@Taffy3
If you know this will be the case just have a laptop with triple A present and update countries at the end of their turn.
If you play with a group some people will be Idle most of the time anyway and it saves doing things later.

With stacks of 20+ units cellphone shots can be tricky to recreate from.

TripleA also has the advantage of being able to continue the round from remote locations in case your next sitting is prevented by other IRL things.

As an added bonus it adds disaster recovery in case accidents happen. Dice bounce out on table, cat/kid sneaks in.

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Why is surrender not an option in the original game?:

@surfer

I don’t make that assumption. My view is that since surrender wasn’t explicitly mentioned in the rules it’s not allowed.

Every game out there basically allows 1 of the players to give up. Its a game if you think you lost you can give up.
What would you do force a player to continue playing?
Its not in the rules because its so obvious it doesnt need to be in the rules.

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Why is surrender not an option in the original game?:

@shadowhawk

I don’t force.

But when playing by myself or if I’m the one losing I always play to the end.

Why? If your axis and its clear you will lose why continue for another 12 hours. Especially if allies are winning things will go slowly downhill for the axis but it takes many rounds before tokyo, berlin and rome are captured. You could stack tokyo with about 50-60 inf and a load of fighters so then good luck invading as the allies. 1 kamikaze a turn means 6 turns without shore bombardment as well.

Not having it also means that the first player that lands there can also land a lot of planes. Having 2 french units and say 8 infantry and 6fighters is a lot worst then having just 8 inf on that zone to deal with. Sure the US cannot build 3 tanks but the ability to land a huge airforce there does mitigate that issue the first round.

And if they keep the zone for long enough that they could produce there there is verry little that stops them from attack you.

Bombing the harbour does nothing at all. You would normally land from SZ110 which has a UK harbour anyway so bombing it only exposes your airforce to AA fire without any benefit.

Thinking about the post and the board pictures.
Its kinda unfair we now helping only 1 side of the board. As it looks like both players are new to the game our help will give 1 side a clear advantage over the other side.

@surfer said in Anti-aircraft artillery advise:

@shadowhawk …“transports unless you got a spare slot and they other side is using aircraft when they attack you.”

I don’t think this is correct. An AAA on a transport is just cargo. They do not fight in sea battles–unless you are using a house rule.

Not a house rule, more of a if you doing amfib stuff and reinforce a beachhead take anything but AA but if you got spare capacity to transport something over then well AA is better then nothing. Esp if the other side needs to bring air to attack.

Like sometimes when doing D-day and germany has to counter using air i leave 1 transport to do non combat moves and transport 1 inf + 1AA to normandy as well. You lose a2 on defence but you gain 3x1 the first round. If i got 4 transport but only 4 inf and 3 art then i might as well transport 1AA to normandy as well.

@SuperbattleshipYamato
Basically they are the first things that die.
They cannot fight anymore in the battle so better to let them die so units that can shoot back get another shot.

Never seen anyone buy 1 in the game. They are a bit like cruisers you use what you got and thats about it. You also dont put them on transports unless you got a spare slot and they other side is using aircraft when they attack you.

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Need help defending as UK until USSR joins:

@shadowhawk

I think he got the US thing right. Based on how he worded things it appears Japan pulled a J1 or J2.

Well its obvious that if the US gets attacked that its at war. Just pointing them out because maby next time Japan might not pull of a J1 or J2 ( or even J3 )
Since he missed the russia thing which is on the same page, and the USA income thing also in the same page might as well point some more out so he doesnt miss them.

Its not that obvious that the rules for global are @the back of the rulebook and not just a small different rulebook.

@YUMYAM said in Need help defending as UK until USSR joins:

@shadowhawk No, I was going to ask. With the amount of troops we had, would’ve totally done that. Will make the other players aware for next time. Changes the whole strategy for USSR and Germany. Also, I appreciate you sending that guide in here, it’s just one step up from the basic rules. We watched Ben Harsh’s hour long video, and read a good bit of the book, but obviously missed a lot.

You should really read up on the rules before you start the game. I was wondering why there where so many weird things in the picture.

Things you most likely forgot.
USA can declare war end of round 3 ( or before if certain conditions are met )
USSR can declare start of round 4 ( or before if certain conditions are met )
You can load and unload troops from transports in the same turn.
Income is different in global.
Starting units are slightly different.

@YUMYAM said in Need help defending as UK until USSR joins:

@shadowhawk No, I was going to ask. With the amount of troops we had, would’ve totally done that. Will make the other players aware for next time. Changes the whole strategy for USSR and Germany. Also, I appreciate you sending that guide in here, it’s just one step up from the basic rules. We watched Ben Harsh’s hour long video, and read a good bit of the book, but obviously missed a lot.

Well the rules are the same, even that guide is more or less just people doing some math on the subject. But most important thing is to get the setup right and get the income settings right.
Just read the global rules and make sure both understand them the rest is pretty and you got most of the game sorted i think.

@YUMYAM said in Need help defending as UK until USSR joins:

@shadowhawk I think were gonna let the USSR play out a turn just because they’ve been waiting hours to get in the game. But yeah, chalk up the whole game as a practice round, I agree.

You are aware that the USSR can attack round 4 right. Even if the axis do not attack first round 4 they are free to do whatever they want.
Why wait till round 5 is done?

@YUMYAM
To be fair, since you made a lot of mistakes at the start with the setup and the war economy and with the movement rules your are better off just calling this a practice round and start over with the proper rules.

Make sure you read the global rules to be sure you know them all and got the correct starting income and setup sorted. Since you got a bit of a grasp for the rules you might also go faster and make less mistakes.

Also a round by round picture would say a lot more then the text as you miss out on stuff like you mentioned and we can spot mistakes pretty easy on a picture. We are trained for that :P

Thinking about the post and the board pictures.
Its kinda unfair we now helping only 1 side of the board. As it looks like both players are new to the game our help will give 1 side a clear advantage over the other side.

@AndrewAAGamer said in Need help defending as UK until USSR joins:

Yeah, don’t buy battleships. Here is an article I wrote that will help you play the game better.

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/35286/warfare-principles-of-axis-allies-by-andrewaagamer

Yea good general rule, dont buy battleships.
There are situations where it could be better to buy a battleship but these are so rare.

Like you will be attacked and you need as much defence possible but only got 20ipcs and already 3 fighters @ the airbase. In that case you might consider a BB over a Cruiser + destroyer combo.

@YUMYAM
First off russia is going to be insane soon, they can attack round 4 and there is verry little germany can do against them. Make sure you spend some forces taking finland and then norway for the extra bonus for russia and take away german bonus.
But dont let it take away from your main drive mainland europe, once you can reasonably threathen berlin your golden. You spread your russian forces thin and also put your planes on the front line. There is no reason your planes should be on the front line. Also your infantry is spread out so it can be picked off piecemeal.

He spend 40ipcs just in battleships in the first 2 rounds, he wont be going anywhere anytime soon. Even london is quite safe as you would have spend at least 1 or 2 turns of units on there.
Dont bother with tanks in S-afrika, you got 2 transports in the area just buy 2 art + air, use your existing Inf. That would give you 2 inf 2 art to counter same as buying 2 mech + 2 tanks but for a fraction of the costs.

Since china is kinda dead make sure that India is safe, he didnt go for the money islands yet so thats good. Move the fleet to Queensland that would be a nice bother for Japan with their fleet spread out. What is he going to do take hawai with 2 transports while you got 3 fighters and 2 inf there. Not likely.

Stop buying BB really the US should have 2 or even 3 carriers ( loaded with fighters ) in the pacific by now not 3 battleships. Lucky germany is equally silly with its buys.

And indeed where are the 18 russian in against japan and the 2 anzac inf in egypt.
Also what happened to the force you had in alexandria? They seem to have vanished.
Next time dont bring 2 planes to taranto bring at least 4 maby even 5 ( you figure out how but its possible )

Also what did the US buy? I see 1 BB and a destroyer in the pacific and nothing extra in the atlantic? Did stuff get destroyed? This is round 2 right so the US should have spend at least 104IPC’s.
Looks like there are some mistakes made with setup for global maby also for the income for some countries. As you spend about 28ipcs with the US in 2 turns. And its not like the US lacks things it needs to buy so saving is not really usefull.