Hi all, me and my friends got together for a first time game of 1940 global this semester and we got nearly to the end of round two last night, Stop at Italy because the player was busy. Allies have had some horrible rolls and things haven’t been going great. As UK, I attacked the Italian fleet in sz 97 and failed to sink his battleship. Maybe I missed a eligible plane but at the end of the day just got really unlucky. Cleaned up the atlantic a good bit from subs, and Germany failed to defeat my english passage fleet on the first turn but destroy it on his second with heavy airforce losses. Germanies navy now is left to two battleships and two subs way up by iceland. I have a pretty strong suspion that they are planning sea lion, and bought 9 infantry last round to defend (Wish I bought a tank and mech and put it on South Africa, but oh well). I still have a small med fleet outside of egypt, but all likelihood seems as though the italians will sink it on their next turn. America has taken Brazil but has little other presence.

In the Pacific, Calcutta has been slammed but at fairly heavy losses to japans airforce and ground troops. I was also able to snipe two transports with my tac bomber. Basically slamming infantry in India, holding off. Sydney and Honolulu are safe at the moment, ansac has taken little attrition.

I have the most experience because me and my buddies would play 1942 in high school, and all of us but italy played 1941 to get the hang of things before we jumped into 1940 global. Were all super enthralled and enjoying the game but I need some extra guidance from experienced players to make this situation work. Should we send American boats to Iceland to threaten sea lion? Should we focus a pacific play and take Japan first and hope London holds out? I’ll attach images of the board to this post, please let me know what y’all thoughts are for the next play from the allies. (keep in mind we are all new to this version of the game hence not very good yet)

@shadowhawk funny enough we all went “ohhhhhhhhhh” when we saw there were global rules in the back of the book half way through the game.

@SuperbattleshipYamato I think were planning on restarting, if we can finish before our winter break. I’ll keep this post updated by turns as best I can.

@SuperbattleshipYamato I think were planning on restarting, if we can finish before our winter break. I’ll keep this post updated by turns as best I can.

@shadowhawk funny enough we all went “ohhhhhhhhhh” when we saw there were global rules in the back of the book half way through the game.

@shadowhawk No, I was going to ask. With the amount of troops we had, would’ve totally done that. Will make the other players aware for next time. Changes the whole strategy for USSR and Germany. Also, I appreciate you sending that guide in here, it’s just one step up from the basic rules. We watched Ben Harsh’s hour long video, and read a good bit of the book, but obviously missed a lot.

@shadowhawk I think were gonna let the USSR play out a turn just because they’ve been waiting hours to get in the game. But yeah, chalk up the whole game as a practice round, I agree.

@YUMYAM Correction, Italy brought a strategic bomber, not a tactical one.

@YUMYAM Here’s turn 5. There’s a lot to go over and I’ll miss some things but here’s my synopsis. Yes, much of our setup was wrong. The pacific USSR troops were missing, most likely a few men in Egypt, and most importantly we were clueless on the global rules for war income regarding US, Japan, and USSR. USA was given 40 for the turn we missed that they were at war for, so that would somewhat explain USA weak presence in the last photos. I’ll have to ask for forgiveness from the community, we are learning as were going. Frankly, the Axis are looking set to win. We had Germany take their first turn, and the USSR is set to start next time we play. Germany only took one territory that was a bait with a few men defending. I had USSR buy all arty so they have 20+ on the board. We consolidated in the territory bordering Ukraine and I’m planning on attacking Slovakia and hope we can liberate Greece/Yugoslovia with a Mech. Longshot. USSR will hold for another turn or two, but the US is in too little too late. Italy is set to take all the money from Africa with the exception of SA/Sudan. Japan has taken calcutta at heavy aircraft losses but nevertheless own India. I moved my ANSAC fleet and took out a battleship/sub/cruiser and plan on being more aggressive in pacific now that US and ANSAC has built up and Japan has spread out. Here’s the kicker of the whole game, and easily my biggest blunder. Italy was threatening Persia but I had a few troops and Russian reinforcements coming. What I didn’t account for was Italys TAC bomber which totally threw the scales in their favor. So I build a maj factory (I learned yesterday I can’t do that on a 2 IPC territory so I may get some money back) but Italy came through and stole it. Shit. So now we need to make some moves, and quick, because Italian tanks funded by Africa will be coming for Moscow, forget Jap expansion from India. Allies will not have trouble owning the sea, but there’s no money from owning just the seas. Just taking this whole game as a learning experience, so if you all have any suggestions they would of course be appreciated. Thanks for analyzing!
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@YUMYAM Also, I really like the persia idea. If italy takes Egypt I can’t get there this turn. But I could bring the southern transport with two men in two turns. I’ll probably go to Persia instead of trying to retake Egypt. Then use the two factories to mount a attack. As for US, buying a european fleet and controlling sz 91 will be my priority.

@MarshmallowofWar Germany will go next and I got to assume he’ll condense in the english channel with 3 battleships. I could scramble 3 planes on my next turn, which wouldn’t be enough .(Gibraltar plane can’t get to that space). Should I buy the plane in SA or England? Or my buy is 3 tanks in SA and a plane in England? Thanks for your help.

@MarshmallowofWar Also, Germany currently has 3 battleships. The silver marker in the Baltic is a fresh battleship, and there two side by side in the English channel.

@MarshmallowofWar Italy is up next for their turn 2. That’s where we had to stop because Italy wasn’t present at the moment