1942 Second Edition Preview 4: Rules Changes by Variable

@taamvan:

Also, as I said, you must deploy the carrier directly under the planes if they survive the turn; if they don’t you can place it anywhere

You can do the same thing when you declare you’re going to bring an existing carrier up in NCM for fighters to land on after a battle is over. If the fighters die, you don’t have to move the carrier. Reference the “Pearl Harbor light” opening for Japan.

It’s a board game, not a historical simulation.

@CWO:

To use a chess analogy: there are chess sets out there that are fabulously ornate works of art, but which are impractical for play because the pieces are not necessarily easy to identify.  That’s the reason why official chess tournaments are played with plain, simple, rigourously standardized chessmen: so that the players don’t have to waste any mental energy trying to figure out what each piece is supposed to represent.

But won’t everyone recognize Captain Kirk and Emperor Palpatine as the king piece in my chess sets? lolz

@Argothair:

– this strategy is my proposal for how to go a little faster than normal.

Gotcha.  In that case, I was running the numbers and you could in theory make an attack on Rd 3 with a slight twist.
First a couple things would be helpful for a round 3 move:

1)  I think Russia needs to take out Ukr and eliminate 1 G ftr.  This may not be the best attack for Russia, but it eliminates 3 attack points for Ger.
2a)  Moderate risk - Germany buys some replacement air power. 
Heavy Risk - Germany buys an AC and DD for the Baltic.
Either of these can jeopardize the UK’s ability to place or move to Sz 8.  You can live with Germany buying a replacement ftr but it’ll start to get dicey if their attack points get up to 25 or 26.  Bonus points if your UK dd downs the Ger bom in the Med or the Ger BB heads toward Egy/Trj on G1.
2b)  Any threat of a unified German fleet in Sz 8 on G2 or G3 can really muck things up.

So…  Assuming G isn’t going navy or heavy air (2+ planes) on G1 and you have an opening…

UK 1 - Buy 3 inf for Ind and save the rest (22 ipc).  You could save all of it, but 53 ipc should be enough for UK 2.  Bonus points if your trn and dd will be safe in Sz 10 on G2, seems unlikely though since there will probably be at least 1 G sub in Eus Sz.  Otherwise you can move to Sz 11 with 1 inf, 1 arm in Ecan.  Move Ind or Egy ftr to Wrus (or US Asian ftr on US 1)
US 1 - Buy 1 dd (protection against a surviving G sub), 4 trns, 2 inf.  Alaskan/Wus troops to Wcan.  All other troops to Ecan

UK 2 - (with 53 IPC)  Buy 3 ac, 1 dd, 1 inf (Ind)
Place in sz 8 with 3 ftrs (2 uk, 1 wrus), move dd, trn back to Sz 10
US 2 - (with 40 ipc)  Buy 3 trns, 5 inf, 1 rt
DD, Cru, 4 trns to sz 10, 8 units to Ecan

End Rd 2

Sz 8 - 3 ac, 6 ftrs (3 uk, 3 us), 1 dd

UK Rd 3 - Buy 1 dd (if additional fodder needed) other wise 3 trns and ground troops.
UK could attack Nwe via Canadian troops

US 3 - (38 ipc)  buy 3 trns + ground troops

US 3 potential attack on Fra:
8 ground units, 3 ftrs, 1 bom, 1 cru shot (plus possible Asian ftr)

Not a bad attack.  Sound be ~12 units, ~29 hit points.

US Non Coms - 6 units to Ecan, 3 trns to Sz 10.  US BB, trn, dd form Pac should be around too.

Placement - 3 trns in Sz 11 troops on Eus.

By Rd 4 UK is ready to join in and US can follow up with at least 6 units on US 4, then another 6 on US 5, etc.  Same with UK.

I’m a big believer in paper money! I used those same AA50 bills for a while, until a got the HBG cash.
Look at those classic factories!

Great video man  :-D

Beautiful Ruskie bomber! How giant she is haha. Genius

Thanks for posting these up YG.

I just want to chime in here and say these are the rules for the FMGCon AA42.2 tournament this year that I “wrote”.  Essentially I took the rules from Smorey Swamp and adjusted them to a Swiss Tournament format and adjusted for time restraints.

Otherwise, it’s basically the same tourney rules that Greg runs at his big convention games.

If anyone has any issues or concerns, absolutely let us know. These are not yet 100% final, and the details of the tournament are still up in the air to be finalized.

First draft of the tournaments details;

Rules as above 16 player limit (8 tables with 2 players per table) 3 rounds @ 2.5 hours (with 1/2 hour between rounds for breaks and resetting the boards) Winner decided based on points Prize TBD (Trophy + ?) No extra entry fee (must have an FMGCon weekend pass) Advance sign up required

Oh thank goodness! because that was really starting to melt my brain when I read it.
All is right in the universe again, thanks guys :)

Yea you really have to decide to either go all Atlantic, or all Pacific with the US.  You try to do a little of both and it just doesn’t work.