Thank you for a really tough game. After your great move with Italy early on and the drubbing of the minor Allied fleet in SZ91 I felt the Allies were behind for 80% of the game.

Sinking the IJN got the Allies back into the game but I felt you were still ahead, especially with your well planned defense of Europe. I felt like the Allies couldn’t land and hold anywhere to make inroads against Germany.

Ironically, your good move keeping the Allies from sacking Rome cost you as after the debacle of ANZAC knocking out the Japanese air force Tokyo was suddenly an option and the Allied fleet was in a perfect position to take advantage of that where otherwise they would have been in the Med.

Fortunate circumstance for me.

As always a tough well played game. Thank you…

Hallo,

ich würde auch sehr gerne in der Hamburger Gruppe hinzugefügt werden. Kann mich wer aufnehmen bzw per PN anschreiben?

Vielen lieben Dank!
Daniel

Update 30th March 2026: Total number of recorded Axis & Allies games in 2026 played by The Captain: 6

2026: Axis & Allies Global 1940 HRE:

0 Defeats (Allies) 0 Defeats (Axis) 5 Victories (Allies) 1 Victory (Axis)

@SeaYa

On a G1 Germany doesn’t have enough units on border to hold until round 2 or 3 so trading them is pretty much a guarantee every time I believe.

I reset the battle and removed say half the tanks and replaced each with two inf each. This was also a very tight battle but went in Germany favor this time with maybe two tanks left give or take.

That reset taught me the value of German infantry as I always want to buy tanks and bombers when going for Moscow.

Game I’m playing now, Germany did Sea Lion so Russia burst forward and has been collecting $21 in NO’s for a few turns. Germany takes border territories of Berlin but Russia takes them right back and since each battle has a couple SB’s Russia is retaking them with at least 3 infantry.

The taking of territories with extra units left behind like that really alters the war of attrition in Russia’s favor quite a bit.

Germany just did a surprise strike on Leningrad and also took out 3 SB’s. Italy finally in the Balkans so Russia will get kicked out probably by R8.

I’m about to film R6 for my latest strategy series

Hi Dave,

Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition Naval battle. Two subs against a destroyer and transport. On the defender outcomes, shouldn’t there be an outcome where only the transport ship survives?

Thank you!

two planes from norther territory went to carolines

@Cornwallis There was a very interesting thread on best bids for OOB at
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/41788/bids?_=1774822678885

Lots of ideas there.

Personally, I’m not a fan of Taranto as the Allies lose lots of material to force Italy to stay home. This allows/forces them to do what I feel is the optimal Axis strategy: support the German advance by preventing weak Russian blockers and protect the Western front.

I do like a sub in SZ91 to protect the cruiser and then be the sacrificial unit to attack the Italian DD+transport with 1 tac + 1 ftr.

The Yunnan stack is a very interesting option:
1 inf Yunnan
1 ftrs in Moscow + Volgograd
R1 DOW, send all 3 ftr + tac to Yunnan, the Japanese cannot really attack 15-85% battle.
Once the Chinese are up and running, the ftrs can go back home to protect.
If you do this, I would also add marine to India as it allows them to capture 1 more territory early. But beware, the Japanese might be forced to DOW J1 since they really cannot take anything else.

There is also the controversial bid placement 1 ANZAC inf New Guinea. This is allowed in some cases, but generally the rule is that the territory must have a unit in it prior to adding a unit. However, it does significantly help the ANZACs take Dutch New Guinea without needing a transport. Discuss with your opponent to get their view. Perhaps it would be allowed but there would be an additional cost to allow (6-10 IPCs?)

Regarding KGF vs KJF. My general plan is a) save my capitals that are under attack – i.e., is London, India and, New South Wales safe?
b) stop the Italian growth in the Med as this can get out of hand quickly if unchecked.
c) Stop the Japanese. The Germans can get large but taking Egypt is hard. If the Allies own the rest of the board, the economy stay in the Allies favor if the Japanese and DEI are contested.

If you live in the Chicagoland Area (City and Suburbs) and want to be a member of our Axis and Allies group. Then you’ve come to the right post, the group I’m apart of currently has 24 members. It will be a year in July since we have started this group. We are always looking for new players to come and check it out.
We get together once a month to play. (We play Anniversary, Global, Pacific, Stalingrad, and Europe etc.)

If all goes well, our plan is to host a tournament at the end of the year.

To anyone interested in joining our group, please reach out to me via PM and I’ll add you to our group chat.

@Call77 I arrived even later, could you send it to me please? Great job!

@The_Good_Captain

Just to be precise:

The TripleA website is :
https://triplea-game.org/

The (module) map-repositories (most of them included in TripleA) have been maintained and hosted here:
https://github.com/triplea-maps/
for more than a decade.

Every map (module / specific game) downloaded directly via TripleA stems from there - or has made its way from map-creators’ drives to the ‘official’ repositories.

Usually this written information with the given headline of this thread should be in the TripleA-support category.
But as the video is about @VictoryFirst 's efforts and contributions I recommend to change the title of this topic to something “non-TripleA-technical”.

(Somehow I missed this topic in 2024, so please excuse my late reaction.)

@newenr85 to the last man

@Martin

hope you have a peaceful break

TripleA Turn Summary: Italians round 5

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Europe 1940 2nd Edition

Game History

Round: 5 Purchase Units - Italians Italians buy 1 artillery, 2 fighters and 1 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Italians 1 armour moved from Greece to 97 Sea Zone 1 infantry moved from Greece to 97 Sea Zone 1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 97 Sea Zone to 92 Sea Zone 1 armour moved from 92 Sea Zone to Gibraltar 1 infantry moved from 92 Sea Zone to Gibraltar 1 infantry moved from Greece to Bulgaria Combat - Italians Battle in Gibraltar Non Combat Move - Italians Place Units - Italians 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 1 infantry placed in Southern Italy 1 fighter placed in Northern Italy Turn Complete - Italians Italians collect 14 PUs; end with 14 PUs Objective Italians 1 Control The Mediterranean: Italians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 19 PUs Objective Italians 2 Roman Empire: Italians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 24 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

@VictoryFirst Yes, you can also do it that way.

@Panther Oh man, I only looked at page 11 and page 21… didn’t know there was yet another section that was about ICs…

Thanks for this :)

@discalced I’ll try to get my turn back to you soon, I’ve spent a lot of time pondering what I want to do and just have to make a decision.

@Narvik they made us all sign non-disclosure agreements which I think is silly but it was a pre-requisite to help out. I play tested. I didn’t help with design so as for how they compute the game economy or any use of computers or AI is unknown to me. Some playtesters brought their own methods of balancing or rating these things and provided input but that was largely left to Renegade.

I wish there had been more time to playtest. I will say that about Africa and to a lesser extent, Stalingrad.

As for all the other versions and imbalance in general: I will say that it appears that playtesting and balance took a back seat to production deadlines. It appears that the thousands of human playtesting games that you and I would agree need to be done, were likely not done.

I hear D-Day is being re-released here soon. I have high hopes that that will be fully balanced. We’ll see.

@RogerCooper
Yeah. I’m playing rated games.

I’m going to try to narrow down and clarify my question a bit. I’m having problems figuring out how to deal with an opponent who, as Germany, is only concerned with establishing unassailable strongpoints in France and Karelia. Without concerning himself with putting much pressure on Russia or getting at Caucasus for the first 5-10 rounds.
Their MO is to use their planes in France and W.E. to disrupt my Atlantic Fleet logistics, stockpile ground units in France, Germ, and Karelia. To avoid land battles altogether with Germany, and wait for Japan to expand, however long it takes. With a 9 city technical victory being one goal. Although the better players can ignore India and win by getting Kazakh/Caucasus etc.
I don’t lose every single game like this, but whenever I hit the Gold Tier, it seems that I run into this strat a lot and I can’t figure out the best way to proceed.
I’m leary of strategies that require me to focus on attacking enemy strongpoints in any strategy game. But I can’t figure out if there is a better way to break this without just piling on Finland. And the clock is always ticking for the VC decision.
Is stacking Finland a necessity? Or do I just need to get better at everything else, and learn to incorporate a Med shuck and/or a blend of other strategies?