Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion

[The Captain]

@barnee

True:+1:

This will be part of the updated Rules Clarification.

[barnee]

What happens to the Partisan if the axis controlled TTy it’s in is liberated by a non soviet player ? For example,USA liberates Siberia

It remains and defends normally with any Allied units until a soviet unit removes it or is killed in battle ?

[The Captain]

@barnee
The Soviet Partisan unit is only removed if any Soviet land based unit enters the same Original Soviet Territory.

So, in your example the Soviet Partisan is now in an Original Soviet Territory - that is controlled by the Soviets - but are “occupied” by Allied units.

In this case the Soviet Partisan unit can defend against any enemy land based units.

Remember:
Only enemy land based units can attack a Soviet Partisan unit.

[The Captain]

Landing Crafts can also be transported by Strategic Rail Capacity Movement - on the same terms as other Land Based units.

This will be clarified on the updated Rules Clarification.

[VictoryFirst]

Where can I find the rules concerning the new Combat Engineer unit?

[barnee]

@victoryfirst https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/37755/global-1940-combat-engineer-unit?_=1663004999263

These are triplea limitations

18. Combat Engineer
    Adds the Combat Engineer Unit. Use Edit for moving Minor Factories and removing Landmines. Also for landing at Landing Strips. Land the Air Unit in a legal area and then edit after Non Combat Move. Unit Image courtesy of Hepps.

[VictoryFirst]

@barnee

THanks! I was looking for this for ages!

Do you also know where I can find the Desert Army Group rules? I believe it is still not in the rulebook yet.

[barnee]

@victoryfirst heh heh yea took me a bit to find it too. Lost all my bookmarks when machine fried lol

i’ll take a look

[VictoryFirst]

And by the way, there were some inaccuracies regarding the timetable and the rulebook, that were already pointed out by someone. But which one is correct? The rulebook or the timetable?

[VictoryFirst]

@barnee
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/37786/global-1940-desert-army?_=1663048515797

Here it is! I was typing ‘desert army group’ for search, but it is just ‘desert army’.

[barnee]

@victoryfirst said in Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion:

And by the way, there were some inaccuracies regarding the timetable and the rulebook, that were already pointed out by someone. But which one is correct? The rulebook or the timetable?

yea I noticed it too and mentioned it to Captain. The timeline in the rulebook is correct. Not the graph but the written part

[barnee]

@The-Captain

Is this an accurate description of the situation in Slovakia ? I form Army Group Centre with 1st Panzer and 1st Waffen and 2nd Waffen help fills out the needed units for the Army Group ?

2nd Waffen can still choose to attack elsewhere but the Army Group would no longer exist.

Thanks

[VictoryFirst]

@barnee
What might be more clear is that you create separate subcategories of the same unit (like it already is with the Commissars). Then you will have units of the same army grouped together of units, which is more clear to see than a bunch of units with three leading units. So for example having a Tank1, Tank2 and Tank3, one sort for each army.

For the army group you can do the same, create a unit called e.g. TankAG, so that you can see which units are in the AG by hovering over the unit.

[The Captain]

@barnee
True,

VictoryFirst has a good point concerning identification of each Army Group.

What we do when we play FTF bord game is, that the Army Boards are placed next to the game board - so you can easily see which units are inside each Army.

Since we don’t have an Army Board for Army Groups - I am planning to make those Army Group Boards - as well as the Army Group Counters that would identify each Army Group.

In TripleA it is maybe even easier to make those Army Group Boards & Counters - so you know which units are inside an Army Group.

This is important, since an Army Group could consist of 2 Panzer Armies - and 10 Panzer units - in other words - the entire Army Group would be able ti make a Blitz Move.

[The Captain]

Naming an Army, Army Corps, Waffen-SS Army and Army Group:

• Tank Armies & Panzer Armies:
  The first Tank Army that a Nation creates is called: 1st Tank Army (Germany: 1st Panzer Army) etc.

When a Tank Army is no longer intact - due to combat losses, Non-Combat Movement etc. the Panzer General Unit that was in command of the 1st Tank Army (if the Panzer General Unit survived) would still give name to 1st Tank Army - in case that this Panzer General Unit would once again create a Tank Army.

This mechanism serves the purpose to distinguish the various Armies from each other, since multiple Armies can occupy the game board.

The example above is the same for Soviet Army Corps and German Waffen-SS Armies.

• Army Groups: An Army Group is named in multiple different ways.

• The German Army Groups are named after their Historical Number or Name.
  On the Eastern Front, the German Army Groups are named:
  Army Group North
  Army Group Center
  Army Group South
  On the Western Front, the German Army Groups are named:
  Army Group A
  Army Group B
  Army Group C

• The United States Army Group is named: US 1st Army Group since the United States can only create 1 Army Group.

• The Soviet Army Groups are named:
  Soviet 1st Army Group
  Soviet 2nd Army Group
  The Soviet Army Groups are named after the Tank Army that is part of that Army Group.
  Example:
  Soviet 1st Tank Army is part of a Soviet Army Group - this Army Group is called Soviet 1st Army Group.

If the Soviet 1st and 2nd Tank Armies are part of the same Army Group, the Army Group is named 1st Soviet Army Group.

A Soviet Army Group that includes only Soviet Army Corps is named:
Soviet 3rd Army Group
Soviet 4th Army Group

This is the case even though the Soviet Union can only create 2 Army Groups.

• Why:
  A quick reference look show the players that:
  1st and 2nd Army Groups have at least 1 Tank Army
  3rd and 4th Army Group have no Tank Armies

[barnee]

@victoryfirst said in Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion:

@barnee
What might be more clear is that you create separate subcategories of the same unit (like it already is with the Commissars). Then you will have units of the same army grouped together of units, which is more clear to see than a bunch of units with three leading units. So for example having a Tank1, Tank2 and Tank3, one sort for each army.

For the army group you can do the same, create a unit called e.g. TankAG, so that you can see which units are in the AG by hovering over the unit.

Hmm … I’ll have to think on this. It may be partly possible. The immediate problems I see are that even though i can give the Unit additional Hit Points, they’d all have to be the same value. So the Commisar attacks at 2 but the Tanks at 3. Afaik triplea can’t do that.

Also I don’t think it can be deactivated mid battle. It’ll keeping throwing as many shots as it starts with. After battle the damage would be taken into account and then the unit could change into whatever needed.

Say a Commisar 3 Tank with 2 damage would change into a Commisar 3 T DMG 2 or something after battle and you’d know to remove it and replace with 1 Commisar and 1 Tank.

You can make boxes for the map and put units in it they way the physical board works but you’d still have to kill the support unit when you went understrength and then switch it back after battle. That’s not a big deal though. The boxes would keep it cleaner.

Problem is, idk how to do map stuff. All I can do is alter some images.

Thinking out loud here but maybe do as you suggested and when it’s time to actually attack or defend, remove the Commisar 3 Tank and add those Units before battle. That should be a little better. Or is that what you meant all along ?

Hmm … I’m guessing so. That makes sense and actually shouldn’t be to hard to do.

Great Idea ! :+1:

Edit
Well I guess one could try it out anyway. Would still require a lot of edit. Instead of switching 1 unit you’d be switching several. Anyway, I’ll think on it some more

Edit 2
Yea Idk i don’t think it’s really gonna help much that way. You’d just be editing all the time. i don’t think triplea can do what’s needed

[The Captain]

@barnee
In 2023 Dark Knight, Cornelis Post, beserker and I, have planned a visit to the US for 2 weeks

We will meet with Gerneral 6 Stars and his guys to play with their 1941 rules - and also the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion.

I hope we can also meet you - and play:+1:

We will produce a Game Board identical to my own - that can be folded for transport.
We’ll also bring our painted game pieces.

[barnee]

@the-captain That would be a blast. Sadly I don’t think it’s in the cards for me. If mom is still alive, I’ll be tending to her and if she’s not I’ll probably be back in Alaska.

Never know what next year will bring though :)

[barnee]

@the-captain just to double check but LCVs can be transported by rail correct ?

[The Captain]

@barnee

Yes - at the same terms as other Land Based Units.