Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion

@the-captain said in Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion:

If the enemy captures an Underground Factory, this Underground Factory is captured as such and the Underground Factory capacity is still intact.

ok thats what I thought. Have a triplea error. It was being treated as a hit point. Think i got it fixed for next update.

I am really digging 43 lol

@the-captain AAguns Fire at a max of 3 Paras per gun, same as planes. Does it also gets 3 shots at the planes for 6 total since they fire separately ? Or is it still 3 max per gun and you just roll the planes and Paras separate ?

Say 2 rolls at 2 planes and then 1 at a Para ?

Paratroopers are exposed to fire from antiaircraft
guns – same rules apply as for air units. If
Paratroopers attack together with air units any
defending AAA must fire at the Paratroopers and
the air units separately.

@the-captain right on idk why I was thinking otherwise. Guess they’re getting paranoid in the Caucasus and want moscow to send them an AAgun lol

Why not just roll for all Mines at once ? Only the hits count, so all the others would stay active anyway. That’s how I’ve been doing it . Am I missing something ?

Two UK land units attack through a minefield that
contains 10 German mines – the German player
must roll one die at a time until 2 mines have
detonated and thereby eliminated the two UK
units – or until all 10 mines have defended.
Only mines that have detonated are removed
from play – the other mines that have defended
but not detonated are still active and ready for
future defence.

Edit
The extra, if any, hits don’t count. Just enough to kill all the attackers. Faster that way

@the-captain right on I gotcha now.

I discovered two errors (or anomalies :) ) in the USA strategy guide. There seems to miss some infantry in order to exactly do what’s stated.

In Early 1940, the strategy guide states that the US transport in sz 101 should pick up two infantry, but there are only two infantry bordering sz 101, the one in CUS, and the one in EUS. And the one in CUS is ordered to move to WUS in that same turn. So that means only one infantry can be transported.

In Early 1941, the strategy guide says that the US player should upgrade three of its infantry in WUS to US Marines, but there are only two infantry in WUS at that point. There start two infantry in WUS, one of them moves to Hawaii with an AA, but the CUS infantry moves to WUS, so that makes it two. Next turn, a transport picks up the two infantry and moves to Aleutian islands with it, but the infantry in Mexico move to WUS, so that makes it again two. But the turn after that you cannot upgrade three infantry, since there are only two.

Another question, this came up in the game I am running now (it’s a damn exciting game by the way, I think it’s going to be the first game where the Axis have a good chance of winning :) I changed some of my Axis strats and it’s working)

It’s about the Banzai rule. What if Japan amphibiously assaults Borneo with two infantry from the Philippines, and two Infantry from Malaya? Can Japan perform a banzai attack on Borneo? And what will happen? Because it’s stated that if any unit other than infantry participates in the attack, the banzai attack isn’t possible, but it also states that the infantry have to come from the same territory, but there seems to be no explanation what happens if you attack with only infantry from multiple territories

1. Isn’t it possible at all?
2. Do only two infantry get their banzai bonus?
3. Do all infantry get the bonus?

I hope it’s option 3 or 2, since Japan then can conquer three of the Dutch East Indies at once :)

@victoryfirst said in Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion:

this came up in the game I am running now (it’s a damn exciting game by the way, I think it’s going to be the first game where the Axis have a good chance of winning I changed some of my Axis strats and it’s working)

Hope you’ll give a game report. Sounds like a good one : )

@The-Captain Landing Craft can’t be moved by Rail ? Is that correct ?

@the-captain

Hi Captain,

I had a few questions regarding the rules. They came up during the game I was playing.

1. An Army Group needs two Armies and ten land-based combat units to exist. Can (some of) these ten land-based combat units be part of another army? (E.g, if a nation has two Tank Armies, Two Army Corps and two infantry in a territory, can this be an army group?

2. Why are there only two Atlantik-Wall markers, while there are four territories that can be fortified? (so four markers would be better)

3. In the rulebook, in the description of some units it’s stated that it counts as a tank unit towards the Air Transport Capacity. Since these units in question are German, and only Germany can Air-Transport Tank units, and Air Transports can only transport ONE combat unit, this is actually unnecessary to mention.

4. Can you fortify an empty island that had infantry moving to it during NCM?

5. Can you purchase a unit that is exceeding the maximum amount of units that can be on the map, but with the expectation that one of the already existing units die through combat, so that the maximum isn’t exceeded? And in the case this doesn’t happen, get the cost of the unplaceable unit reimbursed? (For example, Germany has six Panzer Grenadiers. It is planning to make a suicide run with them, and attack into heavily defended territory. Can it therefore buy some Panzer Grenadiers in the Purchase New Units phase? Because in the case that the enemy rolls enough hits, the maximum of units on the map will not be exceeded since the units are placed in the Place New Units Phase, and the units are bought in the Purchase New Units Phase.)

One more question and two rule-exploits I discovered (of little to no impact I think, but I don’t really know).

First the question!

6. Can (some of) the ten land-based combat units be from another power? For example, Germany has two armies and eight combat units in a territory from the start of its turn. Italy has also two combat units in that same territory. The German player wishes to create an Army Group (assuming it meets the requirements), because, on the following Russian Turn, Russia can attack this territory with a lot of combat factors. With the Army Group bonus, these odds drop below an acceptable level, so the Russian won’t attack this territory.

I did this example because an Army Group containing foreign units cannot attack with its bonus (since the foreign units will not be able to move on a different power’s turn), but it can defend with the bonus (only).

Now, the rule exploits:

7. US National Guards Rule
   The United States gets extra units if Japan declares war on the US (in any way, so also a DoW on the UK will do the job). The US is allowed to declare on some of the Axis powers, not all of them.
   So, what the US player can do, is only declare war on Germany and Italy, but not on Japan yet. If Japan feels like attacking the US or UK after this, the US will get the extra units. If Japan is scared and doesn’t, the US can declare war on a turn where it is advantageous (for example, when it can attack and destroy Japanese units). Because if it declares war immediately, it probably won’t immediately be able to do a very good attack. And the extra income is still collected since the US is at war (with Germany and Italy).

So, the US can bend the rules in its way to either always collect the extra units, or make a surprise attack, by not immediately declaring war on turn 3 on Japan.

8. German Take-over of Italy
   One of the requirements of this take-over is that no Axis units can be on the African continent (a small question in between, do Axis units in Syria count as well?). The Allied players can punish an Italian player that sent a lot of units into Africa and therefore has its homeland little defended, by not destroying the Axis units in Africa. This way, the Take-Over cannot take place, and the Allies can launch attacks against the Italian Homeland more easily.