@Canuck12:

So it would in fact be more historically accurate to have Japan require transports to get directly to Malay from Siam.

Yes, this way singapore is more of the fortress it hisotrically was because the UK will have an easier time of  reinforcing malay and it is harder for Japan to get at.

Larry Harris has often said that the borders and names of the territroies in A&A are as much or more so a reflection geography as they are a reflection of politics.

C’mon guys, plastic is expensive. It would have cost WOTC somewhere near a dollar to double the pieces and they are only selling the game for $90.

@Admiral_Thrawn:

Just got the game today. Very cool. I’m not really complaining but, does anyone else wish the game started Dec. 7th ‘41? Or had a 40’ and 41’ scenerio? It seems it would keep it simple for one thing. Not a lot of new rules about when how you go to war. The game is about war. Just cut out the first 3 rounds of the game and get to it. The games are long enough. I feel you lose historical flavor as well without the sneak attack of the Japanese. The surprise attacks was the main reason the Japanese had a silver of a chance in WWII. There whole philosophy was based around it. In the original AAP this was captured nicely with the defend on 1 rule for the surprise attack. Now we have this artifical the U.S. and U.K. just automatically go to war if not attacked. Just like the real war in AAP 41’ you wanted revenge for those easy attacks.

Don’t count out the Brits (probably never ANZAC though) attacking Japan first! In our last game Japan had Yunan on J1. China reinforced and sat in Szechwan, so on J2 Japan reinforced Yunan with even more units, and some planes (not all). In all Japan had I think 4 inf, 2 art, 1 tank, 1 mech inf, 4 figs in Yunan, and the BRITS rolled up in there to save an early conquest of China on UK2. They blew Japan out of the water actually with I think, 6 inf, 1 art, 2 tanks, 1 mech inf, 4 figs and a tac bomber. The Brits ruined Japan! It was an exciting move, and big for the allies!

better idea france becomes the vechy french thats the 3 axis power

Thanks, I was comparing it to the Axis and Allies 1942 rulebook which has shiny pages. And that was about 1/2 the price of this game.

@i:

@Brain:

Maybe they could throw in some stealth fighters and bombers too :-D

the germans were working on a stealth fighter and bomber project they looked sorta like a b2 bomber.  :mrgreen:

I believe you are refering to this…

http://www.century-of-flight.net/new site/frames/horten frame.htm

From the Horton Brothers.

personally, i’m fan of returning them back to dutch
in real US just put soms subs over there, but didn’t liberated them, cause they were worthless to them.

@Frontovik:

@i:

@Frontovik:

@shohoku201:

UK
5 IPCs if the Allies (excluding the Dutch) control Sumatra, Java, Celebes, and Borneo at the same time
5 IPCs for controlling Kwangtung and Malaya at the same time

ANZAC
5 IPCs if the Allies (excluding the Dutch) control Dutch New Guinea, New Guinea, New Britain, and the Solomon Islands
5 IPCs (once and only once) for occupying any territory that was originally Japanese controlled.

excluded the dutch?i don’t get it. if Uk liberates those islands, do they turn dutch again of UK?

no if the japanese capture them and uk or anzac liberate them they take controle over them :-D

and US?

…are a member of the “Allies” so UK & Anzac would get the bonus if the US controlled the Dutch islands.

just like in real life
that’s what i like in this game: you’ll have same discussions of 1940 as in reality

i have read a book about it, some were pro war 1940, some 1941, some pro war China, some pro war USSR

each case: it has its advantages, but disadvantages.
only depends if there are more pro’s than con’s

@jeffdestroyer:

If the UK sends an AA gun to China…it would put them at war with Japan…correct.?

You could do this as early as UK2 without too much downside. I’d think Japan will be attacking or disrupting convoys by J3 anyway.

Although it’s nice to capture Hawaii your fleet is completely out of position. And in the end you can’t hold on long enough to Hawaii to get that 6th victory city, so why bother?  :wink:

Why are you guy so focused on those NO’s? I mean it’s only a bloody 5 IPC, you don’t even get a tank for that price.  :wink:

I’ll take a look on what you posted about the US troops from the Phillippines whether they can be put safe or not. The UK BB and transports are really going to hunt you. They can join the India ships and Anzac fleet south of Java to make a nice 1-2-3 punch with the US later on in the game…… That’s why that BB must die no matter what.

@Vareel:

I don’t think i’m explaining properly.  There should be convoy zones to represent what goes from the US to the UK/Russia.  If G attacks those convoy zones only, it would start war.  I think that is how it should be.  Obviously there should be other convoy zones as well, at least for the UK.

I suppose it depends how they do lend/lease but I’d prefer it not be a simply free cash objective for Britain/Russia (where’s the lending part in that).  What I’d like to see is a lend/lease that’s not a 1:1 gain for Britain and Russia.  The US can designate some number of IPCs to Russia and/or Britain (say 12) and they get half that amount (6 to the banker).  This has a sense of depreciated value and inflated cost (hey, the US is capitalist) to that “lease” from the US and doesn’t punish the axis as much trying to balance Russia & Britain’s economy vs Germany’s which could be unfairly skewed as Russia and Britain get free loot at minimal expense to the US.  And that could be designated in as a different type of convoy zone, perhaps only near the US coast, which would mean the Germans would have to go way past the Channel to stop it, if they even wanted to.  It has the benefit of immediately helping Russia and Britain in a pinch, but if they can hold out the US can send more in US units, which I think would be a more balanced way to send help to an ally.

That way it’s not quite the same as the established convoy zone, because Russia and Britain can’t GET cash from US territory obviously (nor should they)and there would need to be convoy zones for britain that are wholly independent from the lend lease zones you speak of.

Yes, this is really cool. Thanks for digging it up and posting it.

Thanks!

@Omega:

Just a quick question : So the AC now has 0 attack. What is his defense? Still 2?

Did they modify the defense on the battleboard?

Robert

0/2/2/16 with 2 hits.  the battleboard is incorrect and lists it as attacking on 1.

And remember, mech inf + tank + tac. bomber = great mobility and firepower on the ground. A great improvement on the classical Inf, art, tank.

ah ok mate thanks :)

I wonder why aa50 rules were posted so soon then.

@Kilukru:

Just noticed, the image of the battlestrip in the rulebook(p.7) is correct.

My new guess is this : all the poorly made stuff is because they rushed the game out to hit X-mas time and dinnt have the time to produce everything they wanted.

My guess is that they only care about their card game.

@Krieghund:

@Battlingmaxo:

pg 16

Combat  step 2 : attacking subs fire and hit units are placed behind casualty strip ?  I assume this is an error as in the next paragraph the defending subs casualties are removed from play before proceeding to step 3

No, this is not an error.  The units are placed behind the casualty strip because defending subs that are chosen as casualties will return fire.  You will notice that the last thing that happens in step 2 is that these casualties are removed.

That line was the source of my confusion.  So subs chosen as casualties return fire; other unit casualties are removed prior to this.