From what I read in the book and here, on normal moving, nondisrupted, a vehicle or a person doesn’t have to pay a movement point to change directions.  By that I mean I don’t have to take a point to turn within a hex and then move forward, taking more points, turn (taking a point), and so on.

Is that right?

What about shooting?  Can a vehicle facing, say, the top right of a hex, shoot the top left direction too?  What about straight up the middle between hexes with a good line of sight?

Is it the same for men?  Thanks for help.

I am buying the minis for someone else for a gift.  I know they have the starter set and one booster.  Do I need to continue to buy the base set or “reserves”?  Something else? Thank you.

I was looking and saw d-day had cards.  Do the cards add a nice mechanic?  I like Memoir '44 and the cards and while I like the Axis and Allies Revised, I get bored sometimes.

Is D-Day just as long a game as the regular A&A?

Is D-Day the only A&A with cards?

Thanks.

@Micoom:

Luck can be a big factor yes! Dice can be very hard on you…  My last game I attacked 5INF, 3ARM, 2FIG, with 6INF, 3ARM, 7FIG, 1BOM.  I  made zero hits on the INF. and only 1 hit on the 10 three’s and also missed with the bomber. Then my opponent made 4 hits out of five on the INF and hit with all his ARM and FIG. He made 9 hits, I only one. BTW I was Japan, he Russia…  and it was from Sinkiang into Novobirisk…

I saw some of the expansions of A&A have cards.  Do they offset the luck factor of the dice?

@The:

You can believe whatever makes you feel nice and cozy. Thats what religion is for. To hide your head in the sand while the world goes about its way with all of the violence and suffering and death that is involved. I dont care about what a religious persons version of the world is. If people want to live in a cartoon Universe where anything is possible,so be it. But when you start to enact local,state and federal laws based on biblical nonsense or have national policy based on armegeddon and the “end times”,thats when I will confront the religious nuts head on.  People have been saying the end of the world is right around the corner for two thousand years and yet here we are. Question: Does anyone here remember 500 years ago? Answer: No because you were dead.
                    Its odd that no-one has mentioned my criticism of Genesis. But I know why. No-one can rationally explain all the fantastic lapses in logic concerning it. I am always amazed how frightened people are to question the beliefs they were taught as children. As we mature,we eventually let go of Santa,tooth fairies, the boogey man. But we cling to these afterlife things and are afraid to let go of them. Its completely understandable,though. It takes a strong person to accept the fact that life is random and this mortal life is all that there is. Any wimp can say " I believe!! I believe despite what is in front of my eyes!!". Faith is a weakness of the human mind. What is the difference,really, if a scientist says " You are just an ape that evolved from slime over billions of years " or a christian preacher saying “You are just dirt that sins.” They are both quite depressing,except we have massive evidence for one (evolution)and scant,pathetic,mostly written evidence for the other.Christians now-a-days should really take history lessons about the church because there is a lot they can learn. They seem to think that the church just tolled bells,had mass and everyone was happy for the last two millenia. Actually,they were involved in some of the most heinous crimes in histroy,including the Holocaust,slavery and stealing money and labor from the poor to build their eyesores. 
                                              I would be a believer if there was the evidence for it. If there were THE BIBLE,the one-and-only unaltered BIBLE,where I could go and look at it,kind of like the Declaration of Independence and say to myself " This is THE BIBLE,the ORIGINAL BIBLE,completely written in its scribble-dot-dash format (not English of course) yet there it is. It cannot be burned or pages torn out because this is THE BIBLE,the LITERAL WORD OF GOD and cannot be destroyed or altered ,no matter what a mortal does to it. Is there such a thing? No. The Bible,especially the New Testament,was written over hundreds of years,edited,diluted,re-copied in error by monks,so it is just a plain old book. Nothing special.

What method do you use to determine the veracity of ancient documents?  You seem to have a lot of knowledge in the area of ancient manuscripts, and I wanted to know what methodology you have used to arrive at your conclusions.  But let’s forget the ancient writings in the Bible for the moment.  I’m curious how you apply your thought to other documents of antiquity and the outcome of your investigation(s).  Please explain.  There are many other documents that could be discussed besides those in the modern day Bible.

Understand:  I am not arguing about whether a given text is "the word of God."  Instead, I am simply talking about old documents.  I am sure that in school past/present you have discussed “old” texts besides the Old and New Testaments.  I just want to know why you know what you know.  Forget about the religious part of it.

I also see your talking about faith again despite not answering a word of what I said about it.  Again, it is not the idea of “faith,” but the object of it that is what should be argued about.

Also, I looked back through your posts and couldn’t find an argument about Genesis to answer.  Sorry if I missed it.

@ncscswitch:

They are land unit build/combat ratios.

First number INF, second ART, third ARM

I know it’s obvious, but what is ARM?

I’m sorry.  Trying to follow, but what would 3:1:1 mean?

3 inf, 1 art, 1 something?

Thanks.

@critmonster:

well johnny, i guess your sylable count chased them away  :lol:

its a pitty, because i was looking froward to some more stories :mrgreen:

I can say that I never intended to start a fuss.  I really just thought it and typed it.  Thought maybe it was thought provoking enough the get someone to consider what those dice really represent, even though A&A is more abstract.

@critmonster:

Posted by: froodsterÂ

Quote from: johnny on January 24, 2007, 05:40:19 PM
“By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained the testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts, and through faith, though he is dead, he still speaks” Hebrews 11:4 - Abel - victim of Godless philosophy (see above above quote for details.)

It is funny how Abel’s “philosophy which rejects them” not only can hope to stand, but has stood for a very long time.  I doubt Bertrand Russell’s words will be around as long as Abel’s.

Maybe not, but neither will be around after the sun gets blowed up. Which will prove Bertrand’s point quite nicely, only none of us will be there to know it…  Â

if your right, maybe so.  if i’m right, maybe no

What that poster may not realize is that It’s not like Bertrand Russell came up with something new.  All he did was express in his language what Solomon did a long time ago in Ecclesiastes:  “All is vanity.”

“There is nothing new under the sun.”

@axis_roll:

@Sankt:

@axis_roll:

You are admittedly relatively new to the game, so have some faith in the veterans of this game.  Dice b*ing is common in this game… and I admit there are times when no matter what you do, the dice will not let you win.

If this invariability is still too much for you to deal (with your chess background), I would suggest you either play Low Luck games or some other variant that relies more on strategy rather than dice roll…

Haha, you are wonderfully arrogant! I know I’m relatively new to the game, but winning that doubles tournament has got to count for something? And getting to the bronze final in last year’s singles? (Though I withdrew prior to the match)

Regretfully I have no chess background and I dislike LowLuck in its current form. Something called MediumLuck or something would be more my thing, but I’m settled with luck being a big part of the game. 90% to be precise! 

My apologies, I confused you with the originator of this thread Johnny.

It’s just something to get used to. The game still requires much strategy, but I believe the strategy based around superior forces, their hit and the luck.