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sorry for the edits, had to make some NCM adjustments

Two week until the Axis and Allies Tournament at Strategicon in LA! Register here: https://www.strategicon.net/ Here is a video with more info:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMF6n9C79nU&t=56s

the first strategic video is up, Germany (part 6 of the series): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8t_hnN3D7c

@RogerCooper I forgot there even was an option for AI in TripleA. I think you’re doing the lords work just to make the TripleA align with the rules. WELL DONE @RogerCooper

Yes, we are playing with complexes - I’ll take this year to demonstrate why those are next on the chopping block ;)

@VictoryFirst said in L25 Classic VictoryFirst (Axis) vs. The_Good_Captain (Allies):

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Thought I was up here but the British are up! Hope everything is OK my friend.

oh man I missed this - thanks for the heads up. Ill get on this today

Come and fight! A tournament for Guadalcanal will be held at the Strategicon gaming convention on February 17th 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 lean to crush your friends before Renegade re-releases it. Here is the link: https://www.strategicon.net/#

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

The UK video is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUVCAq-iPbI&t=3s

@The-Janus I agree with about 80% of this. The rhythm and flow sound right. Where I disagree is that I think the game is significantly NATO favored pending a fairly extreme result in the spying/tech arena (which doesn’t have such cataclysmic outcomes as tech in Anniversary/Global - a plus imo). The Soviets have to really make gains early with tech/spying or the USA comes through the back door. In my experience, WE and UK can reasonably expect to hold down the fort and USA can reasonably be expected to kick in the back door via Kamchatka.

When NATO buys a nuke, the opportunity cost is 6 infantry and two IPC. When the Soviets buy a nuke, the opportunity cost is 10 infantry - that hurts. Also, if NATO is playing (imo) efficiently - they can shrug off the first nuke and lose five naval units with almost no disruption or replacements needed (losing subs, cruisers or WE transport - fodder units). To rinse and repeat as the soviets (20 infantry total now) is crippling.

I still feel this game is so solid and on point that it deserves to be considered canon and the Axis and Allies answer to a cold war variant.

@Martin said in Invitational Classic 2nd edition:

I guess if there can be no additional factories, naval units can then also be produced in unfriendly sea zones. Otherwise Japan could be doomed.

We are playing with factories or Industrial complexes. There are four of them left after the initial setup and three AA guns that can be built by anyone. Industrial complexes are in play.

We will play with the out of box, optional rule of allowing naval units to be deployed in enemy occupied sea zones. This is an out of box optional rule and since this is intuitive for most players coming from other versions (and because I have never seen it be a factor in any game of Classic) I’ll just assert here and now that we will be using this optional rule as well and so newly purchased naval units can be deployed in enemy occupied sea zones.

@VictoryFirst your turn this time, I’m 100% sure - haha (no rush)

@djensen @gerard4 Thanks for coming out fellas. And congrats to Dave on taking 1st Place. See you all in May!

A special video for 1914 has just been posted. This video reviews the Revolution optional rule and the non-intuitive situations that result. Slay your opponents - watch this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvV_1qqmhIY
*I consider this video the most important in the series.

@RogerCooper said in "East & West" by Imp Games - Discussion:

@The_Good_Captain said in "East & West" by Imp Games - Discussion:

@RogerCooper I forgot there even was an option for AI in TripleA. I think you’re doing the lords work just to make the TripleA align with the rules. WELL DONE @RogerCooper

This is going be more inspired by East & West than a port of East & West. The complex tech & espionage rules can’t be done in TripleA. I am just randomly giving out tech & neutrals through events.

The major neutrals are also an issue. I think that it works better to make them distinct powers rather than awarding their units & territories to the major powers. Having China as Russian ally and OAS as Western ally seems natural. The problem is that whoever gets the Arab League wins. My probable solution is to give the Arab League to the Eastern alliance and suggest playing the West with an income bonus.

I have a request then. Can you make the random tech and neutrals being handed out through random events an optional rule? Or just leave it out? In this way, we can use the EDIT mode and layer them in using an independent dice roller.

Same with the Major Neutrals. Edit mode to the rescue is A-okay with me.

@gamerman01 said in Invitational Classic 2nd edition:

The VictoryFirst/Gamerman game has started!

The rule coupled with the rule that allows building into sea zones with enemy ships is that submarines may submerge straight down, right?
As I recall, if submarines can submerge and pop back up, then if you don’t kill the subs in the first round you then can’t build into the zone, and if it’s the only zone you have then you lose all boat purchases and no refunds.

In other words, that can never happen in this tournament because you can build ships in hostile zones, and so by the same token submarines don’t have to move to another zone? I’d better go get my rulebook from the basement…

Thanks!!

Submarines do not submerge in classic. They retreat after the first round (even defending submarines do this).

Attacking subs retreat to any SZ from which attacking naval units came from. Defending subs that survive the first round of combat can go to ANY vacant SZ adjacent to battle (yes a defending sub can BLOCK the attackers line of retreat). The Japanese should beware attacking Hawaii lest the sub slip away and come back with friends - or torpedo newly purchased japanese transports by running up to Midway Island.

@VictoryFirst all good - take you’re time. I’m always here as you know - haha

Is there an unmodified downloadable file of the Spring 1942 map? I know of Imperious Leader’s “Supreme” map but I was looking for an exact copy of the out-of-box map for download. Thanks!

The French strategic video is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O448Fszdq5Y

@The-Janus said in "East & West" by Imp Games - Discussion:

I think you need to ask the question, “why would NATO buy a nuke?” because you’ve always based the entire cost/benefit analysis on how many infantry a nuke costs. Why would NATO spend 20 IPCs to kill 10 IPCs of infantry? Even with the upgraded nuke, it’s still only a break-even proposition for NATO.

Great point. You don’t even need to buy a nuke as NATO while the USSR has to blow holes in its economy to build the two needed to make something you might call a difference in the naval war.

@Ragnell804 response to the problem of being the Soviets is to both buy a spy with the pregame IPC and dump the rest into going whole hog on Italy AND Germany round 1 and essentially banking the game on a coin flip.

That’s the most interesting answer I’ve seen to (again) what I feel strongly is a significant imbalance.

@gamerman01 and to anyone who might be worried about transitioning to classic. These three videos cover about 90% of the unique rules of Classic (with rules references):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_u_mOFTcQA&t=486s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-RI-yOJRvY&t=11s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0Inubn6Fzc&t=208s