The Panzers seemed to have a little rust in the gun barrels with those die rolls.

<t> Italy is fun to play. In my first ever game of World in Flames I gave them a try. I built transports to start, so my glorious Legions would be able to sail the 7 Seas picking up riches to bring home. Then, the Royal Navy arrived and my dreams crashed into reality pretty quick. <br/> <br/> The on...

<t> Normally WiF has 2 introductory scenarios to begin learning the rules systems. Barbarossa, for air & land combat, and Guadalcanal, for the full air/land/sea combo. <br/> <br/> But probably the simplest way to learn how sea zones and naval combat work with units-on-map would actually be the B...

<t> Wot? No more giving the code word on the BBC and night-dropping the Agent to help Colonel Hogan plan the obliteration of Dusseldorf, again?<br/> <br/> (Have always thought night PARA missions have historical precedent)<br/> <br/> Cool to see where all the ships were, look forward to seeing how t...

<t> If you are playing a 2 player game, at least one of the players will probably recognize that it isn't in their unified side's interest to end such a war, at all. In other words, whoever is winning will see little need to stop winning here.<br/> <br/> Russo-Japan relations are a very important pa...

Wo ist Wavell?

A strong Axis strategy.

<t> For Finland I would consider something simpler like “Axis units may not cross the 1939 USSR-Finnish border unless an Allied unit has previously entered a hex in Finland not part of the Finnish Borderlands zone.” <br/> <br/> One should also consider the ramifications of possible Allied play befor...

<t> The Luftwaffe looks weak in the Med. The Italian fleet looks to largely be sunk or damaged. <br/> <br/> Ike may be in trouble, but his escorts could possibly be air-resupplied, and there are 3 units in a mountain hex. An Axis attempt to take that mountain pocket might work (need an S result vs. ...

An existential dilemma.

Here is part 2 of this one: who picks the division to destroy, if any? Overstacked units are selected by an enemy major power, iirc.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4962015

<t> Well thanks as always for the posts to follow along with. <br/> <br/> Would have liked to see this one continue. The Axis position has its strengths but it also has its weaknesses. A winter in World in Flames Europe can have many outcomes based on the weather rolls.<br/> <br/> It is a pity that ...

<t> And what is really up in the air is whether the Germans get Finland, as far as the DOW decision. <br/> <br/> If the Russians break the Pact, they gain +2.5 BP per turn (net change), and cost the Germans up to 3 BP per turn (net) - & perhaps more importantly, 2 oil per turn.<br/> <br/> Meanwh...

<t> The scenario to consider is when Germany gets greedy in the west and thus slack in the east and the Russians break the Pact. And the easiest way to do that is by not opening the door to Germany adding garrison points via aligning their Balkan allies - which they can’t do until Russia initiates t...

<t> Was just wondering why Wavell didn’t call a Blitz combat when the MOT was available to take a loss. A lot of upside for Blitz table results right there. <br/> <br/> A French land unit (but not a Syrian unit) can debark onto a French PART unit. <br/> <br/> Axis sure ran out of luck points that tu...

<t> Monty commits his tanks in his first Army sized battle and wins the day. I don’t understand why Wavell did not do the same when he had motorized infantry to go in with his tanks. <br/> <br/> Do the Free French have a land unit anywhere? Would be the ideal companion piece for a Dieppe+ operation....

<t> Though the initial placement of a CBV does not count against Gearing Limits, the rules are a bit silent on whether they count _for_ gearing limits on the following turn. I could see that being argued either way. I would say they should count for such limits, as the new troops may not hinder norm...

<t> There are some wrinkles to it all. What the Allies do in France can influence Axis decision making. <br/> <br/> Some CW players do a bare minimum in France. They send Gort + 2 MOT to Calais, sit there and watch the Panzer parade to their south, never loan the French a single Pound, and then sail...

<t> I would not recommend playing with this House Rule, which would lead to many Axis victories in my opinion. <br/> <br/> But to do it anyway, you would simply need to play with an agreement that on the first Allied impulse after the conquest of metropolitan France, one of the active Allies would d...

That’s a lot of “lift” to scrap for the Allies.