@Tjoek said in Tjoek's Global 1940 setup charts: Updated Dec 23rd:

I’ve finished creating all the setup charts for both Global 1940 and 1942. See the first message for the ZIP file containing all files. This does include setup charts for the Neutral powers as well.

Let me know if there are any errors.

They look great!

A few errors:

ANZAC
NSW minor factory (not major)

Neutrals
Persia 2 inf (not 3)

Germany
Poland tac (not ftr)

Italy
sz95 missing sub

UK Europe
France art (not inf)
Scotland airbase (not naval base)

UK Pacific
India art (not mech)

USA
Midway/Wake/Guam each have airbase (not naval base)

@Tjoek said in Tjoek's Global 1940 setup charts: Updated Dec 23rd:

@8thGuards Did you by any chance also verify the 1942 setup? Or just the 1940 setup?

Just the 1940, sorry.

I have an idea for something else. What about another chart about 2/3rds of the size of one of these setup charts, divided in two sectors. One sector with a unit price list, another with a mobilization zone for the purchase face. I think would be a lot better than the “fixed” price list/mobilization zone that used to be on the map (before you removed it, which I approve of). Then you could basically put it down wherever you want, depending on what power and which side of the map you’re at.

@Tjoek said in Tjoek's Global 1940 setup charts: Updated Dec 23rd:

I’ve finished creating all the setup charts for both Global 1940 and 1942. See the first message for the ZIP file containing all files. This does include setup charts for the Neutral powers as well.

Let me know if there are any errors.

They look great!

A few errors:

ANZAC
NSW minor factory (not major)

Neutrals
Persia 2 inf (not 3)

Germany
Poland tac (not ftr)

Italy
sz95 missing sub

UK Europe
France art (not inf)
Scotland airbase (not naval base)

UK Pacific
India art (not mech)

USA
Midway/Wake/Guam each have airbase (not naval base)

ANZAC attacks the Philippines

Moves a CV, TAC, FTR, 2 DD and 2 SS into the Philippines seazone along with 3 fully loaded TRN

Japan has 2 SS in the sea zone, decides to use its kamikazes against the ANZAC surface fleet and scrambles the FTR and TAC that are on the Philippines to force a sea combat (otherwise it would have been an amphibious assault without sea combat).

1 the kamikazes eliminate 2 DD and damage the CV
2 both sides submarines decide to stay and fight, JAP scores one hit which ANZAC absorbs against the CV that is now sunk
3 as a result of no destroyers left, there are essentially 2 separate battles (2 SS vs 2 SS, and FTR+TAC vs FTR+TAC)
4 at the end, JAP has 1 SS left (kept the SS fighting to hopefully prevent amphibious assault, is that the right assumption?), ANZAC has one FTR left

What happens? Must ANZAC retreat its 3 loaded TRN since it has no attacking sea battle combat units left that could hit the remaining JAP SS or does it get to land on Philippines? And the ANZAC FTR has one movement point left and is thus basically lost. Japan kept its subs on the surface to prevent the landing and eliminate the ANZAC subs.

Question regarding submarines.

If a lone submarine attacks another lone submarine, both obviously have the option to either surprise strike or submerge.

Suppose both decide to surprise strike, if the attacker hits, does the defending submarine still get its surprise strike? And can submarines eliminate each other that way? Or does the surprise strike only count against surface warships?

Last weekend G40 game

Battle of Moscow G7

Germany scored maybe 25% hits, won’t have been much more
Russia scored just over 50% hits (exactly 50% on 2s, and all but one of 3s and 4s including UK FTRs)

Russia was thus safe for the foreseeable future, buying time for US/UK to build their invasion fleet. To think that Russian AAAs only downed one plane. Axis conceded when a Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet also went badly.

I’m looking forward to next saturday.

I also add a vote for option 3. Love the new Gibraltar (but I already told you that off-site) :-D

Also I like the special surprise.

@Tjoek:

@Wedge:

Good idea TJoeK - that makes since and a lot more cost effective.Â

I learned this trick when I was invited to play in a different group where they used regular but different colors dice. They would throw them all and depending the color you had to look for the right number of pips.

Not as quick as real hit dice, but it does the job.

I might know which group  :-D

I think it looks amazing.

Since you’ve been updating territory names. One or two things have been bothering me since the release of the OOB maps.

Volgograd. I’ve been thinking what it should be named instead. Maybe Don-Volga or Don Valley or something like that.
Samara. Whilst not as egregious as Volgograd, this territory and its capital city were called Kuybyshev and Kuybyshev Oblast from 1936 to 1991.

Also, maybe Gibraltar and sz 110 (English channel) could be slighly larger?

@Caesar:

As for Spain, history is basically in agreement that Franco wouldn’t join the Axis unless he got everything he wanted which was former French colonies in Africa and Gibraltar.

Didn’t Hitler send admiral Canaris to Madrid to get Franco to fully commit, with Canaris then doing the exact opposite telling Franco to stay out at all cost?