Hello, I play pacific 1940 a lot. I have also played global a few times. Pacific 1940 second edition is a great game but I can almost easily win every time if I’m Japan and I attack on the third turn. A new rule was passed around late 2014 to allow the USA to receive a 30 IPC bonus if Japan attacks or declares war on them before turn 4. This seems to balance the game a little but I can still always win with Japan. The strategy for Japan is pretty much the same. Take the money islands, build a minor in French Indo China and Kwangtung and knock out China and India. Post in the Philippines with your huge navy and three fighters that can scramble and those six deadly kamikizes. Let Anzac and USA come to you so you can use the fighters to defend at 4 when the big navy battle happens. Eventually you will be making more than the allies with the money islands NO and the India NO. You should be around the 70-75 mark. Then when the time is right strike at Sydney or Hawaii and hold it and you should win as it will be six victory cities. For the allies, man this can be tuff lol. You better hope Japan attacks you on turn 1 or turn 4 because turn 2 and especially 3 it’s going to be difficult.
1: China: buy men and hit and run and fall back to the north west of China. You will be lucky if the Burma road is open more than two turns. Pull back and make Japan come to you.
2: UK: pull everyone back to India and just buy men!!! Try to bring your navy down to Australia and unite them with Anzac and hopefully later USA. If it looks like India is going to fall then pull your airforce out and send them to Australia to hopefully land on a Anzac or American carrier. If Japan hasn’t declared war early then take as many islands in the south as possible .
3: Anzac: small ships and transports are good. if it looks like Japan is going to invade then pull your forces to south Australia because from there you can hit any territory. Use your small ships to convoy raid or unite with the main USA fleet. Queensland is a great staging area for the allied navy early in the game. Also since there’s a airbase there fighters don’t hurt also since they can scramble.
4:USA: the big boy lol. The problem is when USA is neutral she only makes a freaking 17 ipcs a turn. While Japan is around the 40 mark and Japan has soooooooo many aircraft at its disposal. USA I say aircraft carrier early then mainly subs, destroyers, and a transport every turn with land units. A few rounds into the game get a navy base on the Johnson islands and start combining your fleet with the Anzac fleet and hopefully a small UK fleet. try to take the money islands by sacrificing transports because Japan will have a bigger navy early in the game. When the time is right move to Dutch New Guinea with your fleet and prepare for the big battle. Sometimes it’s better if Japan attacks you and sometimes it’s better if you attsck them. Hopefully you will have a lot of subs at your disposal. If you win the navy battle then Japan is pretty much toast even if they have India and China. Good luck and let me know how the war goes lol. I am playing anniversary edition on Saturday 😜
AAP40 double game on my new table
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Here is a pic from our AAP40 double game on my new table. The table is not complete but was playable on. Here is a pic of my original table that I was using for AA50 and the next picture is the new table that I made to fit AAP40 and AAE40. It turned out that it worked well for our AAP40 double game. The new table is 4’x8’ and the insert is 32"x80" with cup holders and 4" racetrack.
Original AA50 table.
New updated table for AAP40.
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Methinks you have the wrong picture there. That’s your old table with AA50 being played. ;)
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That’s weird. It was showing earlier.
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looks good but this is AA50
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Should be able to view the image now. My bad! :-D
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LOL everybody has their own dice tower! LOL… thats a bit too much don’t you think?
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Maybe but it is a big table and we don’t have to pass them around…LOL! Lazy we are.
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gotta admit it….i like it… 8-)
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I also see a couple fleet markers. I stole mine from the old AAP game too. It is too tedious to move the ships when the Tac Air keeps slipping off. I usuallly laeve the subs and transports on the board and mark the fleets. I was surprised to see they skipped this. I gotta make a couple dice towers though. Good job. Enjoy the game. It is great to see everyone having fun with it.
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Great job TwistedAries, do you have the specs for the dice tower? I want to see if I can get someone with skills to build it for me! Thanks.
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I feel a plug coming real fast…. one second…
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Buy Your Own Dice Tower From Craig Yorpe. Larry Harris always uses Craig’s dice towers.
Personally we just roll the dice in the box or on the board. And I thought about using fleet markers as well but we never got around to it. This game really should have included that. And the Europe game should include land based task forces markers.
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@Craig:
My towers speak for themselves.
Definitely Craig’s towers are beautiful! Take a look at them for sure!
These towers that I created are only version 1.0 and I would like to try to sell version 2.0 of my towers but I still need to work some things out.