Pictures of Pacific 1940 Box Art

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

I just found this online.

According to the Box the game is designed for 2-4 players and contains 450 Playing pieces.

I guess that means that china wont really be independent nation as i presume the nations are Japan, UK, Australia, & USA/China.

Product Information
Designer(s): Larry Harris
Manufacturer(s): Avalon Hill, Hasbro
Year: 2009
Players: 2 - 4
Time: 120 - 720 minutes
Ages: 12 and up
Weight: 2,000 grams (estimated)
Language Requirements: This is a domestic item.

2-12 hours?! Doesn't make much sense. Perhaps 12 hours is how long the big combined game will take.

[Veqryn]

I would have thought it would be:
Japan
China
USA
UK + Australia + All Others

[Krieghund]

China is an independent power.  However, it's controlled by the US player.

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

Krieg:  Are we to understand that "Independent power" means that China can build whatever units they want or are they limited to infantry, artillery, and a fighter?

[Emperor_Taiki]

China is an independent power.  However, it's controlled by the US player.

And when it says four players, what are the official four positions.

I am thinking it is
Austrilia
UK
Japan
United States

[MrEvilGuy]

2-12 hours?! Doesn't make much sense. Perhaps 12 hours is how long the big combined game will take.

I could see it being 12 hours long for beginners, since beginners always take much longer for everything, especially if it's their first Axis and Allies game...

[Imperious Leader]

LMFAO...ROTFL!!!!!

It totally figures that Funigan games YET AGAIN GETS THE NEWS ON YET ANOTHER AA PRODUCT, WHILE WOTC HAS NOT EVEN BOTHERED TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS EXISTENCE.

Freaking unbelievable that this can happen.

[Veqryn]

LMFAO...ROTFL!!!!!

It totally figures that Funigan games YET AGAIN GETS THE NEWS ON YET ANOTHER AA PRODUCT, WHILE WOTC HAS NOT EVEN BOTHERED TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS EXISTENCE.

Freaking unbelievable that this can happen.

why does WOTC even both making Avalon Hill games at all when it doesn't advertise them?  I'd be curious to read their financial statements and see if Avalon Hill even makes a profit, and I'd also be curious to talk to their marketing directors.

I'm having a hell of time finding anyone in denver who plays war games at all, let along axis and allies.  But there are no shortage of idiots playing Dungeons and Dragons or Magic the Gathering.  I can see why MTG attracts WOTC, people have to pay hundreds of dollars every three months to keep up, and not only do you need to keep shelling out money for new cards, but you have to shell out money for olds ones too since they call it a 'collectible'.  ����ing bullshit.  It like a game a poker, except that you can buy aces from the store to add to your hand for money you will never get back.

[Omega]

Don't insult MTG. Its a very fun game with a lot of skill requirement (yea, I play it myself)
Although I agree with you that the investment is heavy, I have already bought most cards for my needs and don't follow the new expansions.
In fact, I've started to sell my collection (profit:) )

Robert

[Imperious Leader]

I'd be curious to read their financial statements and see if Avalon Hill even makes a profit, and I'd also be curious to talk to their marketing directors.

Financial statements? I think the idiots write it on the back of all the bags of Taco Bell drive thru while they fart in their cars on the way back from a 3 hour lunch break. That is if they are not too bothered to stop reading the latest D$D fictional novel about some idiot wizard or memorizing what saving throw to make for a spell they might be conjuring. They must be a team of total misfits and malcontents and government chain gang furlough types based on the asinine methods they run the business.  I would have them all fired on the spot and no severance pay.

[Krieghund]

Krieg:  Are we to understand that "Independent power" means that China can build whatever units they want or are they limited to infantry, artillery, and a fighter?

"Independent power" means that China gets its own turn and its own separate resources.  It will still be limited as to what it can build, as it's not an industrialized nation.

And when it says four players, what are the official four positions.

I am thinking it is
Austrilia
UK
Japan
United States

Yup.

[Andy_Dandy]

Nice cover, and a dream of an A&A game it seems. I want to buy it as soon as possible. I hope Larry ships alot of these goodies to Norway.

[Funcioneta]

"Independent power" means that China gets its own turn and its own separate resources.  It will still be limited as to what it can build, as it's not an industrialized nation.

Let me guess: that means ACME walls at chinese frontiers and merry japanese hordes of tanks blitzing non-industrial mountain areas 

[Imperious Leader]

So is this another Limited Edition? It might be considering the cost.

[Veqryn]

So what can China purchase?

Infantry
Artillery (if burma road is open?)

anything else?

they should be able to buy destroyers if they take back all Chinese territories, including ones occupied by Japan, that would be cool

and the USA should be allowed to repurchase the flying tigers if they get destroyed. (and how many fighter units will represent the flying tigers this time? just one?)