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@martin Ha, no problem, I’m sure it’s all fair. Good to get these things out of the way early!

@superbattleshipyamato said in Novel naval base placements?:

Why one at Midway though?

There are 3 different 3 space moves to Japan, so forces Japan to use 3 blockers or stack their home waters with a fleet to defend.

@nishav Not exactly the same rule as you suggest, but the idea of restricting where capital ships can be produced seems popular.

@martin Yes please, should be a good air battle!

@superbattleshipyamato said in Why do people call it Russia instead of the Soviet Union?:

The game takes place in the 1940s though.

Whilst officially known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics it was totally dominated by the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which was often referred to Soviet Russia or Russia.

I believe In the 40’s, it was commonly called Russia. I think the game was developed in the 80’s for a western market which still largely used the term Russia.

@argothair said in WW2 Path to Victory - Feedback Thread:

I’m trying this out for the first time; it’s pretty interesting so far. I like the islands in the middle of sea zones, and I like having some of the extra sea zones to maneuver in. I also like the larger Lake Ladoga.

Yes, the larger map definately makes it more interesting in the Pacific and Russian theatres, I get lost in the 3D chess match and lose whole fleets in the Pacific but it is a nice change from the G40 map and with the carrier scramble mechanic you have to really think about how you position your fleets.

I saw what I thought was a bug – I activated Vichy on F2, and most of the French colonies went pro-Axis, as they should, but Southern France stayed bright blue. It looked like the French were able to attack Northern Italy out of Southern France if they wanted to. Is that coded differently than it is in Global Bal Mod, or am I missing something?

Yeah, looks like something didn’t quite go as intended as far as I know. All the land units in S.France should go pro-Axis neutral (although cannot be commandered under the “Zone Libre” rule). Looks like the units which started in S.France changed but not the one moved in from Normandy, then it persuaded the original two units to change their mind and join the Free French!

I was able to recreate this - Vichy combat.tsvg.
Maybe this situation hasn’t come up before?

@Martin Went ahead with the battle as I couldn’t see any way the order of losses would have changed anything, but let me know if I was wrong.

@flyingbadger said in How and when do you use mechs?:

@tin-can-of-the-sea They look cool

Well, except Japan’s

@argothair said in WW2 Path to Victory - Feedback Thread:

@flyingbadger One more bug, I think – as UK Pacific, I was unable to place a minor factory in Kyushu even after controlling it for two full turns. It works fine on edit mode, just not as part of the normal unit placement.

I think that a minor factory should be placable on Kyushu, at least with my understanding of the rules, certainly Japan can, suppose UK pacific should be able to as well.

@martin Seems okay, hopefully just a graphical thing. If anything fundamental is affected hopefully we can edit it to sort it out anyway.

@cds No probs, leave them there. Maybe the tank can fire from the transport… Have to remember to manually pick a route.

I like the idea of a signature. Could be fun and another way to personalise posts. Seems a nice incentive to go silver/gold and then stay there to keep it.

@martin Yes please, I think it’s time to fight back against these pesky Japanese planes!

@cds said in malmessi74 (Axis) v FlyingBadger (Allies) - PtV LL:

@flyingbadger

I am helping malmessi to get the game going, just send a few mails with instructions… I hope that the instructions will be sufficient…

@cds @malmessi74
That’s fine with me, I’m happy to be patient and I’ll help however needed.

I’ve renewed, thanks @djensen for this great website :star:

@martin Ouch! Walked into that one. The battle of the Carolines was not good for the USN, and the ANZACs got wacked again!

@cds No worries, there’s no rush. Nice of you to give blood before spilling mine!

@djensen said in Axis & Allies .org 2024 Support Drive:

For those of you who I was very delinquent in assigning badges, you will get a special discount for the special 25th Anniversary badge.

No problem, just grateful for this website. Thanks for sorting out the performance issues we had earlier in the year.

@martin I felt like I had momentum after taking Rome, but have struggled to break though quicky since then whilst Moscow and India hold out. My supply lines get stretched and it takes a few turns for purchases to get to where they are needed.

@cds said in FlyingBadger (Axis) vs CDS (Allies) - PtV:

@flyingbadger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE_jX9E40M0

Guderian and his Actung Panzer! did revolutionise land warfare in 1940. Everyone else was still using tanks to support infantry, be used mechanised infantry to support tanks.