Honestly your the Bob Ross of board games Just super chill and I don’t even have global 40 I’ve played 1941 once and I love these videos this man deserves more subs
We've been using this basic strategy for a few years, and so we did develop a way around it. Turn one begin with a credible German Sealion build as in a carrier and some other warships or planes. If they do not respond just do Sealion and the end result is the same. Make sure you take and hold Southern France with Germany to build German naval forces in the Med. In all likelihood Britain will respond by maxing out defense on the UK, so instead of all the 8 or 9 Sea Lion transports build a strong warship navy with maybe 3-4 transports with the aim to take Gibraltar on turn 3. Meanwhile, you've been making all efforts to clear out the Med with the Luftwaffe and what Italian ships remain, since Britain always wipes the floor with them. You can usually clear the Mediterranean by turn 3, if not 2. By turn 3, you're German fleet is either outside of Gibraltar and you've taken it, or it's inside the Med. because Italy has taken it for you. Either way, this expensive navy will be on the other side of Gibraltar before the Americans attack because the Japanese do not instigate them. The Japanese, however will likely have a good easy game because the Americans tend to overreact to Germany and go all in in the Atlantic. It isn't all overreaction, though, since you're fleet poses a real threat to DC. For that matter, the UK has to continually make sure that you cannot reach London either by building a comparable navy or lots of infantry that will never leave London. Plus, England will barely collect any national objective and will lose lots of money overseas, so building an offensive navy is difficult for them. Since you can reinforce Gibraltar from Southern France, they will likely never take it. Meanwhile, Italy and some German forces are beating the crap out of Africa, getting those rarely achieved missions and making mad money. If Italy has all of its objectives it is pulling in 21 IPCs on top of territorial gains, and Germany will have a land unit in Egypt. Sure, the Americans can land in Morocco, but who cares? That is the slowest route taking the cheapest territory they can take, and you can take their Operation Torch out at your leisure with your German/Italian Mediterranean Juggernaut. Russia will see all this and likely be aggressive, but they don't tend to have the ability to breach German forces even with the German investment in sea units and transported infantry. Not to mention, Italy is actually pulling in real money and can act as home guard both on the French/Danish coast and the southern Russian front. Again, Japan is going buckwild because it usually only has any push back from ANZAC and India, which is paltry. It can gobble up some of the harder to touch American missions if the Americans have really turned their backs on them. The Americans have to constantly buy warships to out do your German fleet, so it is hard for them to get the transport and troops they need to take Gibraltar or do significant harm to the coast. It doesn't work every time, but it usually works, or at least shuts down the Middle East factory strategy. There are ways around it, and I know Japan waiting out to attack is out of vogue, but it seems to work more than not. Food for thought, anyway. I've really enjoyed your videos, by the way! Just found them this winter.
Paul Brown same, i use this strategy or a slightly modified version of this, with a pretty high success rate, because as you said even with germany heavily investing in navy, you can almost always hold or push into russia, granted at a slower pace, which ends up letting japan run wild, and in my opinion the italians usually ending up making or breaking it for the axis
I feel like a strong German naval presence is the key here as stated above. I tested this out before to much success. Then my less experienced cousin decided to go the German navy route on game and incidentally it was the game he finally beat me. What ends up happening is the German navy is trying in the North Atlantic and can end up convoying GB. For all it’s money in the island. All this naval investment let’s the Russian front develope into a stale mate somewhere around the Pripyat but japan has the freedom to own the pacific because the allies are forced to deal with The German navy. What it does is keep the allies from landing by buying a whole lot of expensive warships in the Atlantic or they can’t defend the land bridge because the German navy could just throw everything at it and set the allies back. Several turns of building the land bridge and by the time they do manage to gain the upper hand Japan will have become an ominous threat. Seems counter intuitive to build big German navy but if you think about it you probably will be putting planes and infantry on land in the west already. Just invest most the money in the navy. Those planes can land in carriers and protect your navy. I’m really starting to lean into the consisten investment of axis navies in the Europe theatre. You just have so much control rather than being pushed in the back foot into defensive mode. I think many people are tempted to push the German navy into the Mediterranean but this is a mistake. Convoy and bomb GB for as long as you can. Then pull back and throw your entire airforce at whatever landing force.
For Taranto raid, it might be worth keeping a destroyer alive in place of a fighter, just so the Italians can't get a lucky shot with a surprise shot with their sub on and trap your fighters on your carrier and get totally hosed on the counter-attack.
I've watched a few of your A & A vids and i have never played it. I did purchase A & A 42, 40 pacific & Europe though just the other day. Your videos among many other avid A & A players on youtube have created a huge desire to get this to the table with friends. I also enjoy your commentary in these vids!
Quick question GeneralHandGrenade. What do you do when facing a Sealion threat? This strategy sounds wonderful, however it seems obsolete if you can't defend London from the Germans.
My first turn I build exclusively on London regardless of what the Germans do. If the Germans look like they are going Sealion then I will also build some on turn 2. If it's obvious that they are going (like build 10 transports) then all of turn 2 build in London. Like anyone I all I can do is hang on for dear life if they attack London. The strategy that I showed here is what I would do if they don't do a Sealion attack. I would still do much of the same things in the Med and the Middle East but without the complex and the naval base if they went Sealion. The onus now will be on the Russians to make them pay for not attacking them in full force.
Thank you so much. I'll let you know how I'm doing as the Americans once my global game is done... Had my huge fleet sunk in Sea Zone 91, and the Italians are running buck wild over Africa and soon into the middle east. Japan is making very good money, while the Germans are going full force against the Soviets.
Hey General, dropping the idea also here. Thx for your great work. Did you ever thought on combining Siredblood‘s ANZAC-Train strat with your ME? Instead of building the UK factory in Persia take Iraq. Let Persia get conquered with 1ANZAC Inf from egypt and start bolster India or Russia with 2 Nations. Anybody tried this already? Thanks for your ideas on that and keep the good work going! Cheers from Germany ;)
Love the strategy, the only thing that I don't like is that the German battle ship is allowed to scape to safety. That same battle ship could come back to haunt the U.K. later with a possible Sea Lion Operation..
We have house rules that state if you fly a plane over a AA gun, they get a shot. I am also one to adjust the rules for a modicum of reality. Fighters from Britian to defend that part of the Med isn't something that should be able to happen by flying over so much enemy territory freely. (Thus the AA rules we use as a deference to that.)
I feel that airplanes only fly over AA because they are attacking the acreage in and around the AA guns, but non combat flights wouldn't be flying near the targets surrounded with AA guns and should always be out of range, but fighter interceptor rules would seem to allow a single round Ariel combat depending on the writing of the interception rules.
Hi GHG. I noticed in the Calcutta crush video you mentioned you would bring the transport from FEC to Ethopia. Does this mean you abandoned middle earth?
No I haven't. If you try to make exactly the same moves every time then your opponents will eventually find a way to counteract your plan. I still try to get the Middle East each game but sometimes it is delayed for a turn or 2 depending on what is happening in the game. This video is a demonstration of how I would ideally like to accomplish this strategy but all strategies require you to be able to react to circumstances of the game.
I like the flexibility that creates... I'm surprised you didn't take out the German sub & battleship with that destroyer and whatever fighters were left in uk
GHG - I'm having a very tough time in TripleA getting this strategy to work. B6-7 i only have around 4 Mech/4 Tank + a good amount of fighters (8-9 or so) even in striking range on Russias southern flank. The Germans/Italians really just pour it on....Russia seems doomed no matter what.
14:20 Just to be sure: it seems to me that you're moving air units into Greece, which at turn one is still a friendly neutral to the Allies. But the rules state that one can only move LAND units into a friendly neutral territory, so I think this is not a legal move. Your air force can only move into this territory one round later, after the territory has become UK controlled, providing you shipped some land units into it. But of course, this is just my humble interpretation of the rules.
alwetende The fighter wasn’t landing there. He was in the adjacent sea zone taking part in the Taranto Raid against the Italian ships. I just set him there so I could fit everything. That fighter has a legal landing spot on the carrier.
Hi GHG! How would it change the UK's turn (if at all), if they either don't have the cruiser in SZ 91 or there's a priority they want to use it for such that they can't send it into the Med?
What's the reasoning behind leaving a lone infantry in alexandria? I'm just thinking Italy is going in that direction either way, but doesn't have enough there to blitz onto Egypt anyway, and that infantry would have better odds of doing game defensively in Egypt then alexandria. Wouldn't it be better to move him back as well?
Why are AA-guns stacked? It sounded like it was an advantage. I thought only one could fire, but fire at every attacking aircraft. Remind me of the unit pls
Each gun can have up to 3 shots on the first round of combat. You can only fire at a plane once. If you had 7 planes and 3 AA guns then you would get 7 shots in total. If you had 2 guns then you would only get 6 shots. 1 gun would be only 3 shots. They can also be chosen as casualties during combat.
Why not use the destroyer and 2 fighters in Britain to kill the German battleship? Letting it escape doesn’t make sense. Without it the Germans need to add addl units to accompany their transports in a sea lion.
I know this is an old video, but wouldn't building a factory in Persia not be allowed? I thought the rule for factories was you can only place them in provinces you originally owned. I'm by no means as experienced as you so if there's anything I'm missing I'd love to know about it. I have a game this weekend and I'm determined to win!
@@primroselane1 I see where I made my mistake. You can only upgrade minor factories on provinces you originally owned. No rule against placing them. Thanks for the response your videos have been great!
My UK strategy usually works well against top level players. It involves sending the UK Pac trans to Africa with 1 inf and 1 art. Put them into Ethiopia with the mech in Egypt and +1 inf in Sudan, I usually send the tac bmbr as well and ignore Italy's navy. EXCEPT the destroyer and trans at Malta, send 1 plane from Malta and 1 destroyer to take care of them. Then when it's non combat move time, you can rescue the man and aa gun in Malta and put them in Egypt. With the trans in the red sea, accompanied with an escort for protection. Then you don't have to buy a factory on Egypt on rd 1. I tend not to buy a factory for Egypt for a while. As it can be captured and I sometimes manage to let Italy get into Egypt, build a factory, then I recapture. My UK buy rd 1 includes, 1 trans for S.Africa to take the 2 men there to Iraq on rd 2. I usually buy a couple of men (2/3) for UK and something naval at Canada, or an extra fighter on London, if Sea lion is threatened. I send the plane at Gib to London and build up the task force at Canada, ready to capture Gib back from Italy, or to reinforce London. These can also be used to take Brazil for UK, if US is frozen out for 3 rds. But this can be a distraction, so it's non imperative. The 1 man goes for neutral Iran and I capture Iraq with amphibious assault and support from Egypt on rd2. Making full use of the naval bombardment. Then a factory can go there on rd3, to support Egypt, India and Russia. My transports work their way back to S.Africa to ferry men to and fro, to the mid east and further towards India, when Japan gets too strong. So on Rd2 you have 2 trans with 2 cruisers ready to attack Iraq and 1 trans at Egypt can go back to S.Africa, ready to pick up 2 units on rd3, that we bought on rd2. UK Pac can build 1 trans on rd1, to get a money Isle, if it makes him feel better. But as long as you get Java with Anzac and put your 3 planes there on rd1. Its very hard for Japan to dislodge you and the planes will make their way onwards to India. Sometimes I ignore Java though if Japan looks like he can kill all my planes. I send 1 plane from Aus, yes it will reach Malaya, Siam and it's important to try to hold Malaya on rd1, for Anzacs bonus, although you may need to declare on Japan with UK to ensure Anzac gets his bonuses. Usually Allies get a bid and the minimum I can work with is 11, 1 UK Dst off Canada and1 Anzac inf on N.Guineau, some people ban Anzac putting a man on N.Guineau though. I try to work Anzac's 2 men in Egypt towards India...gradually, or they can go on a UK trans if there's 1 spare. Then they can possibly link up with Anzac's air power, much later on in the game. Anzac can also get Iran, instead of the UK. But I've only done this once, so it's an unproven strategy at the moment. These are the basic plans for my UK strategy, allowing for variations and flexibility. There are some other things you need to do, to coordinate all the allied countries and this is the essential ethos in my plan, team work. I will refrain from being too specific, because there's too many variables and the UK, basically has to react, to the axis moves and play defensively. But the one area UK can be more aggressive, is Africa and mid east and my plan guarantees, allied control in these areas. But there is still much work to win the war. I call my strategy the 15 rd plan, because I used to die in rd15 a lot. I also call it the plane plan, as it involves building and supplying planes, between the allied players.
Nice stratagey, but a very risky one. On turn 1 Germany destroys your fleet, trun 2 it deals horible damage to production facility and airbase to disable scrumble. Turn 3 8-9 transports with tanks and infantry + 8-10 aircraft + bismark land in London. If you fail to beat them and Itally have fleet to complete their missions and gain huge amounts of cash. And you can't even use factories after London falls... This plan can turn into disaster easily. It is still an interesting plan to test though. Thanks for sharing it.
@@flashgordon6670 Not sure what tripleA is... Some sort of online version of A&A people use to avoid human interaction while playing? It doesn't make sense too me, or perhaps, I'm just too old for this. The key reason to play A&A is to gather your friends around the table and have a great time together. Remove this and it becomes waste of time.
Hi GHG, love your work mate keep it up. Quick question, I tried this strategy recently and the capture of Iraq failed T1 because I was unable to support the amphib from Egypt with the aircraft from India because UK europe and UK Pacific have seperate turns. How do you get around this? Thanks in advance
I find this strategy very compelling and sound. However I would suggest that the factory be built in Iraq, because I'm just a little confused here. You took the tank and mechanised infantry from Alexandria and Egypt to Iraq, so that would be taken by UK Europe. But since you moved the infantry from West India to East Persia, and the infantry and artillery from India to Persia, wouldn't that make both Persia and Eastern Persia UK Pacific territory? UK Europe could not, then, build a factory in Persia and UK Pacific could not afford it. So the factory would have to be in Iraq, which I would personally prefer anyway because it's one territory closer to Egypt, while it is the same as Persia in regards to naval units. There must be some rule regarding whether UK Europe or Pacific owns a conquered territory depending on whose units did the conquering, because it seems hardly fair that Indian troops could be used to make money and seize territory for UK Europe. I mean it's not like you could take Thailand and give it to UK Europe and build a factory there, so I think it wouldn't be legal to do in Persia too. Quibbling aside though I think it's ultimately immaterial to the strategy because Iraq is just as good, and India could get another two IPCs out of it.
I felt rather challenged myself by this strategy and took it upon myself to beat it as the Axis since somehow GHG couldn't think of a way for the Axis to win against Middle Earth. All I had to do was employ a J1 Pearl Harbor attack as well as conducting GHG's own German strategy 'Afrikakorps' and the game was won by Japan by round 7. To make a long story extremely short, it's kinda sad that GHG nor anyone else could find a way to counter this and what's ironic is the fact that GHG knew the counter... Japan taking 6 victory cities. I guess that must've flown under the radar for alot of people.
As always, a strong focus on Germany first opens the door to Japan to run wild. There has to be some balance here and the UK has to do something to restrain Japan, so it only makes sense that this would the natural counter.
@@LordClaremorris Indeed. I'm currently developing a UK strategy that involves sending a navy over to India as well as an airforce to challenge the Japanese and I've found decent success with it.
@@ryanjw15 I tried one game concentrating all the UK naval units in the Med and Indian Ocean around India with the idea of striking either Japan or Italy, since I could move three sea spaces with a naval base and was out of reach of either for the time being. I still think it was a good idea, but I bungled the execution and ended up getting punished on both sides lol.
@LordClaremorris yeah the UK is without a doubt the hardest formula to nail down. There's so much stuff you gotta do to tip the favor of the game to the Allies which is why I think its the hardest nation to play. I try to take Norway by turn 3 as the British and Finland turn 4.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if Italy takes Sudan and Alexandria doesn't it prohibit the UK Europe from getting their IPC bonus because they have to keep control of all of their original territories? If so how would you change the spending for turn two if the IPCs went from 37 to 32?
Question: Great video, by the way. However... you didn't explain why you would leave German ships off the coast of UK vs. sending planes down down to Med? or maybe I just missed that the way you were explaining the strategy?
The German boats off the UK have are no threat to UK as long as there are not transports. With all of the German planes you can't build much of a navy up there in the UK so the only way you can defend the island is by doing it with ground troops and the few planes that you have left on the island are essential in that defence. I don't want to lose those planes taking out boats that are of no threat to me.
@@primroselane1 I would use the dd from 109 plus 2 ftr to take out the damaged german bb and sub.Also in your experience does Italy take out fr fleet in sz93 on its 1st turn?
Hi General! Always gorgeous videos, thanks a lot! Although that Tàranto thing (please forget Torònto for a sec.) with aircrafts coming strait away from England, simply doesn't work! When the Brits take off from London you must to count Sea Zone 110 as a first movement (AAE1940IIEdition pag 29). So here is the complete best flight route from England: I Sea Zone 110 > II Normandy & Bordeaux > III Southern France > IV Sea Zone 93 > V Sea Zone 95 > VI Sea Zone 97. We have 6 movements in total, so you are not going to sink our beloved Regia Marina...cheating! Even using the air base bonus +1 movement (very interesting feature btw), Fighters / Tac 4 + 1 mov. and Strat 6 + 1 mov...definitely that's not enough Gentlemen! Please let me know if i'm wrong.
Sea Zone 110, Normandy, Paris, Northern Italy, Sea Zone 97. That's 5 spaces. The fighter has a legal landing space on the Carrier. In this edition of the game the only thing you can't fly over is a neutral territory. Other editions you wouldn't be able to fly over certain units but not this game.
Thanks for the explanation, so in this version you can fly over an enemy territory with AAA Units, without consequences! I didn't expect it, that's why the Northern Italy shortcut was out of question for me! Well..of course i was joking about the cheating. However AAA units operating only against direct attack it's quite odd. Another very inaccurate aspect is the war starting point for Italy: the Map roughly describes the operational situation on 10th of May 1940, at that point Italy was neutral. So why don't give to Italy the opportunity to declare war on her first turn? With 10 IPC when you play after a much bigger enemy such as UK..every A&A player knows that it will not end well. And of course, being neutral until the her first Combat Move Phase will allow to Italy just some defensive adjustments.
How about the number of units that you can produce in South Africa. I see only two IPC and I'm wondering if it is still possible then to produce 3 units from there?
My first axis and allies campaign was yesterday I was France UK, Russia, and anzac, my brother America and China, and our friend was running the axis. I got so soundly whooped that I'm looking for strategy guides to see where I went wrong, and the problem was clearly the dice. The first 2 turns of game, UK/France didn't roll a single hit on anything. Germany turn one sub attacked the cruiser and all my convoys. I tried to reinforce Alexandria, and the Italian fleet sank the whole Mediterranean UK, then turn 2 landed Cairo and obliterated Africa. It was a mess
You can't place Major IC's on territories not originally owned. You can Minor IC's in them like I did. There are different rules for different A&A games, make sure you're quoting the proper rulebook for the game (in this case Global 40). Thanks Mark.
If you scrambled your planes I would throw everything I had planned out the window and do a Sealion. Without those planes you literally cannot defend against a Sealion, period.
I like to leave them there as long as possible to prevent a small scale amphibious assault by Japan. That will provide ANZAC with their National Objective and 5 IPC's. At some point Japan will commit a larger scale amphibious assault tying up a number of resources for one turn. That or you can also wait for a chance for a counter-attack on Shan State with the Malayans and a few fighters from India which, in conjunction with a counter-attack from Burma to Yunnan, will keep the Japanese out of range for their fighters to escort bombers on a strategic bombing mission.
I disagree with GHG. Move them to Shan State. If you evacuate Malaya, Japan needs to use a transport to take Malaya and other transports to hit Shan State. At the very least, his main force will have to hit Shan State which is easier to counter attack. If you are holding Yunnan then the next thing to hold is Malaya. That's when you need a few mobile units to retake Malaya more easily, or at least threaten to.
I said as long as possible to dissuade them from attacking Malaya quickly. That doesn't mean that I wouldn't move them once the Japanese navy is down in the South Pacific in full force. When it comes down to losing them to Battleships and Cruisers it's time to get out. If you make it easy for them while they have other targets then they can just move 1 infantry in to take over instead of waiting until they have force. Remember that's worth 5 IPC's for ANZAC and they don't have easy access to more income.
Can unit move in the turn of there teammates?? For example: french destroyer in seazone 72 and 2 anzac infantry in Egypt. Can they move in the turn of UK?
Do you ever consider attacking Japan with Uk/Anzac if there is no J1 and there are enough tempting targets to wipe out? I know it’s a little risky for them to come at you with no US help but them not going J1 might mean the same thing anyways.
Hi GeneralHandGrenade, I used your middle earth strategy successfully in the last game against my friend. I built 2 factories in the Middle East (Persia & Iraq). Afterwards I invaded Turkey with the Russians, opening that route to the British to send in forces in the German territory. At the same the US attacked Spain opening a second front. The game is still going on, but I think Germany will be forced to surrender soon (far before Japan can come to their aid). So thanks for the good tips!
Really sound strategy. Good video. I have a rules question. can you build the factory turn1 on Persia? Persia is not conquered, it is liberated/walked on. I guess no as you must own the area start off turn to build there?
I'm pretty sure the rule says that you need to control that nation at the beginning of your turn before you can build a factory or land a plane there. While it is a friendly neutral it is still a separate nation.
Makes sence. In the Tripple A you can do it and installations are a bit different (you always build them without owning the factory start of turn). We allowed it once and it was game over trying to take Moscow. Fighter + mech and sometimes more built in Persia every turn 2 onwards. Also a fighter can fly Persia-Moscow in one move via the Caspian sea...
I have a question, the rules are that the money of the uk is separated in the Europe UK and the Asian UK, if i build a industrial complex in persia, am i able to buy soldiers from both Uk or only the Uk that i‘ve bought the complex?
you can’t put a industrial complex in a country or territory that isn’t your original country or territory. you can only put them in the county’s and territory’s that have your marker printed onto the board unless you make exceptions with house rules
You must be referring to another version of the game. I encourage you to read the rules again. Your statement would be correct if we were talking about a Major Complex, but no such restriction applies to a Minor Complex.
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So, are you allowed to place the factory in Persia using UK money when the territory was taken by Far East forces? I thought whomever takes the property (UK from Africa or Far East from India) gets the IPCs and owns the territory....you took Persia with Far East but placed the UK control marker on it, I think it should be a Union Jack.
The Europe UK and the Pacific UK are the same nation in every way except that they have separate economies. You purchase, repair damage, and place units separately but once the units are on the board they are all one nation. If you place anything on the Europe side of the board such as the factory in Persia, it must come from the UK Europe economy. If you repair a naval base on the Pacific side of the board then the money must come from UK Pacific, etc. The units themselves though all fight together and defend together as one. They can move around the entire board as they wish but when they conquer a territory that territory goes to the economy on that side of the board. I hope that helps.
This move is highly illegal... there is no path that allows the fighters to get there from UK without jet fighters, as moving into the sea unit around Britain is the first move, therefore the plan has nowhere to land
14:05 to 14:50 explains the move perfectly. The fighter from London can go 5 spaces from an air base. 1. Sea Zone 110 2. Normandy 3. Paris 4. Northern Italy 5. Sea Zone 97 where there is a British carrier providing a legal landing space. In the rules of Global 40 there is nothing short of a neutral territory that a fighter can't fly over with no consequences. I appreciate your enthusiasm but you will need to learn the rules if you want to become a better player. I recommend studying the rule book and becoming an expert on the rules. By knowing them inside and out you can find new ways to create and execute strategies. Here is another resource you can use as well; ru-vid.com/group/PLXHm3hvGKezgIi3nkuYPWoBSG0xVyaFE4
@@primroselane1 Well played, sir. Was looking at my crowded map from all angles and still couldn't see how it worked. I must've missed the explanation in the video, I appreciate your response! Luckily my brother lost his entire Italian naval fleet without their help anyway, but still, much appreciated
If an Indian British troop takes Persia does the IPC value go to Euro or Pacific Britain? I feel the explanations for the split economy are a little fuzzy on the issue
It's actually quite simple if you look at it this way; The UK is one nation with 2 economies. What that means is that they move and fight as one nation. The only thing that they do separately is purchase and place units. Once those units are placed there is no distinction where they come from. All territories captured on the Europe side of the board (including Persia) count towards the UK Britain economy. All territories captured on the Pacific side of the board count towards the UK India economy. It makes no difference where the units came from that captured that territory because they were all one army once they were placed on the board. In fact, it wouldn't even matter if London had fallen and then troops from India captured Persia. You MUST count that towards the UK Britain economy even if they aren't collecting an income.
I believe that it is the units i think he took the tank from the uk and the artillery and inftary from the union jack so persia would go to the pacific and irag would go to the uk i think
The map is free courtesy of the A&A community. The only cost to you is having the map printed. Check this video out for more information and links to map files; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b6gshpGSnfA.html You're welcome.
33:13 I don't think this statement is completely true. If Russia is about to be overrun and you're doing good because Germany isn't doing operation sea lion, I think you should help Russia. Or is that just me?
What I was referring to was at that point in the game. If you look around the 50:30 minute mark that's when I talk about helping Russia. You need to set the UK up first with a complex and finish taking out Africa and the Med before you can help Russia.
I meant you can't do it because it's protected by a scramble? I ask because you've said you try to take out the Italian navy by the 2nd turn, but it seems that Italy can turtle their navy protected by a 3 German fighter scramble.
You're certainly allowed to do it but the question you have to ask yourself is " Do I have enough to win this fight if they scramble their planes?" You have to move your units into the sea zone not knowing whether or not they are going to scramble 1, 2, 3, or no planes. After all of your attack moves are over then they tell you whether or not they are going to scramble. If the Italian boats stay where they are then they won't be taking out the French boats or any remaining UK boats. If they don't do that then the UK boats might escape the Med and build a fleet of their own instead of attacking the Italians boats protected by the scrambling German planes. It all depends on how you want to play it but yes you are allowed to attack them if they stay there.
No those are rules from previous versions of Axis and Allies. In Global 40 the only time you get to use your AA guns is if the plane is attacking that territory (in this case N Italy).
Is there an advantage to shucking the troops up from SA instead of just buying a second IC on Iraq? It's cheaper than a naval base. That extra 3 IPC might come in handy since your UK2 purchases don't allow for the possibility of a German sub winning in SZ 106 and disrupting convoy. Speaking of SZ 106 why did you ferry troops over to London from Canada on UK1, thus killing that transport? If Germany Sealions it won't be until G3, so why not sacrifice the transport only if you need to on UK2? One last nitpicky thing: Why didn't you bring your cruiser from India to bombard in Iraq if it was just going to move there anyway in the noncombat? I do like your strategy of giving Italy enough rope in Africa to hang himself. You're right that there's no rush to kill his troops in Ethiopia and that Egypt doesn't need to be defended at all costs.
I love the mobility the naval base provides. You can move troops all around Middle Earth in one move. If you place an IC in Egypt or Iraq it will take them more than one movement to get around. From SA you can move to Egypt, Iraq, Persia, or Eastern Persia every turn if you have that naval base. Lots of options there. I like to put those Canadian troops on UK regardless of whether or not Germany does Sealion. I don't like to pay down the damage from bombing raids on London so that makes it difficult to bring your troop strength up if Germany does a later attack. I usually do bring the cruiser I just forgot this time. It's hard to remember everything when you are making videos. Good observation though.
14:30 Can the fighter really land on the carrier during the combat phase? Where in the rules is this move justified? Love the video, cant wait to use this strategy
The fighter isn't landing on the combat movement phase. I was showing that you could move that fighter there because the carrier provided you with a legal landing space. You're not allowed to move a plane unless you can show that it can land safely. All planes are considered in the air during movement and combat on both offence and defence.
No. You can move your ships out of a territory that contains enemy units. If you decide to stay in that territory then you would have to do battle. If a nation places their boats in a sea zone where you have an adjacent factory, you can still place your newly purchased boats there. When their turn came around they would have to decide whether to attack you or move out of that sea zone.
Neither a sub nor a transport blocks an enemy ship from passing through a sea zone. Also, you can move a ship into a sea zone with an enemy sub and then choose whether you want to attack it or not. A destroyer works best for blocking ships from moving because they are the cheapest ships that have the ability to block. In this case Germany doesn't have any destroyers. About the only thing that Germany can do to that cruiser is attack it with a sub or 2. 1 sub and they have poor odds, 2 and they are looking at losing a plane or 2 in the attack on sea zone 110. It is still possible to win the fight between 1 sub and a cruiser though.
Yes of course I do. Those are the rules of the game. The split economies are only in regards to income and placement of units. After they are placed they are used as a single force.
i got a question abouth factories, if german does sealion and take london and that fac turnsinto a minor, as i heard they should but cant find anywhere that its stated, is this a global only rule or? and when london turns into a minor and usa liberate it does it then turn into a major again or does uk need to upgrade it on ther turn, nextround when they have income? rly confused her cant find anything abouth this in the manual. i do have both europe and pacific but i dont have room for both as of now. so i usualy play 1 only, what is right and not in this comment?
It turns into a minor when captured. Pg. 20. Last paragraph of Conclude combat. It stays a minor when liberated. (It can be upgraded at UK's discretion) Pg. 21. First paragraph of Liberating a Territory.
One question - when you build a factory in persia as UK - Can both pacific and europe economy build units there? or just whichever economy built the factory? or is it based on where on map what economy can build For instance, could europe economy build a factory in pacific side, and have both economies bump units into asia?
No. The UK is one nation as far as moving units and conducting combat. The units are not restricted to either side of the board and can be used freely anywhere on the map. The split between the 2 is in regards to their economies. Each side has it's own income which can't be shared with the other. All units and facilities purchased must be placed on the side of the board that they were bought on. Also, they can't pay down each other's damaged facilities. For instance, if the factory in South Africa becomes damaged, then only the European UK can pay it off. Once the units units and facilities are placed on the board though, they can be used by both the European and Pacific UK.
