Why are there Canadian roundels? A new rule perhaps?

I obviously didn’t figure out the “quote thingy”.  My post was a reply to BD’s comment. Now, I’ve doubled my number of posts!

@mike55:

I obviously didn’t figure out the “quote thingy”.  My post was a reply to BD’s comment. Now, I’ve doubled my number of posts!

Click on the word qoute at the upper right of the post that you want to quote.

And you can’t give karma until the 100th post, oh never mind, bad joke :-D

I agree however with your ideas about Canada.

Welcome to the site mike. I too agree that the roundels will have no impact on the game and will just add “colour”.

@Brain:

@mike55:

I obviously didn’t figure out the “quote thingy”.  My post was a reply to BD’s comment. Now, I’ve doubled my number of posts!

Click on the word qoute at the upper right of the post that you want to quote.

And you can’t give karma until the 100th post, oh never mind, bad joke :-D

I agree however with your ideas about Canada.

Well, I’m well past 100 posts and I can’t do anything with karma yet…  So it must be higher.

@Brain:

@Gwlachmai:

I have to admit I’m terribly curious as to the meaning of the Canadian insignia. Euro40 can’t come out fast enough.

Are you also curious about the Dutch insignia?

The Dutch roundels on those territories are for the purpose of those territories not counting toward either the Axis’ or Allies’ income initially and they have to actually occupy those territories.  I imagine this is because the Dutch were at war with the Axis, but had been conquered in May 1940, which seems to be before the approximate start date of 1940 (which kinda looks like somewhere around June 1940 just before Paris was captured), so they couldn’t be specifically neutral (at least as far as we understand neutrals at this point) as I assume whatever other rules that apply to neutrals that we will learn when Europe 1940 comes out would be applied to them.  They are treated sort of like territories that are left over after a power’s capital has been captured, though if the Netherlands are liberated they don’t become another Allied power like France will, and because of this any other Allied power can take control of them also.

I don’t see Canada being treated the same way (completely empty until someone walks in), so they should (in my mind at least, I may very well be wrong :|) serve some purpose other than simply being fancy decoration to make Canadians feel better. :-P

I was hoping that the Global game would give us a "39 option. I would like too add Poland to the list.

Polish Cavalry
1 attack,  1 defense, 1.5 movement, defense becomes 0 if defending against tanks…  :-P

Ah, poor Poland…  First to fight, first to be made fun of…

@SilverAngelSurfer:

Polish Cavalry
1 attack,  1 defense, 1.5 movement, defense becomes 0 if defending against tanks…  :-P

Ah, poor Poland…  First to fight, first to be made fun of…

how much would they cost

2 IPCs  :-D

You do know the Polish cavalry was made bigger than it was by nazi propaganda?

@Omega:

You do know the Polish cavalry was made bigger than it was by nazi propaganda?

Yeah?  I know tanks were a new innovation and all so cavalry wasn’t really as silly as we would think now, but I guess the Germans would need a boost to their morale after running over horsies with tanks.  :cry:

“Ya, it vas inzane!  Dar vere about a milllion Polaks on der horses.” :lol:

I’m part-German, part-Polish (mostly Polish as you might guess) by heritage so I reserve the right to make fun of both groups.  :wink:

Should be easy enough to set up 1939.

Just use on leave French units for Poland.

Only thing is the map will need altering with West Poland separating from East Prussia.

@SilverAngelSurfer:

Ah, poor Poland…  First to fight, first to be made fun of…

First to fight only because they were the first to be attacked.

WWII shows that most countries who were attacked by Germany lost pretty badly. Thank Russia for saving the world!

@Omega:

WWII shows that most countries who were attacked by Germany lost pretty badly. Thank Russia for saving the world!

You mean thank Russia for saving themselves. What countries did they liberate?

@Brain:

@Omega:

WWII shows that most countries who were attacked by Germany lost pretty badly. Thank Russia for saving the world!

You mean thank Russia for saving themselves. What countries did they liberate?

East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, just to name a few.  Oh yeah, Latvia, Estonia, a chunk of Finland.  What did I miss?  (And if you’re just like my junior high students and you don’t get sarcasm:  :lol:) 
The reality is that like it or not the Soviets won a war of attrition and would have eventually taken Berlin, with or without the western front.  However, this is straying away from the topic: the best looking roundels on the board!

@mike55:

@Brain:

@Omega:

WWII shows that most countries who were attacked by Germany lost pretty badly. Thank Russia for saving the world!

You mean thank Russia for saving themselves. What countries did they liberate?

well they really didn’t liberate them but more cocered them
East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, just to name a few.  Oh yeah, Latvia, Estonia, a chunk of Finland.  What did I miss?  (And if you’re just like my junior high students and you don’t get sarcasm:  :lol:) 
The reality is that like it or not the Soviets won a war of attrition and would have eventually taken Berlin, with or without the western front.  However, this is straying away from the topic: the best looking roundels on the board!

@mike55:

@Brain:

@Omega:

WWII shows that most countries who were attacked by Germany lost pretty badly. Thank Russia for saving the world!

You mean thank Russia for saving themselves. What countries did they liberate?

East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, just to name a few.  Oh yeah, Latvia, Estonia, a chunk of Finland.

Taking for yourself does not qualify as being liberating. All they did was change the conquering nation.

@Brain:

@mike55:

@Brain:

@Omega:

WWII shows that most countries who were attacked by Germany lost pretty badly. Thank Russia for saving the world!

You mean thank Russia for saving themselves. What countries did they liberate?

East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, just to name a few.  Oh yeah, Latvia, Estonia, a chunk of Finland.

Taking for yourself does not qualify as being liberating. All they did was change the conquering nation.

Please go back to the original.  I was being sarcastic.  I even said that.  It was a joke!

I was merely replying to the comment about Polish Cavalry.

They were beaten badly. So were most countries. Thing is, no need to bring back the old Nazi propaganda. Its like a joke that isn’t really funny.

But again, we can all agree that all allied played a part in the victory. Whether one country’s aid was decisive or not, no one can know for sure. Let’s just keep it that way. No need to take all the glory for yourself.