Posts made by Intrepid

Today I watched a game-play introduction by “The Historical Gamer” on YouTube, but I haven’t played the game personally yet.

In the video I was struck by how many prompts the player encountered during combat - why all the clicking? When I’m playing TripleA, I have the speed set to the fastest possible… and not only does the dice animation take forever in this game… but the constant mouse clicking during combat makes the combat phase long and tedious.

I liked the visuals that I saw however, it has a much nicer polish than Triple A.

Hi, you’ve done a really remarkable job on cleaning up and improving the AA50 map. Thank you for your efforts, and thank you for making the map files available to the community. I’m looking forward to printing your map as soon as I have the $ available…

Welcome back to the forums. I’m pretty new also.

@taamvan @djensen I just posted in the redux thread, on impulse thought I would try dragging/dropping images in my post, and it worked! That alone is worth the price of admission, lol. So ya, the new forum is awesome!

@Panther This last post of yours did the same thing for me. Soft refresh didn’t work, I logged off and after a half-dozen more freshes, suddenly the post appeared properly. Logged back in, and it’s still good.

@Panther Hi, just browsing the tips & tricks link that you linked to… clicked on a couple of topics, and your answers are formatted strangely for my view… (below)… is this happening to anyone else?

Hi all, I was first introduced to A&A Classic in the mid 90’s, got back to playing with Revised in mid 2000’s, but for the last three years given more time to A&A games… been teaching guys in my area, I have 3 or 4 guys that have a strong interest now… mostly AA50 at the moment, but want to get into G40 soon (own it already). My kids like A&A also, esp my 16 yr old daughter (also have 14 yr old daughter and 12 yr old son that like the games).

I have a huge interest in customizations such as map-making and other printed resources, as my professional background is as a graphic designer. My other hobbies include WW2 history and carpentry/woodworking/fabrication… I’ve been collecting WW2 military collectibles and props for many years for my future war room, will be based strongly on the Churchill War Rooms “map room”.

I live in Swan River, MB, Canada, so no groups near me, but my plan is to attend an A&A event in the future, hopefully one of YG’s events in Toronto in 2020.

-Intrepid

When I am viewing a subforum, is there a way to quickly do a search of that sub-forum only? It seems like other forums (and possibly the old one?) had this ability. Unless I’m missing something, now I have to click the search icon i the top bar, then choose the subforum I was viewing from a dropdown list, then type my search query, etc.

Totally fine if that option still exists (The advanced search with all the options/parameters, etc), but is a quick subforum search also possible?

@Sarge Neat stands Sarge! Is the washer just to provide additional weight down low? Is the doweling inserted into the felt, or just glued to the top of it? Did you have any difficulty getting these to be perfectly vertical?

@SGT-Pitbull

Nice gaming table! Also I like the overhead light, is that is a custom diffuser, or can you actually buy a fixture that looks like that?

I am looking forward to trying it out also. I’ve often wondered why such a stable game franchise did not have an “official” online variant (esp. since the game is so suited to browser-style play on a wide range of devices).

I haven’t played 1942.2 in awhile, but it will be a great 1v1 option I think… and hopefully once the dust has settled on that release we will see AA50, G40, 1914, etc…

@djensen said in My Body Is Ready:

Remember the game has to be playable and accessible to both A&A veterans as well as newbies.

For sure, I get the UX/UI considerations. But a prompt that comes up after NCM that gives the two options “Select Custom Orders of Loss” or “Continue to New Unit Placement” shouldn’t be too confusing for anyone. Of course a mouseover on the Custom OOL button would give a more detailed explanation.

OOL comes up in pretty much every game… I have an AA50 game in progress in TripleA right now where I’m getting pressed hard in Russia. I will definitely choose to lose the American bomber I have placed in Caucasus before one of my Russian infantry, and the defense of Moscow could depend on that choice.

@Gargantua said in My Body Is Ready:

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog said in My Body Is Ready:

Thanks for the feedback. The developers might later allow players to customize their defense profiles.

I do not believe this false prophet!

but if it somehow is true lol… I would encourage the dev team to code a general profile setting AND an option during NCM to custom set OOL (order of loss) for any given territory, outside of the basic parameters.

Yes, the chance to designate a custom OOL (for any given territory) will be huge to have… otherwise the A&A gameplay experience is pretty tainted… shouldn’t be too hard to code, and also if newbs want to stick with default OOL, then no skin off their nose, they don’t need to go down that path

I wonder if a player could update a custom OOL on every turn of theirs if they so chose… in anticipation of a battle that might take place on their opponents turn?

Hi guys, I’m posting this auction with permission from djensen.

Selling my copy of Battle of the Bulge, I think I tried to play it once, but the game is basically new, just open box.

http://ebay.to/2EWHkid

Happy bidding!

carsonbparker and Navymule, the map should scale up just fine… the resolution might drop to the 200dpi range, but it should still print a crisp image.

Here’s a low-res shot of the map…(without ghost boxes)

@warTorn:

Try this one. Free shipping and no tax

https://gameshack.ca/axis-allies-anniversary-edition.html

I purchased mine from Gameshack.ca, received it on Monday. Just a note, the free shipping (outside of Quebec and Ontario) is when you spend $119 CAD, so you’ll need to add something to your order if you don’t live in those provinces.

I’m pretty sure you’d want to use almost anything but Paint. I only use Photoshop, but that’s a steep investment and without serious experience as a digital artist probably overkill.

GIMP is free, and generally well-regarded. I know I’ve also used Pixlr in a pinch, but not sure how large of files it can handle.

Google is your friend, I’d search “best free Photoshop alternatives”

Do I have to do something to see pics on this thread?  :?

Thanks for the acknowledgement, YG. You forgot the most important fix (at least for the people who live on Iwo Jima) � their island is no longer upside-down in the Pacific!  

YG, you’ve been the visionary behind this map project over the years, so thank you for the innovative ideas, and for always striving to make the map better.

Technical note: This map file is sized 72"x33" at 300dpi.

@Dralnu:

I am also not a fan of the ghost boxes, but its interesting to see your houserule version and despite the missing combat chart, the Clean/leveled version is perfect for my taste

YG and I chatted today, and we decided to offer his custom version in both color options, and the clean version in both color options. There will be some like yourself that want the battle board but not the ghost boxes, and others will want countless other variations (I read someone wanted two battle boards, lol). I just don’t have the time to be able to provide all those unique designs; I’ve already spent far too much time editing maps.

In your case, you could open the custom file with the battle board in a free image editor such as http://pixlr.com/, select around the battle board, copy, and then open the clean version, and past the battle board back in place. If your selection contained some land that will help you line up the battle board to pixel perfection (use arrow keys to nudge the selection around), and then you can save the file again as your own custom JPG.

@Tjoek:

This sounds really great YG!

I just finished the European side of my attempt to fixup the files from Ambilzi and you. Sounds like most of my work can be thrown down the drain now as it sounds like Intrepid fixed most if not all of my issues with the original map.

Will check the new map later today to see if I can save myself the hard work of editing the pacific side of the map. Although it feels a bit like a loss of time at the moment 

Hi Tjoek, from what I saw you were doing excellent work, don’t throw away anything you’ve done! This new version of the map is still far from perfect, I didn’t have time to remove every single scratch, dust mark, etc off the board. I did do some work in the Pacific for sure, spent some time fixing some water glitches, and a bunch of blurred/shifted territory lines. Please copy whatever you can off this map to save yourself time!

@Schroeder:

Hey Siredblood,

Yes I have looked at the clean file, but if you compare the clean file and the leveled file, the leveled one is brighter and more colorful.  As far as I know there is no leveled version without the ghost card images.

Hey, don’t confuse me with Siredblood, that’s not fair to him, lol! Yes, the “adjusted levels” file should print with more rich, vibrant color. I adjusted the levels histogram in Photoshop to make the darks/midtones more rich and then brought back some brightness. I am sending YG a clean version right now with adjusted levels, so that should give you a good base file to do your own map changes.

@Schroeder:

Hey YG, I understand that you designed the map and you like the boxes there, but maybe the two of you could release a version without them there?  I’m sure everyone would like more options available if it isn’t too much work.

Hi Schroeder, the “clean” file has the ghost boxes removed already, have you had a chance to download and view that file?

@Imperious:

The clean version should just be the map, no air bases, naval, not strip on bottom, no anything. To me that’s clean…OOB

If that’s what you’re looking for, the “clean” file that YG and I provided should give you a good head start. I have no plans to pull further items off the board - I like the bases, income tracker, etc. YG, maybe just rename the clean file to “basic” or something so others won’t get confused? Thanks