Hey, im going to design some axis and allies playing cards. These would probably be just for personal use, but if some people are interested i could buy a batch and sell and save some money.
Anyone interested, or should i just go through with it by myself.
Also feel free to drop designs and ideas in here too.
So basically our games has ran like this. We have a 5 player game going on right now.
Im playing as Britain and the commonwealth, with my most experianced axis and allies player playing as Germany. All the rest have been playing axis and allies for awhile but not as much as me and my friend. We stopping for the day at the beginning of turn 5
Anyways during the game germany takes out France, Holland and a good chunk of the British home Navy. He also assualts poland, and sends troops in norway and Finland like normal. The Vichy government goes bad though, and almost all the french navy stayed intact and joined with the soviets to eventually took down the germany navy with new british builds. He attacks soviets on turn 2. More bad rolls though and the soviets hold on too long. He even fails to take Leningrad. The soviets managed to push their army back to poland, however that army was defeated soundly by germany recently. The soviets army is in tatters and will lose ground but i dont think germany can finish them and try to defend allied attempts on getting into france. Japan, starts fighting the chinese but struggles at first with bad rolls. Still makes progress and have now taken a good amount of China. They take indochina and thai, but are finally beaten by a lucky British assault. They kept the navy very threatening but the British pacific navy is able to challenge it and has managed to take some of the dutch islands back. China is weak though and i falling quick, itll be interesting what happens when the US joins.
Italy has taken cairo but the british have a strong force forming in the south ready to take it back… It was my mistake to retreat the met sea navy and now im locked out until i take gibralter back in 2 turns.
Do the allies have a chance? I bet we can take africa and stop Germany, and hopfully Japan will be stopped before they reach india.
I like the idea. Like others have said, i would rather not have diplomacy style game. If you could come up with something unique and satifying this would certainly be a game i would pay money for.
Very nice introductory game. It is much harder to play as the allies but victory has been acheived even against experianced players.
This is not a 5 player game though, the russian player will get out very soon and one of our games lasted 6 hours. I have plenty of fun though, like right now we had an experianced player play germany, me as the uk, my brother (also experianced) as us and our newbie as japan. We also had a guy who played russia abit till they died. Russia died horribly plus having the british army in africa was crushed by the german military despite my best efforts. However, i used part of my pacific fleet and my european fleet to crush german fleets all around. I managed with the US to land a large enough force to beat the germans from africa.
We marched to keep india from falling and we almost did. Japan launched a huge invasion force and suffered terrible roles and lost it all. Not only that, but the american navy scored a very risky and stunning victory and destroyed the japanese navy. Had this had not happened the game would have been over. The army we had sent through to help was crushed in the middle east by the germans though who went to take india. With that gone, germany is now taking africa and is building a force to take london. However i had just destoyed a rebuilt fleet and it will be long before the germans will take it. Meanwhile america had a very close attempt on taking japan. All units were wiped out on either side and america is setting for a second attempt. After that we will take land in asia and continue the effort from there. Germanys main forces are focused in europe and africa, so hopfully we can do some harm and gain quite some land. We will finish the game tomorrow and see what happens. Germany may be favored to win but its still winnable, and its certainly been fun for the 5 hours or so we have put in. Hopfully things will go well.:)
I would like to high light someones post awhile go.
Heart of iron 3 with all its expansions is one of the most indepth strategy games one can find. Not only that but there are several mods to add to gameplay. Pick a nation anywhere at any date from 1936 to 1944 and fight through the entire war and change history!
Also a cold war game called east vs west takes place from 1946 to 1991. Looks very interesting and i will be buying.
I managed to salvage it. Here you go man.:)
I ordered my peices. I hope ill be satisfied.
Pitched in alittle, thanks for running the site.:)
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=32363.0
If you could look at my thread in the global war thread, could you answer a couple of my questions? Thanks.
Alright,thanks for the advice. I went and made a list on the pieces I thought were appropriate for the units, and have put some fortifications on it as well.
Will 1940 second editions have enough air and naval fields or will I need to buy more?
Well, i checked the site again and found that there are new expansion packs that are being introduced.
So how does that all work out? Is there still a “lot” of peices i can buy, or do i have to buy them individualy for global. Or should i wait and see what will come out later?
http://www.historicalboardgaming.com/Global-War-1936-46-Expansion-Sets_c_448-2-3.html
I was looking to buy some peices after i bought a board. However they seem to be off the market for the time being…
Any news on it?
Message was sent via ebay. If you get anything else it may be from a family member using the acount.
Thanks for communicating.:)
Well i bought it and probably paid a bit much more then i should. Alwell.
You couldnt be as nice to give me the tube you keep it in would you.:P
You dont happen to be selling the peices too do you(if you have them)? If not i may be still interested in the board, just wondering if you were selling peices later.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=20629.0
Here are some rules thought up a couple years ago.
Hey gargantua, is there a house rules thread on your idea? It would something that my friends would like to try sometime.
It would be really cool to try it out once some solid rules are fleshed out.
Yep, the only places you can build majors for japan are in korea and siam.
It would be cool to save a greek fire thrower from back in the day.
The fire was said to burn on water.
Alright, got some poplar, and also got the felt. Cutting it tomorrow and ill start to put it together later in the week. I plan on having the tower fold into the tray as well. Painting will probably start next week.
Sorry for all the questions since this is the first time making a dice tower and painting it. What kinda paint works well with poplar? I’m not painting the entire thing, just nations on it.