If I add cruisers to the game, I will go to a 12-sided die roll to increase the differentiation in combat abilities between destroyers, cruisers, and battleships. With respect to AA fire, the Japanese were pretty bad when it came to ship-borne AA weapons, while the US cruisers were on par with the battleships.  I allow for shore-bombardment by all ships, but only in support of an amphibious invasion.  No battleships standing off shore and clearing the area without an invasion. No aerial attacks on infantry either except in conjunction with an infantry unit, whereupon the infantry get a plus 1 on their attack roll, similar to artillery support.

As a side note, the US refitted an older British Light Cruiser with an armament similar to that of a Fletcher-class destroyer, but with less automatic weapons due to top-heavy problems.  The British rated it as an Anti-aircraft Cruiser.  Just something to think about when defending against air raids with US destroyers.

We just played a modified version of the 1st Edition Pacific game in my summer gaming class, using the Red Minis.  It had 6 players, 5 Allied and the Japanese.  The Allied were the U.S., Australia, British India, the Netherlands, China, and Japan.  The Netherlands did not have an IC but could buy some units from the United States using income from the refineries in the Dutch West Indies and Lend-Lease credits.  The Japanese player won because the Allies failed to cooperate effectively.  Getting 5 middle school and high school males to cooperate is not at all easy, just like Allied cooperation in World War 2.  It makes for a great learning tool.

Playing any Axis and Allies game with more than two players makes if far more interesting than a basic two-player game.

That’s great about the red Japanese Army ! They are pretty cool.  Just keep in mind all those modifications were after " many games in the books " and two equally experienced players.
I am still on the “journey” though I have played many times.  I am currently playing around with a No Japan Victory when India falls.  It just seemed like the USN was just getting itself in a position to challenge the IJN when it was "all over ".  I like the idea of fighting for the islands, naval, and airbases……it is what the Pacific War was all about.  Have fun!

I know that I did not ask this question, but I would like to say thanks for the clearly worded answer.  I think there was once an essay on the subject a long time ago, but I could no longer find it when I had some questions on this subject a while back…again thank you.        Loose Moose

Welcome, BigBoat!

A territory must have been friendly to your power (controlled by your power or an ally) at the beginning of your turn in order for you to land air units there.

oh boy more spambots

No, they were grey.

Well, I’d like any good Pacific Map with the island named.  So I guess a Pacific 1940 map with the label, or a better/bigger downloadable version of the ‘original’ Pacific game board, which already had it labeled.  Either would be great for me (and my family).

I have a photo of my grand dad playing baseball on the island…. naval officers versus cooks. :)

Yes, on page 25.

And here’s the U.K.-Far East Forces(Calcutta-based) or “Jack’s” as I call them. And a close-up,too.

“Tall Paul”

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I have played a lot of A&AP and I’m normally the good ole USA. 5 Bombers is a great U1 purchase. Battleships in my opinion cost too much and you don’t have time to use them. Aircraft Carrier, 2 Fighters, Destroyer, and a sub on U2 and U3. To keep Japan from VP win you have to SBR Japan and Big Boats don’t help you there. Once you take land in range of SBR you don’t need boats but always good to have a couple subs to sub stall. I’ll be playing 3 games tomorrow and I bet I have played 40+ games of this version.

thanks and sorry

Yes.

Episode 57

Rounds 3-4 from our game of Pacific (2001) Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes of go to my blog to listen to it or download to listen later.

http://dicetruction.blogspot.ca/

You load and offload with your transport in the sea zone adjacent to the territory.  Sea units never enter territories.

Test summary from TripleA 19:22:27

@groovyarmada:

Hi, a number of years ago I used to play AA Pacific (2001 version) via the now defunct website: days-of-infamy.com. We used Motcreations mapview and the map looked identical to the actual printed gameboard. I have looked around and cannot find the original map for this version of Aixs & Allies for Mapview or Triple A, is it still in circulation? Is there a club for playing the original AA Pacific?

Cheers

Groovy.

I probably dumped 40 hours into (re)making that map from the low-quality one that was made available by AH.

I’m sure you can play AAP via MapView here if you want to.

The ‘Sub Stall’ is an old rule, that’s about transports not being able to load from a seazone that has “submerged” submarines in it.

[b]New York ‘lone wolf’ was one hour away from finishing his bomb[/b]
She also praised the New York Police Department, saying, “I think they handled it well.”
Officials with the NYPD, which conducted the undercover investigation using a confidential informant and a bugged apartment, said the department had to move quickly because Pimentel was about to test a pipe bomb made out of match heads, nails and other ingredients bought at neighborhood hardware and discount stores.
Two law enforcement officials said Monday that the NYPD’s Intelligence Division had sought to get the FBI involved at least twice as the investigation unfolded. Both times, the FBI concluded that Pimentel lacked the mental capacity to act on his own, they said.
The FBI thought Pimentel “didn’t have the predisposition or the ability to do anything on his own,” one of the officials said.
The officials were not authorized to speak about the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. The FBI’s New York office and the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan both declined to comment on Monday.
Pimentel’s lawyer, Joseph Zablocki, said his client was never a true threat.
“If the goal here is to be stopping terror … I’m not sure that this is where we should be spending our resources,” he said.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly defended the handling of the case Monday, saying the NYPD kept federal authorities in the loop “all along” before circumstances forced investigators to take swift measures using state charges.
“No question in my mind that we had to take this case down,” Kelly said. “There was an imminent threat.”
Added Kelly: “This is a classic case of what we’ve been talking about �� the lone wolf, an individual, self-radicalized. This is the needle in the haystack problem we face as a country and as a city.”
Authorities described Pimentel as an unemployed U.S. citizen and “al-Qaida sympathizer” who was born in the Dominican Republic. He had lived most of his life in Manhattan, aside from about five years in the upstate city of Schenectady, where authorities say he had an arrested for credit card fraud.
His mother said he was raised Roman Catholic. But he converted to Islam in 2004 and went by the name Muhammad Yusuf, authorities said.
Using a tip from police in Albany, the NYPD had been watching Pimentel using a confidential informant for the past year. Investigators learned that he was energized and motivated to carry out his plan by the Sept. 30 killing of al-Qaida’s U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, police said.
Pimentel was under constant surveillance as he shopped for the pipe bombmaterials. He also was overheard talking about attacking police patrol cars and postal facilities, killing soldiers returning home from abroad andbombing a police station in Bayonne, N.J., authorizes said.

Now that I have AAP40 and AAE40, I want to spread the joy of Axis and Allies with my brother and his friends.  The problem is that I have all my pieces from several games in a set of Plano boxes (cheap tackle boxes).  To reconstitute the original AAP game, how many pieces of each player do I need to send?

This is what I guessed …

Japanese
16 inf, 8 artillery, 8 tanks, 12 zeros, 6 bombers
6 CV, 6 BB, 10 DD, 8 SS, 10 Trn

United States
16 inf, 12 marines, 8 artillery, 8 tanks, 12 P-38s, 6 bombers
6 CV, 6 BB, 10 DD, 8 SS, 8 Trn

United Kingdom
16 Inf, 8 artillery, 8 tanks, 12 Spitfires, 6 bombers
6 CV, 6 BB, 8 DD, 8 SS, 8 Trn

Chinese
12 Inf

Please let me know ASAP if I really missed something.  I’d hate to give him too few but I have painted many pieces and I don’t want to give thiose away.  Thanks.