Battlemap module for A&A 1941 edition?

Hi Folks!

I’m new to this forum and have a good friend whom I play against when we hook up at each other’s homes.

I always use the Allies because my buddy likes the “fun” of using the Axis.  I never lose playing the Allies however because of a couple of sound strategies that take the luck out of A&A. (unless Germany goes hell-bent for Karelia and manages to keep it for a turn with enough to beat off a counter-attack from Russia in next turn).

My take on the allies is this…build an Indian factory to stall the Japanese and keep the Japs trying to get rid of this factory rather than going straight after Russia…  More importantly…the US can decide the game by leaving the Pacific alone and throwing everything they have into getting troops into Africa/Norway and even France to help take pressure off the Russians, deny the Germans the free 11 IPC’s in Africa ASAP and allow the UK to also send land units to the continent via Norway.

To even the game up I always give the Axis “super subs and fighters” plus not allow Russia to attack for 1st turn.  Even then…unless I get unlucky with early dice rolls the sheer weight of US IPC’s allows me to wipe out Germany at which point Japan is toast.  I suppose I COULD limit the Russians from attacking the 1st TWO turns but don’t want to give up TOO much as the Allies from the beginning?  Any other suggestions as to how the Axis can win?

@toblerone77:

GTO would be awesome if it had the full line of A&A games. If even AA50 or Spring42SE were there I’d be willing to subscribe. Larry really should consider a smooth-running, bug free and “officially” endorsed online version of A&A in all it’s incarnations.

The problem is they are not allowed to even run a kickstarter for any A&A games.
WOTC both advertises GTO then cokkblokks them from adding A&A games.

It really is unfortunate and makes no sense, they are allowed to code it, and host it. But cannot run a kickstarter through it.
Therefore they cannot afford to actually make it happen lol.

Id like to meet some of the dikkhead rtards over at WOTC or whoever blocks GTO from adding A&A games.

I still play alot of spring42 on GTO though !

Has anyone created a Battlemap module for the 1942 2nd edition?

Darn, was hopin it was already done!  Hey, we gotta be first out the door, we don’t want that icky TripleA game showing us up!  We’re Abattlemap!  We’re the best!  (wink)

Let me know if you need anything other than me sitting down to deal with the 2nd edition rules, to help out.  I need to print them out and read them - one day.

@Stoney229:

@Gamerman01:

It would be very nice if the InfoView and Toolbar were edited to change the powers to their Alpha3 turn orders.

d’oh you’re right.  that might take some work

Not as muich as you would think.  Copy/paste the pieces as necessary (done this before) and alter the text (also done this before.)

@P@nther:

@Foxman:

Reinstalled ABattlemap because it doesn’t allow me to use: “List Units” on the View bar. But it still doesn’t work. Do I need this anyway? What does it do?

It’s been a long, long time, but as far as I remember you should manually delete the ABattlemap.ini. It will be recreated on the next program start.
You should be fine then.

Ok thx P@nther

@Imperious:

Cant somebody just crack the original CD-rom game and reconfigure it for revised?

I think somebody posted are made the source code availible a while back.

All it would take is a week with a decent programmer.

What would be the point when we have TripleA?