Posts made by Adlertag

…or maybe neutral Sweden ?

@Krieghund:

The Burma Road being open only allows the building of artillery (nothing else), and US artillery pieces are used.

Now 4 different nations will use the same artillery mold, propably 5 with France, and yet WOTC used a lot of money on a specific Russian battleship mold, and russian cruiser mold, and russian destroyer mold, none of witch will be used in any future game. Go figure.

I dont care about your personal problems, I just want next mold pic  :-)

The role of the British is cannon fodder as always. They are like speed bumbs that slow the aggressor while “The arsenal of democracy” are gearing up production.

New South Wales have an value of 2 IPC and a major IC. This is a special rule. I think the game would have been better off if NSW had an value of 3PC, and fit into the mainstream rules. It was not neccesary to have Victoria territory with 1 IPC. Who the f’‘’* will ever attack Victoria ?

As you say, it is an island. It must be treated as an island.

@Brain:

@Imperious:

I like the new repair rules because i always hated that automatic free BB hit thing without any cost. Now their is a cost!

Great!

I totally agree with that statement.

I too totally agree with that statement. I think it was Frog that first made Larry aware of this issue, and now it is fixed at last. tanks Frog

@Brain:

Why would you attack someone and not use your fighters?

Propably in a case where you dont want to kill all the enemy fleet, just weaken them, because they are in a deadzone, and after the first round of attack you want to retreat all your surviving ships to one specific sea-zone, and this can only be done in the combat move.

Just mail Greg Leeds, he is boss of the chimps

The next line must be the French.

That will make sense. Italy first, then France, then the neutrals, then China, then Germany, UK, Russia, USA, Japan.

I hope FMG will put pants on the brits. It is confusing with brits in shorts marching in arctic Norway, down the snowy mountains, in ice and cold. A wonder they did not freeze to death in my last game.

My first reaction to the grey pieces was, oh my god, is Germany in Pacific ? Then I recognized the british pattern uniform, and the matilda tank, and remembered that germans are black.

@Krieghund:

@tomekhello:

But sth is wrong, on the ANZAC set up (from the picture) you can see that there is Major IC in New South Wales, but the value of this territory is 2, comparing it to the info from fact sheet, Major IC can be built on a territory with value 3 or higher.
Am I wrong?

Welcome, tomekhello!  You’re not wrong.  All I can say right now is that it’s an exception, like the IC on Japan.

It was impossible to make NSW worth 3 IPC ? It was better to make an extra page with special rules ?

I dont care about IPC, show me pieces, man

pretty much explains why nobody outside of Singapore never heard of it

@Captain:

The recreation of Poland as a state was welcomed by the people living there, and they fought pretty darned hard against the German occupation.

I dont want to be negative, and are just curious more than anything, butt since you are a history teacher from New Zealand, did the Maori’s fight hard against the British occupation, or did they welcome the brits as liberators ? And how about the Aborigins in Australia, or the Zulu’s in South Africa, or the Indians in North America, or the black slaves from Africa that was sailed on british ships to their new home in U$A’s cotton fields and mines. Did all this natives fight against British exploitement, or did they recognize the brits as great liberators ? As I said, just curious. And I wont pull the string and ask if the Polish was happy to be liberated by allies in 1945. My country too was liberated by the Red Army, so of course we all are very greatful to comrade Stalin, our belowed hero.

Yes butt Stalin too hated jews, and that is why he killed Trotskij who was a jew. So let say Stalin and Hitler find out they got a community of interessts in the jewish threat. They did in fact make the non-aggression pact in -39 and split Poland. And before Hitler come to power in -33 German tank crews was trained in Sovjet far east. So lets say Hitler calm down and make a long term strategy, that include cooperation with clever jews like Einstein, and commies like Azana, Negrin and Stalin, in order to beat the western allies first, and deal with the jews and commies later. This is one of the oldest trick in the book, next after making fraud attacks.

Any others that have opinions?

Any ?

Will there be NO’s in this game ?

I forgott about the gold. In 1936 Spain had worlds 5.th largest gold deposit, and all this was controlled by the republic government in Madrid. Stalin fooled the spaniards to store the gold in Russia, where it would be safe from Franco and the fascists. Butt later Stalin would take the majority of the gold as payment for a few old T-26 tanks and Mosco fighters. This was way over priced.

Now if Hitler had joined the republicans in 1936, then he would have got all this gold. He would have denied Stalin this gold, and that would have weakened Stalin, since this gold later was used to pay USA for the Lend/Lease stuff, and at the same time strengthen the German military warmaking potencial. As we know, Franco did not pay for his support, since he was broke and bankrupt. Supporting Franco was a burden, butt supporting the republic was high profit.

When playing A&A, we trade territories because that pays off. Lets say Spain is worth 5 IPC. If Germany takes Spain, they collect the 5 IPC income and at the sime time denye the enemy this income, wich make it a 10 IPC difference. It is obvious that in the real world, Stalin grabbed this benefit, but unlike the A&A games this 5 IPC never poped up again after Franco liberated Spain. So from a gaming point of wiev, Hitler would have been better off if supporting the other side.