Global 1943 Expansion, Revised

@the-captain sweet ! Nice report

@the-captain

Nooooooo! The Axis lost! Great report, and I love those pieces that are up close in your photos-at least Germany’s armies are running at full strength and Volksturm aren’t activated yet. I like the idea of being able to surrender. Is is just me, or does it feel like your games use more pieces than the normal versions? And if so, why? Thank you!

I noticed Kursk was on your board too-the more I think about it, Kursk really was a very small battle in terms of land contested. The units committed were way out of proportion to the salient’s size, like the Crimea.

Those pieces are awesome-can you please tell me where to fond them? Thank you!

I wonder if the Allies invaded strict neutral territories (probably for no reason or benefit, such as the US invading Colombia), could the Axis have held back the Allied assault, especially if the Allies made some mistakes. Do you have any ideas on how the Axis could have won this game? Thank you!

1943 setup complete. Season/Round changes next.

@barnee

Thank you!

These look great! It’s a bit annoying though that the Panzer General piece looks the same as a Panzer Army. Also, whilst your’e right, I thought there was a landing craft in Tunisia instead of a fighter-a downside to looking at the charts, as it is much harder to tell what units are where.

Want to try this out on my G40 Map after my ongoing game is finished. Looks so interesting. Will print the rulebook.

@the-captain Thank you! My group is very small (my Dad and my brother who is very inexperienced but I help him) ATM I am testing my research rules using the DK Board from HBG. I might try playing your 1943 variant without the 1940 house rules revised additions. Is this viable?

Also, have you testing the variant on a single board (Europe, Pacific) and seen if it was balanced or not? I might play on a single board first just because the Global games work best when we know we have lots of time to do them ;D

@all-encompassing-goose

I have suggested the exact same thing earlier in this topic.

@superbattleshipyamato I didn’t see that, sorry

@all-encompassing-goose

Check out page one and two.

@the-captain Yeah, playing the 1943 setup immediately is not the right way to go. Learning all those House Rule Expansion rules may look a bit boring, but it’s definitely worth it. I am learning the rules section by section and playing a game for each section. I have now reached Early 1943 in my section 3 game. Wowy, what is this exciting! The Eastern Front is such an interesting battle. I will post my Section 2 game report, and a report for my section 3 game in the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion thread.

@the-captain

What program did you use to type your rules and what process did you go through? I have been wanting to make a neat rulebook for my own person A&A house rules :slightly_smiling_face:

(If anyone else is wondering, DM The_Captain)

This has been uploaded to triplea. It is under “Experimental” in map downloads. More information available here: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36998/g-40-expansion-for-triplea/127

You can also post bug reports there.

@the-captain

I’ve got two quetions:

You say this is based on how 1943 usually looks like in a game with your house rules-I don’t understand why the industrial complex in Germany (which is not in range of the Allied bombers) is underground, whilst West Germany’s industrial complex (which is in range) is not.

Also, I noticed that he limit for Waffen-SS infantry is maxed out a 6, and yet there is 8 of them in the setup-does that mean that units that are part of Waffen-SS armies do not count toward the limit? Thank you!

Can you also make a battle calculator for this please? It’s quite hard to plan strategies without that. Thank you!

@the-captain

Shoot! When I saw Barnee’s screenshots of the Eastern Front, I thought there were two separate Waffen-SS infantry in addition to two Waffen-SS infantry in the army. This makes my assessment of German strength on the Eastern Front seriously weakened. Thank you!

@the-captain No. I really want to, but I don’t know how to contact siredblood. I looked on his website but I couldn’t find anything. I pm’ed him in AxisandAllies.org but he didn’t respond.