Carrier Question

@Larrie:

CWO Marc, I have to disagree with you on the infantry statement. The British infantry is different from the American one. Although the difference may be slight it is not the same, but you are correct in the statement that the Aussies’ are just gray Brits.

I said that the Global 1940 1st edition UK sculpt set included a few American designs.  I didn’t say that it used American infantry units.  Every power except ANZAC in Global 1940 1st edition has a distinct infantry sculpt; in Global 1940 2nd edition, every power (including ANZAC) has a distinctive infantry sculpt.  The Global 1940 1st edition UK sculpt set used American designs for a few of its equipment (meaning non-infantry) units – not many, but a few.  I can’t recall the full list off the top of my head, but I think the Mech unit was one of them.

Shakespeare: there are six: SZ 6,17, 19, 20, 22 and 35.

@calvinhobbesliker:

@Mysterious:

Are Cruisers able to bombard without the presence of a Battleship?

Yes

thanks, the Rule book makes it confusing; it implies you have to use the buddy system with its ridiculous examples.

Our group was wondering the same thing and came to the same conclusion.  In the new 1942 game I had a massive multinational allied fleet in SZ 12 including 3 russian subs of all things.  Facing it was a fleet in SZ 14 consisting of a Jap and german battleship/loaded carrier combo along with 6 u-boats.  It was in interesting situation, neither could attack the combined enemy with a divided attack force.  From SZ 14 the axis could hit Moscow  landing on an occupied eastern province with air power or SZ 17,18, 11, 9, 8 with the assumption the fighter(s) would land on a victorious carrier that single handedly destroyed a fleet of 4 CV, 8 FTR, 4 DD, 6 SS, 1 BB and  2 CC.  It meant using a fair bit of capital ship resources to escort straggling/special mission transport fleets or hoping in vain he would trade a ftr and cv for 1 or 2 transports.

I could have used the Yanks earlier to clear the enemy in SZ 14 but early I required a long shuck train starting on the US seaboard, Canada, algeria and across the top of Africa into persia to guarantee control of africa and to overwhelm the 2 german transport shuck operation into Africa.  I had enough fleet to defend, the Japs were trapped and would have put my america to africa shuck out of position.

i love the new rules for carriers…makes planning air attacks a lot more interesting…making sure that your planes have somewhere to land or SPLASH!!!

yep. every round.

I think it was obvious that it was a misprint on the map. There is only a little snippet, the second I saw it I knew that was not right.