7th Northern European A&A Wiking Con 2026

[The Captain]

The 7th Northen European A & A Wiking Con is scheduled to begin in January 2026.

As soon as we know more, we’ll announce the exact dates.

All games during this event are OOB Axis & Allies Global 1940 games combined with the Axis & Allies Global 1940 HRE rules.

All Axis & Allies players that participate must be able to play with the Axis & Allies Global 1940 HRE rules.

Players who play with the Axis & Allies Global 1940 HRE rules for the first and second time during a Wiking Con event are playing with only a limited number of rules from the Axis & Allies Global 1940 HRE rules.

Those rules are attached (pdf file) below.

Tournament rules Limited 1st and 2nd.pdf

For the players who have participated 3 times or more the entire Expansion Rulebook is included, with a few exceptions:

Exception 1:
In Section II, the following units & rules are not included:

• Increased Ship Building in the Pacific Theatre (US & Japan)
• German Atlantic Wall Fortifications

Exception 2:
In Section V (Optional Rules) the following units & rules are not included:

• German Volkssturm
• German King Tiger unit
• Heavy Waffen-SS Panzer unit
• Rocket units
• US Heavy Transporter unit
• German Type XXI U-Boat unit

Exception 3:
The following Optional Rules are included:

• Combat Engineer unit
• Waffen-SS Assault Pioneer unit
• FLAK Tower unit
• Strict Neutral rules & units
• Air Fleet Commander unit & Air Fleet
• Waffen-SS Panzer General unit & 1st Waffen-SS Panzer Army
• Elite Tank unit & Elite Waffen-SS Panzer unit

Important:

• Each game is scheduled to last no more that 15 hours
• At least 10 rounds must be played (Late 1944)
• Each side (Axis side & Allied side) will have an average of 40 minutes for each round
• Winning Conditions are described in the G40 HRE rulebook at pg. 11

This post has been updated 13th August 2025.

Captain

[The Captain]

The rules that are available for this event have been updated.

See the first post in this thread and study Exception 3.

[SuperbattleshipYamato]

@The-Captain

Were some of the rules in exceptions 1 and 2 mainly cut for time or to make the game simpler?

[The Captain]

Information about this event has been updated.