Does Turkey connect to Bulgaria as in real life?

What happened to the videos?

@wittmann:

I have played four games , without a bid. Is still hard, because Japan is still  strong. It changes the gane , in that the U.K. Has an Atlantic fleet  amd, therefore, a foothold on the Continent. I enjoyed the change .
Sorry I can’t say much else, Ike.

Thanks Wittman

So do the changes mentioned in the first post help the balance?  Are folks still using a bid with the setup changes?

@Afrikakorps:

I also like to share my view on Russian economy, to support why I am so positive Russia can become most exciting nation to play instead of most boring.

RUSSIA = 30 IPC
But many national objecties to grow

Siberia: +7 IPC
SZ125: +5 IPC
Iraq: +5 IPC
Italian Somaliland + Libya: +7 IPC
Italian Islands: +6 IPC
Scandinavia: +11 IPC

That is +41 IPC, PER TURN for a total of 71 IPC without entering German borders (as those can be easily defended by Germany)

How is Russia getting the Italian islands?  They’re loading on US/UK transports in the Med?

Even though you’re paying for the upgrade at the beginning of turn 2 it doesn’t take effect until the end of your turn at the same time you place new units.  I think that’s where you were stuck.  So turn 3 is when you could place up to 10 units as taamvan said.

I’ve only played one game where Italy raged, it was glorious.  No Taranto I believe.  Axis win in Europe

I like the chips from 1942 better, they’re a little smaller. So I bought blue’s from HBG (which I believe come with 1914) and use those as 2.  So my setup is:

Gray 1
Blue 2
Green 3
Red 5

Also picked up their air base and naval base markers which really pop on the board.

What does meta mean?

@Zhukov44:

Dual victory conditions means that either Germany/Italy or Japan can win the game for Axis.  This was a big change from the traditional way A&A games played out, where Allies would generally go either KJF or KGF.  In these games, Axis only had so much time to take out Russia before USA gets to either J or G.  Dual victory conditions force the Allies to adopt a balanced approach or risk losing on one side of the board or another.  This gives Axis more time to achieve economic dominance.

Gotcha, thanks.  I didn’t play the older games.  So before without dual victory conditions if the Berlin or Tokyo were captured and held a turn then the Allies would win?  Whereas now they need to capture both capitals, unless the axis concede first.