OK, so what do you do as Allies if:
Germany expands and takes Karelia and holds the line from Baltic States, East Poland, Ukraine but not Stalingrad; then just hedgehogs down at that point buying more and more infantry and daring Russia to attack.
It secures Egypt with Italy, continues to expand in Africa and shores up France and NW Europe and Norway.
It is now just waiting for Japan at Persia.
It does seem to be a silly distinction.
Our house rule is to allow transport of troops on non-bombing runs if you have the Paratroopers tech from friendly area to friendly area within the bombers range.
so if I went out and bought Guadalcanal now, I would have to ask for what to be replaced?
what type and what number?
or has the problem been corrected?
Is there a chart or graph od differences between the various AA games and how they treat different or same aspects of the game or how they differ in Rules from each other?
Especially how they are different from each other regarding the same aspect of the game/
Like do they all treat subs the same way or are there differences?
Likewise with regard to shore bombardment/strategic bombing/transports etc etc
If you have played solo, please note that; but I’m primarily looking for mutliplayer games only.
And just how often does your group meet?
Is it only an Axis and Allies group or a general Euro_gaming group?
I like the idea of Russia and China.
In my experience, just playing Russia alone is excruciating becz of little choice in options other than plodding to a conclusion agst Germany.
China gives Russia a welcome diversion and it allows a choice of strategies, where it did not have choices before IMHO.
We will have to try that next game.
As Larry Harris would say: “Comments noted.”
1941 set up
no German attacks on UK navy , ever!!! :x
Italy was attempting to help Germany take Egypt and was successful
then turned it’s attn to bulking up the German position in Bulgaria
and took Gibralter
Just played AA50 as Germany with my younger son, 15, as Japan; we faced my elder son, 27, as the Allies:
OK at the end the income of Germany was about 45, Japan at 40. Germany held Leningrad. Italy held Egypt. Japan held India and Manila and Hong Kong.
The Allies WON!!
OK what went wrong??
Japan had jet fighters from turn 1.
Germany had paratroopers from turn 4
Allies had no Techs.
Both USA and UK built battleships and the USA also built bomber, bombers and more bombers and finally relentlessly advanced on Japan and took it easily!
The UK built 6 BB’s and invaded France time and time again as Germany counter attacked and took back each turn, but the Germans had no counter strat that could wipe away a fleet like that. they could take 12 hits!
Germany was so weakened that Russia just pounded away on the Eastern Front and went straight for Berlin. Germany even held Stalingrad on it’s last turn as a result of a tandem Italian German attack and 3 paratroops into Stalingrad.
My oh My!!
Edit: I’d like to point out how important Iwo Jima is from the USA POV. It helps their bomber fleet immensely: do not let the US take Iwo Jima!!
The Japans should take Hawaii in order to bomb any new built BB’s the USA build on the West Coast.
The Germans should never ever let UK build 6 BB’s, me bad!!!
All right, who is getting AA50 for Christmas and how the heck do you know it?
Did you look look around the house and find it? :?
Did you peek under the gift wrap? :wink:
Did you shake the gift covered box? :-)
Hurt your back just shaking it? :lol:
OK, you can vote up to 3 times and if you will:
indicate how the length of the game correlates with the # of players,
how enjoyable that game played considering downtime, length of game etc etc
and if you ran out of any pieces especially Italian cruisers :-D
These photos of the game above are noted to be taken at ORIGINS, correct?
Where at ORIGINS were they were taken? At the Warroom?
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Great to hear of it!
Sounds like it will have a separate strategic and separate tactical or city blocks maps??
Is that right?
If you did not want to fight the strategic map, will there be a separate scenario only for the city itself? Like Fortress Berlin?
I imagine there will be transports across the Volga and an air battle above not to say the least about the ground fighting in the factories?
Have you thought about the battle below: in the sewer lines? i.e. the Russians can pop up behind the lines becz of such access, the Germans less so?? Snipers? or is the scale too large in the city for these?
I’ll be waiting to hear more, this is what A&A lacks a true Stalingrad game!
Are there no Stalingrad variants out there?
I looked at this whole list and saw no topic about it.
I realize that RuneBlade did a Stalingrad I believe, but it was all stratgeic and not any in city fighting block to factory to block.
How about it any Stalingrads out there?
Anyone have any Stalingrad maps which I can be referred to as appropriate to the A&A type games?
Anyone have any suggestions as to developing an A&A clone of this Battle?
Does anyone know the identity or name or designation of the colors of the different units?
Isn’t there some “industrial” standard/name for the Italian “brown?” etc etc
If someone could post the id’s/codes here that would be great!!
Or perhaps it isn’t even that difficult; are there any commonly available modeling paints
which are the equivalent to the UK tan or the Russian red; for each country? etc etc
Can someone post this info?