Game of A&A Global 1940 in Christchurch, New Zealand

Thank you all for your  help

The size of the map is getting a bit better with each installment.  You used to be able to fly a bomber from Omaha or Texas to Moscow!!!

@CWO: @DizzKneeLand33: Apparently none of you has a cat… Yes, the cat issue is something that’s come up a few times on this board, as the picture below will illustrate.  I can’t recall if the suggestions were made seriously or not, but some board members have thought about protecting their games-in-progress from one weekend to the next by using a system of overhead pulleys to either raise the table to the ceiling or lower a protective hood over the map.  Feasible for a dedicated gaming room in the basement, but not likely to be approved for the living room by the lady of the house. That is SO CUTE!!! How well does the cat play?  Does he attack the US on turn one?

Just have fun. These games can be very long… Which is why I like to go wild in live games. prepare to invade london with germany, remember to buy a carrier and 2 transports for the first round or carrier destroyer sub. Second round if you have not purchased a destroyer on the first, buy one and the rest transports. prepare to invade! Have italy kill the french naval or ram into the stuff by gibraltar, because you don’t want that defending london. Sea lion is real fast, you get london on germany round 3 or you don’t. Russia pushes in europe and you kick him out or you don’t. Simple as that. As far as Japan goes, that is up to you.  The simplest strategy is to draw an imaginary line from Japan to calcutta… and take everything along the way and the dutch islands.

@Wakrob: As per my play with A&A1940 Europe, I feel Axis has it very rough in the Global version. Our game- G3 takes London after obliterating Brit navel presence in the first two turns.  I hadnt realized how many planes could get there. Japan chooses not to go to war with anyone but Russia until J3. Italians rolled bad in almost every engagement. I think slow rolling Japan might have been a bad idea.  The money it prevented US from getting seemed more than offset by the easy Dutch/ANZAC National Obj bonus’ the allis got.  And Italians never had much luck, Cairo never fell. But you’d think taking 35 IPC’s from London and pretty much locking UK out of the game on the western hemisphere should be an easy win. Germany staled out in Russia after taking Leningrad.  US eventually staged 7 full transports, 2 full Carriers and a Battleship off Gibralter.  Germans 4 Fighters and 4 Tact Fighers guarding London decided to strike first at the fleet and failed.  US takes back London next turn easily.  Axis player concedes at 1:30am in the morning after about 7 turns. German had held London for about 4 turns. My opinion stands that Axis have it very hard in this A&A version. Wak ARGH!!!  You had the game man, you had it!  If Germany can knock England out of the war it is very difficult for the Allies to come back from it.  Attacking the US navy from England is difficult if not impossible since they can build twice the amount of IPCs you’re making every turn in the Atlantic.  You had 8 planes in England, all you had to do was shuck enough infantry there to defend it and you’re golden.  Let the Americans be the ones sinking tons of money into transports to retake England while you’re already sitting pretty with your own transports and tons of inf from W. Germany to reinforce.  With 8 planes as defense those 7 loaded transports would have had no chance if you’d had a stack of 10+ infantry present. I’m guessing sorry-bitch-ass Italy was in danger so you felt you had to attack in the Atlantic to save them.  It was easier to me to defend against the US Gibraltar threat by reinforcing Italy with my own inf/tanks from W. Germany fora few turns until they get enough infantry made to hold the capital.

Well done gentlemen, always trying to recruit new War at Sea players.

Fantastic!  Thanks Bob!

@Arthur: The Germany and Japan playbooks that are stickied to the top of this G40 strategy page are amazing.  You will get a solid start as Axis if you follow those plans for the first couple of rounds.  Nothing beats experience as each game becomes different based on initial die rolls.  The top guys on the League play can beat the middle guys 90+% of the time. Would be better just to learn the game yourself first before copying someone else his strategy. sure those are good starting moves but you dont learn a lot from just copying from someone else, its like making a digital copy of a photo to learn to make good photo’s Im not claiming to be a verry good player and i have eventualy also used those strategies but they force every player into the exact same style of play. Just play a few games and you learn pretty quicky what to look out for and what not.