What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Arriving in New Orleans the afternoon Thursday, August 10, I rested up and ran down to the gaming room early the next morning. Rewstr, ToddVomit, JohnPin and Faltman were already there.
I immediately challenged Rewstr to a game, won the bid for Axis with my patented Axis-17 bid, and after a good start I was able to defeat the mighty Rewstr in just 17 game turns.
Fresh from this victory, I challenged ToddVomit, who likes to play Axis even more than me; he won the bid with Axis-14. The Allies had a good start, and soon there was an English tank pipeline to Karelia and a USA tank pipeline to Soviet Far East. The English armor rolled back the Japanese (who never reached the back doors of Moscow), the US Navy diverted Japanese resources, and the Russians stacked in Karelia, then East Europe, finally capturing Berlin single-handed in R-10.
Unfortunately for me, the next two games did not go as well. On Saturday I played the mighty Frogman10 and on Sunday the not-so-Mighty-but-Mighty-enough Faltman. I won the Axis bid with 17 in both games, but in both games the Japanese failed to take China until J-3, and in both games the Allies made mincemeat of the Axis bomber campaign (shooting down bombers at an unnaturally high rate of 50% with AA guns). Even with Japanese Tech, the Axis had to resign these games, due to bad luck, Axis mismanagement of the board and poor purchasing as much as anything.
I am still convinced that my Axis strategy is very, very strong, and barring early disasters with the dice and granting only average hits from Allied AA guns, I think I can win with the Axis most of the time. But only future game results can confirm or disprove my faith in this approach.
Sunday night and Monday morning I spent at Harrahs 3 Card Poker table. I actually left Sunday night with $85 of the casinos money in my pocket, so you can imagine how eager I was to return the next day. Unfortunately, my luck with gambling mirrored my experience with A&A, and the second day I lost. To show you just how bad my luck was at 3 card poker, during the last hour I played, every one of the four other players, plus the dealer, received 2, 3, even 4 straights or flushes EACH. I paired up only ONCE during the same time.
I enjoyed the convention immensely (even losing wasnt that bad). The high point for me was definitely my victory over Rewstr, who had some very bad dice in a couple of key battles. Rewstr has an open invitation for a rematch against my Axis-17 bid whenever he wants it.
Looking forward to next year already.
Einstein
Arriving in New Orleans the afternoon Thursday, August 10, I rested up and ran down to the gaming room early the next morning. Rewstr, ToddVomit, JohnPin and Faltman were already there.
I immediately challenged Rewstr to a game, won the bid for Axis with my patented Axis-17 bid, and after a good start I was able to defeat the mighty Rewstr in just 17 game turns.
Fresh from this victory, I challenged ToddVomit, who likes to play Axis even more than me; he won the bid with Axis-14. The Allies had a good start, and soon there was an English tank pipeline to Karelia and a USA tank pipeline to Soviet Far East. The English armor rolled back the Japanese (who never reached the back doors of Moscow), the US Navy diverted Japanese resources, and the Russians stacked in Karelia, then East Europe, finally capturing Berlin single-handed in R-10.
Unfortunately for me, the next two games did not go as well. On Saturday I played the mighty Frogman10 and on Sunday the not-so-Mighty-but-Mighty-enough Faltman. I won the Axis bid with 17 in both games, but in both games the Japanese failed to take China until J-3, and in both games the Allies made mincemeat of the Axis bomber campaign (shooting down bombers at an unnaturally high rate of 50% with AA guns). Even with Japanese Tech, the Axis had to resign these games, due to bad luck, Axis mismanagement of the board and poor purchasing as much as anything.
I am still convinced that my Axis strategy is very, very strong, and barring early disasters with the dice and granting only average hits from Allied AA guns, I think I can win with the Axis most of the time. But only future game results can confirm or disprove my faith in this approach.
Sunday night and Monday morning I spent at Harrahs 3 Card Poker table. I actually left Sunday night with $85 of the casinos money in my pocket, so you can imagine how eager I was to return the next day. Unfortunately, my luck with gambling mirrored my experience with A&A, and the second day I lost. To show you just how bad my luck was at 3 card poker, during the last hour I played, every one of the four other players, plus the dealer, received 2, 3, even 4 straights or flushes EACH. I paired up only ONCE during the same time.
I enjoyed the convention immensely (even losing wasnt that bad). The high point for me was definitely my victory over Rewstr, who had some very bad dice in a couple of key battles. Rewstr has an open invitation for a rematch against my Axis-17 bid whenever he wants it.
Looking forward to next year already.
Einstein
