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Larry said there will be ANZAC in Egypt

DON’T FORGET ABOUT THE ANZAC INFANTRY IN EGYPT!!!

Raeder, why do you think that Russia will be such a pushover? Sure, it’s easy to steamroll China, but that’s because it’s 27 planes vs. what, like 9 infantry? How easy do you think it is to beat 9 Chinese infantry plus 18 Soviet infantry? Spread out all over 9 territories? While simultaneously smashing India, capturing the DEI, fighting annoying ANZAC raiding parties, and keeping the US from building a super navy with its +30 IPC’s? There is going to be ABSOLUTELY NO tank drive to Moscow. Not in the early game at least. Japan has to much work to do in the south were it counts to mess with Russia and inch through nine 1 IPC territories. Japan would need a major IC in the north AND south in order to pump out units to fight Russia and China and India. And if it’s buying tanks and mech infantry for Asia, how much less is it spending on its navy? Global isn’t going to be like Pac40 at all IMHO. Japan won’t be able to shift every single unit it has away from Asia after China and India fall. This will relieve the US and ANZAC from quite a bit of pressure I believe. Russia is going to be a very credible threat to Japan. Even with a mere 18 infantry.

Allies: Have more planes than Japan - 100,000 points, board explodes

The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous land empire. British is the largest of all time, it just isn’t all connected.

And scholars wonder how it was drained of its resources…

@McMan:

Obviously, whichever side Portugal joins is basically going to win.

cough…sarcasm…cough…

I believe there is a Soviet NO that gives a bonus for having no Allied units in the USSR, so it would appear that the Western Allies can indeed enter Soviet territory.

Yeah, with such a huge empire, its a shame that Portugal isn’t represented very well within the game. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Larry said something on his site about leaving Portugal out for the sake of simplicity and balance. Obviously, whichever side Portugal joins is basically going to win.

They should have a box for those people in that movie Defiance. They could have a fancy Daniel Craig sculpt.

Texas should get a box. I hear it’s like a whole other country. Although, everything is bigger in Texas, so they might demand a huge box and that would create asymmetry!

I think they should definitely do both if that was the case historically. If they’re expanding theaters like North Africa and the Middle East, I think the Mediterranean should be expanded as well. I hope to see an increasing importance of the UK possessions in the Med. Cyprus, Malta, and Gibraltar should all be territories with bases. IMHO, they should be linked to a national objective, seeing as they were all critical UK naval outposts. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Larry said something about having a smaller number of NO’s to keep the game from getting too complex, so I suppose this is all wishful thinking for now. :cry:

In the rulebook, in the Game Components section on page 4, there is a large picture of the board. Korea is labeled with an IPC value of 2 instead of 3. Since this is such a big deal, I thought I’d point it out. :roll:

And because you know you’re missing stuff, you buy the new one every year, leading to more PROFITS for the fat cat CEO’s!  :evil: Wait, are we talking about iPods or A and A?

How did we miss this before?

Also, a German BB (Tirpitz) off the coast of Norway to chomp on Allied convoys :evil:! Also, an increased importance for UK Mediterranean bases (Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus), although it sounds like Gibraltar will already be playing a more important role. Planes should be able to attack convoys.

I request a dynamic North African/Middle Eastern Front! I also request a game in which Germany can’t capture a single territory and be on equal industrial footing with the US… I find Revised guilty of violating both of these requests! :-P

@fuglunkx:

Also the map will actually be Europe’s political borders during WWI.

Actually, It will be the political borders of sometime between 780 and 800. The game starts with only the Byzantines at war with the Arabs. After three turns, if Bulgaria is still neutral, it automatically declares war on Constantinople. Also on the third turn, the U.S. enters the war on the Byzantines’ side. Up until that point, it can lend-lease Greek Fire and dromonds, but only up to fifteen IPC’s worth of each.

If Japan has put that many resources into taking India, China would probably still be fairly alive-ish. If the US took TRUK, they could use that to send transports to China in one turn and blitz a bunch of territorites, assuming you brought tanks, behind the majority of the Japanese forces. This could be a huge pain for Japan because China can now build on either side of the Japanes forces and take back even more territory. If we’re still thinking in terms of a US “conveyer belt” to the DEI, this wouldn’t even hamper that strategy too much. The US fleet at TRUK can hit every island except Sumatra and ANZAC could do transport work to actually take the islands. I’m wondering whether this would be effective in diverting the IJN if the US sent their whole TRUK fleet to China instead of just transports. Right now I’m thinking not…

Oh, by the way, I’ve only played 4 games of Pacific so someone please tell me why I’m wrong before I do this for real and get my butt handed to me.  :-D

Every single one of them.