Posts made by Shining Bowie

If you want to make the UK more exciting then try taking Borneo from the Japanese with 2 INF from India and the fighter from 35. If you don’t need your navy to still be around after J1 then use the destroyer to take out the TRN in 59… it will make your presence in Borneo felt even more so!

In the case of a KGF strategy I would think that the US could initially get away with just putting their 2 infantry from Central into the West and wait for Japan to prepare a strike… at which time they could put a destroyer of the coast and 9 extra infantry in the West.

I tend to play with a “Kill both Axis at the Same time” strategy… so I tend to leave the East completely undefended and put 4 infantry in the west just incase SOMETHING gets passed my awesome navy in SZ 55!

Have you ever considered taking 2 IND infantry from on the TRN in 35 to SZ 48 with the fighter from the AC and landed them all in Borneo on UK 1?

Good aim!

Hey spook do you think using this dicey would be easier for our game or would you like to stick with DAAK?

Testing 4 subs
   Rolling 4 6-sided dice:
6, 3, 2, 5

Buy an AC and use the other 24 IPC’s to match the Russian buy. Don’t be super agressive in the first turn as you didn’t use all your money for land forces… instead pick 1 territory to attack and then consolidate the rest of your land forces on the front line in large enough groups the russians can’t take them without SUBSTANTIAL loses.

That’s what I think anyway… be sure to land 2 of your fighters in Germany to jump onto the AC when you place it with the rest of your Baltic fleet.

In my last few games I over looked attacking the US battleship and transport to consolidate my entire fleet in one space…. and I regretted it… my opponent quickly built 2 AC’s and loaded them that turn. So I’m guessing it’s crucial to destroy that early navy and set mine in the sea zone neighbouring the US.

Of course I would prefer to use dice on the honor system… I would never cheat, and it would be assumed that my opponent is not either… I only have the board till the end of this week so hopefully someone would like to play a game before next saturday?

  More than one player is welcome… though it would be harder to coordinate everyone being around at one time.

I was interested in bidding in general for say, a game in my living room.

I set up the board game at my house last night after I got home …. and I played out my friends R1 against my G1 and it turned out in good favor for the Germans… I guess they are evenly matched strategies… so the luck of the dice plays the biggest factor…

  I think from now on … whether or not I buy an AC should be determined by how many casualties the Russians actually take during their first turn. Does that make any sense?

Today I lost 2 games as the Axis and one as the Allies…. the Allied one was much closer though…

I guess I’m just not experienced enough… and also just plain unlucky… my opponent would bring 8 pieces from Russia into a territory defened by 5 german pieces only to kill all 5 in one round and suffer NO casualties from my returned fire! That put Germany WAY down… sometimes to below 20 IPCs… though my Japanese navy did very well… I always lost in the end to a combined US GB strike… as colonial Garrison was in effect.

I put it right on my house in Carelton Nova Scotia!

I found only one other Atlantic Canadian on the map and he’s living in Fredricton…. what’s you name, Sud? Or it that you name?

Sadly I have never yet figured out how the bidding system works….

Also since we use the “IPC’s per territory per countries turn” house rule when we play I am quite content. We play that if GB and the US bomb Germany in the same turn it can lose 10 from each raid.

But back to this bidding system… how exactly DOES it work?

My friend is using Colonial Garrison and Radar for GB. I can easily see a way to beat that strategy as he puts the garrison in India.

I thought that Bomber could not destroy MORE than the value of the territory? That’s how we always played… that would make the most he could take from me 10…

I know he’s using the Russian Railway one … but that won’t matter much to me because the more attention he pays to east asia the less he’ll have running on the eastern European front.

I think that me and him like the NA’s mostly because we are really into the history of the war… and it makes it more realistic for us to have the countries having the actual advantages they had in WWII. Some day it would be fun to play with all 6 if you ask me :D

Just incase this would weigh into the strategy I should use…. I am using Fortress Europe and Atlantic Wall for German NA’s and Dug in Defenders and Tokyo Express for my 2 Japanese NA’s.

Ok Thanks for the advice… you should know that I used to buy nothing but tanks before I learned of the Baltic AC strategy… with about 40 tanks on the board I used to last a long time… but then my friend found a way to get passed that problem with Russia…

Also I am controlling both axis countries for the first game making it much easier for them to work together.

I may end up playing 2 games saturday if the first one ends too quickly… in which case I would play the Allies … which I have only done once.

I will be playing the axis as usual, but I’m a beginner and have held out for 6 hours max. Last time I played I was killed in 2 hours because I spent money on an AC and 2 Fighters on first turn.

Britain was not a problem for me but I fell to Russia when the US joined in the large baltic naval war that was ensuing and I put too much money into that….

Also does anyone have a good Japanese strategy? I basically just go all out on the US and then build up my Mainland army in India… we usually use National Advantage’s and I usually get dug in defenders or whatever the one with higher defence on the Islands was.

So… can anyone help me before saturday?

I don’t have my own board… my friend’s copy is the one we use and only about 6 times in the summer when are friends are in town and 1 or 2 times with just me and him around Christmas.

I do play the old version on the computer alot though.

What I did once (wasn’t even a newbie move, it was on my like 12th game after 70 hours of expericence)  was I forgot to buy units at the start of my turn. But my friends let me do it after because they didn’t want to win on a cheap thing like that.

I voted for Japan because they just don’t have enough of an economy to stand up to the American Navy and attack the Russian mainland unless they really know what they are doing.