Wow, I love that battle board! Great idea having a ‘front line’, ‘support’ and ‘reserves’ sections. All sorts of possibilities here… Larry, take note! :-)
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RE: 2nd Edition, WWII: Struggle for Europe and Asia
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RE: A&A 1914 - Trying to buy the game
A reprint would be fine with me as well, but I’d love a 2nd Edition if they ever do one!
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Technology Markers
Hey guys,
I just made these for A&A Anniversary. What do you think of them? I find in my gaming group that people sometimes forget that they own certain technologies, in spite of the Reserach & Development chart! Feel free to print and use them if you want.
Thanks,
Lozmoid
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RE: The Missing Mechanized Unit: Assault Guns
The German Ferdinand or better known ‘Elephant’ was indeed a powerful Tank Destroyer. I like the rule proposed above for Tank Destroyers firing during the opening fire step, at a 1:1 ratio against attacking enemy Tanks. That’s pretty good.
But what exactly are we trying to achieve in this thread? One type of unit with many different roles? As far as I am aware there were two main kinds of mechanised support units in the tank family: Tank Destroyers and Self-Propelled Artillery. The term ‘Assault Gun’ could possibly be a little ambiguous; however, I have always associated it with the Self-Propelled Artillery unit or ‘SPG’ (Self-Propelled Gun). I guess that in Axis & Allies, it would be called the ‘Mechanised Artillery’ unit, to fall in line with Infantry/Mechanised Infantry.
So as far as I can see we ought to have 3 classes - Tanks, Tank Destroyers and Self-Propelled/Mechanised Artillery/SPG units, each with their own rules. This would pretty much encompass armoured warfare.
Therefore I guess we can create rules for the two new types of units (TDs & SPGs) as they are produced by FMG and HBG. When FMG produced their Italy Combat Units, they included the Semovente 75/18, which is a SPG. What they did not produce was a Tank Destroyer unit, but hopefully this will be rectified by either company in the future.
I would have thought that both TDs and SPGs would have the Blitz rule, for starters. But I think they should otherwise differ in their capabilities.
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RE: A&A 1914 Triplea
Hi guys,
Not sure if this is the right place to post this but thought I’d share with you all a A&A1914 map that I made. It’s pretty much finished now so any thoughts/comments/suggestions would be welcome. Thank you! :-)
Loz