@panther Thank you for the link. Unfortunately, I have finished translating the whole rulebook, but I’ll be sure to use if I ever translate the 1940 and 1942 versions. Right now, I’m going to work on the Anniversary version instead, even though I don’t own that version (nor the 1940 and 1942 versions). Thank you very much for your help.
Release Date?
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Me and my buddy have played a couple more games now. So far, Axis wins every time, in fact they seem to take a pretty big lead early. Some of it might be due to his and my playing styles, but I’m still going to say this game is definitely Axis favored. Maybe they start out too strong, just not sure. […] I look forward to seeing when some of you guys try it out and see if you think it is Axis favored or not.
Did you and your buddy switch sides during any of your games? If the Axis wins regardless of who plays it, the rules may indeed favour the Axis. If on the other hand the two of you always play the same side, then relative player strength may be the explanation.
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OK. Played on Friday night with my friends. 1 regular 1novice and 1 new. First off I will say I agree that the Axis seems to have a big advantage. They won on turn 6. Russia was out on the 2nd turn and England fell on turn 6, and only because of some really bad early rolls by Germany vs England. Otherwise I think they could have been out by turn 4 or 5 easily. Japan had taken the east of Asia and some inslands and were at 13 or14 IPCs. More then enough to keep the US occuppied in the Pacific to keep Germany free from worry. It was fun, but seemed almost too easy for the Axis. But this is only based on one game. Could be more balanced, just so happened to go that way this time.
Now for the people playing. The Novice player realy seemed to pick the rules up quickly and certainly seems willing to move to a game of 1942. So that was good. The new player liked the game but was still mind blown at first over the rules. By the end of turn 3 or 4 they seemed to start to get it. They said it was fun, but they weren’t real excited over the whole thing. The good news is they are willing to play again now that they feel more comfortable with the rules. Hopefully that will swing them. Of course they loved rolling the dice in my FMG dice tower. That may have saved the day when they were confused at the beginning. The transport rules are what really was most difficult to grasp for them. I understand that.
All in all…a fun night and a fun game. Hope to play some more soon.
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Appreciate the report
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Here’s a couple of more comparison pics. First the new fighters. It’s the tops and bottoms of each plane, first two rows are the German fighters in this order from left to right: OOB Me109, 1941 Fw190, HBG Fw190.
The next two rows are US planes from left to right: OOB P-38, Pacific F6F Hellcat, 1941 P-40, HBG P-40, HBG P-51
The HBG versions seem to have quite a bit more detail on them while the 1941 versions seem to look a little more like the actual plane because they are a little bigger. Now I kind of wish HBG’s planes were a little bigger.
Next pic is all the German vehicles available to us now. The new Tiger is on the far left, followed by a mix of OOB and HBG Axis Minor units. I think all the different vehicles match up very well.
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Here’s another couple of pics I just wanted to share. It’s all my German and USA vehicles all lined up. Soon I will have a large set like this for Russia as well.
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@CWO:
Did you and your buddy switch sides during any of your games? If the Axis wins regardless of who plays it, the rules may indeed favour the Axis. If on the other hand the two of you always play the same side, then relative player strength may be the explanation.
Yeah, that also occured to me. When our group gets together, we roll dice to determine who gets which country. However, I prefer to play Axis and Steve prefers to play Allies, so in our first few games of 1941 I was always Axis and he was always Allies. Hopefully next week we can get the rest of my group together to play this and take different countries to try it out and give it a more varied experiment. While we all are really into Global 1940, all of us have been very interested in 1941 since we first heard about it at the end of March.
When I get a few more games played, particularly with different people changing Axis and Allies, I will let you guys know if there is any difference.
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Well I just got my copy today. I was impressed with Amazon’s shipping. I ordered on July 4th (US holiday), chose the free super saver option, and got it today. So it was basically 3 day shipping.
I busted it out, and got my wife to sit through my explanation of the rules. I’ve been trying to get her to play for a while, and this (hopefully) shorter version was the persuasion I needed. We didn’t have time to play, we’ll do that on Thursday. We were saddened to see the 15/17 IPC misprint. I feel like it really can’t be anything but a mistake, since the board seems to contradict itself.
I’m excited to see how it goes!
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holy hell they shippy before release date!
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Order update:
Status: In transit
Location: UK
Event Details: Initiated customs clearance process
Love it! :-D
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@Cow:
holy hell they shippy before release date!
Go to Amazon and search for the '41 game there are two of them up there. One says you have to wait till the 27th and is cheaper the other will ship today but you pay the full $30 for it plus shipping
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i didn’t see the other one.
anyway, I hope not all the boards have the misprinted money thingy. Like maybe they printed two seperate batches. Early release has the wrong stuff and later release has it right.
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I didn’t either till the other day so i’m waiting too
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maybe we get a prize, a version that has the correct money for our wait lol.
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I am just glad the board is small. I actually like being able to finish a game
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Order update:
Status: Â In transit Â
Location: UK
Event Details: Completed customs clearance process
Maybe I’ll get my copy before July 18th?! Â :-o
Edit:
Status: In transit
Location: GB
Event Details: Arrived at destination country
Confused - I thought it was in the UK already. :? lol Oh well.
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Order update:
Status: � In transit �
Location: UK
Event Details: Completed customs clearance process
Maybe I’ll get my copy before July 18th?! � :-o
Edit:
Status: In transit
Location: GB
Event Details: Arrived at destination country
Confused - I thought it was in the UK already. :? lol Oh well.
Great Britain’s not a country. It’s an island. Perhaps it came from Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man or Sodor! Ok the Isle of Man isn’t technically part of the UK and Sodor is a fictions Island, but you get my point; or more likely the tracking system is simply sloppy in its inconsistent syntax. Kinda like my punctuation and grammar.
Either way it’s good to hear you will get your game soon.
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hmm, coolstuffinc.com stlll has it listed as:
“Expected release: July 27, 2012. Date subject to change.” -
Don’t worry Loz;just means it has been opened and being played by someone else. Maybe our Prime Minister is playing David Milliband for control of the next parliament. You should be honoured!
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:-D LOL Thanks guys, I’m currently trying to get in touch with ‘Yodel’, the UK courrier company that are trying to deliver the game to me. Latest update:
Location: GB
Event Details: Delivery attempted
Thing is, I work during the day and there’s noone else at home! I will see what I can do…
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I work evenings, should have sent it to me. Would have opened it to check nothing had been lost in transit. Would have done a great job sellotaping it all back together for you(minus 1 Tiger). Good luck and enjoy your weekend. Am happy for you.
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