Posts made by jwo1984

any thought of giving southern france to Germany? with the minor and naval base there, germany can drop some ships in.  A axis AC in the med would be alarming to the allies.

how is the scale of the b29’s? are they similar to the OOB b17’s?  HBG has those Rita bombers in there Japanese expansion set which have some nice detail for painting, and a great size for a bomber in my opinion.  Have you found any detailed ships from shapeways in the right scale for AA?  I have looked but haven’t had much luck

hi there,

Any of you axis players consider placing a IC in Norway turn 1 Europe ed 2?  my buddy and I have been trying out this strategy, it protects the German NO and allows fast troop and armor deployment into Leningrad. It does make for a juicy target for the US to try and take however, as well as strategic bombing raids from UK.

that’s cool sounds like your a big fan like myself.  Do you have any preference to sides axis? allies?  My friend and I are still trying out new strategies.  I enjoy playing the axis the most, however 2 outa 3 times we play the person playing allies usually wins.  Are you a WW2 history buff at all, or just a war game fan?  I have a lot of patients and a knack for painting.  So I have customized my gaming pieces, all historically accurate paint schemes colors and markings for each country.  I hated how messy and cramped piling all those pieces can be so I glued all the fighters and bombers onto stands of varied heights….makes for way more room for all your ground units!  glued tiny magnets onto the carriers for the planes to sit on cause I hated how the would fall off all the time…I’m sure you know what I mean any avid player gets annoyed by this lol.

Also did you try the 1914? whats your opinion of it?

in the summer time ya ill ride up to etown now and again. What versions do you like play? i’m a big fan of the Europe 1940 either ed, and the spring 42 second ed.

hello, this is probably a silly question, but the book has the starting incomes of each power for the global ed 2 in the back.  They have the US slated at 52 ipc’s.  and then they also have all the US NO’s bonus values. So US cant enter the war till end of turn 3, and in Europe and pacific they start out at 17ipcs, then get their war time bonus in on turn 3.  My question is in global does US start out turn 1 with 52 ipc’s? Then when they are at war they can get or go after there NO’s??

I know this was posted quite some time ago now.  My friend and I have just started playing…about a year now, Eu1940, Pc1940, spr42.  Always great to find players, learn different strategys

hello I have a question regarding AC rules….I have taken over a island in the combat phase  then placed a AC there with fighters in the island sea zone during the non combat phase. I know I cant land planes on that captured island till my next turn.  However my AC gets attacked and takes one hit.  The planes that defended it can no longer land on the damaged AC but they have one movement space to land in a friendly territory.  Can I land those planes on the island the AC was defending that I had taken over last turn?? or are the dead in the water?

hello, me and my buddy have been playing the original 1940.  we tried playing the with the second edition rules recently.  does any good axis player know any strategies for this version?  it seems the italian navy is spread out vunerable and gets completely destroyed by the uk in turn one making it next to impossible to build transports and protection to get over to north africa with 10 ipcs.  Also for germany…the russians get a additional 9 ipcs bonus each turn for that far eastern territory.  It was hard enough taking russia down in 5-6 turns and now they get that bonus.  Also with having the uk and usa turns go back to back it is crippling for germany when it comes to allied stragetic bombing raids.  Any help please?? havent found any forums on the second edition strategies here.