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Hey there Doppelbock! Good to hear from you and I’m glad you enjoyed playing at GenCon and good to see you on the site here.

It was actually my first gaming convention and I thought it was a good time. I’ll defintely be back next year.

I think the biggest transition problem has been that all the imported messages were marked as “new.” But that should go away after a few days.

Also over the next few weeks I hope tp change the look to be more like the main website. However, I’ll probably leave the feel alone. Look meaning images, colors, and graphics. Feel meaning placement, organization, and flow.

Next tournament

San Francisco Bay Area Axis & Allies Miniatures Sanctioned Tournament
Saturday, January 14, 2006
1pm to around 5-6pm

Game Kastle, Santa Clara, CA

Format: TBD

Entry fee is usually $5, with all entry money applied to prizes.

The plan is usually to crack open boosters for prizes with the winner picking first.

@Ubermarine:

The Polish Calvalryman is a nice touch to the game.  Thay will be easy to use in groups of 3 or 4 against soldiers.  Im thinking the best way to use them will be to hide and rush machine gun nests.

Not just machine gun nests but also for going after BAR Gunners, anti-tank guns, and commanders. But I really don’t think you need more than 1 or 2 to accomplish this. It is very easy for the cavalry out of line of sight.

Well the built in Avatars for PHPBB are totally lame. They got disney characters and cartoon icons ….simply horrible.

In Toronto, ON, tournament games are played at 6:00 pm on thursdays at the Gamezclub (Coxwell & O’Conner)

As well, there’s usually a good number of players there on Saturday, and often Sunday.

Here is some information about sanctioned play for prizes. Contact your local game ship to set something up.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=retailer/support/aamleague

http://boards.avalonhill.com/showpost.php?p=61877&postcount=73

Thank you very much, that certainly does help.

The scale is quite good but I can see myself adding a bit more detail/colour, or even just mud, to some of those vehicles.

A bit more effort could have been made there, if you compare them with Heroclix or Star Wars miniatures they are almost more like the little plastic soldiers we had as kids, the momotone plastic parts of some of the tanks like the Panzer IV turret are particualrly bad and the light grey MGs look like tacky add ons…

A real attraction to these games for me is not having to paint them, but here it looks like I’ll have to spruce them up a bit anyway. Thanks again.

Last Thursday I played this army:

USA - M1 Garand x3
USA - “Red Devil” Captain
USA - Jeep x2
UK - SMLE No. 4
UK - 6-Pounder Antitank x2
UK - Vickers MG Team
UK - Humber Scout Car x2
USSR - T-34/76

Despite my crappy roles during the game I managed to hold on and almost win, despite losing my T-34 to a Tiger-I.

Some key things that I learned during the game were that cover is very important. The Jeeps were useful to get soldiers to the front very fast.

The Humber Scout Cars are good but just don’t leave them out in the open for attack, that’s what makes the strike and fade very useful.

Yea it’s an ancient old thread with 3 layers of dust on it, soo what/  :-P

My treasured 200pt. German Army  :evil: ok, 197pts

Inf:
1 Anittank Grenideir
1 Blackshirt
1 light Mortar
1 SNLF Patatrooper
1 Disciplined Spotter
1 SGRW 34 81MM Mortar
1 Panzergrenadier
1 MG42 Machine-Gun Team
1 Panzershreck
1 Sandbagged Machine-Gun Team
1 SD KFZ 303 “Goliath”
1 PAK 40 Antitank Gun
1 SS-Haupstrumfuhrer
and 1 Wehrmacht Veteran Inftrymen

Viehicals/Panzers:
2 Panzer III Ausf.F
1 Panzer IV Ausf.G
1 SD KFZ 250
and 1 Strumpanzer IV "Brummbar

With a Minefield and Tank Obstical

If you want to get to all the campaigns and scenarios, I’ve included them on the A&A Minis links page:
http://www.axisandallies.org/node/32

Here are the major differences…

1. The Turn order is determined by a sequential action of cards that give orders to one side or the other…

2. There is no production… Instead Troops come in via a reinforcement chart that you roll for to determine what comes ashore (or from Rouen and Rennes)

3. The Objective (for the Allies) is to seize 3 VC (Cherbourg, St. Lo, Caen) by turn nine and hold them for a turn… otherwise the Germans win…

4. There is now a limit of 8 Land Units for one side or the other (so The Allies can only have 8 units in a zone and no more, the germans can not have any more either)…

5. Allies can only have Aircraft… German Artillery are AA capable… The Germans now get Blockhouses that get to target Allied units coming ashore… Plus all German defends on 3 instead of the allied 2  :wink:

6. Fortune Cards (optional) can give one side or the other an advantage brought on by bombings, shortages, Weather etc.

7. Tactic Cards (optional) give a one time use advantage to one side or the other…

8. Battles only last one cycle, so you have to be selective to not tie units down…

here is the rulebook: http://www.wizards.com/avalonhill/rules/axisdday.pdf

Overall it is more of a training game to teach the mechanic of fighting to new players imo… but it is a great short game… Although it can get boring with the same strats that usually get played… IF you want blockhouse pieces though get it…

GG

is this contest still going on, or did it ever take place? i wouldnt mind throwing in some picturs for it if this thing ever gets going. let me know.

Not a fan of IB, huh?

I haven’t met many folks who were.

Rob.

As an A&A game, yea it does suck pretty hard. As a stand alone WWII RTS it is not too shabby. It is one of the few RTS games that takes supply into consideration, and unit morale. I kinda like it. But if you are looking for a Axis and Allies type game you probablly will not like it.

… A&APacific, try joining Days of Infamy http://www.rjware.net/DOI/club-headquarters.htm. You’ll have no trouble getting a PBEM game. If you want to play FTF I can’t help you there.

SS

ya,

i think that he might of also done a couple more.