Confirmed: NOT a joke, game will be released

@Koningstiger:

You forgot to mention D-DAY as a unique game.

But I agree, it’s high time for a truly new game: Stalingrad, Kursk (that’s where the new Tiger miniatures would come in handy!), market garden. It seems to me there’s very little creativity within WoTC. Sad, really.

However, i might buy the new game for the new pieces, but I already passed on A&A 1942. The only game I might actually still buy along the same lines and be truly happy with it is A&A 1939. After all, that’s when the war started and not in '40,m '41 or '42.

I would like to see a North Africa version of the game, perhaps including the Med as well. Maybe have the Axis take Malta so they can get Rommel the proper supplies and reinforcements to kick Montgomery’s butt (ha ha). Heck, maybe the Italians could beat the Brits in the first place. They outnumbered them something like 4-1 or more. Yet the Brits kicked their butts something fierce. Seems like something wrong there to me.
Anyway, I have heard that Larry Harris has no intention of ever making a North Africa game so I guess I’m out of luck there. Would be cool to have more Italian involvement though.

@knp7765:

@Koningstiger:

You forgot to mention D-DAY as a unique game.

But I agree, it’s high time for a truly new game: Stalingrad, Kursk (that’s where the new Tiger miniatures would come in handy!), market garden. It seems to me there’s very little creativity within WoTC. Sad, really.

However, i might buy the new game for the new pieces, but I already passed on A&A 1942. The only game I might actually still buy along the same lines and be truly happy with it is A&A 1939. After all, that’s when the war started and not in '40,m '41 or '42.

I would like to see a North Africa version of the game, perhaps including the Med as well. Maybe have the Axis take Malta so they can get Rommel the proper supplies and reinforcements to kick Montgomery’s butt (ha ha). Heck, maybe the Italians could beat the Brits in the first place. They outnumbered them something like 4-1 or more. Yet the Brits kicked their butts something fierce. Seems like something wrong there to me.
Anyway, I have heard that Larry Harris has no intention of ever making a North Africa game so I guess I’m out of luck there. Would be cool to have more Italian involvement though.

As for malta, I feel it’s a shame Europe 40 or global '40 doesn’t include a National Objective for the Axis to control Malta and receive 5 IPC’s for it. That’d symbolize basically what you’re talking about. Not sure, it may be included in one of the NO’s saying : "control x of the ollowing, but I believe it would have deserved to be an NO in its own right.

@suprise:

It’s a lie,   and that’s the truth.

@Hobbes:

@TheDictator:

@Imperious:

The PDF is a standard issue for Distributors and Retailers so they can get their orders in ( and which they need too months before product release).

They did this with AA50 and AA40.

AA50?

50 years Anniversary Edition

oh ok

I’m with you UnCrust.  Fight the man! And the lies! lol.

@Gargantua:

I’m with you UnCrust.  Fight the man! And the lies! lol.

;)

atleast im not alone on this one.
i usually am lol

IL locked my thread about asking for the joke to end :P

Well… I honestly think that the ‘joke’ would have been revealed by now. And I think it is quite safe to assume that this is indeed a real product, coming soon. Let’s hope so anyway.

http://redcoat668.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/axis08-001.jpg

This should be the final version…

@Imperious:

http://redcoat668.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/axis08-001.jpg

This should be the final version…

That’s so pitifully faked I lol’d.

@techroll42:

@Imperious:

http://redcoat668.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/axis08-001.jpg

This should be the final version…

That’s so pitifully faked I lol’d.

I dunno – maybe WotC spent so much money on developing the new sculpts they announced that a Crayola map was all they could afford to produce as a game board.

@Imperious:

http://redcoat668.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/axis08-001.jpg

This should be the final version…

if was a printed version, not crayola, it would be a pretty cool map.

@empireman:

@Imperious:

http://redcoat668.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/axis08-001.jpg

This should be the final version…

if was a printed version, not crayola, it would be a pretty cool map.

Yup, but very un-A&A like.

I think it’s rather clear the cat’s out of the bag…

@techroll42:

@empireman:

@Imperious:

http://redcoat668.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/axis08-001.jpg

This should be the final version…

if was a printed version, not crayola, it would be a pretty cool map.

Yup, but very un-A&A like.

I think it’s rather clear the cat’s out of the bag…

Yes they are relasing the game!!

@empireman:

@techroll42:

@empireman:

@Imperious:

http://redcoat668.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/axis08-001.jpg

This should be the final version…

if was a printed version, not crayola, it would be a pretty cool map.

Yup, but very un-A&A like.

I think it’s rather clear the cat’s out of the bag…

Yes they are relasing the game!!

I meant that a hand drawn map shows its fake.

@techroll42:

@empireman:

@techroll42:

@empireman:

@Imperious:

http://redcoat668.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/axis08-001.jpg

This should be the final version…

if was a printed version, not crayola, it would be a pretty cool map.

Yup, but very un-A&A like.

I think it’s rather clear the cat’s out of the bag…

Yes they are relasing the game!!

I meant that a hand drawn map shows its fake.

yes its fake
but who thinks they are releasing it and who doesnt think they are?

@techroll42:

I meant that a hand drawn map shows its fake.

You actually think that’s the picture Wizards released for the map of the game? That somebody in 2008 drew a map shows that a 1941 game can’t be printed in 2012.

You’re not even being objective about it. You want it to be a joke and now are turning everything you see into evidence that it is.

Sorry, but April’s Fools jokes don’t begin in Jan. only to run past Apri 1, and they don’t involve this much disinformation. You’re giving the people at WoTC much more credit than they deserve for their “role” in this joke.

That jpeg was meant as a joke….are you kidding me?

Gentlemen… you realize Empireman is something like… 11 years old right?

Seriously.  You are cornering a child on the internet.  Just relax a bit! :P

@Gargantua:

Gentlemen… you realize Empireman is something like… 11 years old right?

Seriously.  You are cornering a child on the internet.  Just relax a bit! :P

You are taking this wrong, I meant is that is a fake map that someone just drew, we all know that.
Im not sure if 1941 is going to be released and im not taking any sides. Lets just stop arguing and wait till the date it is supposed to be released and see if it does come out.
And no, im not 11.

@Imperious:

That jpeg was meant as a joke….are you kidding me?

no one thinks the jpeg is real.

He’s 12, not a 11y kid anymore. Respect him.