Just bought this version and think its pretty good.
KGF is the best strategy in this game by far. The Soviets should pull all their eastern infantry first turn into Yakut providing a large 10 infantry stack easily defensible by adding roving defense from fighters or the odd armour.
Russia attacks WR with almost everything, leaving 5 inf in caucaus(pull back two inf from east, raise 4 infant and place at end of turn creating 9 men and 2 ftr defense)and Belorussia with two ftr and 2 inf leaving 1 behind to prevent a blitz, eliminating important fodder for germany and creating a pyhric victory for Germany because they will attack one of the two large build ups and possibly even losing if dice go bad. Russia can then cut off the force, expand and counterattack eliminating a large chunk of G armour.
The british sacrifice india and pull back to africa with their navy, securing the mediteranean and build a complex in egypt, securing englands holdings in africa and supporting the southern defense of russia through transjordan/persia, this also threatens germany’s underbelly and takes away German IPCs permanently from northern africa.
The US concentrates on a navy bridge with two parts to bridge between eastern canada and western europe. Half way through this phase, the UK can clean out Norway but not take and the US takes it on turn 3 and builds a complex in norway turn 4. By turn four you should be able to have an untouchable allied combined fleet with the UK and US being able to land 4 trans/turn on west europe. This could happen quicker depending on losses in the first turn because this plan is based on losing all allied naval pieces turn 1 except for the british battleship and transport (reinforced by russia sub)which should survive against one ftr and sub. This has worked very well for me.
Is Spring 1942 a good buy?
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I used to play revised a lot with my family a few years back, but high school and high school sports kind of took up to much time to ever play but this summer we recently picked it back up. We purchased Spring 1942 a few days ago and before we open we are debating if we should return it and buy the anniversary edition. The complexity isn’t an issue we have played much harder games. What is your guys ideas?
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Depends if you have the money buy the AA50, but Spring 42 is much cheaper and it is better then the revised, but if you really like tech, a lot either house rule it in or deal with it.
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im not big on tech, how much of a step up complexity wise is aa50 I prefer the more complexed games a little more
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im not big on tech, how much of a step up complexity wise is aa50 I prefer the more complexed games a little more
Well AA50 has two version you can play 1941 and 1942, so the thing in AA50 are
More territories
More Cities
Longer Games
Extra Power to help in Africa and against the motherland
China resistance
A lot of tech (Not needed)
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Alright thanks thats the general info ive been looking for.
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Rather than trying to find an overpriced copy of Anniversary to play, I would suggest downloading one of the many player-made maps (Imperious Leader has several excellent ones) to print out, printing off a copy of the AA50 rulebook (http://www.wizards.com/\AvalonHill\rules\AxAl-AnEd_Rules.pdf) and subbing in one of your older version of units that you already have from previous versions of the game for Italy (perhaps the old german grey units would be suitable for this purpose. You could even spray paint them an appropriate color) and using the existing Spring1942 pieces for the rest of the countries.
Saves a LOT of money (the cost of spring1942 and printing a map) and you end up with the same game (using different parts).
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Yah im going to do that with the anniversary edition, I will perhaps use AAE’s UK pieces which are darker for italian and then I believe it wouldn’t be a big deal to just use normal US pieces for the chinese/
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For 30$, you cannot get a better board game imo. Its great. I know a lot of people buy two. And spend money on a larger map/board. I have gotten way more than my moneys worth.
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Yes. 'Nuff said. 8-)
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I would suggest playing AA42 and not bother with AA50. The board in AA42, although a little small in some territories, is better quality and thicker than AA50. I had AA50 and had to use plexiglass over the boards due to the AA50 boards were thin and warped easy. AA50 does have nicer control markers and the damage markers are good for using with SBR on the IC to show how much damage was inflicted on the IC. For the money AA42 is a much better buy. If you are one that likes to use the paper IPCs for buying your troops, ships, etc. then you can use the IPCs from an older game or download the IPCs from http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/46220/ipcs-ready-for-printing to use with AA42.
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I really enjoy AA42. It really is worth the money. Sure, the spaces on the board are too small, but there are downloads to take care of that. Play it a few times and you’ll be as hooked as I am.
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