@SS-GEN said in Axis & Brollies : Action Cards and Event Cards:
I can see where they are not over whelming for game. You can pick and choose 1 for each phase in turn.
We chose to make it this way so that you can’t stack cards in a phase or battle. This limits their power a bit, and forces you to make hard choices of when to use certain cards.
@SS-GEN said in Axis & Brollies : Action Cards and Event Cards:
It doesn’t slow game down A bit ?
We have found the game isn’t really slowed down much. First of all, we have a maximum of 7 cards in our hands at a time, which is fairly easy to keep track of. Second, I have made an effort to honour Larry Harris’s mantra of KISS; most of the cards are very straightforward and self explanatory. Third, during game play we make an effort to plan which cards we are using and while our opponent is doing their turn.
@SS-GEN said in Axis & Brollies : Action Cards and Event Cards:
How many games have you played with them ?
How many years have you used them ?
I have been working on these cards for the better part of 7 years, and have played countless games with them (don’t get my wife started). The first four years I would consider the development phase. I started the project out small, with only a handful of cards that were modelled off of the National Advantages from Axis & Allies Revised. They weren’t pretty either. I simply used a Mircosoft Word document and printed them on basic paper (yuck). After nearly every game I tweaked the cards, added some, and removed some. I spent a lot of time considering how the cards impacted the balance of the game. As you can imagine, there were a lot of issues to work out. I toyed with higher and lower hand limits, cards that were too powerful, and mechanics that don’t exist anymore. About 3 years ago, I became more or less satisfied with the balance and streamlined mechanics of the cards. Since then, I have only had to tweak the odd card for clarity. This has given me tons of time to playtest the cards, which made me feel confident enough to move on to the next phase of development…
@SS-GEN said in Axis & Brollies : Action Cards and Event Cards:
From pictures got to be a bunch unless you designed them to look like they came from WW2.
I had a month off of work this summer, so I made it my goal to beautify the cards. I took my drab MS Word document and transformed them into what you see today. I intended to make them look like they came from WWII. Boy, it took forever, but adding the historical images and using the military typeface really adds to the immersion. I had the cards printed on 100# cardstock and cut to size at the local university print shop. This ran me about $90CAD.
@SS-GEN said in Axis & Brollies : Action Cards and Event Cards:
These cards would also work great for smaller campaign games but tweaked or reduce the whole number of cards.
Absolutely. Once I finally get them available to you guys, feel free to do just that.
@SS-GEN said in Axis & Brollies : Action Cards and Event Cards:
Great cards. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more.
Thank you! It has been a labour of love. Not a problem for sharing… It has always been my plan to share with the community, I just wanted to wait until I felt like the cards were “ready.” I am figuring out the best way to share these with you guys… Stay tuned!
