On 2002-01-14 08:40, Major_Damage wrote:
…and under each category you could have sub-categories of “rules”, and whatever else.

BUT…be aware! Don’t go overboard…you don’t want to turn this lovely discussion board into a maze of broken up topics spread out everywhere. Sometimes trying to make things too simple actually makes things too complex.

Which is probably why things should just be left alone. ;-D

Regards,
Jeff

On 2002-01-10 13:02, Anonymous wrote:
I just got this game and well i am not impressed with the amount of space it has. Tell me how to not use up so much space!

I have a big map file. If you want it email me.

Regards,
Jeff

While I haven’t played in many years and just got it for Christmas, I have to say Squad Leader. I like A&A because it’s simple enough to teach someone in a few minutes that you can get to playing relatively soon.

Regards,
Jeff

Just got the CD today! My only question about it so far is how to change the view of the screen. I can’t see the bottom of the screen. (The options for getting out of the game or combat or stuff like that.) Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot and Merry Christmas to everyone.

Regards,
Jeff

On 2001-12-24 07:52, BladeRunner wrote:
Our game group has been looking to do this type of “Expansion” of the game board for some time. Is there places that will enlarge a copyrighted game board for you? Can you do this with low-end color printers and MSPaint? How do you make the .bmp’s bigger? I’d love to get a copy of the file if possible.

The copyrighted thing may be an issue. i really don’t know as I’ve never done it like that. Very costly.
I use a HP Deskjet 612C which is about as lowend as you can get and the copy comes out great. I print it out with MSPaint.
You can enlarge the bmp file with any graphics program that allows you to stretch to size. I’ll email you the file. It’s about 196k zipped up, but it unzips to a 14meg bmp.
None of the territories or seazones are marked, so you’ll have to do that, but it’s not hard at all.

Regards,
Jeff

About the ONLY thing I never cared for in A&A was the fact that you need at least 2 to play a game. Has anyone ever come up with solitare rules? I play solitare A&A all the time, but I can’t really call it that because I’m only rolling up a few battles to test different strategies. The only way to really acomplish this is to provide the best defense possible. For example what you would do against a certain strategy and not so much a limp resistance just to say one was put up. Any one else try this? I’d like to hear a few different ideas on this. Thanks.

Regards,
Jeff

On 2001-12-20 09:13, Major_Damage wrote:
I have authentic uniforms for every nation that i get dressed in before each game that I play. Also before any rolls of the dice I wash the dice in Holy Water to wash away the sins of the previous rolls. And when I lose a game I will fast for seven days, to empty my body of impurities that caused me to lose.
Thats about it….nothing too strange.

Ya know, its funny that you say that because I was seriously thinking of getting one of those German officer SS hats for when I play the Axis.

Regards,
Jeff

On 2001-12-21 23:10, Smash wrote:
Thats right.Your game.A&A.

So?..what have I been missing?
Is it ever too late to start?

I’m mainly a civilization2 player but always looking to expand.I prefer a thinking game to ping,ping zap game.Chess over checkers type thing.

Have I got my hands on the right thing in A&A?

comments?

I’ve never played the CD version of A&A, but Christmas is coming.
If you prefer chess to checkers, you should probably re-consider that. Being a serious chess player, (rating a shade under 1900) I thought the same thing too. Was I wrong. Checkers isn’t the easy game everyone thinks it is.
As for being right about A&A? Well, as I stated before I’ve never played the CD version, but the board version is great. I bought it in 1988 or 1989 and have played on and off since then. After playing D&D and various wargames since about 1979, I felt I needed a change. A&A was exactly what I needed at the time. The rules are simple enough and easy to understand and the game is very modifiable. You can tell this just by the number of expansions and scenarios there are for it. Hope you enjoy it.

Regards,
Jeff

The thing that irks me about this is I just saw about 5 or 6 of Axis & Allies cds in the 10 dollar bin at a Media Play about 3 months ago. You think I could find one NOW?? You can get it bundled with 3 other games. One of the games is Panzer General II, another is one of the Army Men games. I’m holding off on buying it in case I get it for Christmas. If I don’t then I’ll get it even though I really don’t want the other games, but that’s the only place I can seem to find it.

Regards,
Jeff

MGI PhotoSuite for Windows 95. I don’t have anything else other than MS Paint and I use that to print out the bmp files. The good thing about PhotoSuite is it has a stretch to fit option. I’d do the regular A&A board like that, but the bigger you go the picture gets really fuzzy.

Regards,
Jeff