Posts made by valthonis

You know you guys could always build one for far less.  :)

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/maximum_pc_builds_a_multitouch_surface_computer

Mostly through a combination of very poor US rolls and incredible Italy rolls, Italy took over all of Africa and took the US Midwest. 
Italy dice attacks were on fire, even when they were helping the Germans attack USSR, Italy bowled through Russian lines like nothing.

Normally we’d both think the dice were loaded, but they came with the game!

There is a “Axis and Allies: Deluxe” forum on his site, but if you look at it, the last post was from sometime in 2009, but the majority of stuff is from 2007/2008, I think Deluxe was the Global plan.

I’ve been looking at this sort of thing for a while, but mostly the wall idea.
The problems I ran into were the obvious ones.

Subs, where do you glue the magnet?  :)
And you’d need enough models as chip stacking wouldn’t work unless your magnets were super super strong.

I had 4x Infantry, 6x Fighters, and 6x Tactical Bombers (Japan) attacking a China Territory that consisted of 2x Infantry.  Honestly, my forces had nothing better to do.

After many rounds of combat, I took it with only 2 Infantry and 1 Fighter left.  I probably shouldn’t have pressed on, but it was out last round to play as it was getting late and Germany had just fell with no hope of Italy rescuing them.

Not sure what they’re using, but we picked up a giant piece of lexan to cover our board.  Totally worth it, no guys tipping over on the folds of the board!

Not bad, we averaged close to 2 hours per turn, but there were 7 of us.  :)
Needless to say, we only made it the 6 full turns.

1.  Who collects income from Canada?

2.  Why does the Congo in Africa have “Administered from London”?  I thought it was assumed that the Europe side of the game is all UK and the Pacific is India, but the Congo commend confused me.

So do you have some fancy rule for Italy switching sides in the game? 
I understand the history, but not directly sure how that would work with a game.

Ooooh oooh, can we get some UK Union Jack symboled dice too?
We like playing the Europe/Pacific sides of the Global 1940 game completely seperate.  :)

I’m drawing a blank, annoying as I’m usually good with WW2 history, but what would Italy’s “proper” roundels look like?

I would totally by a set if it included ANZAC and France.
Though, I’m strange and would like a seperate “Europe” board Union Jack UK dice set too.  :)

Maybe that’s where all my dice rolls of 1 and 2 went.  I was rolling nothing by 5s and 6s as Japan yesterday.  Ugh.

I could be wrong, but that would only put the Soviet Union at war with Japan and the NO is for “War with Euro-Axis”.

Someone suggested to me over the weekend, played our first game, Axis lost (Horrible dice rolls for all Axis players), that as Japan I should have taken out the US transport in Hawaii with one of my Bombers from mainland Japan.

Makes sense as I was attacking the Phillipines anyways, but wouldn’t the bomber have to fight off all the scrambled Hawaii fighters before it could destroy the transport?

We’ve got our first game coming up this weekend and I’m curious about the US.
I’m playing Japan, but I keep hearing how ‘scary’ the US will be once it comes into the war.

But I’m I missing something?  Sure they get a very nice economy boost, but they still have to watch their spending to either side right?  Pacific versus Atlantic.

So we’ve got our first global game coming up this weekend, but there is a slight problem.
I invited many people figuring some wouldn’t make it and now I’m left with 7 players, including myself  :-o

So here’s my idea,

Player 1: UK
Player 2: US
Player 3: USSR
Player 4: Japan
Player 5: Germany
Player 6: Italy
Player 7: France, China, and ANZAC

Basically I’m hoping that extra player will be kept largely busy with ANZAC and China.  France at least at the beginning and perhaps later if it’s liberated.

Thoughts?

August 25th, 10:30am CST
Wisconsin, USA
Coolstuffinc  :lol:

I pre-ordered from Coolstuffinc earlier this month, it will be at my house tomorrow!

Awesome, maybe this time they’ll remove the figures and carboard tokens for factories/bases.
Instead, they’ll supply four number 2 pencils.  You simply draw the units on the board where you have them placed, then erase and re-draw when they move.

Not more shortage of tac-bombers and no more complaints about crappy carboard factories/bases!  Win win!    :-D