Posts made by Derek77

AA42 is my first A&A game, and I love it. A friend has the original, which I played before I bought this one.  After 6 hours tonight with no winner, I feel that this game is more balanced than the original.  However, the map is small, and we did have to dip into the old game for chips a few hours into the game.  We also used country markers for chips.  I printed out and used the big map that Imperious Leader has posted on his tagline and I couldn’t imagine going back to the little board, but it would work if you had to……  I have monopoly money from an old game for IPCs and I used a paint program to make myself a new battleboard like the original.  I am going to scan the old IPC tracker as well as the big map doesn’t have it on there like the little one does.

I too am thinking that two factories might be needed on the mainland to get enough material to Russia in a timely manner.  I have played AA42 twice as the Axis.  When I finished tonight’s game, I was having trouble getting enough material to challenge the massed armies in Russia with only one mainland factory, and I didn’t have to worry about the British in Asia.  My factory was in Indo-China.  It just seems like it takes too long to get there from Japan.  Maybe if I would’ve had one in Kwangtung as well then I could’ve massed infantry from both places to China and bought/brought tanks from Japan which could meet up with the infantry when they step into Sinkaing.