Posts made by unc_samurai

Nah, this was about 12 years ago that the store gave it to me

I am at this moment watching women’s curling…and I’m worried that I’m easily picking up the strategies.

@Imperious:

It should follow the historical path, meaning at certain turns you just get the goods. Another path to what was possibly attainable by INVESTMENT could be installed. What should not happen in this everything for everybody thing and everybody having an equal access to all technology. Also Tech should be a long term investment, so you should have to spend a small amount each turn on a TARGETED tech project. I hate spending a huge amount of money on one turn and crap shoot something i didnt want. Each “tech tree” should have different aspects to improve a group of land,sea, or air forces. Other trees should be atomic, rockets,and chemical weapons which are on a seperate tier. I am not sure what the specific structure would be, but again it should follow along the lines of what was in fact possible by each nation.

If you’re going to make a Tech Tree that complex, you might as well put A&A on the shelf and load up Hearts of Iron.  There’s something to be said for simplicity within the board game.  Revised did add a layer of depth to the game, but it’s supposed to have a level of ease of play that separates it from the old Avalon HIll/SPI cardboard counter games.

@scootmanfromhell:

I happen to read somewhere that someone posted that Nationlist China could recuit Germans. How’s this one possible??? I didn’t catch that one ANYWHERE in the rules.

I would doubt open cooperation between German and General Chiang’s forces, but in case you did not see it, there was a featured article on Wikipedia the other day highlighting Sino-German relations in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_featured_article/February_7%2C_2006

If anyone has not yet read Third Reich Victorious, it’s a highly entertaining collection of scenarios.  Some are rather far-fetched (such as the scenario where Hitler becomes enamored with the Navy during WWI), but there are also scenarios such as an armistice following a D-Day disaster, and an invasion through the Turkish Caucasus.

Between the Excel file and the triton-tek website, I can’t find a production year for the Brumbar (especially since I can’t pull one out of almost three cases)  Is it a '43 or a '44?

@Doppelbock:

Haha, yeah Ian’s story about his “Renault Rush” army was pretty good.

I’m anxious for a SOUMA, and the Char that’s coming in ConSkies will be nice as well.  I learned first-hand the danger of underestimating a French army.  The French armor is more than capable of handling Panzer II’s.  Still, point for point nothing beats the T-34/76

I like the Soviet Army, but I’m partial to them because of my Micro Armor Army.  I’m still waiting for some self-propelled artillery, and some GMC trucks for transport.

Point well taken, Imperious, but neither were the Soviets during the Afghanistan invasion.  It would be extremely difficult to represent on a boardgame, but I could forsee a scenario where in the late 40’s/early 50’s, an occupied France becomes a hotbed of resistance to the Germans, with the resistance supplied by either the Western or Communist Allies.  The Germans would not want to slaughter the French population wholesale, as 1: they needed the manpower to operate French industries and 2: wiping out an entire indigenous population is much, much harder to do than ostracize a minor ethnic group, especially when the French were well aware of the disappearance and highly suspicious of the fate of the Jewish population.  Were the Germans to attempt to wipe out the French altogether, it would prove likely to be their undoing.  Even if it took half a century.  I can just imagine Reagan making a proclamation on the cliffs of Dover, “Mister Kohl, tear down this (Atlantic) Wall.”

I have a sudden desire to go re-read Newt Gingrich’s alternate history novel.

An “Axis win” is a victory condition set forth in a game.  Nice and neat for playing out strategies, but realistically, if the Axis powers had forced an armistice/peace treaty/surrender on their terms, they would have been forced to deal with many of the problems that other countries faced during the latter half of the 20th century.  Imagine if the Germans had held onto France after the war, assuming a concession by the Western Allies that liberating France was not worth the cost of continuing a war.  You could easily have a situation where occupied France turns into Algiers/Hungary/South Vietnam/Afghanistan.

Hey, Imperious Leader, I was looking at your website for A&A-type games, and I started drooling when I saw the WWI ship models.  Did you mold those yourself?

@Imperious:

Hell NO! You have to develop your own weaponry. It does not become yours if you take out his capital or if your even his ally.

Can you imagine the Germans capturing Moscow and finding all these bomber blueprints?  I can see the OKW specialists now, reading the blueprints upside down because of a mistranslation.  The resulting prototype was a disaster.  Pity those bomber pilots that opened the bomb bay doors on top of their aircraft and bombed themselves.

1:  Will the armored strengths be appropriate in the Bulge scenario?  The OOB for D-Day was way out of proportion in the German favor.  I understand play balancing, but if you had given Rommel that much armored support, we’d be discussing the Western Armistice of 1944 in history classes.

2:  Canadian units is a good start, but can we have some Free Polish Forces?  Or, would there be a Free Forces expansion separate?

3:  If there is no F-6F in the Contested Skies set I will be very upset.

I’m working on two books on my lengthy “to read” shelf.  The first is The Sling and the Stone, by Marine Col. Thomas Hammes. It’s an assessment of modern American military doctrine.  The second book is Misfire by William Hallahan, a rather overly critical work on the history of American arms manufacturing, trying to highlight the failures such as early rifle manufacturing at Springfield and Harper’s Ferry, all the way to the M-16 fiasco early in the Vietnam campaign.

Bring on the Curling!

I wish I could find my copy of Men With Brooms

Jermofoot, my local Blockbuster eventually gifted me their copy since I was the only person who rented it for the year and a half it was in their store.

Funny, they did the same thing with P.T.O. for the SNES.

Does anyone have a picture of the A-Bomb counter from World in Flames?

That may very well be a StuH, it’s definately a PzIII chassis with a 75mm assault gun.  The Soviet assault gun on the right is the Su-122. . Deployed in 1943, it should have fairly weak anti-armor capability, but the 122mm howitzer is good at close range.  A lot of these were actually captured and used by the Germans, which would be neat if there was a set of captured vehicle cards ever produced.

As for my wish list:
88mm Flak 18 - an air defense and anti-tank combo that would be deadly.  Besides, it’s one of the more famous towed pieces.
Martin B-26 Marauder;
North American B-25A Mitchell - just because the models themselves would look great.
Finnish Forces - mainly because I painted a Finnish Brewster Buffalo mini for the Red Sun/Blue Sky series.