Oh shoot, sorry, you’re right, I read it wrong.
Opening the door for more World War One based games? Your opinion
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WW2 is something everyone relates to. World.War.Two. It engulfed the Pacific and European areas of the world in dramatic fashion and was fought by every major power in the world (even if they didn’t know they were a major power when it started).
Some of those powers still exist today, and there are still people alive that fought in those wars, whose kids heard stories, whose grandkids heard stories and those grandkids are getting ready to have their own kids if they haven’t already. Its a generational thing. World War I is slowly lost in memory. For example, when I was in high school we barely broached much of WW1 in history class and outside of Germany being the bad guy, I don’t know how it all developed. Many of the other wars we know are less involved, and in many cases isolated to one region or country of the world. Less… glamorous.
Now don’t get me wrong, some wars touch people in different ways, but we’ll never glamorize Korea or Vietnam the way we do WW2. Although the Civil War from a strategic perspective is awesome, I don’t think it can sell well when it was over slavery and an embarrassing admission that it existed as was fought over in the USA. There may be board games to replay those wars, but the scope pales in comparison to how compelling WW2 was on a global effort.
I don’t know where you went to school, but I got next to nothing on either World War. Basically what I got in school boiled down to WW1: There was a war in Europe, America saved bacon of England. And WW2: We were attacked by Japan, and we kicked the ass of some Nazis. Though to your point my friends can name more powers in WW2 then WW1 (Germany, Japan, England, America.) as opposed to (Germany, America, England). So I hope education doesn’t have much to do Axis and Allies appeal, or it may die out in the years to come.
Yeah I have to agree with that, plus most of those wars involved only a couple factions that fought, along with the ethical dilemmas of any Cold War (That said I would buy Axis and Allies: Grenada if it came out) and overwhelming firepower on one side or the other.
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I know this is not a one off. It will be reprinted. WOTC NEVER makes games they can’t recoup the outlay in sculpts they spent for one game. They rehash the same sculpts in other games they make. I think we will see a western front game of some type and at least a 2nd edition.
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Will the second edition have trains in it?
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I hope so IL. Flashman, as much as I’d love to see rail movement, the track record is not good.
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Will the second edition have trains in it?
Even the 10th edition won’t have any trains. The trains will still be at the train-store.
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Then what happens to the CP units left in Russia after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Germany transferred a million of them to the western front in time to take part in the great spring offensive starting later that month (yes, it took less than 4 weeks to move a million men by train the entire distance).
In this game they might as well retire from the army for all the chance they have of seeing combat again.
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Then what happens to the CP units left in Russia after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
They move one space, which equals trains.
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One space equals walking.
Seven spaces equals trains.
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Germany will be able to make more than enough brand new fresh units in great quantities to reach the front long before whatever army they have in the east will…something real life germany couldn’t do. So all in all I think the lack of trains will leave Germany feeling just fine.
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It’s time for SCI-FI WWI/WWII in my opinion.
Crash some UFO’s on the board, and have everyone fight over technology.
or open a portal to hell, and make the Central Powers -align- with the Triple Entente to save all of humanity.
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Or an even weirder universe in which East Prussia is part of the Russia Empire in 1914, infantry walk to the front from their capital city instead of from the nearest railhead, and America gets involved in the war almost before everyone else has got seriously started.
Wait a minute…
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Or an even weirder universe in which East Prussia is part of the Russia Empire in 1914, infantry walk to the front from their capital city instead of from the nearest railhead, and America gets involved in the war almost before everyone else has got seriously started.
Wait a minute…
And Russia switched their capital to Moscow before there was even any revolution at all.
Oh and no Mexico, which means there wasn’t a certain note sent that triggered the war.
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Oh and no Mexico, which means there wasn’t a certain note sent that triggered the war.
For the love of God, how will the war trigger?!
=D
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It was the trains that triggered the war. German plans depended on their railway timetables getting them to the front before the enemy could mobilize, hence when Russia mobilized Germany had to put their train based deployment into action immediately.
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Maybe the game will come in a plastic container, and we can all say it was the ‘tote’ that triggered the war?
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Maybe the game will come in a plastic container, and we can all say it was the ‘tote’ that triggered the war?
I am glad I was already done with my glass of water before reading this one. Saved me keyboard money.
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One space equals walking.
Seven spaces equals trains.
Shrug… you could also say it equals mules or piggy-back rides, all answers are valid if you don’t have a definition for how many weeks/months etc. one turn is supposed to represent.
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Generally a turn is considered to represent 3-4 months.
However with US entry automatic on turn 4 it could be said that in this version a turn represents an entire year. You could go round the world several times on a train in that amount of time…
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You know Flashman, though I do agree with you on the point, you don’t have to bring in railroads on every thread :-P
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Sometimes Flashman likes to read his own text (hear himself ‘talk’)
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