Posts made by Sid Vicious

Any French unit not on the board at beginning of round one should be extra.  France should NEVER build units until the game is beyond doubt.

STOP THE MADNESS!!! :-(

Thanks for the answers guys.  LOW LUCk does sound like an quick and easy easy way to estimate battle results when testing strategies.

DOUBLE BLIND!!!  Wow!  Sounds labor intensive but very intriguing……

Cow,  would you please explain the low-luck rules you are talking about.

Also, what is meant by playing “double blind”?

Iceland, Gibraltar and Nova Scotia are the possible staging areas to reinforce London by air.

Gibrlatar is preferred for reinforcing by sea since your sea units can reach SZ110 and perform a blocking function.  Sea units from Iceland and Nova Scotia can only reach 109 (they can drop off men but cannot block German sea units).

Iceland and Nova Scotia give the advantage of not being harrassed by other Axis forces (Italy).  Gibraltar is a better strategic position (maintains the Allied foothold in the Med, acts as staging for attacks to London, Southern Europe/Italy, Africa).

Gibraltar is my preferred option as long as the English navy in the Med is able to take a toll on the Italian navy.  If they kill off each other that should be good enough.

Gibraltar is better positioned strategically and it comes with air and sea bases, allowing fighters, Tacs and sea units to land in London in two turns.  This is the most efficient way to reinforce London.  You would have to buy air and sea bases as USA for greenland and it is still 6 spaces from London meaning you have to land in Scotland first.

Gibraltar is the best option.  Greenland is a definitley second choice, IMO.

England will have to keep the Italian heat off Gibraltar in the Med (even if it costs the fleet).

Has not happened yet.

Agreed.  Bringing USA into war on J1 coupled with a transport build on G1 should signal the intent of Sea Lion.  USA should sell out to get ships and aircraft in London to protect vs. Sea Lion.  Gibraltar is crucial to getting aircraft to London in 2 turns.

James and Jennifer,

After reading some of your posts, I’m very interested to see what USA (allies in general) would do after a coordinated G3/4 Sealion and a J3 Hawaii, DEI, FIC strategy.  Next time we play I have a feeling the Allies in our group are in for a rough game.

Question: Does Germany attacking Scotland (staging for Sealion) bring USA into the war?

Germany:Sweeden, London, French TT’s

Japan:Dutch East Indies, 7 Pacific Islands, Either Hawaii or NSW

Italy:Med Cleared, N. Africa cleared, Iraq, NW Persia, C. Persia, and I assume Egypt (since Germany gets the Egypt NO)

Germany seems fine.  They can take Sweden, France and Sealion on turn 3 (if they do nothing else including sending planes to help save the Italian navy).

Japan takes DEI, and Hawaii I’ll assume on turn 3 so as not to put USA on wartime econ.  Although I’ve never done this, it is intriguing.  I may be wasting my time chasing India.  Ignore Calcutta and dominate the Pacific by owning Hawaii, Phillipines, DEI and slowly send units back to take NSW and contain Calcutta……Hhhmmmm.  One IC on the Asian mainland can handle China and probably Calcutta…Hhhhmmmmmm.  This does seem to be allowing Calcutta to mass some fighting capacity.

Italy is where I am incredulous.  How does Italy Advance that far in the Middle East while clearing the med, North Africa and taking Egypt?  All by 3rd turn?

Once Germany has London, what do they do with it?  Produce three units as USA advances?  If they are relaying units from the europe, thay are not sending them East.  The Russian Bear should have a stack of 20 (?) infantry in Eastern Poland.  He starts the game with 3 fighters if he buys one more he can surely use the his Inf as shock troops (losses) as he advance the 2 TT’s needed to seize Berlin.

In my opinion, sacking London makes a big splash but England can and must make it hard enough to take that Germany is starved for troops after the conquest.

This game is much improved but IMO it is still a race to see if Russia can absorb enough German punishment for USA and allies to come to the rescue.  Of course I detest victory conditions, we usually go to total victory or quit when it becomes apparent.

This is my 2nd post on this forum, I could be just full of sh*t…LOL

I have been playing A&A since the late 1980’s though.

A successful Sealion in no way assures the Axis of victory.  Germany still needs to be played very well to prevent the Russian hoards from running amok.  The US player however, must be able to effectively manage 2 campaigns, one in Pacific and one in Atlantic.

How the hell do the Axis out produce the Allies by turn 3?  Impossible IMO.  Someone on the Allies is not doing their job.

The alpha 2 game modifications make a well ballanced enjoyable game.  If you do not like the games where Sealion is the prefered German strategy, simply house rule it out of the question.  Jennifer’s home guard house rule should do.  UK Govt. in exile from Canada would be another scenario but the primary goal of this exiled govt. should be the liberation of London above all else (perhaps 1/2 buying power untill London is reclaimed).