Jeez, this looks just gorgeous! Amazing! Terrific! Brilliant! This is just a masterpiece, I can’t wait to learn the rules and play it!

I was playing a game of Oztea 1941, and from turn 5, the game began to be so interesting I started making pictures of it. Let me know your thoughts and comments about the variant in general and specific strategies you thing they should be done in this game. I played with Low Luck, and the house rule that when a capital gets captured more than 2 times, the subsequent time the player pays his IPC’s to the bank, instead of to the conquering player.
I did use an outdated setup though, with an added naval base in both Kwangtung in Malaya.

I played my first game of Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rule Expansion with the Section 1 rules. I am currently playing a game with the Section 2 rules, and I have to admit: Each time I add another section the game becomes ten times more fun than OOB! My favourite rule is the Extended Pacific Theatre rule, it adds so much depth to the Pacific, and it makes it way more historical than in OOB. The Japanese in my game took Guam, just because it was worth one buck. I have never seen the Japanese take Guam. They also tried to take Midway and Wake, which kind of failed because the Americans took them immediately back.

That aside, I wanted to tell how my Section 1 game went: (no extended pacific theatre though because thats a section 2 rule)

The German player thought that the cheap 5 IPC panzers in this game were overpowered, so he built mostly those only. Because it was the first time he played the game, he did mostly the same moves as in OOB. He destroyed the British fleet in sz 110 and 111, took Paris, Normandy/Bordeaux and Yugoslavia. The Germans tried to overpower the Russians with lots of tanks by building a minor IC in Romania. The Russians were beaten back pretty badly, and in Early 1942, the Germans tried to attack Moscow with a large force. They had an extensive amount of combat factors, more than the Russians had. But after several rounds of combat the Russians came out on top and the Germans had to retreat.

The Eastern Front was very interesting through the rest of the game, with the Germans trying to build up a large force again to destroy the recovering Russian units in Moscow, but they weren’t able to, as the Soviet Union was building a lot of infantry and guards (jeez, these were handy!). The Germans focused their attention on Caucasus and Stalingrad. A lot of back and forth, but finally in 1944, the Russians had a master move. They weren’t able to move their guys to Bryansk, as the Germans had a lot of tanks to counterattack. So they moved all their forces in Samara and Kazakhastan (which were sitting there to take back Stalingrad and the Caucasus if needed) to Stalingrad. The Germans had to attack this stack with everything it had and were able to destroy it with just four tanks left. This was too little to survive the counterattack by the Russian units in Moscow, and the battle of the Eastern Front was won by the Soviet Union

Italy was defeated very early, in 1942 already. They didn’t pay attention to the French destroyer, which was able to destroy an Italian blocker. This way the Americans were able to take not very well defended Rome.

The Japanese Empire was the biggest power on the board. They built factories in Kiangsu(?) and French Indo China, were able to take all over China and Calcutta in 1943. They were able to defeat the American navy, but the Americans had a master move, sacrificed all of their fleets to secure W US (The Japanese took Hawai with three transports and all their fleet. They could take W US if left alone with all the fighters and bombards, but because the Americans reduced it to a small navy they weren’t able to take W US anymore). Only later in the game, the Americans were able to build up a large fleet in the Pacific again.
The Japanese couldn’t do much to win the game, as you need to take an Allied Major Capital. They weren’t in a position to move into Russia, as the British in Calcutta retreated to Persia, and they set up a great defence in Persia. All Japanese tanks and planes were needed for a chance to breach this defence, but they weren’t able to, and in 1945 their forces were even defeated.

The game ended in an Allied Economic Victory. Berlin was turned into a fortress with 50 German Infantry, all their airpower and a lot of tanks, but it would fall inevitably if the game would go on one more round. The Japanese weren’t able to grow much further.

This game was way more interesting than an OOB game. It maybe sounds like a standard OOB game but the extra units added so much depth to the game. Is Germany going to be putting tanks in Berlin, or is it going to place some infantry there in order to turn them into Waffen units? Should I turn this factory into UG now or maybe later? All these questions need to be answered and the side that makes the best decisions wins.

And to add one more thing here, these were just section 1 rules. there are 4 more sections to go which add ten times more depth, strategy and fun to it. My Section 2 game is even more interesting, as the Germans are building submarines to attack Britain. They are not going fully against Russia so the question is if Germany is going to take out Russia? Or Japan, with its giant fleet, decided to build transports over factories to take over the Pacific islands, but now the situation in mainland Asia has grown very dier. They built two factories to stabilize the situation, but is it too late? Almost all of China has been taken back, so the clock is ticking.

I can’t wait to play my first game of Section 3 or 4, as the Armies and Army Group rules seem very interesting and fun to me!

@the-captain Yeah, playing the 1943 setup immediately is not the right way to go. Learning all those House Rule Expansion rules may look a bit boring, but it’s definitely worth it. I am learning the rules section by section and playing a game for each section. I have now reached Early 1943 in my section 3 game. Wowy, what is this exciting! The Eastern Front is such an interesting battle. I will post my Section 2 game report, and a report for my section 3 game in the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion thread.

@the_good_captain Oh, I never knew that! I hope they fix that issue in the future. But it didn’t really matter actually. For strategic purposes I prefer that fighter to be in Eastern Poland, (it isn’t in Baltic States actually) and the bomber too.

What’s the best way to defend the Soviet Union?
I know lots of people like to withdraw from every territory en turtle up in Moscow when playing as the Soviet Union, but I saw a video by General Hand Grenade where he told he liked to counter-attack with his forces, and to really have a ‘fight’ against the Germans (which I prefer to do as well). But which one of the two strategies is better? Is there an other way to make it as has hard as possible for the German player? And are things a lot different in Europe 1940, because in that version the Soviets have less money to spend. What is in your opinion the best way to hold Moscow and win as the USSR?

Hi Captain
I had planned to play my first game only with the Section 1 rules. Now, there is a rule that says Russia can move it’s factories, but that costs rail capacity. The rule of Strategic Rail movement is stated in a later section, so is there a limit then? Is there an unlimited amount of factories the Russian player can move, or is the limit 3 (the SRM limit)?

@the_good_captain Sure, edit! I also forget that most of the time. It’s not the most useful piece out there for the Allies. In these a&a games with that sub, I mostly just go to the pacific, because there is nothing to do in the Atlantic

Also, I wanted to say you made a very clear and exact rulebook. I have seen so many rulebooks with loopholes and unclear things, but you point out and explain almost everything (and with almost I mean only 1 or 2 things) so you really did a good job making the rulebook! There are some spell errors though:

defence (defense) - several times
concurred (conquered) - one time

I don’t remember exactly which pages the spell errors were stated though.

TripleA Turn Summary: Italians round 9

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II v3 1941, version: 1.7.0

Game History

Round: 9

    Turn Complete - Italians

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Savegame

TripleA Turn Summary: Japanese round 9

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II v3 1941, version: 1.7.0

Game History

Round: 9

    Purchase Units - Japanese
        Japanese buy 11 armour; Remaining resources: 4 PUs; 0 techTokens; 

    Combat Move - Japanese
        Battle in Russia
            Japanese attack with 27 armour, 1 artillery, 3 bombers, 9 fighters and 1 infantry
            British defend with 9 armour, 1 fighter and 2 infantry; Americans defend with 3 fighters; Russians defend with 1 aaGun, 5 armour, 1 artillery, 1 factory, 1 fighter and 18 infantry
                Russians roll AA dice in Russia : 1/12 hits, 2,00 expected hits
                1 fighter owned by the Japanese lost in Russia
                Japanese roll dice for 27 armour, 1 artillery, 3 bombers, 8 fighters and 1 infantry in Russia, round 2 : 17/40 hits, 20,17 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 14 armour, 1 artillery, 5 fighters and 20 infantry in Russia, round 2 : 14/40 hits, 17,33 expected hits
                1 infantry owned by the Japanese, 15 infantry owned by the Russians, 1 artillery owned by the Japanese, 12 armour owned by the Japanese and 2 infantry owned by the British lost in Russia
                Japanese roll dice for 15 armour, 3 bombers and 8 fighters in Russia, round 3 : 14/26 hits, 13,50 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 14 armour, 1 artillery, 5 fighters and 3 infantry in Russia, round 3 : 15/23 hits, 11,67 expected hits
                3 infantry owned by the Russians, 4 armour owned by the Russians, 1 artillery owned by the Russians, 15 armour owned by the Japanese and 6 armour owned by the British lost in Russia
                Japanese roll dice for 3 bombers and 8 fighters in Russia, round 4 : 6/11 hits, 6,00 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 4 armour and 5 fighters in Russia, round 4 : 6/9 hits, 5,33 expected hits
                6 fighters owned by the Japanese, 1 fighter owned by the Russians, 1 armour owned by the Russians, 1 fighter owned by the British and 3 armour owned by the British lost in Russia
                Japanese roll dice for 3 bombers and 2 fighters in Russia, round 5 : 2/5 hits, 3,00 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 3 fighters in Russia, round 5 : 2/3 hits, 2,00 expected hits
                2 fighters owned by the Japanese and 2 fighters owned by the Americans lost in Russia
                Japanese roll dice for 3 bombers in Russia, round 6 : 1/3 hits, 2,00 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 1 fighter in Russia, round 6 : 0/1 hits, 0,67 expected hits
                1 fighter owned by the Americans lost in Russia
            Japanese win with 3 bombers remaining. Battle score for attacker is -48
            Casualties for Japanese: 27 armour, 1 artillery, 9 fighters and 1 infantry
            Casualties for British: 9 armour, 1 fighter and 2 infantry
            Casualties for Russians: 5 armour, 1 artillery, 1 fighter and 18 infantry
            Casualties for Americans: 3 fighters
        24 armour, 1 artillery and 1 infantry moved from Caucasus to Russia
        2 bombers and 7 fighters moved from East Poland to Russia
        2 armour moved from Kazakh S.S.R. to Russia
        2 fighters moved from Ningxia to Russia
        1 bomber moved from India to Russia
        1 armour moved from Chinghai to Russia

    Non Combat Move - Japanese
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Japanese to Russia: 1 armour
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Japanese from Russia: 2 bombers
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Japanese from Russia: 1 bomber
        EDIT: Changing ownership of Russia from Russians to Japanese
        EDIT: Changing PUs for Russians from 15 to 0
        EDIT: Changing PUs for Japanese from 4 to 19
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        1 artillery and 2 infantry moved from Yakut S.S.R. to Evenki National Okrug
        5 armour moved from India to Caucasus
        3 armour moved from Ningxia to Kazakh S.S.R.
        2 armour moved from French Indo-China Thailand to India
        3 armour moved from Manchuria to Ningxia

    Place Units - Japanese
        4 armour placed in Caucasus
        3 armour placed in India
        2 armour placed in French Indo-China Thailand
        2 armour placed in Manchuria

    Turn Complete - Japanese
        Japanese collect 62 PUs; end with 81 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Japanese regular : -4,67
Russians regular : 0,00
Russians AA : -1,00

Savegame

I have one hit, so you will have to lose one fighter

@the_good_captain I select three of my tanks as casualties. I will press the attack.

Japanese:
2 tanks and 1 bomber

Americans:
2 Fighters

Something went wrong again. I had triplea in mid-battle in the background and was doing other things while I was waiting for your response. Then my battery was low again. I wanted to plug the charger into the computer but I couldn’t find it. Once I found out that it was in the living room because I forgot to bring it back to my workroom… it was too late. My computer shut down due to low energy and the combat statistics were lost as well. I hate that battery of me, it’s just out of energy way too quickly. I even purchased a new one but it still goes empty after half an hour. (I call it a worsery now Is there a way to solve this? Triplea doesn’t store save games while in battle.
Do we have to roll them manually?

I am now doing the Japanese turn. The battle for Moscow is nail-biting as always. You have a slight upper hand with just two fighters left. Although the casualties are going to be very specific now so which casualties do you want to take?

TripleA Turn Summary: Germans round 9

TripleA Turn Summary for game: World War II v3 1941, version: 1.7.0

Game History

Round: 9

    Research Technology - Germans

    Purchase Units - Germans
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Americans to France: 1 aaGun
        EDIT: Removing units owned by Americans from Italy: 1 aaGun
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode
        Germans buy 8 infantry; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 0 techTokens; 

    Combat Move - Germans
        Battle in Russia
            Germans attack with 10 armour and 1 bomber
            British defend with 9 armour, 1 fighter and 5 infantry; Americans defend with 3 fighters; Russians defend with 2 aaGuns, 5 armour, 1 factory, 1 fighter and 16 infantry
                Russians roll AA dice in Russia : 0/1 hits, 0,17 expected hits
                Germans roll dice for 10 armour and 1 bomber in Russia, round 2 : 9/11 hits, 5,67 expected hits
                Russians roll dice for 14 armour, 5 fighters and 21 infantry in Russia, round 2 : 19/40 hits, 17,33 expected hits
                6 infantry owned by the Russians, 1 bomber owned by the Germans, 10 armour owned by the Germans and 3 infantry owned by the British lost in Russia
            Russians win with 14 armour, 5 fighters and 12 infantry remaining. Battle score for attacker is -35
            Casualties for Germans: 10 armour and 1 bomber
            Casualties for British: 3 infantry
            Casualties for Russians: 6 infantry
        7 armour moved from Caucasus to Russia
        1 armour moved from Eastern Ukraine to Russia
        2 armour moved from East Poland to Russia
        1 bomber moved from Germany to Russia

    Non Combat Move - Germans
        Turning on Edit Mode
        EDIT: Adding units owned by Russians to Russia: 5 infantry
        EDIT: Turning off Edit Mode

    Place Units - Germans
        8 infantry placed in Germany

    Turn Complete - Germans
        Germans collect 20 PUs; end with 20 PUs

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Russians regular : 1,67
Germans regular : 3,33
Russians AA : -0,17

Savegame

I edited 5 russian infantry back.

Something went wrong with my battery so TripleA shut down. Including the dice rolls of this battle. I loaded a savegame after the German combat move and now my bomber didn’t get shot down, and I rolled 9 hits. I am going to edit that to the previous roll.

I made the edit

which casualties do you want to take?