Teslas (Allies) vs Private Panic (Axis) in 1940 Global

A DD off of Formosa couldn’t have gone to 16 anyway. That would be a move of three spaces, and you did not own a naval base at the start of your turn that bordered it.

I will edit it to SZ 19, off of Kiangsu, as per your request. However, I will question it. You’ve moved from a SZ with a naval base to a SZ without a naval base. America is not close enough to attempt to send out destroyer blocks. You’ve essentially greatly reduced the range of possibilities this destroyer has in front of it for reasons I cannot see. Would you mind letting me know your idea on this?

Taking Dutch New Guinea robs ANZAC of their 5 IPC NO, but it cost you a 7 IPC transport and strands 7 IPCs worth of units on the island after you do it for at least one turn, but probably more. Had you taken another island, say Borneo, you would have reduced the allied income by 4, but increased your own by 4: A greater net positive. Borneo is also in a position that harder for the allies to attack (it’s further from Caroline and Queensland), and is also an easier place to pick up any stranded units on the way to something else, for instance, another money island, or Calcutta, or Malaya, or Western Australia. Finally, Borneo is 1/4th of your 5 IPC NO, so its potential value is even higher.

Just my 2 cents on that. What you do with your Japanese transports is basically the backbone of any game as the Japanese. Your fleet is your body, your airforce your sword, and your transports with units on them your blood. You can lose some transports, for a good reason, but don’t throw them away, and be very aware of what you do with them, and whether or not you’ll have enough not only on this turn, but the next, and the next.

I started at least four years ago, but less than seven years ago. I can’t actually remember. The first few games I played were the OOB 1st version ones. We moved to alpha 3 rules for a while, and then when the second edition version of the game and rules came out my friends bought a new set. We played that quite a bit. I bought my own set after moving about a year and a half ago.

Ah, okay, you mean the destroyer in japan’s sea zone? I understand now.

I got your PM about it being a bit slow for you potentially for a while, and I need to go cut the grass today, so I’m going to do US/UK over the next few hours in between other household tasks.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - Americans
            Americans buy 1 carrier, 1 destroyer, 1 harbour, 1 infantry, 1 submarine and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Politics - Americans
            Americans takes Political Action: Political Action Americans To War With Italians
                Americans succeeds on action: Political Action Americans To War With Italians: Changing Relationship for Italians and Americans from Neutrality to War
            Americans takes Political Action: Political Action Americans To War With Germans
                Americans succeeds on action: Political Action Americans To War With Germans: Changing Relationship for Germans and Americans from Neutrality to War
            Trigger Americans War Production Eastern: has removed 1 factory_minor owned by Americans in Eastern United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Western: has removed 1 factory_minor owned by Americans in Western United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Central: has removed 1 factory_minor owned by Americans in Central United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Eastern: Americans has 1 factory_major placed in Eastern United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Western: Americans has 1 factory_major placed in Western United States
            Trigger Americans War Production Central: Americans has 1 factory_major placed in Central United States

Combat Move - Americans
            Trigger Americans Unrestricted Movement: Setting movementRestrictionTerritories cleared  for rulesAttatchment attached to Americans
            1 infantry moved from Central United States to 101 Sea Zone
            1 armour moved from Central United States to 101 Sea Zone
            1 armour, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 101 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            1 armour and 1 infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Morocco
            1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Central United States to 101 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from Central United States to 101 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 2 infantry, 1 mech_infantry and 2 transports moved from 101 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            1 artillery, 2 infantry and 1 mech_infantry moved from 91 Sea Zone to Morocco
            1 cruiser moved from 101 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone

Combat - Americans
            Battle in Morocco
                Americans attack with 1 armour, 1 artillery, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Italians defend with 1 armour
                Americans win, taking Morocco from Italians with 1 armour, 1 artillery, 3 infantry and 1 mech_infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is 6
                Casualties for Italians: 1 armour

Non Combat Move - Americans
            2 destroyers and 1 submarine moved from 101 Sea Zone to 91 Sea Zone
            1 fighter and 1 tactical_bomber moved from Eastern United States to Gibraltar
            1 bomber moved from Eastern United States to United Kingdom
            2 carriers and 1 destroyer moved from 10 Sea Zone to 26 Sea Zone
            2 mech_infantrys moved from Central United States to Southeast Mexico
            1 infantry moved from Hawaiian Islands to 26 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 26 Sea Zone to 64 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Hawaiian Islands to 26 Sea Zone
            1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 26 Sea Zone to 64 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Wake Island to 26 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Western United States to 26 Sea Zone

Place Units - Americans
            1 harbour placed in Southeast Mexico
            1 transport placed in 101 Sea Zone
            1 infantry placed in Central United States
            1 carrier, 1 destroyer and 1 submarine placed in 10 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - Americans
            Americans collect 51 PUs; end with 52 PUs total
            Objective Americans 3 Defense Obligations: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 57 PUs
            Objective Americans 2 Outer Territories: Americans met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 62 PUs
            Objective Americans 1 Homeland: Americans met a national objective for an additional 10 PUs; end with 72 PUs

We have the rainbow force on Gibraltar right now, three colors. When the Russian sub shows up, four.

I normally would always put the things on my transports on land at the end of the turn if possible, but I forgot to do this on USA’s turn. I don’t think you’ll mind if I edit that in on the China’s turn. It makes no difference to either of us (they’re well out of range of any attackers in SZ64), but it’s a good habit to always be in, so I’m going to enforce it myself.

So here’s my thinking on this turn:

As you might have seen, I’ve done a drastic shift of focus on USA’s turn. I don’t think your Japan is doing so well that I can’t afford to let them have one or two more turns of unchecked aggression, and the extra land units in Europe, hopefully, completely save Moscow, and even let Russia take small offensive measures.

You’re a minimum of 3 turns from Moscow now, which is probably 30+ more Russians there if you do push on.

You’re 3 away from the Caucasus, which means at least 10 more UK people there, so while I’m not comfortable with that, I’m not completely defenseless. It might even be more, if you chase my Indians west with the Japanese.

For these very heavy European moves, I may pay dearly in the Pacific, but I think with ANZAC’s slightly boosted strength from the first two rounds, they should be able to hold you off. You can’t take Hawaii with that kind of American fleet there. So worst case scenario, I’ve got a Japan making 90 IPCs/turn, which I think, if Germany is on the defensive, I can hopefully withstand.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - Chinese
            Trigger Chinese Loses Burma Road: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Closed
            Chinese buy 1 infantry; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Combat Move - Chinese

Non Combat Move - Chinese
            7 infantry moved from Kansu to Tsinghai

Place Units - Chinese
            1 infantry placed in Tsinghai

Turn Complete - Chinese
            Chinese collect 3 PUs; end with 5 PUs total
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Americans from 64 Sea Zone: 2 infantry and 2 transports
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Americans to Southeast Mexico: 2 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by Americans to 64 Sea Zone: 2 transports
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 3

Research Technology - Italians

Sorry about the lack of a summary for the brits. Combat moves:

I took Kenya with a transport and 1 inf, no defenders.
I took burma with 2 inf + 1 fighter (from malaya, to india), losing 1 inf to your 1 inf.

Lots of non-coms.

1941 is a very good game for people who are just coming from Risk or are new to a game like Axis and Allies. I played it only a couple of times a couple years back, but I’m thinking about buying it.

I do have a group going in Belgium. I managed to trick 7-8 other people into playing this game with me. The next game is this Wednesday, and it’s a continuation of a game that started last Sunday. I work in IT (as a programmer), so there’s a lot of opportunity to meet smelly, autistic nerds that also like games like this. Thank god. I’m am the UK and myself, together with Russia, are getting our shit kicked in by Germany. I tend to get very intoxicated at game nights, so that’s probably not helping, haha. The people I play with all have 2-6 games under their belts now, so they’re quickly catching up with me in skill/experience. I look forward to continuing to play with them.

We get 4-6 nerds together something like 11 times a year. Not bad.

Blocking the US out of SZ 6 for one turn is often as simple as putting 1 Japanese destroyer in SZ 16. America must either kill it and non-com (which may not be an option if you have things in SZ6), or kill it and wait until the next turn, or build a naval base on Midway or the Aleutians and then sit their fleet on that. It’s all an annoying inconvenience for America that either robs them of an entire turn or 15 IPCs. Both are well worth the 8 IPC investment for the destroyer for Japan, especially since it has a 1/3 chance of killing an American unit on defense.

ANZAC can replace TTs all day long, yes, but at the cost of other units. That’s a complicated topic, actually, how to handle ANZAC as Japan and vica versa. Sadly, my other game with my friend is not a good example, as he made a few (understandable) mistakes and let Japan go ape-shit too early. This is his first game in a couple of years probably, so I’m going to bitch-slap him back into remembering how to play. Disclaimer: I’m only bitch-slapping him in the Pacific. In the Atlantic he is throwing big sticks in the spokes of my bicycle at the moment.

“I’m am” != "I am

I blame the Sunday evening beers kicking in.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 3

Purchase Units - ANZAC
            ANZAC buy 1 bomber, 1 destroyer and 1 transport; Remaining resources: 2 PUs;

Combat Move - ANZAC
            1 destroyer moved from 56 Sea Zone to 45 Sea Zone

Combat - ANZAC
            Battle in 45 Sea Zone
                ANZAC attack with 1 destroyer
                Japanese defend with 1 transport
                ANZAC win with 1 destroyer remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 transport

Non Combat Move - ANZAC
            3 fighters moved from Java to Northern Territory
            1 transport moved from 54 Sea Zone to 62 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser moved from 54 Sea Zone to 62 Sea Zone
            1 infantry moved from Queensland to New South Wales
            1 artillery moved from Queensland to South Australia

Place Units - ANZAC
            1 destroyer and 1 transport placed in 62 Sea Zone
            1 bomber placed in Queensland
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by ANZAC from Northern Territory: 3 fighters
            EDIT: Adding units owned by ANZAC to South Australia: 3 fighters
            EDIT: Removing units owned by ANZAC from Queensland: 1 bomber
            EDIT: Adding units owned by ANZAC to New South Wales: 1 bomber
            EDIT: Removing units owned by ANZAC from 41 Sea Zone: 1 transport
            EDIT: Adding units owned by ANZAC to 39 Sea Zone: 1 transport
            EDIT: Removing units owned by ANZAC from New South Wales: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by ANZAC to South Australia: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
            EDIT: Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Removing units owned by ANZAC from New South Wales: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
            EDIT: Adding units owned by ANZAC to South Australia: 1 artillery and 1 infantry

Turn Complete - ANZAC
            ANZAC collect 18 PUs; end with 20 PUs total
            Trigger ANZAC 1 Control Original And Malaya: ANZAC met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 25 PUs

I clicked on all sorts of wrong shit on my non-com move, then went on to the place units mode by accidnet, then fixed it with the edit mode. Please review my move carefully to make sure I didn’t cheat. I am sorry for the inconvenience.

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 3

Combat Move - French
            EDIT: Resetting and Giving Bonus Movement to Units
                EDIT: British takes Belgian Congo from Italians
            EDIT: 1 infantry moved from French Equatorial Africa to Belgian Congo

Combat - French
            EDIT: Recording Battle Statistics

Non Combat Move - French
            EDIT: Cleaning up during movement phase

Turn Complete - French

And apparently I didn’t turn edit mode off for the french move, but I didn’t edit anything–that was all normal movement.