But that would mean that a noobie would be anything but a newbie     crazy.

I just picked up my copy of the basic rules today (nearly 200 pages!) and it looks quite awesome.  I was wondering if anyone else has ever played.

I believe that Xi confused the defense and amphib assualt values for destroyers.  They defend at 3 or less and their one shot support attck is at 2 or less.

yay! more junk in space, the earth will have rings yet.

we usually play till someone says, hey this isn't very cool or fun anymore.  Sometimes my group expresses the desire to finish a game out, since it so rarely happens.

whoops, my mistake.  sorry dude.

I think the US and China can easily slip into a conflict, although it will likely be on a small scale; like during the cold war when the powerful western nations would battle the powerful communist ones through support in relatively tiny conflicts like Korea.  I think a revolution in Manchuria or an invasion of Taiwan could do the trick (although American policy towards Taiwan is weird).

I agree with you Yanny, petrolium is not the answer.  Besides, with all the Urianium found in the Canadian shield Canada's economy will benifit greatly.  I don't think all the giant petro-chemical companies would allow the govenment to outlaw the manufacture of internal combustion powered vehicals.  It is unfortuante that we live in a society so completely dominated by huge capitalist corperations.

I attack Manchuria on my first turn, but retreat before I take it.  I see it as buying a little more time by reducing their initial forces.

Oy,  I've only been studying russian for about a year (approx. on college semester).  The only thing I got out of that was hi and somthing about french.

I'd say I'm fluent in english, I studied some french, thought it was a terrible language, and now I'm learning russian.

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Yanny said:

The US could care less if the UN existed or not.

THANK YOU YANNY!  I am tired of a bunch of 3rd world mobsters condeming American and Israeli actions as they try to take my 2nd amendment rights.

We should all be thankful that the U.N. has no real power.  The day they get real power is the day the 3rd world dictators have mor power than us.

I don't think I'll comment on this; I can't change conservative's minds, they are beyond my help.  And we all know what that means: Yes! the world is doomed!

In regard to your question, the Japanese territories cannot be taken (or given) to the Germans.  They just sort of sit there with no income being drawn from them untill the Allies take them; of course, after the Allies take them the Germans can gain control of these territories.

"If you were a whino on the street and a billionare came and gave you money, gave you a house, a job, food and everything you needed in order to survive, would you not thank him and praise him?"

If I were a whino on the street I wouldn't take a job, house, or money from a billionare just becuase he pitied me (at least I'd like to think so), so I render your example moot.  Also, you state the reason for your worship as being that God created you and is therefor worthy of praise; I don't think that's right.  I think there should be mutual respect, but not an acknowlegment that one being is better than another (this is assuming that God exists).  So what if God can create people or the universe, he still deserve to be treated equally.  I wouldn't want anyone to worship me if I suddenly acquired god-like powers, even if I did create them for some reason.  Maybe I carry the ideal of democracy too far, but it's what I believe.

Whenever the British player collects his income he will get 12 IPCs from his convoys (if he controls all of them)  as soon as this is collected it must be given to or split between Australia and India.  These 12 IPCs are also given at the begining of the game with the starting income at which point the British player must dispurse the money between the two powers as he sees fit.