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ORIGINAL: onionking

Apologies if this has been dealt with elsewhere...couldn't find any reference.

So, was hoping to do an AAR of the invasion of America (Democracy vs. Darkness) and need as much game length as possible. On page 185 of Vol 2. of the rulebooks it has the game end down as Nov/Dec of 1952. In-game the option of Extended Game Length has it down as Jul/Aug of '48. Just wondering if the '52 end is ever going to be in the pipeline towards implementation. I really want to see some new terrain featured in the AAR section. And to pound on the Americans on their home soil.

And any advice on how to play the allies so poorly as to allow a duel invasion of the US? A hyper-aggressive Stalin preventing a US DOW? An isolationist America? Re-rolling every event that does not go swimmingly for the axis? Because frankly in the several games I've got going (in early '43) the allies BP advantage seems to be staggering.

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ORIGINAL: onionking

Apologies if this has been dealt with elsewhere...couldn't find any reference.

So, was hoping to do an AAR of the invasion of America (Democracy vs. Darkness) and need as much game length as possible. On page 185 of Vol 2. of the rulebooks it has the game end down as Nov/Dec of 1952. In-game the option of Extended Game Length has it down as Jul/Aug of '48. Just wondering if the '52 end is ever going to be in the pipeline towards implementation. I really want to see some new terrain featured in the AAR section. And to pound on the Americans on their home soil.

And any advice on how to play the allies so poorly as to allow a duel invasion of the US? A hyper-aggressive Stalin preventing a US DOW? An isolationist America? Re-rolling every event that does not go swimmingly for the axis? Because frankly in the several games I've got going (in early '43) the allies BP advantage seems to be staggering.

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ORIGINAL: Numdydar

Then we will have similar discussions like over at the War in the Pacific forum [:)]. Allied Fan Boys (AFBs) complaining about Japanese Fan Boys (JFBs) not fighting the game to the end so the AFBs can have the fun of overrunning everything in sight the way JFBs players are able to do in the beginning of the game. As the same thing occurs in WiF games, I can see a lot of Allied players complaining about how they did not get their turn to 'party like it was 1944' like Germany/Japan did in 1939/41.

In the board version of the game, I can easily see a common decision on when to end the game due to time involved to finish, sapce for the maps, etc. I played many physical 'monster' games that were called for these reasons and by common consent. But computer games do not have these issues. There is no space issues, just an internet connection is needed. So there is not the same reasoning to NOT to allow AFBs their moment in the sun versus seeing you cannot win in 1943 and calling it quits as the Axis. So unless the Allied player is willing to let the Axis player 'off the hook' early, I would expect the Axis player to play to the bitter end. As someone that spent three years in real time playing Japan in WitP AE into 1945, I know that at least I would want the same commitment if I was playing the Allies in that game.

Just something to think about since the computer removes a lot of the issues that continuing the board version had and made calling the game early an acceptable pratice.