@djensen

I’m from Massachusetts (South Coast and Cape Cod Canal areas). I started playing A&A in the mid 80’s. Played like a maniac in the mid 90’s, and then only rare times for the rest of my life, usually with people who have never played.

I own original (two copies), Anniversary, and Global.

I have no one to play with. I watch YouTube videos and finally opened up Global and set up and started reading the rules.

I love the customizations in all of the videos so I just started my own customizations.

I’ve visited this site for many years but only recently signed up.

@TinCanoftheSea

Yes Anzac needs to help. Calcutta is going to fall regardless so either abandon it for Persia or set up a six plane scramble and make Japan lose lots of expensive equipment. If you are just building infantry Japan won’t even lose a plane.

A fun strategy is to drop AB on Borneo and get two inf and at least 3 fighters on it turn one. It creates a large expensive distraction if Japan wants the money islands

I have two ideas which I think will change strategy for multiple countries and be historically accurate.

1: Azores in SZ 103 (90 would work but too close to West Indies in my opinion).

This feeds into Hitler’s fantasy of bombing US with long range bombers.
It’s also a great naval base for all Europe countries.
And US can long range bomb Europe from there.

2. Diego Garcia in SZ 78. Pretty much all the same high points as Azores but in Pacific.

Azores will be strict neutral like Portugal.

Diego feels like it should be Pro Allied Neutral but UK didn’t take it over until 1942 so strict neutral is best choice.

What do you guys think?

And what additional missing map territories might improve the game?

Operation Felix was an Axis plan to take Gibraltar by going through Spain. It never happened because Franco denied permission.

I thought that would be a perfect counter to Gibastion.

G1: ignored SZ’s 110, 109, 91 to encourage Gibastion. Take Southern France and Normandy with 7 fast movers (1 died)

UK1: move all boats to SZ 92. 3 fighters to Gibraltar, one to Algeria with two transports worth of land units and one destroyer as blocker in SZ 94. Purchase air base and place in Gibraltar.

I1: all boats to SZ 93, all planes, tank, 2 art, 2 inf invade Spain.

G2: buy 10 transports. Wipe out all planes on Gibraltar with 3 tanks, 3 mechs and a bunch of planes that can land in Spain. The large UK fleet is now trapped in Med and can’t get back to defend against Sea Lion, and no more planes.

I2: purchase air base for Spain. All the German planes in Spain can now legally hit London on G3

G3: easy Sea Lion

I know everyone will freak out over the 14 free infantry on Russian border so I am playing out entire game to see if Felix will be Axis downfall

14 free infantry are at worst an annoyance. I7 is next and there are only 5 French infantry in Caucasus left out of 14.

Game looks like it will end on J10 most likely.

I’m growing bored and want to move onto my next crazy strategy but I will keep going and try to finish the game.

Please feel free to watch my videos and hopefully subscribe etc.

Operation Felix: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC5zN4iV9YdFAQ-gWPjX3ch09HyCUWbkP&si=8l1y1TjVCylDK-kk

I’m a big fan of @GeneralHandGrenade and I was the winner of his Viva La France contest. The French set came in the mail today so I decided to give making videos a go. I started customizing recently so I included that in the video.

https://youtu.be/6RrQi3cozDwop

@Arthur-Bomber-Harris I play every country aggressively - hyper aggressively. It’s more fun that way.

@cdatkins74 thank you. Not sure on what video I make next. I just got a delivery of tiny magnets, but my stands are trash; maybe when I figure that out I’ll make my own flight stand video.

I’m currently working on two expansion sets that will eventually get videos. I’m still trying to flesh out final details so I might make a video of what I have so far to ask for suggestions.

I also need to navigate the world of making new items for the expansions. I keep reading, “3D printing,” but that means nothing to me.

@surfer no, not usually. If I have a few big hitters and one more unit than my enemy, that’s enough for me

@Midnight_Reaper thank you. I appreciate the links especially. I love seeing all the 3D items replacing markers like naval bases and such.

@barnee I found the edit button

@surfer 2 German subs were hanging out in SZ 90 and 88. As soon as UK attacked Italian fleet in 93 the German subs slid into 92. UK lost most of their boats so no destroyers left. Germany had a NB at Gib now so nowhere for the UK fleet to hide. I think I might have also bought sub(s) in Southern france same turn.

Yugo was attacked already but not yet taken by Axis so UK fleet went there with whatever they could carry and the ftr to cause havoc in the Balkans which they were able to do for another two turns if I remember correctly. UK left a trns and boat behind so they went and took Sicily since they could only move two spots. And UK had one extra trns with nothing to do so He just moved two spots to Cairo and luckily was spared next turn so made it to Suez.

G4, 5 trns and fully loaded AC moved to 92. G5 a bunch of tanks, mechs and inf left Spain/Gib to take Cairo and give Italy some breathing room. Tanks and mechs then liberated Albania from Russia with 3 inf left behind to collect NO and support Italy.

4 trns invaded Sweden to prevent Russia from getting a bunch of free inf as they had Finland and to restore the German NO.

I’m looking forward to the totally random SZ’s you may not think of as your favorite

@simon33 insanely awesome

@The-Farmer Italy attacked Spain I1 so Syrian stepped in to get 8 free inf

@Krieghund

I just had a game where France activated Turkey F1

If Russia bought a transport R1 for Ukraine, could they ask France for permission to use the Turkish straights R2 while not at war?

Same answer for Suez R3 if still not at war?

I assume Russian troops on boats doesn’t violate neutrality

@dazedwit

Update: my new favorite Italy turn 1 build is:

1 sub, save $4

@surfer

And trapped UK fleet was knocked down to damaged battleship and damaged AC UK2 after wiping out entire Italian fleet.

German subs finished them off

@surfer

I played out entire game to see if Felix would be the Axis downfall. As badly as I played Italy (so bad) and Germany doing this strategy it still worked.

Felix kept America out of Europe until US took Norway turn 7 in prep for London liberation which may not have happened because Germany had like 17 inf in London

The Iberian peninsula was an absolute fortress so US couldn’t come usual way.

Russia became a monster during this game which had more to do with Sea Lion than Felix. I learned for future to attack Russia same turn as London to get some breathing space.

Because of the Russian bear Japan was going to have to win the game and they did taking Sydney and then Hawai was going to be next. Allies conceded US8 before London could be liberated

@surfer said in Ideas on a counter?:

@Cornwallis Gibastion. Make a fortress at Gibraltar with the fleet and (typically) an airbase.
Prevents Sealion because you can get back to UK as a block and all those transports can’t do anything.
Prevents Italian NO.
Protects Egypt as the Italians can’t go without the UK Med fleet stomping them.

It will eventually link with the US and ferry troops across.

I just developed a counter strategy to Gibastion for the Axis.

Algerian Snake barely works and cripples Italy for the game and Germany loses bombers finishing up the maneuver.

Operation Felix flips Gibastion on its head and guarantees a super easy Sea Lion as well as a fortress in both Spain and Gibraltar to block USA from coming right in.
You can spare trns to take Eire and Scotland to deny landing spots for American bombers. And London becomes a fortress too with 11 trns ready to shuck inf to London when America comes calling.
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/42427/operation-felix

I played Italy and to a lesser extent Germany so badly trying out this strat but it still worked as planned. I learned from all of my mistakes so next time doing this strat should be much much better I believe.

I decided to have America go right to liberate London but because of the large amount of units Germany had in London had to spend a few turns building up fleet and enough trns to credibly take London back. That was turn 8. In hindsight, America should have abandoned Europe and gone right for the Pacific. (although prior game, America abandoned Europe to go for Pacific and it ended very badly for the allies so I decided to go London this game… also to a disaster lol)

@Cornwallis

R1: buy 3 SB’s (and buy one SB every turn after)
UK1: buy 2 SB’s. bomb W German Air Base with original bomber first turn.
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When both Russia and UK at war together, level both German Major IC’s every single turn if need be.

This will grind Germany to a halt. They will have to pay $20-$40 every turn

If Germany immediately goes for Sea Lion due to UK not putting land units turn one, send 3 bombers and 4 ftrs to sink their navy, including all the trns. You can position MED AC at Gibraltar to catch two ftrs, but if that is not an option then buy 2 AC’s turn two so you can send four ftrs. If you don’t sink the trns, you will have wiped out all of the warships and/or some planes and now will have two AC’s (possibly more boats depending on what happened) with a UK ftr, tac, and French ftr blocking the landing.

Germany will most likely not have any boats left, maybe one. They are going to have to send all of their planes to clear the new fleet in 110 so Sea Lion is either dead in the water or a phryic victory.

Make sure to keep Scotland protected - no freebees. And if London does fall, it will be with very limited ground units so UK should be able to take it right back with units from Scotland.