? Nobody’s saying Formosa should be Chinese (and it isn’t under out of box rules). barnee is asking for Hainan to be Chinese. Hainan was only conquered by the Japanese in 1937 alongside the other original Chinese territories.
@barnee Maybe you can ask The Captain to make Hainan originally Chinese in his house rules.
I’ll check these films out when I have time (probably when I’m retired).
Some World War 2 related reads I mentioned here in the past:
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/41385/great-leyte-gulf-alternate-timeline-article
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/37506/an-interesting-book-i-read
The original Global 1940 games alraedy tries to make the Solomons valuable by attaching some of ANZAC’s and Japan’s national objectives to it.
I remember how the 1914 map has the Balearic Islands and Spanish Morrocco as seperate territories and I think it would be cool if Global 1940 had the same function.
I think Corsica would work quite well as a seperate French territory. It would give the Allies a lot more room to hit Italy early on.
US strategic bombers (which move a total of 6 spaces without an air base) can attack sea zone 6 (the one around Japan) from Midway or the Aleutians.
They can also attack the sea zones around the Caroline Islands, Malaya, Phillipines, and the Dutch East Indies from Australia (quite hard for Japan to attack). And if India is still in the game they can bomb any ships near it.
The only places out of reach of American bombers are 19, 18, 36, and 21. These are useful sea zones, but Japan can’t do much in them beyond fighting submarines. It’s certainly not enough to make the advances neccessary to win the game.
The main weakness with this is if the US rapidly bulks on strategic bombers. I’ve played many games where the US does this, and Japan really has no response unless they’re already winning handily. Absolutely obliterates their ships and prevents any new ones from being built.
Yeah, that’s what I meant. I apologize for being unclear.
Like, try to win a game against you with this bid? I’m a bit busy now, but I’d happily do it when I’m available a few months later. I’ll bookmark this conversation.
Only 1 unit per territory/sea zone (which France already has at least a unit in) complicates this a lot. Yeah, probably 1 battleship in sea zone 93, 1 destroyer in sea zone 110, 1 fighter in the UK, 1 air base in Morocco, and either 1 transport in sea zone 72, or 1 infantry in Syria or Algeria and 1 mechanized infantry in French West Africa.
Right. Well with those bid rule I’m inclined to agree that battleships in 110 are the best option.
I think fortifying Paris (only if the bid is high enough obviously) to survive a German attack on turn 1 is the best move. It’s absolutely catastrophic to the Axis to Europe. It completely destroys Germany’s momentum at a critical part of the game, preventing them from making any serious attempt at beating the Soviet Union.
Thanks for recording them! It’s really helpful.
