World Championship 2026 A&A G40 Expansion

@aa_sloth

You can play against any other player who is also a member on this forum.

All games must be recorded at the Game Report thread on this forum with pictures and text.

I suggest that you check out Global 1940 No. 12 Game Report - this will give you an idea of how your Game Reports could look.

We have posted updates to the World Championship 2026.
See the top of the first post in this thread.

The updates are:

• Air Fleet Commander is part of the rules during this event.
• The time frame has been expanded to 15 hours for each game.
• The time frame has been expanded to 40 minutes for each side in each round.

Why are some HRE rules available and some are not:

The G40 HRE WC26 is the first of its kind. The event is also used to test the HRE Tournament Rules.

We have analyzed more than 200 G40 HRE board games in the period 2015-2024 to find out which units & rules are most widely used.

The Units & Rules that are not available in the G40 HRE WC26 are either not commonly used during most games - or they are only used when the outcome of the game seems to already be determined.

With one exception: Increased Shipbuilding in the Pacific Theatre (US & Japan).
This rule is a basic element of the HRE - so it seemed obvious that the rule should be included in the G40 HRE WC26.
Then why is it not included:
We are play testing a new unit & rule: Naval Fleet Commander and Naval Task Force Group

Since we concluded that Increased Shipbuilding in the Pacific Theatre might have an effect on the impact of the Naval Fleet Commander, we decided - initially - to exclude the Increased Shipbuilding in the Pacific Theatre rule from the HRE Tournament Rules.

By Late 2025 we might have the Naval Fleet Commander ready for use after the final play testing.

We will then decide if this rule - and Increased Shipbuilding in the Pacific Theatre will be included in the G40 HRE WC26.

@Trout

Awesome - we’ll look forward to your G40 HRE Game Reports in the near future.

@Alexander

Hi Alexander,

Thanks for your message.

We truly appreciate your announcement.

We suggest, that you join one of our Axis & Allies G40 Wiking-Con events before you sign up for the G40 HRE World Championship.

When you begin to study the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion, please contact us for questions anytime you need help.

We are only one click away.

Captain

@Alexander

We have an event from Friday 31st October to Sunday 2nd November this year.

Look under “Events” and search for 6th Northern European A&A Wiking-Con 2025.

The conditions for participation has been revised:

Scoring System:

• A minimum of 9 points are required to qualify for the Axis & Allies Global 1940 Expansion World Championship
• All games that count towards the minimum score must be recorded and published at the Global 1940 & 1943 Game Report thread at this forum with supporting pictures and text.
• All players must be a member of Axis & Allies.org

Note:
How to score points in order to qualify for the Axis & Allies Global 1940 Expansion World Championship :

During an Axis & Allies G40 Wiking-Con event the scoring points are registered like this:

• Winning player: 3 points
• Draw (a): 1 point to each player if both players have played same number of G40 HRE games (+/- 2 G40 HRE games)
• Draw (b): 1 point to the player with most played G40 HRE games - and 2 points to the player with less played G40 HRE games.

During any other Axis & Allies G40 HRE event (if players either play at home or at any A&A event other than Wiking-Con) the scoring points are registered like this:

• Winning player: 1 point
• Draw: no points to any player

When playing on TripleA the scoring points are registered like this:

• Winning player: 1 point
• Draw: no points to any player

Important:
In addition to the above Scoring System any player will score 1 point each time that 10 G40 HRE games are completed - both the winning player as well as the losing player (also both players by draw).

Both TripleA and board games count towards this score.

We have decided that G40 HRE games played on TripleA also qualifies for the G40 HRE World Championship.

See the above post concerning how to score points.

The Scoring System for qualification has been updated.

Se the initial post in this thread.