US neutral rules

Thanks Carolina.
We left it Neutral the whole game. It meant Itaky was denied the cash, which was fine by me. More importantly, it left Austria master of the Balkans amd the nearby territories.
We also played that India could only build 4 units. That was another proposition all together. The Turks consistently made 16 income , so kept them in the game. India even looked threatened on T3!
We will play the same rules next time. Was fun.

@UKcommander:

That does not preclude a player from moving from a friendly territory, into a second friendly territory, and then into a hostile territory two spaces away does it?

That is exactly what the rules prevent. You must use your full movement to enter a hostile territory (one that contains no friendly units); think of this in the same way that you can’t move ground units before loading onto a transport.

You can move units multiple spaces into a contested territory though, and they would participate in an attack in said contested territory if you made one.

Yes.

I don’t agree with the two space rule change for land units. Land units in World War 1 were not mobile and if you are looking for a game with full mobility the original axis & allies WOII games are a much better choice.

However I do see the potential of limiting the capacity of producing units in India to 5. Playing UK is much harder as you have to keep producing units in India to keep the Ottomans away and also have to build a navy in the west to threat the Germans. The UK simply lacks the IPC to help the Russians in this scenario since a decisive victory against either the Ottomans in the East or against the German navy in the west is very hard to accomplish. In the two games we have played with this rule Russia Revolution has occurred.

French guns should be built in France. If the French player wants to give them to Belgium he needs to move them there.

Worth buying a 2nd copy for extra pieces?

Personally, I think I’ll wait for the Second Edition.

@Lozmoid:

Maddison Games are doing it even cheaper:

http://www.maddisongames.co.uk/games/AxisAllies1914WWIBoardGame.php?lpp=search&q=axis & allies&qc=0

I raised Don Rae. But he hatched after 1987. Soon after that he made the fryer…into nuggets and finally the sewer system.

Since Germany has an inferior naval deployment, the retreat rules make sense to give them some flexibility.