News flash: AXIS & ALLIES ANNIVERSARY EDITION due out oct 23 08


  • Cobert i think your quoting the wrong person as my statment had nothing to do with the cover (it was before he posted the link  :wink:)


  • No, I was agreeing with your 1/1 carrier and the other statement was in response to something different, I was just too lazy to quote the person talking about the cover.


  • ok i see, it just looked to me as you were on one thought.


  • Carriers should be revised to 0/1/12. They are basically transports for airplanes, after all.


  • Thread is moving off topic.

    Continuation of the matter of changing AC values should be moved to House Rules area.


  • Not really, since the new version would provide for the changing of such values.


  • Since the new version rules are unknown and not yet in existence (at least publicly), then this discussion would also potentially apply to the Variants area.

    Regardless, it is off topic for the current subject header.


  • @Imperious:

    http://www.cosimshop.de/blog/

    this is a picture of the front cover of the game

    I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that is not the final version of the cover. It is probably close if legit but the World at War blurb will not be more out front than the game’s title. IMO.


  • so it might be for the old look, being an anniversay edition
    but I worry the box design is not appealing and hence affect sales
    like, its not bright and colour


  • @tekkyy:

    so it might be for the old look, being an anniversay edition
    but I worry the box design is not appealing and hence affect sales
    like, its not bright and colour

    Teletubbies can fix anything.

    They can even fix . . . YOU!  :evil:


  • Rumors say, it will not be radical chances, like attacking neutrals, terrain, combat systems from BotB/Guad and so on. Its just a bigger map and a new italian player. But I still have a wish-list to Santa, on subjects I want in this game.

    1. Convoy-zones subject to raids by subs or surface warships like in A&A Europe and Pacific.

    2. Each player got 12 IPC-worth of units he can place anywhere before turn 1, and this rule is from A&A Europe.

    3)The first time a player is attacked, all his units (inf, tanks, ships, aircrafts) defend on a 1 only, because they are surprised. This rule is from A&A Pacific, and there it apply to the US and Brits units only, because the Cinese are already at war. Now if this game start in 1941, and I guess that UK is already at war, then Germany must attack Russia in turn 1, and all Russian units can only defend on 1 because of surprise, and then Japan later must attack US/UK in J1, and now this units can only defend on 1.
    Of course this opens the possibility that if Germany choose not to attack Russia in G1, then Russia may attack Germany and now the German units are surprised and only defend on 1

    1. National tokens with symbol on both sides so I dont have to do the job myself with gluing together two tokens. The tokens from Guad are a torch in this subject.

    5)Larry, please let me attack and conquer neutrals. Now you must attack and occupie Turky if you want to move a fleet through the Bospourus channel.

    1. Combat order from Guad, all units have combat factors to air/sea/land combat. First attack air units, then attack naval units, then attack land units.

    7)Units have different fire-power like in BotB and Guad. Inf roll one die, tanks roll two dice, artillery roll 3 dice, destroyer roll one die, cruiser roll two dice, battleship roll 3 dice, fighter roll one die, bomber roll 4 dice and so on……
    Every 1 and 2 are a hit. On 1 the attacker/diceroller choose the casualty, and on 2 the defender choose a casualty

    8)Aircrafts move like in Guad. Fighter move 2 and Bombers move 3 spaces during combat move, and fighters move 2 and Bombers move 3 during regroup move.

    1. HIDDEN SEA MOVE from Guad is a must. All players write down the move on a pad like in AH Diplomacy, or Battle Cry.

    10)Supply tokens for attack and building factories. Need trucks to transport on land. A truck/transport ship cargo two units in any combination of land and supply.


  • Its not official till Funigames finally publishes it because as usual they post what Avalon hill is doing months before Avalon Hill does. They are the TMZ for the public.


  • 1941 start date per Larry.

    I would be OK till October if I could just see the map……please let me see it.

    I’m really interested on wether or not it will be an all Axis and all Allies turn or 1 country at a time.


  • I think it will be this:

    1941 start date  ( thats June 1941 the start of Barbarossa)

    Germany
    Soviets
    Italy
    England
    Japan
    USA

    this will be a big change. Also i think the allies wont be able to attack Japan on turn 1 because they start THEIR war latter on turn 2.

    This is my opinion


  • :-o
    Wow! Cool Avatar IL
    But how do you move your units on it?
      Gotta click real fast I guess. :wink:


  • not really. if you lift click on it it will stop so you can load up the units.

  • '11

    That would be pretty sweet if Germany would start first. As they will not be dealing with the Meditteranian & Africa scenes yet, as it is primarily Italy’s show. They would be better able to concentrate on squaring off with the Soviet Union and keeping up their U-boat tactics to hinder the Allies. Hopefully Itally will have enough of a military buildup to actually assist Germany and not draw rescources and troops away that are needed for the Soviet front and the Atlantic wall.


  • Yea im tired of having the Soviets start the war. That way Germans don’t start having to retake stuff they started the game with.
    Also, the Germans can probably leave the Baltic and don’t have to worry about a Soviet block that they need to kill off just to get a good jump out of the Atlantic.


  • I am wondering about what changes they made to make Italy a fun player
    besides landing in Africa what else could the player do?


  • @Imperious:

    I think it will be this:

    1941 start date  ( thats June 1941 the start of Barbarossa)

    Germany
    Soviets
    Italy
    England
    Japan
    USA

    I think it will be this

    1941 start date ( thats desember 1941 the Pearl Harbour attack)

    Japan
    Sovjet
    Germany
    Britain
    Italy
    USA

    Now everybody are at war from Turn one, and no ahistoric gameplay as Britain attack Japan in Pacific as IL’s suggestion open for

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