@Oyvind:

Could someone explain the “bid” in the first question?

It is a way of evening up the playing field when it is generally considered that one side has an advantage over the other. Using this as an example:

@Colt45:

Personally, i take Axis with a 3 bid otherwise il take Allies.

Colt45 554 has said that they’ll take Axis if they are given a bid of 3. This means that at the start of the game before the first turn they either get to put down units to the value of their bid, 3, in any of their territories, or accept 3 bonus IPC into one of their countries for spending at a later time.

In a general bidding arrangement, the opponent would have the opportunity to take the Axis for a bid of 2 if they thought they could win with that and that process repeats until a bid has been determined and teams are set.

A bid of 3 is considered a pretty well balanced game. I believe the current bid for 1940 Global is sitting between 20-30 for the Allies. We can read into that that people think that playing the game without bids leads to many more Axis wins than Allied wins by evenly matched players.

Mitler (Allies +19) over champinoman (Axis)

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=36159.0

Yeah.

If I was to do a very short summary I would say that I over extended myself with Germany which caused Italy to suffer as well when they tried to help out. That theatre has been lost for quite some time.

And I was out played tactically with Japan. The occasions where I forgot certain moves with Japan didn’t help, but when the US started taking back islands whilst China was still a formidable force I knew I was in trouble.

Nice convoy damage :P

Well, there’s no point delaying the inevitable. Are you happy to call this a game or would you like to keep going?

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 6

Purchase Units - Italians
            Italians buy 7 infantry; Remaining resources: 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Italians

Non Combat Move - Italians
            1 aaGun and 1 infantry moved from Northern Italy to Southern Italy

Place Units - Italians
            3 infantry placed in Southern Italy
            4 infantry placed in Northern Italy

Turn Complete - Italians
            Total Cost from Convoy Blockades: 15
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 93 Sea Zone. Rolls: 4,3
                Rolling for Convoy Blockade Damage in 97 Sea Zone. Rolls: 1,1,1,4,3,5,3,1,5,3
            Italians collect 1 PU (15 lost to blockades); end with 2 PUs total
            Objective Italians 1 Control The Mediterranean: Italians met a national objective for an additional 5 PUs; end with 7 PUs

Oops!
If they can be landed on the carriers then do that (although I think I might be at capacity already). Otherwise I’ll just leave them in Japan.

ok, so there are 2 save files above. The first is my turn without any edits in case you don’t agree with my edits.

The 2nd is with an edit that I think is fine because it’s an obvious mistake that can easily be added back in. The mistake being that I forgot to move my inf and mech off the transports to attack the phillipines. I ended up winning the battle in 1 round with my air. So my edits are as follows:
-Added a fighter back in because I would have taken an inf as my loss.
-Deleted inf.
-Added mech to phil.
-Moved 2 fighters from Japan to phil because I couldn’t do it in ncb because I didn’t own territory.
-Added 2 PU to japan total.

Use whichever file you deem suitable.

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 6

Purchase Units - Americans
            EDIT: Removing units owned by Japanese from Japan: 2 fighters
            EDIT: Changing PUs for Japanese from 52 to 54
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 3.9

Game History

Round: 6

Purchase Units - Japanese
            Japanese buy 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 2 infantry and 6 mech_infantrys; Remaining resources: 6 SuicideAttackTokens; 1 PUs;

Combat Move - Japanese
            1 infantry moved from Manchuria to 19 Sea Zone
            2 cruisers, 1 infantry and 1 transport moved from 19 Sea Zone to 20 Sea Zone
            1 mech_infantry moved from Kwangtung to 20 Sea Zone
            2 cruisers, 1 infantry, 1 mech_infantry and 1 transport moved from 20 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            2 battleships moved from 42 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            1 cruiser moved from 42 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from 42 Sea Zone to 41 Sea Zone
            1 transport moved from 42 Sea Zone to 37 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from Malaya to 37 Sea Zone
            2 infantry and 1 transport moved from 37 Sea Zone to 41 Sea Zone
            2 infantry moved from 41 Sea Zone to Sumatra
            1 bomber moved from French Indo China to Sumatra
            3 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from 42 Sea Zone to Philippines
            1 infantry moved from Kwangsi to Hunan
                  Japanese take Hunan from Chinese
            1 infantry moved from Chahar to Suiyuyan
                  Japanese take Suiyuyan from Chinese
            1 infantry moved from Chahar to Hopei
            1 fighter moved from Kiangsu to Kiangsi
            1 fighter moved from Kiangsu to Hopei
            1 infantry moved from Yunnan to Szechwan
                  Japanese take Szechwan from Chinese
            1 mech_infantry moved from Kwangtung to Kiangsi
            2 infantry moved from Yunnan to Kweichow
            5 fighters and 5 tactical_bombers moved from French Indo China to Kweichow
            1 cruiser moved from 6 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone

Combat - Japanese
            Battle in Kweichow
                Japanese attack with 5 fighters, 2 infantry and 5 tactical_bombers
                Chinese defend with 4 infantry
                Japanese win, taking Kweichow from Chinese with 5 fighters, 1 infantry and 5 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is 9
                Casualties for Chinese: 4 infantry
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 infantry
            Battle in Philippines
                Japanese attack with 3 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers
                Americans defend with 1 airfield, 1 harbour, 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Japanese win with 2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is -3
                Casualties for Americans: 1 infantry and 1 mech_infantry
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 fighter
            Battle in 35 Sea Zone
                Japanese attack with 2 battleships, 4 cruisers, 1 infantry, 1 mech_infantry and 1 transport
                Americans defend with 1 transport
                Japanese win with 2 battleships, 4 cruisers and 1 transport remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for Americans: 1 transport
            Battle in 41 Sea Zone
                Japanese attack with 1 fighter and 1 transport
                British defend with 1 transport
                Japanese win with 1 fighter and 1 transport remaining. Battle score for attacker is 7
                Casualties for British: 1 transport
            Battle in Sumatra
                Japanese attack with 1 bomber and 2 infantry
                British defend with 1 artillery and 1 infantry
                Japanese win, taking Sumatra from UK_Pacific with 1 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -8
                Casualties for British: 1 artillery and 1 infantry
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 bomber and 1 infantry
            Battle in Hopei
                Japanese attack with 1 fighter and 1 infantry
                Chinese defend with 1 infantry
                Chinese win with no units remaining. Battle score for attacker is -10
                Casualties for Chinese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 fighter and 1 infantry
            Battle in Kiangsi
                Japanese attack with 1 fighter and 1 mech_infantry
                Chinese defend with 1 infantry
                Japanese win with 1 fighter remaining. Battle score for attacker is -1
                Casualties for Chinese: 1 infantry
                Casualties for Japanese: 1 mech_infantry

Non Combat Move - Japanese
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            Turning on Edit Mode
            EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
            3 carriers, 3 destroyers, 2 submarines and 1 transport moved from 42 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from 41 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone
            2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Philippines to 35 Sea Zone
            1 fighter moved from Kiangsi to French Indo China
            1 mech_infantry moved from Kwangtung to Yunnan
            3 mech_infantrys moved from French Indo China to Yunnan
            1 fighter moved from French Indo China to Yunnan
            2 fighters and 2 tactical_bombers moved from Kweichow to Yunnan
            3 fighters and 3 tactical_bombers moved from Kweichow to Shantung
            1 destroyer moved from 6 Sea Zone to 17 Sea Zone
            1 destroyer moved from 6 Sea Zone to 18 Sea Zone
            2 submarines moved from 6 Sea Zone to 35 Sea Zone

Place Units - Japanese
            3 mech_infantrys placed in French Indo China
            3 mech_infantrys placed in Kwangtung
            2 infantry placed in Japan
            1 cruiser and 1 destroyer placed in 6 Sea Zone

Turn Complete - Japanese
            Japanese collect 51 PUs; end with 52 PUs total

Sorry, didn’t have a chance to do this today and won’t have access for the weekend. Sorry for the delay.

I think I’m in a fair bit of trouble anyway…