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Never having played revised, although I have played classic and 42.2 so I can infer a lot about revised. I would say that G40 has a longer, more complex game with more depth. It’s the depth which makes Global better in my view. I can certainly see how World in Flames and Global War players see going to A&A as a backward step. The downside is that it takes longer to play.

Specifically:

• Scrambles
• Politics
• non automatic capital ship repair
• not having the AA Gun capturable
• arguably airbase & naval base movement bonuses
• arguably the inclusion of mechanised infantry
• note I didn’t say tac bombers
• note I didn’t say built in AA at facilities

Hope this is helpful.

@martin said in [Global 1940] One rule to balance it?:

Interesting!

What about making Normandy-Bordeaux an Allied friendly neutral? The Allies could still produce there even after Paris is freed.

This has been implemented although I doubt it will be balanced just with this change: https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/39268/global-1940-parisian-rebalance/1

And thanks for the game. Was a lot of fun actually.

Well in G40 there are many paths to Axis victory, and many conceivable ways that the allies may attempt to block said paths. In the earlier games, well Classic victory in Europe was almost inconceivable, it really devolved so quickly into a monolithic thrust to Moscow to win. It’s still true that neutering Moscow as quickly as possible is a major thrust of G40, it is often better to weaken it first, particularly in BM.

Anyway, not sure I can add that much more to this without going into “how to play G40”.

@trulpen said in Trulpen (Allies) vs Simon33 (X) BM3 No IJ/Ok:

One thing, I see that the IJ/Ok objective is still in the list, but in map options it’s not checked. Does that mean that it’s not active?

Correct, it will still remain in the objective list. Just can never activate.

Fair comments perhaps but you’re only going to use all 6 inf into Yunnan if all 4 Japanese land units survive J1. Highly unlikely. I suppose in that case maybe the move is off. It’s also off if you don’t kill the unit(s) in Hunan.

A more realistic scenario might be moving 3-5inf to Yunnan to kill 1-2 survivors. If you don’t need to kill Hunan you may be able to reduce that because you can use the flying tiger. C1 you would move all remaining to Shensi and only get to Szechwan C2. So you have your other 3inf and ~4inf bought C1 and the flying tiger, plus UK air should be free to land there. Any planes on CVs can’t reach so killing 7 units in the first round might not be that devastating. Running the numbers, 12 planes hitting 10 ground, 3ftr is 64%, -48TUV. Not worth it IMO.

Regarding your general comments about stretching China too thin, this move does actually work, in the sense of delaying the fall of India, more often than not.

I had wondered if I’d stuffed up something there but I still think it’s good.

I’m going to say that I don’t really see the issue with the change to the troops from Bryansk. What effect could they have had on the Japanese battle?

So many edits here, made it confusing.

Ultimately, there’s no obligation of course.

The only time the Triple-A bug manifests is where the subs are attacking and the attacker chooses to retreat. In this instance, the subs should move out of the battle SZ but Triple-A will leave them there. That is possible to be a legal attack in the instance where subs attack a loaded CV and sink the CV but live and the planes keep fighting some other ships/air.

I can’t see a scenario where there is a problem with defending subs auto submerging.

Ok. but try not to do that too often.

Sounds like the Allies are doing really well. The allies need a meat grinder to wear down the axis with the allies’ numerical superiority.

Try that. I wasn’t sure it worked at the time so I put the save game aside. I suppose I could have checked.

@Nolimit said in Global 2nd edition Q+A ( AAG40.2):

@Imperious-Leader Can the US upgrade their minor as Major and use them when they declare war on the Axis, thus build 10 units(instead of 3) in any of their factories at the End of their turn of round 3 or do they have to wait until round 4 to build the 10 units in any of said factories?

If you upgrade the IC, you can’t use the upgraded capability that turn - you need to wait until next turn.

Let’s see how many hits you get after the subs before I decide the next step. I’ll probably be on for a bit over an hour.

Also the 3rd turn DOW by USA happens after place units so you certainly can’t use the major ICs which haven’t been upgraded yet in the place units phase.

Lose 1 tipped CV, 2ftr

I’ve done a couple of Spanish beachheads. Main problem seems to be that supporting it ties up almost all the US income and Japan goes wild.

USSR invades Finland in sufficient strength to take Sweden? Moscow might be in trouble.

League rules are stickied, as are links to Balanced Mod version 3.

I for one have never played Europe or Pacific. Why would you?

Everyone is playing BM because most think it is better. Simple enough. I guess same reason for Global vs Eur/Pac.

Other things can be pretty easily divined.

Posts being delayed 90s is probably because you’re still a new member.

HTH

@crockett36 said in We need an allied playbook.:

In one video, I proposed a negative bid: the loss of units. Japanese planes specifically.

@taamvan said in We need an allied playbook.:

@crockett36 Sure, splotch 1 SB and the 1 TB that can reach Yunnan on turn 1. I’m in.

Interesting idea, but I absolutely positively would not use an IPC based negative bid to reduce Japanese planes. My order would be:
Kwangsi art
SZ6 TT
Kwangsi inf
Siam inf.
SZ19 TT - perhaps this should be after the other TT - not sure.

Just removing the Kwangsi art should save the Prince of Wales (SZ37 BB) in a J1 DOW. Or make the Yunnan attack really dodgy.

Nah I mean generally. Japan will normally be taking India J5 but it looks like this won’t be happening here.

@taamvan said in We need an allied playbook.:

@simon33 arm comes via syria from egypt. mech is in alexandria so cant make it.

You have the setup wrong here. Arm starts in Alexandria while the mech starts in Egypt.