New Eastern Front Set - Due Oct 2008

theres 3 of us that i no. surprize attack, drop it twice. and me kabloom. we all play in central new york (morrisville) we allso have 3 other people that play with us but they dont play on line

3 new extensions added to Axis and Allies MINIATURAS v3.0 Vassal
-Reserves extension : New pieces, new countries, new armies…
-Rotated boards extension: Now we can choose rotated boards in our battles.
-Scenarios Campaigns extension: Complete North African Campaign pre set defined.

Download in http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Axis_%26_Allies_Miniatures
and
https://sites.google.com/site/axisandalliesminiaturas/

Yes a lot of the big games at Historicon were run by goofballs. Late starts, let more people play than were signed up, and other “gamemaster” antics diminshed the enjoyment of more than one game for me. I still enjoyed myself though and hope to repeat next summer.

Steve needed more help at A&AM station. Cobalt at least helped a good bit with managing the younger players at various periods through the days. WOTC should seek volunteers on this forum to help run games.

I would suggest that WOTC also set up a mini-tournament at Historicon next year where folks would play at leats three games with different gamers. Maybe on Thursday or Friday, and then run demos on Saturday and Sunday.

@Ducky:

@Obergruppenfuhrer:

…and you nailed it completely. One of the main reasons Germany lost WWII was preparing for a short war that ended up being a long one. Pride was their downfall.

It’s a character flaw a lot of Germans seem to possess. My German family generally all have the stubborn “my way, or the highway” philosophy….

Yeah. It’s funny how each culture, race or nationality (whatever you want to call it)  has it’s own special gifts in certain areas a a collective whole. Of cousrse there are individual exceptions by the thousands but as a whole, Germans have been know for their dominant, regimented and calculated behavior. They are also a very industrious people with a history of producing the finest iron and steel the world has ever seen.

Himmler was adamant about restoring the practice of making damascus blades which took could take at least 10 years to master making. They produced those as swords and especially daggers for rewards to the SS. These blades were renouned as the finest in the world. Much like the Katana. The difference being, these blades had an amazing spectrum of colors that refracted off them becuase of the long, EXTREMELY difficult process it took to make one. Only a hand full of people in the entire world knew how to make them so Himmler set up shops and apprentice programs to keep this medieval practice alive. Today, I’m sure a genuine dagger could go for 10’s of thousands of dollars on e-bay but they dont even have genuine ones listed. The originals are about as rare as it gets. There’s lots of blades that carry tha label but none that I’ve seen are the genuine ones made by the Germans.

The Italians, as mentioned in a another thread, are not naturally gifted warriors. They are a people of the renaissance, connoisseurs and lovers. They fought like cowards on the eastern fron especially.

They deserted their SS comrades many times as soon as they came under heavy fire. As I’v noted before. The Luftwaffe, stuka pilots in particular returning from sorties, would strafe partisans and Italians running at full speed away from the front line out of pure digust for their cowardice.

BTW I have to say that Gazala map is awesome and looks like it has a lot of posibilities.  Are yo ugoing to put out scenarios for it?

The Fallschirmjager Veteran is able to move when disrupted.

In a way, its the opposite of Hard Charger.  Recall that Hard Charger clears the disrupt at the END of the move phase which means a disrupted SE Paratrooper is pinned.

Still, I’m disappointed.  For 10 points I was really hoping something cool.

Mot

I do not think I will be able to attend this year much to my disappointment.  :cry: It was a nice little weekend trip for me and I really like the UTC.

There is another event that I had been planning for that is also occuring in the spring. I think because of where Easter falls this year the conflict arises. SG was last weekend of March last year.

Now it may turn out that I won’t be participating in the local event (unlikely, but it is being in a play and I may not be cast) and if not cast I will be attending Spring Gathering. It will be March at least before I know for certain.  :|