Axis & Allies Global Confict - 3rd Edition Released

I very much like the upgrades to the graphics!

Version 3.2 Blockhouse Purchase:  Step 3 of Phase 1 on page 5 says “Blockhouses are units so you may never build more blockhouses (and other units) in a territory than that territory’s income value in any single turn.”  I think a sentence needs to be added to the end of this section to allow a Blockhouse to be built in zero income locations such as Malta, Gibraltar, and many of the Pacific Islands.  This might work “One blockhouse per turn may be built on territories with zero income value.”

Sorry for the slow response, I’ve been traveling.  Our game has been delayed until May 27th, so I have one more week to study the map before playing.

where are the files for all these player aids like those fancy factory cards? I see many little scraps of paper that are not found in the map files or rule files. My setup file looks nothing like that player aid set up sheet you got in the picture. Where are these?

There is a Microsoft Power Point file included in the version 3.2 files that supplements the map and rules.

Craig

can you just make the file on a format like PNG, JMP, or at best PDF? I cant open “power point”

Ok i dl the viewer so its fine.

I want to print a copy but i cant because the colors are too ugly. I cant deal with Grey British, Blue Germans, Red Russians and red Japanese.

I want medium Grey Germans, Burnt Orange Japanese, Red Chinese, Brown Soviets, and Khaki British…

can you just make the colors like revised or provide an editable file so i can do it myself?

.AI, .EPS, .AIT extension would be nice

@Bob_A_Mickelson:

Imperious the world does not revolve around you and your taste.

:-o  :-D :-P

My avatar says it does.

Besides, You can easily make a version that you just spend 2 minutes changing the color so its coordinated with Revised axis and allies pieces. You just click the color and add the different color from the color palette. It cant be too hard. The versions you sent don’t allow them to be editable. PNG, JMP, JPEG are basically the same file format but in each case they are locked formats allowing no ability to alter something like color.

I am thinking about not only myself but the other people who think its crazy to have blue Germans and stuff like that.

@Imperious:

PNG, JMP, JPEG are basically the same file format but in each case they are locked formats allowing no ability to alter something like color.

Hm?  :?

What editor are you using? Have you tried GIMP? http://www.gimp.org/

Illustrator CS2 by adobe.

Well try GIMP. Its a open source project and it probably isn’t as advanced as Adobe Illustrator but you can edit PNG/JPG files pretty easy.

If it was open source we would have the file in its original form. PNG is not a program file extension…just a format to save a file in like PDF or whatever.

Illustrator is a basic program probably the easiest to use.

Hm? I mean that GIMP is a image editor program and it is free. You can download it for free, use it for free, etc.

ILL take a look

We will be playing Axis & Allies Global Conflict over the next 4 Tuesdays.  Playing similar sized Axis & Allies games in the past took us two nights, so we’ll probably get two games in.  I am really looking forward to this one.

German Wolf Pack - Say the Germans attack with 3 submarines, getting the Wolf Pack bonus so they all attack with 3.  The Germans lose one sub in the first round of battle.  The Germans enter the second round of battle with only 2 submarines.  I think the German submarines still get to fight at 3 with the bonus.  I’m not sure if this is explicit in the rules or not.

Airplane only attacks at sea - If a player attacks with a bunch of fighters and a destroyer, the fighters hit subs on 3 or less.  In the destroyer is lost in the first round of combat, in the second round of combat the attacker is now air only.  I think the fighters now only hit submarines on a 1.  Unlike Wolf Pack, this is re-computed each round.  I’m not sure this is explicit in the rules or not.

Starting 12 dollars - The rules say you may only place units where you already have units when spending the initial 12 dollars.  As written, this prevents the British from putting an infantry on Gibraltar because there are no units there.  I think that is fine, I just want to make sure that is the intent.

Craig

I found 3 very minor errata in the v3.2 rule book:

1. In the area describing the Kamikaze Plane and Air Transport plane on pages 12 and 13 some text is mis-placed.  The text saying “Weapons Development - Long Range Aircraft:  If you have the Long-Range Aircraft development, all your kamikaze planes can move 4 instead of 2” is after the Air Transport description, not the Kamikaze description.  Perhaps intentional or over site, the the description of Air Transport does not say the range is increased due to long range aircraft.

2. In the Optional Nation Specific rule for Japan on page 16, the Tokyo Express talks about using destroyers for transporting units and shore bombardment.  This should be changed to Cruisers, not destroyers.

3. In the Optional Nation Specific rule for the USA on page 18, Unprecedented Production talks about the “Purchase New Units & Collect Supply Tokens phase”.  This should be changed to the “Purchase Units phase”.  The index on page 1 also incorrectly refers to phase 1 as “Purchase New Units & Collect Supply Tokens”.

Craig