition to its airforce, but it wasn’t enough at the end of the day.

On the yellow side of the board, Japan did what it could early on to help Germany hang onto Africa and attack Asia and Pacific islands as per the usual. In the end, Japan simply wasn’t effective enough. By mid-game, Japan snuck a transport into position to take Western US, which it was successful with, but was unable to hold.

Falling behind in TUV and production, the Axis grew increasingly desperate. Germany advanced its entire tank division to western Russia in attempt to get Russia to abandon Caucasus. A double tap from the US, then Russia prevented that desperate attempt working out.

With no viable path forward, the Axis surrendered.

Thanks for the game Gonz!!
Erik26*

Deltium

While the various ToC11 tournament games are progressing, it is worth highlighting that, if you are interested in competitive play, you can also checkout the Revised, AA 50, NWO, and Global 1940 ladders, pasted below here. Please do note that these ladders are a just a temporary solution, for we intend to build into the software (in some future version) the ability to play ranked games and the ladder would be built into the software. However, this is probably at least a year away, as the developers are working on other higher priorities, but this is a good temporary solution if you want to play competitively.

https://forums.triplea-game.org/category/8/ladders

Nevertheless, we do intend to have regular ToC tournaments going forward, both for Revised and AA 50, so stay tuned !

Cheers, Deltium