Solace, another Axis & Allies clone

@crsluggo Thanks for picture.
It is a pity these units are not more ‘same scale’. Still these vehicles seem to be OK when compared to size of Axis and Allies tank.

Just doing another test for the document I’m working on.

http://triton.ironhelmet.com/#landing

This game pits you vs 7 other real anonymous players in a variety of 4X galaxies.

Production gets you ships and technology more or less in real time. 
The income arrives every 24th hour of the game, giving you a turn-based feel.

Game leader board category graphs are also logged on various hourly intervals for that turn-based sense of competitive progress.

The how to’s highly recommend at least a few diplomatic alliances to assist on trading technology research gains.  Up to you whether you honor chat agreements, or stab someone who helped you tech up.

All it takes is a yahoo or google account for login and

Here is a German speaker’s explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0NvAlcW9lw

another view of the prior beta version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eDiYndob5c

Playing a game on this site would need about 3 logins a day , and a game could take 2-3 wks of daily play to resolve.  Cannot login for a few days?  Well, the new ver provides an autopilot empire manager that triggers when you have not entered any commands in over a day.  My brother says the AI for it is v weak, operates only production w no ship movements, and you may only find the neighbors have taken out peripheral chunks or more of your galaxy by the time you log back in.

2 ongoing games are allowed per account. 
You can quit a game in the middle too.  This allows you to join a new galaxy waiting for the full roster of 8 players before starting.

A&A takes about 1 day to finish
this one can take 11-30+

My wife and I took 3 days to drive back from my brothers apartment , and I had many visions of that game during the trip. 
Then I realized that the fleet movements that look like your flight progress views from some of the airline flights very much mimic Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon (visible train movements on the tracks), which was also highly addictive.

I am married.  I plan on staying that way. 
My brother is still single.
I will refrain from this one.

@Monroe:

What are the suggestions for the best WWII Hex & Counter game?

I’m looking for something global (Pacific + Europe) and something just European theatre.

Australian Design Group?  Case Blue? Rise of Third Reich?

Just trying to narrow down some options.

I play the Rise and Decline of The Third Reich for European Theater.

@Cmdr:

If you are talking unofficial, commonly accepted variants, I would say AARe (Enhanced Revised) otherwise, at this point, Anniversary.

Yeah, I agree with Jenn !

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@FieldMarshalGames:

@JamesAleman:

Probably the best strategy game that requires you to “know” your opponents, if you can still find it is Samurai Swords/Shogun.

One of the BEST games ever…  if you can still find it.

I just got rid of my copy not too long ago along with my old copy of the MB game Conquest of the Empire.

We should make a giant outdoor set, like the giant chess sets you see in the mall.

If you want a good Vietnam board game, try out Vietnam 1965-1975.

It is a hex based game, using counters for playing pieces. The game is from the 80’s and you’ll find it on Ebay.

For sure, no game depicts the vietnam war better - with hidden units, ho chi minh infiltration routes.

Beware though, that the Grand Campaign 65-75 takes hundreds and hundreds of hours to play. However, there exist about a dozen smaller scenarios (like the Tet offensive amongst others).