Welcome to the Axis & Allies .org Forums! Please feel free to use this topic to introduce yourself to the community. Or if you’re a long time member, feel free to re-introduce yourself.

Tell us a little bit about yourself, for instance:

• Where are you from?
• What Axis & Allies games do you like to play?
• How often do you play?
• Do you use any customizations (tables, painted pieces) or house rules?

Finally, when you read something posted here, please give it a heart/upvote :heart: and please be sure to look at the past introductions and give those hearts too! In general, be generous giving out those hearts, that goes for you lurkers as well; even if you don’t post it lets everybody know that you’re still here. :sunglasses:

Whether you’re a lurker or active poster, it’s great to read past introductions to see where people are from and to meet this community.

Every so often we will move the posts in this topic to a monthly topic, please see past intros below.

• February 2019
• January 2019
• December 2018
• November 2018

Welcome to the Axis & Allies .org Forums! Please feel free to use this topic to introduce yourself to the community. Or if you’re a long time member, feel free to re-introduce yourself.

Tell us a little bit about yourself, for instance:

• Where are you from?
• What Axis & Allies games do you like to play?
• How often do you play?
• Do you use any customizations (tables, painted pieces) or house rules?

Finally, when you read something posted here, please give it a heart/upvote!

I’m Dave Jensen and I created this site in January 2000 and added forums about a year later. The origins of the site actually started as early as 1996 when I created a page on the web server of the college I was attending, Pomona College. The site was called David Jensen’s Axis & Allies archive and had a few articles and house rules.

I payed my first game of Axis & Allies 2nd Edition Classic in middle school when my good friend @rmorel introduced me and another friend, Ross, to the game. In high school the three of us go together nearly every Friday to play A&A or D&D (I was a terrible Dungeon Master).

Now, I live in San Francisco with my wife and two cats. I’m a software developer and entrepreneur, I run a tech startup that provides software for breweries, called Brewd.

My favorite version of Axis & Allies is Anniversary Edition but I mostly play 1942 Second Edition. I’ve been in the finals for 42SE at Gen Con but was narrowly defeated after getting the worst rolls of my life on USSR turn 1! I also enjoy a fun, casual game of A&A Zombies here and there.

January 2020 marks the 20th year that this website has been in operation. I would like to say thank you to everybody who has made this possible.

We’re using Cloudflare (CF) now to help with the bots and caching the site. After installation, CF was quite aggressive against anything automated including TripleA clients. I set up a rule to allow TripleA traffic.

So it’s all fixed now and the site should feel faster.

Since migrating the forums, I’ve spent some time away from work, gave up free time, and sacrificed sleep to get everything just right. While I was visiting family the day before Thanksgiving, I actually had to stop in the middle of a conversation to fix a server that was crashing.

Yet, there is still more work to do.

There are changes coming to the software that I’ve directly suggested to the NodeBB team, there are changes I’ll be contributing myself, and there are still numerous items on the to-do list, including improvements to the theme. This is not something that was even possible with the old forums.

If I were consulting on a project like this I would charge upwards of $175/hour for all of the customizations, bug fixing, and code changes I’ve made. Even though I try to run this site as a business, the “pay” is peanuts. I do this because it can be fun but when it stops being fun, why should I bother having this site at all? And if patron support stays at it’s current level, shutting down will have to be a consideration.

Suggestions are welcome and I will take the appropriate action based on the type of feedback. Direct and higher quality feedback is easier to act on. Subjectice negativity, is not only impossible to act on, it’s also frustrating. I want everyone to like the site but I also cannot please everyone. If you don’t like something, please try to understand why you don’t like it and then provide feedback in detail. You also need to understand that your feedback may be easy, difficult, or impossible to address or I might disagree.

Also, when I first started this site, it was a bit of a technical playground for me. In the early 2000s, it wasn’t easy to host a site and the challenge was fun. I even built a static site generator in 2000 before it was a thing (I used XML and XSLT). It was even more difficult to get a database going to set up a forum. The act of doing this project and seeing that a community coalesced around it was awesome.

With GenAI and code “co-pilots” I’m getting back to those roots of experimentation and technical exploration to create something for the A&A community. I’ve literally wanted to build a real odds calculator for A&A since 1996. Now, it shouldn’t be too difficult. I created this linktree-style site in a few minutes, instead of hours: https://axisandallies.link

And weeks of work to create a new site and migrate off of Wordpress will turns a weeks-long project into days.

Now when I do a little work here and a little work there, real progress is made.

Anyway, keep an eye out for some fun stuff this year.

@Panther I know that you sent in for Gold but your contributions here are worth more than Gold and to show my, and our, appreciation for your hard work, I have made the executive decision to upgrade you to Distinguished. I see no better person to receive the first Distinguished badge and status.

I don’t know what we would do without you, thank you. 👏

I would like to organize an Axis & Allies (World) Cup.

Here’s what I have so far regarding how it works:

• Teams of 4-6 players (preferably geolocated but not necessary)
• Each “Round” of the Cup features a different Axis & Allies game
• A team would field 2 squads of 2-3 per round to play other teams’ squads
• Game play would be mostly online
• Playing in person would be encouraged. For each game played in person (win or lose) a team would get points towards “home field advantage.”
• The cup would take 10-12 months to complete, I think.

I’m still working out home field advantage but I think there might need to be a playoff or championship game after the final round to determine the champion.

• Home field advantage allows the choice for the game for a playoff or championship
• Given the point is crowning the best all around A&A players; it’s not that much of an advantage but it makes it a bit more fun.

I’m working on a print & play preview of Axis & Allies North Africa. I’ll keep you posted. Since I’ll need to run it by Renegade, mid-to-late next week before I publish.

Just in the nick of time, the SSL certificate is installed and renewed for another 2 years and 3 months. Happy secure browsing!

Maybe one of these days I’ll figure out how to get Let’s Encrypt free certs going.

Please provide bug reports, feedback, and feature requests here.

For features,

Would you like a history of previous calculations?

Would you like to compare two calculations side by side?

I recently launched a new project to create a true odds Axis & Allies battle calculator. The nice thing about using true odds is that it is significantly faster and more accurate than a Monte Carlo simulation. Results are nearly instantaneous.

It’s in beta for the time being while I work out the bugs. I do plan on charging for it eventually but it’s free while in beta. Patrons Silver and below will get a discount, Gold and above will get it for free. I know there are free ones out there but none of them perform like this.

So far I only have 2 games covered: Anniversary Edition and Classic.

https://www.axisandallies.org/battle-calculator/

@The-Captain The image on the event page: https://www.axisandallies.org/events/2026-8th-northern-european-a-a-wiking-con/

@Panther It would feel more like a native app. Easier to work with, streamlined, etc.

@The-Captain Thanks for filing out the info. It’s now live.

What do you think of the AI art of vikings playing A&A near Copenhagen?

Would you all use an Axis & Allies .org mobile app?

It would primarily be a mobile front-end to the forums. One nice thing would be notifications on your device for new responses etc.

@The-Captain Hi, would you mind creating an event here, please: https://www.axisandallies.org/events/submit/

Please keep these topics going. I even have a workflow for adding topics to the forums from the event submission page as yourself or as the Calendar bot. And If a topic already, exists, you’ll be able to paste that in too. I’ll let you decide your process but I basically built this feature below for folks like you.

Hey everybody. Patron activity has been slow in early 2026 – I have been and will be making a lot of updates and improvements this but these things cost time and money. March through April in particular are going to be expensive so if you’re planning on supporting the site, now is better than end of year. Thanks!

I have exciting news, I’ve created a new way for you to share your events and hopefully providing even more exposure for them.

Over the past several weeks, I hav completely revamped the non-forums portion of this site. If the change was subtle and barely noticeable, then I did a good job. 😉

One of the changes was a new events page and today I’ve launched the ability for you to submit your event and manage that event if there are changes and updates.

When your event is approved, a forum post will automatically be created as well.

Please take a look and start posting your events!!

https://www.axisandallies.org/events/
https://www.axisandallies.org/events/submit/

@Argothair Since I’m trying to piggy back on Smorey’s rules, I don’t think Egypt is in the cards as a VC. If it were up to me, I would 100% do that.

I might relax the bidding rules a bit. I just wouldn’t want a set of teams to burn 15 minutes past the “official” start of the game … for those situations where another game needs the tables after the round is over. I think it’s only a “big convention problem.”

Thanks for asking for clarification on the rules. The purchase rules timing does seem to be problematic. I wanted to avoid burning more time. If a player runs out the clock, they’re probably going to take forever on the “free” purchase phase as well. Should I just allow 7 to 10 minutes of bonus time to make purchases? That should be more than enough for 1.5 rounds of purchase and place.

The problem of arguing over casualties or fumbling with dice is real, even if it is not a malicious intent to burn time.