Posts made by BulwFi

3-5 almost ( keep dice ) changed post*

@Cow:

It is not BS, Russia gets to hop on the imperialism train… make everyone happy through propaganda.

disguised as the spread of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Yea some new Italian models i think, although can you not order just the Italian units some how??

1-2 fail (dice discard) 3-5 almost (keep dice) 6 success!

I had a game of this weekend past there and really enjoyed it. Was good fun and made a change from Global, Allied victory btw.

The ‘key selling points’ of each game on the AandA.org site dont menition any rule changes etc. So maybe no change……

@wittmann:

Is that a pound sign BulwFi? You are not in England are you?
I am only buying Europe and should be able to pass my old one on to a friend for half what I paid for it. Am not as bothered about the Pacific, being half English and half Italian.

My copies of Pacific and Europe cost me £70 pound each so i assumed the 2nd edition would be the same and prices rarely fall these days, but almost always go up.

Not England btw, Ireland.

Yea we play the above house rule, more enjoyable in my opinion. Especially improved shipyard for the US, it is most fun.  :-)

What a let down

I agree that Axis and Allies wasnt meant to be historicly accurate, as the Soviet Union would be able to take on and defeat the Germans (with very minimal support from the rest of the allies.
Also the sheer Industral strength of the United States would render anything the Japanese done irrelevant.

Historical accuracy wouldn’t make for a very enjoyable game for the Axis.

They are the same. If Japan attacks Russia from territory boarding Mongolia, Mongolia neutrals side with Russia immediately.

Yea, need to see if its worth £140 buy!

Is there any changes to the rules and/or setup in the 2nd edition reprint from the current 3.9 if so can they they be posted please. I dont want to pay £100 for bits of cardboard and plastic if i dont need too.
many thanks in advance.

Personaly in 3.9 I think too much is lost on a successful sealion for Germany, i.e land units, air units and IPCs, after all they still need to go deep into the USSR and/or Egypt to achieve victory. The Soviet IPC income becomes enormous during rounds 3+ and time is against the Axis.

If anything Sealion should be used for Japan to achieve Victory in the Pacific, with the diverted USA spending into the Atlantic.

Pack the UK with Inf, move the Indian fleet towards the Med and start being very aggressive with the Soviet Union.

If the Germans are anywhere near India the Allies are doing something very wrong.

The British knew that the Wehrmachts Afrika korps had to be stoped otherwise they would have swept right through Egypt into the Middle east. Realisticly who would have stoped them if not for the Commonwealth??

Think in our groups next game i will try the NO I mentioned inmy last post and see how it pans out.

Maybe something like Allied (not Soviet) control of Iraq, Persia, NW Persia the Suez Canel and the Straights of Gibraltar (‘Stratigic Oil deposits and shipping lanes’) for a NO of  10 IPC’s to counter the loss of the Soviet middle east NO, if they where removed.

The thought behind this is that this would force the German player to committ more to the defence of western Europe and the Med as the British would play a bigger role earlier on, therefor take some aggro off the Soviets.

Just a thought…

Historicaly if the Soviets had of went anywhere near the middle east durring ww2 the British would have went mental. Im Thinking of doing away with the Middle East NO’s for the Soviets and introducing a NO bonus forthe British to balance Soviet IPC loss, some thing along the lines of ‘Strengthening of the CommonWealth’

Any thoughts??

When I move house an entire room is being dedicated to this game, no other Axis and Allies game comes close to Global 1939. Truly epic!