Will the Atlantic and Pacific in AA40 Global be balanced

WWI would be fun but WWII was truly a global war, WWI was mostly fought in Europe while WWII was all over the world.

Just give me a mapboard and plastic military pieces and I am happy.

I could send you cardboard and pebbles of different colors and sizes, would that work?

I dont think so. :-D

ROFL  :-o

Maybe I could use those for Chinese Checkers

@Brain:

And I too would like the us to be have 2 incomes one for the Pacific and one for the Atlantic theatres.

I think forcing the USA to split the incomes would go against what I think Larry Harris A&A Idea is… I think the official rules will let you combine the US money in some way… USA money is USA money. I do think the game play won’t give you much wiggle room to shift all the income one way or another.

You could be right.

@Upside-down_Turtle:

I don’t think US will need to “mix” income.  We know Western US is 10 and 50.  We can postulate the Eastern US will be 12 and 60.  That’s 110, + Central US (6) + Alasks (2) + Hawaii (1) + Mexico (2) + Brazil (3) + Cuba (1) + Phillipiness [typo?] (2) + Pannama (1) = 128 IPCs!!! Forget KGF or KJF, it’s Kill Everyone First!!!

everybody will have huge ammounts of IPC
but i think in earlier games USA is overrated with militairy force and underrated in terms of IPC

Here is a list of the production values during the course of the war of the main nations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II

+1, interesting. ^

Excellent- Gorshak +1 also- I’ll post this on Larry’s site for him to see, this may help balance or at least give a more historical G40 set up. :-)

@Gorshak:

Here is a list of the production values during the course of the war of the main nations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II

Very interesting!

thanks gorshak, and wikipedia

thanks for the praise. :)
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I started a new topic with some more links and quotes on the topic:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=15585.0

@questioneer:

Excellent- Gorshak +1 also- I’ll post this on Larry’s site for him to see, this may help balance or at least give a more historical G40 set up. :-)

Remember that some things have to be altered for the sake of game balance.

Yes, or else Allies would always win, which would be boring.

Give the allies some sort of economical advantage. Give the Axis the “priority advantage” (meaning they play first, which is what happened in the war at the beginning) and some sort of military advantage.

Easier said than done though. But I believe Larry does good game. No need to worry

@Omega:

Yes, or else Allies would always win, which would be boring.

Give the allies some sort of economical advantage. Give the Axis the “priority advantage” (meaning they play first, which is what happened in the war at the beginning) and some sort of military advantage.

Easier said than done though. But I believe Larry does good game. No need to worry

Very much agreed.  I think Larry has done a pretty good job here in estimating the productions and military units available in his games and matching that to the historical facts as best as possible.  The info may be helpful however, so I just put it on his website.

Specifically, in the years 1940, 1941, 1942 (start times for his games), the comparisons from his games to the historical facts seem relatively close.  Of course there are many more factors that could be debated that go beyond what you see in these numbers. :-)

Just give me a balanced Axis and Allies game.

AA42 (the most recen one) is pretty balanced. in my opinion. and this next one will probably be as well