I’m still not sure that this aspect of the tech discussion belongs here since it is more about a house rule but I mentioned how we have developed a progressive valued chart for the techs but I didn’t give the limitations of attaining the tech. A tech die is three (3) IPC’s every tern a player wants to roll for a tech. A neutral nation can roll one die only per rounf thatthey are neutral. That is three IPC’s per round. If a tech has a R&D value of 25, it may take a nation at least 5 rounds to develop that tech. That is at least 15 IPC’s in order to develop a tech. A nation that is war may invest in three dice (9IPC’s) per rounf in order to develop three different tech.'s at a time. They can not be applied to a single tech but must be spread over the three techs to be develpoed. It can get expensive but the thought process is this; a country will invest in R&D to develop a specific technology. It will not just through money at a problem and randomly hope to get a good result….governments maybe but not gamers. If and when we play with technology, I prefer this R&D chart. The Anniversary/Global chart and dice costs can definately thow the balance of the game off. Last game I played of global 1940, theAmerican player shelled out alot of IPC’s on tech. It put his production behind and the other allied player had to really hold on for the US to catch up but the US player was able to develop long range heavy bombers and cheaper ships. It was devostating to the the axis player (me) because he then went dark skies on the axis and it became a war of attrition that I could not repulse effectively. I have to take this moment to say I love Narvik. Direct and to the point. Tech is fun sometimes but there is alot to just playing the game.
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So here is the next installment of my Axis and Allies videos. Again, my opponent is Zooooma, and again he is Axis. Note that we used Diplomacy pieces to stand for naval bases and airbases - very eye catching.
This vid consists of just the first and last turns, and is probably the best I can do without dragging over proper lighting to Zooooma’s, and investing in a decent still camera. Vids involving stop motion animation would be cool, and I might do that in the future.
Despite being of only two turns, this vid is two minutes longer than the last one, due to all of my ‘extras’ and including China and Anzac moves.
The opening in this game was very similar to the last one, but with some important differences that I am sure you can note for yourself.
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What happened to the ANZAC inf in Egypt?
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there is an Anzac inf in OOB global 1940?
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I’ll be looking a little closer at Zooooma’s setups from now on :)
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Nice video man :-D
You need extra pieces though, I saw way too many chips (I hate chips!). The last scene was a hot mess I couldn’t tell what was where or what was going on :lol:
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Nice video man :-D
You need extra pieces though, I saw way too many chips (I hate chips!). The last scene was a hot mess I couldn’t tell what was where or what was going on :lol:
You couldn’t make out that there was a large anglo-american presence in europe, or that there was a german stack facing the russian stack on the moscow frontier? not even with the closeups? :-)
Its true, despite being huge, the global board is too small. what a mess :-)
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Nice video man :-D
You need extra pieces though, I saw way too many chips (I hate chips!). The last scene was a hot mess I couldn’t tell what was where or what was going on :lol:
You couldn’t make out that there was a large anglo-american presence in europe, or that there was a german stack facing the russian stack on the moscow frontier? not even with the closeups? :-)
Its true, despite being huge, the global board is too small. what a mess :-)
I could tell probably if I were there, yeah.
I go crazy if pieces aren’t lined up perfectly on the board. Just my pet peeve. Annoys a lot of people I play with :lol:
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You should meet up with James Cameron and teach him some tips on picking better movie material. Avatar? Blah! Now that’s a video!!!
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Nice video keep it up!
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Maybe you should have played it out another turn or 2. Germany and Japan might have been able to capture Moscow. But then it appeared that they would lose Germany so…
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Germany and Japan very well might of yeah, but Germany was falling… and the allies would inherit the russian money right back too.
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In one of your vids you had yellow chips, what did they represent?
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Yellow chips are ten.
I forgot about ANZAC in Egypt - I don’t think we’ve remembered that since game one!
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Nice video man :-D
You need extra pieces though, I saw way too many chips (I hate chips!). The last scene was a hot mess I couldn’t tell what was where or what was going on :lol:
Perhaps a larger television?
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Maybe you should have played it out another turn or 2. Germany and Japan might have been able to capture Moscow. But then it appeared that they would lose Germany so…
Germany and Japan very well might of yeah, but Germany was falling… and the allies would inherit the russian money right back too.
I thought Germany was expected to hold or at least one more turn? hence our discussion o the American presence in Europe and it’s impact against Germany over the next two or three rounds.
Quiting when we did also enabled me to sleep two solid hours preceding my ten hour labourious graveyard shift. If it had been much earlier, I’m sure we would have played to at least the battle of Moscow.
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I heard that those American planes in Sweden were actually in Holland Belgium but ran out of space?
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I thought Germany was expected to hold or at least one more turn? hence our discussion o the American presence in Europe and it’s impact against Germany over the next two or three rounds.
Quiting when we did also enabled me to sleep two solid hours preceding my ten hour labourious graveyard shift. If it had been much earlier, I’m sure we would have played to at least the battle of Moscow.
Yeah, I would have liked to have played on for the sake of playing if it was earlier too. That said, 24 brit ground troops, and 28 American ground troops, plus all the planes (15 american bombers alone) is death for germany.
You had a shot at moscow yes… but the best case scenario is russia for germany dont you agree?
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Yeah, I was going to lose.
What If I’d pulled back to Europe G5? with those troops, I could last a bit longer - you may need to build that IC (and produce with it) before you crack Berlin. Japan would keep its air force intact, and have 10 tanks plus a turn pouring into Russia within a turn or two (it had some units there already). Russia couldn’t send too much into Europe I think without rolling over for Japan. If I lose Germany but end up with Japan in Russia, we might have had a game again?
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Loved the Video… Great job!
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