Welcome CraneDeNicollo. My friend got me started on Global 1940. I have also started playing Global 1939 which is a very complicated game but plays like Global 1940 with slight rules variations. Recently, my ten year old grand daughter took a real interest in the game and my friend suggested the 1942 second edition version. It was simpler but still a real challenge. I have one a game against my teacher in the Global 1940 so I felt some what confident as I entered the game but soon found myself scrambling to just survive as my grand daughter lead Germany in a global tear. She says she wants to be President some day…God help her enemies if she makes it. Now she plays the ANZACS and China in the Global 1940 game pretty much on her own. Both games are great but her trouncing of her grandpa in the 1942 games have inspired her to learn more. If you are wanting to gain experience and learn stratagies, I recommend 1942 to start with.
Poll: should Gargantua replace Larry Harris as the main developer of AA?
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It was that damn traitor Roosevelt, that’s why! How did he ever think giving lend lease aid to the Soviet Union was a reasonable idea?!? What a toady to a non-democratic dictatorship, a pawn in Stalin’s pocket! How did he get away with strengthening COMMUNISM?
Actually, the US had been isolationist for quite some time after WWI, and we didn’t really care about what happened on the other side of the world, right up to the moment where it was almost TOO LATE to do anything about it (imagine if the Nazis had taken over Moscow in Dec 1941, it’d def be a different history right now). Also, the US had just come out of the GREAT DEPRESSION, and captialism wasn’t seen as the motive force driving world progress forward at the time. A hell of a lot of government programs were keeping the country on its feet back then, and continued to do so during the war years. So Communism didn’t sound that bad to a lot of folks at the time (probably cause the country was essentially socialist for most of a decade), and a lot of people even had Communist Party membership cards. Remember anything about the McCarthy trials in the US in the 1950’s; most of the victims imprisoned were Depression Era “communists”, and I very much doubt many of them were die-hard Stalinists promoting world dictatorships of the proletariat.
It’s kinda funny when you think how Hitler came to power in Germany by promising the European elites (i.e., Chamberlain) he would eradicate Communism in Europe, THEN the historic Non-Aggression Pact with Russia with 1939 against the Western Powers and the seizure of Poland, THEN you had capitalist Britain pledging allegiance with communist Russia once they were both in the soup against Germany in 1941. It was pretty much anybody’s game back then, where the enemy of my enemy is my friend unless he’s my enemy tomorrow, but maybe he’s my friend today. In 1940 countries were a lot smaller and the was world divided into more spheres of influence… so the US backing up a Communist dictatorship whose sole goal was the overthrow of capitalism across the world wasn’t that far-fetched an idea in 1940. We take for granted today just how powerful the US is in world affairs, compared to how little we cared back around the start of WWII.
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I still think Larry is a nut when he’ll change just about everything else in AAG40 but won’t change his True Netural rules. But that’s just my opinion, man.
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my posts are too inteligent to most players understand them due to the fact that i am a lot more inteligent than the common mortals.
By the way CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THE USA LAND OF FREEDOM WAS ALLIEd with THE COMUNIST SU during wwii?
1. Learn how to use caps lock
2. If you are so intelligent why do you need to know why US and the SU were allied? -
@The:
my posts are too inteligent to most players understand them due to the fact that i am a lot more inteligent than the common mortals.
By the way CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THE USA LAND OF FREEDOM WAS ALLIEd with THE COMUNIST SU during wwii?
1. Learn how to use caps lock
2. If you are so intelligent why do you need to know why US and the SU were allied?I like how he misspells “intelligent” too.
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@The:
my posts are too inteligent to most players understand them due to the fact that i am a lot more inteligent than the common mortals.
By the way CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME WHY THE USA LAND OF FREEDOM WAS ALLIEd with THE COMUNIST SU during wwii?
1. Learn how to use caps lock
2. If you are so intelligent why do you need to know why US and the SU were allied?I like how he misspells “intelligent” too.
Yeah LOL
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you need to check yourself……
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I vote Imperious Leader
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Thank you my people, for supporting me. :P
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Here are some rather rudimentary questions.
Why does this site need a villian?
How can a villian be from America Jr.?
If you have so many great opinions why are they not posted @ Harris
Game Design?
How many games have you to sold the rights to have published?
Why do you have to demonstrate a limited vocabulary by constantly
implying the use of vulgarity in your posts?
More over why can you not just agree to disagree or even take the high
road?Finally, Liberté-Québec !
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This is quite the bromance you two have brewing here.
an unholy union. Treason. Even blasphamy. Shameful.
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gargantua writes:
Thank you my people, for supporting me.
People vote:
yes, Gargantua is the best man for the job - 5 (16.7%)
no, Larry should keep his job - 10 (33.3%)
who is Gargantua? - 15 (50%)Yes you need player help, or lets just say help
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@Idi:
How can a villian be from America Jr.?
From a fellow Canadian I would just like to say FO!
Stay classy Great White North.
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@Idi:
@Idi:
How can a villian be from America Jr.?
From a fellow Canadian I would just like to say FO!
Stay classy Great White North.
At least we never endorsed slave labour
Great choice for an avatar … “the Butcher of Uganda”
As for slavery in Canada…http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/tl-slaveryincanada/
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@C_Strabala:
@Idi:
@Idi:
How can a villian be from America Jr.?
From a fellow Canadian I would just like to say FO!
Stay classy Great White North.
At least we never endorsed slave labour
Now explain to me how this has anything to do with the discussion at hand?
Nothing really. But this was another useless poll created by Megastein (Or whatever his name is) That died about half a page ago
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@Idi:
@Idi:
How can a villian be from America Jr.?
From a fellow Canadian I would just like to say FO!
Check the time line dipshit Canada wasn’t even a country until 1867
Stay classy Great White North.
At least we never endorsed slave labour
Great choice for an avatar … “the Butcher of Uganda”
As for slavery in Canada…http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/tl-slaveryincanada/
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Canada didn’t exist until 1867, long after slavery was abolished in the British Empire. So technically, Canada and the US never fought a war, 1812 was between the Brits and the Yanks……technically :-)
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Unless you count hockey games or Canadian Bacon :-D
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