Iwo Jima

@bakerbei I thought the Nimitz card was great for Global until you read the booklet and it says it doesn’t apply to seazones w/ naval bases. Which makes it really not that effective since most of the game you are staging and protecting naval bases. I think it would be really interesting if it let you get the 4th movement point. In fact I think I am going to just ignore the booklet rule and allow the Nimitz card to use the naval bases.

@SeaYa said in Win Condition Changes:

@AndrewAAGamer - Your logic is also supported by the fact that bidding (hence some level of imbalance) is still involved, correct?

That is my understanding… yes.

@MindBlownAstronaut said in Rule clarification:

Lets say that Britain on their turn deploys a destroyer into a sea zone that has a german sub. On frances turn could they take a fighter and attack the subs? So that then in that battle there is a British destroyer and French fighter attacking a german sub. Would that work is is that not allowed, couldn’t find it in the rules.

Definitely not allowed. While multiple powers can defend together in the same square only the active power’s pieces are usable during the active Player’s Turn.

In essence, the British destroyer is completely ignored.

@Imperious-Leader

? Nobody’s saying Formosa should be Chinese (and it isn’t under out of box rules). barnee is asking for Hainan to be Chinese. Hainan was only conquered by the Japanese in 1937 alongside the other original Chinese territories.

@barnee Maybe you can ask The Captain to make Hainan originally Chinese in his house rules.

@SeaYa

On a G1 Germany doesn’t have enough units on border to hold until round 2 or 3 so trading them is pretty much a guarantee every time I believe.

I reset the battle and removed say half the tanks and replaced each with two inf each. This was also a very tight battle but went in Germany favor this time with maybe two tanks left give or take.

That reset taught me the value of German infantry as I always want to buy tanks and bombers when going for Moscow.

Game I’m playing now, Germany did Sea Lion so Russia burst forward and has been collecting $21 in NO’s for a few turns. Germany takes border territories of Berlin but Russia takes them right back and since each battle has a couple SB’s Russia is retaking them with at least 3 infantry.

The taking of territories with extra units left behind like that really alters the war of attrition in Russia’s favor quite a bit.

Germany just did a surprise strike on Leningrad and also took out 3 SB’s. Italy finally in the Balkans so Russia will get kicked out probably by R8.

I’m about to film R6 for my latest strategy series

@zlefin
I know you from TripleA.

You also know I play more G40 than most.

IMHO eliminating victory cities condition makes the game only matter on one side of the Map. Usually the Euro side.

This is probably obvious to you and everyone here, but…

As far as bids go…depends on your opponent. If they are excellent at Germans make them play Allies. Very few are good at both sides of the map. Players that are good with both…always make them play allies or make sure you get sizable bids as allies.
There is a player active now who is dominating as Axis. I figured out he can’t play Allies at all. I bid 30-32 as allies and if he bids anything at all…I make him play Allies. I know get 30plus verse him and he is yet to win. I Yunnan stack him and dominate the Jap side.

Know thyself…but also know your opponent.