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@vodot

Cool!

@Schroeder

I live in Bellevue, and I think Whatcom is a bit too far for one game. I’m afraid I’ll have to decline. Sorry.

Who would win in a fight on a coast (on paved roads) between 100 production models of the Ratte tank and one Yamato class battleship? No movement is allowed, no other units are allowed, both sides never break down, and both sides are fully loaded with ammunition. The distance is a Yamato class battleship’s point blank range. Yamato can fire it’s broadside. So basically it is a massive gun duel between both sides, until one side is destroyed. If the Ratte tanks lose, how many Ratte tanks would it take to beat down the Yamato? Thank you!

@barnee

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything from Der Kuenstler. Here is the piece Gen Manstein was talking about:

https://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Atom-Bomb-3D-Printed-x5_p_3707.html

@cornwallis

True. I’ve only thought about the US before war, including a plan to send the Atlantic fleet before the US declared war. Naval base on Fiji and Samoa were the core of this plan (didn’t work because of the rules).

I can see how it might be useful though.

@vodot

I’m just so happy that a new one is coming out. I just wanna scream with joy:

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! :)

Glad they’re adding more infantry. I’ll probably still have to buy two games to get enough pieces.

I was lucky enough to spend 150 USD to get an original. I’m happy I can play the game on a board without opening the original.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

As someone in a different high school club in another state, some thoughts (keep in mind the rules are different between states):

1. My school has specific process for getting clubs approved. Make sure to understand your school’s process (if there is one) before you start going any further.
2. Where I live, there are some male teachers who remember Axis and Allies from the 1980s. My impression from that and this forum is that most adults remember Axis and Allies as a 1980s thing and will be unaware that new versions exist. Still, they’re good candidates to be an advisor (if that’s required).
3. You can ask your friends if they want to join. Where I live you need a certain number of people to agree to join a club before it gets approved by the school. Your friends are probably the best way to get those initial commitments unless you’re advertising the proposal.
4. 1941 is probably the best game to use. TripleA would be useful if the club gets quite big, given that it’s challenging to get many game boards and pieces.
5. Don’t everything I say too seriously since I’ve never started a club myself (I’m only a member of one) and have little experience in this matter. If you want I can ask my friends who are club leaders for advice on being the head of a club, but that’s a late-stage thing to do, after the club’s already been approved.

@barnee

Perhaps, there was a plan for that-but there probably wouldn’t be any massive massacre (in proportion to what was historically done) by the Heer or Einsatzgruppen, as the military commanders would probably say that it won’t be good for discipline to treat at least 5 countries (the Baltic States, Belarus, and Ukraine) and a nice chunk of Russia as a gigantic free fire zone. And seeing the resistance to Germany in the actual war, it wouldn’t have been so hard for a massive rebellion to start, followed by a massive Soviet invasion.

Hitler actually had a plan to deport and enslave the peoples of the Soviet Union, part of Generalplan Ost:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

This would have had to be take this part more slowly. This might not have even been done at all until Germany conquered enough of the Soviet Union.

I guess we talked enough about the east-how would the war with the west go? As I said in my scenario, Hitler did not declare war on the US, and the Second Battle Of El Alamein did not happen (the British only won because of Shermans and Grants, which would not have come in this scenario). Rommel would have stayed in Egypt. The Allied victory in the Battle Of The Atlantic would have taken more time. Vichy France and Spain would have joined the Axis, causing chaos for the British in the Mediterranean. Japan would probably have surrendered in 1944. So what happens then? Would the US have entered the war after the truce? Would Britain have sued for peace after the fall of Gibraltar and possibly Malta. And would the Soviet Union have dared to go to war with Germany again if Britain sued for peace? So many possibilities! I hope to hear your perspective on this!

@the-captain

Amazing!

What is you reason on the lack of Army Group Center though? Thank you!

@crockett36

Makes sense. Every time the US moved their fleet to the Philippines Japan crushes, meaning that the US is out of the game for two turns.

@theveteran

I agree.

Firstly, is there a way to make the technology option match the Global 1940 games? It’s really throwing me off. It does stuff that I don’t expect like only triggering one turn after you got it and giving aircraft a +2 bonus.

A couple questions on other map options:

What does “paratroopers deep strike” mean?
What does “power projection” mean?

I look forward to your anwsere. Thank you!

I’m sure many of you have heard of Infantry Attacks, a book by Erwin Rommel in the interwar era. It is about Rommel’s experiences in World War 1 as a mountain infantry commander mainly in Romania and Italy, but he also fought in France for the first year of the war, as part of a regular infantry unit. Throughout the book, especially in Romania and Italy, Rommel assumed higher and higher commands, ending in the command of the Rommel detachment of the Wurttemberg Mountain Battalion. This also doubles as a military textbook, with the English translator and the US army writing an introduction at the start of the book. I finished it and it is a great book.

One of the highlights is the Tolmien offensive in Italy, where the Rommel detachment of the Wurttemberg Mountain Battalion destroyed five Italian regiments and took 9000 prisoners in three days, the most successful of Rommel’s career.

I highly recommend it, but it’s quite a long and complicated book. It really shows you Rommel’s power as a commander. A sequel, Tank Attacks, was planned but never completed, due to Rommel’s suicide in 1944. It was meant to be based on Rommel’s experiences in North Africa. What was written can be found in the Rommel Papers. I just don’t recommend it because it was edited by Liddell Hart, a British general who edited the works to make it seem like Rommel was his “pupil”, and that Liddell Hart taught Rommel what he knew. It was also edited by one of Rommel’s staff in North Africa, and his wife and son.

If you have read this book, what are your thoughts on it? Thank you!

I think I’m one of the few players here who loves the normal research and development rules for the 1940 game as they are now, but in order to make the game even crazier, let’s make it easier to gain new technologies, therefore adding more dynamic to the game. These are the changes:

Research and development rolls cost 4 IPCs.

Each roll makes a breakthroughs at both a 5 and a 6.

Players can choose which breakthrough they want to get.

This means that there will be a lot of breakthrough in every game, which will make it really crazy and hopefully fun.

What do you think? I’m looking forward to your comments!

@crockett36

And for the West Coast fleet to reach the Philippines (Atlantic Fleet can’t) you go to Johnston Island, eastern New Guinea, then Philippines, you can be there by the end of the third turn when you declare war.

@the_good_captain

Thanks! I’ll try it sometime.

Oh, a few questions before we start:

Keep in mind I only played the game a few times and only against myself, so expect me to blunder like crazy.

Are these the original rules?

Which side is the game unbalanced towards? Make me that side (as in, the one that has an advantage because the game isn’ perfectly balanced).

When Low Luck is on, does it apply for kamikazes as well?

I know it doesn’t apply to everything like convoy raiding.

Thank you!

@abworsham4

Let’s say that the Vichy France joined the Axis. This assumes that Spain and Turkey won’t join the Axis (even though if Hitler decided on a Mediterranean strategy, he had an excellent chance of getting them to join the war, by threatening to invade them). This assumes that Hitler will follow a Mediterranean strategy and will put off Operation Barborossa for later.

The Vichy French submarines could be used to help in the Battle Of The Atlantic-not decisive, but every submarine helps. French forces in French Indochina could help Japan, but Japan would still lose if they followed the same path as they did in real life. It might extend the Pacific War by a few days or weeks though. Vichy French forces in the Indian Ocean or on the coast of Sub-Saharan Africa (or Madagascar) could be used for commerce raiding in the Indian Ocean, or possibly rendezvous with the main Mediterranean fleet after the fall of the Suez Canal, or to Atlantic ports. The French forces in North Africa could have helped Rommel, especially since Rommel would have been sent with an entire Panzer Army with a Mediterranean strategy. This means that Vichy French, German, and Italian units combined could have equalled two armies. Fuel would have given more generously to both the Vichy French and Italian navies with a Mediterranean strategy, causing chaos to the already strained Royal Navy-this would have definitely eased pressure on the Japanese in the Indian Ocean. Crete would not have been occupied by the British, which would allow for the capture of Malta possible. Even though without the reinforcement of Greece or Crete the British could have taken Tripoli, the Axis could have fell back to Tunisia (protected by the Mareth Line) and from there launch an offensive. With additional Axis forces and the control of Malta, the Axis could have driven to the Libyan Egyptian border (possibly even capturing Tobruk), and with the Axis navies and air forces causing havoc on the British Mediterranean fleet, adequate supply, and increased morale of Italian troops due to the Germans throwing real weight behind them, Operation Crusader would not have been as successful. By the end of 1941, the Axis could have captured (or put siege to) Alexandria, and pushed into the Nile or Cairo. Whilst this was simultaneously happening, the remains of the Fallschirmjäger, supported by German troops transported by the Italian and Vichy French navies (several old Vichy French ships could have been converted into transports and their guns used on the Atlantic Wall, as mentioned), could have moved into Vichy French Syria, possibly even coming in time to save Iraq, obtaining important fuel supplies. This would divert British attention from North Africa.

At this point, Japan attacks Pearl Harbour. Assuming Hitler decides to not declare war on the US, the Americans could not have declared war immediately, as much of the shock and anger after Pearl Harbour was directed solely at Japan. In the meantime, the US would have increased their support in the Battle Of The Atlantic, eventually leading to a declaration of war by 1943. Japan would have been very hard pressured, but Japan could have held out until 1944, as after Midway in real life, the main problem for the Allied offensive across the Pacific were supply problems and the sheer time it takes to cross the Pacific, as well as the time it takes to construct the new ships. Additional landing craft, divisions, and aircraft could have sped up operations, but it would not have made operation in the Pacific twice as fast. It would have been an enormous relief for the Axis in North Africa for Operation Torch not happening.

By the end of 1942, the Axis would have captured the Suez Canal and the rest of the Egypt, pushed though into Iran, and recaptured Italian East Africa, thus allowing the guerilla fighters there to reform into normal military units. Britain would have sued for peace, especially as the Japanese swept across the Pacific.

By now, Germany would have detected the existence of the KV-1 and 2 tanks, as well as the T-34. Germany would have started to build new tanks to counter these new models, and hopefully by May or June of 1943, a sizeable force could have built, as resources for submarine production, V-rocket development (which consumed a lot of resources in developing and building these weapons), enormous resources dedicated to defence against bombing (including the resource consuming development of Me 262), and increased production without bombing could have been diverted to tank production, which would have had the oil to fuel them from the Middle East. As the Soviets would be much more prepared from their rearmament program, the German generals might have thought of a plan to launch a massive propaganda campaign to recruit the Soviet people, of which there were many, who were bitter with Stalin, into the Axis, forming a Russian Liberation Army. Hitler, with more confidence in his generals after the success in the Mediterranean, would have approved it. This would have had a very high chance of succeeding, as the Soviet people were very angry with Stalin and welcomed any form of capitalism, and historically, millions of Soviet people were recruited into the German army, with no effort to have them join Germany, second rate weapons, no official promise, and hated by some Germans. Due to extreme efforts by German commanders to hide their existence from fanatical Nazis, their true involvement will never be known. A focused propaganda campaign could have recruited possibly an entire army group’s worth of men, and would have enormously eased supply lines. Equipment would have been a problem, but if the Axis went to total war, there would hopefully been enough equipment to equip the Russian Liberation Army, supplemented by captured Soviet equipment. Historically, there were many opportunities for this. After the fall of Smolensk, the government of the city asked to raise a million man Russian Liberation Army, which was never anwsered by the Führer headquarters, whilst an entire Soviet regiment defected to the Axis to be the core of a new Russian Liberation Army, and whilst the regiment’s defection was accepted, their request was never fufilled. The Axis armies invading could also have been assured of far easier supply lines, with the recruited Soviet peoples taking over rear security duties, making partisans far less of a threat, and the massively increased production of the Axis could have made for a larger mechanisation of supply lines, and possibly even the army as a whole.

The result? Perhaps the fall of Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow by the end of 1944. By then, what remains of the Soviet Union would have sued for peace, leaving the Axis with the most important parts of the Soviet Union captured.

As for what the US will be doing, they would have launched Operation Torch, as it would be far too hard to land in France without Britain as a staging base. This would divert large amounts of Axis forces, but they could have gave up ground for time-it would be a while before the US gets to anything really important, as North Africa is mostly just desert.

Once the Soviet Union and Japan fall, Germany could have used the resources of 90% of Europe, all of the Middle East, and large amounts of Africa against the US, which could have enabled Germany to fight the Americans to a stalemate, with production nearly equally the US. In the end, with the skies of Europe thick with Luftwaffe aircraft, the US would not have been able to use the nuclear bomb most effectively. A path could have been created over the frontline in North Africa, but this would not have induced the Axis to surrender, with ICBMs and nuclear weapons under development. The Elektroboot submarine development would have continued, and both sides would have eventually sued for peace, with neither side decisively able to defeat the other. A cold war will ensue between the Axis and whatever Allies the US can find (perhaps the US would have intervened and won the Chinese Civil War, with Western Europe not under American influence). Germany would have collapsed first, with the US becoming the world’s sole mega superpower, but the world would be very, very different.

Three choices can change humanity forever.

@nolimit

Interesting idea, but I feel it might be too complicated for a simple goal-making research and development more accessible so there will be more breakthroughs making the game even crazier. Good work, though.

@crockett36

Flying aircraft to Wake Island, then Guam, then the Philippines would get all the aircraft on the Pacific board in the Philippines the same time as the fleet. They’re separated, however, so if a Japanese player decides to declare war first, you’re done for.