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Posts made by moralecheck
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RE: Too Lazy To Play? Listen to us play!
Where did you get those cool airbases and minor factories? Listened to 47 the other day while surfing the web. Great stuff!
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RE: TripleA 1.6.1.4 stable is released for Christmas 2012!
Donation made. I am looking forward to the new release. With regard to the bug fixes, any luck with the combat window that occasionally fails to open?
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RE: Help Support TripleA Software Development
$10 from me. :-) Thanks for a great app!
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RE: Gold mine for new pieces.
I’m thinking russia is thrown into revolution after lossing a set amount of territories of loss of a set amount of income.
That’s a tad predictable. It would be a little more interesting to have a chit draw starting on turn X. Draw a revolution chit and it happens.
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RE: Gold mine for new pieces.
Regardless of how many of X were built, it was only a military priority that decided how many tanks Germany would make
But that’s what I’m saying. :-) It was not a priority for the Centrals/Triple Alliance. I think it’s fair to say if any nation made them a priority they could have pulled off producing them. So my point still stands, if you want a tank, build a tank.
As a side note, it’s true that Germany captured a small amount of allied tanks (Germany had about 50 tanks, including their own throughout the war and probably much less than that number at any given time), but those tanks were deployed in one’s and two’s where ever they were captured and were not often around long. There was never a mass formation.
For another piece option, Germany did develop anti-tank weapons. Maybe that would be a more interesting piece for the Centrals instead.
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RE: Gold mine for new pieces.
@Imperious:
Tanks: Attack at 3, Defend at 3, Move 1, Cost 6
   Only Britain, France, Italy, Germany and the United States may have tanks. Each tank negates the effects of two entrenched infantry. For example, If you�re attacking with 3 tanks then up to 6 defending entrenched infantry no longer fire preemptively (ignore step 4: defending infantry fire in step 5). In combat, rolling a 6 cause�s one tank to suffer a mechanical breakdown and the unit must retreat from combat. Entrenched infantry are still effected that combat round.What is the reasoning behind the nations allowed? Only France, UK, and Germany had tanks. France and UK built over 2000 each, let’s round down to 4000 (but I think it was closer to 5). As I said at the beginning of this thread, Germany built 20. That’s 0.5% of the allied total. Not really worth mentioning, in terms of quantity.
Also, the German tank was considered an unsuccessful design and did not even appear until the 2nd quarter of 1918, which from an A&A game perspective is the second last turn at best. So it would be more appropriate historically to limit them to France and UK only…
However, that is not what the game is about. Existing A&A games allow completely ahistorical builds that are commonly used by players. Japanese and Italian mech inf jump to mind right away.
It also more then reasonable to assume that other powers had tank designs in the works (Russian Tsar tank, for example) that may well have appeared if production priorities were different. I’m sure several people at the time were more concerned with keeping higher artillery production a priority. I don’t think the capability to manufacture a tank was a problem for any of the powers.
I think we should take precedent from previous A&A titles and keep it simple. If you want a tank, build a tank. :)
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RE: Carrier Mobilization
Geez, I feel guilty now. I was only kidding. I did not mean to reveal a new sleaze tactic. :-( :oops:
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RE: Gold mine for new pieces.
Larry has already said Germany will be grey. That’s the only colour hint so far.
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RE: Gold mine for new pieces.
If the allied tank is the french FT-17, it will be really useful. It is considered the first modern tank. Thousands were made during WWI and they served throughout WWII and a bit beyond. Several minor powers, axis and allied, had them in use as well as France. Even Japan and the Philippines had purchased some in the inter war years. Germany captured over 1,700 after the fall of France and used them mostly there, seeing action at Dieppe and after D-Day. 4 were even found in Afghanistan in 2003 (though long retired).
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RE: Carrier Mobilization
To put a finer point on this (and since we also ended up discussing carrier movement in addition to placing one), it doesn’t even have to be “likely” for there to be a landing place, just a non-zero chance.
For instance: If the only way a carrier can make it to pick up planes at the end of their range is for you to win a battle with 1 sub against 146 battleships and then the carrier NCMs through the cleared seazone for the planes to land, then that’s a valid landing place as long as you attack with that sub…
hmmmm…once the combat phase starts, could the attacking sub submerge instead of firing?
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RE: $32.99
The 1st Ed’s are 32.99. Most Toys R Us’s have them still. Look behind the 2nd Eds on the shelf. The ones out here just covered the old ones with the new.
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RE: Looking forward to this new addition
I’m curious to see what the rules for tanks will be. Tanks did not appear until the last half of the war and were pretty much only used by the allies (a couple thousand). The only central power to use them was Germany….who made 20.
I would have liked a cavalry unit or even an airship. I’m sure it will be a fun game though. Looking forward to it.
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RE: AAG40 FAQ
He didn’t say tanks and planes, he just said artillery, I think
yada yada yada. armor piercing shells then.
Well if the factory is captured, there’s a reasonable chance the tools and dies that Japan was using to make their equipment was captured with it. But that was not the point…
I think his point was that the factory that Japan built is immediately removed even if Japan retakes the territory right away. The massive infrastructure upgrade to the territory simply vanishes.
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RE: Unit Abreviations
I’ve used FTR for fighters. FIG is stuck in my head as “Figure”.
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RE: Classic Piece Identification
Pretty sure the fighter is Japanese. I think the ships are generic.
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RE: Question about Canada
They count as UK for all purposes and are already included in the UK total. Â It’s just eye candy.
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RE: Preview Copies of 1940 Second Edition Arrived
That’s great news that it is a gun free version! :-D
You made my day!!!
I just saw the pics of all the new mech inf units, they are all gun free. I feel bad for even doubting… :-(
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RE: Board Game Pieces
You got your German cruisers and destroyers reversed, but no biggie. Those paint jobs are incredible. Painting the national emblem so perfectly on each piece must have been so painful to do.
Well done!
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RE: Tiger tanks molded in the Japanese Colour.
I have the corrected version. The unit profiles were corrected but they still missed:
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All other silhouettes used throughout the book are the classic ones that don’t match the pieces in the game.
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The example picture on P.11 uses artillery and AA, neither of which are in the game.
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The way aircraft are assigned to carriers on the setup charts is written differently for the USA then it is for the British and Japanese.
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Most important…the set up chart for the USA still says 15.
Maybe we’ll see a third version soon. :mrgreen:
I still have yet to play it (I got it this week), but I’m looking forward to it.
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