Posts made by kdfsjljklgjfg

@miamibeach:

I hope there is a Gibraltar rule that prohibits surface combat ship and transport movement into and out of the Med unless you control it.  That would make Spain even more important.  I agree Spain is too weak.

I’m rather sure there is.

Germany can also attack France on their first move. They might wanna try to stop that.

Japan can invade the soviet far east as well. They should try to set up a defense there.

To me, it definitely looks like a 1 but I launched an investigation, resulting in the following:

The only units on UK according to the setup are Infantry and Fighters. I think that’s agreed upon.

If you would kindly load up the map of the setup at: http://yfrog.com/3utm3sj

Then you will see that on UK there is a non-infantry unit on the UK, as it’s kinda flat to be intended to be a sculpt of a person. Therefore, we must conclude it is a fighter. This unit has chips under it. Therefore I believe we can assume that the number is more than 1 Fighter.

@MEGAEINSTEIN:

How can you say that in the past none of the maps lined up?

Because none of the other maps were intended to play with the USA’s connected?

@LHoffman:

I voted Germany because overall they have the greatest challenge in playing the game well. I think they are very fun to play with. Overall… I could care less as long as it is one of the 6 major nations. I don’t want to, and won’t be, stuck playing a sideshow like France or China.

I’d actually have to guess the UK is the biggest challenge in G40. If Germany throws a solid sized air force into france, they can reach anything that decides to land on the shores of europe, making an invasion into France a challenge. In Africa, they start a bit outmatched by Italy, and have no shot in contending with the Italian navy’s ability to reinforce Africa. Then we all know of India vs. Japan’s massive air force.

They start off with a challenge on 3 different fronts, whereas Germany is 2, and you could argue 1 at a time until late game.

If you ask me, it seems Malta won’t matter much because they’d have to get enough there to be able to sink the whole Italian navy by scrambling, or get a decent land force in there to protect their planes, which would mean getting by the Italian navy, which if you can do it, likely means the Italian navy is sitting at the bottom of the Mediterranean, in which case you don’t need Malta.

I’m rather surprised Malta is empty.

Germany all the way. I’ve always liked Germany because of the overwhelming power that they start with in all games, and it’s always a race against the clock to break into Moscow before the allies break into Paris.

I pretty much play until an inevitable ending rears its ugly head, then my friends and I generally play out the biggest impending battles just to see how they would’ve gone, or to see how large of a chunk inevitable loser could take out of their foe’s force before falling.

The fact of the matter is:

If SU falls and UK or US aren’t in France or Italy with a complex or set up to take Germany before Germany’s next turn, then Germany outproduces the UK and wins.
If UK falls, the SU can’t hold Germany alone, and either the US goes to Europe and gives Japan free reign to send hordes of tanks into Russia, or they leave the Soviets to die alone.
If the US falls, that’s good game anyway.

Playing out to every last city is wholly unnecessary, since most of the time to get close, you basically get into a position where the end result is clear a full 2-3 turns before it would occur, wasting everyone’s time unless its a guarantee for multiple epic clashes.

I’m running an interesting game right now. I joined the war from day 1 as the US with the Allies, and right now I’m in August '41. Since February, my landing force of about 250,000 men has held the thin peninsula of Denmark, whilst the lazy AI did nothing. Seriously, UK hasn’t done a thing except sit on their isles and do nothing, but my landing force has held. On one occasion, 167,000 US troops held off about 1,175,000 German, Austrian (Germany didn’t do the Anschluss, and Austria consequently joined the Axis), Italian, and Hungarian troops, inflicting twice as many casaulties as taken.

I’m literally soloing the axis powers, as the Soviet Union didn’t even enter the war yet, as Germany didn’t trigger Barbarossa. They didn’t even do the MR-Pact, they just annexed Poland on their own.

IF one of them managed to take Washington, it would’ve been Japan, in my opinion. Japan was lightyears ahead of Germany on navy, as the Kriegsmarine was just plain pitiful compared to whatever the US could get up. The time to construct a navy would have put Germany far behind, and the Japs would already be on the mainland for some time before Germany got close.

@maverick_76:

So I’m looking at the map and it looks like the Sahara extends all the way to the Atlantic. Does that mean Morocco isn’t represented in this game, or just that it can’t be a landing spot for the US to help out in Africa? I do like that you have to go through Egypt to get around the Sahara, so Italy can’t just ignore the forces there and go South.

If I had to guess, it’s to ensure the importance of Gibraltar. Since you need Gibraltar to pass into the Med, and you can’t land in Africa without getting into the Med, that would:

A. Actually have Allied and Axis forces clashing at Gibraltar instead of taking turns landing men in Africa.
B. Give some added incentive for the Allies to hunt down the Italian navy, as it should make reinforcing Africa rather difficult in that case.

@Make_It_Round:

Let the data-mining begin, gentlemen…

1. West India looks like it starts with a minor IC.
   [Possible counter to Italian navy running wild in Indian Ocean?]
2. The French start with navy and substantial presence in Africa.
   [This could be misleading though, as the WOTC promo shots very often make no sense at all. For example, check out the US… it’s completely empty, but it seems that the Americans have taken over some German and some USSR territories for themselves!]
3. Italian units will remain virtually indistinguishable from USSR units in colour.
   [No suprise there… Bah!]
4. Unless I’m mistaken, there is a USSR battleship in the Baltic Sea!!!
   [ :-D]

I believe I see Americans in the Poland area, so this may not be the initial setup. But if it is, then Germany starts with a Mediterranean transport despite no IC there to make further ships.

@Whackamatt:

but the axis would probably never want the US able to focus only on one theater of war

Depends on which Axis player I’m controlling.   :lol:

It could be a good thing.  I won’t really know until I see the set up.  Perhaps America being unable to aid in Europe would spell the end for the UK or possibly Russia.

Pretty sure that Larry said that a US that doesn’t spend income both ways to a degree will usually result in an Allied loss. Probably Germany is powerful enough that if the US goes full steam toward Japan, then Germany can keep less men in France and bust through Russia easier.

France is likely not intended to be played by a single person, much like ANZAC.

@finnman:

What I’m confused about is were the USSR pacific setup will be.

It will probably be in the Europe book since that’s the one that has the global rules in it.

My friends and I never play with bids (we generally draw a playing card, and highest goes axis) and whenever I’m Axis I ALWAYS attack Karelia first turn. All of the infantry in Finland, an infantry and an artillery from Germany (or tank from Poland, depends on what my mood is)  and every plane that can reach that I wouldn’t prefer attacking the British navy.

Generally that ends up amounting to 3 Infantry, a tank or an arty gun, and 4 planes, plus the cruiser shoreshot. Generally it works a solid 80% of the time for me, but I can understand that there’s a significant risk.

I like the Axis just because I like my power being consolidated into a single force. At least in Europe, anyway.

If the US gets radar, then brings an AA gun to UK, then since only one AA gun can fire at a time, which AA gun fires if Germany strategic bombs the UK?

@idk_iam_swiss:

It was the most beautiful movie ever produced.

I second that.

It had the single greatest visuals I have ever seen in any movie, ever. One of the few times I could say I had a “jaw dropping moment”.

Having said that, the story was ok, the acting was average, and it didn’t really have you eager to see what happens next in the plot any more than what beautiful scenery you can see next. Although to be fair, it was well enough I’d place it in my top 10 favorite movies.