Gentlemen,

I have a 1-700 Royal Navy Ark Royal,  The new AA resembles it fairly close.  The main thing I see for it to truly rep the Ark Royal is it should be a little bit taller.  It looks fairly flat to me.  As for it looking like an Essex or any other USN Aircraft carrier not even a faint resembelance to the Essex class carriers.  It would need a bigger island and more catwalks and 5 inch DPs on the flight deck and be a bit longer.

WARRIOR888

Larry has finally created an A&A 1941 section on his website, and he’s posted his designer notes here:

http://www.harrisgamedesign.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=9155

game is not released yet and we need an f.a.q.

this sea zone connection issue is difficult to asses.

does the north sea (sz6) connect to the celtic sea (i believe sz8 but hard to see on map)?

i believe it does but is hard to see on the pictures that djensen has kindly posted of the setup.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/djensen47/7362454904/sizes/k/in/photostream/

it would make sense as that connection is larger than the connection of the following sz which all have connections

baltic-north sea
Atlantic-Mediterranean
mediterranean-black sea

however axis and allies is not always geographically correct, it is just a board game.

that does mean giving up moscow in a very near future. those 3 inf and tank are vital.
for the rest; i agree. it seems game is made to go KJF almost every time :(

@Frontovik:

@DarthShizNit:

@djensen:

All three games I played, there was trouble with the US going into the Pacific by the whomever was playing US just gave up and went to Europe.

If Japan goes all in on the Hawaii sea zone, the boats on the coast of W. USA are hosed the next turn. Even with an an aircraft carrier and fighter, they can’t win. Not only that, the US fleet can’t even run away! What the US does depends on how Japan plays and Japan can decide to keep the US out of the Pacific for 2 turns which in an eternity in this game.

Yeah, they could go blockade the states, but from where I’m sitting, as long as the US player plays it right then it’s the death of Japan. On US1, with a Japanese fleet of pressumably 1 BB, 1 CV with at least 1 fighter left and a transport in Hawaii (I think moving the british sub up to Hawaii on their turn is a good idea, maybe get a pot shot off and sink the BB or something with their ability, which even further reduces this fleet) you can hit that with 3 fighters, a bomber and a sub (if you really want you could try to retake the island and thus stop japan from bringing in that bomber on J2, but that seems to risky). Even if you fail to win, that attack has probably crippled the Fleet there, and when Japan comes a knocking with the rest of their fleet…so what? They take some more casualites and the entire pacific is wide open to a British navy with the ability to plop down a constant stream of units in two seperate locations close to home, and America will eventually sink that fleet sitting in San franciso Harbor.

Japan has to rely on some super lucky die rolls in those high stake naval battles, and maybe taking India or Australia early. But most likely, like their Russian enemy, they are in fact just screwed, ment to balance out the Russians being screwed…and I will have a blast leading every Banzai charge :). Man, I really need to get my hands on this game.

who would send entire ��� fleet to hawaii? it can get trashed there… i think 2 figs and bomber are better option. then you can use transport to save whatver you can from mainland (southeast asia, china, manchuria, whatever got attacked or needs attacking).

Oh yes I agree. The Japan player would be much better of simply stalling the allies with fighters in the Pacific, and using it’s naval edge to take out India and Australia as soon as possible. Being me I will of course invade Alaska, but that’s only just for fun.

At least bring back the sculpt of the Italian tank from Anniversary that’s already paid for…

still, should have expanded soviet far east…

I second Larry’s comments. Thanks for all the time you put in dave.  Looking forward to the new time lapse video.

Yup, I just noted it in the article and on all the places where the photos are uploaded.

We looked for that rule and could not find it. As far as I can tell if you want 4 subs in 4 territories you can if you want. It only came up once during the purchase phase but by the end of the turn, it all worked out okay.

Victory conditions are: if you can get a new friend to play this shorter version, you win!

Actually, the first one to flip the board loses.

No really, first one to own 5 battleships on the board wins! Ha!

I could go all day …

The real answer is capitals, that’s all I’ll say for now.

Here’s a link to all of the photos of the game that I’ve taken except for a couple, which I’ll add soon. You’ve all of these already, but here they are all in one place.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djensen47/sets/72157629997755399/

If you’re lucky, I sometimes post the photos on Flikr before I post to the blog. This is especially true of the photos I take with my iPhone.

@P@nther:

@valtteri771:

What blog? link please

http://www.axisandallies.org/p/axis-and-allies-1941-contents-of-the-box/

Oh yeah I have read that thanks Okhay lets say this is spam and Ill remove it

@Variable:

@jim010:

So who wants to be the first to tell uncrustable, techroll42 and Surprise Attack ‘I told you so’?

That’s IL’s job.

Guys, great job on the fake map and units, btw. I really think we are fooling everybody! :D

Just watched the box opening video. Some nice looking pieces. I love the US subs. The question that is most burning in my mind is: Other than being the Original game designer, did Larry have ANYTHING to do with this game? He has been quiet on the subject and if memory serves, the wording on the initial flyer we saw said: using the same game mechanics as created by Larry Harris, not: This game was designed by Larry Harris.
Other than non disclosure agreements, this could be a reason that Larry has not commented on the game at HarrisGameDesign.com Simply put maybe he didn’t design it.

Thank you. I blame the dementia! Cannot remember where I bought last 2 games. I am sure it was not from the US. Will do same if I see it advertised.

I know the year limit affects this (france)but I personally would only get a game including Italy and France, I don’t like how Italy is included with Germany.

I’m cool with a simpler game. I love Global but it takes a long ass time. Our group plays every two weeks for about 12 hours per session so we never finish a game of Global in one sitting. We like to mix it up and play Classic, 42, Anniversary, and Global. When we play the games other than Global we tend to get two games in per session. Sometimes we don’t finish the second game but we generally do. My particular group might not want to play a game that only lasts 2 hours, 6 times in a row but a short game like the one they are promoting is something that could fit between an AA50 game and a Classic game.
So far all we have is speculation and poor promotional information that contradicts itself. WE shall see. I promise this though. When I get hold of my copy it will remain inside the shrink wrap until our next game session and whether we are in the middle of a Global game or not we will open it and play it all in one day and it will end up being reviewed on the Dicetruction Podcast.

Check us out on iTunes but don’t listen back to the beginning cause recording quality sucked a**.

Oh wait! this is supposed to be Russia Ideas….

My first act as ruler of Russia is to execute Comrade Stalin and allow the Red Army to retreat without fear of their family being killed.

@Lozmoid:

The day we start getting cardboard counters for combat units will be the day most us stop buying A&A games!Â

It would also be a throwback to the original Nova Games version of A&A, which used flat counters.

The 1941 is legit but, have too many new unit is ladle…