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Global War 2nd Edition should have its own board on this site

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Ben_D
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Does the community agree?
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ghr2
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Agreed
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John Brown 18 17 16 15 Customizer
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Agreed.
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Isn’t there already?
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Munck
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+1
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WILD BILL
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Refreshing this thread because now that GW36 has come out (Nov) it really needs its own thread board. It should at the minimum have its own sticky so things don’t get mixed up or lost.
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John Brown 18 17 16 15 Customizer
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I agree. It does need to be on a sticky.
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suprise attack
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How about a playable board on triple a
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sophiedog2
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How does that work?
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Ben_D
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Does anyone think this thread will get more attention if it’s up-voted?
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suprise attack
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I would love to play this game on line
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Panzerpenguin on utube has a digital 36 game. This may provide you with an alternative. I’ve never tried it I’m more into the table top variety
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Global War, 2nd edition - due 1\. November 2015

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@Patchman123:

Can you add the Italian Maiale submarines and the British Long Range Desert Group LRDG to the game? I originally proposed a World War II game with Maiale submarines from the Decima MAS flotilla with my hand-drawn map of World War II, but since I found out about Doug Friend’s map, I decided to add my ideas to it. I would like to see the Special Air Service (SAS) in the game, too. I think that Italy should have the Maiale submarines and have a bonus point against any Allied surface warships in the Mediterranean. The Maiale submarines will only be allowed to operate in the Mediterranean and they will have bonus points and warships will not get to roll against them. It will sort of be like the Italian equivalent of the Japanese kamikaze tokens. The Italian player will of course be limited as to how many Maiale submarines that they will get to roll per turn. The Maiale will be any Italian submarine and the infantry aboard the submarine will attack the Allied surface warship in the Med.

I am not sure how to even make it work within the game. I was proposing a game with Maiale submarines against any ANZAC, French or British surface warships in the Mediterranean.

I also propose adding the Ariete Division for Italian elite units and the Folgore Parachute Division as Italian elite units. The Italians also had volunteers from India and the Middle East in their armies. I have a book on Italian elite units of World War II from 1940-1943.

Italy not only had Bersaglieri, they also had the Ariete Division and the Folgore Division. You could add paratroopers to the Italian player.

You could also add torpedo bombers to the Italians. The Italians used the Savoia Marchetti SM. 79 as a torpedo bomber in the Mediterranean. You could also add torpedo bombers to the Germany, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. Japan and the United States weren’t the only nations to have torpedo bombers.

I have another suggestion.

You could also add a Bearn class aircraft carrier to France. France’s only aircraft carrier in World War II was the Bearn class aircraft carrier.

The Bearn was out in the Atlantic when France surrendered in 1940. You could add torpedo bombers to the Soviet Union, too. The Soviet Union had torpedo bombers in the Baltic and Black Seas.

You could also add a plastic P-40 painted in China’s paint color to simulate the Flying Tigers. There is so much that you could add there.

Patchman123.
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See, everyone! It’s not so bad. There’s Historical Board Gaming for that.
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Battle-Pieces–US-Exp--P-47-Thunderbolt-Fighter-x5_p_2090.html
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Battle-Pieces--Allies--P40-Warhawk-Early-War-Fighter-x5_p_1168.html

If anyone’s interested.
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Anzac defender,

I would wait until HBG’s newest map comes out. It’s far more aesthetically pleasing than the current version, and the rules will also be more encompassing. It’s the 1936 map as far as I know name-wise. They might call it something else when they release it. I will mention too though that you might wait for a little while if you go for that one, because progress on development is still on-going.
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Just discovered Global '39 a few days ago

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Hi, Ben,

Yeah, Wikipedia plays a big part in my research. But I stumble across other websites as Iâ€™m hunting for things also. Sometimes I find declassified official documents from the time. I also use other games in my collection, like War in Flames and Battlewagon, where the designers did the research, and came to their own conclusions about how to fudge things. I used to be in Military Intelligence when I was active duty army. I spent six years at NSA (â€œIn God we trust. All others we monitorâ€) :wink: So I developed the habit of confirming intelligence from multiple sources whenever possible. Iâ€™m still in the National Guard, actually. But I switched my MOS to MP so I didnâ€™t have to drive so far for drills.

Midnight,

Good job on the research. Every time I start to do it for land forces, I get distracted by all the different sources, and how they use different methods for listing things. Yeah, with the way A&A works, where the infantry of one country is equal to the infantry of every other country (unless you are using the elite units in Global â€™39), then you have to reflect differences in troop and equipment quality by using different ratios to represent one unit.

One idea Iâ€™ve toyed with is using the same ratio for everyoneâ€™s infantry, (like 1 for every three divisions) but then reflecting the differences in firepower by assigning different ratios for artillery. For instance, at the start maybe Germany gets an artillery unit for every 2 infantry, and France gets one for every 5 infantry, or something along those lines. The problem there, of course, is that the French (and Russians) really really liked artillery, and it made up a bigger percentage of their overall forces. So it would not be entirely satisfying from a historical perspective. For the same reasons, I am reluctant to just start them off with a bunch of SS units. Although I suppose I could just not call them SS units. But Iâ€™d know. Iâ€™D KNOW, and it would bug me :-D
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If there is going to be a zombie set, how about a flying saucer/foo fighter set. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter
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@koba:

Definitely spray.

Good to know. Thanks.
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MOD: I suggest this be moved to new 1939 GLOBAL Forum
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I’ve noticed.

HBG has made a great map and game that’s why they got the shout.

Look forward to getting more from you both. Whomever produces what, you’re both providing great products and service.

It’s appreciated.

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