Thank you.  That is great work and effort.

While it certainly sucks to have lost the Western US, that situation isn’t necessarily beyond hope. You didn’t provide a clear picture of your present assets and their locations. If you are able to immediately recapture Western US and hold it, that would return the IPC count to around Allies 82 Axis 84. That coupled with complete control of Africa, the Atlantic, and Med could be a salvageable situation. You did however make some comments that made it sound like your situation probably is/was beyond any realistic hope of recovery.  When you stated that Japan will be able to build ten units on Western US, that sounds as though you do not have the force needed to recapture it. If you are unable to recapture Western US, and you are not already posing serious threat to the German capital, you are toast.

IPC income is extremely important, but it is not everything.  IPC income advantage isn’t always realized.  If you have enough bombers within striking range of the German and/or Japanese IC’s you’d could trash the axis production capacity and possibly buy yourself some time to turn the table.  Granted, all things being equal, I would certainly like the IPC advantage, but an income disadvantage isn’t a death sentence unless it is prolonged and you are unable to keep your opponent from being able to realize a greater production capacity.

@MrMalachiCrunch:

I think novice players tend to be a bit more conservative.  Being conservative hurts the axis more than the allies being conservative I think.  With the axis having a better opening setup than the allies, they really need to maximize that before the allies can maximize their initial economic advantage.

A good way to learn is to play a game against yourself, but beyond the first few rounds it tends to lose its potential as a learning tool I would think.   It lets you script out the first few rounds of a strategy and counters but sooner or later the next step of learning is how to take advantage of good dice and how to do damage control with bad dice, basically how to take advantage of opportunities.

I completely agree, and playing against myself is exactly how I learned the most, followed by playing 1-on-1 against really good players online.

Water.

Now if the questions was ‘What do you smoke while playing AA42?’, then I might have a more interesting answer. :wink:

@Keredrex:

Here it is

This is awesome and it is the sheet that I will use from now on. Thanks.

@Verboten86:

My friend and I recently picked up this game, and I was wondering, what expansions can I use with this version?  I know the rules have been changed, so I’m wondering if there is any way of incorporating older versions or if there are any official expansions for this one.

Also, is there any way I can makeshift modify the 1942 edition back to the revised edition?  I’ve printed off a list of the rules changes, but I’m wondering if there are any IPC values on territories or other map changes, or anything else, that I would have to change as well.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read this!

Hey there. I’m not aware of any expansions/scenarios for 1942, it might be too soon for them since the game got released a few months ago and all the attention seems to be focused on AA50.

1942 is essentially a ‘revised’ Revised. The map changes are on North America (W. Can doesn’t connect with C. US, SZ55 and SZ63 anymore) plus the addition of Formosa and Iceland. The rest remains the same as Revised. If you find a copy of Revised somewhere I’d advise you to get it since the map is slightly bigger and it cames with a lot of extras (battleboard instead of battlestrip, printed money, etc.) and you can use the Revised board to play 1942 (that’s what I do) as long as you remember the changes to NA. If you can’t find it there are a few threads on this section with improved maps that you can print.

See ya