Reprint release date?

Of course it can. It makes no difference that originally it was a neutral territory. Its current status is a territory of the United States and therefore, with an IPC value of two,it can be a location where a minor industrial complex can be placed.

@Shadowdoom286

As the Russian player, continue to stack infantry on Russia and Novgorod. Also, a nice compliment of mobile (ie: tanks and mechanized infantry with movement 2) stationed at Bryansk with your air corp at Novgorod makes a nice counter-attack force that can hit nearly every territory along the Eastern front.

For Germany, by turn 4, that player may have wanted to consider buying more mechanized infantry earlier, and more consistently, as it allows fresh troops to catch up with the asualt eastward, preserving your high value tanks up to the gates of Moscow. It also allows you to capitalize on gaps in soviet defenses to blitz through (tanks + mech inf) in order to unbalance and pose new threats to the Soviets.

Enjoy!

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Units, Mechanics, etc.:

Here’s what he said about strict neutrals (while this is about Global 1940, 90% of strict neutrals are located on the Europe map, so it mostly applies):

@AndrewAAGamer said in Violate a true neutrals?:

I ran a game recently, where I ended up declaring on the neutrals, as the Allies. The circumstances were as such:

The UK had just captured Greece the turn before, and their blob of units coming through North Africa towards the USSR had just reached Iraq – right next to Turkey. The US had transports on either side of Gibraltar, with infantry already landed in Morocco – meaning they could ship one load from there and another load from the US to all hit Spain at the same time. USSR had just taken Finland, and UK had a fleet in place that could easily clear Norway.

The German counter-attack in Spain got “diced” (only managing to clear the territory but not take it) and they managed to wipe out the UK navy that took Norway – but rather than rebuild it, I had the UK put down factories in Greece, Turkey, Iraq, and (ultimately, the least-needed) Norway. Combined with shipping guys from South Africa directly to Iraq, the constant pipeline was too much, in the end.

It’s interesting how Iraq + Turkey forms a wall, insulating Africa and essentially steering any Axis attack towards India – a dead end in the corner of the board. But I had been funneling enough units into Kazakhstan, that the push into the Caucasus by the Axis never made it into the middle east.

Source: Zero loss British opener - F18 .tsvg

As the file name suggests, I also had no losses on my UK1 turn – which was mostly my standard moves, particularly in Africa and the Med.
(By the end, I was just screwing around and trying to give France territory, as I usually do.)

@Red:

@GeodrivE:

Don’t you think making all the french pieces would be a waste since you really won’t get the chance to use them. It would be like classic again with the Russian cv’s and bb’s. I’d rather see the effort and money put into pieces to represent Air and Naval bases.

No.  And it certainly wouldn’t be a waste to do the Italian pieces right since they are sticking around.

It isn’t a $25 game with generic pieces, it is a $100 game.  I find it surprising that with so much other attention to detail, and the obvious interest in the European theater (since it sold out quickly) that the decision was made not to do it right the first time.  It would seem to be a logical stepping stone to expanding the game anyway.

As for air and naval bases, I don’t mind the cardboard pieces.   They aren’t mobile anyway and really are only markers for the territory, not units.

Hey, if they make 'em great! I’m just not getting my hopes up to see it happen anytime soon. Cause at $100 like you said, I think they would have already made them if they wanted to. To me, I can play with what they gave me and have a good time.

How much did you pay for shipping (USA to UK)?

I was able to get Pac a day early. I was going to call the store tomorrow (Friday) to see if they got Euro it yet.

@idk_iam_swiss:

Thank heaven 43, and 44 set up would be terribly boring. And All that happened in 39 was the invasion of Poland.
He picked the best time to do it (Post Dunkirk) It would be waaaay to crazy to have it pre Dunkrirk

I want waaaay to crazy so I can conduct the war the way I think it should be fought.