Posts made by Snackbar

Do you need to buy, apart from the map, the expansion set as well in order to play global war 1939? it is quite expensive and I do not want to invest another 200 dollars before I know whether I like the game or not. Or can you manage with the 1940 standard editions and perhaps some additional 1914 units?

What A&A game is displayed in the http://www.axisandallies.org/p/event-hbgcon-may-16-18-2014/ thread?

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Yes, that will seriously weaken the allied fleet.

Also by introducing a maximum of 5 units per turn to be produced in India, the UK will have a hard time to focus on one front. If they chose not to produce anything the first few turns in India they will be overran by the Ottomans and lose their African assets as well. And the ipc they invest in the east cannot be spend in the west, so beating Germany even on Sea is much harder now. The strengtht of the UK was also to throw in 10 units in India at any time they desired, that advantage is gone as well.

Removing a France battleship and transport from the mediterranean and replacing it by a cruiser, and limiting the Indian production capacity to 5 helps a lot in balacing the game.

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I doubt it. What was the Allies income versus the Axis income?

Causing the Russian revolution without many casualties on the CP side always outnumbers the IPC gained. For example you can send the remaining Austrian army to India to support the Ottomans. In general it is better to lose German armies than your Austrian or Ottoman army

Nice summary. But what would have happened if the UK would have postponed the all out Constantinopel attack for 1-2 more rounds to increase their numbers?

I don’t agree with the two space rule change for land units. Land units in World War 1 were not mobile and if you are looking for a game with full mobility the original axis & allies WOII games are a much better choice.

However I do see the potential of limiting the capacity of producing units in India to 5. Playing UK is much harder as you have to keep producing units in India to keep the Ottomans away and also have to build a navy in the west to threat the Germans. The UK simply lacks the IPC to help the Russians in this scenario since a decisive victory against either the Ottomans in the East or against the German navy in the west is very hard to accomplish. In the two games we have played with this rule Russia Revolution has occurred.

Play with RR rules
Limit production capacity in India to 5 land units
Trade the France battleship and one transport for a cruiser in the Mediterranean and the game is balanced

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Thanks for the charts. Can you improve the quality of the reference chart? It does not look that great when printed out

@WILD:

Our experience with a kill Italy first hasn’t been to good. The CP can def against the Russians, but they are generally fighting both the Italians and French in Italy (can’t really go full tilt to Italy, and put the French on their heals). The French will activate the Albanians, and the Italians pick them up and bring them home. The French also send over the Portuguese to Rome, bulk up in Burgundy, and follow them in. They can also transport units ahead as well (or pick up a few units from North Africa) after they drop off the Portuguese. Even if the CP manage to drop Rome, they probably aren’t coming out, and the US is also now in the picture. I’m not saying it can’t work, but the allies have some tricks up their sleeves.

What was your kill Italy first strategy?

@Tyberius:

@Snackbar:

@xxstefanx see the earlier comments in this thread

Swiss is attacked by both Munich and Alsace army, from Swiss, Piedmont was next, which was the end destination of the German army in Italy as the France intervened. However by doing so, France was not able to attack Germany in the West and the Austrians were able to press through Venice, to Tuscany and Rome. Austria attacks Venice in turn one with everything possible. All, but one infantry from Vienna, are sent to aid the Italian Austrian forces as well.

Both Serbia and Romania are attacked by Austria.

Germany sents all units from Hanover, Berlin to the East, but one infantry, which moves to Munich with the fighter of Berlin. Fighter aids the German Italian contingent. All German purchases are meant for the East.

What about the rest of the Western Front?  That is a very long line to defend.  Does Germany just sacrifice that territory in order to kill italy?

Basically yes, Germany plays defensively against France. The supply-line between Berlin and the German armies will be shorter and Austria, which will be making over 40 IPC, can easily aid Germany from Vienna.

@xxstefanx see the earlier comments in this thread

Swiss is attacked by both Munich and Alsace army, from Swiss, Piedmont was next, which was the end destination of the German army in Italy as the France intervened. However by doing so, France was not able to attack Germany in the West and the Austrians were able to press through Venice, to Tuscany and Rome. Austria attacks Venice in turn one with everything possible. All, but one infantry from Vienna, are sent to aid the Italian Austrian forces as well.

Both Serbia and Romania are attacked by Austria.

Germany sents all units from Hanover, Berlin to the East, but one infantry, which moves to Munich with the fighter of Berlin. Fighter aids the German Italian contingent. All German purchases are meant for the East.

Swiss strategy is the answer. First Axis win

@KimRYoung:

Perhaps you are correct. But in this scenario Austria does not attack Swiss but Venice instead and Germany takes Swiss. I think this is a big difference.

Possibly. would need to try that. I our game though, the French still had enough reserves to send 6 units to Albania to open a frooont in the Balkens diverting Austrian and Turkish forces that way. These units could just as easily have gone to Piedmont to make it even stronger.

It looks like interesting strategies for sure, but there’s no sure game winner. I think it needs to be played more rather then theroized.

Thanks
Kim

True. The big advantage of this scenario is that Germany has mobilized a larger part of its army instead of conducting a trenches war

Take Romania on your first turn. If Russia stacks Ukraine on her turn wait (out of striking distance) for Germany to move half of his army to Galicia and move your Austrian Russian contingent there as well (possible from Budapest after a retreat). Your supply line from Vienna is very short.

Meanwhile take the northern territories with your German army, attack Sevastopol with Ottoman and conquer the Balkan.

Perhaps you will not be able to defeat the Russian army this way, but at least with the Balkan IPC gained (10 IPC) and Poland, Livonia, Karelia, Finland, Sevastopol, Belarus, Tartarstan conquered or contested you will have to worry about the Russians less per each turn passing. Russia will be down to 9-12 IPC. Your conquered territories in Russia will give you the IPC to keep this status quo since you only have to defend.

@KimRYoung:

By moving a large force to Swiss on your first turn your army is still flexible to go out all directions. If France aids Piedmont and Italy’s army there doesn’t move then you will be facing max 13 infantry, 4 artillery from Tuscany, Piedmont and Burgundy. France will need to reinforce Burgundy and Marseilles at the same turn. The good thing is that there army is spread among many countries. On the other hand you can attack Piedmont with 18-1 (loss in Swiss battle) infantry 6 artillery and one fighter.

Snackbar,
last game we played the CP tried pretty much this idea. Austria captured Switzerland on her turn, then every German that could get there moved in. It did look impressive and threatened from the central position. The French countered with moving teh army from Burgandy and fighter in to Piedmont, and the Italians reinforced. France then massed everthing else in Burgandy.

The Austrians on there own could not attack either. The Germans tried, but couldn’t make any headway either and could not get enough reinforments to the front to push through either way against a combined Italian-French force. the allies also had air superiority fighting defensivly and German losses mounted quickly.

Of course this was just one game, so another try with some variation could change the outcome, but the inital though was it looked better then it actually turned out.

Kim

Perhaps you are correct. But in this scenario Austria does not attack Swiss but Venice instead and Germany takes Swiss. I think this is a big difference.

Buy two battleships and also buy a battleship with Ottoman. If Germany attacks the UK fleet in S2 with two subs France will need to use one BS and one cruiser to destroy the German fleet to avoid the sub from submerging and attacking the two France transports taking units to aid in Africa. France can only add one BS then to defend S17. Control of S17 is essential in winning the game.

The BS for Ottoman is required to take out those two Russian cruiser and/or finish the remaining S17 allied fleet.

Next turn buy 1-2 more battleships and a transport. Battleships are your ’ sea ’ tanks. If you have sufficient you cannot be killed.