My username is Midnight_Reaper. This came from the tag line of a series of emails I wrote at work in 2006, where I described myself as the Midnight Reaper what Reaps at Midnight. Those were some slow shifts, let me tell you… Later that year, I found the Gaming Motivator list on RPGNet forums. I needed a username to register on the site, so I grabbed Midnight_Reaper. I haven't logged into RPGNet forums in over a decade, so don't look for me there. But my use of that username there led me to pick that name when I went to register here. And now you know.
@Imperious-Leader said in Axis And Allies Anniversary Now Out Of Print:
They are stale leftovers. Nobody with a brain bought that silly game. The game progression is alot of killing with a few pieces left near the end because the reinforcements are too few. So the board is mostly empty spaces, which is not realistic.
You know, that has absolutely nothing to do with whether the game is still being made or not. If you don’t have anything nice to say, go roll some dice instead.
-Midnight_Reaper
@Panther said in Axis And Allies Anniversary Now Out Of Print:
For those searching for a reference, it is here:
https://ah-support.wizards.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000962143-Product-ReplacementThe AH product site still praises the Anniversary Edition as “being back” (instead of “out of print”):
https://avalonhill.wizards.com/avalon-hill-axis-allies-anniversary-edition
What I find most interesting on the list of games that AH supports as current games is Axis & Allies: D-Day. Are they still making new copies of D-Day, or is that just leftover from better days?
-Midnight_Reaper
@CWO-Marc As for what we did and did not have back in 2000, I made a small chart
Unit from Classic (1984)
Aircraft Carrier
Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Battleship
Bomber
Fighter
Industrial Complex
Infantry
Submarine
Tank
Transport
Units Added in Europe / Pacific / Revised (1999/2000)
Artillery
Destroyer
Units Added in Anniversary (2008)
Cruiser
Units Added in Europe 1940 / Pacific 1940 (2009)
Mechanized Infantry
Tactical Bomber
Units Radically Changed in Europe 1940 / Pacific 1940 (2009)
Industrial Complex
Units Radically Changed in the Second Edition games (2012)
Anti-Aircraft Artillery
Units Added in Zombies (2018)
Zombies
So, yes, both a lot already around in 2000 and a lot more still to come.
-Midnight_Reaper
Looking good so far. I eagerly await the final version. For those that happen to like the IPC tracker in the Sahara, will you have an option for them?
-Midnight_Reaper
@buckleyourchinstrap said in Sever down for computer moves?:
Can you tell me where you moved this post to? As you can see I am new here, and from digging around there seems to only be one location for all posts relating to Axis & Allies 1942 2nd Edition.
Well, I think the disconnect is that while there is one place for discussing the game of Axis & Allies 1942 2nd Edition, that place assumes that you are discussing the board game known as Axis & Allies 1942 2nd Edition. It’s just that Axis & Allies 1942 2nd Edition is a board game and as you were complaining about servers being slow / unresponsive you are obviously talking about a computer game.
There are two main-stream ways to play Axis & Allies 1942 2nd Edition on the computer: TripleA and Axis & Allies 1942 Online. The main sub-forum around here for online games of A&A is called Play Online Axis & Allies. There are two main sub-forums under that forum, one for those using TripleA and another for those using Axis & Allies 1942 Online. Follow the links above to see what I mean.
Your post was moved to the Axis & Allies 1942 Online sub-forum, where it is currently the top post. I hope that helps you understand what’s up.
Sincerely,
-Midnight_Reaper
@Imperious-Leader
Here is what I have in my personal files for the piece count for 42 SE:
Unit Count Germany Japan UK USA USSR
Infantry 20 20 20 20 20
Arty 8 6 6 6 8
AAA 8 8 8 8 8
Tank 12 6 8 6 10
Germany Japan UK USA USSR
Fighter 8 8 8 8 8
Bomber 4 4 6 6 2
Germany Japan UK USA USSR
Carrier 2 4 2 4 2
Battleship 2 4 4 4 2
Cruiser 4 4 4 4 2
Destroyer 6 6 6 6 4
Submarine 6 6 6 6 4
Transport 6 6 6 6 4
Germany Japan UK USA USSR
Source: http://www.axisandallies.org/p/axis-allies-1942-2nd-edition-preview-contents-of-the-box/
I hope that helps.
-Midnight_Reaper
That link doesn’t work for me, and since it points to rules named “World_at_War_3.1.pdf” I doubt that it will resolve to what he wants. I sent him a copy I have of the rules, so his request has been taken care of.
-Midnight_Reaper
@Rick2345 said in Axis and Alies Jedko Games version:
@Midnight_Reaper Hi Midnight - I am also interested in playing Axis and Allies using the original rules - are you able to provide a PDF of the original rules? Many thanks if you are able to share these
If you go to the website I linked you will find a page dedicated to the Nova Games edition of Axis & Allies. One of the first links on the page - labeled “File:A&A Nova Games Edition-Rules.pdf” - is a link to the rules you are looking for. Good luck.
-Midnight_Reaper
@greyingrocker said in New player. Run out of infantry:
Hi I’m a new player and have a question. At the start of my turn if I wanted to buy 2 infantry but No infantry pieces were off the board at the start of my turn. Can I buy them knowing I will lose 2 in battle round. This goes for any piece as well. Do they have to be available off board. It seems like your very limited with 8 infantry
The number of pieces in a copy of A&A 1941 is limited, trust us. You can buy two more infantray at the start of your round, and then you have some options:
The game is what you make of it - there is no Game Police and no one will arrest you for having fun “the wrong way”.
-Midnight_Reaper
@CWO-Marc said in HISTORICAL DECALS for American Carriers.:
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CV-4, Ranger, was America’s first purpose-built carrier, and was twice as fast as Langley, but was about 10,000 tons smaller than the Yorktown class, and as I recall most or all of her WWII service was in the Atlantic/Mediterranean theatre, against two countries (Germany and Italy) with no operational fleet carriers in their navies.
Admiral King, the chief of the US Navy during World War II, wanted to refit the Ranger and send her to the Pacific. When his staff told him that the refit would cost just as much as a new-build Essex-class carrier, he changed his mind. The Ranger would be the only US carrier that was in commission on December 7th, 1941, to not face the Japanese Navy in World War II. Of course, not facing the Japanese Navy in no way prevented the Ranger from seeing action in World War II, just in the North African and European theaters.
-Midnight_Reaper