@djensen You could also possibly make support tiers based ons playable A&A nations that could display as country tags. For example, here is a mockup of a French country tag.
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Just a neat idea if you’re considering to add more tiers. You could also do the same thing with game pieces if you wanted to.
Looking back. I probably should’ve selected Discourse as the forum engine. The deployment strategy, at the time, was more complex than I wanted. I had a grudge against Ruby on Rails projects (kinda still do). But the UI was clean. I bet the API is cleaner and less breaking. Making another change might cause more churn though.
I would like to do an article for the website about folks that have created custom maps for playing any version of Axis & Allies. I would like pictures and instructions on how to get it done. It can be anything from the vinyl rollup maps, which seem to be popular, to custom painted maps.