In the light of day I understand you better now, and it’s right that you can calculate your defences/attacks better in LL, so you will end up using lesser resources for “just in case” or “just to be sure” situations. And ofcourse, if there’s a huge pile of trns on a “just enough to keep 1 DD left” fleet, someone made a mistake, because you have to calculate your losses if things go wrong in too. It’s like a 30% chance to take Ger with UK, no one would doubt about that, since the potential gains far outweigh the potential losses, thus tilting the average gain in your direction. That aspect is still in LL though, be it less severe (it’s a question of adding 1 DD instead of 1 BB “to be sure”).

@Telamon:

But as long as you have fun, that’s all that matters.

I couldn’t agree more! (and sry for my tendency to overreact :oops: )

I think they are considered originally Chinese for game balance issues.

If they were originally Chinese, then Russia cannot capture them for income or to give England the NO for an allied controlled orange territory.

Likewise, if Japan puts an IC or AA in these territories, and later loses it to the allies, they become virtually useless.  This also prevents the allies from taking it, building there and fighting against the Japanese.

Basically, making them Chinese territories makes life a lot easier on Japan.

played 2 day……us fleet takes iwo jima and puts a couple subs in sz that contains japan. 
uk fleet blocks italia’s fleet in med.  on atlantic side uk forces take norway w/ 1 tank
ussr reinforces moscow and a uk fighter assists.
germany’s turn next

and with a detroyer present, the sub cannot submerge.  makes sense.  thank you so much.

@packrat76:

The enemy won’t want to trade fighters and bombers for subs and therefore won’t attack your fleet to begin with. Subs can’t attack planes thats the problem! you can;t let subs take hits from planes… if they could that would be great!

No but they can attack the floating landing field the planes land on…everyone talks about how subs can’t hit planes like its a weakness -its a strength- being able to force my enemy to take hits on ships instead of realitively cheap fighters is a plus!

From my short experience with the greatest war game of all time, the 1941 version is very well balanced, while the 1942 version is more in favor of the Axis. I advise anyone who loves a good long war game to buy it.

I agree with you Jennifer,  Italy (if ignored for at least 3 turns) can turn into a monster, and before you know it Africa is gone.  Also in one game I played the US and UK ignored Italy for 5 whole turns and by the time they sent thier fleet down to stop them Italy had a monster of a fleet and sank both the US’s fleet and the UK’s fleet thus giving Germany time to take Russia.

@Lema099:

And his scale may(?) be more based on movement/production rates rather than speed of play.

This makes common sense. I discussed this issue with Larry, and will edit in a link later. But the importent here is the production rate. The ship movement dont fit into this, because it took 12 days to cross the Atlantic, not 3 months.

When it comes to speed of play, as you put it, that is very a difficult issue. In the 1939 startline we had no guarantee that WW II would go on for 5 years. If UK, France, USA and Russia had attacked Germany in 1939, then the war would have lasted 1 year, because of an alternate decision. If Hitler had not done all his mistakes, the war might have lasted for 10 years. Just look at the Vietnam war, that lastet for 20 years, in one tiny territory. And the Iraq war 1990 lastet 100 days. The speed of production are fixed, the speed of movement and play are not.

Shakespeare thank you very much for your compliments!

Marc is right, feel free to contact me at mapboard_upgrade@yahoo.com.ar

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The consul help button has nothing written on it either.

I like how you have color “coded” the territories list to each power, that makes it real easy to know who originally owned it and easier to find it when you are trading it back and forth.

Also I was wondering if you could/would make a “division” on the purchase unit’s area that has a line that divides the units into land, sea and air units; maybe even color code them.  Might make it a little easier to see what you’re looking for.

Thanks

Builder_Chris is right, you won’t be able to hold africa without US assistance. if you left all of your african forces down there, you could slow them down for a couple of rounds though

if the US is going for all out Pacific, i would still try to convince them to use whatever they have in western usa in the african theatre to help. also, i always build an IC in india if japan can’t take it feasibly turn j2. this leaves you the option of sending tanks to africa once Japan is booted off China

Tech: Increased Factory Production
Nation: Germany
Use: Relax as the effectiveness of SBR is more than halved and rub hands with glee as those captured russian factories start chunking out the troops….

I think this is possible one of the most powerful techs for Germany.

Thanks guys.  The faq clears up a few things too.  Am planning a 2nd game Friday and will be playing the allies again.

@mrninjaz:

http://triplea.sourceforge.net

Download the unstable version for AA50

If you download the unstable version keep in mind that it hasn’t been fully developed yet. Expect rules that haven’t been implemented yet, bugs and other sorts of quirky behaviour.

After all, it is still a beta version :)

Oh I like the costume, props idea

We are going to do an themed Arkham Horror costume night so that might be right up peoples alleys.

Ill hunt downs those national rules as well

Cheers

weirdest thing i’ve seen was in '41, the German turn went horrendously, ( I think they took the baltic states), because of this the Russian player wound up researching improved ICs, placed it in the far east, went through china, the Mid East and then wound up taking Libya with 5 tanks

NOTE: It was the Japan players first time playing and the Russian player plays exclusively Russia.

Yes.  I didn’t state it correctly there.  The point is stacking up warships with the intent of Bombardment can be negated pretty easily with this rule.

That makes it a lot easier to block ICs from producing sea units, Sea Zones 5, 56, and 62 in particular.  More importantly, it makes Subs more effective at blocking those zones, because they get to use their higher attack value, and also be reinforced by air/naval units.

Another situation would be if Germany put a sub in each sea zone around the UK.  If Britain puts a Destroyer in each zone to counter, then Germany sends its airforce, while using the Subs as fodder.

@Krieghund:

@P@nther:

@Krieghund:

Since Jet Fighters increases fighters’ attack values to equal their defense values in normal combat, I’d say it would do the same in SBRs, allowing attacking fighters to roll on a 2. However, Larry will need to confirm that.

But this is still not confirmed by Larry as I think. Or is it?

Yes, it’s just been confirmed.  It will be in the next version of the FAQ (soon, I hope).

Great, thank you :-)

@packrat76:

can the defending sub keep submerging before the attacker can attack if there is no destroyer in the attacking fleet?

what do you mean with “keep”?
Note that if a sub chooses to submerge, it cannot attack or defend either.