• @Larrie:

    @KillOFzee:

    Well to start off, as USA

    1: Focus on one theater at time, but still make sure to spend in both. For the first couple of turns, create a sizable navy in the pacific. Try to attack in tandem with the smaller factions, like ANZAC, to cause maximum damage to Japanese Aircraft carriers and transports.
    2: After you think your navy has grown strong enough, begin building transports and ground units in the European theater. Do not wait until Japan’s navy is completely wiped out, otherwise Germany will have pushed too far in Russia. You need to open up an allied European front before Germany can get too close to Moscow. It is usually best to land in Normandy/Bordeaux, and reinforce with the British. But if you can sack Rome, do it.� 
    3: As a china, if you can buy artillery, buy it. The Burma road is never open long enough to have access to heavy equipment again. In general, avoid piling your units together in one territory. Fall back, force the Japanese to send their ground forces deeper into China. If they don’t attack, reverse the pressure and hit their valuable ground units.
    4: In general, if you need to lose units, it best to lose them in China. China has no victory cities, so if you have to lose 3 infantry to kill 1 Japanese infantry, it is worth it. China is a bullet shield. Play them like it.

    Good luck, and good hunting, General…

    Better check your board again, unless they moved Shanghai, it is in China.

    But Shanghai starts in Japanese control, and the Chinese lack the strength to push through Japanese lines to get to Shanghai. What I mean is that it doesn’t matter if China is wiped out, as they have no VCs that aren’t already locked down by the Japs.


  • ok, the game……

    ROUND 1

    Germany takes France.
    Japan Attacks Burman road wins but loses 2 Fighters and 2 Infantry, with only 1 arty left.
    China retakes Burma road.
    UK loses fleet in Atlantic.
    Japan Attacks Russia.

    ROUND 2
    Germany positions troops along russian border.
    UK takes Tobruk.
    France takes Libya.
    China Pushes back Japan.
    Russia forms a Massive “Russian Wall” along German border.
    Russia forms another wall in the east.

    ROUND 3
    Russia pushes back Japan
    Japan Breaks through china’s “wall”
    China retreats back and forms a defensive line.
    US troops land in Soviet far east and pushes back Japan.
    Japan takes philipines, and Indonesia

    Round 4
    Germany Attacks Russia
    China Pushes back Japan with UK troops.
    UK destroys all Japanese troops on the India front and helps china.
    US … its 6:30 and everyone is brain dead… Game over. Axis had 159 IPCs, Allies 153 IPCs. Axis won.


  • Really, Axis won? Maybe by IPC count, but that doesn’t include NOs. The game appears to be far from over, IMO. It may actually prove to be a very interesting game the way you’ve described it.


  • well we were brain dead.

  • '17 '16 '15

    looks like a truce

    hostilities will break out again:)


  • I was playing that game with him and I was Russia and France and I was getting beat up on the soviet far east and I think it is a good idea for the US to march up through alaska and come over with few transports and help the russians defend that part from japan because russia only has a small amount of men there.


  • @TheDictator:

    I was playing that game with him and I was Russia and France and I was getting beat up on the soviet far east and I think it is a good idea for the US to march up through alaska and come over with few transports and help the russians defend that part from japan because russia only has a small amount of men there.

    yep…. I saved your LIFE! :wink:


  • That is a good weak spot of Japan to exploit as a fleet off Alaska (Japan thinks) is headed for Japan.


  • I 100% agree w/munchie19. I can’t believe you guys called a game in the 5th round (it just started). The axis would typically have a slight lead in production as they head in to Russia, and get most of the DEI etc… (that’s what is supposed to happen).  I know time was the problem, you should try to set-up 2 day sessions to continue in future games. The US just got going, and there is no way at that point to declare a winner IMO. The allies have to weather the early storm, and its between the 5th-7th round when the allies start to rebound. This is when you see what the axis are made of, and if they can repel the allies. You got to go 10 rounds standing toe to toe IMO unless there’s a KO punch.


  • If you’re an amazingly keen observer, tactician and strategist, in a normal game you can PREDICT with 80% accuracy the winner by about Round 7 if Barbarossa, Round 9 if Sealion. Of course, it depends on dice/the situation, but I think that’s the middle ground. For normal people, it’s probably Round 10/11.


  • To add to Wild Bill’s/techroll’s posts - not only does it often take until the turns get into the double digits (10 +) to predict the game, but sometimes an apparent victory for one side can turn… shockingly… through either great play or dice.

    I recently lost a game in which I had a 190 - 130 IPC edge over the Axis, but my opponent very shrewdly snuck away with a VC win on the Europe map. I was squeezing him slowly into submission, and the game was 17 + turns old. A sure win, right? Wrong. I learned my lesson, and it won’t happen again, but it made me aware of the late game possibilities.

    Write your games down, set them up and play them again!


  • Or just leave them set up.

    And THAT, my friends, is why I don’t play with the VC rules. A sure loss can easily turn to a sure win.


  • @WILD:

    I 100% agree w/munchie19. I can’t believe you guys called a game in the 5th round (it just started). The axis would typically have a slight lead in production as they head in to Russia, and get most of the DEI etc… (that’s what is supposed to happen).  I know time was the problem, you should try to set-up 2 day sessions to continue in future games. The US just got going, and there is no way at that point to declare a winner IMO. The allies have to weather the early storm, and its between the 5th-7th round when the allies start to rebound. This is when you see what the axis are made of, and if they can repel the allies. You got to go 10 rounds standing toe to toe IMO unless there’s a KO punch.

    we played for 10 Hours with out stop, and we had set it up in a place where we cant leave it over night. :cry:


  • Yeah, it’s too bad you had to end the game so early. It’s amazing how reslilient Germ and JPN can be if their Air Forces stay pretty much intact. I was in a game once playing the Allies and took a lightly defended Berlin fairly early in the game and the Axis player was so frustrated that he just conceded. He could have easlily retaken it the next round. 95% of his pieces were still in play so the game was far from being over.


  • @crusaders1:

    It’s amazing how reslilient Germ and JPN can be if their Air Forces stay pretty much intact.

    Please, I dont wont to talk about the axis airforce. It brigs back bad memories :wink:


  • @techroll42:

    If you’re an amazingly keen observer, tactician and strategist, in a normal game you can PREDICT with 80% accuracy the winner by about Round 7 if Barbarossa, Round 9 if Sealion. Of course, it depends on dice/the situation, but I think that’s the middle ground. For normal people, it’s probably Round 10/11.

    I’d say that 20% margin of error is worth playing out.  Only throw in the towel when there is no path to victory whatsoever.  More than one victory has been snatched from the jaws of defeat through an incredible blunder by one’s opponent or an incredibly lucky major battle - and those are the games that are remembered.

  • '17 '16 '15

    empireman

    when you’re done with R&R and they put you back in the front lines give triplea a try

    it’s a lot faster and easy to save

    and if you have a 55" monitor like malachi crunch FTF should be quite enjoyable:)

    I agree 20% is worth playing out


  • @barney:

    empireman

    when you’re done with R&R and they put you back in the front lines give triplea a try

    I play Triple a all the time and its AWESOME!

  • '17 '16 '15

    :)


  • cant wait for G40 on stable version :-D

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