Im a Dumb newbie with a question

Hello nice forum :) … Im new here … its nice to meet you guys…thankssss thanks

@Incline:

Thanks for the responses, guys. Appreciate the help!

Just went ahead and ordered AAP40 from Amazon. Looking forward to getting it.

I’m definitely gonna try and get into playing both AA42 and AAP40 online. What’s the standard in the community when it comes to playing the games online? Do the majority of you prefer playing by forum, playing by email (both of which are still somewhat confusing to me, but I’m sure I’ll learn with time), or TripleA? I’ve also heard about ABattlemap….What’s the general consensus on the best way to play?

I believe that the majority of the players active on this website who play Axis and Allies online use ABattlemap to play here on this website using PBF (Play By Forum), but I know that there are also several players who play using TripleA.  I believe that play by e-mail is basically a thing of the past, but I could be wrong.  I personally have only played online using ABattlemap, and yes, the very first time that I played, I was a little confused, but after the first round of play, I was playing online just like someone who had played online for quite a while (not actual gameplay, but posting correctly and such).  It’s actualy not that difficult once you jump in.

I have been enjoying this bloke Peter Heppner. He’s a kraut ripoff of Bryan Ferry early 1980’s style with electro and synths thrown in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPZVui37cE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5vGOl7nFL4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KctobWLRU6M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWbGk5isCV4&feature=PlayList&p=346E3832E5A418BA&playnext=1&index=3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkGGi_uUaPc&feature=related

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@Jermofoot:

This is a problem concerning looking back on history.  What you know of Hitler (primarily killing millions of people and starting a war) can be attributed to him from when he was conceived until his death.  You look upon him with that lens always on.  That’s probably why you were turned off when this individual said that Hitler’s book (not killing millions of people) was a different POV, by association.

That is an excellent point. Our looks back tend to be colored by our present preferences. They can interfere with objectivity.

Hitler is one of the most important figures of the last century. Reading the autobiographys and biographys of important people has always been considered part of being literate.

satan is an important person but i prefer to read the Bible and not his book. your freind didn’t want to offend you and tried to sound nice even though he thought you were a whacko nazi.

It’s located somewhere in his warped brain. :wink:

what I usually do is, say I’m rolling 5 inf, a fighter, and three tanks(on attack), roll 5 white and 4 red and say that the red is for the 3’s and the white is for the 1’s.
Or if it is a small battle where each side only has one type of unit, we roll at the same time.

What about later in the game, when I need tanks to move into Africa and Russia? It takes at least 3 turns before I can move from Manchuria to Moscow, instead of 2 if my tanks came from factories in India. Using the factory in India I might also be able to take Iraq or Caucasus - well out of the distance of transports from Japan.

The link says never to build factories early in the game, but if I know that USA has invested lots of ship in the Pacific, I will try not to meeet the buildup.