Results:
* America takes Sumatra, empty
* America takes SZ 19
* America takes SZ 18
* China takes KSU without loss
(-1 Japanese Victory City)
(+1 Chinese Victory City)
* England liberates Malaya
* Japan holds N. Britian, but cleared

ouch! tokyo-ans (is that how you say it?) unhappy as severe rationing goes into effect. war bond issue fails. economy totters. still, we fight on!!!

"Never in the course of history has so much been asked of so few for so long..."

Oh wait, wrong country.

NCM:

Transport, 2 Destroyers to SZ 45
Fighter from W. Australia to SZ 39
Destroyer from SZ 41 to SZ 79
2 Submarines, 3 Destroyers, Cruiser, Carrier, Fighter from SZ 42 to SZ 39
Fighter from SZ 42 to India


Build: Naval Base in W. Australia


Collect: 1 Saved + 14 TT = 15 IPC

[Rolls:]

That guy is SERIOUSLY entrenched!

Attacker:

Rolls: 15@2; Total Hits: 5

15@2: (1, 3, 4, 1, 2, 4, 1, 4, 6, 6, 3, 4, 4, 3, 1)

Defender:

Rolls: 15@2; Total Hits: 4

15@2: (1, 2, 5, 5, 5, 2, 6, 4, 6, 5, 3, 5, 5, 5, 2)

[Rolls:]

NCM:

Infantry from Burma to India
2 Fighters from Yunnan to India
Infantry from SIAM to Sham State

Build: 2 Infantry, 2 Artillery in India

Collect: 20 IPC + 5 NO = 25 IPC


Australia:

Buy(16)
* Naval Base
* Save 1

Combat Moves:

Infantry, Artillery from Queensland to New Britian


Combat:

Attacker:

Rolls: 2@2; Total Hits: 0

2@2: (4, 3)

Defender:

Rolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 1

1@2: (1)

[Rolls:]

England:

Buy(14)
* 2 Infantry
* 2 Artillery

Combat Moves:

2 Infantry from Sham State to Malaya
3 Armor from Yunnan to Malaya


Combat:

Attacker:

Rolls: 2@1 3@3; Total Hits: 1

2@1: (5, 2)3@3: (6, 4, 2)

Defender:

Rolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 0

1@2: (5)

NCM:

Destroyer from SZ 17 to SZ 25
Destroyer from SZ 25 to SZ 7
Destroyer from SZ 25 to SZ 16
10 Submarines from SZ 10 to SZ 26
Submarine from SZ 26 to SZ 33
Destroyer from SZ 26 to SZ 25
Destroyer, 6 Submarines from SZ 33 to SZ 20
Infantry, ARmor from Borneo to KSI
2 Infantry, 2 Armor from Philippines to KSI
Infantry, Artillery from Celebes to KSI
2 Carriers, Battleship, 4 Cruisers, 7 Destroyers, 2 Transports from SZ 35 to SZ 20
Trnasport from SZ 44 to SZ 20
Carrier, 2 Destroyers, Submarine, Transport from SZ 43 to SZ 20
4 Fighters, Tactical Bomber from SZ 19 to SZ 20
3 Strategic Bombers from SZ 18 to KSI
3 Submarines from SZ 101 to SZ 106


Build: 8 Destroyers SZ 101
Build: 3 Destroyers SZ 10

Collect: 62 IPC - 2 CRD + 3 NO = 90 IPC


China:

Buy(19)
* 5 Infantry
* 1 Artillery

Combat Moves:

Infantry from KSI to KSU


NCM:

14 Infantry, 5 Artillery, Fighter from KWE to HOP

Build: 4 Infantry in KAN
Build: 1 Infantry in SHE
BUild: 1 Artillery in HOP

Collect: 21 IPC

[Rolls:]

SZ 19:
Attacker:

Rolls: 1@2 4@3 1@4; Total Hits: 2

1@2: (1)4@3: (3, 5, 6, 6)1@4: (5)

Defender:

Rolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 0

1@2: (3)

(Assumed you want to keep the destroyer, since it defends better and I still have a destroyer to shoot at your submarines.)

[Rolls:]

USA:

Buy(88)
* 11 Destroyers

Combat Moves:

Infantry from Celebes to Sumatra
Destroyer, 4 Fighters, Tactical Bomber to SZ 19
Destroyer, 3 Strategic Bombers to SZ 18


Combat:

SZ 19:
Attacker:

Rolls: 1@2 4@3 1@4; Total Hits: 1

1@2: (3)4@3: (6, 4, 5, 6)1@4: (3)

Defender:

Rolls: 1@1 1@2; Total Hits: 0

1@1: (5)1@2: (4)

SZ 18:
Attacker:

Rolls: 1@2 3@4; Total Hits: 1

1@2: (4)3@4: (6, 4, 6)

Defender:

Rolls: 1@2; Total Hits: 0

1@2: (6)

Well, in the old days when there were only 6 German territories (Germany, S. Europe, W. Europe, E. Europe, Finland/Norway and Ukraine) detailing exact moves was a lot more simple.  Now adays there are seventeen sea zones; SZ 4, SZ 5, SZ 7, SZ 8, SZ 15, SZ 16, SZ 17, SZ 18, SZ 19, SZ 20, SZ 21, SZ 22, SZ 23, SZ 25, SZ 26, SZ 33 and SZ 35 all as sea zones from which SZ 6 may be attacked, and that doesn't even factor in the possibility of a Naval base in Alaska or French Indo China. 

It is MUCH harder to detail how and where to set up your attacks now.  There is so much flux to deal with, it's more than a flux capacitor can handle!  (Fine, I didn't need to add that comment.  I wanted to though!)

Not to mention, with Airbases and aircraft carriers at naval bases, there is a HUGE attacking force that can come from all over the board to attack one sea zone, making it all that much harder to keep an eye on every possible attack situation and contend with it.  It's one of the reasons I think Japan will get pushed back to SZ 6, it just cannot handle all these ships attacking from different angles with different units coming to help.  Hell, a strategic bomber on Hawaii can attack SZ 6 and land on Guam.  The same bomber on Guam can get to India or vice versa. 

So really, giving a detailed list of how to move your units around the board would take WAY too long to write out, let alone, the only people reading it would be hunting for the one inconsistency to take out (probably out of context) in an effort to make it as if someone said something they did not or to impune the character of the person making the detailed post.

Yes, there really are people out there that will take a quote out of context and use it thusly.  I know, hard to believe, but they exist. 

Russia:

Buy(37)
* 1 Fighter
* 9 Infnatry


NCMs as per map, I go insane typing them all out and they NEVER change much.

Build: 3 Infantry in Novosibirsk
Build: 3 Infantry in Odessa
Build: 3 Infantry in Volgorod
Build: 1 Fighter in Muskva

Collect: 37 IPC

Italy generally ends up happy.  There's not a whole lot the Allies can do about them except to slow them down on Round 1.

Yes, I am playing that strat with you.  I'm actually glad you know ahead of time to see if you can do something about it- makes for a good playtest.

After looking at this, it will be hard to come up with a counter.  It's more of a philosophy than a strategy, so there will be no set moves.  I doubt any 2 games will look the same.  I'll see what I can do.

It does make it harder.  Much akin to handling the 3 on 1 games of yester-year where it was more overall strategy and less "do this, then that..."

I find any overly detailed strategy becomes easy to thwart, primarily because it's overly detailed!  Just kill one step, and you kill the micro-managed strategy.

Russia:

Buy(45)
* 9 Infantry
* 3 Armor

No Combat

NCM:

3 Armor from Kansu to Kazakh
AA Gun from Kansu to Shensi
AA Gun, 3 Infnatry, 2 Artillery from Novgorod to Belarus
3 Infantry from S. Ukraine to N. Ukraine
4 Armor from S. Ukraine to Bryansk
7 Infantry from Russia to Bryansk
3 Infantry from Bryansk to N. Ukraine


Build: 3 Infantry in Volgorod
Build: 3 Infantry in Odessa
Build: 1 Infantry in Novgorod
Build: 2 Infantry, 3 Armor in Muskva

Collect: 32 IPC


You should start catching up fast with Germany, now that you have England and all of N. Africa.

But, as I've said many a time, Japan has been marginalized by round 8 (now) to round 10 (two rounds from now) and you'll have America to contend with pretty soon, in a decent sized force...not that I've neglected putting ships out for America in the Atlantic or anything.

no

I think A&A has reached its limit when it comes to complexity. This global version is FAR more complex than the original A&A, but either way I really like it. The problem is getting new people to play A&A, especially since its HUGELY time consuming. Oops, sorry, off topic. Thanks again for the help

I agree.  That's why it's awesome that we can play on-line with other addicted loonies like ourselves.  (I prefer to play by forum on this site, btw) 

Challenge me sometime! 

finish our game first!