Posts made by Clyde85

WHO SUMMONS ME FROM MY SLUMBER!!! :laughing:

but seriously, who’s resurrecting long dead threads?

I don’t think I’ve played a proper game of this in… well about 9 years sadly, and it really is such a shame because it was one of my most favorite.

I do appreciate the response but do try to understand that I think the way the game was when it first came out was very different for it’s current incarnation. I’m pretty we were still playing OOB when this thread was made. I’ve never played second edition to be honest and I have heard that they’ve made some considerable changes to help balance, though I never had much issue playing OOB back in the day.

Thank you for the response all the same, and dragging me back to “the pit” :wink:

I knew the answer to this once upon a time but I cant remember for the life of me, What size are A&A pieces?

I recently required this game after long time and I’m wondering if there is anyone here who could answer some questions with regards to the rules, things not overly complex but not clearly stated in the rules and not covered in this FAQ?

Your opponents logic is extremely flawed. In a throw of the dice his Artillery is just as likely to have rolled the 8 as it is the 3. If you were to allow a roll of 4 dice, but singled out the artillery die with a separate color, you would see that regardless of its to hit value it can just as easily roll something undesirable, like an 8 or 9, as it could roll a hit.

The best solution would have been to consider the roll of 4 dice all misses for his infantry, and then have him roll for his artillery again.

That’s funny because in my games, Russia usually gets bogged down trying to keep the Austrians held up in Romania, most of their man power reserves go there and Poland. I find that Germany can usually play for time with Russia in this instance, as she can send just enough troops to Poland to force the Russians to split their forces between there and Romania and the galician front to prevent them from becoming too much of a threat.

The British I find have it pretty had as well as they need to split their income between keeping France alive and fighting the Turks. I’ve done the UK1 move of invading through Persia twice and it actually works pretty well. However with the advent of the tournament rules that allow land units to move 2 though friendly tt’s allows the Turks to build a credible defense, so that will need to be overcome

@MistuhJay:

I think standard play is smashing Russia first, then working on Paris after that.  What is your overall strategy as the Axis?

In most games the Germans focus on the French while sending just enough to keep Poland contested, usually with Austrian help. The real problem for the allies is keeping the Germans from massing a massive stack of artillery with air superiority in Picardy by turn four. I usually wind up with between 15 to 20 arty concentrated on the western front and it just becomes a matter of keeping enough troops to take casualties long enough to wear the French down.

Am I really playing against people who are so incompetent that I’ve managed a win twice as the Centrals?

This second play through with L-H tournament rules and political collapse (we don’t use the economic one) made it even more of a resounding success. What are the allies doing so wrong in my games that causes them to lose.

@wittmann:

Yes. It makes naval movement or naval attacks in mined SZ potentially very costly.
Subs are not the good buy they are in most A&A games.

Crud, oh well it was worth a shot

@wittmann:

Evening Clyde. Every enemy ship had to roll for mines, even Subs.

Does this include when they are moving through unoccupied sea zones?

example: I want to move the two German subs from sz 7 to 9, in the process they will pass through sz8. Does this mean that I will have to roll twice for mines for these subs, once for sz8 and then again to sz9?

Are you required to roll for mined sea zones when submarines move into or through them?

@CWO:

Here’s a follow-up thought on the subject.  Since Wilhelm had already become Kaiser in 1888, his accession to the British throne in 1901 would in principle have created a situation in which he ruled two countries simultaneously: Germany as Kaiser and Britain as King.  So Germany and Britain would have turned into a dual monarchy like Austria-Hungary, of which Franz Joseph I was both Emperor and King.  This could be the basis for a rather interesting alternate-history version of the Axis & Allies 1914 WWI game, though I can’t make up my mind who would have gone to war against whom in this scenario.  One thing is certain, though: Wilhelm would have loved to get his hands on the Royal Navy, since he’d always been jealous of Granny Victoria’s big, shiny fleet.

This is interesting indeed, but I do wonder if the constitution of the United Kingdom would allow for a dual monarchy? I think the more likely option here would the British telling Wilhelm that he would have to give up being Kaiser if he wanted to be king of Britain and I think we both know that Wilhelm would have never done that. The next option would have been that have Princess Royal Victoria’s second born, Princess Charlotte take the thrown after her mother. This would have made for an interesting change, and while I don’t think it would have altered the course of the UK too much, it may have prevented the Entente Cordiale from being signed in 1904. This initiative was largely conducted between the Prince of Wales Albert Edward (who became King Geroge the VII). IF we remove him from the picture then it becomes doubtful that the agreement would have come to pass.

It’s all ideal speculation but it sure is fun  :-)

@wittmann:

Morning Clyde. That sounds excellent. 10000 people, wow!
Fighting in the heat, needing water, must be unbearable.
With which unit did you fight(and die) or are reenactments  not that complicated?

I was part of the USV’s Regular Army corps. I fell in with a group called the 6th New Hampshire, my home unit being the 12th Mass I Co. Despite this we were used to represent the first corp of the Regular Army.

It was a lot of fun, and while I like to say in period while out at events, even I was convinced to leave at go sit in the AC of a local Hooters restaurant (you know, and the great “wings” too  :-)  ).

A buddy and I went to the 150th anniversary reenactment back in 2011. There were over 10,000 reenactors total (about 5,000 per side) and the temp was in the low 100’s. Just thinking about those temps and wearing wool makes me sweat. It was alot of fun though, we got to form an infantry and get charged by cavalry (like 60 guys!) it was well worth the near heat stroke.  :-D

@Imperious:

They had plots and good acting ( for the most part) plus awesome music.

They are all classics.

The Godzilla movies had plots, but not good ones, and the acting was sub-par at best (unless you watched the original Japanese releases, but in the American edited and dubbing releases the acting comes across as dry at best). I feel like watching a Godzilla movie and focusing on the acting and plot is like watching a porno for the story and sound track, it’s there but not really what the movies is about (and is not the strength of the movies at all). When I was a kid I watched the movies for 3 main reasons; 1. To watch guys in giant monster suits beat the crap out of each other 2. To watch amazing sets of perfectly crafted miniature towns and city’s get destroyed by the guys in the aforementioned giant suits and 3. To watch the goofy attempt at translating and accurately dubbing the lines from Japanese into English. It’s all part of what made the experience of watching the movies great, but they aren’t great movies. They’re goofy campy popcorn fun movies, but there not to be taken serious or held to some high level, which if did try to do that would detract from the movies over all.

@Imperious:

Godzilla was way better
Cloverfield was better
Rodan better
War of the Gargantuas better
Even Godzilla vs the Smog Monster better

They are all classic and had some acting and a plot. Godzilla music kicks ass. Some of the best music for any movie

Godzilla movies had plots!?! I’ve watched every Godzilla movie made between 1954 to 1995 and I wouldn’t say plot was their strong points. I mean like 4 or 5 of the movies plots are the same and boil down to “aliens are using another monster to try to take over the world” (Godzilla v. Monster Zero, Godzilla v. Mecha-Godzilla, Terror of Mecha-Godzilla, Godzilla v. King Ghidorah). The movies had good subtext (like Godzilla v Hedorah environmentalism, and the constant running theme of antinuclear proliferation) but I wouldn’t say plot was what made those movies.

John Rabe  :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rabe

@CWO:

It would be an intriguing intellectual exercise to devise a set of house rules for a strip version of A&A…but regretably it would also be kind of pointless because, alas, most A&A players are guys.

I feel like a house rules version of “strip A&A” would be about as useful as my drinking game version of A&A. I lasted about 3 rounds before the game got called, mainly because I crawled under the table, refused to come back out, and promptly fell asleep. Mind you the rule was one shot for each territory you lost and a double if you lost your capitol, and it was me and one other person playing.Needless to say the fall of France really messed me up.

Either way, bad idea, or “bad” idea, i’ll let you figure out which it is  :-P

I don’t know if this counts, but Chungking, the wartime capitol of China was the most heavily bombed city during WW2.

If you’re successful in removing the Allied fleet from the Atlantic, has anyone ever given thought to invading Britain?

It was a giant red book that had gold lettering on the cover that read “WORLD WAR II” and it had all these pictures in it. The first few pages were big portraits of Erwin Rommel, Bernard Montgomery, and Dwight Eisenhower, with about a page of text written about each man by their one of their children (I thought Rommel’s was funny because his son was listed as an Oberburgermeister, which at 7 was a funny looking and sounding word).