Posts made by MaherC

@JasonW:

@MaherC:

the point being, we shouldn’t have to supplement their game…

Yeah, I got that point. My point is when a company fails to provide all the goods as advertised, you can adapt and still play the game without waiting around for weeks to see if the company will actually follow through on supplying the missing pieces.

You can sit around and complain, or figure out how to play the game in the mean time. I usually go for the later.

As long as people take it on the chin and don’t take the 5 min to call and complain, this will continue to happen.

If you want to order extra pieces from a 3rd party, great.  You shouldn’t have to.  Call and complain like the rest of us and help the cause. :)

the point being, we shouldn’t have to supplement their game…

you can do like the rest of us and pay $90 for the alpha copy they shipped with the game :)

you only get the 5 IPC bonus once for taking a former japanese territory.

I’d really like to see how any of it matters.  I’ve never seen an allied victory, and once india falls, the japs can MATCH any buy the allies make.  on a long enough timeline, the japs win.  On a J1 attack, the US has one LC on the board that can make it to SZ6 on turn 3.  add turns for subsequent LCs.  the “starve the japs out” plan with subs works if the Japanese player doesn’t just buy destroyers and scramble fighters off japan.  you can’t nickle and dime them off the DEIs if he knows where to put his fleet.

you guys get all hung up on the carolines, I’ve never seen a Jap player KEEP them.   Airbase/navy in the Phils, Naval yard in Malaya.  All you need.

bob, looking for something about maybe the size of 4-6 kamakazi markers that can take the place of large groups of surface ships for all parties involved.  right now we just write numbers on the backs of the round country markers, but that’s a little ghetto :)

looks awesome.  only issue I have is calling heavy bombers strategic bombers.  don’t fix it for me, we don’t use these :)

we WOULD use fleet markers :)  I can’t find my key for illustrator 4…

Honestly there has only been one person who has said their copy is unplayable (getting 2 copies of the same 1/2 of the map…which you can check easily enough if you buy it at your local hobby store and open it in house)

Odds are you will get the 6 tac bombers they intended.  It is enough to set the game up and play with, just a pain at times.

The rule changes can be found on this forum.

I wouldn’t hold your breath for a re-release.

friday will be day 14 for me.  we’ll see.

Depends on if you plan on attacking J1/2/3……

I think I will wait for the global setup that they release with the europe edition, then rip it apart for being unbalanced.  :)

did one of your attacking units come from the territory in question?

I have access to a kit for making lead musketballs.  Now I need a tacbomber mold.

awesome.  fleet markers would be awesome too.  I talked to bc about it but not sure if he has the time?

don’t worry about making anyone upset, I’ve been on the forums for all of about a month and everyone hates me, but they still answer my questions :)

Of course I’m correct, I’m a Buckeye :)

agreed.  there is no reason that every single person who calls or emails shouldn’t get a complete japanese refill.  It would shut us up.  I for one would be saying how great WOTC’s customer service is.  I wouldn’t care about typo’s and the cardboard as much, because they did their best to make me happy.

but they can’t even read our emails.  they cut and paste their reply and move along.  you have to call them, and “call them” on their BS.    I supposedly have 4 Tac Bombers coming just to stop me from calling them.  We’ll see.  If I don’t have them Friday, the calls begin again.

no.  you can’t land a plane in a territory you just took via ground combat, nor can a plane capture a territory.

@gargantua:  that’s why I buy from my local game shop.  return much?

I wouldn’t say we are whining.  I think we are trying to get WOTC to put out a better product.  You know, so things like that happened to you won’t happen again.  I would think that you would be all for a little WOTC complaining to get them to put out a quality game.  Hopefully you get your board, I hope that you are calling them daily asking for tracking numbers and the like.  Again, anyone who has purchased anything from newegg.com should know the level of cust serv that can happen out there, and they are an internet reseller, not a manufacturer like WOTC.

I think that there are many out there who slurp some of the members of this community, and don’t take the time to think for themselves.  There are people out there who can’t read the rulebook, or if they did, they missed major points of the game, yet they get on here and jump up and down and shout how this game is balanced because there’s no way Larry or Kreig would have let WOTC put out something so uneven…

And yet now i’m reading posts that ask if they can use Kamikazes on J1.  People don’t know when or how the US enters the war.

It is painfully obvious that WOTC has little in the way of quality control.  All I’m asking for is that we keep complaining, squeaky wheel gets the grease.  They don’t like to hear it?  Good.  I don’t know about you guys, but I spent a lot of $$ on this game to use as a source of repeatable entertainment.  Times suck, board game night is up all across the US.  Silver lining?  My friends are getting back into A&A.  But when the rules change weekly, or waffle from one way to the other and then back to the original form in the span of a week…it gets a little old.

The game feels rushed.  I was actually thrilled that Pac40 was coming out first, what with the lack of TV/MOVIE/attention paid to that side of ww2, but now I wish they had released Europe40 first (in June w/ DDay and such) and then follow on with Pac40 in December of this year.

Maybe the pushed it to cash in on the state of the economy?  Maybe it was the plan all along?  I don’t know.  Don’t care.  Either way, the game wasn’t final.  This is the equivalent to Microsoft Vista (which actually wasn’t that bad honestly) but it was pushed out early, and people complained and cried and they destroyed it in the media…and now we have Windows 7.  Hoping we can do the same to effect change on Europe40 and the Global setup.

Give some of us the rulebook early.  Open it up to more playtesters.  This isn’t Madden 11 we’re talking about here, you’re not going to see a torrent link on piratebay for the rulebook and map.  I mean really.

nope, not saying that at all.  I’m saying that people have been doing what you did to get extra pieces, when they got the 6 they were supposed to get.

YOU are well within your right to get more pieces if you only got 4 Tacs in your set.  That BLOWS!

Some people have been getting extra pieces and some haven’t in this thread, leaving many people wondering if they just weren’t lucky or if they weren’t saying the right thing.