@crsluggo I think you are right about those carriers being Russian. If I were in their shoes, I’d reuse sculpts as well. They already have them, no need to re-invent the wheel.
-M_R
@crsluggo I think you are right about those carriers being Russian. If I were in their shoes, I’d reuse sculpts as well. They already have them, no need to re-invent the wheel.
-M_R
@Lydian said in Meet your new Axis & Allies Game, now with G.I. Joe:
a few pictures can be found here
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/events/gexpo24-2/?fbclid=IwAR0Fh0hf4yZcHddXiv2Q_T9pxVpJDz-xKzKZJ4QIjSahpfo9U0KlYqIJ-Xo
I think I spy, with my little eye, a re-used US Cruiser sculpt, in Red, White, and Blue, serving as a game piece in the G.I. Joe arctic attack game.
Plus, I think having a map of the high arctic can make for an interesting new map to play variant A&A games. I think I will be picking this up.
-M_R
@HankScorpio I send you a private message with my email address.
-M_R
@AndrewAAGamer said in Where did Dave go?:
I hope I am not breaking a confidence. I saw he posted on the North Africa Play Testers website just this morning.
That tells me that he’s all right. That’s the more important half of what I was asking. If he’s too busy for here, then I hope whatever is keeping him from here dissipates before too long.
-M_R
I’ve been trying to reach @djensen for a bit now. His profile says he hasn’t been online in 29 days. Does anybody know where he is and if he’s doing okay?
-Midnight_Reaper
@djensen I just attempted to support at the Gold level. Do please let me know if you don’t receive it.
-Midnight_Reaper
@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Meet your new Axis & Allies Game, now with G.I. Joe:
I feel like you’re on the wrong thread.
@SuperbattleshipYamato No, I rather suspect he’s just where he wants to be. He apparently thinks he would be of more use helping to playtest this “A&A meets G.I. Joe” game than the A&A North Africa game he is currently playtesting.
I don’t know if that’s true, but a man is always entitled to his own opinion.
-Midnight_Reaper
Renegade games announced last Friday that they are releasing a new G.I. Joe game, set in the Arctic and using, “the Axis & Allies gameplay engine”.
So, new “Axis & Allies” type game - but Renegade has very carefully stated that this is not a new A&A game, but a game from a different IP. Just a game that will play out similarly to A&A.
I think this could be interesting, especially with the new map (the High Arctic) and modern-ish pieces. But I can see people complaining already.
-Midnight_Reaper
@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Underpowered Axis?:
I think Japan shouldn’t have attacked the US in real life. Declaring war only increased American public morale and support for the war (massively).
(snip)
I think you are confusing a specific example with general principles. For the Axis, it is important to give serious thought into when and where to strike that hard, (hopefully) decisive blow.
Yes, Japan attacking the US was a poor decision. It was rationalized as necessary to prevent the US from using the Philippines as a base to strangle their supply lines from the oil fields in the Dutch East Indies to the Home Islands.
But rationalization does not a good idea make. In A&A, the player is given the chance to rewrite history. If you think that attacking the US is a poor idea, then don’t attack the US. Wait for them to come to you. Build up your forces in the mean time. And hopefully your strategy prevails. The other side gets to rewrite history as well.
-M_R
@SuperbattleshipYamato Sorry for the late reply. Whether it is better to attack first or wait for a later time to attack depends on the circumstances - in war there are no absolutes.
In WWII, the Axis had to attack first - if for no other reason than the war wasn’t going to start until someone kicked it off, and the Allies (for the most part) weren’t attacking anyone. As in A&A, in the real WWII the Axis had more military force and the will to use it. The Allies could trade space for time, but only for so long. They needed to use this time to train and equip their new forces for the fight against the Axis.
And so, for the Axis (in both A&A and in real life) it is better to attack first - hitting hard and fast and not letting up. After all: “You come at the king, you best not miss.”
-Midnight_Reaper
@iwillnevergrowup I’m sorry to hear that you are leaving. You’ve been a great supportor of A&A and a good person. I’ll miss you and your shop.
-Midnight_Reaper
@kwaspek104 The Internet Archive gets you almost all of the way there. If this is helpful, you should drop a dollar or five in their tip cup. Preserving the whole internet is not cheap.
At the following link is the 15th and last article Mike Selinker wrote about the upcoming A&A Revised:
So, where are the other 14? Well, 13 of them are linked at the bottom of the page. There is a link to preview 6 (Research and Development) but that link doesn’t work (nobody ever saved it to the Archive).
That should be all that you need. IF you really have a pressing need for that R&D article, I can try harder to dig it up.
-Midnight_Reaper
@barnee said in Does anybody have the Mike Selinker articles for Revised?:
@kwaspek104 you might ask @Midnight_Reaper He’s quite knowledgeable about stuff.
I feel seen. I remember those articles. They were up on the Avalon Hill site for quite a while. Let me see what I can dig out of the back corner of the Internet.
-Midnight_Reaper
@daviousthebad said in Buy A&A Jedko Edition:
@birthofiron Hi there. I don’t have any expansion pieces. Just the original game.
He was talking to me. I will take care of this.
@birthofiron said in Buy A&A Jedko Edition:
I am looking for a France/China expansion piece sheet for the Nova/Jedko version of Axis and Allies. Thought I would reach out in the hopes that you might still have one available.
~BirthOfIron
I sent you a private message, we can talk there.
-Midnight_Reaper
@kaleu said in On this day during W.W. 2:
March 5, 1943: first flight of the Gloster Meteor, the Allies’ only operational jet plane during WW2, from RAF Cranwell.
While the Meteor was in much greater use during WW2, the P-80 Shooting Star had: “two pre-production models … see very limited service in Italy just before the end of World War II”
Wiki P-80 Shooting Star
-Midnight_Reaper
Go find a friend in Australia who is willing to look through old game lots over there. Or, search eBay on the regular. Other than that, I don’t know how or where.
-Midnight_Reaper
Definitely interested in seeing what you come up with!
-Midnight_Reaper
Another, even bolder way to avoid Infantry blobs - hard limits.
Let us build a system where infantry stats are the same, but a power can only have so many of them. I would think that using the same number for all powers would not work right, so different levels it is. The following numbers are just for example, using A&A 1942, 2nd Ed. In this case, I will take starting infantry and gave the allies x3 and the axis x2. This is most likely not the best system, just the one I came up with.
USSR: 21x3=63
Germ: 29x2=58
Japan: 25x2=50
Unit.K: 15x3=45
USofA: 14x3=42
Whether this is better system or worse would need to be tested. But I think it would give that rare synergy between historically appropriate and game balancing.
-Midnight_Reaper
@the-captain In the pictures you presented of your painting technique, I spy some old pieces - specifically, some of the old Table Tactics pieces - landing craft, jeeps, and land mines. Are those original or reproductions? If they are reproductions, how / where did you get them made? Or is this just an old picture?
I would dearly love to find a new source for those old pieces, now more than 20 years old…
-Midnight_Reaper
@barnee said in Axis and Allies PC game:
@tjw0099 right on yea I’ve heard of it but never played it. I thought there was a thread for it here but … ? Lets ask @Midnight_Reaper he’s quite knowledgeable about all the games
I thank you for your confidence, but the computer A&A games are not my strong suite. Ask about the physical board games and I’m there, though.
Good luck getting your answers all the same.
-Midnight_Reaper