Posts made by haxorboy

My god it has been 20 years give or take since KITT was first introduced huh? I’m still waiting for Buck Rodgers to find his way back home :D

I was drinking a beer on teh way to work this morning…JUST JOKES.

I wear a handsfree earpiece if I have to make a call while driving, nothing worse then flying down 495 in the morning and get cut off by some moron from Maryland doing 40 yapping on their cell phone with one hand, applying makeup/shaving with the other. And I believe that ultimately whey will left teh cell phone ban for this simple reason:

If they allow broadband internet access, then I hookup my mic/headset to my iBook, launch Skype and I am dialing away…might as well just make the cell usuable with some restictions, maybe a cellphone section not unlike a smoking section. Business travelers that would be using them wouldn’t mind as for the most part the tickets are being paid for by their company, so create a cell phone section on teh plane so that the use is centralized…just my thought, but what do I know…

On the way home from Vegas recently, after leaving for the airport straight from The Crazyhorse Too, this old couple behind me kept complaining about me smelling like “a drunk whore”…I laughed to myself, but Stuka your comments ring true…flying is bad enough without us jib jabbing on the phone…but I would still like to be able to at least use the data features of my phone, you must be able to see that is okay…and if you have never been to that “bar”, I suggest you go now, don’t pass go, don’t collect 200 dollars, you will need it there.

Okay, being someone who uses the phone for more then talking to my girl telling her endlessly I love you more, no I love you more, I think so…at least for data transmission. Too many times I was in the air and missed a sales op in my last job cuz I couldn’t have my blackberry turned on. But yeah I would hate to hear me yapping away about getting you a hot deal on a OC-3 with a 3640 Cisco for dirt cheap…:D

The Battle of Stalingrad was so big and bloody, if it would have fallen I can only imagine what it would have forced the US to do to end the Euro conflict…

I’ll never forget that first time I got owned in 3 turns…you understand playing Russia is all about some waiting…and more waiting…and troop buying…

Being a Mac user can be frustrating at times browsing the web. I loved Safari but have just switched to Firefox for both my powerbook and my pc, loving it on both. No conflicts, about 99.5% of the sites work just fine in it and I don’t have to worry about the constant stream of bugs that polute IE…

I love me some offensive killing with Germany, but taking the big K on G1 just usually puts you in a bad spot. Mind you it depends upon who you are playing, but the Russian/Allied counter can really hurt ya.

Just looking over those units, what happened in this game…is it just me or is this game about 2 moves from being over with the lack of troops on any of these countries? If you want my 2 cents I would spend a couple rounds, build 2 tranny’s, 2 INF and a Tank, then next round invade with the larger controling force, spending your money on INF to funnel them across to keep your foothold, as Russia seems spread to thin to backup what you would do there. Can’t tell from your post but is Germany doing anything to help your cause? If Russia is that wide open on the backside you should have Germans dancing on Red Square right now…

After playing both versions, by far the Iron Blitz version is much much better, if not for the simple fact you can basically setup the game in any manner you wish. Just having the marines changes the way you do things in the game, the way you think thing through and whatnot. Plus as a bonus the AI isn’t completely horrid, it still is dumb and can be destroyed rather quickly but isn’t as bad as in just plain A&A.

Talk about a road warrior, when I was doing sales the most I would go out on the road was 2 weeks, and that was pushing it for me. Hope you are enjoying yourself.

Yeah I read all of that in a 16 hour work induced haze, sorry SUD…I should have known…I will promise to do better next time ;)

If you are going to take the time to post something that well laided out, why not spend an extra minute and register? Just a thought… :D

Jefe is right, if I can take WE and have even a chance of holding it for a round then it’s on…but as a much better way to throw a kink in Germany’s plans for global domination is the Spain route…

The US can plant 6 INF and a ARM on US2 if they want…causing G2 turns to focus on not only sinking the tranny’s but removeing those troops. In doing so would leave the UK navy that was rebuilt to be added to…you could try to attack both but the focus clearly would be on sinking those 4 US trannys. Since you gave the UK a turn to beef up, it could have a carrier and maybe BB depending upon money. US3 lands 2 fighters on that carrier, and buys 4 trannys…the tactic was a huge success even though a money loss for US as UK has a defending navy, germany was forced to turn it’s attention eastward giving the USSR some help in setting up defenses on both sides and putting Germany in the hole offensive wise. And if I have errored in any math here please make corrections as needed…

I was having the same issue with the patch applied to the original game running under win XP. Everytime I would click on the map during combat movement the game would freeze. I found that playing without the patch installed fixed any problems for me…but then after playing the computer a few times you will see that is not much fun as it does the same thing every round, everytime and for the most part the AI is completely useless. One of the techs in my shop will burn in a new system by running A&A with the computer controlling all the countries…you never have to worry about the game ending because the AI will never build transports to invade Japan…kinda funny to see after like 25 rounds like 100 russian troops sitting in Man. with no navy to get them across.

I had always read about this version of A&A on here, and recently stumbled upon a copy of the game. The Marine troops to add that hard punch of an attack of 3 when amph. assualting, and the destroyers are great at defending that group of transports you have sitting there. Overall if you play the cd version of the game alot it is neat I suppose, anyone inc. these rules into the boardgame?

This attack would just leave you weakend for Germany to attack the big K on round one, the troops are better served just holding their ground in Karelia to defend. Now to throw things up in a non-RR game I will attack Caucuses, but I think the best thing for the USSR’s overall interests is to just sit on teh first round and play defense.

Mort, if memory serves someone on here recently enough bought another game on eBay for a trivial amount to increase the number of pieces they had to play with, and myself have 2 complete game boards to mix and match with, making campaigns I know will last more then 7 rounds easier marker wise.

As far as unit totals, I looked in the newer of the two and counted out 17 for each country, but I do remember my first set back in the day being short of US inf units from the rest of the nations. Guessing the game was thrown together in Florida, it seems the folks down there have problems counting :D

If you are in the position to throw 8 troops on the Europe mainland and want them to count, then Spain is an excellant option esp. if the UK can’t hold the waters around them for a landing in Norway. And you would be surprised how much this throws the Ger. strat all to the way side if the US starts up a train of 8 troops per round landing in Spain, WE falls pretty quick and then it is just a matter of time.