I am so freaking excited to play this game and the set up looks awesome, but I am getting sick of all those history buffs who say the set-up isn’t historical. I want a set up that is fun to play, which is what Larry is providing. If they made this game historical then the allies would win every time. Gamers seriously stop the whining.
make me :x
definitely. It’s only like 25$ and it has good pieces for if you run out of the main powers pieces plus it is also the best introductory game to a and a (if you wanted to teach a friend or something).
This is completely true and further proof that the research to at least make the games seem realistic was not considered. This is the whole point of the recent discussion regarding the AAP40 set up issues and changes being made. Its like the old adage of telling a lie and then trying to cover it with yet another lie. Eventually the whole deck of cards crashes down under its own weight because the original foundation is faulty and now you get into situations where you got to ‘fix’ what others have already worked on because they started in the wrong place.
Here Here! This game should be set up exactly to the T how it actually was in 1940. Then the should just give the axis the forces they would have needed to make it a fair game. nothing else should be altered. No subtracting here and then adding there and then counter this to offset that…
Hmmm… Well maybe. But also think of it this way. If I’m thinking where to invade and the german player has put, say, 6 inf on normandy and another 6 on southern france, why would I take out 6 inf that aren’t my enemy and then have 12 inf to worry about? I would probably just take down the 6 german ones rather than the 6 spanish ones. So then you could say that maybe the german player has 10 or so inf on each border. Then maybe a Spanish invasion could be better, but how could you easily prevent that? Just put like a counter-attack force of tanks and a little airforce in paris or something (which kind of makes sense b/c Germany didn’t defend france with just inf even though we like to do that in a and a). The thing is, we will have to play this game differently than in the past. Although to me it seems weird that the allies can invade neutrals at all when that was kind of out of the question for the governments that make up the allies. Anyone think theres a chance there might be a rule that forbids allied offensives against neutral countries?
Nah, why include something in the rules that can just be put in the errata 1 month after selling it? :wink:
Yea, well i would rather be blind and paralyzed from the waist down than dead, but that doesn’t mean we should all want to be blind and paralyzed. Why settle for less than perfect when it’s just not that hard to make the map right?
Just a question, but why do we have 2 axis and allies forum sites? Wouldn’t it be more efficient and get a lot more of our concerns addressed if they were consolidated into one so that Larry was on the same site as all of us?
Now all I need is this to be edited in the errata so my play group will accept the change.
I agree. I will only accept this change if it is printed in the errata. it needs to be more official than what seems like what Larry just said that “he liked”
Or what you could do is just a PMKJF or “pretty much kill Japan first” strategy :wink:. Just take all of their money territories except their home island (b/c that will be really fortified and difficult to take) and then keep a small fleet surrounding them until you kill germany next. This is good b/c while simultaneously having the U.S. dominate a naturally weaker opponent, you also increase the threat on germany b/c England will climb back up to their monster 50 income (that they have in AA50) with all of their bonuses and money islands (such as borneo and the east indies).
And that’s why you don’t make half of the map at one point and then the other half a year later :x
hey djensen, any chance of another preview soon? Possibly containing either political info or preferably national objective info?
OK, this might have already been asked, but im not going to look through 6 pgs to find it. Does anyone know why the minor french ic is in normandy instead of southern france? Southern is worth more, it has Vichy in it and it gives a possible german outlet to the med.
Order of Play
1. Germany
2. Soviet Union
3. Japan
4. UK
5. ANZAC
6. Italy
7. USA
8. China
9. France
Just take out the Pacific powers for Europe 1940. Unless they’re different.
OK, can anyone explain this? Are these games made by the same people?
Europe 1940 Air Power Pacific 1940 Air Power
Germany 9 planes Japan 28 planes
Italy 2 planes ANZAC 4 planes
U.K. 6 planes U.K. 5 planes
U.S. 4 planes U.S. 10 planes
France 1 plane China 1 plane
Russia 3 planes
Total Europe: 25 Total Pacific: 48
Obviously each of the axis powers must be more powerful than in reality to make the game fair. But i feel like Japan is especially bloated and China reduced super-unrealistically. I think that they try to make the U.S. divide their ipcs evenly between the two theatres (pacific and Europe). But I do not think that this should be the case, as it is unrealistic and slights Germany and China. Germany should be a much greater threat than Japan.
August 14 is a typo, it should be August 24. I will fix it. I re-read my email. Copies will be “available” at GenCon, I’m not sure what that means. I will correct the article.
And I got all excited :-(
I hope that it will be balanced too. But just something to worry about appears to be the huge difference between Japans starting airforce and Germany’s. I hope we don’t have a game where Germany and Italy combined are just as powerful as Japan. Germany should be more powerful on its own
It depends on balance. If AAG40 is balanced, AA50 can’t even compete with all of the new features that it will have. But if they mess up somehow on the game balance, then maybe AA50.
