NEW- Official Global 1942 version of the game- by Larry Harris

Larry just transplanted the 1942 2nd edition units onto the big board. He liked to keep the ratios of units within those bounds.

If I could do anything to make my setup better (historical edition or whatever)
Id add contested territories (all combats last THREE rounds, not just one, even Naval combat)
Ports wouldn’t have mines, but a port with an AA gun would provide air cover
Night bombing: bombers get -1 instead of +2 damage, but are immune to interception.
Artillery fire defensively during amphibious invasions

It kind of sounds like you want to turn Global 40 into 1914.
To be honest, I kind of like the idea of contested territories. Three rounds might be a bit much. Most games that I have played, most battles are decided within 3 rounds. Strangely enough, it seems to be the biggest battles (like a final German assault on Moscow) and the smallest battles (like an infantry/artillery attacking 1 or 2 infantry) that go for more than 3 rounds. The big ones are obvious but with the little ones, sometimes you seem to roll and roll but just don’t get hits. One thing about this is it’s a good way to deny your opponent the IPCs for that territory even if you can’t get them yourself. Suppose there is a big German invasion of Eastern US that goes for more than 3 rounds. Germany effectively denies 20 IPCs from the USA’s income, if the US can’t make it uncontested. So if both are making roughly 80 IPCs per turn with NOs and all, then Germany will still get 80 while the US drops to 60 for that turn.
This brings up a couple of questions: 1>If the Eastern US becomes contested, does that affect the US Continental NO? It’s 10 IPCs for control of Western US, Central US and Eastern US. If the Eastern US has become contested, it’s no longer under US control, right?
2>If the Eastern US becomes contested, can the US still use the facilities there (air base, naval base, Major IC)? I would think not, particularly the IC. If that territory is being fought over and has an enemy presence, I wouldn’t think you could still deploy new units there.

One other question about the Night Bombing. I understand the immunity to interceptors and the lower bombing damage. What about AA fire? Shouldn’t it also be reduced to show the reduction in accuracy at night? Perhaps you have to get two "1"s to hit one plane.

wow guys,

seriously, who cares who made the friggin map variant

judge the game by how it plays, not who made it

Remember, this 1942 scenario needs to be completed within a reasonable tournament block allowance, something 1940 Global can’t do.  I’m sure this is why the number of units may need be as many as some were hoping, which is fine by me. I can’t wait to try the scenario with my group. I won’t comment on it’s balance until then.

It does seem like it was a bit rushed, as several (somewhat glaring) errors have already been fixed
Most notably turn order and incorrect starting IPCs

Krieg has posted on Larry’s site with the correct set up(no change) incomes(amended) and turn order.
Germany is  no longer last. It is 5th, ahead of the UK, followed by Italy.

Here is the corrected game setup as provided on Larry’s site:

http://smo63.fatcow.com/pdf/G42setup2013424.pdf

So it’s unplayable on tripleA without modifying the turn order
How easy/difficult is changing the turn order on tripleA?

Before this change it was ok. I skipped Germany as they were last and started with Russia.
Not sure if it needs one of the designers to sort it out now.
I hope it can be resolved.
Had you noticed the set up was slightly different?

@Uncrustable:

So it’s unplayable on tripleA without modifying the turn order
How easy/difficult is changing the turn order on tripleA?

I’m no expert, but I think it is no change in tripleA itself but “only” a modification of the game.xml (part of the map files).

Man, germany calls for 14 tank models and i have 12….

Thats what comes with the game right? I didn’t lose any peices?

Dont you have grey chips?

@oztea:

Dont you have grey chips?

Obviously he does. The problem is that there are 14 TERRITORIES with tanks.

Yes, i see why this wasn’t released to the public and only for tournaments.

I checked and i have the correct number of tank models. This sucks, I got to borrow from other games now.

Yeah, this makes the 1941 release come in handy.

wow guys,

seriously, who cares who made the friggin map variant

judge the game by how it plays, not who made it

Too true. Too true.

This game is total bs. With the way it is setup, Japan should go first, then USSR, then Germany.

And to think I had hoped people had grown up after last year….oh well - there is still time.

How often do you guys talk to Larry personally? Have you ever? Greg regularly talks with Larry and just because and official announcement hasn’t been made yet, it doesn’t make it not true.

Greg is and deserves to be a well respected member of the A&A community. All of this amounts to whining and being mean. So stop it. Especially you IL, you’re supposed to be a Liaison. That doesn’t mean you get to bash on somebody with little information whenever you want. It means the opposite. You should be helping to sort out any confusion by contacting people through the proper channels. Questioneer posted that he is dubious so you role should be to find out the truth and not continue a flame war.

@questioneer:

You’re right, I just noticed the first paragraph.  He says “I call this…” but then he uses Larry’s name for the game.  A little deceiving.  So not really by Larry, nor official.

So, I have to ask….how big of a jerk do you (Q and IL) feel now that what Greg listed is ‘official’?

I can answer that for you, if you’d like - but you, I and everyone else following this thread knows the answer to that…why it ever had to come to what it did is a mystery…

Can’t we all just get along…

MM