@Croesus:

you people overcomplicate things.
The way the rules are is the way they stay! please! I don’t wan’t to have to learn a new set of rules every time.
It’s great to add powers and intrigue, but please, you overdo it

I am sorry for the above grammatical/spelling/capitalization mistakes

We don’t make any changes, we only make suggestions.

@Krieghund:

I haven’t seen the finished product yet, so all I know is “blue”.

I think powder blue would be appropriate for the french.

In my rules NCM is simultaneous with Combat Movement; there is no reinforcing areas you just captured in any circumstances.

Therefore, you can only rail units into territories you’ve held since your last turn, representing the problems of converting track gauges and so forth.  You still have to build your attack in stages, giving the enemy the chance to counter-rail his own forces to that front, or to disrupt such movement by attacking vulnerable links in the chain of territories on your network.

If the Axis allows the Allies to move a large force from Cape Town to Moscow in one move they really deserve to get screwed.

J1 will be foolish in AA40 Combined
A G2 attack on russia would co-ordinate with a J2 attack on the US in the Pacific.

mabe in the globle game the us will be like 20/50 for main land us so 20 at peace and 50 at war.
or 20/65

You mean the Persian corridor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Corridor

I’m currently compiling a list of all potential convoys and land supply routes.

In essence it means that ALL income from overseas territories has to be transported via a convoy or overland route.

So far there are 4 Russian benefit routes;

Scotland - UK Arctic Convoy - Karelia

Iceland - US Arctic Convoy - Karelia (there probably needs to be a convoy from EUS to Iceland)

West USA - US North Pacific Convoy - SFE

India - Iran - Caucasus

In each case the Allies must control all 3 stages to have the option of transferring income to the USSR.  The PC income comes from India, which has a big block of UK income (India is always massively undervalued in official A&A games).  Normally the UK transfers India/Burma income to the UK via Convoys to Egypt, then by another to the UK.  But it can choose to divert 3 per turn of this to Russia.

Similarly the US has 3 Atlantic convoy routes to the UK, with which it can send income even when not at war.  It’s up to the Germans to decide if it’s worth attacking these and triggering a full US intervention.

There is also a Canadian convoy to the UK which needs to be kept open to transfer Canadian income direct, although this could be spent building units in Canada.

I’ve also listed “trade” convoys from South America to Europe, and of course from all overseas colonies to the main production centres.

The main problem is what to do when Japan takes over eastern routes; should there be an interlinked network of shipping routes so income can be transferred by any reasonable route to and from anywhere, with convoy boxes at staged intervals allowing enemy disruption?  The Phillipines could become a major bottleneck for Japanese loot from the DEI…

Well its too bad we can’t have swastikas, I think they look cool. I guess if the Axis had won the war, we wouldn’t be able to use stars.

I think the countries that will be pro axis/pro allies neutrals will be countries that are typically active in AA games (belonging to one side or the other), but have not officially joined the war by the games start date (around June 10th 1940). If they are leaning to your side you don’t have to invade (fight) you just move units in and take ownership (probably in the combat phase).

If they are hostile to your side you will have to attack the units printed on the map. New countries that have been added to AA40 expansion of say The Middle East or Africa that had not yet joined the war should also follow this format.

There could be something like move into a pro your side in combat move and take ownership the IPC’s are yours, where if you come in non combat the tt remains pro your side (you only occupy it) and don’t get the IPC’s. There may be some reason that you may only want to occupy a tt (avoid some kind of consequence, like others turn on you).

There will be certain countries that have been traditionally neutral like Turkey, Saudi, Spain, Sweden, maybe Switz, parts of S America etc. Either side will have to fight there way in like you do with Mongolia for these true neutrals. I could see certain countries having alliances, that if they are attacked others will join the other side like in S America. I hope there is no link between say Spain and Turkey, and if there is you can avoid it with political pressure in the individual regions. Like say you have Turkey surrounded, and attack them it keeps Spain out. I would not like a rule that says attack one true neutral and all the others join your enemy (but it could happen). If Germany/Italy attack Turkey to open up the Black sea (to invade the Caucasus) allows the US to start putting troops on Spain that would not be cool. The axis would have to invade both at the same time to watch their back. If an attack on Turkey brought the Saudi’s to the other side or vise versa, that I could live with, at least they’re in the same region. I don’t know if they actually had a political alliance though.

Maybe NO’s will dictate if/when you can invade a true neutral (w/o consequences). If you have say a Middle East NO (control of Persia, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Egypt) you can invade Saudi or Turkey (Turkey may also include another NO w/Balkans making it more difficult). If you achieve an NO with the Scandinavian tt you can now invade Sweden Etc. Control the region (NO) gain access to true neutrals. I know its a stretch, and NO’s most likely won’t have any effect on neutrals, but it was worth mentioning.

@skinny1:

@Brain:

@molinar13:

I would buy it but I would also be upset and feel like WOTC is cheating me out of my money because they should already have this included for a $70.00 BOARD GAME.

I agree with this statement and I will buy all my extra stuff from FMG.

Any news on when FMG will start selling the pieces?

Check the thread in Other Axis and Allies Variants

@allboxcars:

@Brain:

A can opener is just two countries working together as it should be.

Good point. [Applaud silently]

Yes, there is no way to eliminate can opener strategies because the Axis need to work together, and the Allies need to work together in order to win the game.

@i:

cool a actul fleet in the baltic in revised you get 2 subs 1 destroyer et 1transport
so in this i would like 1 battleship 1crusier 1 destroyer 2 subs 1or2 transports!
it will be invisible :evil:

Invisible or invincible?

@i:

@Brain:

@i:

well mabe you tweke that abit so you can only do 50% damage to factoreis when attakeing but defending you can kill it if you what

What?

i meant if you attack you can only do 50% damage but defending you can do 100% damage
1damage=1hit
so if you have ten inf and roll 5 2 when defending you can take those hits and damege you indestrey.

Still a little lost

@xzorn:

Having a fleet, planes and a few trannies in the Baltic lets you threaten Britain and Russia, while defending your Scandinavian holdings. Brits will have to be wary of an attack and waste precious resources in anticipation. And if he does, simply use the fleet, airforce and trannies on other things.

So just the threat of Sea Lion is good enough.

France shouldn’t be allowed to do anything. That would be realistic.

I think the idea is to make attacking Russia as Japan not wise unless the US pays no attention to that front, at which point the energy which would have gone into fighting the Eagle can instead go to the Bear.

TripleA or Abattlemap are the best two options, and both are free, and both have many different game versions to choose from.  TripleA is a full blown java application with the rules hardcoded and is typically played real time, although it has a save feature and a play by email option.  Abattlemap is simply a visual representation of the map/pieces and can be played by forum, but has none of the rules hard coded into it and is the closest to playing the real board game.

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki for tripleA information.  You must download the maps separately though the program, it is very easy.

http://www.flames-of-europe.de/ is where you can get Abattlemap, you must register to get it.

GTO is an evil, vile company that made a crappy product that they charge for, and then tried to get TripleA shut down.  Yes, wotc only went after tripleA because GTO told them to do it, at least in my opinion.  Otherwise they would have went after Abattlemap as well, and shut them both down with legal action instead of a  simple C&D letter to honor there licenses agreement with GTO.

@allboxcars:

@Brain:

If you want more naval battles, then increase the value of the convoy zones.

Or increase the number of sea zones to create an air gap.

That could work.

Just wait until it comes out.

@mike:

Historically they tried to have around 80 airplanes in Malta.  Initially these were the outdated Glostor Gladiator biplanes (and at the start of the war they only had 5!) But they kept shipping airplanes to Malta via Aircraft Carrier until they had around 80. These include Spitfire Vs, Hurricane IIs as well as some single engined ground attack planes as well as some Bristol Beaufighters and even a squadron of De Havilland Mosquitoes in late 1942.

Malta was a good place for an airbase