@Taffy3
If you know this will be the case just have a laptop with triple A present and update countries at the end of their turn.
If you play with a group some people will be Idle most of the time anyway and it saves doing things later.

With stacks of 20+ units cellphone shots can be tricky to recreate from.

TripleA also has the advantage of being able to continue the round from remote locations in case your next sitting is prevented by other IRL things.

As an added bonus it adds disaster recovery in case accidents happen. Dice bounce out on table, cat/kid sneaks in.

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Triple A North Africa?:

@AndrewAAGamer

Agreed, I’m worried otherwise Hasbro might sue TripleA for infringing on copyright and being an unlicensed competitor (let’s be honest, TripleA is basically competing with the physical game for time the players spend on Axis and Allies, it’ll probably be competing monetarily if it was more well known). Buying the game will (hopefully maybe) show them that TripleA isn’t a competitor, but a complement. We should reward Larry and the playtesters for developing such a fantastic game if possible.

Hard to sue a platform as TripleA does not come with the games and is used for various other games as well. But since hasbro does not want to make a decent online version of any Axis&Allies game ( the 1 on steam is crap compared to tripleA ) they cant really complain.

TripleA is great for those with little block of time or that lives far from others that play the game, not everybody can leave the board standing there for 3weeks and if you can only play 2 evenings a week for 3 hours the game might take a while

@barnee
Yea i mean germany clears TJ with other units leaving the tank behind.
And then in NCB the tank moves through TJ and into iraq.

Ofcourse the only units that move in CB and NCB are air units.

@G40NEWB said in Tank blitzing through newly conquered territory:

Is Germany able to blitz tanks through a territory it just conquered that turn? For example, using a few tanks to attack blocker infantry in Eastern Poland then attacking Western Ukraine through that newly captured territory? Please give me an example from the rule book that makes this move illegal or legal, can’t seem to find anything that specifically deals with this situation.

All combat moves are done before any combat is resolved.
All combat moves, so after you start rolling dice no more combat moves are allowed.
This situation is pretty clear, your tank cannot blitz because there is a blocking infantry in the way.

After the infantry is removed only non combat moves are available and you cannot capture new countries in non combat.

You could blitz into a friendly neutral country, as thats considered a non combat move. So if germany stands in egypt with a tank it could first clear a blocker in trans-jordan and then blizz into iraq.

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Submerging before battle?:

@Azimuth

You’re mostly correct. I can’t speak to your last scenario.

There are a ton of little “loopholes” in the rules that allow for really clever maneuvers for very specific situations, like Great Southern Germany-Yugoslavia-Romania in one turn.

I trust that the designers considered many possibilities and that they intended for such a scenario to be possible.

I doubt that many of the rules where actually designed in a way to create these kinda loopholes. They are more build this way to make the game easier to play and more structured for beginners. The loopholes are just side effects that the designers either didnt think of or didnt think people would abuse as they are kinda illogical.

You retreat abuse, well how would you do it otherwise? how can you keep track of what unit came from where? its a lot of extra problems. Its much easier just saying everything retreats to the same country.
Older versions even had the rule that no land units could retreat from amfib combat ( even ones comming from land ) just to simplify things.

This is just another 1 of these things where your not allowed to mix non-combat and combat moves to make the game easier. Otherwise you would need to keep track of the things that already moved.

Logically it makes no sence that units cannot just move during the combat move step. It actualy makes the game a lot easier and faster to play if you are mixing both phases. But you have to keep track of your moves better.

@FranceNeedsMorePower

You can use them to retake money islands and being a general nuisance to japan.

Java is just 3 moves away from your factory, if you take it that gives you 14 ipcs to spend which is 1 transport + 1 inf + 1art. Which also is your production limit and its also a pretty decent attacking force.
US can clear blockers if needed and Anzac can just move in and take the island.

Japan doesnt always have transports nearby or land forces to take it back so its a hassle for them.

@dazedwit said in Is killing Sea Zone 110 an absolute must?:

@shadowhawk

wow look at you

I said I’m testing out a new strategy. Didn’t say you needed to do it.

Just pointing out where your “strategy” might go wrong.
And quite interested how you get 1/9 chance happening regularly.

@The-Captain said in In how many hours can you complete a G40 game:

To all Axis & Allies Global 1940 players:

1. How long time does it take to complete an OOB Global 1940 board game - face-to-face - with either 2, 3, 4, or 5 players ?

2. How long time does it take to complete a modified OOB Global 1940 board game - face-to-face - with either 2, 3, 4, or 5 players ?

Captain

Depends on the skill and experience of the players, with 2 or 4 players with each playing their own countries so no 2 generals for each country it will take 12-16 hours i recon. After that you might not have won the game but it becomes so obvious that 1 side might as well resign.

Tournamen rules game can be done in about 8-10 hours, with 2 players a bit faster with 4 as you can play parallel.

Assuming that you can do quick combat rolls ( so 4 colors ) and have more then the 12 dice that come with the game. Having your dice pool to reflect the units and just removing them once your doing fighting saves a lot of time in the long run.

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Is there a world champion for this game?:

@shadowhawk

That’s why Iike low luck. More predictable. Perhaps that would be the way to go for a hypothetical world championship.

True but then that does not test a players skill to addapt to changing situations.
If all combat is pre-determined you never have unplanned situations.

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Why is surrender not an option in the original game?:

@surfer

I don’t make that assumption. My view is that since surrender wasn’t explicitly mentioned in the rules it’s not allowed.

Every game out there basically allows 1 of the players to give up. Its a game if you think you lost you can give up.
What would you do force a player to continue playing?
Its not in the rules because its so obvious it doesnt need to be in the rules.

@The-Captain said in In how many hours can you complete a G40 game:

To all Axis & Allies Global 1940 players:

1. How long time does it take to complete an OOB Global 1940 board game - face-to-face - with either 2, 3, 4, or 5 players ?

2. How long time does it take to complete a modified OOB Global 1940 board game - face-to-face - with either 2, 3, 4, or 5 players ?

Captain

Depends on the skill and experience of the players, with 2 or 4 players with each playing their own countries so no 2 generals for each country it will take 12-16 hours i recon. After that you might not have won the game but it becomes so obvious that 1 side might as well resign.

Tournamen rules game can be done in about 8-10 hours, with 2 players a bit faster with 4 as you can play parallel.

Assuming that you can do quick combat rolls ( so 4 colors ) and have more then the 12 dice that come with the game. Having your dice pool to reflect the units and just removing them once your doing fighting saves a lot of time in the long run.

@DallinD

Japan not attacking round 1 also has a similar strategy. You can focus on china for a turn and if you plan on a sea-lion attack with germany and the german turn went well you might want to prevent the US from doing anything for a few rounds.

With Sea-lion as a viable alternative and Japan in striking position but not yet at war anzac and the UK have to be carefull while the US has to decide how to split its money if they spend all on europe to maby counter sea-lion or liberate fast then japan can really mess around.

@SuperbattleshipYamato

If the axis dont have a baltic fleet you could even go there with russian forces, could suicide UK units to remove the germans mostly. Taking it with russia removes 10german ipcs and adds 11 russia ipcs. Thats a 7 inf difference each round.

It does take away some initial forces from the defence of moscow but you can ferry UK and US planes faster and you build them back pretty fast.

@ampdrive said in Scrambling Rule Question - Sealion:

@simon33 I think we all could agree that all sealion plans are not alike.I prefer to not be “all in” with sealion when I make my G1 buy.I’ll buy all air (or maybe 1dd+2 air) and access how G1 goes and what US and UK do before commiting to sealion or not.When Italys 1st turn is underway I know if it’s a go time for sealion.

True i guess i assumed a lot use the same thing for sea-lion and turn1.

Wondering how you attack the UK fleet with your buy, guess you also make some changes to my moves. I tend to use the BB to soak 1 damage and make sure its safe so it can be repaired.

@simon33 said in Scrambling Rule Question - Sealion:

It makes no sense to buy an aircraft carrier round 2. Better to spend the money on transports. You may buy an AC round 3 for your surviving planes to defend your transports. Also, committing to sea lion round 1 also makes no sense. Should only be done if UK leaves itself weak.

Makes sence to buy the AC round1 with either 2 transports or a destroyer + sub.
Fake out the sea-lion,
Enable more planes to attack the UK fleet,
Have a backbone for the baltic fleet.
Have the option to move into the med round 2 and help there.

The UK has to consider a sea-lion but that fleet can be used in so many ways, if they dont build/have enough airforce you can convoy them round 2 and possible round 3.
That fleet can be quite annoying untill the allies build up enough airforces to deal with it, but thats with every fleet in the game airforces will destroy them eventually.

@simon33 said in Scrambling Rule Question - Sealion:

@shadowhawk Why are you assuming that you have an aircraft carrier?

Taking 1-2 air units out of the land battle can make it more hazardous.

Most Sea-lion builds have an AC to protect the transports. It depends a little on what you do round 1 but you need some sea protection to avoid the scramble or a counter attack against your fleet.

If you have decent dice round 1 and you do it by the book sea-lion is pretty safe for germany.

You will have 20land units and a lot of air units, the Uk can only buy 2 times and starts off with limited forces at home. And the UK has to also account for other plans round1, buying only infantry basically sets the UK back more then a round in many other areas of the map.

If you strat bomb them and attack the airbase the UK has to repair some of the damage, so they can build even less, if they dont repair the airbase then well no scramble.

Sea-lion will be won by germany anyway its just a mather of how much losses they will have and how hard they can recover on the east front.

And the position of the US, bombing the AB should not make a huge difference, in a sea-lion italy is better used to take over gibraltar so the US also has to take that which might slow them down a round.

That or using their forces to push ahead in the middle-east before the UK can recover.

Bombing the Airbase even with 2 escorts if the UK has its airforces home you are going against 4-6 fighters and the Airbase AA gun.

Keeping the german surface fleet alive and having the extra carrier makes a much bigger difference, UK can only scramble 3 fighters so even against a BB-cruiser-carrier they might even lose, 1 or 2 german air units make the scramble not worth it.

@dazedwit

As germany you dont have the option really, if russia plays defensive and stacks you either have 1 big stack or get taken out piece by piece.

If they really stack leninggrad hard you just go there first with your stack and take out the bigger part of their army.

1 big stack cannot really be held by russia, so soon you birdcage them and then you reinforce from 3 factories closeby where russia has only income for a few infantry.

@dazedwit said in The Afrika Korps:

@Afrikakorps

I have new ideas for this strategy.

G4 Sealion with all out economic warfare of convoys and SBR starting G1. The amount of money you can remove in first 3 turns is most of their income - lot less inf defending London. (The way you get there is up to you but new strat I want to try - buy AB and destroyer - you can also buy a trns or carry over the money. 2 subs to 106 - or if you’re frisky, one sub, and save the other to convoy 119;
2 subs to 91 to take out UK cruiser;
1 sub, 1 ftr to 109;
1 BB, 3 Tac, 2 ftr to 110

What would stop me from scrambling 4 fighters in SZ109, just wondering there is a verry good chance of killing both fighter and sub for just 1 destroyer ( or 1 fighter )

The BB in SZ110, can be attacked by the UK fleet of 1 BB 1 cruiser 1 destroyer with 3 fighters and 1 bomber. Could remove the bomber to do taranto, if you want to scramble 3 fighters in defence thats ok with me.

As UK gibastion is not an option now but you have a working BB in the area so id love to trade that for the german BB and a bunch of airforce.

Also 110 thats 1 BB 3 tacs and 2 fighters, so 3x@3 and 3@4 against the UK+scramble of 2x@3 and 4x@4 not a bad gamble for the UK to take either.

The whole defenceless transport rules should be revised as now they still dont fix the issue if long tedious combat.
Currently if i got 100 transport and the enemy attacks with 1 sub, but i have an airbase and 1 fighter i can scramble. At that point i do have a unit that can shoot back so the rule does not apply and the enemy has to make 100kills with the sub.

Or if i got 20AA guns and the enemy attacks with 1 mech. Do we really want to roll dies till he hits 20x a 1?

Just make the rule simple.
If at the start of a round of combat the defender has units left that can be attacked and the defender has no units that can hit any attacking units then the units without combat value are removed from play.

So no more rolling dice to hit AA guns, and no more 2 subs hitting a AC + figher + 10 transports having to kill every transport manually.