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I’m looking to buy this game, what price are you looking for?

Still have all of these lots available in the pictures still, if want all make me an offer.

It’s been a long time since I played fortress america, but if I remember correctly,
Fortess america can have too much luck involved due to the order of the reinforment cards for America.

If you get a series of poor cards early or a good card too early (like the laser card), this may overcome any strong strategic moves you may have made.

I guess that’s just a built in characteristic of the game.

I think “highly prized” will become “quickly forgotten”.

ALRIGHT!

The link URL you gave me is…

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?action=post;topic=27901.0;num_replies=0

So that means the GAME ID is 27901

Now… RUN Triplea…

Click CHOOSE GAME

then after you select one, click Play by email/forum (PBEM)  Then enter your email, my email joelg_88@hotmail.com, and start!

BE AWARE you may need to register your email… if you haven’t done this, just leave my email in there

@Col.:

@Scarapis:

@LeonidasBush:

The game starts in Spring of 1942, after the attack on Pearl Harbor. �� If it were the Attack on Pearl Harbor there would be at least a battleship there and, as you mentioned, no aircraft career. �� History takes a hit with this board game, but if the Japanese do attack Pearl Harbor on their first turn it isn’t December 7th, 1941.

yes but not aware of any more Japanese occursions on Hawaii after the attack on Pearl Harbor

Do you only make moves that are historically accurate during a game?

I pick the Allies then!

PS:  Awesome name and picture, Col. Ty Webb.

Was wondering if the customizers might be doing some oddball ships like cruise ships, hospital ships, ore carriers, and tanker ships, with errata to make them playable like hospital ships can add infantry units at various points to a side, and oilers and ore carriers can add artillery and mobile units at certain points?

Enjoyed it.

That sounds kind of fun and interesting, but it also supposes a Japanese invasion of Hawaii which wasn’t their intent. The attack on Pearl Harbor was only an air strike against US Air Bases and the Pacific Fleet. Japan had no plans for actually invading Hawaii, at least not at that point. Still an interesting idea.

What about a WW2 style Fortress America game? You could have Japan be the Western Invader, Germany the Eastern Invader and Italy the Southern Invader. Make it just like Fortress America where each player gets 60 units split up between Infantry, Artillery, Mech Inf, Tanks, Fighters, Tac Bombers and Bombers. America would also get Partisan reinforcements, perhaps represented by HBG Marine Infantry units, or the Marine Infantry from the old Pacific game if you have them. Heck, they could even be represented by the Light Grey Axis Minor Infantry since Partisan units in the new Fortress America game are grey. Another idea would be to use the Light Green Neutral Infantry from HBG. Even Chinese Infantry would work in a pinch.
Perhaps the Laser Complexes could be replaced by Atom Bombs. USA gets some sort of marker to represent an Atom Bomb base each turn, placed in a US controlled city, and they get so many Atom Bomb strikes per turn, depending on how many Atom Bomb Bases they have. When Invaders capture cities with A Bomb Bases, they destroy them immediately. A low-yield Atom Bomb would be enough to destroy 1 military unit and could possibly fail, thus the roll of the dice.
Perhaps the USA should also get AA Guns for defense. A certain number of AA guns in each city and only in cities and don’t count toward the 5 unit per territory limit. They act as normal AA guns in Global, up to 3 shots per gun or 1 shot per attacking aircraft, whichever is lower, and can be taken as casualties in defense. If you don’t like the Atom Bomb idea, perhaps AA guns could be the extra defense ability for USA. Each city starts with a certain number of AA guns, maybe 2, and each round USA gets a new AA gun to place in any city they still control. Again, AA guns would not count toward the 5 unit per territory limit.

@djensen:

It worked!

Wait until you see Young Grasshopper’s setup. It’s pretty darn cool.

Saw it, and mightily impressed, but i’m curious how does one get such a large size map? or how does one make one?

I am in Vancouver BC, I have lots of Naval Minitures to trade.

Good on you, my lad.  :wink:

ok so it got here today. I’m re-reading the rule book and things are looking good. I’m answering my own questions at this point. Things I could never figure out I’m finding the answer to and understanding the rules. I think my hang up before was the title Axis and Allies and the combat system is nothing like it.

as the title says looking for players in the Stockton, Ca. area.

Good luck finding any set 1 boats or planes cheap. Most things in that set go for $5 and up. I just sold a complete set 1 on Ebay and got $450. Most rares average $20 and up, hell most Planes are $10 and up, even little Destroyers are going for 3-5 dollars each

Well the the sellers auctions are ending within the day and it turns out the "Shill Bidder has bid on every one of his auctions with a bid on it and only on his, all auctions have been reported to eBay and yet eBay has yet to do anything about it, so some honest buyers are going to get screwed.