Teaching Friends to play A&A

No; not in that case.

Sorry its taken me so long to respond. Lol. He did end up beating me although now that ive read the rules and blog closer im almost certain that he should not have been able to build a major in Kiangsu, so his play doesn’t really work. Basically his strategy was to keep the us out of the war as long as possible. With Germany did the usual opening and then pushed into Russia looking to hit Moscow turn 7. With Italy he also coordinated to hit Cairo on turn 7. With Japan he built a minor then a major in  Kiangsu then pushed as many tanks mechs and planes as he could through up to Moscow which he would also hit turn 7. On J1 he built a carrier, and then for the next few turns his starting naval units seemed to be moving towards India. To me it had seemed like his Japan was doing better than his Europe so as America I devoted most of my resources to the Pacific spending 17 IPCs more than him on the pacific board until turn four. When his huge Japanese fleet sailed right past India and hit Cairo on turn 7.

I haven’t played forum style in awhile but for the most part you just remove the lowest combat valued pieces first when you are posting an attack. If you have question about something you just ask. Most times questions only arise with defending navies and subs and so on. The person who’s turn it is usually rolls both the attacker and defender and removes the casualties. If they come up to a part where the other guy might not have said what to do if such and such decision was made you ask.

The msot difficult things I found about playing online were getting the map softwares installed and running, typing up what I moved and the dice rolls and not taking a crazy amount of time thinking about your moves. It is very easy when you’re the only one around to take all the time in the world, over think and over analyze. I quit playing online over the last one.

There isn’t really an FAQ or a set of guidelines or anything. I think a lot of guys are using the Triple A program which does a lot of stuff for you. I’d always used Abattlemap before I gave up playing by forum because I was taking two hours to make two moves a night– because I couldn’t just ‘play.’

When it comes down to it just do what you’d do playing face to face only with forum posts.

I was bored the other day and did a review of the forum dice roller which I’ll be posting here in Player Help.

Damn Hasbro!  That’s exactly why I’m confused.  Like you, I’ve spent a lot of time playing AI rather than RI…  :-D
That’s why I’m happy to see my laptop coming in the next week or so; no more playing the predictable AI.

I can’t get it to run behind my proxy-server. I can see one computer talking to the other on my router by neither copy of the program seems to notice the other.

BB

thanks cystic crypt

@BigBlocky:

From Kenya you can S. Bomb S. Europe and land in Cacaus …

Thanks! I guess that makes two of us that need a nap. :P

@Commisar:

do they have rules for teams

There is no special rules for multi player game touranments, you’d just have to find enough people.