Posts made by SuperbattleshipYamato

@the-captain

Got a little question:

As there are two armies in an army group, does only one of the armies in the army group get the advantage (even though they are together in the army group)? Thank you!

@barnee

Also, only German air transports can carry tanks.

@the-captain

Amazing! I just would like to comment on your ideas and my own ideas for Germany-they might be flawed, but they somehow work every game.

I think it’s stupid that Germany attacks the Soviet Union. That is how they lost the war in the first place. Instead, a better idea is to put lost of defensive forces on the border and wait for the Soviet Union to attack, and then counterattack with reserve forces. It takes all Soviet forces to breakthrough, so once the Soviet forces are destroyed, the Soviets have lost the production war and they usually lose. A Japanese attack against Amur (where the Soviets concentrate all Far Eastern forces) usually succeeds, the Mongolian forces can’t do much, and Japan eats up one IPC worth of territory every turn. I haven’t done this yet with the new rules, but the Axis wins every time the Soviets attack (one time, the Soviets didn’t attack, so Germany had to attack, and Germany got lucky, with similar effects, all Soviet forces are destroyed, and the Soviets have lost the production war). US and Britain can’t do much, and it’s only a matter of time before Moscow, Leningrad, and Stalingrad fall, and Cairo gets taken sooner or later (this may not be a good strategy at all, and the players for the Allies just make lots of mistakes).

@imperious-leader

Got it! I’m too busy to play them anyway, as I just got the 1942 second edition today.

@imperious-leader

Got it! I’m too busy to play them anyway, as I just got the 1942 second edition today.

@conor

I’ve been looking for one online… so expensive! An idea I use in the meantime is to print a photo of the board on a really big piece of paper (might need to go to a printing store) and use your 1940 pieces (not sure if you have them). For the pieces, go on Historical Board Gaming, most are usually out of stock, but every now and then something pops up and I get it instantly.

@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.

@the-captain

Thank you!

@imperious-leader

Hi! It’s been three weeks, so it’s time to negotiate!

@imperious-leader

Hi! It’s been three weeks, so it’s time to negotiate!

@the-captain

Is it possible you can shows us a map of the board at the end of the game please? Thank you!

@the-captain

Also, I think three Army Groups seem to work, as that is what Germany did historically (as you note, it’s very expensive, so it only works for Germany if it does an Operation Barbarossa). Finally, I don’t think the Slovakia Hungary fighter is needed in the invasion of Southern France.

@the-captain

Amazing trick! I might have thought about that before, but still awesome reading it.

@the-captain

Amazing!

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

@kaleu

This is all true.

Firstly, it’s possible that Hitler could have restrained himself for the moment and go against the Mediterranean, a decision support by Raeder and Goring.

Secondly, the main reason Franco was so toxic was that before Hitler’s meeting with Franco, he sent Wilhelm Canaris, a secret member of the German resistance movement, to negotiate with Franco, and Canaris said that he though that Germany was going to lose the war and Hitler was planning to move to the east (it’s said that Hitler was actually going back and forth between the Mediterranean and the Soviet Union). If Hitler really committed to it, he would have been more forceful, and Franco would have relented, especially if the Battle Of Britain had not concluded yet. If Vichy France entered the war, Hitler might have been able to mediate between it, Italy, and Spain about North Africa.

Finally, a similar situation could have appeared with Turkey, where if Hitler really did everything possible to convince them, it might have worked out. If it didn’t, Germany could use their paratroopers (as they would not be beaten up at Crete, due to the British heading for Tripoli) to possibly take Cyprus, depending on the result of an airborne invasion of Malta. Due to no British intervention in Greece, there would have been no disaster at Cape Matapan, and Italy’s navy, along with a Luftwaffe not burdened with commitments on the Eastern Front, could have swept the waters around Cyprus (as likely as not), and launch an amphibious invasion if paratroopers alone can’t cut it. If Cyprus is taken, a leap into Vichy French Syria would be in order. From there, Germany can launch a massive offensive against the Suez Canal, which Britain cannot hold with an attack on two fronts. Additionally, Germany will have support from Iraq, which won’t be destroyed with direct aid from Germany and Italy.

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!

@gen-manstein

Got it! I’ll research them myself (as I said, there were only static divisions in the area, so the presence of three tanks (which I think translates as three regiments, or a whole division) is odd. Maybe it represents the 21st panzer division, which historically fought there, which is not represented on the reinforcement chart.

@gen-manstein

Thank you for responding!

Perhaps, but some research shows that a few static divisions were garrisoning the beaches of Normandy at the time of the invasion. If so, which units on the starting map were part of which division? Thank you!

@witt

I believe that they could have captured Tripoli-however, if Germany launched an all out Mediterranean campaign instead of Barbarossa, Germany would have been able to regain the initiative due to possibly an entire Panzer Army being sent to Libya, or if not possible, Tunisia (historically, Germany made quite good negotiations with Vichy France to get them to join the war on the Axis side, which only stopped after the failure of talks with Spain), crossing the Mareth Line. In the end, Germany would have won especially as they would not have needed to invade Crete (if the British did not move troops to Greece, they wouldn’t garrison men off Crete), allowing for an assault on Malta, and Hitler, summoning all of his “diplomatic strength”, would convince Franco to invade Gibraltar. In the end, the Suez would have fallen. And if the Panzer Army couldn’t reach Cairo, Hitler would also have been able to convince Turkey to join the Axis, or invade Cyprus, which either way, would allow Germany to move into Syria and Iraq, driving from the east to the Suez.

@the-captain

Who do you think would have won the Second Battle Of The Atlantic?