United States National Objectives and Bonus Income

Bummer, I think Jonas got spooked by some spam.

Seems ok, except I do bonuses 2nd and convoy last. Think convoy counting can be hard and involves dice rolling.

So true, how often I have gotten so use to collecting 55 IPC’s as the USA player that I forget to collect any additional IPC’s later in the game if I take a DEI country or recapture the Phillipines.

I say that the next game needs Canada, special neutral rules for Finland, and vichy french rules (and, depending on the time period, poland as well). Why be picky and only make a few improvements?  :-D

The simple thought of new players is why money should have been included. The experienced players don’t need the money. In the base AA42 game money should have been included as a learning tool. In the AA40 games the complexity goes way up. For a newer player the more help to simplify things the better. These games at the very least should have offered a tracking chart in the rule book that could be copied. I would suggest to newer players to use poker chips, money from other games, or make up a chart to track money including NO’s by nation.

@C_Strabala:

Why didn’t WotC print each nations’ original IC’s, airbases, & naval bases on the gameboard similar to the original A&A Pacific. It would save space and you wouldn’t have the risk of accidently knocking the cardboard chits everywhere.

There will be another setup in the global 1940 game.

@Canuck12:

So it would in fact be more historically accurate to have Japan require transports to get directly to Malay from Siam.

Yes, this way singapore is more of the fortress it hisotrically was because the UK will have an easier time of  reinforcing malay and it is harder for Japan to get at.

Larry Harris has often said that the borders and names of the territroies in A&A are as much or more so a reflection geography as they are a reflection of politics.

Thanks!