Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion

Hello all, it’s been quite a while since I’ve posted because I haven’t played Axis & Allies since last year. During our hiatus, one of our dedicated players (Josh Schoorens) was hard at work constructing his own 1943 Europe version of Axis & Allies, taking The Captain’s House Rules Expansion and modifying many of those rules, eliminating some, and adding a whole lot of new units (mostly for Germany). Don’t worry, other countries (especially the US) got some really neat “toys” (can you say…Atom Bomb)! In addition, he spent hours and hours creating a custom board (complete with elevated mountain ranges), hand painting/creating/finding pieces for the new units (no cardboard/paper units here), and play testing against himself. The amount of IPCs per country were greatly increased, as were the amount of troops on the board, and territories. Needless to say there are a lot of massive battles! New minor Axis countries were introduced - Vichy France (blue), Finland (white), and Romania (yellow) as well. We also introduced new chip colors, white for 2 units and blue for 8 units. I’m attaching Josh’s rule book to this post. Even though there are a lot of new units most special units are limited in number and Josh has only created that many of each unit so it’s not too hard to stick to the limit that’s been set. I think folks will at the very least find the new units interesting. Axis and Allies 1943 Final Copy (custom rules).pdf

This board is so big it barely fits on a ping pong table. Attached are pictures of the initial setup.

For the first time we are playing this as a group 3 on 3. You’ll have to jump over to Game Reports to find out how things have gone the first two rounds (which took about 12 hours).

@mkgionet

Wow ! Looks way cool :)

I suggest making a separate thread for Josh’s mod as this one is specifically for the Captains Global 1940 House Rules expansion

Nice work Josh !

Edit
It’s just to avoid confusion. Not to be a buzzkill :)

@The-Captain

Air Fleet question.

1st Luftflotten has 2 Aces and a Ftr. The Air Fleet would then get 2 dice for the Ftr, 2 for the AC and 2 each for the Aces for 8 total.

Is that correct ?

@The-Captain

Thanks

slightly off topic but triplea should have a new lobby soon that will allow live play of HRE.

Can start live or PBEM/PBF and switch back and forth once it’s up.

Should help grow the mod :) I will update on triplea thread when it happens

@The-Captain

Hi Captain

Working on 39. Is GSG setup same as oob ? I’m guessing so but it doesn’t say specifically.

Thanks

@The-Captain

I’m seeing a discrepancy in the TimeTable regarding Weapons Devoplement. TT is showhing Late 43 and Rulebook Early 43.

I always defer to the Rulebook as I believe you have mentioned doing so in the past. I also found I had Elite USA Tanks in Early 44 in the TT as well.

Both activate accordingly, just a TT error.

Anyway, just a heads up. Almost done with the Update :)

@The-Captain

Yes I had made the mistake with the Elite USA Tank in the triplea mod. I have fixed it for the update

Hi all, just getting ready to try my first game with the HRE (limiting to just the first two new sections to start) and had the following two questions (apologies if these are very basic):

1. Para troopers - interaction with flying/AAA units:

• I understand that a defender cannot scramble to defend against paratroopers.
• I understand that AAA can fire a defensive shot at the first round of combat at paratroopers (similar to any attacking aircraft).
• What happens if I am attacking with both aircraft and AAA? Do I (attacker) or my opponent (defender) get any say over if the casualties are the paratroopers or the planes? I assume that as the attacker I would be the one picking my own casualties as typical.
  — For example: attacking with 3 paratroopers, 3 fighters; defending with 1 infantry, 1 AAA. AAA is hot and gets 3/3 hits. Looking to confirm that the defender cannot allocate all the hits to the paratroopers and thus stopping the loss of territory. (I’m only asking due to a case of attempting to use kamikaze rolls against USA transports in the OOB rules a few games ago.)

2. Expanded pacific ocean - revised IPC values for territories:

• When do these come into effect/totals get adjusted?
  — The note states that all nations begin with their normal IPCs and that when the territories are captured income is adjusted based off the new values.
  ------ Does that mean income is only changed when territory exchanges hands? Immediately in the round 1 collect income phase (just not for the starting balance/first turn purchase)? Or all are effective after the first of these territories is affected and war is thus been declared)?

@Alexander

Hi Alexander. Cool you giving it a try ! You gonna dig it :)

For The Paras getting shot at by AA, the defender declares what units are being targeted before the dice are rolled.

So, 2 AA shots at the Ftrs and 1 at the Paras for example. You would roll them separate.

For the Pacific Islands, you don’t get a boost until you take over a Island.

So, JPN takes PHI, their income goes up an additional 3 for a total of 5 and USA would go down the equal amount.

If USA liberates PHI, they would go up 5 bucks and JPN down 5 bucks. Basically you only get the bonus if you take your enemies Islands or lose your own.

Dutch Islands apply for everyone.

@The-Captain

Oh I missed this. so Ftr Aces no longer can be part of Air Fleets. Well that was always Player enforced for triplea anyway, but I’ll need to update the Game Notes.

Have you and the guys ever considered adding the P-47 ? Maybe Late 1943 ? A4D4

Just a thought :)

@The-Captain

Concerning Type XXI U-boats or any U-boat actually, if they move out of there Pens and the SZ they move into has a blocker, they would have to stop in that SZ and offer battle ?

Example
5 Type XXI U-boats are in 2 Pens in W GER/SZ 112 . There is an Allied Escort in 112.

The U-boats can leave there Pens but would have to stop in 112 because of the Escort ? Is that right ?

Thanks

@The-Captain

so the U-boats aren’t blocked then ?

Edit
Ok they are in the SZ even though they are in the Pen, so they can move out of the SZ and then retreat and move back into the Pen if they don’t kill the escort ? The XXIs