@Galendae

You forgot about the part where you ask them to watch Man in the High Castle with you afterwards.

@DoManMacgee nah dude you’re good its fine. you pretty much covered my concerns about the axis powers and actually showed me a new way to attack the British fleet do thanks for that! Ifk I guess playing with NOs is kinda just personal preference for people. Personally I like it because it involves some pretty insane games as well as it gives some irrelevant territories a purpose of existence to be taken or liberated by the nations imo. R&D is another fun one because it could totally turn the tides of the game to one side or the other instead of having the same half arse game every time. But yeah 🇯🇵 is gonna be Japan and go nuts on the allies but they’re pretty much subjected to their own little fighting ring. Otherwise that’s pretty much it for my concern on protecting Africa, thx for ur opinion dude I really appreciate it. Hears to roll dice together one day.

@Argothair

For the most part it was kind of just a playtest since he did the Taranto Raid as well with both strategies being put into the ditch after Afrika Korps. (btw to simplify things, all Afrika Korps is is Germany taking 3 transports, a BB, CV, Cruiser and Sub to the Med to protect the Italian fleet until it can protect itself, then conquer the ME and Egypt and win the game and sit on the throne on the doorstep to Moscow

@tin-can-of-the-sea

Definitely. I’ve been playing many of the different versions of A&A for a while now and having read through rule book after rule book especially with G40 I still miss rules that I overlooked and what not so thank goodness the forums exist for people to inform on these kinds of overlooked and missed aspects of the game.

@flyingbadger

Exactly, Purchasing 101 in Global 40, purchase the units that look cool. If your nations infantry don’t look cool then don’t purchase them.

You should also purchase the well crafted plastic pieces, so don’t purchase German tanks since the barrels can break off easily as well as don’t purchase those stupid wobbly aircraft carriers they have as well, like you can’t even balance a strategic bomber on it

@robson

Yeah something like that, but when I heard this bizarre tactic it seemed a bit more directed at the Soviet Union doing a reverse can opener with the UK on Germany, which is what had me confused since that’s not how that works as far as my knowledge goes.

@Galendae

I could honestly get on board with that name.

I still am having trouble grasping the reality of this concept in general

@crockett36 said in Anzac Shuck Into Europe:

@FranceNeedsMorePower I think it is imperative that Anzac stay in its lane in its ocean PTO.

This. If America already has the ability to get ground units into Europe as early as turn 4, why’s ANZAC going out of their way to build a base on Brazil? That’s equivalent to icing on an already frosted cake.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Well personally as crazy as it sounds I like to build an aircraft carrier as ANZAC and then rendezvous with my fellow British in the Indian Ocean. ANZAC starts off with 3 fighters and can be making up to 20 IPCs a turn why not lean into that?

@SuperbattleshipYamato

I think that’d be a really good idea because urals factories were genuinely a big contender to the war. Would people ever play with it though is the question?

@SuperbattleshipYamato

Yes and that national objective is not sufficient compared to the Germans national objectives for every city they take, and I was using the idea of lend lease as an example.

A more historically accurate idea would be to give the Soviets extra IPCs when at war or simulate winter somehow.

And this is absolutely what Im presenting forward. Just some kind of unique mechanic that bolsters their economy to help them stand a fighting chance.

So I was thinking about how the Soviet Union is not nearly strong enough to beat Germany on their own and got to thinking about some kind of special game mechanic that could belong to them and only them. In the war, the Soviets were provided tremendous support via the lend lease program in which supplies were delivered into different parts of the Soviet Union (i.e through Persia, Vladivostok, Archangel, etc). What if the Russian player, so long as some specific criteria was met by the Allies, got an extra boost in IPC’s or moreso, got to play extra units on the board in the spirit of this idea?

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Let's talk the Taranto raid.:

They’re a bit more useful in the Pacific depending on what the Japanese do and how much focus the US is putting there. A British fleet by itself cannot stand up to the Japanese.

Its funny because this is exactly the reasoning I had in my head on why I would keep the carrier alive. You’re definitely right that a British fleet alone can’t hope to fight Japan but its the presence of it that I’m backing. That is, should Japan want to sink it, they will have to commit a decent amount of resources to sinking a carrier - resources that will be pulled away from other critical areas of the map. That’s all theory though

@SuperbattleshipYamato

Here’s an interesting question. Do you see value in keeping the carrier alive? That is, not even taking the carrier into the battle in the first place? I understand that leaves the odds much to be desired for the British but we’re talking about saving a ship that would cost half the UK income. Thoughts?

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Yes direct message was what I meant. And sending saved games is easiest

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Works for me. We’ll setup the game over DMs

@FranceNeedsMorePower

If you’d like to test that theory online, I could play the Axis and you could play the Allies

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Having even a single fully loaded aircraft carrier with a destroyer escort means that Japan would have to commit a moderate amount of resources to sinking that fleet. If the fleet gets sunk then great, they will most certainly sink Japanese vessels along with it and thus weakening the fleet for America to move in. Having a fully loaded carrier or better yet 2 means you can actually start making your way to the money islands and taking them back from Japan. If Japan attempts to sink said fleet, as I said thats Americas chance to move in.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

Well personally as crazy as it sounds I like to build an aircraft carrier as ANZAC and then rendezvous with my fellow British in the Indian Ocean. ANZAC starts off with 3 fighters and can be making up to 20 IPCs a turn why not lean into that?