In order to have all players in on the action right away, we’ve played Europe with the setup for 1942 Global a few times now.
The only thing we’ve changed is the turn order, putting the US behind GB like in Europe. Which is beneficiary to Germany, but still we’ve found in nigh impossible to win with the Axis.
Main gripes are the few German troops standing on the Eastern front after the first turn and hardly any Infs on the Eastern front in Action until turn 4, pressuming you build a lot turn 1. So trading is very difficult for Germany, and you always have many high cost units at risk.

Now I’ve posted this in the Global forum, because I assume the number of players having played the Globbal 42 variant is much higher than the ones haveing played “Europe 42”, and what helps in the global variant also helps when playing Europe only.

What do you do as the Axis on the European side in Global? Just hope Japan puts enough pressure on the Allies so the US have to spend their income mainly in the Pacific?

a few pictures can be found here
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/events/gexpo24-2/?fbclid=IwAR0Fh0hf4yZcHddXiv2Q_T9pxVpJDz-xKzKZJ4QIjSahpfo9U0KlYqIJ-Xo

@barnee looks interesting, we’ll give that a try, albeit only the Europen side of things

a few pictures can be found here
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/events/gexpo24-2/?fbclid=IwAR0Fh0hf4yZcHddXiv2Q_T9pxVpJDz-xKzKZJ4QIjSahpfo9U0KlYqIJ-Xo

@imperious-leader those are house rule unfortunately

We want to give this a try, but the rules leave a lot to be desired as they are somewhat ambiguous or problematic as written. Is there a FAQ anywhere or a newer rules version than mine (2.1)?

@barnee looks interesting, we’ll give that a try, albeit only the Europen side of things

In order to have all players in on the action right away, we’ve played Europe with the setup for 1942 Global a few times now.
The only thing we’ve changed is the turn order, putting the US behind GB like in Europe. Which is beneficiary to Germany, but still we’ve found in nigh impossible to win with the Axis.
Main gripes are the few German troops standing on the Eastern front after the first turn and hardly any Infs on the Eastern front in Action until turn 4, pressuming you build a lot turn 1. So trading is very difficult for Germany, and you always have many high cost units at risk.

Now I’ve posted this in the Global forum, because I assume the number of players having played the Globbal 42 variant is much higher than the ones haveing played “Europe 42”, and what helps in the global variant also helps when playing Europe only.

What do you do as the Axis on the European side in Global? Just hope Japan puts enough pressure on the Allies so the US have to spend their income mainly in the Pacific?

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@Panther Sure, it is just the only standard A&A Edition I’m aware of, that features opposing forces in the same territory at setup.

Sino-Sovjet Pact - darn, that’s WarRoom. Sovjet-Mongolian Defense Pact from the Global40 rules is what I meant

thanks for answering

It says so in the setup, just seems a bit weird, as well as the Japanese sub together with the US fleet starting in the same sea zone.

Another question, does the Sino-Sovjet Pact still apply or are Japan and Russia at War. The rules state
“ALL Powers begin the game AT WAR. Both the Soviet Union and the US may attack anyone from the onset of the game.”
which doesn’t sepcifically adress this, but it reads like no penalty for attacking JAP/USSR

Hi,

I’ve got two questions

Is Celebes really still British or is that a typo?

And will this setup also work for Europe/Pacific alone?
It sounds like the Europe side leans very much towards the Allies, whereas Japan is favored in the Pacific-

The starting ressources are as follows

CHINA

Oil -
Iron 2
OSR 6

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GERMANY

Oil 6
Iron 12
OSR 19

EF
Oil 4
Iron 8
OSR 13

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ITALY

Oil 3
Iron 4
OSR 6

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IMPERIAL JAPAN

Oil 7
Iron 10
OSR 16

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BRITISH COMMONWEALTH

Oil 5
Iron 8
OSR 14

Eu
Oil 5
Iron 6
OSR 9

P
Oil 2
Iron 4
OSR 6

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UNITED STATES

Oil 8
Iron 13
OSR 18

Eu
Oil 5
Iron 8
OSR 11

P
Oil 6
Iron 9
OSR 13

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SOVIET UNION

Oil 6
Iron 6
OSR 11