Here is the corrected game setup as provided on Larry’s site:
So it’s unplayable on tripleA without modifying the turn order
How easy/difficult is changing the turn order on tripleA?
Before this change it was ok. I skipped Germany as they were last and started with Russia.
Not sure if it needs one of the designers to sort it out now.
I hope it can be resolved.
Had you noticed the set up was slightly different?
@Uncrustable:
So it’s unplayable on tripleA without modifying the turn order
How easy/difficult is changing the turn order on tripleA?
I’m no expert, but I think it is no change in tripleA itself but “only” a modification of the game.xml (part of the map files).
Man, germany calls for 14 tank models and i have 12….
Thats what comes with the game right? I didn’t lose any peices?
Dont you have grey chips?
Dont you have grey chips?
Obviously he does. The problem is that there are 14 TERRITORIES with tanks.
Yes, i see why this wasn’t released to the public and only for tournaments.
I checked and i have the correct number of tank models. This sucks, I got to borrow from other games now.
Yeah, this makes the 1941 release come in handy.
wow guys,
seriously, who cares who made the friggin map variant
judge the game by how it plays, not who made it
Too true. Too true.
This game is total bs. With the way it is setup, Japan should go first, then USSR, then Germany.
And to think I had hoped people had grown up after last year….oh well - there is still time.
How often do you guys talk to Larry personally? Have you ever? Greg regularly talks with Larry and just because and official announcement hasn’t been made yet, it doesn’t make it not true.
Greg is and deserves to be a well respected member of the A&A community. All of this amounts to whining and being mean. So stop it. Especially you IL, you’re supposed to be a Liaison. That doesn’t mean you get to bash on somebody with little information whenever you want. It means the opposite. You should be helping to sort out any confusion by contacting people through the proper channels. Questioneer posted that he is dubious so you role should be to find out the truth and not continue a flame war.
You’re right, I just noticed the first paragraph. He says “I call this…” but then he uses Larry’s name for the game. A little deceiving. So not really by Larry, nor official.
So, I have to ask….how big of a jerk do you (Q and IL) feel now that what Greg listed is ‘official’?
I can answer that for you, if you’d like - but you, I and everyone else following this thread knows the answer to that…why it ever had to come to what it did is a mystery…
Can’t we all just get along…
MM
You should be helping to sort out any confusion by contacting people
I did exactly that, by contacting Larry for verification. Once i got that i posted the same and dropped any claims i had ( notice no further posts). It was just an unusual way of presenting it from Larry.
But it needs to be done with grace and tact. Maybe Questioneer was the one who was more harsh but … ugh, just be nice and use nice words.
@Imperious:
You should be helping to sort out any confusion by contacting people
I did exactly that, by contacting Larry for verification. Once i got that i posted the same and dropped any claims i had ( notice no further posts). It was just an unusual way of presenting it from Larry.
All the politics aside, has anyone notice that this game is an Allied sure thing?
The USSR will Crush! Crush Germany R1!
I set it up, I played it. The Axis die hard.
Sorry guys,
I did apologize on Larry’s thread recently. I just had to be convinced that this was truly Larry’s project. Given the way the news broke out I was very skeptical of the motives behind the project based on conversations I have had with Greg myself. I reacted a little harshly, just like Greg did at one point with some online players. Things like this can get the best (or worst) of us sometimes. At this point, I don’t really care. Its a “tournament” setup for time’s sake. I get that.
Still have yet to play it, but having played 2nd ed 1940 version 30 times or so, I can immediately tell that there wasn’t much thought into this setup…it seems grossly imbalanced and will probably need some retooling for sure. Literally looks like the base game 42 setup was slapped onto the 1940 Global Map.
Now Larry is also retooling the rules to the 1914 game also- get ready for Alpha+1 again!!! or 2nd edition 1914.
Two things I’ve learned to count on with AA games: buy 2 copies b/c they never make enough pieces and buy the 2nd edition of each of the versions b/c the 1st ed. is always a rough draft.
I’ve learned to just get over these things b/c it just is what it is.
All the politics aside, has anyone notice that this game is an Allied sure thing?
The USSR will Crush! Crush Germany R1!
I set it up, I played it. The Axis die hard.
I agree Karl. Russia can retake far too much of its original territory on R1 and Germany has no effective counterattack. Egypt also looks totally safe and the IC often built there may not be necessary this time around. I do think it is hard not to let Italy get its Med bonus for two turns though. This extra 10 income should help it stay in the war long enough to help the European Axis.
Bringing Germany forward in the turn order will give it the customary option(obligation) to attack the UK’s fleet and buy some time that it did not have under the original set up.
I hope to try out the revised set up order and see if that gives my favourite side a fighting chance. If the turn order can be changed on AAA, I would definitely give someone a game.
I agree with questioner and second his comments. I just don’t believe things before i can verify them and it didn’t seem natural for Larry to present his ideas like this.
