Posts made by SuperbattleshipYamato

@FranceNeedsMorePower

By money values, you mean the value of territories, right?

@Cornwallis

I agree with the main points you made in the Pacific.

@Marco-Luti

Right.

@Marco-Luti

Grabbing Southern France and Greece isn’t enough to get that 5 IPC national objective. You also need Gibraltar or Egypt.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Yeah, FranceNeedsMorePower is in that skill range.

Happy playing!

@Galendae

I noticed that, but I wasn’t completely sure whether you implied bids in that specific sentence.

@Galendae

2 thoughts:

1. I haven’t heard of that Straun Opener before, but it seems to have a lot of potential. I’ll try that sometime.
2. You’ve been able to win as the Allies? I assume that’s with bids? It would be extremely impressive if you could win out-of-box Global 1940 against good Axis players. I’m asking because if it’s the latter, I’ll beg you to spill your secrets.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

My point is that having France go first but not letting them attack Italy is pointless because they won’t be able to do anything otherwise except maybe buy 3 submarines or 6 infantry (not insignificant extra units).

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Again though, what can France really do other than hitting Italy? All they can really do is delay the inevitable. It’s basically impossible for them to build a transport to evacuate their troops as the Luftwaffe can reach anywhere they build.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Why not? Because it makes Italy too underpowered?

Frankly unless they’re destroying Northern Italy the French get very little to do.

@TheDesertFox

Yeah, but different reasoning. For example, Soviet tank production absolutely soared after going to war:

https://archive.org/details/worldwariidatabo0000elli/page/278/mode/2up

Giving them more IPCs (or more tanks), to represent that (as The Captain has proposed as part of a broader set of house rules), would make more sense as opposed to Lend-Lease that weren’t that important.

Or even just make Moscow worth more. 3 IPCs is quite low. Make it at least 5 like Berlin. Some parts of the Soviet Union were really industrialized!

@TheDesertFox

There’s literally a national objective for this situation:

From page 36 of the Europe 1940 rulebook, Second Edition:

“5 IPCs if the convoy in sea zone 125 is free of Axis warships, Archangel is controlled by the Soviet Union, and
there are no units belonging to other Allied powers present in any territories originally controlled by the Soviet
Union. Theme: National prestige and access to Allied Lend-Lease material.”

I’m also not too hot on expanding this, since Lend-Lease seemed to play a pretty marginal role on the Eastern Front. It is weird that the objective disincentivizes Allied support on the Eastern Front, and should be removed.

A more historically accurate idea would be to give the Soviets extra IPCs when at war or simulate winter somehow.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Makes sense. Given that they were “already there”, you can make them free and have them enter at a certain turn.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Oh, right. I forgot that the Romanian Third Army was attatched to Operation Case Blue from the start but wasn’t assigned to the Stalingrad initially.

@Faramir

Including them makes them more historically accurate.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Really? I’m unaware of that.

On August 21st, 1942, it seems like all the Romanian, Hungarian, and Italian units were already in the vicinity. The Battle of Voronezh already ended by the beginning of August.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

The second one of buffing the minor Axis units. They were inferior to German ones in the area in almost every way.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

That’ll be historically inaccurate.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

That’ll be historically inaccurate.

@SuperbattleshipYamato

September 2, 2025, marks the formal surrender of the Empire of Japan on the USS Missouri to the Allies.

The surrender was primarily caused by the US dropping nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime) and the Soviet invasion of Japanese held Manchuria and the looming threat of the massive Red Army turning its sights on Japan.

And that, my friends, concludes the 80th anniversary of World War 2.