Pacific 1940 review copy has arrived


  • Beautiful!  Thanks for the responses.  I was looking at the map for the pacific, and I noticed that japan could not strategic bomb the western USA in 1940, where as, in the 1942 version, you can take over midway, bomb western usa, and then back to midway.  Threat of Tac bombers may be good.

    It so would have been nice if there was that added flexibility with the mech infantry being able to transport one or two more units of infantry with them.  Would have put a really nice spin to the game.

  • '20 '18 '16 '13 '12

    4 Tactical bombers in Japan
    3 Fighters in New Zealand
    3 Fighters in India
    1 Bomber 1 Fighter in the Philipenes.
    And that’s just what I can see initially!

    Seems like those AA guns will be getting a lot of use!

    And the Flying Tigers are out of range for a Japanese first-strike too!


  • see if you can get the setups reposted for all players. I have a hard time seeing the details.

    I know people want to know whats is going on and these pictures are not so good. ( but better than what we had before)


  • Hi!
    These pictures are really nice, as the game!!

    But sth is wrong, on the ANZAC set up (from the picture) you can see that there is Major IC in New South Wales, but the value of this territory is 2, comparing it to the info from fact sheet, Major IC can be built on a territory with value 3 or higher.
    Am I wrong?


  • Here’s a quick photoshopped picture of the map put together, to hold us over till new photos are posted. Enjoy.


  • Looks like this one is going to be great, I cannot wait until its release!  Thanks for the pics


  • Only one question: is possible land units from Japan to Alaska in the same turn? (and viceversa). I see a Aleutian islands teritory, but borders of that sea zone are not clear

    With so big map and splitting of Canada (yeeeeees!), ignore Japan strat in global game is totally dead anyway, but it would be good add more salt to the wound  :wink:

    Thoughts:

    • OK with the box. Also shows is compatible with Europe 40, a nice detail
    • Dices are ugle, but that’s matter of tastes and I’ll use Revised dices anyway  :-D
    • NO paper money -> shame
    • No minis for ICs, aa guns and bases -> patetic, simply patetic. I’ll have to put 2 IC minis to represent big ICs and one for minor ICs  :-P Sadly, I don’t see a way of representing bases  :x
    • Map is OK also. Too difficult attack Asia with USA’s units, but I guess that ANZAC IC is going to aid a ton. My bet is main strat will be clean the seas with USA and use ANZAC to fight Kwantung jap army in China. Still annoyed with no island ICs … at least Mc Arthur should get his HQs at Philippines! +1 for the one-piece map
    • No units at setup at Canada. Odd but I guess it will change in global map  :-)
    • No chinese artillery and fighter minis … cheap, cheap, and cheap! At least they give chinese counters to solve that mess!  :| China in general seems at least will work finally with 13 units: that’s an army, Larry, why they don’t appear in AA50?. One simply has to delete irreal ACME invisible walls for global game and it’s done (well, and also ignore limit of purchases, I doubt China is going to buy gazillions of 6 IPCs tanks anyway  8-) )
    • ANZAC minis colour is weird!  :lol: But in fact I think I like it and is possible I end loving it as good old orange japs. And they left japs as orange! Yeeees!  8-)

    Overal, some complaints about cheapness of some materials but gameplay seems will go well. We need play some games to see if it’s balanced (a improvement from AA50). In general, gets let’s say 8/10  :-)


  • @Danger:

    Looks like this one is going to be great, I cannot wait until its release!  Thanks for the pics

    I forgot say: agreed with both of this  :-)

  • Customizer

    @Adlertag:

    Will there be NO’s in this game ?

    @Krieghund:

    Yes

    Any word yet on what these national objectives are?

  • '10

    going to post what i can see as far as set-ups

    ANZAC:
    Queensland - 2 Infantry, 1 Art, 1 Fighter
    New South Whales - 1 Infantry, 1 major IC
    New Zealand - 1 infantry, 3 Fighters, 1 airbase
    Malaya - 1 infantry
    Seazone 62 - 1 destroyer, 1 transport
    Seazone 42 - 1 submarine

    China:
    Hunan - 1 infantry
    Kweichow - 1 infantry
    Shensi - 1 infantry
    Suiyuyan - 2 infantry
    Szechwan - 4 infantry, 1 fighter
    Yunnan - 3 infantry

    United Kingdom:
    India - 4 infantry, 1 art, 1 AA, 3 fighters, 1 tac bomber
    Burma - 1 infantry, 1 figher
    Kwangtung - 2 infantry, 1 naval base
    Malaya - 4 infantry, 1 naval base
    Seazone 37 - 1 battleship, 2 transports
    Seazone 39 - 1 destroyer, 1 cruiser

    United States:
    Western U.S. - 3 infantry, 1 mech infantry, 1 art, 1 tank, 1 AA
    Guam - 1 airbase
    Hawaii - 2 infantry, 1 fighter, 1 bomber, 1 tac bomber
    Midway - 1 airbase
    Philippines - 1 infantry, 1 fighter, 1 bomber
    Wake Island - 1 airbase
    Seazone 10 - 1 submarine, 1 destroyer, 1 aircraft carrier (carrying 1 fighter)
    Seazone 26 - 1 transport
    Seazone 35 - 1 destroyer, 1 transport

    Japan:
    Japan - 8 infantry, 1 art, 1 tank, 1 AA, 4 tac bombers, 1 airbase, 1 naval base, 1 major IC
    Caroline Islands - 1 infantry, 1 AA
    Formosa - 1 fighter
    Iwo Jima - 1 infantry
    Manchuria - 4 infantry, 1 mech infantry

  • Founder TripleA Admin

    Yeah, I know. I was too tired after work and dinner last night to do anything. I’ll see what I can do this morning. I won’t be able to photo everything tho; it will have to be a multi-part preview.

    Also, I have my game lined up for Sunday. You’ll have to wait for setup pics until then.

    @Imperious:

    see if you can get the setups reposted for all players. I have a hard time seeing the details.

    I know people want to know whats is going on and these pictures are not so good. ( but better than what we had before)


  • ahhh soo good! I can’t WAit until this is relaes3ED!

  • Founder TripleA Admin

    Stay tuned, I’m uploading a few photos now.

  • Founder TripleA Admin

    Here are the latest photos.

    http://www.axisandallies.org/node/384

    The original size (when you click on a photo) should be large enough to read all of the text.

    I was having trouble photographing the map so I’ll work on that tomorrow.

  • Customizer

    Thanks for the preview article. Are we to expect a new preview article every day or so till the 15th?

    Also do the container boxes used for the units only have one section unlike AA50 which has three sections in each unit container box?

    Thanks for all the info.


  • :-o Just finished reading the first preview! :-D
    Words fail me……OMFG!
    OMFG!
    If the Europe version is even half as good as what i have just seen?
    Then>>>>> OH MY FING GOD!!!
    AWSOME, SIMPLY F
    ING AWSOME!
    I got two copies on order now and i cant wait to play this mutha!
    The new pieces look badass!
    Larry and all those involved deserve a hugh slap on the back for a job well done!

    Thoes426 :evil:


  • full Japan setup as best as I can tell
    Japan: 8 infantry, 2 artillery, 1 tank, 1 aa gun, 2 bombers, 3 fighters, 4 Tac Bombers, 1 airbase, 1 naval base, 1 major ic
    Caroline Islands: 1 infantry, 1 aa gun, 1 airbase, 1 naval base
    Formosa: 1 fighter
    Iwo Jima: 1 infantry
    Jehol: 2 inf, 1 art
    Kiangsi: 5 inf, 1 art
    Korea: 1 inf
    Kwangsi: 3 inf, 1 art
    Manchuria: 4 inf, 1 mech inf, 1 art, 1 aa gun, 1 bomber, 3 fighters, 2 tac bombers
    Okinawa: 1 inf, 1 fight
    Palau: 1 inf
    Kiangsa: 1 inf, 1 fighter, 1 tac bomber, 1 bomber
    Shantung: 1 inf
    Siam: 2 inf
    Zone 6: 1 sub, 2 destroyers, 2 AC with a fighter and tac bomber each, 1 cruiser, 1 battleship, 2 transports
    Zone 19: 1 sub, 1 destroyer, 1 cruiser
    Zone 33: 1 destroyer, 1 AC with a fighter and tac bomber, 1 battleship, 1 transport

    Assuming 11 ipc tac bomber, 4 ipc mech inf, 18 ipc AC
    Best guess for total unit cost: 397! IPCs of units


  • I’m having some trouble identifying the tac bomber, but the truck are easy to identify!

    good job

  • '20 '18 '16 '13 '12

    My question is (and I beleive it has already been asked): What are those little squares with the Asian characters on them? I would assume they are Japanese and perhaps have something to do with Japanese Victory conditions, maybe like the VC chips from AA50? Otherwise they could have something to do with China…?


  • My question is (and I beleive it has already been asked): What are those little squares with the Asian characters on them? I would assume they are Japanese and perhaps have something to do with Japanese Victory conditions, maybe like the VC chips from AA50? Otherwise they could have something to do with China…?

    I am guessing that these are for the Kamikaze attacks.

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