Transport Question

Appreciate all the help. Lots of great explanations and clarifications of the rules.

@IKE: Another option in a 2v2 live game is to split the Allies up by theater, which we like to do. Allies player 1: US (Atlantic), UK (London), Russia, France Allies player 2: US (Pacific), UK (Calcutta), Anzac, China Ofcourse this involves heavy coordination in strategy of spending US $.  It’s give and take. We have done this in the past, and it is pretty cool. The 2 US players lobbying for income/units is kinda what happened historically (which theater gets a boost?). Does the Pac player allow the Siberians to march home? Dose India give up some air/fleet to Egypt? This gives the Euro and Pac allied players something to do throughout the game, and coordination is a must. Some of their powers are in the fight from the get go, some are dwindling, and others are ramping up. On the Pac side, US controlling Anzac seems right because they need to work together once the US gets into the game. As China/India looses ground the US picks up steam so that player is involved throughout. On the Euro side the UK gets a lot of action as do the French (turn one). The US/Russia comes into play slowly, and you don’t want someone to have only the US/Russia because of that. In our group Russia is an inept power to play because it can be very boring unless there is a Sea lion. There is nothing good about playing the US/Russia, waiting for 3 rounds to go by, and the game is paused until the next day lol. Even when we split the allies up differently, Russia is a bit of a question. Sometimes we alternate Russia’s turn between both allied players.

A kamikaze strike can target any specific enemy surface warship (not a submarine or transport) belonging to the attacking power. Page 16 of Pacific 1940 2nd Edition rulebook.

Exactly.  If the enemy units are all destroyed in the Conduct Combat phase, the sea zone will be friendly in the Noncombat Move phase.

I think what also helped the USA in the Pacific was the type of war it was; wasn’t the majority of the Japanese land forces fighting in China? The USA could use their wealth of equipment and air-power to good use this way. I like the idea of the different start-ups and scenarios and maybe more victory conditions for the Global Games. I don’t think WW2 Axis & Allies games are dead either; I like the idea of more Theater type games as well like: Eastern Front (have lots of territories; maybe make good use of rail-roads and blitzkrieg tactics etc… have extra "special infantry to represent the SS and other stuff) Stalingrad would be cool… Kursk would be cool… Maybe some form of Atlantic Battles (subs vs convoys etc…) Maybe some form of Battle of Britain (air battles) or some form of Bombing strategy game of the allies vs Germany (air battles). I think there’s lots of games and ways they could still go.

@rockrobinoff: @nutbar: I want to see a list of the countries grouped into the following categories: Playing strategy and typeWhich coutntries should play Offensive?..… simply put: A&A success, and the type of generalization you are looking for, do not go hand in hand. like any complex game, the better the player the less likely you are to look at any given situation through a ‘rule of thumb’ type of lens. “Russia should play defensive?” What does that even mean? Russia should play well, end of story, and what that means depends on so many different factors it is impossible to meaningfully generalize. Well of course, but the idea is that most of the time, the Soviets are focusing less on capturing German territories, and more on preventing the capture of their own, thus being defensive play. Granted, it’s not to say “Russia should never attack someone” but generally, they’re fighting more for protecting themselves than harming Germany.

Depends whether the dardenelles is opened or closed but In other areas it could happen I.E. med

If you dont like dice, you can always go Low Luck or No Luck.  However, I prefer ADS mainly because it means I get away scot free for years and years against AA Guns (i have the ultimate best record of surviving AA Guns and the absolute worst.  My worst record is 23 of 23 strategic bombers lost in a row (not all in one battle, I’da suicided if it was all in one battle!) and my current luck streak is still going with something like 50 misses in a row with AA Guns.)