Global 1940 Basic Expansion

@The-Captain You’re absolutely right, but as the Russian player I’ve been glad to see those factories bombed out. Germany has moved the Southern Italy, Berlin, and Paris factories underground as they consider those the main factories they’ll be producing from. The Allies learned this the hard way too the India Industrial Complex took a lot of bombing damage. It’s kind of late but UK may finally put that factory underground.

@Vendetta said in [Global 1940] Blitz After Attacking With No Casualties:

My proposal is this: tanks (and any other blitzing unit) are only prevented from blitzing if they fight a battle where the defenders inflict at least one casualty on the attacking force - i.e. if you invade that territory with 1 infantry and kill him, and he doesn’t land a hit on you, your tanks are then free to invade one more territory.

Tanks become much scarier when you play this way - you won’t be sure what exactly it takes to stop them, and you can never be 100% certain that a breakthrough is impossible. Defense in depth remains a valid strategy - but now you have to think more about how strong of a blocking force to leave behind in your front line territories.

I think the Path to Victory modification, with its expanded number of Eastern Front territories, would especially benefit from this rule

Good idea. Will use this to build off both for this and for Destroyer screens.

@vodot

Shoot, my sentence was in the wrong order. I edited it to mean what I wanted to say.

Concerning the addition of multiple Optional Rules (see the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion thread) we advice players to study those Optional Rules in order to implement some of the units during Strategic Planning.

@Trout

Hi Trout,

Thanks for your comment.

During the early stages of G40 HRE development we came up with some rules for Intelligence - which in other words reflected spying.
Players would have to roll a dice at a cost of 5 IPC - and if a “6” was achieved you could pay further IPC’s to Sabotage a certain number of enemy units by reducing their attack or defense factor in one round of combat - or Sabotage production (Factory).

As multiple new units were also developed - especially Paratrooper, Soviet Guards, US Marines and Waffen-SS units the Intelligence rule was simply “overrun” and no players ever used it on a regular basis.

The feedback from players showed that Intelligence had too little effect on the overall game - and that any IPC were much more needed for unit production rather than risking the loss of these much needed IPC.

During any rules developement it is crucial to note that the side which produces most units and captures most territories will eventually win the game.
This is also the case with the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion.

As we continue to develope the G40 HRE by adding more Optional Rules we advice players to become familiar with these Optional Rules and to practice Strategic Planning for 3-6 rounds of play for each Major Power.

@Leatherneckinlv:

After play testing some…I came to the conclusion France needs to BB and a Destroyer…1 BB makes no difference…thoughts so far

I am curious, how does Italy or Germany react to that battleship?

I am trying the rules I posted above and it appears to be balanced. One change I want to make is that you SHOULD place the standard units in southern France to prevent Germany from taking all of France G1

Germany:
http://www.mediafire.com/?duc0i56nloytkr0

Japan:
http://www.mediafire.com/?p17vuxrevhd9c76

Italy:
http://www.mediafire.com/?86c8pi8ghttdmnq

Soviet Union:
http://www.mediafire.com/?4un2eblj2z5p7c3

USA: China/ ANZAC
http://www.mediafire.com/?axixf35q3zn1s1c

UK:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5kwbnbiwey8aci1

This uses all the Alpha rules except as follows:

On the first turn all Allied Naval and Air units defend at ONE. Land units fight normally.

2)The Japanese may attack the Soviets only by announcing one turn before this intention. The Soviets can attack japan only if all Soviet territory’s are under Soviet control.

The new turn order: Soviet Union, Axis, Allies

Lend Lease: The US or UK player can send income to the Soviet Union. Procedure: Buy a transport(s) and place it off board in a Lend lease Box. These transports can’t be used for any other purpose and the Allied player can just exchange them back to IPC’s as he wishes. Roll one D6 for each transport and place the IPC’s under the transports in the holding box. This money is deducted from a players treasury and the Lend Lease can never exceed a total of 30 IPC’s

Interdiction: Any axis Submarine, Plane, or Surface ship located in open sea ( not Baltic, Black, Mediterranean) can deduct 2 IPC each from this total. If they are located in a convoy box, they can cost 3 IPC each from this total.

Minor Axis Allies: Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary have unique forces ( use German pieces) these automatically join the axis on turn 2. They can freely move on that turn and Germany can move into them or build units ( Romania).