News flash: AXIS & ALLIES ANNIVERSARY EDITION due out oct 23 08

Italy should be in the game for 3 on 3 balance of teams.  Adding china wouldnt be good, and adding china WITHOUT Italy would just be worse.

You have a point. But adding Italy only for balance could even damage Germany, having to divide IPCs for Barbarossa or African campaign. Maybe add Greece as territory, at 1 IPCs so Italy have at least the income to buy trannies  :| Think that, as now, “Italy” and Germant attack as one, an so they can attack USSR best than if they get separate turns. Of course, they could act at the same turn as in Pacific USA/China or India/Australia.

OK if Italy is added only for the sake of balance, but must get serious work or we could back to bids of 16-20 as in Classic (and I don’t want see 2 subs bids for z8, 2 trannies for Sea Lion or another crazy combos  :-P )

And China, even if finally not manages playing power status, must be redone. More territories is needed even if China is still USA dependant. Maybe an IC or built-in NA “chinese divisions”

@Funcioneta:

You have a point. But adding Italy only for balance could even damage Germany, having to divide IPCs for Barbarossa or African campaign. Maybe add Greece as territory, at 1 IPCs so Italy have at least the income to buy trannies  :| Think that, as now, “Italy” and Germant attack as one, an so they can attack USSR best than if they get separate turns. Of course, they could act at the same turn as in Pacific USA/China or India/Australia.

OK if Italy is added only for the sake of balance, but must get serious work or we could back to bids of 16-20 as in Classic (and I don’t want see 2 subs bids for z8, 2 trannies for Sea Lion or another crazy combos  :-P )

And China, even if finally not manages playing power status, must be redone. More territories is needed even if China is still USA dependant. Maybe an IC or built-in NA “chinese divisions”

Im almost positive that there will have to be an at least slight change to the map to accommodate for Italy as a power.  Splitting them up on the current map would make Germany too weak and make Italy almost useless.

@Imperious:

They don’t deserve two hits, as the Hood amply demonstrates.

That ship got a lucky hit in the wrong place, besides the hood was one of a kind.

A true Heavy Cruiser can take more punishment, its supposed to fight anything up to battleships and if it faded with one salvo, it would have no use relative to its cost/value.

The hood was a battle cruiser and this means a fast moving hybrid battleship class guns but with light armor plating to get the high speeds.

Then should there be perhaps two cruiser classes, a battlecruiser at 3/3/12, one hit, bombard, and heavy cruiser at 3/3/18, two hits, bombard?

No naval unit except the carrier should defend better than it attacks.

Why should the carrier defend better than it attacks?

carrier should be a 1/1/$14/1 hit. they sucked in battle, there strenght was and is not in it’s guns (how few it has) but in it’s air power.

Cruser should be better then a destroyer, but i don’t think it warants 2 hits, i think it should be more like 3/3/$15/1 hit/ Bambard on a 2/ move 3.

DD 3/3/$12/1 hit/ negate subs. no extra stuff.

BB all the same as normal just $20.

subs stay the same.

it’s not big changes but makes the navy work better IMHO. now short of play testing no idea can be said to work best. i realy need that job, play tester for games  :-)

Nice finding…but is this for real?

I have to say this cover looks a little strange to me…looks more like the Milton Bradley cover than the recent Axis & Allies covers… Would like to read Larry’s comments on this one…

The cover is a lot of fun and covers quite an extensive array of people. However, I agree with Dagon81 and that it looks out of place with all of the current box covers for A&A. It does harken back to the MB edition and maybe they are trying to capture some anniversary nostalgia.

@Pervavita:

carrier should be a 1/1/$14/1 hit. they sucked in battle, there strenght was and is not in it’s guns (how few it has) but in it’s air power.

This.

I believe that cover could be real, I would think that for an anniversary edition they would try to make it look more like the old game.

Cobert i think your quoting the wrong person as my statment had nothing to do with the cover (it was before he posted the link  :wink:)

No, I was agreeing with your 1/1 carrier and the other statement was in response to something different, I was just too lazy to quote the person talking about the cover.

ok i see, it just looked to me as you were on one thought.

Carriers should be revised to 0/1/12. They are basically transports for airplanes, after all.

Thread is moving off topic.

Continuation of the matter of changing AC values should be moved to House Rules area.