Best posts made by bakerbei

@Draginfut I’m in Lynchburg, but I’m super into Global 1940! I play with a buddy of mine who’s local about 4-5 times a year.

Hi there, very new to the forum, not so new to Global 1940. I’ve played maybe 8 or 10 games to completion, and have a preliminary grasp on the general Allied strategy.

My question is, how to best sink the German’s Baltic fleet? The typical fleet we have by G2, G3 is a CV with two fighters, a cruiser, 2 or 3 transports and the 3 fighter scramble. This fleet usually persists until the end of the game, constantly threatening Leningrad.

I haven’t found a good way to threaten this fleet because Denmark/Norway is constantly retaken. Any advice?

@cds Sorry for the late reply, but I would definitely be interested in playing a few games! My friend and I have played maybe 5 or 6 full games of Global, but the issue I have is that we play with a slightly modified ruleset, but regardless, I’d love to get better at a sense of the game as Axis. Most of my games have been as Allies.

@barnee Thank you! I kind of came to the same conclusion in the 24 hours it took for my post to get approved haha. I appreciate the consensus though!

@shadowhawk Thank you! I’ve also come to the same conclusion that subs+airpower is the way to go to challenge that fleet. Combining this with my plan to use subs to convoy sz97, the US will be building quite a few subs haha.

@AndrewAAGamer I agree, I like having a higher bid, but I’ve played a few games and won them with decreasing amounts of bid. We started at like 60 and I’ve won almost every game. The last one I won, I had a bid of 24 which I was okay with.

In your opinion though, if you had an 18 ipc bid, where would you place it and why?

@AndrewAAGamer Is low 40’s really reasonable? I admit that I only have real experience playing with my one friend, but I have long said that 14 IPC is the minimum I would take the allies for. Naturally, more is better, but I feel as if 40-60 is entirely too much. I have played maybe 25 games total, but they’ve almost entirely been against my one friend.

@barnee Hi barnee! For some reason I feel honored, as if I’m in the presence of forum royalty!

Yeah, he and I work together, so we’ve had plenty of opportunities over the last 6 years we’ve known each other. :)

I mostly play in person, but with a few days in between each session, and we maybe get through 3 rounds in a session. Therefore, I have plenty of time to plan, mwahaha.

How would I play 1940 online? I’ve only ever done 1942 online and I found it a pale substitute for 1940 global.