Playing the new A&A online game and having trouble as axis. Does anyone know what exactly the larry harris gencon 3.0 start changes compared to out of the box 1942 2nd edition?

I usually build a transport in Italy and the rest infantry, but the UK can easily sink your battleship and transports in the Mediterranean in the new setup. Therefore you have to also get a destroyer in Italy to protect your southern navy if you want to eventually push into africa. This further decreases the ground troops you can build up in Europe… Long story short, anyone have a good strategy for turn 1 and 2 build order for Germany? Builds for Japan also welcome but I seem to be doing much better with them.

I’m trying to find where I can buy fleet markers / blow up boxes to use for my 1940 global game so I can fit all our fleets in some of the smaller sea zones.

I’ve seen some people call these fleet markers and others call them blow up boxes but I have no idea where I can buy some and haven’t had any luck searching online so I’m not sure if I’m even searching the correct terms for them or not. I’m basically just looking for US and Japan markers and any help is appreciated!

This isn’t really answered in the rule book so maybe this would fall more into house rules…

Europe 1940 / Global question.

Can players of either the axis team or allied team talk strategy to each other (person to person) on how they want to attack their opponents or does every power have to operate separately and try to read what their team is doing?

For example. Player one is Germany and player 2 is Italy. Can they have a person to person conversation where the German commander agrees to build up and take only Russia and have Italy focus on Africa for IPCs but in return Italy has to reinforce Germany with troops. Is that allowed?

Example 2. All team powers are barred from person to person conversations about team strategy and just have to read the battle field on when to help an ally.

It doesn’t specifically state in the rule book so I didn’t know if this is part of the a and a rules or just house.

Thank you in advance to any answers. If you have played one way or another please tell me how it went and what you like better. Input is always welcome.