Actual AA pacific 1940 map pictures

@Emperor_Taiki:

Starting IPC count

Austrailia: 9
Canada: 2
China: 10 (+6 burma road)
French: 2
Japan: 26
Netherlands: 11
Soviet Union: 9
United Kingdom: 18
United States: 17/57

Why only 10 for China?
I can see 12 Chinese territories, 1 IPC worth each…

Wow the map is big.  But then again this isnt the board, it looks like a glossy picture of the board.  What intrigues me about it is the massive amount of dutch colonies, will the netherlands be a playable country or is this just a piece for the AAP40 board?
Also, I know this sounds weird, but I would never attack America as Japan, but I bet Larry has an ace up his sleeve to force my Japanese hand.
All in all the board looks huge, and it will be interesting to be taller and more square than any other one.

@Emperor_Taiki:

Starting IPC count

Austrailia: 9
Canada: 2
China: 10 (+6 burma road)
French: 2
Japan: 26
Netherlands: 11
Soviet Union: 9
United Kingdom: 18
United States: 17/57

Ok, so does that mean this is a 9 player game?  just kidding, but i should would hate to be canada or france.
How does it break down though, are some of these players neutral?  Which ones?
Is it like a 3 player game then,
Japan
USA
China + UK + USSR + Netherlands + French + Australian + Canada
?

Also, when exactly does the USA get to enter the war?  Is it only when Japan attacks them?  If that was so, I would wait as Japan until I had conquered everyone else.  Is it like a turn limit, example: turn 3 unless Japan attacks you before then?

Lastly
I seem to get the feeling from some of the conversations here that you can combine this AA Pacific, with AA Europe, and thereby play the entire world?  True?

yes all of this in in the fact sheet. read it.

You can combine both maps and make a huge game.

Ok , so just to clarify, Japan can attack France and China without brining the US into the war and the UK forces can attack Japan without brining the US into the war, but once Japan attacks any of the UK, Dutch, Canadian or Austrailian territory the US is in the war at full production.

Can Austrilian forces attack Japan before the US is in the war like the UK?

@squirecam:

UK will control “france” and Anzac (Aus/NZ) while USA can control China. So 3 players (instead of 5) is probably normal.

ANZAC is a separate player.  It’s not controlled by the UK player.

@Emperor_Taiki:

Can Austrilian forces attack Japan before the US is in the war like the UK?

Yes.

This game will be amazing! The only thing I see that could be better is that I like the artwork for the Original AAP better. The AAE art style is the best in my opinion. I’m not that keen on this new style. It’s definitely better than AAR though.

@Admiral_Thrawn:

This game will be amazing! The only thing I see that could be better is that I like the artwork for the Original AAP better. The AAE art style is the best in my opinion. I’m not that keen on this new style. It’s definitely better than AAR though.

The original AAE and AAP atwork, does seem the most realistic like a real WW2 map, but A&A isnt exactly the most realistic game and so its better if the map is slightly off looking so that map, peices, and rules, go togehter and are no out of place. I also like the terrian and geography shown on these that were not in the past. And of course it is about 1000 times better than the abstract cluster#@$& that was the AAR board.

The way the game can turn out really sounds intriguing. Too bad we have to wait for so long to see the European Map.

Will we eventuall get the setup for this or what? :-P

ok course as usual. we get the pictures and post them here.

Although I will get AA40E, I might not be interested in playing it at all! If Japan is the only “bad guy”, it will be really boring to see the X people gang on you!

But the global game is very promising. I hope they can playtest it enough so that there aren’t too many balance issues!

Robert

@Omega:

Although I will get AA40E, I might not be interested in playing it at all! If Japan is the only “bad guy”, it will be really boring to see the X people gang on you!

But the global game is very promising. I hope they can playtest it enough so that there aren’t too many balance issues!

Robert

I feel the same way. I didn’t buy the original AAP and AAE because I prefer a global contest. The ability to combine the new games into one global game was stroke of genius by Larry Harris. Clearly though, the global game is only for the most dedicated of A&A players. I know I won’t be able to convince my playgroup to sit down for a game of that scope. Getting them together for a game of AA50 is hard enough. We need software versions of these games!

@WOPR:

I feel the same way. I didn’t buy the original AAP and AAE because I prefer a global contest. The ability to combine the new games into one global game was stroke of genius by Larry Harris. Clearly though, the global game is only for the most dedicated of A&A players. I know I won’t be able to convince my playgroup to sit down for a game of that scope. Getting them together for a game of AA50 is hard enough. We need software versions of these games!

True. In my gaming group AA50 is simply impossible, that’s why I like AA42 much better: it’s playable face to face.

@WOPR:

@Omega:

Although I will get AA40E, I might not be interested in playing it at all! If Japan is the only “bad guy”, it will be really boring to see the X people gang on you!

But the global game is very promising. I hope they can playtest it enough so that there aren’t too many balance issues!

Robert

I feel the same way. I didn’t buy the original AAP and AAE because I prefer a global contest. The ability to combine the new games into one global game was stroke of genius by Larry Harris. Clearly though, the global game is only for the most dedicated of A&A players. I know I won’t be able to convince my playgroup to sit down for a game of that scope. Getting them together for a game of AA50 is hard enough. We need software versions of these games!

I think I will still like to play Japan.  Nothing better than being the sole Axis player and taking out the rest of the Allies……on your own.  Now that is satsifaction.

I feel very fortunate that my F2F play group will be able to get together once a week to play this game.  You guys don’t think you can convince your play groups to do one day a week so you can play?  Beg if you have to.  Let them have choice of powers too if you have to.  This is going to be awesome.  You can’t possibly buy the two games and NOT play.

@Jake:

@Emperor_Taiki:

Starting IPC count

Austrailia: 9
Canada: 2
China: 10 (+6 burma road)
French: 2
Japan: 26
Netherlands: 11
Soviet Union: 9
United Kingdom: 18
United States: 17/57

Why only 10 for China?
I can see 12 Chinese territories, 1 IPC worth each…

Yah, I am just really bad at counting. Your right.

China  starts with 12 IPCs plus 6 for the burma road.

And I think Canada only gets one, its hard to make out that number though.

@Captain:

I feel very fortunate that my F2F play group will be able to get together once a week to play this game.  You guys don’t think you can convince your play groups to do one day a week so you can play?  Beg if you have to.  Let them have choice of powers too if you have to.  This is going to be awesome.  You can’t possibly buy the two games and NOT play.

The single theater A&A games don’t interest me or my playgroup. We’d be combining the two games for the global experience. The problem with that, as I stated before, is that then the game becomes too big! (for my playgroup)

I’m sure the combined AAP40 AAE40 global game will be nothing short of brilliant but I will probably not buy either component game. If there were a software version I would buy it in a second because it would be easy to find hardcore players online who are willing to invest the time.

For face to face play, AA50 will continue to be my game of choice.

And you never know, it could end up being my game of choice too after playing the new combined global game.  But, I hope not because it sounds very exciting and promising.