Shotguns. Yep. Although I've been using the P-90 on Metro since they killed the USAS-12.

how is the handling of that game?...is it diffrent then on CoD?...I played BF Vietnam a couple of time but actually on the PC...I was actually thinking �bout testing Bf 3 but wasn�t sure if it is worth the money...

I haven't played any of the COD games. To my understanding BF3 is not as smooth as COD. The big thing COD guys talk about is the recoil of the weapons and the 'realistic' feel that gives BF3. Many of the guns demand to be used in particular ways and you need to mind your weapon set ups (most weapons have three customization slots, {scope, foregrip/bipod/underslung rail and laser sight/tactical light/suppressors/barrel/ and you unlock them as you accumulate kills with the weapon}) for the situations you'll encounter (break out the holos and red dots for metro) and your particular style.

I squaded up with a guy who'd just picked up BF3 coming from lots of COD. He'd rave, ask how something works, go wow, talk about how he loved that the guns had varying recoil, recoil at all, and how that made the game feel. Kept saying how "sexy" things were.

Thanks, for sharing. 

If you like driving tanks, try battlefield 3. the best online shooter out there

Tanks as well as various IFV's (some amphibious), mobile AA, jeeps/humvees, helicopters, jets, and boats. Plus you can ride gunner in many of those. You can hop out and repair if you take damage while a teammate covers you and of course you can blow them up with various rockets (including laser guided ones on targets designated by teammates) or C4. Keep your squad supplied with ammo and revive fallen comrades. Lay down suppressing fire with a LMG, kill your enemies at a distance with a sniper rifle or get personal with a shotty (both dedicated and underslung on your assault rifle.)

Can't kill an enemy because he's hiding in a building? Kill the building. That wall blocking your view of the objective? Blow it up.  

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Coming in the fall is an entire expansion dedicated to armored warfare.

Be a total pile of dren with enough of a budget that they could throw so much money at Liam Neeson that he was willing to ignore how craptastic it is and be in it anyway. 

Sir Laurence Olivier was once asked why he had agreed to appear in so many bad movies.  He said that they paid as much as the good ones.

 

Well the definition of a successful actor is "one who's working" so I can't argue with his logic.

It has to either:

Have some sort of redeeming script qualities since Liam Neeson is in it.

or

Be a total pile of dren with enough of a budget that they could throw so much money at Liam Neeson that he was willing to ignore how craptastic it is and be in it anyway.

Yea but... can't you say the same thing for EVERY version of Axis and Allies?  Save Guadalcanal or BOTB?

I see that you get my point. It has been five years since they published a NEW game. They just keep churning out tweaks of the map and ruleset. If they just want to tweak the map and rules how about tweaking BOTB for some eastern front action?

The joke is that they're basically releasing the same game again.

***possible spoilers for "Clone Wars" TV series***

The last two episodes of "Clone Wars" have been down right creepy. The season on a whole has been very strong but these last episodes with Ventress and the Nightsisters and Maul's 'resurrection' have been top notch. The series has a whole has improved greatly since the beginning.

I was worried when I saw the previews that it would prove to be an ill-conceived premise. But I thought they were well done. My only problem with it but at the same time an interesting question- what happens in the bowels of those buildings? Or maybe Maul's corpse went out with the trash? Either way it suggests to me colonies of not quite functioning correctly discarded droids.

I have played this. It has the same problem for me that the A&A land minis have -- too big and too small at the same time. The scale is all messed up.

The miniatures are pretty average.

The modular board game and terrain components however are top notch.

I you like the land minis you'll probably have fun with it.

I'm seeing no Geneva convention applying on either side, and perhaps the release of chemical/biological weapons.

It really wouldn't surprise me.

I'd wager on 'bitter' as well. A killing prisoners and not even marginal attempts to limit collateral damage to civilians, scorched earth, Soviets-Nazis kind of 'bitter.'

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The biggest impediment for new players in this, BOTB and to a lesser extent D-Day, is a tendency to think things work like they do in the global A&A games. You must read the rulebook as an independent document. If you get stuck on something DO NOT fall back on a 'that's the way it works in _________' method to sort it out. You will be wrong.

Do not use the optional national advantages rules for your first game. Note the errata on the reinforcement point system.

This is a fun game but it is really different. You have to set aside all of your thinking from other games with "Axis and Allies" in the title except for the most fundamental strategy considerations. The considerations that you'd apply to any war game fundamental. This radical difference is both the game's blessing and curse.

The real question should be - is the situation going to be RESOLVED by war?

That seems unlikely since the argument isn't solely about land or resources. One side would 'win' but that wouldn't be the long term end of the matter. I see the Iranians engaging in 'ethnic cleansing' should they win but that drags everybody in.

It is difficult to think there won't be an exchange of weapons fire within the next three years depending on what happens in the US after the November election.

It seems likely that if Hasboro is a publicly traded company the information you seek would be obtainable in the legally required public stock reports. You would then be able to make a determination what the license/brand/division would be worth.

Hmmmmm, first try after the Google search. But that doesn't really detail the Avalon Hill division. That is the entire company.

Don't have much more time to poke around but Hasboro acquired Avalon Monarch (Avalon Hill) for 6 million dollars according to http://gis.net/~pldr/fah.html

It is also likely a great deal more complicated than simply buying Axis and Allies.