My review copy of Axis & Allies Europe 1940 has arrived

Ah, It looks like they’ve called the region Volgograd.

Which is just as silly, as Volgograd is the modern (post 1960) name for Stalingrad, i.e. “town on the Volga”. It should’ve been called simply “Volga” region.

It’s a bit like calling New York state “New Amsterdam”.

Pretty much. The region is volvograd but the VC is stalingrad.

Yuk!  They put northern England in Scotland, and called Southern England and Wales “United Kingdom”.  Sacrilege.

No islands in the Indian Ocean? This seem paltry compared to the plague of little dots in the Pacific.

And what the hell happened to north west India; you know, the modern Pakistan?  It seems to have been swallowed by Iran and Afghanistan.  That pesky Taliban…

Romania’s heartland has been seized by Bulgaria, and the former now consists of little more than Moldavia.

Why have “Belorussia” on the map at all if it isn’t where it, well, is.

Is that Rio de Oro I espy, and if so why isn’t it Spanish?

@Flashman:

Which is just as silly, as Volgograd is the modern (post 1960) name for Stalingrad, i.e. “town on the Volga”. It should’ve been called simply “Volga” region.

There’s an old joke about this name change.  Sometime in the 1970s, an elderly veteran of the Red Army is interviewed as part of the annual May Day parade.  Asked to talk about the medals he wears, he points to some of them and says, “These decorations were awarded to me for my service in the great Battle of Volgograd, our heroic victory against the fascist invaders.  I’m especially proud of this particular one here – it was presented to me by Comrade Volgin himself!”

Is France a seperate player or is it American controlled? It would make sense to be British controlled.

it can be a seperate player or controlled by someone else. i think its classified as seprate though.

But from the looks of things it will probably be controlled by the American, since it shares the American box and America doesn’t go to war for the first few turns of the game while France is going to be out of the game after the first few turns.

David-
Thanks for being THE SITE for all things Axis and Allies, both new and old and expanded! the pictures were great and a nice way to start my work week!
Please post more as you find the time to do.
Thoes426 :evil:

djensen, you have the made the waiting so much easier!

Looks awesome - but what’s the deal with the U.S. / sea zones not lining up on the maps… am I just imagining that?

Tereme I have started a topic about that - is called mega error with the global map.

Sorry if this has been answered already, but I had a couple of questions about the pictures of the map and playing pieces.  I noticed on the countersheet with national roundels the British have their normal air force roundels plus 2 Union Jack roundels that seem to be slightly larger.  What are those for?

Also, on South America, just North of Brazil, there are 3 roundels on the map - one British, one French, and one that appears to be Czechoslovakian.  Is that supposed to be a Czech colony???

@almashir:

Sorry if this has been answered already, but I had a couple of questions about the pictures of the map and playing pieces.  I noticed on the countersheet with national roundels the British have their normal air force roundels plus 2 Union Jack roundels that seem to be slightly larger.  What are those for?

Also, on South America, just North of Brazil, there are 3 roundels on the map - one British, one French, and one that appears to be Czechoslovakian.  Is that supposed to be a Czech colony???

Bloody hell, don’t you Americans get taught in Geography these dates? That colony is Dutch! (currently the country of Surinam).

@Driel310:

@almashir:

Sorry if this has been answered already, but I had a couple of questions about the pictures of the map and playing pieces.  I noticed on the countersheet with national roundels the British have their normal air force roundels plus 2 Union Jack roundels that seem to be slightly larger.  What are those for?

Also, on South America, just North of Brazil, there are 3 roundels on the map - one British, one French, and one that appears to be Czechoslovakian.  Is that supposed to be a Czech colony???

Bloody hell, don’t you Americans get taught in Geography these dates? That colony is Dutch! (currently the country of Surinam).

Ya but what the heck do the union jack roundels mean?

Bloody hell, don’t you Americans get taught in Geography these dates? That colony is Dutch! (currently the country of Surinam

why do you assume he is American?

@Driel310:

@almashir:

Sorry if this has been answered already, but I had a couple of questions about the pictures of the map and playing pieces.  I noticed on the countersheet with national roundels the British have their normal air force roundels plus 2 Union Jack roundels that seem to be slightly larger.  What are those for?

Also, on South America, just North of Brazil, there are 3 roundels on the map - one British, one French, and one that appears to be Czechoslovakian.  Is that supposed to be a Czech colony???

Bloody hell, don’t you Americans get taught in Geography these dates? That colony is Dutch! (currently the country of Surinam).

1. You assume he’s American.
2. Your sentence doesn’t really make sense.

Ya but what the heck do the union jack roundels mean?

my guess is it’s for the IPC chart, to keep track of both UK economies.

Yeah, he’s American.  What’s sad is that I probably know more geography than the average American, but I didn’t know that one off the top of my head.  I guess I could have looked it up if I wasn’t so lazy.  The picture of the roundel was small enough I couldn’t see the little orange dot in the center.  Ya know, what’s extra extra super pathetic is that I was actually married in the Netherlands and have a Dutch marriage license :oops:  I should have remembered how similar the Dutch and Czech roundels were.

@almashir:

Yeah, he’s American.  What’s sad is that I probably know more geography than the average American, but I didn’t know that one off the top of my head.  I guess I could have looked it up if I wasn’t so lazy.  The picture of the roundel was small enough I couldn’t see the little orange dot in the center.  Ya know, what’s extra extra super pathetic is that I was actually married in the Netherlands and have a Dutch marriage license :oops:  I should have remembered how similar the Dutch and Czech roundels were.

:-D :-D :-D , no problem m8. I hope you had/have a good marriage.

22 years and 5 kids  :-D  Back when I learned geography Rhodesia and the Republic of Vietnam were still on the maps.

Anyway, the theory someone posted that the Union Jack roundels are for tracking IPC levels seems to make sense.  But why not just use their regular roundels?  Ah well, I guess we’ll find out in a couple of weeks.