@trout Got it.

OK Mate - so where we at with our game? As I recall I did a successful albeit mundane R1 turn and we are waiting for your Japanese or am I mistaken.

@beelee Thanks for the link! I wrote the guy. And thanks for explaining. I love this stuff... So are we gonna play a game now for real (sort of)? I get that I was using the initial placement wrong, hahaha. NO wonder it seems unfair. I could buy bombers, place them before combat phase, then use em in combat to wipe out the German fleet or whatever ... Now I know better.

And I got the paratrooper stuff down...

Marines and special armored divisions and all that stuff seem like a fun little addition too but I am not sure how to connect all that with those top-of-the-game-board locations that seem to actually hold units (like the USA D-Day troops and that UK bomber that continues to bomb Germany even when the UK falls when playing the computer)...

So I'm happy to start a game with you while I crush those Nazis that Tasty Fish is running... @Trout

@trout

yea only 2 Ftrs to scramble I decided to risk it. You could have still done some damage with a scramble but it's hard for Italia to replace their planes.

ANZC in a bit.

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Yea that's the danger of leaving 97 occupied or at least with more than a single blocker. G can't take it out until it's turn and almost all of the Italian income is at risk.

Plus it'll take the majority of the Luftwaffe to do it. They don't usually have much to do on rd 2 anyway though

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hmm ... I have Type XXI turned off but it's still showing in TT. I didn't turn it off at the very start of game. Only after Changer went but that shouldn't matter. I'll have to look at it

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Yea if I turn it off at the begininnig of the game it won't show up. I'll have to see if I can make it do it later too. Oh well, not a big deal either way

@johnnycat Hey there. Yes, G40 is a boardgame which is why it sometimes appears a bit "weird" as an online game. The placement rules are an example. It throws everybody off when they first play, myself included. But Beelee is correct. The first placement phase is only for unit conversions and repairs really. Allies transforming infantry into Marines & Commandos, Axis converting Germans to SS and repairs to facilities which were bombed or carriers/battleships that were damaged. Because per the rulebook, you are allowed to pay money for those unit conversions and then use them right away. All normal unit buys are placed at the end of the turn. For playing over the board, that's difficult in that you are in Cali, I am in TX, and Beelee lives not close to either of us. There is a boardgaming convention that has a healthy attendance for A&A fanatics but they only play the regular G40, not the House Rules Expansion. In Europe however, there's alot of guys who get together annually to play the HRE. Probably because the game was created and developed by Europeans; Danish to be specific.