Axis & Allies Online AMA by Beamdog on March 27 at r/boardgames

@juliusborisovbeamdog :) Very cool

Attention Commanders!

On Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 we’re launching Axis & Allies 1942 Online to iPads, adding seven new languages to the game, and rolling into Season 6 of competitive play.

Read on for details.

The following items will launch together:

iPad Launch
Season 6 Launch
7 New Translations
PC Patch (Fixes/Features)

We’ll also be rescheduling our AMA (ask-me-anything) with r/Boardgames to August 20.

Axis & Allies 1942 Online for iPads - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/axis-allies-1942-online/

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Starting with my own answer:

I will “maybe” recommend the online game.

Why maybe? While I don’t care much for example about graphics, sounds and cosmetics or the felt “randomness of dice results” I really do care about rules compliance. As other topics in this forum category indicate the game is somehow leaving the original idea of being as rules compliant as possible.

So in order to recommend the game, to me it needs

either some rework to go back to full rules compliance
or a clear statement, that the online game is not a 1:1 adaption of the OOB/LHTR game but a variant instead - ideally expressed by a dedicated rulebook or at least a fact-sheet that clearly points out all the differences from the boardgame.

To me the online version could be an ideal way to create enthusiasm for the boardgames. But when coming to play the boardgames, online players will need to learn and accept the differences. That is somehow counterproductive, IMHO.

Concerning the tablet version I would definitely buy it. We do not have any serious implementation of an A&A game, however it might be called.

Shift-Window-S brings up crosshairs for the Snip & Sketch tool on windows 10.

@Ichabod Look again. There are two views: the zoomed out view and the zoomed in view.

The zoomed out view has the chits and the zoomed in view has the 3D pieces.

Sorry, the post Panther alluded to is the one I was thinking of. I can’t believe so much time has gone by since then. My bad.

@Eqqman When I was playing this heavily (played a lot in Season 1 and got to Platinum, got too busy with IRL stuff + got fed-up with bad dice luck Season 2 and haven’t played much past my qualifier games) Players didn’t start becoming competent until like high Gold Tier in Ranked. Especially the Axis Players, as the balance in 42SE (even the Gencon Rules, which is what Ranked uses exclusively) is in-favor of the Axis to the point where a lot of Axis Players can do totally wonky stuff and still win through the sheer advantage (at least on-paper) that the Axis have in the starting setup (win rates in Platinum Tier are probably more even, but the Allies are much harder to play at a high level in 42SE than the Axis are, IMO).