Thank you!  :-D

Historically Italy should not be considered at war until the start of I1, although A-H will probably decide to attack it anyway.

@Frontovik:

India can’t fall… you know the Brits have unlimited production there, right?

You’re right.

Hey that’s great!  I always love to hear battle reports on Global and 1914!

The emblem (or emblems) on the territory is more important than the color.  Since colonies don’t have small major power emblems on them, they aren’t considered to be aligned territories.

It’s not as good of a game as G40 but it is still a good game. The play is much different so that adds some variety to your game collection. Make sure that if you are going to get the game that you get extra pieces or you will be frustrated. Aside from German infantry the next thing to run out is the playing chips and they are slightly larger than the chips you are using now so they don’t stack well. You can buy the pieces and chips from HBG. The tournament rules are better than the OOB rules as well.

One last shot. The role of the neutrals is graciously being played by an old set of WW11 Russian infantry and artillery that I painted black.

IMG_0183horizon1914.jpg

No but you’re close. You can’t move troops and then load them on a transport. You have to wait until next turn to load them onto the transport. You can move a transport, load troops, and then complete your move with the transport and drop off the troops. You can load one troop, move the transport, load another troop, then complete your transport movement, then unload both troops but they have to unload in the same territory. You just can’t move troops to get to a transport or move troops after you unload them.

We play with Switzerland, but make some allowance for terrain in 3 ways; by excluding tanks and planes, 1 defending inf gets hits on 1-4, and attacking inf do not get artillery bonus.  Also, we include Afghanistan, Kamerun, Nigeria, and Belgian Congo in the same rule (the former rough terrain, the latter jungle terrain).

Thanks Man can’t wait

Also confirming Italy.  Minor neutrals (not aligned) having multiple friendly forces, control needs to be “negotiated” amongst the players.  With minor “aligned”, that is the deciding factor.  Note, if control were to change to the CP player, and then recaptured by France - France would have control.

Krieghung, thanks for the quick response.  That poor Russian battleship in SZ12 has to thread the needle through SZ11 and SZ10 even if there are no ships there and I guess once the UK Navy is gone in SZ29, you just need to start ground pounding your way through Ottoman to get into the fight.

No, I was actually looking for a custom one.  I should have clarified, sorry.  I find that the custom boards I find here are usually far more intuitive and thoughtful than the ones that come with the game.  Especially with 1914, it seems there could have been a better alternative that might include navy units. Thanks for responding.

To support CdeG, although I have played 1914 just twice, both games featured an axis focus on taking out Russia (no Russian Revolution) while Turkey holds on, leading to an axis victory.

Axis and Allies 1914 - British Strategy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW9pE6IcRdw

The worst blow is 12 German infantry.  Didn’t Larry notice that after setting up the game there is none left?     
Don’t tell me his playtesters told him that Russia would knock one out…

Well I’ll be continuing playing A&A for as long as possible.  Getting a job is going to make me have significant less time.

Using artillery as coastal defense/reinforcements en route is a good strategy.  Going for Paris first isn’t. Why? You cannot stop the Russians and the British will be destroying Ottomans.  Austria Hungary will get hit badly as well by combined Italian and Russian forces. Alternatively, the Allies can divert Italian and British units to France to stop you from taking it.

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