Our gaming group has come to the conclusion that some bid is needed to balance the game for the Allies. In reading through the posts it seems to me that the general consensus is that the Allies need a bid of about 9-12.
My questions are:
Is a bid of 9-12 the current and reasonable amount? As we will not want to bid for a particular side, we will set a certain bid point for each game and then let people choose which side they want to be as some Players enjoy playing particular Powers. So what is a fair bid?My group usually goes 10-15, some where in the ball park of 8 to 14 is what everyone does.
Is this bid added as starting income to be spent on Turn 1?What Siparo said.
Is this bid added as units and money such as the Revised FIDA bid?Never played revised, and what is FIDA? Another government agency?
Is this bid added as units on the board with remainders as starting money?Siparo doesn’t do it, but my group allows it.
For any units placed on the board are there any restrictions? For example:
a) Must have a unit already in the territory / sea zone?
b) May not place more than X number of units?My group has 3 rules:
1. Must be one unit per territory/seazone.
2. Can only be placed in a territory/seazone where you already have units occupying it.
3. Can only be a unit that power has access to (china can be inf and art only).I would appreciate your kind thoughts and comments. Thank you…
Hello, new player to 1940
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So the Black Cat goes in the German unit tray?
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So the Black Cat goes in the German unit tray?
Yes. An orange cat would go in the Japanese unit tray.
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…still have room for coasters for our beer on the sides of the map.
yea most important : )
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Welcome, PainState:
Even though I’m also in my 40s I pretty much only play online now (never thought I’d say that), so no palatial games room here. Just my library, which comes complete with a general who whispers strategies into my ear, usually with catastrophic results.
Perhaps we need a new thread just for A&A cats. :-)
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@CWO:
usually with catastrophic results.
Perhaps that should be spelled “cat-astrophic”. :-D
Bwahahahahahaha :lol:
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What!? Cats and A&A? That has got to be the height of nerdom! We need to get some guys who play the game while at the gym… blast your quads then rolls 6 ones! Grip the dice so hard you crush them to sand!
That’s A&A! :evil:
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What!? Cats and A&A? That has got to be the height of nerdom! We need to get some guys who play the game while at the gym… blast your quads then rolls 6 ones! Grip the dice so hard you crush them to sand!
That’s A&A! :evil:
My cat will shred the designer Gorilla Wear gym clothes off your body - along with your epidermis - so fast that you’ll wish you had the speed and agility of a much less bulky man. Then, he’ll pluck out your eyeballs and present them to me as trophies, which I will put in the freezer to utilize as reusable ice cubes for my whisky drinks, all while I destroy your hapless armies on the game board.
You obviously know nothing of the nuances of A&A. :wink:
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Catzilla heading for Australia. We were just getting the game and out and he had to see what was going on.
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Get these cats out of here!
We are getting a bad name here! Pudgy nerds petting cats? Holy Smokes! We need pics of ripped pecks, maxin’ out on the bench press, Bud Light ape-soldiers cracking dice and pounding beers!!!
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What, you don’t like cats huh? I’m a bit offended by that.
Ps. Your suggestion sounds kind of… Fruity.
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I have played a lot of WiF. My group refers to AA40 as “Axis in Flames”….
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Curtmungus,
We don’t have cats at the Laredo Texas Headquarters only at the Houston Texas Headquarters which I share with my wife and “her” cat. Please note the requisite beers and smokes in the War Room.
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Also to note is that I am destroying my best friend as he is the allies. And I’m about to take moscow.
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@CWO:
My group just switched over to 1940 because of its breath of strategic options, time and well, A&A is just fun because of its simplicity. We normally played World in Flames or SPI WWII, yet those games, no matter how good, take forever to play.
Welcome to the forum and to the A&A hobby.� I have no idea of how long it takes to play games like WiF, nor how complex they are, but it should be noted that A&A Global 1940 is the most complex of the A&A games and that it’s sometimes criticized for taking forever to play (especially if the side that’s losing refuses to concede defeat) – so Global 1940 may turn out to be a bit of a surprise for your gaming group in that regard.� But it’s certainly great fun.
Wif is way more complex than A&A40. WiF has move than 5000 distinct pieces and takes more than 4 hours to set up. People use excelsheets just to figure out how much they produce. Their lists of unittypes, inclueds Armoured HQ, Infantry HQ, Armour Corps, Heavy Armour Corps, Armour Division, Armour marine division, armour para division, Mech corps, Mech Division, Mot Crops, Mot Divison, Inf Crops, Inf Divison, Garrison Crops, Garrison Divison, Militia Crops, Mountain Crops, Mountain Division, Para Corps, Para Divison, Marine Crops, Marine Divison, Engineer Divison, Mot Engineer Division, Ski divion, NKVD political police Division, Special forces division, AntiTank Division, Anti Aircraft Division, Motorised Anti tank division, motorised Anti aircraft division, Katusha rocked Division, Artillery Division, Motorised artillery division, Selfpropelled gun division, Tankhunter division, partisan HQ, partisan division, Supply unit. And those are just the landunits. It also have three kinds of bombers, 2 kinds of fighters, 3 kinds of naval bombers, several kinds of carrierplanes and airtransporters, Pilots are trained separatly. It also have one named piece for every battleship, every carrier, every Cruiser and every light cruiser. And then it has convoys, subs, frogmen, transport, amphibious landing ships… and Imagined future units. It has weather, terrain, supplies, resources, oil, raillines, poitical rules and many more things.
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Thanks for the background info on WiF, Kreuzfeld. Definitely an intricate-sounding affair. Reminds me a bit of a book on wargaming campaigns that I once read; it covers various historical periods, and the chapter on WWII starts with the sentence, “For those who like complications, World War Two is ideal.”
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You want complicated… I used to play Avalon Hill’s Third Reich board game back in the early 80s (before I moved on to the classic A&A of 1984)… now this took hours to setup and even longer to figure out the rulebook… games would take weeks!
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Who voted bugger off?
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You want complicated… I used to play Avalon Hill’s Third Reich board game back in the early 80s (before I moved on to the classic A&A of 1984)… now this took hours to setup and even longer to figure out the rulebook… games would take weeks!
I got that game for my birthday last week. I set it up and then promptly took it down to play A&A. ;)
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Curtmungus,
We don’t have cats at the Laredo Texas Headquarters only at the Houston Texas Headquarters which I share with my wife and “her” cat. Please note the requisite beers and smokes in the War Room.Jesus, thank you! Finally a MAN here, doing it right….
Listen and learn NERDS!
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