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Afternoon Malachi.
How do you young kids cross out words?
Your PC cleverness really infuriates me at times.
I know I cannot do it on my phone; has to be at the PC.

Well under your ‘train’ of thought (hehe) all planes and boats in WWII games should have unlimited movement.

You cannot approach it like that lol it would wreck the game.

Railroads give land units +1 movement just like shipyards and airfields in G40 give planes and boats +1 movement.
You should not be able to rail into a contested tt.

Ebay has had more and more listings of this set.

@Lt_V:

Thanks for the promo hkytown1 :-D  your check is in the mail ;)

Nice, save the check, send pieces! :-D

I can’t go a week without checking your list and telling myself “I don’t need another one, I don’t need another one.”  Expect an order from me soon in the future.

well the aircraft would be waiting for them in those territories so when the germans would enter the territory to initiate the attack each unit was taking 4 dice of strafing fire causing 50% casualties.

Looked on all the websites of Boardgamegeek list of Canadian boardgame store and I found 1 copy for 44.95,
Ordered 3 weeks ago. They had a problem handling it and it only shipped today, will receive it friday.
Can’t wait!

Error, I meant a CA.  No CV available on G1.

I dowloaded the hefty demo 290meg and I wonder how the campaign portion will play out?

It’ll take you the better part of 3 hours if you guys have played Axis & Allies before.

Anybody out there who goes to Penn State and wants to play 1941, Global 1940 alpha+3, D-Day or 1914?

@gperson2:

… Is there any way to counter this?

what you could do is… remind your russian playerthat his capital is very important and…DEFEND IT better.  :-o :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

hahaha…just kidding dont go all stalin on me.
i’ve tried this german tactic a couple of times, its never worked.  those troops get isolated, cut off and crushed when that far behind the front lines. so…generally speaking i agrre with what someone else said, it worked in that game because of thetranport/tank blitz mistake it sound like your guys made.

@Eggman:

@rmcbride:

When you say “If Germany drops a Naval base into the territory, it can contribute ships”  Doesn’t Germany also have to have an IC there before it can place ships in the SZ during ‘Mobilize units’ phase?

Yes, that is a misstatement.  I should have written drops an IC into the territory.  You don’t need a Naval Base in Yugoslavia since you can make use of the ones in Italy proper from the same SZ.

Ok thanx, that clarifies & now makes sense.

Attacking Russia as Japan always seemed to me as an operation that looked sweeter then it tasted.  I struggled for a long time to find a useful application of the Japan attacking Russia operation but in most cases I couldn’t see a possibility where the resources dedicated to it was the best possible outcome for the situation.

I certainly think there are options I didn’t think of, but if Germany needs the assistance from Japan to pressure Russia into submission I think there is a good sign that Japan could be dominating in the Pacific.  This is a discussion thread all on it’s own so I won’t continue…

@gperson2:

…do the Aleutian islands count as an island group a la Philippines,

Yes, they even have an US roundel

@gperson2:

…or are they meant to be connected to Alaska so land units can move between the two?

No.

@Gargantua:

@BJCard:

Read up on what they are doing on a KAF strag on AA1940 Pacific.  I am merely suggesting to couple that with a Germany faking sealion and attacking the USA mainland with 20+ units the same turn Japan is attacking the USA mainland with 20+ units and 20+ planes.

The trick to this, is to go for Gibraltar G2, or sometimes G3, and feign like you are going into the med.  The americans sometimes don’t pay attention and forget that you can reach washington from Gibraltar.  then BOOM you get to land in EUS and CUS. and they are done.  So long as the Canadians can’t liberate them…

This guy know what he speaks!

Just an idea, never tried this but it should work: put the “collect income” phase form the end to the beginning of the turn. Right now the rule book tells, that you have to collect income at the end of the turn, where you receive money for all countries you just conquered. It’s the widest expansion of your force in a certain round and for that reason associated with a “maximum income”. In the course of the round, when the other parties start their combat moves you probably lose previously conquered terrain and hence IPCs you just have “earned” in your turn of the round. Starting a turn with the collect income phase would let you earn less money a turn in comparison to the collect income phase at the end of the turn. Eventually that’s the logic behind the idea:

rules: collect income at the the end - widest expansion - maximum income - more units could be bought - prolongation of battles -more time invested
idea:  collect income at the beginning - smallest expansion - only minimum income -less unit could be bought - shortening of battles due to less resources - less time invested.