Oh and you are quite right, there is no rush to take India.  I put it off until J5, as I was busy finishing off China.  Also, I didn’t keep any planes on Japan, I held back a few destroyers.  When USA had set up on Hawaii I just put a blocker in sz16 to give me an extra round of buying for the South Pacific before I had to stack Japan.  By this time I was earning about 75 per round anyway.

Evening Cow.

Almost finished my first game using this new opener, and I have to say I love it.  Much more interesting game – and I believe massively beneficial for the Axis.  I made a big mistake on G1 (don’t ask) but because America had to commit heavily to the Pacific it wasn’t as disastrous as it should have been.  I believe I could win now by flying all my air over to Moscow which is heavily stacked at the moment, but I want to try and win in the Pacific (which I am close to doing).

I can’t ever see myself doing anything other than a DOW on J1 from now on.  Thanks!

Thanks for the reply Cow.  I am definitely going to give J1 DOW a go in my next game as axis.  I’ve noticed here that people seem to combine it with a G1 barb.  Can you not still use J1 DOW in combination with G2 barb?

Thanks for the work you’ve all done on this.  Cow, can you just clarify a few things please (this is probably me being stupid):

*18) 1 carrier 1 sub 1 cruiser 1 bship 1 destroyer sz 6-> 35
*23) bship cruiser sub sz 6 -> sz 35

Have you just repeated some unit moves here?

Secondly:

*PROS:
*1)+10 IPC, which is what you make for not being at war so you are neutral on Japan income.

Isn’t this a con, as you don’t get the +10 for being at war?

Also, your purchases for J2 - I don’t seem to have enough money for??

• PURCHASE
  *airbase 2x minor factory 1 infantry or 1 airbase, 1 naval base, 1 minor factory (this means you are doing J3 calcutta THIS REQUIRES YOU TO HOLD SHAN STATE THIS TURN WHICH CAN *ONLY BE DONE IF THERE IS NO BURMA STACK AND IF MALAYA IS DEAD AND IF INDIA HAS NO MECH INF, YOU CAN KILL BURMA POSSIBLY TOO IF HE DOESN’T BLOCK YO DROP).

Again, sorry if these are dumb questions!

Evening all.  Just about to start my second game of “Global 40” shortly and my first time playing A+3.9.

I see that DOW on J2 is great, you can kill lots of the UK and set up for an India crush on J4 (maybe J3 if you opponent makes big mistakes).  However, USA would presumably declare war on axis which would in turn make Sea Lion (if it was viable that is) almost impossible, or at least very hard to hold.  If sea Sea Lion looks like it’s on, would you hold back on a J2 DOW – thus holding the USA off a bit longer?  Or if people are going for a J2 DOW, do they generally go Barbarossa?

Sorry for noob question, and I don’t mean to hijack your thread either.

It would be much appreciated if you would update these to the latest (hopefully final?) version!  I like the simplicity of these - and the NO chart is essential for keeping track of things.  Thanks again!

Thanks for the effort that you have put into these - they are fantastic!

Just wondering what people do with these exactly once they are printed?  Do you back them onto card and then laminate them?  Or do you just order them to be printed off on the internet straight onto extra thick card?  Thanks.

@Young:

I printed mine as a poster, and then I laminated it with mat-lam (low glare). I than stapeled vinyl material to a sheet of plywood and than used a spray adhesive to stick the laminated poster onto the vinyl (to prevent lifting air pockets).

Thanks!  I’ll give this a go…. although having just investigated the price of having a large copy printed off, I may have to save for a while.

Morning all.

Thanks for these high-res images, in my opinion they are the best I have come across so far.  Just a question to anyone who has had this printed off on a larger scale – what type of paper/material did you have it printed on, and how did you back it?

Thanks in advance.