Honolulu

@robbie358:

Do you think we will ever get a 1940 board where Honolulu is on the correct island?Â

I doubt it because the second edition of Global 1940 introduced a new map error (the British roundel in western Canada) and didn’t fix an old error that I find either annoying or hilarious depending on my mood: “Timguska”, which sounds like the Russian version of a Tim Hortons coffee shop franchise.

Because it has always been on the largest island from the first time Larry Harris forgot to google it, I would wager it will always remain there in perpetuity just for consistency.  I know how men are at admitting they are wrong.  :roll:

I live in Honolulu. That is why I always make fun of Larry Harris even on the forums.  He has good basic ideas… implementation… so so.

Anniversary was the best for me. Then again I actually like having a pacific theater that is worth contesting for… so I play global for that reason… game balance for global is god awful. I have a hard time losing when I am the axis and an easier time losing when I am the allies. My allies strategy has become full scramble uk1, if I dice someone yay, if not full pacific anyway, hope India survives because when Russia falls… India has to defend egypt… and hopefully Japan is done for by then…

Except Japan starts with like 20 air units and a bunch of naval… soooo winning in the pacific takes longer than Germany G6 Russia… if I ignore japan… I have to go full pacific starting round 5 anyway… so I basically need to go full pacific early and then do a balanced buy mid game.

The Pacific map alone is funny. I still do J1 dow because I may as well speed the game up and it is the same as a J2 dow.

If I just want to win every game, I will just do the Hollywood strategy, you can pretty much get the west coast every game at 60% odds or better.

@Cow:

The Pacific map alone is funny.

Out of curiosity, if you’ve ever seen the film, what do you think of the two A&A-style (sort of) tabletop maps of the Pacific in the movie Midway?  They’re rather simplistic in terms of geographic accuracy, but they look nice and the huge one that fills a whole room at CINCPAC headquarters is particularly cool, as are the little model ships used on it and on Yamamoto’s smaller map table.  I’m always amused at how the ship and plane markers change location or orientation between some of the shots, or even appear and disappear altogether.  Another funny part is the scene in which one of Yamamoto’s staff members is listening over his earphones to a position update for Admiral Nagumo’s strike force of four carriers and assorted support vessels.  He leans down over Yamamoto’s map table and carefully nudges the carrier markers forward by about half an inch.  Given that, on the relatively small-scale map, the four carrier markers are occupying a total area of ocean that’s probably several hundred miles square, these fiddly position adjustments are pretty laughable – but they do work well cinematically.

Have you ever heard of axis and allies naval miniatures? It is my second great love besides this. I have all of the IJN air, subs,  battleships, cruisers, and aircraft carriers that they had in the war in miniature form. Sometimes I use the escort carriers from that miniatures game for global.

CWOMarc! That map in the Midway war room is my favorite! Haha Heston!  :-D
Good call

I always wondered what the deal was Honolulu in A&A. I remember at least in Classic the 1 ipc mark seemed to fall in roughly the right place. But when the VC was introduced in AA50 felt like a cruel joke. Like why even draw Oahu and the other islands then? just to spite everyone we’ll put it on the big island? haha. Nice work
silly

@Black_Elk:

CWOMarc! That map in the Midway war room is my favorite!

I also recommend (if you haven’t seen it yet) the movie Sink the Bismarck, which has a nice map-table-and-ship-model arrangement that is used at several points throughout the movie.  Not as big as the CINCPAC one in Midway, but it looks good. At one point the movie uses the plot device of bringing a senior RAF officer to the Admiralty’s Operations Room, which provides a convenient excuse for the Director of Operations to spend a few minutes explaining to the RAF officer (and to the audience) the situation being displayed on the map table.