Revised Tournament of Champions 11 (ToC 11)
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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
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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
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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* -
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
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I would like to play also
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Polarole defeats Abeldbest by forfeit, despite multiple warnings and many emails. The game never started, unfortunately.
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Keith (Diecaster)-Allies vs Raville-Axis
Game in the 21st Round, a stacking long game with Moscow well reinforced by Allies planes; Berlin safe and Caucasus in Japan hands as well as Pacific zone, but not great chance to go forward due to income and well positioned Allies. Raville concede with TUV disadvantage and a work trip forward. Thanks Keith (Diecaster) & Delitium for invitation; Well done! GG and gl to all TOC11. -
I would like to sign up, are there any slots available?
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Stroid (allies) defeats Blasherke (axis, bid 10)
A rather difficult game to observe. Neither side played particularly well. Stroid played aggressivly hoping for some british/russian double taps on german troops early on. But he got bad dice and blash responded well to it with the japs. But then the japs left most of their airforce exposed to a red army tank blitz. Germany grew bigger and bigger against russia after USA unceremoniously switched from an original KGF to a KJF. Russia held off the germans for a long time but eventually fell. But not before USA was firmly planted in asia. With a gigantic USA battleship fleet bombarding tokyo, the japs turtled. The germans tried rushing to their aid but the red army stack, after abandoning moscow, turned back to moscow only to be slaughtered by the german tank army. But this bought USA time to build a powerful defensive line against the german onslaught. In the end, the allies had almost twice the income and the TUV over the axis, tokyo flew red white and blue flag, and Hitler decided to commit suicide. GG blash! Was fun, if not a bit clunky of a game!
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Stroid (allies) defeats tulkas (axis, bid 10)
The game proceeded quickly and aggressively. Axis got a little good dice to start and ran with it, pushing russia quickly from both sides. USA went hard africa along with UK splitting forces between norway / western europe and a little to africa as well. Possibly the game deciding move came in round 2. USSR got some bad dice in ukr, allowing a german tabk blitz and amphib landing into cacu. It was a tempting gambit, one which Hitler could not resist. Germany succeeded in taking it, but at the cost of dropping troops into africa. Losing those troops in africa effectively ceded control over to the allies, allowing the allies to maintain a slight econ edge. Hitler was not deterred, however, and went hard into karelia to increase his production. But he got a bit greedy, allowing an early allied landing in france. Germany was not able to repel the landing and more and more allied troops swam ashore. Japan was pushing as hard as she could against russia but having to trade so much in africa really cut into her stack. Eventually japan stacked caucus and took moscow just as allies took berlin. But at this point the allied forces greatly outnumbered and outproduced the axis war machine. GG was called. Great game as always tulky!
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Deltium, Pherman, Hammond... I recognize these names... So everyone is here now or just a handful? And Stroid! Is bmaster still around?
tourney 11?!
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Hello LouisXIVXIV - welcome to TripleA, and good to see you!! A LOT of the GTO players are here, but some haven't made it over yet. If you can do anything to contact anyone, please do so!
All - I'll take the honor to introduce LouisXIVXIV; he was consistently one of the very best at Game Table Online, winning our last two major tournaments in Revised. Let's hope that he is a little rusty!
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Hey! Thanks Deltium. I'm glad so many people made it over ultimately. Even though people had talked about TripleA at the end, I had feared the whole thing had petered out. It's been almost 3 years now! I glanced at the interface. It seems like at least some things are better. I remember there were various little details and bugs you had to know at GTO, regarding AA and the like... Does this work according to the rules exactly, without hiccup? The interface seems different enough to throw off my thinking. Is everyone used it and happy now?
Whatever happened to the GTO Axis license? The people that bought it just sat on it and did nothing?
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@louisxivxiv Welcome! If you have specific feedback on things you liked about GTO or other platforms that TripleA doesn't appear to have then please create a thread in this subforum to discuss: https://forums.triplea-game.org/category/42/feature-requests-ideas
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Would love to join if there's still room. Above intermediate level currently. Thanks!
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Epinikon defeats Diecaster, by arbitration. The game advanced to Round 11. Each player received a detailed analysis of the game in a fair and transparent process, and outlined the various factors in the ultimate decision.
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@deltium It would be great to have save games and recaps of all games. Just a thought.
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hi,
i just finished my game vs hammond, i managed to beat him in a very long and exciting game when he finaly surrendered in r22.
i was playing axis with +10 and it was very close for a very long time. at some stage allies allowed the jap fleet to enter med which improved the axis situation a lot.thanks for the game
bye
polarole -
Luck (I mean me) (Axis) defeats Epinikion (Allies)
Harsh dice for allies from start of the game, leaving Ukraine gray, choosing to sacrifice bomber in baltic sea vs a single transport, game began with a good position for Axis, it continued that way throughout the game with good moves and bad dice, no hits from AA guns for allies and an uncanny luck for Germany in Ukraine, where reds struck out all but once, those 3 IPCs per round made it possible for an early double hit on moscow to finally be taken by round 9, Epi went for a hit on Asian sea after Japan fleet attacked USA in med and was destroyed. but Japan was solid with money from the whole of Asia and Moscow, and Germany had a strong grip in northern europe by then, Epinikion surrendered once Japan bought a fleet strong enough to face the green fleet, giving no space for an asian overturn.
Good Game Epinikion, hope we have a rematch soon.
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Stroid (allies) defeats Comorv (axis, G9)
An EXCELLENT game. Both sides played well. Always refreshing to play with another quick playing, live player like myself. Germany got a solid early africa lead, sweeping up the continent and having strong income. But japan was slowed greatly by allies in asia. Japan went mass IC eventually putting one in all of the 3 IPC asia lands plus china! I have never seen so many and so fast jap IC before. So japan made very slow but steady headway while allies battle heavily with germany. After seeing all the jap IC, USA decided to go PAC. So she bought 4 figs and pulled fleet back. But germany saw this as an opportunity to stack karelia. This allowed USA to turn around 180 and land in WE with the brits. Germany responded in an unexpected way by stacking WR against russia rather than pulling tanks back to defend WE. So allies became firmly entrenched in WE while the german pressure on moscow gave the japs the much needed break so they could jump forward against russia. WE and jap stack in persia both grew rapidly. Russia was one turn from falling but germany made a critical mistake. Trying to hold both berlin and EE, berlin was left open to a huge double tap by the allies. This ended the game with the allies wiping much sweat off their head. GG WP Comorv! Best game yet!
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