it’s one of those things where you have “12 IPC’s left” and someone is wanting to build ships but dont just want 2 subs
Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion
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Hey Axis-and-Allies Friends,
Couple of Pacific Theater questions for HRE. First, the easier question: Regarding the increased shipbuilding, are you required to place the free ships on the turn they become available or can they be delayed? I have a game going right now where the Axis player chose to disregard the standard strategy of going after Philippines/Money Islands and instead did a Pearl Harbor attack and took Midway/Wake/Hawaii/Aleutians. So the bulk of his IJN is camped out in SZ 26 after J5 to where it’s pointless to deploy the free cruiser/sub this turn.Second question, a bit more complicated is: If on US3, the Allied player declares war on Germany but not Japan as is often the case, does the Allied player collect the 5 IPC bonuses associated with the Pacific?? i.e. the Philippines and the Alaska/Hawaii/Line/Johnston/Aleut bonuses. It struck me the other day that it seems wrong for USA to get Pacific bonuses for going to war if no war yet in the Pacific. Or maybe it’s a game balance issue since Japan gets the 10 IPC peace bonus if they choose to keep the peace?? Clarity requested please.
Thanks.
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Hi Trout
The Objectives, unless otherwise stated, are the same as out of box, so USA gets all their bonuses when at War. Doesn’t matter against who.
As far as deploying the Free Ships, my interpretation is that they place the round they are listed. I’m sure The Captain will clarify it but that’s how we play it.
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@barnee Barnee - thanks. The way you laid it out is the way we have been playing our games but I wanted to confirm as it wasn’t crystal clear in my head anyway.
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The free ships (Increased Ship Building) that Japan and United States receive during 4 rounds, must be placed in each round as they become available - after the US player has completed the US turn.
So, in your case you must place the US Cruiser unit and Submarine unit in sz 10.
Part of the Strategic Plan for both Japan and the United States should include a plan for the use of the free ships - and anticipate a possible scenario as the scenario that you experience in your recent game.
A good idea is to place the free ships on the side of the game table, so you can easily see when they become available.
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@The-Captain
Thanks for the clarification. Everything you say makes sense. Best thing about the HRE is how there are so many different substrategies within overall strategies which differ each game. Yes, one under-rated part of a Japanese focus on taking the three US (money) islands is that you can negate the ships from Increased Shipbuilding unless the Allies can either rebuild a navy in SZ 10 which hinders an investment in the Atlantic or cause enough trouble in the DEI/Philippines/SE Asia between ANZAC & UK as to make him pay a price for choosing to go in a different direction. -
@Trout said in Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion:
Best thing about the HRE is how there are so many different substrategies within overall strategies which differ each game
I agree :)
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Which three are you referring to ?
*Yes, one under-rated part of a Japanese focus on taking the three US (money) islands *
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At any rate, I know some people at triplea that’ll probably help and I can always hack something together and let others replace them with better images in the future.
While I don’t know how to redraw the map, triplea can make the Tank/Panzer Army boxes as well as the Corps/SS . It can have a D-Day box also, but I’ve already ran through how to do it on the regular map and think it’ll work fine.
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Are you referring to bung’s map ? BlackElk has already redrawn the map. UHD. It is available for OOB G 40, as well as BM4.
The Boxes have been added as well. Still needs a little touch up here and there. Anyway, you can download in triplea, “Global 40 Expansion UHD Boxes” or grab it straight from github https://github.com/triplea-maps/global_40_expansion_uhd_boxes
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Are you trolling ? https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36945/axis-allies-global-1940-house-rules-expansion/23If you’re gonna use someones post, you should quote them.
This is your first post. You best explain yourself jack jack
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I think I may have been doing JPN Home Defense wrong. Do their Ftrs get D5 for 1st rd same as UK ? Or just the INF boost ?
Thanks
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During Home Defense of Japan, the Japanese player gets 2 Infantry units for free in Japan - before any combat begins.
All Japanese Infantry units defend at “3” during the first round of Combat only. From the second round of Combat all Infantry units defend at their normal Defense Factor.
Japanese Fighter units in Japan defend at their normal Defense Factor during Home Defense.
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The Tank Destroyer rule is now available at the top of pg. 1 on this thread.
The rulebook includes the Waffen-SS Panzer Jäger unit as well.
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The G40 Waffen-SS Assault Pioneer unit rule is now available at the top of pg. 1 on the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion thread.
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Sweet :) You guys have been busy :) I best get busy too :)
Found these cool dudes by Frostion from his Iron War map. It’s a pretty cool game. Elk used to play it alot.
https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/73/iron-war-official-thread?_=1733996734931
I’ll have to tweak them a little bit. Probably get rid of the roundels and red up the soviets. Darken up G for the Waffen Unit.
Think just add a red circle with a black cross for Waffen Pioneer to existing Engineer.
Anyway, slowing down a bit play wise with Christmas happening. It’ll keep me busy.
Flying Tigers next ?
:)
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@barnee
Maybe flying UFO’s 🤣
No anyway these extra rules looks epic💪🏻Wishing you and yours a wonderful holiday season and all the best in the coming year!😎
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