Breakthrough Chart #1
#1 Advanced Artillery
#2 Rockets
#3 Paratroopers
#4 Increased Factory Production
#5 War Bonds
#6 Mechanized Infantry
Breakthrough Chart #2
#1 Super Submarines
#2 Jet Fighters
#3 Improved Shipyards
#4 Radar
#5 Long-Range Aircraft
#6 Heavy Bombers
On ABattleMap think of the top row as Chart #1 and the bottom roll as Chart #2.
Hopefully, there are many sticks in the box.
I hate “writing down on a piece of paper the type of stick” when I run out of Axis & Allies Sticks.
@Mr:
What does “mt” mean ? :|
mt=empty…as in the territory is empty of units
WTF - best to Google that one.
IMO = In My Opinion
IMHO = On this site this is an oxymoron, because no one here has a Humble opinion
@RogertheShrubber:
Me too, I have used paper and pencil since classic. My AA 50 $ is still in the plastic.
Yes, my AAR and AA50 money is still in the plastic. :-)
Messy players have a tendency to accidentally ‘lend lease’ paper money to other nations.
With parchment and scribe (or charts), one can clearly see if a nation did not spend or receive income.
@Trusty:
Incidentally, we roll NAs randomly at the start to keep the game fresh and force ourselves to think anew, If Germany gets wolfpack and the US and GB fail to get naval NAs they are in trouble…
A large part of AARe is the ability to pick a NA as the game progress.
This is to compliment your strategy, or help soften the opposition’s strategy.
This helps to reduce some of the randomness, and be able to be more strategic.
Example- One can buy Tech, instead of just rolling for it and never getting it.
@Rakeman:
That offshore tactic sounds a tad bit overpowered… :-(
Try play testing the “UK will dominate with Offshore Bombardment destroyers”.
When resources for the UK go all to building destroyers, then other areas suffer for the Allies.
Germany changes its plans too.
Those that try this begin to understand it is not a
strategy, but rather something that can help your strategy!
Commando Brado
I would like to play. I’ll send you a message.
One thing a bidding system allows is to quantify a rule set up.
Example if 1941 setup with NOs after a while settles on a bid of oh…let’s say 5ipc.
If 1941 w/NOs + closing the Dardanelles changes the bid to 2ipc (or to Allied type of bidding), that would tell HOW much the certain rule changes things.
Thank you for the ‘C’ section answers.
Now for the direct answers to the last section: ‘D’.
WHO MAKES THE RULES:
- Who submits the ideas for changes to the rules?
- How is the decision made as to which rules get enacted/changed?
- What ratio of votes are needed to make a change or prevent one?
- What level “expertise” does the voting people possess that gives them the right to place a vote? There are several people here on the site that may have this expertise. Most of them are listed as people I don’t know up in my disclaimer. I’m assuming that not every person testing has a vote on which rules get enacted/changed/removed.
Cmdr Jennifer, thank you for your answer to the ‘B’ section of questions.
Now, would you please directly answer the ‘C’ section of questions (from the first post)?
TESTING PROCEDURES:
- What testing procedures were used?
- What strategies have been tested to validate the need for rule changes? And tested by which testers? Against which other strategies? By which side?
- How many times was each strategy tested?
Thank you for your answer.
Now for Questions #2-6 (or maybe part B #1-5)
TESTERS:
- Who are they?
- What are their playing levels?
- How many games of AARe and AA50 have they played? (Because you are incorporating both sets of rules)
- Who have they beaten?
- What side(s) do they play (Axis, Allies, both)?
Again, direct answers please
@Cmdr:
Thought I did already, in my first response.
Let’s take this step-by-step. This is the first question. Please, what is your direct answer to this question? (not your thoughts in general, but your direct answer).
Why use the “Enhanced” term. There are a variety of terms that mean relatively the same thing. Modified, adapted, personalized, and custom are some possibilities. Why pick enhanced, specifically?
Why utilize an established name?
Now would you please answer some of the issues from the first post? :-)
@Cmdr:
Actually, Bad Speller, it does follow that model.
NO, your rule-set does not follow that model.
To follow that model, one MUST start with the AA50 rules.
For example; in the AA50 rulebook, on page 2, Larry Harris writes;
“One important aspect of the game that I wanted to address was the ahistorical tendency for the Japanese to attack Russia. I did not mind if this attack occurred late in the game–-who knows, if things had gone differently during the actual war, perhaps the Japanese would have attacked Russia. The solution I settled on was to add additional territories and units between the Japanese forces and Moscow. The real-world translation or these additional territories is the seemingly endless miles that exist between Asia and Moscow.”
By Larry adding territories and changing the map (in AA50) the Bilateral Non-Aggression Treaty (that Cmdr Jennifer has copy-pasted to her rules) is not there and not needed.
This is just one example.
The true developers of AARe would start with AA50 and work form there.
@Cmdr:
Every idea, every concept, every pre-conceived notion in the AA50e official rules comes from the AARe official rules. Virtually nothing was changed except as a way to adapt to the new pieces and territories in Anniversary that did not exist in Revised. The goal of creating AA50e was to make the absolute minimum amount of changes from AARe so as to play the AARe rules in Anniversary without violating the rules of Anniversary. Considering there are only 10, very minor, changes, I think this was accomplished splendidly by the community of gamers who collaborated on this effort.
The model for creating AARe was this; start with LHTR and modify from there.
Notice this small sample of AARe from the early stages.
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NATIONAL ADVANTAGES:
1. Method of Deployment
-At the start of each country’s first turn, they will select 1 NA to be used for the game
-The NA does not come into effect until it is declared at the start of that country’s first turn
-Once declared, the NA comes into effect immediately.
-The Axis also get one additional NA, for either Germany or Japan (Giving Axis and Allies 3 each in total), which they do not declare until the start of their second turn.
RUSSIA
1. Nonagression Treaty - as in LHTR
2. Lend-Lease - as in LHTR
3. Russian Winter - as in LHTR
4. Mobile Industry - as in LHTR
See how the method to create AARe is referring back to Larry Harris Tournament rules as much as possible, and not to some other game.
Notice the basic start and workings to what it is today.
Cmdr Jennifer, your rule-set does not follow this model.
The goal of AA50e is to follow this model, not to copy and paste.
AA50 is different. Different map, prices, rules, naval interaction = a different puzzle.
BadSpeller
@Cmdr:
These rules have been accepted just about everywhere at this point. Players may chose to alter them on their own if they like, house rules are house rules, but so far, these are the only OFFICIAL Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition Enhanced Rules. No other AA50e rules exist.
There are plenty of posts here the shows this is not ‘accepted just about everywhere’.
Original developer (Cousin Joe) of AARe is working on AA50e.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=13277.msg374877#msg374877
This is not attacking you, Jennifer, but the name you are stealing.
Please continue your work; just call it AA50jen.
Jennifer, stop using Enhanced as if it were yours! It is in poor taste to hijack Enhanced (AARe) from Cousin Joe.
Since you have a problem understanding, let me spell it out for you. Jennifer is NOT The Official AA50e.
Enhanced is not a democratic process. Cousin Joe may ask for input, then he makes a decision on a rule. If there is a problem, it will be handled after playtesting.
It is great that you are making a working version of house rules. Call them something else, for there are many words to choose from. I’m sure you will pick something good.
I have been following the workings of AARe since there were only 4 NA’s for each of the Allies, when Long Range Aircraft was a minor Tech, when Radar was boosted to make it worth picking, to name a few.
You were there for none of that.
Your introduction to Enhanced was 361 days ago.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=11203.0
So, how could you possibly know that some of the core things in Enhanced were to:
–work with the rules of Revised as much as possible. (AA50e should look into AA50 rules as much as possible=AA50 does not have National Advantages)
–not invent new units, so new players do not shy away.
–shorten the game length/time to make it more tournament friendly.
@Cmdr:
2) Cousin Joe has been informed, he was emailed with copies of every set of rules for his approval. We only received one response from him early on in the development phase where he expressed interest that the rules were being adapted to run in Anniversary Edition. He seems to have gone to great length to keep himself out of the development process, one might suspect because he didn’t like dealing with people who acted exactly as Axis_Roll has been where everything turns into a slanderous attack and flames in an effort to kill something good.
Cousin Joe is working on AA50e.
Just because you post 17.643 times per day does not give you the right the hijack his work and claim he does nothing.
Just because the rest of the AARe players are not posting once a day, does not mean they agree with you. I have been following AARe for years and this is the first time I felt the need to post to stop your hijacking.
Your impatient posting instead of waiting one year to get to know and enjoy AA50 BEFORE starting the AA50e process is noted.