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Cleaned up the board spines too. Enjoy

http://www.mediafire.com/view/x2tq68bqzf9svnv/Axis Allies Board.jpg

Come and fight! The National Championship for Guadalcanal will be held at the Strategicon gaming convention on Saturday, May 25th in Los Angeles. All skill levels welcome. This tournament is sponsored by Historical Board Gaming and axisandallies.org. It will be well attended with seasoned players of the game so come get good with friendly opponents who not only play but teach best practices. You will leave a better player and learn to crush your friends. Here is the link: https://www.strategicon.net

First and second place winners will get a set of certified Guadalcanal battle dice (replaces the battle box).

A D-Day tournament will also be held on Sunday, the 26th.

Please share this post with anyone you know who may be interested!

Here is a downloadable document to help with Classic rules: https://www.mediafire.com/file/9y0tnkbtned19g3/AnA_Classic_Not-so-Obvious_Rules.docx/file

A bit late posting here, but the second video dropped last week. This is the German strategic video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHlLsBsWyp8&t=778s

Just gonna butt in here and point out that there is another way to play the Classic:

the VASSAL module is, in my opinion, the best way to play AnA Classic online except that there is no AI and though it can be done via PBEM it is rigged up best for live games:
http://www.vassalengine.org/wiki/Module:Axis_%26_Allies

@VictoryFirst @gamerman01 outside of AA guns and industrial complexes, you can have an infinities amount of any unit type - you just can’t break them into more groups than there are pieces. For example: there are only three bombers available for each power. The USA can have 8 bombers on the board - they just can’t be in more than three groups at any given time. They cannot break into more than three groups to make attacks, etc.

Hopefully that makes sense.

Video three is posted for this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UcYakDg5JY

The fourth and final video should drop in 2-3 weeks and discuss balance as well as other topics.

@VictoryFirst said in 2025 Classic tournament round 1 Gamerman01 v VictoryFirst (Axis):

@The_Good_Captain Rules question, can transport participate in attacks and be selected as casualties?

Yessir. Their attack value is zero but can be selected as casualties.

The Russian strategic video for AnA: Europe is posted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtErFBMCHA

The Western powers strategic video is posted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff9nw0UDZVg&t=415s

If you have any questions about Axis and Allies Europe or feel anything got missed, please post below or in the comments section of the youtube video. Thanks!

The final video in my Europe series is up. I have a lot more respect for this version now. Lot’s of good stuff going on in there that I think got missed: https://youtu.be/_AjN3D4bWJ0?si=NYEEAwXEro3jqQDu

@Imperious-Leader said in Axis and allies classic enhanced 2.0:

already sticky in appropriate forum

I have given up after about 15 min of clicking all over the forum…where is this “appropriate forum?”

I’m hoping there is a Anniversary Map available for pdf download.

@Martin yes, you can do this move. The error is likely appearing as this is the only version of Axis and Allies where infrastructure doesn’t prevent blitz. My recommendations is to go to the “Game” tab at the top and then select “roll dice”. Roll 1d6. You both will get the result. Edit out the IPC that were bombed.

@superbattleshipyamato @Tamer-of-Beasts it works with some very light edits. @Tamer-of-Beasts are you down for a game?

Boy do I feel dumb. That thing is awesome.

If you miss this posting and have already started rolling I would like to make the change to 2 inf and one tank out of france instead of just 2 inf and place them back into Germany

if you’ve already started rolling, let it stand

I will used the calculator for all future battles. feel like such a noob right now

Hello all.

I’ve uploaded my final pair of videos on my study of MB’s AnA Classic, 2nd edition. You can check them out here:

Is AnA Classic BROKEN? Part II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHBXRXn8JCM&t=2s

Is AnA Classic Imbalanced or Broken? Part III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxfPFlpbtNo

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Thanks

-TheGoodCaptain (youtube handle)

Check out my video mini-series on my customizations / “how to” on YouTube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhtS9kBOK7s&t=2s (part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBTC_725LFA (part 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ETQCW_mgh0 (part 3)

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(still photos are at the end of video 3)

@Martin @elche @dawgoneit @Ragnell804

Thanks Martin. Lots of fun. I am in the middle of my game with Elche and will make a few comments once we are finished. =)

@superbattleshipyamato

Download the file from this link and then follow the instructions below. Let me know if that gets it working. https://www.mediafire.com/file/6l8ni5rzkruakro/world_war_i_1914.zip/file

You have to move the unzipped map to the downloadedMaps folder in the folder where you installed Triplea. Reboot the game and look for 1914.

Preliminary: I would caution against being so hard on your strategy. This was one game and I got REALLY lucky with all the dice. And I am not as sure of playing the Allies as I am the axis but here goes:

USSR: My only comment here is to recommend my R1 strategy with the tanks if you’re looking to protect your industrial investments. You surrendered a lot of their mobility. I didn’t feel worried about them in this game.

UK: The strategy of two IC is, I feel, as of this writing, not a mistake. Once they are down, the Allies must be very very mindful of the permanent relationship they have with those industries for the rest of the game, esp in the next 3-4 turns. If done, right and the Allies don’t get diced, it can lead to some quick axis losses.

Hitting the BB in the med on B1 is a tougher than it looks. If the German army is strong in Egypt, you are likely to lose whatever air forces were used in that assault.

USA: I wouldn’t get too hung up on the geographic and to a certain extent, the historical accuracy of the game (regarding the Canada shuttle). When AnA players in any version make noises to that effect I always say the same thing: the game pieces and map are an expression of military clout or the ability of one power to project military influence on the world.

I pretty much nodded my head while reading everything else you wrote.

I am playing in a AnA tourney next weekend but am definitely down for another game after that. Take care!