"Magellans"

[NotEvenJail]

Hello friends. I’ve been playing A&A since I thrifted an incredibly intact version of a Classic from a half priced books store about 6 years ago. Lately (20+ games) me and my friends have had incrdible success playing G40 with OOB rules. This is my first post and I wanted to keep it light (looked thru 60+ pages and didn’t find this topic) so I wanted to discuss what we call “Magellans,” or uints that have moved incredibly far and still have a chance to affect the game. I’m currently in a match where the UK transport that starts off of Nova Scotia moved to, survived and fled an attack on allied fleet next to Gibraltar. From there it moved unguarded around the cape of Africa, fled Italian bombers into the Indian ocean and is now staged off of the coast of West Australia, ready to load ANZAC troops and drop them on money islands in coordination with an extremely successful KJF by the Allies.

So, I’m curious, what are your most memorable “Magellans?”

[eames57]

I once built up a sizeable American fleet on the Atlantic as part of a KGF.  Germany had built a navy on G1 and continued to augment it with subs to keep me at bay and then with destroyers when my fleet was too large to be attacked but not large enough to attack him in 112.  In the meantime he’d spent a good chunk of cash sending inf down to Italy.  In other words Germany wasted too enough of his money fending off the threat of a D-Day or Avalanche that Russia was no longer in danger.  So I brought my fleet through the Suez and liberated India.  I caught the Nihon Kaigun in a pincer when my pacific fleet joined up, killing some and sending the rest back up to Honshu with its tail tucked between its legs.  I claimed the East Indies in the name of 'Merica and those ships built in Norfolk ended up sitting in the Sea of Japan cutting off all supplies and starving that island nation before the Axis capitulated.

[Young Grasshopper]

Great topic, and welcome to the forums NEJ… I can remember a game way back where the Russian submarine off Archangel ended up off New Zealand. It didn’t effect the game at all during it’s travels, but it made quite a journey.

[Narvik]

Yeah, the Red October submarin travelling from Murmansk to the Pacific is a classic from the older A&A games, maybe not so much in Global 40 since it can be used for convoy raiding. Rarely had any great impact when travelling around the globe, it was more of a sign the Russian player was bored.

[taamvan]

A fun move involves sending the ANZAC TT around south America, having them activate Brazil, then bringing in a strat bomber and or follow up transports and having them help with the KGF.  You could even build a MiC there.  Forget Magellan, you’re going the other direction and potentially with a heap of stuff (or as little as 1 TT and 1 arty).

Unfortunately there are two major problems with this concept

#1;  Anzac doesn’t have enough money to be safe and also go east.  If japan sees you leave to go east, extra pressure is appropriate and easily applied.  You also wont get much more money than just Brazil gives you, without TTs to take $$ and NOs
#2; this strategy takes forever to develop and the first contribution might be to land somewhere in Africa, and behind the UKUSA on turn 5/6.

[GeneralHandGrenade]

I’m finding playing with the custom infantry that you can see where each one travels to. Some of them stray a long ways from where they start. One of my dudes from London woke up in Burma thinking he was over-dressed. I had never thought about it much before when all of the infantry looked alike. My transports from the Atlantic regularly end up in the Indian Ocean if they don’t get sunk on the first turn.

[NotEvenJail]

Epic responses. I can remember sending the french fighter that starts in London to some odd places. I’d be lying if I haven’t watched an unhealthy amount of GHG and YG videos by the way.

[GeneralHandGrenade]

Ah, they’re totally healthy to watch them. I recovered from having my kidney with a 10 lb cancerous tumour removed by watching YG videos. It’s like little plastic soldier porn for the general in all of us.

[NotEvenJail]

Indeed, GHG

If there is a G1 SeaLion build Russia can fly it’s fighter to Yunnan to defend turn 1 and possibly to Java on turn 2 to defend with hypothetical ANZAC planes/men sitting there. At that point our pilot has true Magellan potential lol

[WILD BILL]

Couple games I’ve played the AI on trip A I’ve loaded up the French inf from London and Egypt onto UK/US transports and brought them to Europe so they could liberate Paris.

[Wolfshanze]

@NotEvenJail:

I’d be lying if I haven’t watched an unhealthy amount of GHG and YG videos by the way.

I dunno, it seems like some sort of evil plot for Canada to take-over the entire Axis and Allies community… I think they’re still upset about Dieppe and trying to get revenge or something.

[GeneralHandGrenade]

We’re insidious. We lure you in with our soothing voices and sick ability to play with little plastic army men on the internet. Then we break your now defenceless hearts by leaving you for a sweet talking woman with a tricked out Trivial Pursuit board that yields more questions than answers. I can’t speak for YG, but I can hardly look at myself in the mirror.

[Imperious Leader]

Canada? Is that on the map too? I can remedy that.

[GeneralHandGrenade]

If you go back far enough you can rename it British North America.

[taamvan]

Real Geography;

Minnesota AKA “Lower Canada”

Upper Peninsula Michigan AKA “Oldfoundland”

Oklahoma AKA “North Texas”

Texas AKA “North Mexico”

[GeneralHandGrenade]

Actually back when it was British North America, Quebec was known as Lower Canada. Ontario was Upper Canada because they were further up the St. Lawrence River. That was back when we were burning down your capital. Fun fact; the reason it is the “White House” is because you couldn’t afford paint after we burned down the original building so all you did was whitewash the new one. The name White House stuck after that. Due to the ominous nature of the Rhode Island Navy we would never be able to pull that off now. You could paint it pretty much whatever colour you want now and there’s nothing we could do about it.

[Karl7]

On a more serious note, maybe the most pissed, dramatic long-range naval move I’ve seen was a bounce of the entire US Pac fleet from dispersal position in the PAC, to Hawaii to Gib via a harbor in Panama.

Now that isn’t a globe trotting movement, but in terms of force position, it’s an eye opener.

Also, one of my favorites, the German stack in pursuit of the Allies after fall of Moscow does a left turn and takes out India.

Otherwise, there are all sorts of little units that zip around the board to little consequence.  French fighter from UK in Australia?  Who cares…  8-)

[NotEvenJail]

Had a game one time with some early bloodshed in the Middle East that allowed an Anzac infantry to walk into Iraq or Persia. I begged my opponent to build an IC there.

[Omega1759]

Soviets taking French Indo China has happened a few times.

[Arthur Bomber Harris]

The ANZAC fleet sometimes does crazy things like head to S. America, followed by a journey to Africa, heading up to the Middle East, and then concluding the backwards-Magellan ~9 round expedition in Queensland.