@Lozmoid:

Thanks for that, Greg. I sure hope we get some official answers/errata soon from Krieg soon.

It’s such a shame that Larry can’t just take a look at a prototype sample of a given game before it’s released! I’m sure ANY other board game company could do a better job than WotC… I just wish they cared.  :-(

I believe most of the time he does.  Just sometimes things fall through the cracks and things get sent out before his stamp of approval goes on it.  You guys are perfectionist and that makes it tough on all of us when it comes to AA.  I know that from my standpoint, it would be very nice if we lived in a perfect world were things could be just as is and it made everyone happy.  But the reality of it is that, WotC is a company and looks at it from a business standpoint.  Whatever that means?

All I am saying is that I am not sure ANY other board game company could do better than WotC?

Peace,
Gregory J. Smorey
Axis & Allies Event Organizer/GM - GEN CON/Origins/Spring Gathering
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“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself” - MacArthur

I plan to use mine for the 1941 game.

Australia 3 territories, British malaya and Morocco separated… but china shrinks to 4 territories from Anniversary Edition… why can’t they just give us a fine map with the best from both !?  :?

so far I’m still calling them AA guns.

@Most:

I don’t know if it would fit under AAA or regular artilary but I’d love to know if there is a katusha sculpt.

The Katyusha would fit more in the role of self-propelled artillery than anything else. By the way, I’ve seen the new Russian sculpts at HBG.com. They all look fantastic and the Katyusha is really cool.

The map is indeed bigger - I think a good size, in fact. There is still along the top of the map a place to track IPCs which I think could have been done without.

OOB - no tech, no NOs.

MM

@Variable:

I happen to be a fully vested lemming that must buy everything with Larry’s name on it. Did my pre-order for 1 each. Bummer about getting them together is having to wait until July to get them when the second game comes out. On the plus side, added a pre-order for the new Fortress America and got free shipping on the lot. July is gonna rock and I will be buried in plastic!

That is awesome

@Global-commander:

@Hobbes:

@Imperious:

He can play poker with 1941. His point is are the two games just different versions 41 and 42 of the same game, same rules?

The games are not compatible and are stand alone games with no relation.

I understood that he is expecting that the new ruleset would be the same for 1942 2nd Ed.

Anyways, he can play poker or he can take the 1941 ruleset and try it on Spring 1942 2nd Edition. I’ve done it myself with Spring 1942 1st Ed. :) did it shorten the game?

What shortens the game on 1941 is the smaller map and the reduced income. The changes in game play (no strat bombing, etc.) have no almost no effect on the speed of play.

@freshwatergame:

Is this the second edition to the very first AA game ever put out? Its spring 1942… I think about early 80s.

This is to be the second edition of the 2009 game, A&A 1942.

The game from the 80’s is commonly referred to as Classic.

@jim010:

Agreed.  My game Europe at War I decided to use the same stule of colouring for ease of use.  The original is the most player friendly.  (Battle of the Bulge - even though I like it - is the most player unfriendly map I have seen from them)

Bulge isn’t very aesthetical but I think that is due to more to the hex system, still it could use some colour but then again the battle was fought in the middle of winter…

But Spring 1942 1st Edition has the worst board of the games I own. Size, everything seems to be crammed into it (IPC chart) and the borders in Europe aren’t very clear.

A sub can choose to attack an enemy sub yes, but……

The enemy sub can choose to:

Submerge thus ending the combat and living to fight another day or… Fight, both subs get a first shot I believe and could destroy each other.  Perhaps the sub is performing convoy escort duty for transports and decided to fight to protect the transports.

Of course the presence of destroyers on either side will modify this sequence.