Bidding confusion

[Panzer Joe]

I have seen many posts talking about bids.

1:8 120

What does this mean? I have done a search and can't find any explination.

[Iron Ranger]

You bid for playing the Axis (standard scenaria fall weiss 1939). Allies get additional mpp at the start. This is done by using the editor. There are different bidding systems:

- original one: 1:1:1 i.e. bid 100 means UK, USA and Russia get 100 mpp each at the start.

- 1:4 until 1:10 i.e. USA doesnt get mpp. UK receives 1 x the bid, Russia 4-10 times the bid.

Standard is in the meantime the 1:8 system:

e.g. bid 250means: UK 250; USA 0; Russia 250x8=2000 mpp.

Bidding is done because most players think Axis has an advantage against Allies, to determine who plays which side and to even out skill differences between the players.

A quote from the Grand Master Terif - the best short explanation I've seen for the bidding system.

[kurt88]

We bid to play axis,cos most of us feel the Germans have an advantage in the game,especially if played by experienced players.The purpose of the bidding is to give the the Allies some extra mpp's to balance things out.

E.g. : I bid 100 on the 1:8 system.

This would mean that UK gets 100 mpp's and

Rusia would get 800 mpp's at the start of

the game.

You can alter the mpp values using the campaign editor.

Also there are other bidsystems around like 1:4 or one where only Russia gets axtra mpp's.

Here's a link to a thread by Terif in which he also explains bidding

[kurt88]

Like Ranger said

[Panzer Joe]

So one person bids 100 then the next bids 120? Or does the first person bids then the second player decides what side he wants.

[kurt88]

Depends on how much you wanna play Axis.

You can bid more or settle for Allies.