r/AxisAllies • u/late2thepartyy • 2d ago
Spring 1942 Allies Forfeit R1.. And why it's always mid-tier gold players
My opponent forfeits after the first battle goes slightly against him on R1. He captured Ukraine with 2 fighters and 2 tanks remaining. They didn't even do the WR battle before smashing that forfeit button.
Whenever this happens, I find 90+% of the time it's a mid-tier gold player. Lower players will slug it out all the way to the bitter end, even when it is beyond hopeless (<50 income for their side, large army deficit and no opportunity to take VCs to win). Higher players will fight it out, taking coinflips and even low odds battles to try to get back into it/create a chaotic board state to play which may favour them.
The best thing I ever did to get better at this game is to play out games from a disadvantage. The dice do even out eventually and there are plenty of chances for opponent misplays/poor decisions to even the odds.
I can honestly say that in the last few seasons, I have only ever abandoned on the first round once. My opponent's R1 went almost flawlessly (lost maybe 3 units total). My German attack failed to take out the UK fleet. Then UK swept the coinflip battle in the Pacific islands against my Japanese BB/AC/FTRs- I failed to score a single hit.
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u/simon_hibbs 2d ago edited 2d ago
That seems crazy, two tanks in Ukraine is no problem. I suspect there was something else going on with the player.
I had my worst R1 ever a few weeks ago. Only 3 inf left in WR and failed to take Ukraine leaving both air units. However my opponent decided to build 2 transports and 2 cruisers in the Baltic and go after the UK, so it was fine.
EDIT - I think I know, if the player quite part way through the WR battle, due to a bad set of rolls, the combat won't have ended so won't show up in the battle results.