Posts made by Croesus

Thank you all.

Yes I suppose, but I’m a cheapo, so I don’t want to buy $140 in A&A official games, and not really $40 on an Ink cartridge needed to print on of those maps+ player aids, after all my debit has $100 on it, and I’d have to work for four weeks to gain the money needed, then it’d be a chore persuading my mom to let me “waste” money on a game when it’s just going to “be replaced a year later”. Then by the time that’s done it’s late November and I need the money to cover Christmas. then I need to work it back until I have the money, then it’s february.

People Like IL create lovely maps that I would love to use, however I can’t figure out how to make them
Help Appreciated,
Croesus

Does anyone have any tried and true alternate setups for 1939, 1940, 1941

If not, maybe we should make one, then work together to playtest it to perfection.

Can someone please write down the numbers of neutrals because staring at the screen gives me a headache

While it is easy to muster the forces to take Spain, the repercussions of doing so make it suicide. effectively it’s still against the rules to invade most neutrals. You would fast lose every other neutraljust the 4 infantry in southern africa would be enough to turn the tables with luck. The war with russia would be a lost cause if 18 IPCs of infantry joined them, kiss goodbye to norway. and just think about how india may be saved by the afghans, china by the mongols. Europe by the Turks

1-2: Only a fool makes the same mistake twice.
Their mistake: having too many mistakes\

Battle of the Atlantic would be neato. But would we visit the river plate? When would it start? What kind of victory conditions are we looking at?

Will Portugal be there?
Pro-Allied, I would think. Yes, They gave the Germans Tungsten but only after being forced. And they let us use Azores

@Funcioneta:

You forget Mongolia. I think we can be sure of the Mongolian setup being the same for Global as it was in AAP40. We cannot be sure about if the Mongolian rules for Global are going to be the shame (sorry, the same  :roll:) that were in AAP40, but even if they are not going to be the same and Mongolia acts as a real life country, those are 6 infs to add to the total. That means a very wide USSR/Japan front with 24 units if Japan decides attack USSR

OK, I’ll be pessimist (or realist  :-P ) and I’ll guess we are going to suffer the same crappy rules that we had in AAP40 for neutrals/China. If so:

• Japan can ignore any type of attacks from chinamen and also from mongoliamen, so soviets will have to fight for Mongolia and Siberia alone, without any aid from China or Mongolia
• Let’s imagine that Japan has advantage and can choose when attack USSR. Probably that means buying a Manchuria IC J1, toasting chinamen by J4-5 and having free hands for Manchukuo troops to storm Siberia at pleasure. Then, Japan could use her starting strat bombers to make the trades with USSR without losing much navy power (SBs are tricky to use in fleet battles) with a frontline of 3 territories. I’ll assume that soviet units from Amur will evacuate it J2 or J3 as much, so you can guess that the 2 mongoliamen at Buyant will be easy prey. The other 4 mongoliamen are a bit safer, but if Mongolia is not pro-allies (high chance), soviet troops cannot stack with them: they must attack and kill the mongoliamen or wait for Japan do the dirty job. Any case, mongoliamen are not going to aid allied cause very much. USSR will have then a difficult dilema: try fighting Siberia with inferior forces (maybe distracting a fighter from Germany) or ignoring Siberia and making it a great IPC source for Japan and a big IPC sink for USSR. Any case, bad news
• Let’s imagine the oppositte scenario: Japan has disadvantage and, after mopping China, they have not enough resources to fight the soviet troops. Then, soviets can be gamey, attack Dza (1 inf), ignore all the rest of mongoliamen totally and open a new front against Japan in China, and Japan cannot make use of those 6 mongoliamen that in a real world would join Japan or at least defend as a whole country

Any case is highly probable that without a non-agression rule Japan and USSR will fight, and soon, and that is going to unbalance the whole Asian theater unless testers did a superb good job, all just because Larry likes senseless ACME walls everywhere and dislikes a historical non-agression pact rule. Given the last results with the testing in AA50 and AAP40, my bet is a great failure

Resume: we have not two separate fronts (China vs Japan & USSR vs Japan), in fact Mongolia is the center of the Soviet-China-Japan front and it’s open to gamey exploits because of poor rules

Prediction: we’ll have to mod the neutral rules and make a non-agression pact house rule

If there is a Manchuoko IC, Japan will have to defend it like heck. Therefore, Money still kept up north! :^)

Sorry to resurrect a thread that had it’s last post nearly two months ago but…
What if we put Italy and Japan together. It would allow Japan to have a hand in everything
2 Player: Axis v. Allies
3 Player: 1. axis 2. Russia/China 3. All others
4 Player: Japan/Italy 2Germany 3. Russia/China 4. Normal Allies
5 Player: Japan/Italy 2. Germany 3. Russia/China 4. UK/ANZAC 5.USA/ France
6 Player: 1-3 axis powers 4-6Allied powers as above
7 Player: 1-3. Axis 4-6 Major Allies 7. Minor Allies
8 Player: Seperate anzac
9 Player: Each for himself

This way for a game of 2-6 everybody sees both theatres while the game stays mostly historically correct (Italy Japan is a small matter as opposed to Russia+Democracy

DANGIT!  I’ve wanted to allow russianships in the caspian for forever.Just give it a number PLEASE :wink:
Dost mine eyes deceive me? Or is Madagascar a different Colour than normal french stuff?
Will portugal be pro allies, pro axis, or neutral? I can’t tell, But from history I’d give the true neutralor pro allies.

pardon any double posting but this is a long topic to go through

I am making indian roundels to track their different cash flows, but nothing else.

Score 1 for the outspoken USSR+China team!
Join the squad, Clyde85

On Suriname

I was serious about everything except liechtenstein and swaziland
The Dutch have their own roundel, might as well use it

Or with china

Narvik surrendered after Dunkirk, can’t it be a territory (northern norway) worth 1, and southern Norway a different
Crete held long after greece fell, does it get its own ground?
Will suriname be dutch, guyana british, and French guiana french
Will the caribean be split into northern (british) and southern (french)
Will brazil be more than one territory
How many american territories are there?
Canadian?
Northern Ireland?
Iceland with IPC value?
Liechtenstein will be a true nuetral, right?
What about swaziland

Is that near Lake Woebegone?

@questioneer:

FMG BABY, FMG!!!

Where I live, that stands for somesthing obscene. But I know what you mean