hey players,

today epinikions allies defeated nardwaggs axis in 11 exciting rounds. The bid was 8 and fully placed in africa. Japan went a direct line with ics in kwantung, manchuria and fic to pressure the russian east while japans fleet cleared pacific fast. Germany was under pressure all game and defended aggressive to all directions. The dice was clearly on allies side killed 3 bomber by aa and several axis figthers by transports/aa`s. The allies managed to destroy german stacks in west europe twice, so germany was surrounded by enemies when japs heavy arm stack was blocked in sinkiang.
Thank you nardwagg for a good tournament game with excellent game speed and good luck for the rest of the tournament.

best, epi

hey, again thx for all your work for this beautiful map. I make some noise in the lobby for the map since 2 weeks. more players starting games now.
i have 3 points rigth now:

1st) Is it good to let non-mountain units be produced at a mountain? i wonder if its meant this way. E.G. mordor can produce catapult in Durthang

2nd) i think antiairfire all rounds weakens air a lot. When you attack bigger stacks with antiairunits your air better stays at home. I think antiair should be weaker in hit points or dont fire every round.

3rd) there are some differences between the description of a unit and the real ability. E.G. dwarven axethrower..notes say 2/3/3
battlecalc says in a non effect ter. attack is 6. May be i missunderstood, still learning...

epi

epinikion (allies) won against oppositeof (axis +8) today. Game file attached tells the story of the game in detail.
I say thank you for a fast speed challenge, nice talk here and there and good gameplay to Oppositeof.Opposite_vs_epi_TOC14.tsvg

hey alkexr,

my first evaluation of balance is: evil is way to strong

1. no problem to take early rihan and arnor city
2. no problem to take early osgiliath.

so the momentum is clearly on evils side. easy to balance tuv early with better momentum and growing income. i guess you should do something for the good side:
a) give some more units around osgiliath to gondor and some more units to rohan
b) make few good units stronger.

a or b or even c. di somethng for the good

epi

i vote for no more changes. We need games, not more ideas, to balance.

@alkexr
hi, i don`t have all files and probably some of them are not the files from the finish of the game. I add for you, what i found. They are live played in a relatively high speed so probably you ll find mistakes. That doesnt change our conclusion. Problem of evil is that angmar falls and then north is free to pressure moria and saruman, while rhun and mordor and harad usually go strong but not fast enough. high elves go for eagles and later in the game there will be a circle of 5 terrs radius in all direction around the eagle stack as a deadzone for evil. thats too much.

dany bfa 7.tsvg dany bfa_6.tsvg dany bfa_5.tsvg dany bfa_4tsvg.tsvg dany bfa_3tsvg.tsvg

@Captain-Crunch the reason, mr. captain crunch is... its more complex. The map is well balanced in my opinion

i agree and saying thanks to navalland pointing this obvious bugs. All (1-4) should be fixed.

Thanks, epi

its true: lobby -including bots- are very stable and the current issue was solved very fast.

thanks for organization of TOC 12! Please count me in

Epinikion (Axis +10) defeats Mogulrunnin by honorable surrender in round 6. Unfortunately it was just one-sided dice for the axis all game. For what happened in detail look at the file attached TOC15_epi vs mogul USA6.tsvg

@Shmod https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/542/triple-a-rules-for-revised-tournaments/2
hi shmod, this should help
epi

Hello kind people,

today epinikions allies won the first round vs chewbalubas axis. The 6 bid was placed as 2 inf, 1 in ukraine and 1 in west russia. Russia really missed a good round 1 with only 4inf, art, arm and aa left in west russia and 1 arm in ukr. so chews germany rushed to the east with an air supported attack on west russia and stacked 5inf and 5 arm in ukr. For this germany skipped most sea battles, so there was a big uk navy left and moved into the med. Allies really went full into europe next rounds and surrounded germ. At the start of round 6 germany was down to only a last stack in berlin and chew conceded. Thanks for the exiting game chew and good luck for your tournament.

epi
chew.tsvg

@prastle i think @polarole is clearly 3rd

Hey Louis, i think the forum is ready for a deep dive because the forum was told by a TOC-finalist that this is a 95% axis win(adding the file). Please let us all know, why this is a 95% axis win even if you will take - for what costs!- moscow...

I really think you underestimate this forum, Louis. Same time i am interested in your reasons and interests.

epi

@LouisXIVXIV
hey Louis,
your point "location of units" is nothing i forgot in my evaluation. But even if moscow falls, what needs more than we see now at the board, it will be costly and there are so many ways to continue for allies with the Med in USA-Control. I played really a lot of games after the fall of moscow (if it ever happens here). So i still think your saying "this is 95% axis" is not at the level this great game was played. I think you know the meaning of med-control because all the rule conflict is about med-control.

This is still my point of view,
epi

I suggest you say 97% instead of 95% to bring it closer to what your point of view is. I still evaluate it only 50-50 because axis also cant change their current position without risking and loosing Income or TUV in future (as you mentioned "allies cant"). Saying "this is 95 % for Axis" is below your level...

epi

hey community,

i will add my 2 cents. Louis, you say "I think Axis were about 95% to win this game", so I
opened the file and analyzed. This is such a close game. Its close to a stalemate in my view. Your "95 %" is wild imagination.

best, epinikion

count
me
in

thx for all your great work!

epi

@LouisXIVXIV
thx for the nice report, Louis. I agree completely. Good luck in the rest of the tournament.