Is the "J1 attack" in Global 1940 overpowered?

@Narvik they made us all sign non-disclosure agreements which I think is silly but it was a pre-requisite to help out. I play tested. I didn’t help with design so as for how they compute the game economy or any use of computers or AI is unknown to me. Some playtesters brought their own methods of balancing or rating these things and provided input but that was largely left to Renegade.

I wish there had been more time to playtest. I will say that about Africa and to a lesser extent, Stalingrad.

As for all the other versions and imbalance in general: I will say that it appears that playtesting and balance took a back seat to production deadlines. It appears that the thousands of human playtesting games that you and I would agree need to be done, were likely not done.

I hear D-Day is being re-released here soon. I have high hopes that that will be fully balanced. We’ll see.

🎥Commanders: New Axis & Allies Add-On - Unboxing and First Look:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVweSL0hBp8&t=19s

@The_Good_Captain

Just to be precise:

The TripleA website is :
https://triplea-game.org/

The (module) map-repositories (most of them included in TripleA) have been maintained and hosted here:
https://github.com/triplea-maps/
for more than a decade.

Every map (module / specific game) downloaded directly via TripleA stems from there - or has made its way from map-creators’ drives to the ‘official’ repositories.

Usually this written information with the given headline of this thread should be in the TripleA-support category.
But as the video is about @VictoryFirst 's efforts and contributions I recommend to change the title of this topic to something “non-TripleA-technical”.

(Somehow I missed this topic in 2024, so please excuse my late reaction.)

@DoManMacgee

That’s a great way of putting it.

@Charles-de-Gaulle

Very cool! Please respond to the direct message I sent you. 👍

Sea zone 101 is just absolutely bursting.

@Young-Grasshopper this game is fun throughout and I highly recommend it to anyone a fan of world war 2 like me been playing it my whole life and I like playing both sides with victories for both but I find it more achievable to win as the axis I like using subs and fighters a lot to scare the English most of the time

I’m with Gargantua.
Buy mostly Infantry, with an Artillery here and there.
Take Iraq as soon as possible with a goal of getting a tank down to Ethiopia/Somalia
Take Finland/Norway if the opportunity presents itself; it is worth 11 IPC’s to you and takes away 10 ipcs/turn from the Germans.  By no means is this as must do as Iraq, but from time to time it is good.

Germany will either go heavy north or south (if he splits up than he is likely inexperienced and you should crush each army seperately).  Retreat from his heavy push and counter as much as possible in the other.

i.e. If Germany goes heavy towards Leningrad, abandon Leningrad the turn before you likely lose it, and slowly move your forces east towards Moscow- don’t give the germans an easy way to kill your russian stack!  In the South, hold your ground (and hold onto Ukraine) as best you can without committing more than a couple Inf there/turn (along with your aircraft).

Starting to think the Eastern Front troops are best kept in the East Front- with perhapd 6-8 staying in Siberia and the rest going around mongolia to China.  They rarely get to Moscow in time to help anyway, might as well try to protect your eastern lands.