I played 3.9 this weekend, thanks for the new setup!!

Does anyone have the 3.9 for abatlemap? We have some problems playing Russia, always loosing Moscow on G5. I have to really plan Russia in detail next time. Perhaps giving up all territory without fight to germany, and stack in Moscow, hoping for the sibirain forses to arrive in R6. Or something… At the moment we dont know how to respnd to the German panzar/luftwaffe angriff… So I have to do my homework…

I played a game this weekend, with a friend I haven’t been playing with since early 1990. He is extemly good when it comes to strategy games, but it was the first time to test Global 1940 (last he played was revised).

He reacted to the huge amount of air units, and find it strange that there are no limits to air units you may send in, just that there are a limit when it comes to bombardment (you man not bombard more than landing units), now when you have this massive concentrations of air units.

At the moment I was winning with German and Japan air-fists (as always I give much priority to the air-units), so I did not agree to limit their capabilities/stacking. But what about you, anyone out there that have house ruled this and got a good balance, without obvious negative side effects?

Yes, thank you for report! Good for the Axis’ moral. Since my last defeat - which was the most humiliating since I started playing A&A - I have been planning my next Axis opening. I think I have found out a pretty solid opening.

Today was a big day. My daughter is quite used to sit by his father when she is playing A&A. She can sit for hours and play whit the small plastic units.

http://hem.bredband.net/b335249/A&A.png

Today I tried to explain what the small plastic units represents in the “real would”. So I put on the move “The battle of Britain” from 1969. Now she is running around the apartment screaming “Spitfire, spitfire”.

http://hem.bredband.net/b335249/H111.png

I think she will be a great A&A player some day!!

@gamerman01:

Yes, Hakan, you’re obviously no rookie.  AA50 has quite a few different dynamics than previous incarnations of A&A.  You’re right, the western front is weak for Germany at game start.
I would suggest in '41 with the way it sounds like you are playing, that you try to have Germany just hold her own.  That is, make sure you’re getting between 1 and 3 NO’s as often as possible and make sure you deny Russia the big 10 NO.
It is difficult to really threaten Russia hard and defend against the western Allies at the same time.  Japan is so hi-powered in '41 that you should just wait a few turns for her.  Japan is very capable of putting a serious threat on the USA (see my current game vs. Anchovy - round 3 and America is in serious danger of going down) especially if US bombers go to Europe.  In AA50, I almost always go nearly all out against Japan with the USA in both scenarios with great success.

Yes I do agree. Japan is the key to win. I will try to play them better next time.

My general Axis tactics has been to play conservative with Germany, and aggressively with Japan. But if you don’t put some pressure on Russia, Russia may support India with tanks from Caucasus. And when this happens, Japan have to make a quite hard commitment to take India with an IC. And when Japan must commit hard to take India, at the same time as Germany plays conservative, Japan cannot put so much pressure on China, at the same time as the US bombers gets time to take good offensive air bases in the Pacific. And when Japan hit hard south, Japan also faces the threat that the defensive infantry stack in Stanovoy may advance. It doesn’t bother so much since, but still… I actually prefer to put pressure on USA with Japan, rather then going all out on India, China and Russia.

As Allied I often buy bombers T1 for all my IPC. I think they are so price worthy in A&A50. And depending on how Germany and Japan are playing, I ether send them to the Pacific or England. If the Japan naval units is in striking distance of Alaska, I have my bombers in East Canada, so I may strike both against a Japanese naval invasion, and support a sea born invasion on France.

Anyway… I really FEEL like a rookie with the Axis playing A&A50. But… I guess I have not done my home work with the Japanese planning. However, it seems to be a quite strong strategy to put pressure on USA with Japan. Perhaps that will be my game plan next time (hope my friend isn’t reading:)

Buy 9 inf 1 art.

Egypt–Send all Africa units, plus the bomber, plus 1 inf 1 tank in the transport.
Karelia–Send all Finland units, plus 1 inf 1 art in the transport, plus 3 fighters.  Risky, but worth it if you get that NA.
SZ3–send 2 subs and 1 fig after the British BB
Send 1 sub 1 destroyer after the destroyer in SZ6
Attack East Poland with a few inf, 1 fig, and some tanks.
Attack Baltic States with everything else.

There are several variations on this.  It might be wise to take Ukraine too, but this requires spreading out a bit thin for my taste (still, you will be destroying the main Russian force at Karelia, so the threat of counterattack is much less).  At sea, you could decide to send the subs after the other destroyer/tranny pairing instead of the bb and use a 4th fig in Karelia…the problem with this is it allows UK to land in Finland on UK1, which I’d prefer to avoid.  On the other hand, if the Brits go to Finland, they aren’t going to France.

Or you could skip the Karelia attack and just securely hit all 3 Eastern territories, while using your air to destroy British units in SZ12.  Either way, in a non-bid game I’m always going to attack Egypt full-force because UK cannot reinforce that region easily, and I want to dominate that region using all 3 Axis and keep getting the Italian NO.

In any case, there is a reason that Allied bids usually go to Egypt and/or Karelia.  If Axis is denied these G1 attacks it is much harder for them to win.

I have tried variants on this theme several times, but I always became to “thin” in the end as German. Perhaps just bad luck. Or, perhaps my friend is just to strong when he plays Allies. Anyway, I think I will planne and go with this one more time. We are obviously not playing “wrong” then. Thanx Zjukof.

Ok, thanx a lot for all tips. I will analyse them before our next game. (We play 1941 with NO)

Me and my friend have been playing A&A in about 20 years, but there is obviously some thing we are missing something, since most players say that Axis are easer…

The problem is that the western wall is so weak, and we have never manage to put heavy pressure against Russia with Germany before Germany comes under heavy carpet bombing and/or invasion… But I have always used Italian infantry to defend France. Perhaps I should try to send them to Russia instead. Never thought of that… Hmmm… But how will you then stop allied invasions?

The only time acually I manage to win with the Axis, was when USA went all out on Germany. That’s obviously a big mistake, if you’re not careful. I simply made an heavy sea born invasion on Alaska and then Western USA. Since then we always play quite balanced with USA. But even if you do that, not leaving the Pacific, USA may put heavy pressure on Germany. First with bombers, than with sea born invasions.

But… We are obviously missing something. I will test your strategies on ABattleMap before next game, and calculate the odds. I will leave nothing to random…

I will put out my G1, G2, G3, J1, G2, G3 and I1, I2 and I3 plan before next game, for you to comment. It will be interesting.

Me and my friend have played lots of games now, but we never manage to win as Axis.

How do your favourite openings look like G1, G2, G3 and J1, J2, J3? What is your grand strategy?

Sorry for a stupid question, but english is not my mothertung. What do you all mean by “bidding”? Or have I missed something in the new rules? Oooops…

I have been playing AAorg since the mid 1980. After a few years, we started to make plenty of house rules. Then came AArev. I was sooo happy. We played it over and over again. Then came AA50. Once again I was soooo happy. It seemed perfect. It’s hard to describe. I love AA. I grow up with it, and will play it until the day I die. I thought that AA50 was the final and ultimate version. That there would not be any more versions.

But I was wrong. Just a half year later, a new almost similar game is out on the market. To be honest, I feel a little bit fooled by Larry. Larry usually don’t act like this. What has happened? I actually felt a little sting in my AA hart.

But for sure I will buy it. As I have bought all outer AA games. Larry knows this. Obviously.