Japanese invasion of Africa

@drsnidely:

Hi and welcome. As strange as it sounds, you aren’t missing pieces. Not all powers have the same number of units, and Japan only gets 4 bombers in the box. If you want more there are places to order pieces online, such as historicalboardgaming.com, though I’m not sure if they ship to every country. I don’t have any issues with running out of pieces in this game though. Hope you enjoy it!

Thanks for answer. I knew that historical board gaming because i have 1941 too and i tried to get more chips and units for it. 17$ shipping cost is too expansive but yes, they are shipping everywhere.

Excellent read with bullet points made! Thumbs up

Here’s one affordable way to beat back a casual Japanese invasion:

USA starts with a sub off the coast of Hawaii, which you can submerge if you want during Pearl Harbor, since Japan has no destroyers in range on Japan’s first turn. Build one more submarine for 6 IPCs, and park your 2 subs off the coast of San Francisco. Japan can’t sink your subs with carrier aircraft unless they bring a destroyer with them. Meanwhile, you can build a bomber each turn in the Eastern US as part of your Kill Germany First strategy. If Japan ignores you, the bomber can go east to harass Berlin. If Japan brings a small transport fleet toward San Francisco, you can hit it and kill it with 2 subs and a bomber.

Of course, if Japan brings its entire fleet toward San Francisco, you’ll need bigger defenses – but you’ll see that coming and have time to stop it, and if Japan swings its whole fleet east, then that’s so many more turns that Siberia and India are safe.

@CWO:

@Koningstiger:

Hmm. So apparently after 70+ views, no one else seems to have a problem with it.

I recall that the subject was discussed at length in that other thread you mentioned, but I don’t remember what the outcome of the discussion was.  My opinion at the time was that such a scenario was completely implausible from a historical point of view, but that the game map and the game’s overall area-based movement system created a situation in which it did look plausible.

Yeah. As i said, some other games require possession of the North German ports in order to be allowed to pass freely into and out of the Baltic; which seems more historically accurate. Guess I may try this as a houserule for AA Europe and Global '40. It of course does take away from the Allies’options…

Hi and welcome jaco3121.
Further down the list you will see the A&A games. Start a thread in the one you are talking about. I am afraid I don’t know to which version you are referring.
It can work in most games though.

Or even crazier…
what if we did all that other stuff and then just unsheltered Berlin back to normal? I guess I’d be interested in that as well hehe  :-D

It doesn’t exactly prevent amphibious into the Capital, but the balance on production might be interesting, in that it would allow more naval options for UK (or potentially G), and force the German player to defend across a broader front, as an offset to the increased production. Restricted at 6 on central Europe, I suspect German players would consider heavy hitter buys on the capital to cover against amphibious as well as to threaten counter attacks and gain the movement advantage on coverage of Western and Southern out of Eastern.

unsheltered Berlin 42 scale ideal.jpg

@ossel:

The conclusion the other thread reached was that the best solution was to permanently award whatever Victory City was bombed to the attacker, and maybe damage production. This reflects what the use of these weapons in WWII was trying to accomplish.

I read and that does make sense. I will just have to experiment some time when I have the chance.

Thanks again for showing me that thread.

J2 conquest would mean UK messed up big time and china did not attack or japan let them take over some 2 IPC territories.