COLLECT INCOME(MIDDLE OF GAME QUESTION)Help Kreig!

Hi, hope this can be find useful.
You have all the set-up for 1941 and 1942 scenarii.
Here is 1941 Set-up for Japan:

Japan Starting income: 17 IPCs
Okinawa: 1 Infantry
Manchuria: 3 Infantry, 1 Fighter
Japan: 4 Infantry, 1 Artillery, 1 AAA, 1 Tank, 1 Fighter, Industrial Complex
Iwo Jima: 1 Infantry
Caroline Islands: 3 Infantry
Formosa: 1 Fighter
French Indo-China/Thailand: 3 Infantry
Kiangsu: 3 Infantry

NAVAL SETUP:
Sea Zone 51: 1 Destroyer, 2 Transports
Sea Zone 57: 2 Aircraft Carriers, 4 Fighters
Sea Zone 61: 1 Aircraft Carrier with 2 Fighters, 1 Battleship, 1 Cruiser, 1 Transport with 1 Infantry & 1 Artillery, 1 Transport with 2 Infantry
Sea Zone 62: 1 Transport

1942 Japanese scenario:

Japan Starting income: 31 IPCs
Okinawa: 1 Infantry
Manchuria: 2 Infantry, 1 Fighter
Japan: 4 Infantry, 1 Artillery, 1 AAA, 1 Tank, 1 Fighter, 1 Bomber, Industrial Complex
Iwo Jima: 1 Infantry
Caroline Islands: 1 Infantry
Formosa: 1 Fighter
French Indo-China/Thailand: 2 Infantry, 1 Fighter
Kiangsu: 3 Infantry
Wake Island: 1 Infantry, 1 Control Marker
Solomon Islands: 1 Infantry, 1 Control Marker
New Guinea: 1 Infantry, 1 Control Marker
Philippine Islands: 2 Infantry, 1 Control Marker
Borneo: 1 Infantry, 1 Control Marker
East Indies: 1 Infantry, 1 Control Marker
Burma: 1 Infantry, 1 Control Marker
Kwangtung: 1 Infantry, 1 Control Marker

NAVAL SETUP:
Sea Zone 38: 1 Aircraft Carrier with 2 Fighters, 1 Battleship
Sea Zone 46: 1 Submarine
Sea Zone 50: 1 Cruiser
Sea Zone 51: 1 Aircraft Carrier with 1 Fighter, 1 Destroyer
Sea Zone 62: 1 Battleship, 1 Transport

Axis_Setup Chart.doc

Yes.

If you play with tech, radar and increased factory production can both strongly discourage SBR.

I have never been in a game of who can roll the most ones since classic, with 3 dice heavies.  I play a variety of opponents and rarely get SBR’d.  And it’s not because I have techs or interceptors on.

Like axis said, sometimes you get sick of these kinds of games (I can imagine), but since I’ve never had an opponent bomb me much, I look forward to the day that someone does.

In AA50 I’ve never seen someone use SBR as an attacking strategy.  Many players don’t do anything at all with their bombers some turns, when they could be SBR’g.  I even played someone who had heavy bombers from round 1 with Germany, and some turns let 3-4 heavies sit there idle while UK remained untouched (yes, this mystified me).  But people don’t want to lose their bombers to AA fire.  SBR is very risky.  You can take in 2 bombers, and it seems like I usually lose 1, so I’ve lost 12, and the recipient loses 1d6.  Now I know that’s not the way to run an SBR campaign or anything, but I’m just saying why a lot of folks won’t bother, if there’s an AA gun.  Besides, the cap on damage limits efficiency in many cases (reduces average below 3.5 per surviving bomber) and you don’t bomb money directly anymore, so the victim does have some options many times.

What I’m trying to say is, I’ve only seen SBR when people don’t know what else to do with their bombers for a turn, or there is no defense (no AA gun).  Bombers are extremely useful in attacking military units, and that’s the way I and most of my opponents use them.

Try the tripleA thread.

Although I have only played a few games of AA50 a few things seem clear regardless of the scenario:

1. Chinamen vaporize faster than the humans In War of the Worlds…for a 1940 population of 455mil you have a better chance of finding a brontosaurus on the map by turn 3, possibly by turn 2 with the 41 scenario. Perhaps the spawn policy should be changed…maybe 1 for every 2 terr rounded up.

2. He/she who controls the Gaza strip rules the world…the strip between Egypt and India plays a major role in deciding the game. If this is in allied hands the russians can usually hold the Caucases… if not their position is tenuous. conversely,

3. Germans cannot live on a diet of sauerbraten alone… a little linguini and sushi help the digestion (of Russia) If the russian player is good I think it is difficult to do it with Germany alone. Just as russia need to hold out until the allies arrive Germany only needs to hold the front with/without  Italy’s help until you can get double/triple penetration on cau/rus with Japan.  Italy can either support france freeing the huns for eastward movement or shuttle thru Istanbul  Btw, I think closed Dardanelles is for pussies.

4. NOs…I don’t know. The axis NOs are more easily obtained but I certainly like the extra 5 I get in russia for no foreigners as it lets me squeeze an armor in here and there.

5. Pocket change…whenever I have a few extra scheckles I find myself buying subs particularly in a no tech game.  Its like a boxer with a good jab. keeps the Japs out of the Americans face, also good for the Med.

6. Advantage who…are the axis really favored???  I am currently plaing a gencom rules game where axis recieved a bid. Maybe this is to offset the allied VC
advantage with an 8 turn / 6 hour limit  an no NOs    I’d like to know peoples thoughts on who is favored and why

dang.

I believe it though…

Bought mine a month ago for 82 bux off of amazon, guess i got lucky

Yes, I built a factory in India and Australia. The Japs went for Australia first but I was able to delay them with two of my destroyers so that Aussies could build two infantry before they could get there. Added to the already 3 you have plus the artillery, the AA gun, and an American fighter and bomber that landed there. Since he was after the Aussies this gave time for the Indian Factory to build 3 Armor plus the 3 infantry, 1 Artillery, and AA gun that are already there. I was going to send my South African troops to help in Egypt but, by this time the Axis was already losing in North Africa and I sent them to India. I considered building a factory in Canada to avoid the German Air power when I built 1 or two ships near the UK when my fleet was in the Med. In the end I didn’t but it would have been nice to have. There should be the ability to build in all of these areas from the beginning. Looking at the '42 scenerio it looks very hard to build a factory in India without losing it right away.