Global 1942 Scenario by Larry Harris

That is an EXCELLENT IDEA ! The board has so much to offer. People should never get bored with it, just play a different scenario!

My bro and I used to play Avalon hill’s Russian Campaign. It had a couple what if scenarios. One was where the “Bulge” was put on the Russians. Germans only got like two panzers and a couple infantry units. That game made me realize the Russians were the ones that beat the Germans.

Anyway would be cool

@barney:

My bro and I used to play Avalon hill’s Russian Campaign. It had a couple what if scenarios. One was where the “Bulge” was put on the Russians. Germans only got like two panzers and a couple infantry units. That game made me realize the Russians were the ones that beat the Germans.

I think the 27 million dead Russians would agree with you. Stalin through everything he had at the Germans (mostly men), and it cost them dearly. One of the big reasons for Torch was to keep the Russians from making peace with Germany. Stalin demanded a second front, but the Allies didn’t think they could sustain a landing in Europe before 1943, so they went to Africa and then Italy.

This version is great but after dozens of games I have been disappointed. It seems Allies have an advantage in Europe and Japan has an advantage in Pacific. Russia crushes a lot of German forces in the beginning while Italy has it pretty tough in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, Japan is way too strong and always takes India. The only possible remedy is if the US focuses more on Japan alleviating the European Axis and the Pacific Allies. Am I missing something?

You’ve got it right. But this is the balance. US is forced to spend more in Pacific to stop Japan from putting too much into Asia or taking Australia or Hawaii. Lacking American involvement in Europe the Germans can put lots of pressure on Russia. While Sea Lion is effectively off the table the Axis can win if Russia and India fall.

hi question if have only transport offload unit and have ememy sub in same zone can do the offload? sam question can load troop whit only transport when have enemy sud ?if offload whit only transport and ennemy can do scramble and kill my transport? if i bring transport and carrier to offload troup whit enemy sub what i do thank for answer i hope you understand my question

You must have a surface ship, including an aircraft carrier, with the transport to load or unload in a sea zone containing an enemy sub.

Ahhh… Two years absent from the wonderful world of AA , and I return to find a scenario for G42! Very pleased to see this :)
Last version I played was HBG’s G39, awesome yet frustrating at times.

I have only so much time to dive into the posts on this forum… Are there any friendly ppl here who could direct me to threads containing AAR’s of G42 along with other setups/scenarios?

Thanks in advance.

Tomorrow a friend an myself will start up a game. I can not begin to say how much I look forward to this :D

Happy gaming, folks!

Got another  question. Setup for territory:Germany says 1 Strat. Bombers. Is this a mistake in the plural sense or should Germany have two or more Bombers at their disposal?
Same question for territory:Japan on Fighters and Strat.Bombers.

Thanks again

Only 1 strategic bomber.

I have a question.
Can japan buy a minor or a mayor industrial complex in java?
Sins it is a island ?

@nomad:

I have a question.
Can japan buy a minor or a mayor industrial complex in java?
Sins it is a island ?

Welcome to the forum, nomad 1.

Two aspects:

@rulebook:

Major industrial
complexes can only be built on originally controlled (not
captured) territories with an IPC value of 3 or higher. Minor
industrial complexes can be built only in territories with an IPC
value of 2 or higher.

and

@rulebook:

Industrial complexes can’t be built on islands (see
“Islands,” page 8 ).

Java is an island that is originally controlled by the Dutch.

HTH :-)

Hey guys,

We noticed that the UK NO in G42 has a different application.  It says “original” UK territories, but this means that Persia, Italian Somialia Land, Ethopia and E Persia? would all have to be held (on top of the original terrirtories from the G40 game) in order to collect the bonus.

Does everyone here agree that “original” refers to original at G42 setup, rather than original to the printed board?

@taamvan:

Hey guys,

We noticed that the UK NO in G42 has a different application.   It says “original” UK territories, but this means that Persia, Italian Somialia Land, Ethopia and E Persia? would all have to be held (on top of the original terrirtories from the G40 game) in order to collect the bonus.

Does everyone here agree that “original” refers to original at G42 setup, rather than original to the printed board?

What wording of the UK NO are you referring to?

This is how it reads in my version:
@G42:

United Kingdom 41 IPCs (UK Eur -31 IPCs, UK Pac -10)
Bonus Income:

• 5 IPCs (awarded to the Europe economy) if the UK
  controls all of its original territories in its European
  economy.
  -5 IPCs (awarded to the Pacific economy) if the United
  Kingdom controls both Kwangtung and Malaya.

Also the definition of “original” according to the rulebooks has not changed.
@rulebook:

When the rules refer
to the “original controller” of a territory, they mean the
power whose emblem is printed on the territory.

HTH :-)

Edit:
Additionally I found this on the previous page of this thread:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=34278.msg1401171#msg1401171

thanks panther

Played it a few times. a fun game good to see a different set up

My group just tried the 39 set up for the G40 board by empireman interesting and fun game. Any feed back from the players on what they think about the 42 and the 39
Tanks
S.A.

the G42 is awesome, and the game can be pre-stipulated to last 7 or 8 hours or rounds, so that you know exactly when the end will be.  The climax of the game as far as big confrontations and stack battles also occurs around J7 so it makes for a more closed-ended game.

There are fewer “opener” battles, and the overall forces are smaller and less built up.

G41 by Oztea and BalancedMod are both supposed to be fun as well.

We’ve been playing the variants over the last month and a half, and there all fun. I like having more options at my table other than just G 40, and feed back from other players is great
Tanks
S.A.

Played it, I really Like it it is well Balanced

How long is the average G42 game? My groups biggest issue with G40 is how long the game is, everyone gets very antsy at around 10 hrs. Looks like 3-4 hours would easily be cut off with G42.