I have seen many Axis won games where the Axis won by the skin-of-their-teeth. If those games went on a couple of more rounds, it would have surely turned into an Allied victory.
For example, I have seen this happen: Germany takes over Russia gaining Leningrad, Stalingrad and Moscow. They already have Berlin, Warsaw and Paris, plus Italy has Rome. There is 7 of the 8 VCs they need to win on the Europe board.
While Germany was fighting in Russia and Italy was dealing with the British in the Med, the US fleet stomps the Japanese fleet and has them cornered on Japan. The US also builds up a HUGE invasion force in the Atlantic. They move it to SZ 91 off of Gibraltar. That same turn, Italy finally manages to grab Cairo from the Brits –- VC #8 — and puts a single destroyer blocker in SZ 92.
See, the Allies are screwed. That big US invasion force could easily take Rome, but the US fleet has to stop in SZ 92 to smash that 1 Italian destroyer. Therefore they can’t get to Rome, or Cairo. From SZ 91, even with the Gibraltar Naval Base, there is no other European VC that is under Axis control that they can get to. They could invade W. Germany, but while that would hurt the German effort, there is no VC there. Both Berlin and Paris are 1 more turn away. At the beginning of Italy’s turn, the Axis win.
Berlin, Rome and Paris could all be totally undefended, but since the Axis captured their 8th VC and held it for one full round, they win. In a way, this kind of sucks but that’s the rules. I guess it is designed to make the Allied players think harder about their defence of VCs. Perhaps go all out on that critical 8th VC to keep it from the Axis an any cost, whether it be Cairo, Moscow or even London.
AARHE National Advantages Revision
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IL:
Can you give me are guide me where I can get the unit markers and nation symbols used on the maps so I can use for customed graphics on the NA cards and Index.
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Yes thanks for reminding me. Ill make the file right now.
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Thanks. Those are going to be a big help. Here is Russia’s NA cards w/graphics for review. Also, 1939 set up w/graphics. If this is consistant for AARHE handouts, I’ll continue. Disregard Play sequence on left side of set up. This will change when Bierwagan finishes the outline.
need to do in three posts due to size:
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Russia NA cards back
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Russia NA card front
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Russia NA card front
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Ok comments:
I don’t like the picture of Stalin. Ill make something that can be used that will be generic to all nations so it will fit.
Also, the margins are coming up “outside of page” so it prints offset on both sides for 8.5x11 page. Do i need to set the print as borderless?
I’ll get to work and send you a file for each nation and you can approve or make changes.
coming up in a few.
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http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1719431d339c3594dd8b33b5aa27078d
here is the back of the card. Let me know if you like this and changes. Then ill make something specific for each of the 6 players. That way its possible to have everybody draw randomly as event cards and for this reason i made them all the same for the back only.
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Let’s go with the change. I like it.
Do you have an icon for airport and sea port?
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airport?
seaport?why?
I need to make the card better needs a border and more than the 3 minutes of work i put in it.
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http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1719431d339c3594dd8b33b5aa27078d
heres a new file for the cards. I think this is better.
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IL> Good job. IMHO I like your first layout a little better. http://www.mediafire.com/?vexopu0vbv1 The pitchers stand out more and is not so covered by the Name and nation icons. Even here, I would make the nation icons somewhat smaller.
Suggestion: Minimize the “AARHE” and nation icons.
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ok ill make a third version with the changes you asked for. Tonight.
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