love playing the game…how about a setup for June 22, 1941? germany starts Operation Barbarossa…bypass all the politics and just jump right into the war?
or a 1942 setup…the turn of the tide…or should i just use the European Map setup of Larry Harris’ Global 42 setups?
love playing the game…how about a december 7th 1941 setup that just jumps everyone right into the war…forgetting about all the politics
and a 1942 setup that basically starts right after the battle of the coral sea?
Or should i use Larry Harris’ Global 42 setup…just using the Pacific Map setups?
@CWO:
read somewhere that Larry Harris is now working on another Global WW2 game
Can you recall the source for this? I’d be very interested in finding out more, if that’s indeed the case. The last I’d heard was that Larry wasn’t planning any 3rd edition of Global at the present time.
i would like to know that also…although…if there is going to be something new…we are in the 75th anniversary of the start of WW2
@CWO:
I need opinions before i shell out 50 for a copy of 1942 2nd just to cannibalize it…
In case you’ve never seen it, here’s a classic video about the lack of sufficient pieces in the 1940 game. I especially like the joke about the poker chips.
ROFL :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
and yes…i love the Hitler rant videos…hilarious…
on a straight note…i actually did watch the entire film “DownFall”…Bruno Ganz might have been the best “Hitler”…great film BTW…all WW2 buffs should watch it
again…just have to say…very well done…simple and to the point…waiting now for global 40
very nice…not too cluttered and just perfect for what i need
@Young:
Board games have an extremely low profit margin, it’s a miricle any get made at all.
I cant argue that…especially with video games and so forth…but then again…its still feels good when u get together with a whole bunch of friends to throw dice around… :lol:
actually the chips in 1942 2nd are different from the chips in e40 and p40…and u r right YG…i forgot about the mech inf…so…it looks like i will be getting 1 extra copy of e40 and p40…since i know p40 is cheaper at this time…have to aorder another one today…i will get another copy of e40 the next week…thanks to all…
in passing…im surprised the makers of the awesome game…didnt playtest this game for piece availability…or if they did…they WANTED customers to purchase more than one copy of the game to make sure they got extra pieces…
and i still dont understand WHY no IPCs in the game…they are EXTREMELY NECESSARY to have…you really cant play A&A without them…very tedious if you dont have IPCs
i did order 2 packs of HBG’s IPCs…and i like how they did them…that should be more than enough for two copies of e40 and p40…
ok…i dont think i need to go that far…but i am impressed with those counts…my question was…for the casual player…would 1 copy of e40 and p40 and s42 be enough for pieces? i know i wont get italian, french, and anzac units out of s42…but since they really dont get much play anyway…u think i could get away with 1 extra copy of s42 or do i really need to get 1 more copy each of e40 and p40?
what do u guys think? In order to have enough pieces for either Europe or Pacific 40…instead of getting two copies of each…do u think getting a copy 1942 2nd edition and then splitting the pieces up between e40 and p40…also getting some of HBGs national production certificates and ordering the extra tac bombers that 1942 doesnt have…would that be enough pieces to play global?
I gotta tell u… i run out of chips and pieces just playing pacific…
I need opinions before i shell out 50 for a copy of 1942 2nd just to cannibalize it…
@CWO:
The closest thing I’ve seen to an A&A game in a James Bond film was a global combat video game called Domination, which appears in the unofficial Bond movie Never Say Never Again. The game, as I recall, is played on a vertical sheet of transparent glass on which a computer graphic of the world is projected, with the players sitting on opposite sides of the glass, their hands on pairs of joysticks. One interesting feature of the game – which I’d hate to see replicated in A&A – is that the loser “suffers along with his troops” by receiving an electric shock proportional in strength to the extent of his losses.
being a major james bond fan…i do remember the game…
ok…thanks for the reply…so let me see…
so a james bond adventure with A&A as a background or something
I think i’ll call it “Chairman of the Board: An Axis & Allies adventure”
What do you think?
Oh…BTW…my CR*** pipe is still on the table if you guys think i need to take a puff… :-D
okay…i know im gonna get spammed and laughed at for this outrageous idea:
Can someone make a fictional movie about two young adults playing in an A&A national championship tournament?
Round 1: Spring 1941
Round 2: Spring 1942 2nd Edition
Round 3: Pacific 1940 2nd Edition
Round 4: Europe 1940 2nd Edition
Round 5: Global 1940 2nd Edition
Does anyone think a movie like this could be a great blockbuster or should i go back to smoking c****? :roll:
A&A gets some MAJOR national TV exposure!!! LOVELY!!! :mrgreen:
These are games i would like to play:
A&A Operational:
Barbarossa (The Great Patriotic War)–the entire war in the east
Stalingrad
Kursk
Crusade in Europe–D-Day to the fall of Berlin
Operation Sealion–Hypothetical
The Battle of the Atlantic
War in the Desert–Rommel’s War
Midway
Operation Downfall–Invasion of Japan
Leyte Gulf
Invasion of Iwo Jima
Burma Road–The China-Burma-India Theater
Off WW2 games:
American Civil War
The Napoleonic Wars from Toulon to Waterloo
Just my ideas IMO…i would love to see these in A&A style
Germany was already losing and would have kept losing with or without the US. Japan would have run rampant in the Pacific until Germany got dealt with, then UK and the Commonwealth countries would have started pushing Japan back. So basically, Germany would have fallen in 1944 anyway (1945 at the latest) and Japan would have taken a lot longer to settle, maybe until 1950. But The Allies definitely would have won WWII even if the US had stayed out of it the whole time.
ok…as i said play a game of A&A global 1940 with the US remaining neutral and win the war with just the UK and USSR and the ANZAC and france and let me know how the game goes…the US does not enter the war at ALL unless JAPAN attacks pearl…so tell the Japanese player NOT to attack Hawaii or ANY US territory and he does NOT have to worry about USA’s industrial might the entire game and the USA can still purchase units but at it’s non-war income level and they can do non-combat movement and they cannot attack anybody.
oh…germany was NOT already losing in december of 1941, the east front had bogged down into winter and had slowed them down, but the germans had still captured a lot of territory in the first six months of the great patroitic war however, Rommel was still very strong in north africa, japan was pushing deep into china, and britain was saying SOS to america at this time before december 6 because the germans were making killings in the battle of the atlantic, please tell me how the allies win this war without the men and industrial juggernaut that was the USA, remember please…the battles and invasions that the US participated in…do not take place…which means no operation torch, no normandy, at least the british would have had to invade ALONE, which means 1.5 million american troops are NOT in the UK at this time, no sicily, no salerno, no anzio, no midway, no leyte gulf, no island hopping, which means the japs have carriers EVERYWHERE in the pacific decimating the british fleet there, should i go on? oh yeah…no atom bomb either, because germany would have invented it FIRST because they were doing WARTIME R & D and the USA would NOT be doing it at the speed at which they did.
Banzai!!! The Imperial Japanese Navy is my fav. I love the naval battles and carrier battles.
@Imperious:
try this on for size…play axis and allies WITHOUT the USA…they remain a neutral country unless attacked by either germany or japan…can the UK and USSR win this game? 99.9 i think the answer is no.
I guess that settles it. Axis and Allies decides History. Excellent argument!
Now i see why you ARE the Imperious Leader. Classic!!!
it would have to be the attack on pearl harbor…it brought the US into the war…if the US does NOT enter world war ii…do the allies win? Do the math!
In the spring of 1941, the German Army consisted of 150 divisions. Of those, 100 were used in the invasion of the Soviet Union. By the summer of '41, 80% of German men between the ages of 20 - 30 were in the military. The remaining 20% were considered too vital to German industry to be released for military service.
By the late fall of '41, the Red Army consisted of a staggering 600 divisions. For most of the war, it was able to add new soldiers at the very rapid pace of 500,000 men a month.
The Battle of Stalingrad occurred in late '42–long before the United States had invaded Normandy, or even Italy. Even without American involvement, it would have been very difficult for Germany to decisively win on its eastern front.
Japan was caught in an unwinnable land war in China. However, no military power other than the United States was in a position to restrain Japan’s naval ambitions. Had the United States not entered the war, Japan could have built and maintained an island empire. But there would have been sharp limits to its ability to run rampant on the mainland.
America launched operation torch in north africa in november of 42…something the ussr wanted the americans to do help releive pressure on the ussr during stalingrad…
If america does not get into the war…the japanese claim the pacific…the germans woudl have kicked the british out of north africa…and of course normandy does NOT take place opening up the west front of ww2…and of course…NO atom bomb…at least not by the USA…do u think germany could held off the russians long enough for them to get THEIR atom bomb into the air? Everyone seems to forget, germany was working their OWN manhattan project…the US just beat them to it…
so i ask again…if america does NOT get into world war 2…do the allies win? thats why pearl harbor was a HUGE day for america…not just for ww2…but that day changes america into the dominant power they are even to this day!
try this on for size…play axis and allies WITHOUT the USA…they remain a neutral country unless attacked by either germany or japan…can the UK and USSR win this game? 99.9 i think the answer is no.
