• Map

    Borders in do not stand out enough, especially in Europe. Could I go over the borders with a fine white marker to make them jump out to me more?

    Territories in Europe need to be 50% bigger. Northwest Europe is a disgrace. You can only fit 2 types of units there. I think they went overboard by a couple territories. This would have left just a bit more room for each remaining territory

    Overall the map does look fantastic though

    gamelength and NOs

    Game seemed to get 50% longer for me and my father-in-law. I think Nos were the reason. ALOT more money circulating(Paulson would be proud) out there now than before. We weren’t aggresively persuing NOs. We just were like glad we got one or 2. We also weren’t purposely trying to do things to deny each other the NOs. We were just playing. Once we get the hang of the NO strategies maybe it will speed up???

    Gameplay

    Japan is GODZILLA!!! My father-in-law is not very good at this game but yet he really kicked the crap out of me using Japan. I put every dollar in the Pacific with America but I felt lucky to just keep up with the Japs. I think a India IC build is a must for UK(we did not build any in first game). They have to put the pressure on Japan or they will dominate.

    Eastern European front was a complete stalemate. Germany kept buying navy so that is the most likely reason. He did some major damage to my fleets with the naval and air attacks. Note to self: 1 warship buy for every transport buy. Having 1 destroyer escort 4 transports is not a good idea. 1 fighter took them all out. We each had a couple of instances where we lost alot of transports to weak attacks like that. I got pissed and started buying a BB every round with UK and USA.

    Subs are sweet. The rules(if I understand them) are the best yet. I actually bought 5 subs for USA. Hunting down a fleet with no destroyers was very cool and satisfing. I did not have to play cat and mouse I just went after them, I also did not have to bunch my subs with a fleet for safety since I could not be attacked without a destroyer present.

    Game pieces

    Italy brown and USSR reddish brown colors are way way way too close. I really cannot believe they went with Brown for Italy. Actually it is pretty stupid.
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    I know I’ll get blasted for this but I think the NOs are going to need adjustments. Possibly lowering the reward to 3 ipcs(6 ipcs for Russias 10 ipc reward). Reason being there is now too many units on the board and it’s harder to get the advantage on someone. This makes the game longer. Who knows maybe in 4 or 5 games I’ll have different view. I’ll post more if I think of anything.


  • Thank you for the review, I just got this game but I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, so it is nice getting to have an idea what it is like.
    As for your comment about the subs, My opinion is that subs are better when you have 2-3 because 2-3 subs is not enough to just build a lot of (if any) destroyers, but enough to damage a Navy considerably.

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