This year Dragonflight will be August 8th through the 10th at the Bellevue Hilton.
The website is http://www.dragonflight.org/#/
There will be constant wargaming, with a section set aside for A&A.
This year Dragonflight will be August 8th through the 10th at the Bellevue Hilton.
The website is http://www.dragonflight.org/#/
There will be constant wargaming, with a section set aside for A&A.
I’d totally be interested in buying one of these maps, if Honolulu were on the correct island. :-D
What an awesome board! Gotta put Honolulu on the correct island, though.
I’m willing to drive up from Washington to play sometime. Let me know on here when you have a game going.
Toblerone,
Ever go to Guardian Games down there in Portland at all? I stop in there whenever I’m in town. Our next meetup game is June 1st in Puyallup. It’ll be Global '40 with a few n00b players.
I personally like to go to Fantasium in Federal Way or Game Matrix here in Lakewood. Most games are played at MSG in northern Seattle.
Spring '42 2nd edition. Looks like they got the setup right. I’ll have to check this episode out.
Yeah, and don’t get me started on why Siam doesn’t touch Malaya.
I’m down, as I enjoy playing A&A with you guys. I’m hoping for Mountain View.
Do you think we will ever get a 1940 board where Honolulu is on the correct island? This seems like a joke that’s getting old. Even 2nd edition didn’t solve it. Nothing a google search can’t handle.
Love your set. We should compare notes sometime.
BTW, if you want to add more flavor, a Soviet cruiser, destroyer, and a few submarines in SZ 5 is warranted.
I’m of the opinion that both mines and unrestricted submarine warfare should be a D12 ala Battle Of The Bulge.
Mines only hit on a 1 when rolling a D12.
For USW, having any Central Powers warship or sub adjacent to Britain or Ireland allows you to roll a D12 on both the UK and USA income phases. You only get one die regardless of how many warships/subs you have. No diplomatic effects. That would make a USA Turn 6 declaration playable, since it nerfs their income.
Here’s my wish list for a possible 2nd edition of this game. Feel free to reply with your own.
1) Eliminate Africa - What’s the point of hogging more than half the board? Nothing interesting happens there. The only part of Africa you need is Egypt, and only so that Britain and the Ottomans can fight in the Middle East and Dardanelles. They did it perfectly with the original A&A: Europe board.
Add East Prussia - The map of Europe needs to be expanded regardless, but Poland at least should not touch the Baltic Sea. The Russians should want to attack East Prussia and Galicia on their first turn. Instead they just pile up guys in Russia.
One Round Naval Combat - I like what they did with land combat, so why not do the same in the sea? It would only make sense that Ships wouldn’t just have at each other until one side is destroyed. You could also eliminate mine fields, have planes increase the attack of your cruisers like they do artillery, and simplify the rulebook at the same time.
Increase The Scope- Having one turn equal one year is ridiculous. The US shouldn’t enter the war until about Turn 6. Remove the unrestricted submarine warfare rule that allows the US to declare war and just make it Turn 6. Then we might acutally have some USW.
More German U-boats- At the height of the campaign, the Germans were sinking over 500,000 tons of Allied shipping with the U-boats. They need to make subs cheaper and put more on the board for every country, especially Germany. Russia, France, Italy, the Austro-Hungarians, and Britain should have at least one sub at the start of the game. Right now no one ever buys them, so make them 4 bucks apiece.
Eliminate Neutrals- They should just be impassable. The only exception might be Belgium, since the Germans should want to go through there, but they could just make it a British space and call it a day. The same with Romania (Russian) and Bulgaria (should be Austro-Hungarian). What’s the point?
Add More Austrians - One the Germans go through Belgium, the France player should be quaking in his boots. It should all be about stopping the Germans from getting to Paris. A one-two punch with the Austrians through Belgium should be the way to go.
Make Most Of The Tournament Rules Permanent- The time limit and economic collapse has to go, but the railways (move two through friendly) and political collapse should stay. The railways should be printed on the board to let you know you can move two spaces along those routes. Simplify collapses and say each nation has a certain will to fight, and if this number of its territories are taken it bows out of the war. Print that number on the board by its capital, or on its setup chart. For Britain and Germany this number should be impossibly high, for the Austrians and Russians it should be low. To make it fair, once a power is out of the war, its remaining territories can’t be taken anymore and are impassable.
Unique Pieces- They’ve had unique pieces for every country in every A&A game since 1999. What the hell what this all about? They really mailed this one in.
Navy Battle Board- Makes naval combat much simpler, in my opinion. I shouldn’t have to pick up the rulebook every time we have a big navy fight to see what my ships hit at.
In brief, I was expecting a WWI version of the original A&A: Europe and instead of the steak I got the salmon. I hope Larry reads this.
No problem, we’re always in search of fresh blood.
Most of our players are tied up in Global 1940 games on the weekends right now, but if you join the meetup you can schedule a 1942 game. There’s a few players out there still.
Just wanted to remind everyone that anyone in the Puget Sound area is free to join our Meetup group. It’s called Tacoma Axis & Allies. I know there’s a game or two this weekend, and we usually meet once a month or so.
Otherwise there’s always Metro Seattle Gamers and Dragonflight Con.
See you around.
I really don’t like the French-Indo China part of this NO. The Japanese going into Indo-China wasn’t the only reason for the ABCD embargo. They should lose the bonus in Turn 2 no matter what they do, due to the war in China.
That’s just my two cents.
Aaron,
The only place I really found to play is at Pacificon. Sign up early, because the spots go quick.
Also Djensen lives around there. Jay and him get together sometimes and play in SF.
I moved to Seattle. Good luck.
-Robin
It is. Nice job conquering the world, btw.
No political rules, no NOs. Try it sometime. It’s fun.
I’ve found a few folks, actually. We’ve only played one game of '42.2 so far. I know they’ll be playing '14 this Sunday. Let us know when you get into town.
See the title question. It appears to touch a part of Belgium (Calais, perhaps?). This doesn’t appear to be in the FAQ.