Posts made by lnmajor

Very nice work on this IL. Can the ratios on the aircraft be changed to put more planes on the board at start? or will that throw the balance off? Maybe every 100 fighters= 1fighter?
is there a way to balance fighter ratios based on how many planes or squadrons an carrier can hold? with your ratio 2 planes on a WW2 carrier represent 500 planes, is that correct? and if it is, were carriers at that time able to hold that many fighters?

how about Canadian special forces with hockey sticks and they wack grenades with the hockey sticks over long distances? :-D

Thank you Emperor Taiki for taking time out to relay all this great info. it must be very exciting to be at Gen Con. :-)

@finnman:

So let me get this straight you nee an airbase to land aircraft. :? :? Plus don’t you think that naval bases make it hard too attack coastlines. I mean attacking Japan would be impossible.

I think this means if you attacked Japan and Japan had ships in port those ships would not be able to defend with ground troops and aircraft. thats the trade off for the protection of a port, while in port ships cant respond to an immediate threat.

How successful was Italy in flooding Africa with troops? Was the UK able to slow them down in the MED?

Should i start a new thread for Revised Global 40 aircraft rules? I dont want to take away the focus of what you started here, but you got me going now. whats the right way to do it?

do you agree with 5 ipc upgrade of AB to accept bombers?

@miamibeach:

What is ILs World at War?  I play World in Flames by ADG…the best WWII game created(that I know about).  Its probably the most popular too with 4 world-wide annual cons(Germany, Australia, California, and Michigan).  There is a very active Yahoo support list/group, and Matrix Games is working on a computer version…probably out in about two years.

Miamibeach, its Axis n Allies on a 8x4 board with similar to AAG40 but IL designed it like 10 yrs ago. The new AAG40 is alittle different with a few updated concepts, but this guys way ahead of the curve.

definitley can be a game changer

had an idea :-o
what about a Canadian cammando unit that really kicks butt and does spicialized missions?

@BadSpeller:

Which would prevent Italy from camping their fleet by Egypt, thus changing many things. (India, middle east, etc.)

Yes definitley, and again all I have to say is MALTA, MALTA,MALTA!!

landing craft are cool. i have them. table tatics makes them i believe.

UK needs Gibralter to shuttle down aircraft to MED and N Africa quickly. it would be wise for Italy to take Gibralter right away to stop this and deter UK navy from entering MED.

AAGGGHHHH!! screwed up that post, dont feel like rewriting, you get the idea  sorry made my post look like your quote.

@Imperious:

Does the cost of these need to drop to say 8 IPC?

I was thinking 5 ipc so they are not cost prohibitive, we want players to build and use airbases right? But, you need to spend an extra 5 ipcs to upgrade them to accept bombers. This would work especially well on pacific islands.

hey IL
Since you started this tread and began it taking about planes, i have a complete set of revised rules for aircraft. If you and others are interesred in looking at them let me know if i should post them in this thread or not. i have playtested these new rules and they are good. i think they would work well with the starting setup ratios you are talking about.

The main issue i see with this is that anything Canada would do, combat or spending IPCs would be to directly support British anyway.its only creating another step in the  turn order and slowing the game down. i thought at first that it was great to have France separate from the British forces, but after Germany crushes France and takes their Capital, it isnt worth the time to try to play France as a seperate entity.
if you want to play Canada so you can take over a pacific island or something just paint a bunch of pieces a different color, separate Canacain IPC income from British, insert Canada into the turn order after Britian, and go nuts.

@purplebaron:

Here’s another interesting twist on the whole Med thing.  Italy can bring units to Libya every turn with a single fleet, but if Italy is trying to transport to Egypt or Alexandria, they need two fleets to deliver units every turn.  If Malta is fortified, Italy will have to invest a LOT of production to get two fleets that can survive the air strike.

Thats it Purplebaron! you just hit it out of the park!

i think NBs shelter ships from attack by other ships. but does not protect ships from any aircraft. in fact ships should be more vulnerable to planes, just like Pearl harbor. AA guns always fire. maybe ships if you play with separate AA for ships. tac bombers, dive bombers, torpedeo bombers whatever you want to call them get attack bonus against ships in port.

just got to FL. in May. relocated from NJ. havent even thought to find anyone yet. but all this talk and with AAE40 coming out im starting to itch. i have ILs deluxe world at War 39 to 45 map. its 4ft x 8ft. its sick!