A pair of us play in Flower Mound regularly. We play’40 with a fair amount of optional rules.
Let me know if you’d like to join us or just see what kinds of optional rules we use.
Chris at 972 768 4149

@MAG Mostly on weeknights for a couple hours at a time. We do play some weekends on Sundays mostly. Interested in coming and seeing?

@MAG we are playing tonight. Probably start around 7.
My address is::

6014 Plantation ln
Flower Mound, 75022

@Vendetta said in [Global 1940] Blitz After Attacking With No Casualties:

My proposal is this: tanks (and any other blitzing unit) are only prevented from blitzing if they fight a battle where the defenders inflict at least one casualty on the attacking force - i.e. if you invade that territory with 1 infantry and kill him, and he doesn’t land a hit on you, your tanks are then free to invade one more territory.

Tanks become much scarier when you play this way - you won’t be sure what exactly it takes to stop them, and you can never be 100% certain that a breakthrough is impossible. Defense in depth remains a valid strategy - but now you have to think more about how strong of a blocking force to leave behind in your front line territories.

I think the Path to Victory modification, with its expanded number of Eastern Front territories, would especially benefit from this rule

Good idea. Will use this to build off both for this and for Destroyer screens.

@Young-Grasshopper I love these cards. Would it be possible to add to them? We’ve incorporated some optional rules and National objectives have been added and changed.
Or could I pay your for your PDFs and then I could craft my own and send them to a printer?

Thanks!
Chris

2 of us play Global 40 with a fair number of optional rules. We play up in the Flower Mound area.
If you are interested in joining us, or coming to see what kinds of optional rules we use, reach out to me.
Chris at 972 768 4149

@FranceNeedsMorePower you’d have to paint them blue, but etsy has some nice figures with multiple options- even French Foreign legion

@jacobg We play with the limitations, ie only as many dice as there are planes and a max limit of 3 dice per AA gun, but we use 12 sided dice. So before the first round of battle begins, those AA shoot with a 1 or 2 being a hit. Before the second round of combat, same process, but now they hit only on a 1. So it might be worth saving them or buying the occasional one.

@MAG will tonight not work for you? We generally decide the day of or night before we are going to play, so any opportunity to come play or learn the optional rules we use will be on short notice.
Let me know so I will know whether to expect you.
Thanks,
Chris

@Titus or would you be willing to just share a pdf of the silhouettes you used on your battle board? Looking forward to your thoughts. TIA, Chris

Interested in how you are positioning these too. Are you thinking that they could go into the attack so that the attacker may also have AA against defending aircraft in addition to being able to move more further/ faster? Are you thinking of giving them a land combat capability? I’ve been acquiring models for each of the major nations. My challenge is that they were used in such small numbers since they tended to be distributed into battery sized units (4-6 vehicles) and assigned to various battalions or brigades, so how much land combat value to give them. Look forward to your play test results- hope you share as you play each time.
Thanks,
Chris

All the major protagonists had mobile artillery in one form or another. Is your thought to limit the availability to nations who made the most use of it? We’ve had discussions around these type things, but ultimately decided that the game is a game more than a simulation and so if a player wants to buy one or if the Italian player wants to research jets, they should be allowed to.

@Titus thank you so much!

@Landkreuzer1000Ratte Did the Dutch fight? I was of the impression that when they capitulated in 1940, their military ceased all defensive operations. But fully prepared to be corrected. All that Dutch infantry will make the limited Japanese available infantry even more of a liability for Japan. If I were going to add all those troops, would feel obliged to balance with more Japanese troops. Does that then cause in balance in China if the Japanese player then opts to use his new found troops there rather than for an invasion of the money islands? Not sure I see the upside to this adjustment?

@jacobg We play with the limitations, ie only as many dice as there are planes and a max limit of 3 dice per AA gun, but we use 12 sided dice. So before the first round of battle begins, those AA shoot with a 1 or 2 being a hit. Before the second round of combat, same process, but now they hit only on a 1. So it might be worth saving them or buying the occasional one.

@Titus or would you be willing to just share a pdf of the silhouettes you used on your battle board? Looking forward to your thoughts. TIA, Chris

@FranceNeedsMorePower you’d have to paint them blue, but etsy has some nice figures with multiple options- even French Foreign legion

@Titus This is really nice. Would you be willing to share this as an editable file or PDF? We use d12 and I am trying to craft a battle board for that. This could really jumpstart my frustrated efforts thus far.
Looking forward to your thoughts.
Thanks,
Chris

@ScottMcCullar would it be possible, would I be too rude in asking, if you would consider sharing a pdf or jpeg of each of the icons you created in order to make this?
Thanks for any assistance.
Chris

@Pvt_Griff
Have you made any progress on the battle board you described crafting?
Certainly not asking in order to press, but rather in an effort to stay on your radar so that you might share with me what you have created.
Thanks!
Chris