In the AA50 Rulebook, Larry Harris cites three problems with a 1939 scenario:
1. The game would automatically be much longer to play.
2. The Unites States would not participate in the Game for the first three of four turns.
3. The game would suffer from a rather slow and predictable start.
This, and several other issues, would prove to be too problematic from a game point of view.
As many of you have said, the fact that all the powers start with much fewer units is a problem, yet there are also other obvious ones. It’s these notorious “other issues” I’m curious about. Yet, now that I reread through what Larry said and have thought it over, I don’t think he sees it as simply “to add a cruiser, or not to add a cruiser.” It seems that he really feels that a 1939 A&A game wouldn’t just be difficult to make, but not be fun to play. Perhaps he feels it would be as painful as watching the first two Star Wars prequels. All they do is talk politics, and you just want them to get on with the darn war!
Larry has said on his forum that he doesn’t want to talk about it. Perhaps we’re better off simply not knowing , just as we would have been better off not knowing Darth Vader was a winy teenager.
