Thanks for the responses everyone!
Bakaman, yeah we’ve found the random hat pulling to be the best and most fun no matter the skill levels.
Yeah, if the Axis have a decent income, the game gets a lot harder for the Allies. That is the one common denominator throughout all axis and allies games.
So this game, we put roundels in a hat and pick randomly, so we do not know our teammates nor the country we are playing til that day.
As the Axis, I’ve done the Calcutta crush with Japan, Sea Lion, and the Romanian IC, all with mostly success. Is there anything else that I can try? I mean, for Japan, is it worth taking Sydney first for any reason? Is it a good idea to build a navy to feign the Sea Lion and then amphibious assault Leningrad? I’ve thought about all of these and just trying to figure out some other creative attacks with the Axis.
Thanks for whipping out your old rule books and knowledge! :mrgreen:
We’ve been playing it since global came out but we only play like twice a year.
It is pretty amazing and yeah, we all think it is pretty even.
Shadow,
I understand what you are saying and I’ve read all of these experiences of how 1st edition is not balanced. However, somehow in my experience with the same group of guys, it’s been 50/50. I do not know how are why, but it has, which has made it very enjoyable due to it being unpredictable.
So I have a game of A&A coming up this Saturday that I am super stoked about.
My question for everyone is, who here still uses the 1st edition rules and set-up? I know my group does and have found it to actually be very balanced with practically a 50/50 split on which side wins.
Just wanted to share that I still roll with the 1st edition and I am super pumped for this weekend coming up!
Welp just to give you guys an update, we did not switch over to 2nd edition. Everyone just wanted to start playing and get started. So we stuck with 1st edition.
Allies crushed the Axis. The person playing as Germany/Italy ignored Russian almost the entire time. They built navy after navy with Germany and no ground troops. Needless to say, Russia took Berlin and USA took Rome. At the end, Japan had their navy intact but lost all of china. They had just Korea and Shanghai they took back when we quit. And Russia was making 114 IPC’s per turn. XD
Perhaps we’ll look at the rules for 2nd edition for the next time we played. Although, our games have usually been quite competitive and the record is now 4-3, Allies favor.
Alright so I am playing this weekend.
Now, all we have played is 1st edition OOB rules.
We actually have a 50-50 win rate for both sides. However, I am looking to maybe incorporate some items to the second edition.
Any suggestions on what we should incorporate? Thanks.
@Cow:
Yeah always take london and india round 3. You can do it every game all day everyday.
Yeah I was figuring on threatening London, that way you can threaten london and leningrad at the same time.
Crushing India turn 3 is usually a good idea as well. Thanks for the input Cow.
We have not really seen too much of an issue. The Axis are 1-3 in the OOB 1st edition. I was the one win for the Axis when I was Japan. Took India T3, and Moscow by T8. 
Got a game coming up March 2nd. Any suggestions for the Axis? :mrgreen:
Thanks for the help.
If I was japan, i’d consider going through the empty territories of Mongolia to get to the Russian territories that do not have any men in them.
@Frontovik:
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Even doing that is incredibly risky. The British forces aren’t exactly even in a Taranto battle. Chances are the Italians will lose the Cruiser and be able to repair the BB next turn- not a good trade off to losing a Cruiser and Destroyer and possibly a Tac Bomber. I still say its better to concentrate everything near the Suez Canal and make a stand till the US can enter Morocco/Algeria. If anything, use the small French fleet to damage the Italians just to force them to think what to buy. There’s a good shot Italy will jump to 16-17 IPCs after her 1st turn. (South France, Bulgaria, Kenya, Tunisia and maybe Sudan) Lets assume her 1st purchases (with 10 IPCs) is a just a Transport. On turn 2, you’re talking either 2 fighters, or even a Destroyer+Cruiser or even subs. It really makes any potential UK naval win into a Pyrrhic Victory.
carrier takes a hit, and use fighter from egypt aswell
so AC with tac makes the battleship, cruiser for cruiser, foghter and destroyer for extra?
but that’s then IPC’s going into useless (cause US will destroy it with very little losses) ships than into troops that can be shipped to where they’re needed
couple that wioth british IC in egypt, and you got yourself a decent 8th army there aswell.
atleast i like the idea of an IC there…
You guys do remember that if you damage the aircraft carrier, the planes cannot land on it right? :roll:
Nevermind. I read the faq and changed the declaration for the USA. So why wait to take the phil’s on J2 instead of just taking it J1. You give the USA time to move everything, giving it that much more firepower to assault japan.
usa cannot declare war though no matter what. they are only drawn into it. There is a thread on here about the usa declaration of war and J1 attacks.
From my understanding, if you declare war on UK/Anzac but not USA, USA cannot attack Japan, but they do get their wartime economy that turn.
So if you do the J1 attack, J2 Phillipines, aren’t you really letting the USA get 62 IPC, save their bomber, fighter, DD, and transport, moving them out of harms way to fight another day?
Hm interesting because both my wife and I read the rule book, and both interpreted that part the same way. Guess we need to read it again.
Okay, so you can place units if you take a territory back from Japan, but you cannot place units in territories where Japan just captured, correct?
Is this a correct interpretation of the placement of units with China:
China can place units in any of their territories including ones that were just taken over by Japan that turn?
Wow, that is super cool! Better than the old way. Thanks for the clarification
When I read the rules, it sounded like to me like it always has been. Either two infantry, one inf/one art, one inf/one AA, one tank, or one inf/one mech. I’ve read on the boards here that you can do an inf/tank. Is this true?
Yeah, this one time playing the original A&A, Germany was defending against Russia. Germany had 13 infantry and Russia had like 20+ units attacking. When Germany rolled his defending dice, 11 out of the 13 were 1’s! It was incredible!
Also, Japan could not land the AA in hawaii on the turn that Japan takes it. Next round they can.
Japan can pass through those sea zones during the non-combat phase while not at war with the ally powers. So really, is it that big of an issue?
Hey guys. I sent an e-mail to WOTC as well. This was the response I got from Jamie.
The Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940 game has a known issue where the Battle Strip is misprinted. Some of numbers are wrong or missing. While we don’t have any correct Battle Strips available for replacement at this time, we do expect to receive them by February. The same goes for the Japanese Tactical Bombers as well. Please reply with the following information so we can make sure to send you a correct Battle Strip when we get them in:
So in other words, we should be receiving more tactical bombers in Feburary! Woohoo!
