Elvis Gold Records

[Jonny25k]

It was fun to play with you. I made one big mistake. I sent the British and French to Finland. That avoided the Fins to join the war but cost the Russians about 1k MPPs before Barby. It would have been easier to deal with the Fins and have 4 more additional tanks available for counterattacks in the right moment.

Your play in the Med was well executed. My idea was to save Africa by taking out the Italian fleet and finally to close the ports in NA but the opposite happened. Royal navy sunk and remaining ships flew through Suez. As I had the plan to land in France to weaken Barby it was clear that Africa/Mid east became my weak point.

I really would like to replay against you but will be on vacation until end of August. Afterwards I am ready for the next match.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #216 [WIN] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs PanzerRommel (Axis) --- Very touch match, indeed. Went heavy defense of France, heavy defense and counter-attacks in Sicily then Italy. The Americans lost alot of units, and were rugged, lost lots of ships and MMPs into Air Battles and ground battles.

My strategy was to not give in an inch in France. Tired of watching Russia get flattened. Sent all kinds of British, Indians, and whatever I could muster into France. Cannon fodder delay. Wasn't able to get Air Supremcy, but instead exchanges were common in the Air. The Russians were quite pleased. My opponent's name is PanzerRommel, so I decided to send The Yanks to the sands. USA was all-in Africa. Determined to fight. Lots of losses. The only winner, Russia. The Germans were strong, willing to kill Yanks/Brits in with the leadership in those dogfights.

When Barby started, Yanks landed in more of the Sands and Sicily, try to keep Gerry's attention. PanzerRommel had a crack Panzer, which elimated several Western Allie pieces with weak Supply. USA had fighters in Sicily, but was losing those fights. It helped Russia.

With the heavy prong into the MedFront, Yanks had to give the Japs some resistance. Purchased more naval units, cheap ones, Subs and Destroyers, to keep the Japs busy. I had no punch, but with wandering ships, the Japs had alot of kills. I should have printed the causilities.

War was won in Russia. The Reds were able to stablilize lines in the typical rivers/corridors. Germans couldln't afford the Air reinforcements eventually. Took to 1944 to get Italy out. The lines finally broke late 1944, Reds reached Poland German surrendered early 1945.

Japs nearly elimated China. Massive triangles of Maritime Bombes wiped the constant feeding of weak ship, then finally my Battleships and couple Carriers went the bottom. Russia brought over strong Armies, and crashed the party into Mainland China, Manchuria, the Japs were hard pressed in 1945 with no Germans. Japs surrended in 1946 late I believe.

Tough match

We're playing the 1942 gqme now, he got Axis again.

[HarrySmith]

Game #216 [WIN] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs PanzerRommel (Axis) --- Very touch match, indeed. Went heavy defense of France, heavy defense and counter-attacks in Sicily then Italy. The Americans lost alot of units, and were rugged, lost lots of ships and MMPs into Air Battles and ground battles.

My strategy was to not give in an inch in France. Tired of watching Russia get flattened. Sent all kinds of British, Indians, and whatever I could muster into France. Cannon fodder delay. Wasn't able to get Air Supremcy, but instead exchanges were common in the Air. The Russians were quite pleased. My opponent's name is PanzerRommel, so I decided to send The Yanks to the sands. USA was all-in Africa. Determined to fight. Lots of losses. The only winner, Russia. The Germans were strong, willing to kill Yanks/Brits in with the leadership in those dogfights.

When Barby started, Yanks landed in more of the Sands and Sicily, try to keep Gerry's attention. PanzerRommel had a crack Panzer, which elimated several Western Allie pieces with weak Supply. USA had fighters in Sicily, but was losing those fights. It helped Russia.

With the heavy prong into the MedFront, Yanks had to give the Japs some resistance. Purchased more naval units, cheap ones, Subs and Destroyers, to keep the Japs busy. I had no punch, but with wandering ships, the Japs had alot of kills. I should have printed the causilities.

War was won in Russia. The Reds were able to stablilize lines in the typical rivers/corridors. Germans couldln't afford the Air reinforcements eventually. Took to 1944 to get Italy out. The lines finally broke late 1944, Reds reached Poland German surrendered early 1945.

Japs nearly elimated China. Massive triangles of Maritime Bombes wiped the constant feeding of weak ship, then finally my Battleships and couple Carriers went the bottom. Russia brought over strong Armies, and crashed the party into Mainland China, Manchuria, the Japs were hard pressed in 1945 with no Germans. Japs surrended in 1946 late I believe.

Tough match

We're playing the 1942 gqme now, he got Axis again.

Sounds a hell of a contest, well done to both of you. I have played PanzerRomme ( Michael) l a number of times and he is a very good opponent and you always have a hard fought game.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

USA morale was garbage. Was low as 42%, because Japs held Islands which drain. Hurt in the battles.
The tide turned late in 1944.
All those years of dead Yanks.
I fed the Japs a steady stream of ships to help confuse the Japs what I was doing.
Jap Carriers were strong with lots of kills.

The Russians broke the lines in Poland then China.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #217 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs Umeu (Axis) --- Scripted perfection cannot be beat. Paris falls in Feb 1940. Allies surrender.

[ThunderLizard11]

Game #217 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs Umeu (Axis) --- Scripted perfection cannot be beat. Paris falls in Feb 1940. Allies surrender.

CAn you explain more how? Very rare to get France that early.

[Umeu]

Game #217 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs Umeu (Axis) --- Scripted perfection cannot be beat. Paris falls in Feb 1940. Allies surrender.

CAn you explain more how? Very rare to get France that early.

t1 poland, belgium/luxembourg in october, mannstein in november. Paris in Jan/Feb is normal, can be as early as December depending on how they defend. France doesn't surrender until March/April usually though.

Elvis did a lot of damage with amazing bomber control, killed 1 army, almost killed 1 corps & 1 tank. Was surprised to find out it was Gort leading the troops, they were so strong I was convinced it had to be Monty. Severely bloodied the luftwaffe. Idk why he resigned because France is a sideshow anyway. I'm losing another game where I took Paris around the same time vs someone else.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Game #217 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs Umeu (Axis) --- Scripted perfection cannot be beat. Paris falls in Feb 1940. Allies surrender.

CAn you explain more how? Very rare to get France that early.

Absolute perfect turns.
Played him twice, yet to ever get Winter weather in China. Not one turn.
Nobody talks about China's weather, but it's huge in early part of game.
I play Japan, I've gotten 4+ turns or more in row, with bad weather in the South.
Cannot even move let alone, make progress.
The Japanese combat rolls, unreal on the ground, didn't take the sticker of new Army or scratch paint.
Carriers took one damage in 6+ attacks.
In France, have never gotten any weather in the Northern part of France. (2 games)
Medium Bomber scores hit in both games on Brussels when it's 0-0 attack.
Panzers doing 4 or 5 damage, taking none.
Tactical air scoring hits, taking no damage, haven't even been upgraded.

This guy is Al Gore and John Kearey of Global Warming.

I'm sure I'll hear the same crap...."blah-blah play someone you know"
Maybe he got lucky, I've seen guys have crazy dice rolls playing craps.
Maybe God or the Devil were involved.

This dude shows up playing steallar, maybe he should play Top Talent.

Have played 217 games, have never lost Paris in January or Feb. (twice)

[Umeu]

Game #217 [LOSS] ElvisJJonesRambo (Allies) vs Umeu (Axis) --- Scripted perfection cannot be beat. Paris falls in Feb 1940. Allies surrender.

CAn you explain more how? Very rare to get France that early.

Absolute perfect turns.
Played him twice, yet to ever get Winter weather in China. Not one turn.
Nobody talks about China's weather, but it's huge in early part of game.
I play Japan, I've gotten 4+ turns or more in row, with bad weather in the South.
Cannot even move let alone, make progress.
The Japanese combat rolls, unreal on the ground, didn't take the sticker of new Army or scratch paint.
Carriers took one damage in 6+ attacks.
In France, have never gotten any weather in the Northern part of France. (2 games)
Medium Bomber scores hit in both games on Brussels when it's 0-0 attack.
Panzers doing 4 or 5 damage, taking none.
Tactical air scoring hits, taking no damage, haven't even been upgraded.

This guy is Al Gore and John Kearey of Global Warming.

I'm sure I'll hear the same crap...."blah-blah play someone you know"
Maybe he got lucky, I've seen guys have crazy dice rolls playing craps.
Maybe God or the Devil were involved.

This dude shows up playing steallar, maybe he should play Top Talent.

Have played 217 games, have never lost Paris in January or Feb. (twice)

you exaggerate much lol

I lost 1 army in Japan, mostly you just retreated. My carriers hardly attacked anything, I still lost 3 of them. 2 in 1 attack even, which is very rare. But not as rare as repeatedly scoring 2-0 hits with allied bombers on German armies and tanks upgraded with lvl 1 AA tech. I've never seen anyone do 2-0s. 1-0 sometimes. You still need to teach me how to do that, I'm genuinely intrigued, especially since it was Gort commanding them. Didn't stop your BEF from going 4-1 on a German army commanded by Mannstein...

Weather was terrible for me anyway, since I had my luftwaffe covered in rain since turn 2, which is probably why your bombers were so effective. My fighters couldn't really keep up with my army in the beginning. And my own bombers literally killed 2 strength points worth of units and I lost 3 XD lmao

I wouldn't have taken Paris so early if you hadn't left the door open. You put your armies on the Maginot instead of on the Marne.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

What's the weather secret?
You have never got bad weather in either front.

Simple, in our 2 games, did i ever get rain, mud, sleet or snow in France?
Never got 1 turn of weather in China, in either game.
In 2 games, as China, I didn't even feel a raindrop, scoop of mud.

I was already surrendering, once I saw your Medium Bomber, once again score hit on Brussels. Turn #3.

[Umeu]

What's the weather secret?
You have never got bad weather in either front.

Simple, in our 2 games, did i ever get rain, mud, sleet or snow in France?
Never got 1 turn of weather in China, in either game.
In 2 games, as China, I didn't even feel a raindrop, scoop of mud.

I was already surrendering, once I saw your Medium Bomber, once again score hit on Brussels. Turn #3.

lol idk how you think I am controlling the weather but it wasn't good for me in France. I had rain for every turn since t2, and when I took Paris it was winter. Also the entire south of China was mud for several turns lol. So your memory is just incorrect. and you evacuated the north of China pretty early so weather there didn't even matter, you gave it up without a fight.

As for the bomber on Brussels, it's not a 0-0, it's a 1-0 prediction with the right general... Just try it vs AI.

Now I have revealed my secrets, please explain how to score those hits with the brit bombers! It's a genuine question

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

You're funny, so you get the "Patton Slap" !!!

You're from Steam, the home of the Scripted Steam Reload cheats.
We all know how to change the rolls, I covered this years ago after I couldn't beat anyone.
What tipped my mitt, was Steam Cheaters getting the Diplomacy impossible back-2-back-2-back hits.

Patton slaps you.
Greta wants to know how you control the weather.

Game #1 was a complete joke..
Game #2 was a complete joke.

So you had to play test what you knew was 0-1, instead of 0-0. Yeah, you'd better check.
Yeah, right, that move is scripted, to perfection. That dice roll doesn't hit 2 games in row.
You toss in some weather (which never happened).
Your dice rolls, were unbelievable on both fronts.
Congrats, you win.

Wow, did you really lose an Army? That's not your rolls.
Yeah, did you take some Bomber damage? Yeah, that's not your rolls. We know how.

Thanks for wasting my time, just wanted a game.

You did add to my Patton Slap count! Congrat Steamroom Scripter.

[ThunderLizard11]

Hmmm. That's why I asked devs for a reload counter AND a dice roll counter (showing +/- for both sides)

[Umeu]

You're funny, so you get the "Patton Slap" !!!

You're from Steam, the home of the Scripted Steam Reload cheats.
We all know how to change the rolls, I covered this years ago after I couldn't beat anyone.
What tipped my mitt, was Steam Cheaters getting the Diplomacy impossible back-2-back-2-back hits.

Patton slaps you.
Greta wants to know how you control the weather.

Game #1 was a complete joke..
Game #2 was a complete joke.

So you had to play test what you knew was 0-1, instead of 0-0. Yeah, you'd better check.
Yeah, right, that move is scripted, to perfection. That dice roll doesn't hit 2 games in row.
You toss in some weather (which never happened).
Your dice rolls, were unbelievable on both fronts.
Congrats, you win.

Wow, did you really lose an Army? That's not your rolls.
Yeah, did you take some Bomber damage? Yeah, that's not your rolls. We know how.

Thanks for wasting my time, just wanted a game.

You did add to my Patton Slap count! Congrat Steamroom Scripter.

You had a game, which you basically begged my to play in DM, and you literally resign because a Belgian unit takes damage from a bomber? Even though that is 100% standard you wasted time on both games. Should probably slap yourself. Every time you win the game was amazing, when you lose, you blame weather scripts I won't be playing you again since you cry abd lie whenever things don't go your way.

If you don't want to lose Paris so early, maybe place your armies on the road to Paris next time, instead of on the Maginot line.

Good luck and have fun in your future games!

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

Nah, it's simpier than that, you're just a Steam Scripted Cheat.
There are plenty of tells.
Starting with Japanese forced intercept of the game, the entire event rolls at Chengchow and surrounding area.
Name it, anywhere in China.
Wuhan down to Changsta.
Did you ever take a hit on any of your Air. nope.
Do you ever even not get the initial super pop roll, nope.
Those turn after turn Carrier attacks are 0-0 or 0-1, you took 1-hit outta of 12.
It's impossible, all those attacks.
The ground attack South of Chengchow fortresses, your damgage dishing out bonus.
The initial rolls of the turn, it's unreal.

The German Luftwaffe is so good you don't need to upgrade, no need.
Remember the French Army you scored 0-1, 0-1 with not upgraded Tactical, behind the French Corp in Ardennes.
Followed by the 0-4, 0-4 Panzer pop?
Febuary 1940, your Medium and two Tactical weren't even upgraded.

You can laugh off the rolls all you want.
It's more than that, it's the order of movement, order of attack too.
When you've scripted it so many times, you can take the extra risk, because you know you're getting the roll.
The air attack on Metz. You just get every *key roll on beginning attacks of your turns.
Little things add up.
That first Air attack is absolutely critical to the turn.
Allows the Panzers to do other work, rather than guarantee the breaking point of the turn.

I've been doing this awhile.
I figured out how Terif was cheating in Strategic Command 1.
I figured out the Steam Diplomacy cheat.
Everyone knows how to cheat on rolls and moves.
I was losing 90% of my first 80 games, played alot during the Scamdemic.
Just took me longer to figure it out.

Might as well, play with Unlimited Reloads.
Might as well, play with no FOW.
I'd hate to face you in the naval arena.
I'd bet you're a really good North Africa player, maximum rolls on first move.
Never making a mistake.
Hate to be at Pearl Harbor, see your perfect moves and perfect Island combat rolls DEI, Phillipines, etc.

I'm heading to the Casino, wanna tag along?
Wait, I don't want to get busted for loaded craps dice.

Far as the Belgium attack. That is 0-0, every day of the week, and twice on Sunday.
You don't think I've scripted that move?
It's not even a good move.
But getting that hit, completely changes the turn.
The grounds attacks by Corp completely change.
Remember using Corps there?
You're telling me you paid for HQ to operand?
HQ doesn't even help.

Your initial attacks, on Air or Ground, are the best.
Go back to your Steam Reload buddies.

You're my hero,
-Legend

[BillRunacre]

Interesting discussion but I think it's time to return to discussing the more positive aspects of gaming.

You are of course both free to continue the discussion elsewhere, but I doubt a positive resolution will be achieved.

[IIo4Tu]

I'm reading about weather control and I can't figure out how to implement it.
Elvis claims that the weather is always good on the opponent's turn and that this is cheating, but how can his opponent set the weather for himself if the weather is set at the end of Elvis's turn? I.e. even using some cheating programs, he can change the weather for Elvis, because the weather for Elvis is set at the end of the turn of the Umeu, but he definitely won't be able to do that for himself.
Or maybe I'm wrong and they'll explain to me how you can change the weather for yourself.

[ElvisJJonesRambo]

The reloading is rampid.
I lost 90% of my first 80 games during Covid. Frankly, I didn't care. So for my false accusers who think I glory in winning, my stats speak for themselves. This comment, can be applied directly to Umeu. I don't care if I lose. My record sucks.

It's kind of like Tiger Woods in golf. Everyone thought he was so great. Out driving opponents in the late 90's, early 00's by 40 yards. Good grief, it didn't make sense. Yet, if I said something at the Country Club, others would accuse me a deadly sin. It was blashphemy against a worldy demi-god. It was impossible to purchase or get the Nike golf balls that Tiger used. The PGA changed the rules. Player's could not play a ball that others couldn't play/purchase/acquire. Next, once the other players got the special improved golf clubs that Tiger Woods had from Nike, the gap margin was drastically close.

It wouldn't make sense that I would lose 90% of my games. It wouldn't make sense, that one golfer, could out drive all the other top players in the world by a huge margin. This same could be said about Lance Armstrong, Russian women in Olympics 1970/1980s, many tennis players, many UFC players, alot of MLB players, list is endless. Doping. Steroids. Drugs. Cheats.

So here we are, this conversation has already been had. Is Umeu a better player than me? Probably. Do I care if I lose, to certain point, I do. To a bigger amount, who cares. I just play another game.

Far as the weather. I've played 200+ games. Maybe he did get oddly lucky in 2 consecutive games. Never seen that. France was global warming. I really don't care. The dice rolls are a joke. It wasn't just France. I've played games, where Japan gets completely bad weather. Like 4+ turns in row in the first Fall/Winter. It's the whole game. These scripted Axis players are doing something. That's all they play. Got my ass kicked so many times in North Africa, it's unreal. Does anyone ever make a bad move? Those critical initial attacks in the Sands of Egypt, are absolutely game changing. These dipsticks who say, "Oh, it's just a sideshow", b- shit. When your pieces blast away with super hits.
It's not just the dice rolls, it's the order of attack and movement.
Maybe their are some freaks of nature, that know every exact outcome, and best way to deal with a sector.

Play with reloads. Might as well turn *off Fog of War too. No point in discussing Naval, we know how that goes.

This subject has been discussed 3 years ago, when I finally figured out how all you guys cheat. Then I no longer lost 90% of my games. Matrix won't let software to report or something. They're more concerned about about the Forums being monitored with an Iron Fist. (think Covid days)

As a kick ass American, I brought out the "Patton Slap" to deal with such matters.
It's just a game, a distraction from real-life is the reason I waste time playing.
The Forum's are so boring. Generation Boring ruined most things, that I just stay in my lane of freedom.

[IIo4Tu]

Elvis, the weather for the opponent is set after your turn, he can't influence it in any way.
Nevertheless, there really is a problem with the weather in France, very often in January-February 1940, warm weather is established, allowing the axis to cause significant damage, I would have set a more stringent framework for the winter period if I were the developers...

[OldCrowBalthazor]

I don't get the 'Steam Scripted' term. What is that?
With the real frequent PBEM Save Repackaging (Which I like including the frequency but others hate), how are reloads being done? Is it in between each save repackaging?.

*Note: I like the repackage saves AND the frequency.
It has saved me grief when doing a complex turn, and a internet glitch happens occasionally. I have to go back a little bit to try to move my units like I did before. What ever moved from the last save repackage I try to repeat. At least it's not the whole damn turn, where new Intel rolls are done..which in the past were huge reveals.

Also. Cheating accusations in public are a serious matter.
Best to have solid proof. I personally hate cheaters. Ran into a bit of that playing random folks in the WW1 game a few years ago. Game mechanic exploits are one thing. Out right redoing a move by gaming the PBEM server would be a whole new level.

Again, I would want to see solid proof.