A&A Pacific: Japanese first strike

Episode 57

Rounds 3-4 from our game of Pacific (2001) Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes of go to my blog to listen to it or download to listen later.

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Wow, great story!

@timerover51:

I like Pacific, and use it in my summer gaming class.  The kids like it, and it does have reasonable US production potential.  I have some house rules posted that you might want to look at since you also have Europe.  It seems like it is easier to get a handle on the game than with Revised, with only the one Axis player.

I’ve never been much for house rules. Most folks have enough trouble keeping the OOB rules straight. The biggest fear with new players is the rule complexity. I have trouble getting the interested to give it a try. I start giving folks addendums to the rulebook no one will ever play with me.  :cry:

I am however grateful to the house rules guys as that is how the OOB rules improve from version to version.  :-)

Europe is easier to teach than Revised.

I have played quite a few games of the original A&A, but not as many as I’d like to have played. Not sure if my game is some type of 2nd edition as it’s not nearby. I’ve only recently played Pacific, on my third game all against the same guy who had never played before. He did Japan first and it was over early. I did Japan and won, but there were touchy moments. I’m about to lose as the Allies after making a bad choice. So far I see some decent possibilities for variation in games. Just as in the original version I think that if a few critical battles and/or just different losses go one way or another then the actions by both sides often are forced to change. The reason I like A&A so much is the variation in what happens, so different from Risk which I’ve played tonnes of growing up, but not overly complex that a novice can’t have a good go at it and fun the first game. In all the games of original A&A I’ve played while there has been the natural similarities one gets with playing on the same board with the same victory conditions, I can honestly say I’ve never played a game that was the same as another. Always something different happened to make that game a little special. I hope Pacific works out that way, and I can see that happening, especially with more than one enemy player. So far I’m enjoying it.

… A&APacific, try joining Days of Infamy http://www.rjware.net/DOI/club-headquarters.htm. You’ll have no trouble getting a PBEM game. If you want to play FTF I can’t help you there.

SS

Taken, but not held.

Check out http://www.xenogames.com/PRPAWW.htm and http://pub151.ezboard.com/bxenogamesforums (Forum - you can use your EZboard login and you allows posts by guests) for more info on this Pacific WWII game…

thrasher,

NOTE: I have nothing to do with Xeno Games!

yeah, i wish somebody could ban him or something