Posts made by Wilson2

@Clyde85:

What we see with the minor IC in western France, is the fulliment for Larry Harris’s long held dream of giving Germany a chance to contest the Atlantic.
Anyone who owned the orignal PC game of A&A will remember Larry talking about how the allies seemed to dominate to atlantic, and he had been expermenting with putting a factory in western Europe to give the Germans more of a chance.
I think, with the minor IC in western france, he will created the balance he has always wanted. I cant wait to play this game  :-D

Exactly, one of the hardest things about Germany contesting the Atlantic was that all the ships had to be built in the Baltic or the Mediterranean.

I spelled out Mediterranean and then a red line appeared under it. Rats! I thought. I thought I spelled it right. That should be a word I know how to spell. It turned out I had just forgotten to capitalize, lol.

Play by forum is a massive pain and requires a ton of typing. I guess I am just spoiled as I am used to using the nice interface of mapview PBEM with aacalc dicey. Apparently most people are perfectly fine using that atrocity called abattlemap and typing out all of their moves.

Yea, I finally get to use those marshaling cards I got in revised. If you want more flavor, try playing AARe. You can play it with AA42 board and pieces. map is close enough to revised that it should be about the same game play.
AARe is stickied in the house rule section and is IMO the best revised alternate rule set. It has nicely balanced tech and NAs as well as changed rules for subs that make them interesting and useful.

The last and only AA42 game I played, I ran out of ICs. The allies ended up building ICs in South Africa, India, Australia, and East Indies. It became an economic struggle for who would have higher production for longer as Russia fell early and the allies held africa and took most of Japan’s money early. It was a fun but very long game.

@The:

@fanofbond:

Now all I need is this to be edited in the errata so my play group will accept the change.

I agree. I will only accept this change if it is printed in the errata. it needs to be more official than what seems like what Larry just said that “he liked”

I totally agree. I like to have changes done officially or semi-officially in the case of LHTR.
AARe is an exception because it just totally owns, plus it has years of play testing and editing and multiple people input. If you haven’t tried it, do.

Lol a poll about the better of the only two mainstream soda’s that I can’t stand to drink. Here’s my list:
Root Beer
Dr. Pepper
Mountain Dew
Sprite
I don’t drink coke, pepsi, sunkist, or any of those fruity sodas

pepsi = coke + more fizz or at least that’s how it tastes to me. I tried a coke somewhat recently thinking that they couldn’t be that bad - I didn’t finish the can. Anything diet I despise. Seriously, If you can’t handle the sugar, drink water (what I drink most of the time).
I like a good lemonade made from lemon juice and heavy on the lemon juice (I usually prefer water to the powdered stuff).
I am warming up to unsweetened tea.

Email’s work pretty well too. I was able to get a replacement for a lost UK AA50 fighter that way. I called a WOTC customer service and he told me the AA42 fighter was the same as the AA50 one. I bought the AA42 and found they were different. I emailed WOTC and they offered to send me a replacement AA50 UK fighter. Plus when you email you can make sure you tell them your address correctly. But for most customer service I prefer phone calls; it is more direct and faster.

Same deal with AA42. Unfortunately, my AA50 odds calculator only allows battleships to be taken first.

If I were to get this game, I would immediately email customer service and ask for the extra tac bombers and mech inf as well as the correct battleboard. Am I missing anything, or is this all that is messed up except the typos.

I just recently got '42 and have only played it once, but it is fun. The board is only slightly smaller than the revised board, but looks so much better. Plus, a few things are upgraded. The most important fix is that Eastern US does not touch Panama. This makes it actually possible for Japan to use the panama canal. Also West Canada is no longer THE territory to put your units in since it no longer touches the Alaska SZ or the WUS SZ. There are also Formosa and Iceland which are generally pointless.

Get AA42. It is a blast and a huge upgrade from classic. Unless you are getting a larger map printed, stick with the OOB one; revised board is not enough larger to be worth it.

@calvinhobbesliker:

I have a question, wilson. Are you an anarchist?

You take from a post about helping the poor that I am an anarchist? Seriously?  :|

@calvinhobbesliker:

Also, about the gov’t collapsing from debt if they provide HC,

it might work if we scale down are military spending which is larger than the next 14 nations’ combined.
Our gov’t is 13 trillion of dollars in debt, it hasn’t collapsed yet(probably due to Keynesian influences which allow it to defecit spend).

Our military spending is nothing compared to our welfare spending.
Keynesian influences may delay collapse, but they just make the collapse worse (or prolong it and leave us with a huge debt in the case of the new deal)

sigh at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, here is why the US has not collapsed yet. Normally nations collapse when their debt reaches about 50% of their GDP; Greece was less than that when it collapsed/had the EU take over. Guess how high the US is? The US debt is now over 100% of the US GDP. Why have we not collapsed? Because the rest of the world is buying our debt. Oil, gold, currency exchange (I am not totally sure on the last 2), and many other things are based on the US dollar. If the US economy collapses, oil nations, nations that produce products for the US (like China), and all the nations that already have US debt would be in big trouble (debt is worthless of the currency is worthless). So other nations are basically forced to buy our debt, because if we go down, they are going down. However, it won’t last forever. Eventually, they will stop buying our debt (unless they persist until our debt crashes more than just the US) and unless we have learned to limit our spending, the US economy will collapse. Then China will go, since all the debt they bought off us will be worthless and it will continue like dominoes - a world depression like none other. We may delay it through more Keynesian tactics, but it will happen and the longer it is delayed, the worse it will be. Keynesian economics is like cleaning your room by throwing everything under your bed. Eventually, you will have to clean it, and the longer you wait, the worse it will be.

@ gamerman - I am including social security, medicaid, income tax on a curve, etc. in most of my usage of the word welfare.
As for your flatscreen tv, getting the $1800 is not a good thing. Assuming you are middle class, you will likely have to pay more than that in taxes to pay for giving all those people $1800. Or it is just $1800 * (large fraction of population of US) more debt. That is $1800 of debt that is to be left for your grandchildren to take care of. Imagine telling your grandchild as he gets born, "You were about $10,000 dollars in debt (their portion of the national debt) but now because of this flatscreen, you owe an additional $1800; good luck.

@calvinhobbesliker:

Apparently, 50% support welfare, but I’m the only one on AA.org that will defend it? Something is wrong in this picture.

I think this shows my point. Welfare is based on selfishness. People don’t support welfare because they think it is best for the country. They do it because they don’t want their individual benefits taken away. Politicians offer welfare to as many people as possible to buy their votes and then hide (or lie about in the case of Obama) the tax/debt cost of the programs.

So people wont support it because they don’t believe in it. They just want to keep their benefits so they wont oppose it. I assume you support it because you are at that age where school teachers and society has told you that welfare is good and you just believe them, but you haven’t seen the effects (half of your paycheck taken away, or rather half of the money taken away before it makes the paycheck - welfare is all about the secrecy. You don’t show people the real cost).

@calvinhobbesliker:

The government is there to administer the money so that donations made in California can get to Louisiana.

Or rather into a bureaucrat’s pocket.
@calvinhobbesliker:

Some people can’t fix the situation; i.e. they can’t get a job no matter how hard they try. They don’t just sit around doing nothing.

As much as I think they should find something better to do, even the people that beg at street corners are doing something. And they seem to be getting by. Many people say can’t when they are really just too proud to take a minimum-wage job. I have worked one - it is not fun, but you got to do what you got to do.
@calvinhobbesliker:

Let me ask you: how does a poor person solve his illness if he can’t afford health care?

There are people that have diseases that they cannot get cured, not because there is no cure, but because the procedure costs ridiculously too much. If the government were to pay to get everyone out of their wheelchairs everyone would go broke (or more accurately, the government would collapse from debt) I think there are expensive treatments to spinal issues that the average person cannot afford. Where do we draw the line? Right at the start. People can get inexpensive drugs at places like Wal-mart and Costco. Even if they couldn’t get everything they needed, it still wouldn’t help for the government to get into health care. History (and Europe) has shown us that the more the government gives away health care, the less the people get. Take England for example. Even for time-urgent procedures, people often have to wait in 6 month waiting lists (or even waiting lists to get on the waiting list - yes, I’m serious). This can result in loss of limb use, extended severe pain, and even possibly death. Why does this happen? Because the people demanded that the government pay for their health care so the doctors are all busy with people that do not really need to go to the doctor.
@calvinhobbesliker:

Also, you say private individuals SHOULD be giving help. I completely agree with that. Unfortunately, they don’t and thus we have to force them to do so.

Who are you to determine that it should be someone else’s money to solve poverty rather than your own? Even were welfare a good thing, supporting it is a waste of time and money. You would do better to rally people to donate to help the poor than to rally people to vote to get the government to take from others to give to the poor. Your one voice and your actions giving and working to help the poor will do more than your one voice supporting welfare. When it comes down to it, supporting welfare is not all that compassionate as is portrayed. It is really just another form of selfishness. If the over 50% of people that support welfare were instead to actually do something to help the poor, we would have no “need” for welfare. However, they would rather force others to “help” the poor and use the government as their excuse for not doing anything much like Scrooge in “A Christmas Carol” -

“At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up a pen, “it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”
“Are there no prisons?” asked Scrooge.
“Plenty of prisons,” said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.
“And the Union workhouses?” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?”
“They are. Still,” returned the gentleman, “I wish I could say they were not.”
“The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?” said Scrooge.
“Both very busy, sir.”
“Oh! I was afraid, from what you said at first, that something had occurred to stop them in their useful course,” said Scrooge. “I’m very glad to hear it.”
“Under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the multitude,” returned the gentleman, “a few of us are endeavouring to raise a fund to buy the Poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you down for?”
“Nothing!” replied Scrooge.
“You wish to be anonymous?”
“I wish to be left alone,” said Scrooge. “Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make idle people merry. I help to support the establishments I have mentioned: they cost enough: and those who are badly off must go there.”
“Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.”
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. … It’s enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people’s. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!”

Welfare is just an excuse for people not to help the poor. It is merely a way to ease people’s conscience so they won’t feel bad about the people starving around them. Your signature says, “while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving.” But I say to you, while you prate about welfare being the answer, men and women are starving. What are you doing to help them?

@Fleetwood:

I have lost as the Axis even with Germany taking Russia but it was in Revised, this could just as easily happen. The Allies were playing split focus with Russia and UK against Germany and the US was basically trying to tackle Japan on their own. It was really my game to lose and I learned from that game, especially when I wrongly stopped building navy as Japan when I somehow thought I needed more Japanese units to take Russia(while Germany did all of the attacking). The US eventually had factories on all of Japan’s valuable islands, then captured Japan’s factory on French Indochina, then China and into Asia. Meanwhile, the UK was able to trade Western Europe and eventually stack Karelia to branch out from there. Germany tried to keep control of all of Eurasia, they just can’t especially with the Allied economic advantage. It was one of the longest games I’ve played. If you’re interested, I still have the TripleA file but you’ll need an older version of TripleA(1003 or 1032, I forgot which) and it’s too big for me to email the installer.

I think my problem was that Russia fell 1 turn too early. If Russia had held for 1 more turn (Germany did a 55% attack that could have easily lost) then I would have been able to get up a US Norway factory early game and it might have gone differently.
About your game. Did UK manage to keep Africa in it?

I disagree. ANY government welfare is just doing what private individuals should be doing. It is charity. But when government does it means bigger bureaucracy and more wasted money, plus the government is less involved in deciding who really needs help (if they are more involved, it just means MORE money spent on desk workers and such) since it is so large scale. Plus when charity is run by the government, it gets viewed as a right, rather than a gift. People no longer see a need to fix their situation and just depend on the government. Also, welfare violates the rights of citizens. It forces people to “donate” to “charity” whether they like it or not in the same way the Social security violates people’s property rights by forcing them to pay for other people’s retirements.
Welfare is essentially the ends of a path of selfishness. People no longer want to help others by giving to charity or other ways, so they depend on the government to do it. The people that need help then demand it from the government rather than working to solve their problems.

I just played my first game of 1942. It was ridiculously long. R1 I built a sub and R2 killed the German BB and transport. Combined with a UK1 IC in South Africa I had all of Africa by UK4. UK also built an Australia IC and took Borneo and built a few subs and a DD and a bomber to help kill Japan’s fleet. For the US I put most of my initial resources into the Pacific since I got a nice attack on Japan US1. I soon got an industry on East Indies (I think US4). Russia fell really quickly by G4, but by that time I had most of Japan’s Islands and in a turn or two had most of Japan’s mainland territories. Japan soon had little IPCs but a large fleet that US and UK had to deal with (Japan built a fleet to counter the US one and consequently had little on the mainland). US Generally collected 50-65 IPCs. UK collected 30-40 IPCs most turns. It was a race to see if the allies could hold their economic advantage (from Africa, East Asia, Pacific, and trading Atlantic High IPC territories) long enough to match/kill the axis units. I eventually killed off the Japanese fleet at the cost of a few Islands, which I was in line to take back. Germany was going to completely overrun east asia about a turn before I took back all the expensive Pacific Islands. UK was about to have Germany break into Africa. The US was about to build an IC in Norway (once the troops in Europe went east, Norway became takeable. Then I attacked a German Baltic fleet of 1 loaded carrier, 4 Battleships, and 1 DD with 3 fighters, 1 bomber, 8 subs, 1 cruiser, 1 DD, and 1 carrier. I had 98.6% chance of winning, but I lost miserably with all four defending battleships surviving. After that I resigned. With the Atlantic situation switching hands I had lost my chance at winning.

Now my brother thinks it is pretty much impossible to win as the allies if Russia falls (by Germany I suppose - we pretty much never do JTDTM)
Anyone have a game where they won as the Allies after Russia fell to Germany?

@UN:

The total cost of Europe 1940 for me from Coolstuffinc or whatever it’s called is $119.

Know why? I paid 50 more bucks for Next Day Air.

Could those 50 bucks have been spent on something else? Probably. Do I care? No.

You are crazy. Use those $50 to buy a six flags or sea world season’s pass and spend a couple days there waiting for your game. Or, save those $50 for AA50 which I am still selling (By the way, I live in San Antonio so shipping should be a lot less if you live in Austin than the Rhode Island I originally supposed.)

I think that if you don’t send the sub to Z2, it should attack the US fleet. That gives you 50/50 of killing 26 IPCs worth of ships as opposed to the 100% of killing 1 transport.
In your case now, I would attack. I am just that way  :-P

@calvinhobbesliker:

I completely agree that you lose purchasing power. However, I’m saying it’s not a “tax” since the government doesn’t gain what you lose. A tax is not just a loss of money; it’s the loss of money to the government.

BTW, why call it hidden if most people are aware of it?

How do you think the money inflates? By the government printing money. So the government gets money and the people lose money value (basically money) - a “hidden tax.”

@Krieghund:

There are only expectations based on past performance.

Isn’t this called logical thinking.
But still I agree it is in bad taste to complain about expected mistakes. This only hurts sales and thus decreases the odds of future games/reprints.

I vote 7+ based on what i hear about AAP40, but I don’t really care about a few typos. I would be disappointed if they removed some of Italian unique sculpts. Is it true that Italy no longer has its own tank? (someone who knows, not just speculation). If so why? don’t they already have the sculpts/pieces? (This is legitimate since it is based on pictures of the game rather than just speculation)

@allboxcars:

@Dylan:

@allboxcars:

@calvinhobbesliker:

India will still control yukon and BC.

While I can see the logic in Pacific, that seems ahistorical and mildly ridiculous for the Global game, doesn’t it?

#568

yes, but Calvin said it would just make everything more complicated, in a complicated game.

And yet the Canadian roundels seem to have been added to the map to facilitate just such a degree of complication.

#570

It is simple, Canadian roundels = UK roundels. The Canadian roundels are just for aesthetics - Larry said so.