Im working on it. just wait

Ha, ha, ha! I love anchovies on my pizza!

LOL ask a Moderator to do that, or edit it out to a period.

Sorry if I was not clear enough.
In the case you have explained it can. If Germany has taken any UK territory(Canada or Africa), then the US will collect the income if it retakes it.
As soon as London is liberated, the former UK  territories the US recaptured from the Germans will return to the UK.

Greetings All,

I am a newbie and have gone through most of the forum posts over the past few days. Let me start by saying thanks to all who answer the questions so there is a lot of info to read. I am a FMF Navy Corpsman who has been playing since teen years in early 90s. I started with 1st Edition and bought Revised several years ago to play with my sons. I recently pulled it out to teach my nephews who are ten and fourteen.

Game modifications we made to make it easier and faster:

Inf moves two, arm three, all ships move four, eliminated art, added heavy tanks instead of rockets on WD. We changed cost of inf, trn, sub + AAA to 1: arm, fgt, des to 2, bmb, AC, BB, and IC to 3. We switched bomber and transport defense to two and transport attack to one. Â

They took Allies and I took Axis. I used Jpn to set up a sea blockade using SZ 60, Phil (sz49), and continued around to India through EIND and Borneo (sz48) with an IC on Borneo and Kwan. Jpn currently has Midway as well.

I had Germany take SZ 2 and form a blockade with sz 6,7,8, to ward off attacks to WEUR. I killed UK with Sealion attack supported by heavy bombers and long range aircraft. � We are into round six with Russia surrounded and German naval forces ready to attack ECAN or EUS from UK with minimal opposition.

Looking for thoughts, suggestions, ideas?

What you’re saying is true in the second edition, but this is the first edition forum.

Yes.

To be clear, any type of unit can hit any other type of unit unless the rules specifically state they can’t.

Ok, maybe a newbie question here. But I get a “The server axisandallies.org failed to respond with a valid HTTP response” message when I try to play PBEM in triple and do a “test post”. Anyone familiar with this and know how to connect? I play on mac. I have turned off my firewall, so that shouldn’t be it.

How does it work? And is anyone interested in playing? I’m kinda new to the game, but start to get the hang of it.

@wittmann:

Afternoon SeismicAssault.
You were both right to not remove the Transports.
The attacker has to have a unit left to hit the Transports and he did not.

Thanks!  I was pretty sure that’s the way it went, but wanted to make sure.

Take a Look:
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@JEB:

Yes, it seems that attacking and taking egypt on the first round would solve the problem. I’m kinda new to the game, and the reason I haven’t attacked egypt on round 1 was that I read the “Don’s axis and allies essays” and he promptly advocated NOT to attack egypt on the first round but wait until the 2nd instead. He seemed like a knowledgeable guy, so I wonder how he would have dealt with this. Because he didn’t advocate buying a carrier either, but just one transport and rest inf.

I also have read Don’s Axis and Allies essays more 10 years ago, and they are great for Classic, but you’re playing Spring 1942 and a lot has changed between both games :)

Germany losing the Med fleet on UK1 isn’t critical:

The 2 units that would go to Africa can instead be sent to Russia Sending more than 4 German units to Africa than the starting ones is usually a waste of resources. Those 4 units cost 12-16 IPC and Germany will only get 4-5 IPCs per turn from Africa in return. Japan can also threaten Africa more effectively if it sends transports to French Indochina. Overall the important objective is to increase the total Axis IPC income to 84+. And most of the richer territories are on Europe/Asia.

If you want to try some reading for Spring 1942 try this:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=27312.0 - German Operations
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=23032.0 - Soviet Strategic Defense
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=19962.0 - German Fortress Europe Strategy
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=25203.0 - German Case Blue Strategy

8-)

Thanks for your help

bananasling, if memory serves me correctly, the way you interpreted the rules was the way older versions of the game were played.

Not only can you do this with navy but with land.  You can attack and capture a territory then with your non-combat phase move tanks (that of course did not participate in any combat) through that newly captured territory and beyond it to a friendly territory on the other side to say reinforce an ally’s position.  Krieghund will correct me if I am wrong but when it was done to me for the first time….its hard to forget.

I know there used to be an economic victory condition in older versions, but I was wondering if any of you guys with more trigger time in FtF games have any thoughts on what one might be for this game.

It was 84 for the axis in the older game, but I think it might be a little higher than that now. Maybe the same for the allies.

Just looking for a possible way to quicken the game a little.

What if we count “landing on a friendly carrier” as one move? That might solve the “overmovement” problem.

For example, a UK fighter should first enter the sea zone controlled by a US carrier, then “land on the US carrier”, this landing process should count as two consecutive moves.
After landing, the UK fighter is treated as cargo and could be transported by the US carrier in US turn.
As to take off, a UK fighter should first move to the sea zone controlled by the US carrier, then move out of the sea zone, wich also should count as two consecutive moves.

In this scenario, the UK fighter could at most move through 8 sea zones during two turns, 3 in the first turn, 2 carried by the US carrier, 3 in the next turn.

Only fighters and carriers of the same power could be considered as “in close cooperation” in the same sea zone (but not as cargo/transporter as in the different power scenario), thus don’t require the land/take off move.

If it were attempted, what would the general consensus be to add Italy as a playable country to Spring 1942 1st ed?
Obviously the territory would be given to the Italian player as well as different color playing pieces, and perhaps they would receive 3 to 5 IP per turn, but it would add a 6th player, and the more the merrier.
Thoughts? Improvements? Even doable?