Posts made by Chacmool

I have AA50 but want to play 42sec.ed. with my friends. I already got the rules anything else seems to come with AA50.
Your map looks great  and I want to print it on a large scale but why has GE 41 IPCs instead of the original 40 ?

Really nice! I would like to use all of them. When will you post the rest?

the size of tts represents the strength of its national army. Look how far the CPs went in the east compared to the western front.

For my own game (look in A&A variants) I am thinking about investing in Strategical Movement of units (cost 2 IPC per unit, max 5 IPC per turn-> 2 units per turn) maybe give Germany an advantage (1IPC per unit-> 5 units per turn)

Flash, you are talking about Railmovement in A&A for years, I would like to read your sophisticated rule for my own play. I guess the set up needs to be changed. And where is RM allowed? (Africa,Arabia?)

Only 4 months to go… What do you think?

Will we have the chance to play this game on christmas holidays?

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Here is my Setup for France (in german) for this game

As you can see my variant has 12 Rounds, so 8 spaces from Berlin to Moscow should be impossible to reach for the CPs in that time especially since I kept the 1-tt movement for land units.,

The rational reason is that the size of the tts stands also for the strength of the armies (in this case the Russians) defending them.

The larger they are, the “easier” it is to make big advances into their homeland.

Thats what happened in ww1 when you compare the western and the eastern front.

In my opinion gameplay is just more historical if the Russian tts stay that large.

Smaller and more tts would only make sense if f.ex. German and Russian units would have different attacking/defending values.

You wanted it and I have made it:

The map en anglais sil vous plait !!

@ColonelKurtz:

Mr. Cow, you have completely missed the point.
No one is talking about AH using transports.
The whole issue here is protecting the southern flank of the Central Powers by minimizing casualties in the Balkan territories of Albania, Serbia, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Taking control of SZ 17 prevents the Allies from mobilizing Albania.

only one AH-BS and the two turkish cruisers will not be enough to hold off the british fleet (1 BS,2 Cruisers), the frenchies and the russians.

You will need two turns of complete naval buys as Austria to get strong enough in SZ17

I don´t need a strategyguide for the Allies ,because they win all the times.

What I really need is some input for playing the Central Powers especially Austria and the Ottomans.

@protevangelium:

Great map; I think the borders on this one are just about perfect.

Thank you !!

I wonder, though, about the costing for the territories’ IPC value. USA seems a bit high, because I’ll grant you that the A&A1914 value of 20 is far too low. Or do you plan to reduce this during the USA’s neutrality?

They do not collect income and do not buy units until entering the war

Austria-Hungary (Hungary territory, especially) seems 1 or 2 IPCs off. Maybe increase Hungary by 1… or perhaps consider turning the Croatia-Dalmatia-Bosnia territory into two separate ones: Trieste and Bosnia. I noticed that the Austrian official history makes it a point to say how poor the rail network was in this region for moving troops. I like your addition of Montenegro.

imo AH was just too strong oob. So I reduced their IPCs but gave them to GE. I wanted the AH-player to feel more challenged by a big Russian Army, the Serbs and the Italian traitors

As for the Med and Mid-East… I think the Persian Gulf coastline for Mesopotamia is a nice touch. The British actually did land here via sea, attacking the fortress of Fao in the process. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fao_Landing Would Cyprus and Crete (Corfu, too?) work as non-value territories?

Cyprus and Crete are tts where you can land but they generate no income…

I notice that the neutral territories have no IPC value… do you have something in mind?

**Neutrals are safe and cannot be invaded.

Historical exceptions were Albania, Greece and Persia.**

Otherwise, this is a pretty good map as-is.

Again, thank you very much!!

@Flashman:

Lack of Arctic convoy UK-Russia is a big difference; my games have often seen large UK forces in Karelia.

Poland border should be that of Congress Poland:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Karte_kongresspolen.png

Doesn´t seem that important to me. Yes the Arctic convoy is left out but if I remember it correctly there haven´´t been much british troops in Russia figthing against Germans between 1914-17.

Serbia seems to have a coastline (i.e. Monte); if you have Kuwait why not Monte as a separate tt?

Changed that!!

Still don’t see a case for Albania being Italian aligned, but agree with 0 IPC.

In this game neutral countries can not be attacked. There have been actions in Albania so I had to do something with that area. It does not generate Italian troops although… Same with Persia as you can see.

Is Greece 2 tts on this map, or does the boder in effect change round 6?

Greece is neutral until Round 6. It can be activated by the Allies in 1917.

I assume non-aligned neutrals are impassable.

Yes.
Don’t like the mix of city and provincial tt names - I prefer capitals only for city names.

ok.
Wales is worth more than the north of England!!!

Changed that. Ive read too much Ken Folletts “Fall of titans” …

How about naval bases on Gibraltar, Malta and Alexandria (for repair, but not for building new units).

must think over it…
Do you follow my principle that a country not at war (e.g. USA) does not collect income or move units; in fact has no turn?

yes. The US/Italians start to built new units when beeing at war.

Ive posted some pics of my original map at the axis and allies facebook site!!

Is it allowed to move units from a contested tt into an alligned Minor power that wasnt mobilized yet?

Thank you guys!

I will make an english version of the map when I have some time.  :-)

Most of the tts are historical correct. I only enlarged Belgium and made India appear in South-East-Persia for the needed production centre of the Anzacs…

The maps needless space in the east has now an IPC chart on it…

Still thinking about an additional Seazone near West Africa for a German sub awaiting its victims…