Online game issues (zone)

I opened them using Pages.  Forgot that Microsoft is never backward capatible.  Hurts their profit margin.

Greetings AA Gamers,

Well I can’t believe that it is only 2 weeks away but Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio will be opening its gaming tables on June 25-29.

I will be running all the FTF AA tournaments again as usual.  We will have a new Guadalcanal tourney that may already be sold out (at least that is what I am told?) and all the other great events including the Mega Revised Tournament.

So, if you have not yet said yes to the weekend, now is the time.  You can go to my web site for all the AA details and schedule of events…

http://www.geocities.com/headlesshorseman2/GENCONOriginsTournamentpage.html

Peace,
Greg Smorey  8-)
Axis & Allies Tournament GM - Origins/GEN CON

Oh you can just never tell what the dice will do, I have been part of a axis team (I was japan) that had Russia by turn 7, and a good supply of troops on Western Europe. Things went very very wrong, and by turn 19 I am stacking troops on japan hoping for a break…we lost, and it was a lesson learned - Never ever count on victory in this game until it is done, I think that is the appeal of this game, keeps me playing it anyway.

Hey Ron, go to the “games” forum on this page and observe to your heart’s content.

Try this site
http://www.avalonhill.com/default.asp?x=games/axis

We’re trying to set up a spring PBEM tourney. Check out the games section if you’re interested.
If you’ve never played a PBEM, I can give you the basics if you need them.

"I downloaded A&A Iron Blitz from The underdogs.org and I think its an awesome game. "
I find a major contradiction here. The package is put together soo poorly that it is not even played on the zone, or ever was (cept for the first 2 weeks it ever was spammed).
If you are serious about wanting to play on the zone, you are in for a very big surprise. The bugs that show up in online play in every phase dwarf anything you’ve seen while playing the AI offline. And this is an understatement!

This is true. To get down to the nitty-gritty: as Germany you start the game making 32 IPCs a turn, right? So if it was just you and USSR in a straight fight, you’d waste them in a few turns, right? Problem is you’ve gotta deal with the threat from the Western Allies at the same time–and still have enough money to grind down Russia. That is the tough part. The trick is holding off the Western Allies from invading Europe WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE IPC INVESTMENT, so the vast majority of your IPCs can be spent against USSR. You MUST increase your economy in order to have enough $$$ do do this. The more you can weaken USSR’s buying power, the better–try strategic bombing Karelia and hope you get lucky. Get your ally (Japan) to help by bombing USSR as well. The Allies will gang up on you–gang up on them whenever you can! Watch what USSR buys carefully–it will clue you in to what you need to buy to counter it. Remember as attacker you have the option to retreat–against USSR, at least, any battle where you score more hits against them than they against you can be a victory: the war against USSR is an economic war, and whoever can best manage their resources correctly will get stronger and stronger, while the enemy gets weaker and weaker. And the best advice is to play a few games as the Allies: once you get a feel for their tactics and strategic needs, you will be able to anticipate some of their moves and take measures to counter them.

Ozone27