I remember reading somewhere about buying ships on G1. It seems transports and air craft carriers were popular with some other posters in this forum. I was playing a “minor victory” game recently, and my brother-in-law bought a Destroyer on G1, and it worked well for him. But it worked well mostly because I was pretty stupid and left Britain wide open by not buying in infantry on UK1. He got lucky and had two direct hits when he combined the Meditteranean german ships with his Baltic ones to attack the UK.

Anyway, the destroyer threw me off, and I chickened out on attacking his fleet with my UK planes early on since the destroyer takes two hits to kill. But I was wondering what people thought of this move in general. Is it too expensive? Is the AC a better proposition, especially if Germany goes after the UK?

Is there anybody in Northern VA (Fairfax, Vienna, Manassas, Centreville, Gainesville) who reads this forum and is interested in playing with a couple of decent players? Willing to travel on weekends as far south as Fredericksburg or even Richmond, but not up into Maryland unless absolutely necessary. D.C., Georgetown, and Alexandria/Annandale, McLean are fine, too.

There are four of us who get together to play about once a month on a weekend, and we’re looking for a fifth or alternate, or just someone new to play. We’re okay at the game (some are better than others), but not super amazing or anything. Just looking to have fun and play “major victory” types of games (3-5 hours). Email me at tgunn@wcps.k12.va.us if interested, or post in this forum.