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One problem I have seen is that you can’t really use chips for carriers, battleships and transports.  You need to keep track of carriers individually for the planes on board.  You need to be able to assign hits to battleships.  You need to keep track of the cargo on the transports.  For ships, you are only left with stacks of subs or destroyers since a stack of cruisers would not happen often.

Also, because I move my planes around all over the place, I try and leave them on the board and not chipped.  Unfortunately I need the chips because I often run out of planes.  I don’t want that comment to reinvigorate the ‘debate’ about the number of pieces shipped with the game by Wizards.

FMG has made the decision to make German units next.

Thanks Jeremy.  Keep pressing on.

If you cherish accuracy then the Allies win on the 18th turn.

Artillery do give a huge push to the attacker already.  Remember they also boost infantry +1 on the attack as well.  In this way, statistically, they give more punch than a single tank.

A & A is about experience; however, a person able to think critically will get more from each game as they gain experience.

An engineer can perform thousands of calculations to design a boat, and at the end, tell you where to paint the waterline within an inch or so.  The fellow who builds boats can build the boat, making a few modifications along the way, such as adding a larger, heavier engine, and still paint the waterline within an inch.  But give that same fellow a new boat design to build, and he will take some time to learn where the waterline is.  The engineer can still compute it, but it will take many calculations.

This is sort of the difference between wisdom and intelligence.

Americans are underappreciated.

If anyone claims we didn’t do our share of anything since the US Civil War, I would like to know who you hold as an example that did more.

Yes, like your countries, our country has internal politics that sometimes delay us getting involved in implementing a sound solution, but I would like to know if you consider our participation or involvement the most egregious worth noting.  If not, more might be accomplished by addressing a noteworthy problem instead.

Did you rob a few Risk games to do it?

Where do you go to get WWI mini soldiers?

I couldn’t open his files to check out his map.  Does require more materials than a new map?  I realize folks like him couldn’t stand to use A&A pieces from WWI.

Could we make up a map for a WW I variation with the US East Coast, the Atlantic and most of Europe, the Med, and a part of Africa?  With that, I believe we could use only Infantry & Artillery, Battleships, Cruisers, Destroyers, transports and Submarines from the curent vintage of A&A to make a playable WW I game.  I think we might need some chips to indicate bunkers, trenches and machine guns, but it seems well within our grasp.

Does anybody have a link to a map they would recommend?

What nations should be represented in that game?

The question should be asked though; why would you ever want to do it that way?

I did not enjoy playing Monopoly Jr with my son.  Can’t remember but they changed the rules to make some things simpler.

It is regretable that we are debating the price openly.

I hope Jeremy makes loads of money on this project, and is able to fund many more.

The pieces appear to be a very high quality and some of us are willing to pay for that.  There are quite many in the set and some of us are willing to pay for that too.  There is also a great variety of pieces, not even required to play the game, and some are willing to pay for that.

On the other hand, some are looking at a $75 dollar game (~$150 if you combine the two) and thinking “How much will I pay to ‘trick out’ my game?”  There are going to be a lot of folks with a hard ceiling around $100 total I believe.  Unfortunately some of the demands for a piece to do this or that drove the cost up, and some folks fell off the bottom end when that happened.  For example, we don’t need two tanks per nation, or a transport plane.  But providing those pieces created a cost that has to be absorbed.  Now the whole set has to cost more unless FMG comes up with a plan to offer “basic” sets with infantry, one tank, one arty piece, three planes, and one of each ship.  For my part, I would love to be able to consider buying some a-la-cart.  I may be able to afford all the high quality ships and selected other pieces, for example.

Enterpreneurship is all about figuring out this delicate balance.  I want to wish Jeremy the best of luck.  Whether I buy a set, or five or even none, he is providing the community a service we didn’t have before.  Thanks.

That is a very nice transport, and such a good illustration of what the project is about sitting next to the generic allied transport.  Great job FMG!

The last I heard, the US recovered a propeller and possible other debris from a North Korean torpeedo, and shared it with China and others to show a North Korean torpeedo, believed to have come from a NK sub, was involved.  I suspect we knew all along but can’t share how we know.  I believe we had one or more subs in the area that recorded the whole thing.  The big question is what is going to be done about it.

If the price is $10 per nation, I should be able to buy them all, or a set if several nations are involved.  At $15 per nation, I may just have to skip one or two.  At $20 per nation, I would probably only buy three to five nations, and I would be very disappointed I would have to pass on the rest.  After $20, I just couldn’t do it at all.

Did anyone notice they sell P-40s too?  Hello China!

That wasn’t where I thought that was going.  Funny.

Canadians are Americans unless my geography teacher and a few others entered into a substantial conspiracy.

I don’t think folks would say that a war between US and Mexico would be our own business, so I don’t agree that a war between N & S Korea is only their business.

It is my impression that the US Navy has allowed free trade over the world’s oceans except for a few minor periods and limited areas in the past 60 years.  North Korea’s actions threaten world wide stability and I don’t think it should be made light of nor ignored.

What would another nation do if one of her ships were sunk by another nation’s sub?  What if that nation were a European nation?

While we’re waiting, I have had a brain storm.  One thing that could add to the beauty of this project is having a new tray arranged to allow the player to sort his pieces.  I was thinking rather than having a rectangular box with regular sides and all that, the box could have a theme look.  Then it hit me, how about a colored box that is shaped like a landing craft to put the ground pieces in?  Another box would have some resemblance to an aircraft hanger and a third box would have a bottom texture like waves in the ocean with large waves dividing the “compartments” for holding ships.  If this could be sized and shaped to fit into the footlocker then I think you would have something nobody is ever going to beat.

The problem is that these armies are being judged by their competition.

We were better prepared in the Gulf than any of the others.  I don’t know how we could come to a real value on any of these.