Axis & Allies Anniversary upgraded version

[LHoffman]

Awesome cards. Nice aesthetic and callback to NAs in Revised.

Minor quip: “Powerful Battleships” may be more appropriately named “Super Battleships”, at least that is often what the Yamatos were described as. “Powerful” implies offensive strength, whereas the advantage is related to defensive resilience.

[Dagon81]

@LHoffman was thinking the same…even though the advantage is called Most Powerful Battleships in the Revised Ed… changed it… also the Flying boats its now Sub-Hunters, makes more sense as I definitely wanted a de Havilland tactical bomber on the image… :)

[General 6 Stars]

Ya I already had Tacs hitting surfaced subs @3. If you get the card/NA Sub Hunters your Tac bombers now can hit surfaced subs @4 first round of combat. Destroyer present Sub can still dive after Tac bomber attack but then Destroyer gets a depth charge attack. Depth Charge attack could be another NA card for your game or AA50.

Just to clarify I use a D12 system dice. But also use d6, d8, d10. list I use in case of confusion if I post more pics of cards.
D6 = roll for 2 NA’s at start of game and roll for tech breakthru.
D8 = SBR Stg Bomber roll 1d8+1, NA/card German Tac SBR roll 1d8 Damage and ship repairs 1D8.
D10 = SBR H Bombers roll 1d10+1, roll for your 1 tech on a 10 tech chart tree.
Tacs can also take out AA guns. 1d12 @3.

Didn’t mean to go off topic a bit.

Thanks Dagon again for your awesome cards.

I’ll post more pics when I get rest of cards.

[General 6 Stars]

By the way with the Stg Bombers SBR at d8+1 is making the game have more bombing in it because the reward is having a chance to do max damage with 1 bomber. But everything facility in game has a max damage to it. At least you can bomb max damage on minor IC, AN bases, Oil derricks, train stations, train tracks and resources.

[LHoffman]

@Dagon81 said in Axis & Allies Anniversary upgraded version:

@LHoffman was thinking the same…even though the advantage is called Most Powerful Battleships in the Revised Ed… changed it… also the Flying boats its now Sub-Hunters, makes more sense as I definitely wanted a de Havilland tactical bomber on the image… :)

Nice! I was trying to wrap my head around a Hornet or Mosquito on a Flying Boats card and understood your intent, but I think what you changed to works better overall.

Again, great set of cards. I followed Young Grasshopper’s Delta card deck with great interest a few years ago and have been collecting art to create my own at some point. But this set is very simple, is based in established A&A legacy and the aesthetic matches perfectly with the A&A brand.

The German Advanced Research card is genius, both in the illustration chosen and the reasoning behind the card. Easily my favorite.

[Dagon81]

@LHoffman said in Axis & Allies Anniversary upgraded version:

@Dagon81 said in Axis & Allies Anniversary upgraded version:

@LHoffman was thinking the same…even though the advantage is called Most Powerful Battleships in the Revised Ed… changed it… also the Flying boats its now Sub-Hunters, makes more sense as I definitely wanted a de Havilland tactical bomber on the image… :)

Nice! I was trying to wrap my head around a Hornet or Mosquito on a Flying Boats card and understood your intent, but I think what you changed to works better overall.

Again, great set of cards. I followed Young Grasshopper’s Delta card deck with great interest a few years ago and have been collecting art to create my own at some point. But this set is very simple, is based in established A&A legacy and the aesthetic matches perfectly with the A&A brand.

The German Advanced Research card is genius, both in the illustration chosen and the reasoning behind the card. Easily my favorite.

Thanks, glad you like it ;) I believe the biggest challenge was with the Free French cards and a getting a dynamic mechanism for these. The idea for the Flying boats card was to have a Short Sunderland aircraft on the image but the British A&A tactical bomber is a Mosquito… so went for a pic of this one instead…but the title doesnt match… I think sub-hunters is a broader term and makes more sense altogether. Otherwise… this would be the card:

[General 6 Stars]

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[General 6 Stars]

Just putzin.

[General 6 Stars]

A ton of options out there.

[Hambone]

Like the Bismark idea. As a matter of fact, the whole “event” type house rule is pretty sweet.

[LHoffman]

Giving the Bismarck-class equivalency with the Yamato’s certainly isn’t accurate. And IMO cheapens an exclusive NA to Japan - if that is part of your game.

[General 6 Stars]

No I don’t have either NA battleships for Germany or Japan. I was just playing around but if I did then I would differently get a Yamo card in game.

[General 6 Stars]

Be like Bismarck takes 3 hits and Yamo A D +1 plus takes 3 hits

[LHoffman]

@SS-GEN Ah, gotcha. That is reasonable.

[Imperious Leader]

Well using the template the aesthetic of going outside the text boxes is really ugly. We need people to make alot more cards including alot more Italian ones and about a dozen minimum for each side in global 40. Im working on 1914 cards using that template. But please make them INSIDE THE TEXT BOX PLEASE.

[General 6 Stars]

You talking to me IL ?

[Imperious Leader]

Well in general no, but that Bismarck thing looks terrible’

[General 6 Stars]

Happy happy happy. It was just a quick design and show. Not final or official.
Your chill pills are getting weak again. :relaxed:

[robert t]

@SS-GEN I have found when posting artwork that people don’t what the word mock-up/rough/prototype/draft/… mean.

They think everything is final art or written in stone.:white_frowning_face:

[Dagon81]

@Imperious-Leader said in Axis & Allies Anniversary upgraded version:

We need people to make alot more cards including alot more Italian ones and about a dozen minimum for each side in global 40.

12 is too much for most powers… You’ll end up with non sense “National Advantages”… Even more difficult for the Italians… ;)