My guess is that they decided it was too close to Germany. Almost certainly this is why they’ve vandalised the map to give East Prussia to Poland. Also Moscow is more central and so, with plodding infantry movement, its needed for Russia to be able to reinforce the southern front with new units.

Agreed Loz.
I have never bought a game intending to sell for profit.
Has always been for my entertainment.

The one exception I might make to colonial builds being infantry only would be that Canada can build one transport. This would count as 2 towards the colonial maximum of 3 for that turn.
Perhaps, though, that must mean bringing Canada into the “even builds” rule; so that if the UK wants to build more than 4 infantry on a turn one of them must be in Canada.
It seems a fair way of representing British dependency on Trans-Atlantic shipping.

I raised Don Rae. But he hatched after 1987. Soon after that he made the fryer…into nuggets and finally the sewer system.

Since Germany has an inferior naval deployment, the retreat rules make sense to give them some flexibility.

He can’t help it. Bad childhood it seems.

@Flashman:

No allied surface vessels (other than Russia) may enter the Baltic.

I do not like arbitrary rules such as this. The Germans should have to do something to prevent Allied ships moving into the Baltic. If the game is correctly balanced, they should have the means to do this. However, if the German player chooses to, for example, use the fleet to support an invasion of Russia, then the Allies might be strong enough to force the Skagerrak.

I agree. The more you base rules on what happened instead of what could have reasonably happened, the more you are acting out the same old tired thing every game.

@Athlim:

Contested territories and Air supremacy we should See incorporated into the next WW2 A&A Game!

Maybe someone could send Larry a note and start an AA WWII Revolution

The way Larry described it ALL countries are the same - new units come into play in the capital. Ships are built in naval bases.

For that reason, I do not see the large NBs at Oran, Alexandria or Tripoli being represented. Either that, or overseas tts are not considered as “home”. It would be the silliest thing ever in A&A if Britain was able to build battleships in Egypt, but not be able to build tanks or recruit infantry in northern England.

Also, if Austria has only one Naval Base, can it build only one ship per turn, or as many as it can afford?

Canada is an odd one out, in that it may be possible to build ships there, but then again to transport what?

Doesn’t look like Anzacs will be represented at all, while India just gets its starting units.

Anyhoo, I’m beginning to think about a completely different system for bringing infantry units into play, based on an ordered draft of units at regular stages. They still have to be payed for (training and equipment), but only so many are available and only on certain turns and in certain tts. Its on a use 'em or lose 'em basis - if you pass on a scheduled draft (to buy a dreadnought for example) you miss out on the units permanently. Eventually the numbers available will decline, as indeed the number of new recruits inevitably did in the war. It also ensures that you recruit units from all over your empire, and from each reasonably well populated tt.

The UK is slightly different in having no conscription. It will have to reply on volunteers at first. But passing the Conscription Bill will rope in the slackers, at the coast of a few morale points…

The USA is similar in having no initial conscription. However (assuming America goes to war in c1917) numbers available when the draft is introduced will be high through lack of early war attrition.

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CP should be able to project their power straight away, allies need to consolidate and that takes time. I bet its not unlike any other game with the ‘baddies’ poised to make a killing early on.

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It looks like an infantry and artillery grind.  I am already wondering how my purchase patterns will have to shift; Also, this style of long, fairly indecisive engagement could work well with the naval battles.  I wonder if things there will be similar.  It would make a “Battle of Jutland” type of thing almost inevitable.

Too Damn Cute IMO :-P

No Dreadnoughts should ever be built in the game since it takes 3+ years from start to finish. I understand it makes the game unplayable, but accuracy and not fun must be part of the game.

Extrapolating this further all other naval units take 6-8 turns to build. I understand this means that half the game will have empty oceans, but oh well. Accuracy and not fun is whats important.

Limits on how many of one type of unit get built would also presumably be part of Larry’s rules.

If one thing we know is Axis and Allies is a perfect representation of Historical accuracy, and not fun anymore.

Enjoy the game.

Global and 1942 were not limited but they sold out and the price went up huge. Buy 6 each minimum.

I’m coming down in favour of a 4 player game. Since the four principal nations: were

Germany

Russia

Austria

France

They would be the starting element for each player, in turn order.

With other nations joining in, we should end up with:

Germany, [Bolsheviks]

Russia, (Serbia)

Austria, Turkey, (Bulgaria)

France, UK, Italy, USA, (Belgium), (Portugal), (Greece), (Romania), (Arabia)

All nations within each group moving and fighting together.

One possibility is that, at a certain stage, Allies can be placed under an overall command and after that they all play together.

Ref: Supreme War Council and Unified Command

http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/68445/general-von-kuhl/unity-of-command-among-the-central-powers

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

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vWLoU9HVBeEC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA20&dq=central+powers+unified+command&source=bl&ots=6BEE-CvHEp&sig=1ARJ-Cd3I-IAtUc93BZrS7XZO8g&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9hX7UPqjE8eZ0QWd7YGADQ&sqi=2&ved=0CF0Q6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=central powers unified command&f=false

Slightly revised VC list:

Included a couple of neutrals.

London
Paris
Rome
Petrograd
Kiev
Tiflis
Cairo
Brazzaville
New Delhi

Brussels
Belgrade

Berlin
Cologne
Konigsburg
Vienna
Lemberg
Constantinople
Damascus
Baghdad
Dar-es-Salaam

Wouldn’t have southern Africa on my map (or I’d go the whole hog and have Asia and the Pacific as well), but if it is on there it might as well have tts worth fighting over.

By and large, the above list pairs up VCs across the main fronts vel:

London-Berlin (North Sea)
Paris-Essen (Western Front)
Rome-Vienna (Alpine Front/Adriatic)
Konigsburg-Petrograd (Baltic)
Lemberg-Kiev (Ukraine)
Brazzaville-Dar-es-Salaam (Central Africa)
Cairo-Damascus (Middle East)
Delhi-Baghdad (Mesopotamia)
Tiflis-Erzerum (Caucasus/Black Sea)
New York-Mexico City (Rio Grande Front)
Moscow-Constantinople (The Straits)

Yeah, will likely be one of the more common Krupp guns for the CP. But I hope they go for the Tri-Plane for the CP fighter, for no other reason than it would look awesome  :-D.

That link is common knowledge.  Hurray for it!

@Flashman:

piles and piles of dead infantry.

Many years ago, prior to WotC’s involvement with the Avalon Hill brand, I saw a magazine advertisement for Avalon Hill products which showed a disorderly pile of plastic infantry miniatures of many different colours and types, over which the historical quote “Let God sort them out” was printed as a caption.