Posts made by Rhineland

I’m looking for a game don’t relaly know how to set up online any help will be greatly appreciated.

Rhineland

I have thouhgt of an idea for adding in the maltia varient.

You can have a seasonal element to the shiping so like in Winter the fighters shoot lower and in summer they do better.  So along with this there is a deck of card that determine how successful the axis shipping has gone without being discovered. So with these elements waiting when to ship is very important.

As for the cards I would liek to see

Undiscovered

Late detection

Early detection

Leaked intelligence

You could have this as a random pill or you could have the british player play these cards as they see fit.

Tell me what you think??

I would also like to say that I’m a fan of the Africa A&A idea and the concept that you have created.

I would like to add a suggestion for the game play. Hopefully replay ability as well. Have you thought about adding in Supply depots? Like when the Germans took toburke most of there fuel was stolen from the british. So have strategic places of defense which would make offense risker beacuse if the british over attacked they could lose a supply depot whihc would give new breath to the Germans.

Also have you thought about adding in a Maltia varient? I think without a Maltia phase this would not be making it historically accurate as one would hope. From my very small readings on this topic the German’s sent jsut as many tanks and planes to North Africa but a third was sent to the bottom of the mediterian. So adding in this could add to the game I think. With this you have the German suplly lines weak and you could spend a lot of your time trying to secure these supply lines for a longer war or forget about that and press then game from the get go.

I would like to suggest a Truck as a new unit. This would provide added mobility to your units. So say if they were off the road then one truck could power 2 tanks to go 3 spaces. I don’t no its just an idea. Plus this truck could tow an artliery which would add mobility to war but this could cause the truck to move less distance do to the towing of this artillery?

I tihnk that the Itilan units being cheaper and weaker is a marvelous addition. I think they should develope an A&A like this showing the national advantages of each nation.

I hope you are not annoyed with my suggestions.  I’m just very interested in this part of the war along with the early part of the Russia campigan by the Germans.  I hope to see this in stores soon.

Rhineland

What respectable Russian player is going to sit around and wait to be knocked down to 20 IPCs by round two?

I agree with you 100% that the Russian player would not sit back they wouild have to attack. This would increase the Russian money but SBR would knock down these advances with the added advantage of lengthened supply lines. Which I would think favours the German player greatly due to him being able to out produce and bring troops faster to the front. So the strategy was for GErmany to start bominb from the get go.

While Jap would slow build up their bomber fleet and start Russia with a focused push into Russia Eastern territories.

I have come to the conclusion that this is probably not the best strategy but I would like to see it tried. Its not really as bad a JEnnifer woudl make it out to be is it?

Rhineland

If you’re an economics major, you’ll know what I mean when I talk about “opportunity cost”.

Yeah the straight out dollar for dollar figure is going to make it look like its not a good stragtey on the surface. If you could focus on the Russian player with bombing and ground units then a prolonged war would be to the Axis advantage. I was also thinking that you could build more tanks and less infantry for the axis which would allow you to bring more pressure on Moscow due to the increased movement.

That was the thinking at least but I believe that is not the best strategy and some SBR on Russia are benifical but a focused plan is not a valid strategy.

Rhineland

PS Game tomorrow baby

I think I have seen the light and SBR is not bad at the right time for the Axis but it cant be the goal of your attack. The ability that it will stop Russia’s counter attack though is too valueable to not take advantage of before your main Russia assault.

This might not be the right place but is there a place to play A & A online?

Thanks Rhineland

Thanks for the response switch I enjoy your throught out replies.

I never meant to take it out and I am doing a Economcis Major at school so I was taking that into effect. SBR is targeted economic pain on the Russians so I think even if it does not pay off dollar for dollar it might still be the best use of your money. I have only played once and am talking out of my ass. If you did the 2 bomber and 3 infanty this could cause the allies to build naval protection which you are really going after Russian production.

So it would boil down to G1 they do 1 SBR adn the following turns you will be able to do 3 per turn. Replacing the bombers if need be I guess. Subsequent turns build max infanty to replenish your starved Russian front.

Japan can start boming on their 3rd turn. Normal build and stategies will be done and build one bomber on turn 2. Then wait tell turn 4 to build the next one. Your stagging grounds will be south east russian place and China.

That is what I’m going to try I think it might work if you can lengthen the game long enough.

Switch I was wondering if you saw the build for Germany what would your opening Russian build be and why?

Thanks

If you use your bomber SOLEY for SBR, then it doesn’t yield a great net bonus.

The idea is to focus on the Russia production and keep him under 10 dollars after turn 3. Which will provide Germany with the need for less infantry and more tanks.

The question that must be answered in this strategy can Germany support the airforce and maintain the eastward push? Can Japan put that much money into Airforce and still keep a lot of pressure on the Allies?

I think this is possible but I have not played it and am itching to try it.

This will leave Japan open to an IC in India and a IC America Asia.

Once I play a game like this I will let you guys know how it turns out.

Rhineland

I agree with everything uou said except you are looking at it as purely a economic stand point. I know that this will cause the axis a little less streaking force on the ground but they will also be able to cripple the Russian defences through limiting there builds and counter attacking ability. So I was thinking in a few turn you could limit the russian player to around 18 dollars then have them being bombed each turn of the axis. This will cause the player to be focused on in able to counter attack. Once this happens you can switch to more German tanks which would also increase youir counter attack in the west and your mobility and attack in the East.

I think this stragey will force the allies hand and it will allow the axis to build less infanty which along with the money taken from the allies will make the bombers viable. It adds more luck I will agree but I think it could pay off.

Isn’t this a game of the axis forcing the game and allies wanting to lengthen it and use their IPC advantage? If that is so they don’t you agree that even if it is not economically the most viable it is benifical to target the allies country you are wishign to kill?

Thanks for your response and I hope my reply has added something of value.

Rhineland

Hello all

I have enjoyed reading all your posts on this game the last week and respect your opinions so I was wondering if anyone has tried this strategy. Anyway here it is I have only played once and with two noobs but I think this could work.

Germany’s opening move is to make as much damage on the GB as possible without losing its bomber. Building standard army builds to focus on Russia. Africa will be feed with only 1 tank and 1 art from southern Europe. The key for German is to delay the allies as many terms then make hit and runs with German army to wittel away his “meat shield” so that once both Japan and Germany start bombing Caucus and Russia each turn he will not be able to feed his army.

Japan is focusing on attacking the Russian stack in Asia. So it will hit singawe prepare for a major attack into northern Asia. Then cannibalize the Japanese islands for an attack on India. So this should provide Japan with a base to launch bombers in a few turns.

So basically the strategy calls for more money into airforce to crible Russia economy and make it easier to roll across asia.

Has anyone tried this and to what success? Thanks to those that reply.