@Panther

Thank you!

@KraytKing

Intriguing. I gotta say, I’ve never thought about specifically altering the momentum structure (who has the intiative) in this game, but I think it might make for a very fun game. Explaining it historically as weather works, especially on the Eastern Front.

When I try to start a new game of France Goes First on 2.5 TripleA, I get this error message:

Is there anything that can be done about this? Thank you!

@The-Captain

Finished reading the rules. I think they’re well-balanced and give nations a lot of new options, both for those who do have atomic bombes and those who don’t.

@Imperious-Leader

? Nobody’s saying Formosa should be Chinese (and it isn’t under out of box rules). barnee is asking for Hainan to be Chinese. Hainan was only conquered by the Japanese in 1937 alongside the other original Chinese territories.

@barnee Maybe you can ask The Captain to make Hainan originally Chinese in his house rules.

@SeaYa

I’ll check these films out when I have time (probably when I’m retired).

Some World War 2 related reads I mentioned here in the past:

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/41385/great-leyte-gulf-alternate-timeline-article

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/37506/an-interesting-book-i-read

@CentralCommando

The original Global 1940 games alraedy tries to make the Solomons valuable by attaching some of ANZAC’s and Japan’s national objectives to it.

I remember how the 1914 map has the Balearic Islands and Spanish Morrocco as seperate territories and I think it would be cool if Global 1940 had the same function.

I think Corsica would work quite well as a seperate French territory. It would give the Allies a lot more room to hit Italy early on.

@SeaYa

Agreed.

@dazedwit

US strategic bombers (which move a total of 6 spaces without an air base) can attack sea zone 6 (the one around Japan) from Midway or the Aleutians.

They can also attack the sea zones around the Caroline Islands, Malaya, Phillipines, and the Dutch East Indies from Australia (quite hard for Japan to attack). And if India is still in the game they can bomb any ships near it.

The only places out of reach of American bombers are 19, 18, 36, and 21. These are useful sea zones, but Japan can’t do much in them beyond fighting submarines. It’s certainly not enough to make the advances neccessary to win the game.

@dazedwit

The main weakness with this is if the US rapidly bulks on strategic bombers. I’ve played many games where the US does this, and Japan really has no response unless they’re already winning handily. Absolutely obliterates their ships and prevents any new ones from being built.