Posts made by Narvik

The first pic show the old map, where the eastern part of Turkey were not adjacent to the Med, and the sec pic show the new map where a fighter can move from Caucasus into the Med and back again, which is no good from any historical or realistic points of view

Like I told you, HBG is on facebook

@oztea:

Still no map previews then?
Been about 6 months.

Look at facebook, the New map is great

wow, now that was something  8-)

You are off topic again, Kurt, 4 engines remember ?

They should have give the CV an attack factor of 1, just to recognize it as a warship

@corporal:

  I have the Global 1939 from Historical Boardgaming….was wondering if anyone has come up with a '39 setup for Global 1940

Go to House rule forum and look at the AARHE rules files, its a sticky.

Black Elk, I see your point. But this can be solved. When you play A&A Revised or 42 online at GameTableOnline, and you are confused what icon you see, just point your mouse at the icon and text will come up, like (Destroyer) etc…

Yes, I bought the Landing craft sets for my D day game. Less than 40 pieces and it cost me as much as an A&A game. It was delivered by UPS, and since I was not home, the total cost would finally reach what I paid for A&A Europe and Pacific together. On top of that, I had to buy paint.

It didn’t come cheap, but now I got some cool Landing Craft pieces for my D-day game that my friends don’t have.

its called www.shapeways.com

….zero People want to play France…?

…strange…wonder why…?

Yes Marc, but in that case UK and France could just as well accepted the proposal from the Sovjet Foreign minister Litvinov and marched into Germany in 1933 to arrest Hitler. After all, Hitler did threat to attack USSR in his book Mein Kampf, so nobody could say they didn’t know. It looks like the capitalist Brits hated the commies so much, they wanted Germany to grow strong and kill the commies. So no, I don’t think the Brits or the French would have done anything to prevent the war from starting. It had to be prevented by someone else, like the Terminator coming to 1936 by accident, and mistaking Hitler for John Connor

Yes I believe that God the almighty could have prevented this war, if he was not so keen on punishing the Jews. Of course WWII could have been part of his Master Plan to get the Jews moving into the promised land Israel, and in that case, WWII would have been unavoidable

IMHO the WWII could have been prevented if the French had honored the Versailes Treaty and not been idiots that occupied Germany 10 years after the war just for revenge. They should have known that hatred would grow in the German hearts when they starved.

Yes, if the Art School had accepted Hitler as a student after WWI, then he would have spent his time making art, not war

Hello, the war could have been prevented during the attack on Austria in 1938. Canaris had mobilized several troops of military police to arrest Hitler for war mongering, but he changed his mind when he realized how happy the German people got, and the next year it was too late

@wittmann:

Japan is overpowered, Russia is underpowered and too easily neutered.
Germany might be just about right for me.
Italy:  don’t get me started on how ridiculous it  can become.

I am not sure, but I guess this has something to do with balance and playability, since this is supposed to be a fun game and not a serious simulation. If you try to make a game with the real numbers, Italy will not be fun to play. As I remember USA had 40 % of the worlds military potential, Germany and USSR had 14 %, UK 10, France 4, Japan 2 and Italy only 1 %.

….and I operate with one UK player.

UK, Canada, ANZAC, India, South Africa and all colonies are one UK player.

Its a houserule thread, and Black Elk want a more simple game, not a long and complex one. 9 players don’t make for a simple game, it should be between 2 and 4. All UK nations, USA and China will probably be played by the same person. So why not gather all UK territories into one single UK player ? Why split it up ?

Yes, as Spitfired said, UK should be one economy and one player, not 3.

If UK want to place 10 units in London and none in India, every turn, that should be a decision of the UK player, and not the game designer. I believe they added the ANZAC and Indian players for no good reasons.

Come to think about it, the facilities can be improved too. We don’t need major or minor IC,s. The classic factory rule, that let the IPC value of the territory decide how many units to place, was good enough. Just fix the IPC values with a pencil. Scotland was never worth 2 anyway.

On Turn orders and DOWs.

A very old House rule is the All Axis turn, then the All Allies turn. So basically Germany, Italy and Japan purchase units, combat move, resolve combat, non combat move and place units  at the same time. Then all Allies do the same. Now this is a real time saver, and it only take away the dead time when 7 players are waiting bored for one player to do his stuff. But it will affect the tactics, since some players like to exploit the gamey stuff like can openers or reinforce a newly captured territory with other nations fighters. But besides that, the All Axis All Allies turn is very good.

Now since some players start as neutrals, I suggest this

All Axis turn
All Allies turn
All Neutrals turn

While not at war, neutral USA and USSR must purchase units and do non combat movement in the All Neutrals turn. After they have been attacked, they move to the All Allies turn for the rest of the game.

I think all neutrals should be attackable, even the true ones. But Spain, Turkey and Sweden should be cut in several territories, not just a big one. So if Germany attack Western Turkey, then the other parts of Turkey join the All Allies turn. It would be too bad if vital areas and great war contributes like Spain, Turkey and Sweden was impassable just because of simplicity.