@ghr2:

@zanetheinsane:

@Deaths:

That’s just it, I did not fall for a 2 front war.
I wanted to crush France in 1 rd of die rolling, which I did accomplish, I only suffered 4 casualties.
I bought the BB rd 1 so Ge would have 2 just like UK.

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The problem was US rushed Japan on rd 5  took Korea trashed IJN Fleet and its own but unloaded like 8 tranny in Korea. IJN could do nothing to Kick them off mainland therefore provided US with landing zone for US bombers.  Nxt turn US leveled IJN IC

Your first problem: The best way for Germany to have as many battleships as the UK is to blow up all of the UK’s battleships.

Secondly, no offense to whoever played Japan, but if Japan was routed by round 5 they made some very serious mistakes. The US can’t even buy enough boats to match the IJN and get them to Japan in that time unless your Japan player did not have a very solid strategy.

Japan has enough resources to make itself a monster. Even if the US attempts to dump all of their resources into the Pacific, Japan can easily go into a defensive and hold them off.

In my opinion Japan is the hardest country for any new player to play in Global because the entire balance of the war hinges on being able to both demand America’s full attention and then defend against it as well. One mistake with the IJN can easily mean losing the entire game.

Well said!

I 2nd that!

I learned this the painful way, many losses.

very sad.

and two close up looks at the huge map, to see how much room is on this map for the pieces.

a look at table #3 (under construction) - the HUGE board

this table will someday be similar to table 1, just HUGE.  right now its still a work in progress.

a closer look at the pacific and Europe half of the boards with pieces in place

and here is the entire board with all the pieces in place and a shot of the unit trays with the pocker IPC chip in the unit trays.  we use these for our IPCs cuss they work really good and are fun to click together while thinking while waiting for your next turn.

air base and navy base tokens we use, got rid of those cheap ass thin cardboard crap things that come with the game and replaced them with cool etched ones that are small, easy to see and easy to pick up.  got them from Litko Games, just Google Litko.  they have tons of cool stuff like this for aa and other games.
and the ICs with the 3 and the 10 and the city landscape on them are just the old ICs from previous games that I took and stuck labels on that I created using a “bothers P-touch” labeler that I picked up from office depot, its already got the city scape label option built into it ant I just reduced the font until it aligned onto the IC piece the way I wanted it to.

simple and (imo ) looks cool and is way better than those dumb cardboard things.  anyway, that’s a look at what we use for those pieces.

a close look at the UK Pacific unit tray and tweaked half of the map.

I’ve observed players since this game came out, new and veteran players alike have been doing the same thing from day one this game was released - they get confused on UK Europe IPC income and UK Pacific IPC income - so I put stickers on the map and made Canada roundels into UK Euro roundels and all UK Pack roundels I stuck with a union jack, the same roundel sent with the game to track their separate income.  it works great and there is nerve a question now when new players sit down to the table where the income for UK Pac is coming from.

a close look at a unit tray (Russians - all trays are the same - of course)

the axis side of the table

a better look at the allied players side of the board with unit trays pulled out and pushed in