How is 1940 Pacific going to BALANCE with 1940 Europe?


  • Hey Mr. Yope:

    I understand you may have have helped to playtest this monster… How much bigger are the new 1940 game boards (‘maps’) when compared with their original versions? What % are we talking here?

    Thanks, M_I_R


  • @Tralis:

    Remember that the US’s income is going to be split between the two boards. Also, Japan may be able to grab enough VCs to win even if they would loose if the game was continued. Plus, naval warfare is expensive and Japan starts much closer to the US in terms of IPCs, much less after it expands some.

    Yeah, victory on VCs just seems hollow, especially if most of the early fighting occurs with Japanese initative.  Usually the first three rounds of any of these A&A games decides the dice outcome of any given Axis side and what routes they have available.  If America can’t break through the Solomons and into Australia due to bad dice, will it be a short game?  For the same matter, if bad dice generally happen with a particular Axis power, that side switches to the defensive and prays for the other side to take the offensive…  this can’t happen here, so if Japan’s fleet is sunk by round 3 or so (Midway) its always going to be an allied victory?  I don’t see how one front minature games are going to be all that fun.  I suppose India (Britain) will be a second front for Japan to worry about; will the VC’s let Japan win if they can grab India?  I still think the USA would have fought on if India fell.


  • Consider that, globally, Japan will never have to conquer the US. You act as if that should be achievable. Japan, conquering the US. That would be, and should be, impossible unless the US messes up big time. Japan’s goal with the US is to keep him bottled up and waste resources that should be going to Europe so Germany can push into Russia.


  • WOW! Color me shades of plastic pieces. I just found out about these games today. I can’t wait!

    The first question that comes to my mind concerning the global game and victory is this. Are the victory conditions going to be the same in the global game and the individual game? Because if they are, what happens in the global game when Japan gets 6 VC and wins in the Pacific, while Europe is still at war? Does this just end the Pacific theater battle? Do the units on the Pacific side become unusable?(Probably not). However, if the game continues in the Pacific, as other posters have said, USA will wipe out Japan, evetually.

    Because of USA’s seperate economies Japan won’t be taking resources from the Europe battle. Unless units can be shared between theaters, which I am sure will be allowed.

    I know it will all be clear before too long, but I love to speculate.


  • I would think youd need more VCs in the global game. If one theatre wins then assist the side that isnt right?


  • @Todd7912:

    WOW! Color me shades of plastic pieces. I just found out about these games today. I can’t wait!

    What, did you just crawl out from under a rock.


  • remember outside of this forum there is NO marketing for these games


  • Thanks for that, Craig. What I don’t know, however, are the dimensions of the original board. Does this represent an enlargement of that board, or are the two roughly the same size? _MIR

  • '20 '18 '16 '13 '12

    @Make_It_Round:

    Thanks for that, Craig. What I don’t know, however, are the dimensions of the original board. Does this represent an enlargement of that board, or are the two roughly the same size? _MIR

    Dimensions are (width by height in inches):

    AA 42:    33 X 20     (32X17 if you dont count the production chart)

    AA 41:   45 X 23.5    (AA50)

    AA 40:    35 X 35      (Individual games as per Yope)
                70 X 35      (Combined games as per Yope)

    Hope that gives you some idea. :-)


  • It’s still not as big as The War Game which is 38" x 77"


  • Nothing is that big. That game has the worlds record for the largest mounted map. I saw the certificate he got.


  • @Canuck12:

    @Make_It_Round:

    Thanks for that, Craig. What I don’t know, however, are the dimensions of the original board. Does this represent an enlargement of that board, or are the two roughly the same size? _MIR

    Dimensions are (width by height in inches):

    AA 42:    33 X 20     (32X17 if you dont count the production chart)

    AA 41:   45 X 23.5    (AA50)

    AA 40:    35 X 35      (Individual games as per Yope)
                70 X 35      (Combined games as per Yope)

    Hope that gives you some idea. :-)

    Technically

    AA42: 32 X 20 (32 X 16 w/o Production Chart)

    AA50: 42 X 24

    AA40: 35 X 32 (each)
            70 X 32 (global)

  • '20 '18 '16 '13 '12

    Were we using different boards?


  • Maybe you were using different rulers. :-D


  • maybe the 2nd measurements were metric?


  • Nope, one inch is 2’5 cm

  • '22

    Only the Yanks and Limeys are using the Inch-scale, and the rest of the world is using the Metric-scale, so the minority is still on the upperhand it looks like, :evil:


  • it happens from time to time


  • Remember the golden rule:

    Those who have the gold make the rules. (and rulers) :-D


  • What is that gold stuff? Some sort of arch-technobabble? Money today is a virtual stuff, the modern deity!  :lol:

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