@Navybrat:
Larry has designed a great game- but to play it now you have to ask someone “what setup are we playing”. All I am saying is that the time for a decison is here.
Here’s the thing. Europe 1940 only came out in August, so that’s the first time the general public has been capable of playing the Global 1940 format. Compared to the Classic board there is twice as many territories and unit types, the game is not the same at all. As far as I know even the Anniversary edition doesn’t have as many territories as this one, there’s new playable countries, new units(?) and I’m rather positive there are other revisions to the rules as well.
Now look at a game such as StarCraft, released in 1998. This is a real-time strategy in which a multiplayer game can take anywhere between 11 and 45 minutes (vice A&A’s several hours), and there’s no setup time to consider. You also have millions of people playing this game, some 20+ games per day. Even with all these advantages that game was NOT balanced in a matter of months, it took years of regular patching and an extremely talented PROFESSIONAL TEAM of experienced developers (not just a few people as in Larry’s situation, and playtesters, though important, are not experienced professional developers, I’m sorry).
Perhaps instead of criticizing Larry and Co for not leaving us to the mercy of the OOB ruleset you should praise him for trying. He does not have to do this for us, he’s a made man.
Or like I said before, pretend this community does not exist and live blissfully ignorant with the extremely shite printed manual.