Posts made by Yemble

haha cuz they knew how to get money….yeah mideval Bill Gates’.  I would like to see you in the fuedal system. Or will you have some macho smart ass remark about how the serfs deserved their poor lot in life?

symbols are forever changing and being interperated differently.  For a long time the main symbol for christianity was not the cross but a fish.  Most people do not associate the cross with a method of execution anytime.  Indeed many people do not know that crusafixion was a popular form of punishment back then.  They identify it soley with jesus.  Same as how people associate the swastika to nazis now.

Bung- a thesis is not the same as a book.  Thesis’ are generally read by a handful of professors and students.  Since students who are liberal generally go to liberal schools and conservatives go to conservative schools the scrutiny that is focused on your paper is not coming from the full political, social, and economic spectrum.  Thesis’ are not critisized by a large audience as are books, thus the potential for flaws to go unnoticed is greater.  Because history is often controversial in what is truth, as we know historians often disagree.  In the effort to present what an author believes is the truth pertaining to history they present a side, and unfortunately these sides have become politisized today.  I know we both have no faith in a liberal prof judging a liberal paper and a conservative prof a conservative paper.  It is only when something is truly open to the public where a large sample of “educated” people from across the social strata that a book comes under considerate and true scrutiny.  Because my thesis has not undergone such a gauntlet and a mere four years of studying history I do not consider myself a historian, I reserve that honor and distinction to people who spend years studying certain aspects of history and get their doctorate.

Note:  This is not a good idea for classic or revised maps because they have less territories than WAW or other larger maps.

I usually play large maps like WAW and my friends and I have altered the way Blitzkreig is represented.  Instead of only having one combat round we now have two.  This way tanks which were not involved in the first round may follow up on victories gained the first round.  I previously used to frustrate my friends by using a single person to hold a horde of german tanks while I gained another turn to build a defensive stack of inf and art.  So we modified the rules to make it a bit easier to gain more territory quicker.  If the first attack on a territory is unsuccessful then at the conclusion of that battle you can use unused units you were planning on going through that territory to attack at areas beyond it to “re” attack the first.  Being such a drastic change to A&A I suspect most people will oppose this but it makes the game more fluid.

Gee bung….we share a major…just I wouldn’t go so far as to classify myself as a historian.  May I ask what books you have written.  I would like to give them a read.

lmao close to a historian yeah… toot your own horn there buddy.

I agree with all of IL’s points.  I like many of you thikn that Hilter’s persecution of local the populace hurt him more than it helped him innumerally.  However, as I recall Hitler split his forces into three spearheads, one to the south, one to the north, one for moscow.  Perhaps eliminating one of those spearheads to bolster the other two and he would have gone the extra 20 miles to Moscow.

Posted a sample of some of them on the following site.  You can also save the Microsoft Word File I created them in.  They are all pretty generic so that people can change em however they want.

http://yemble.tripod.com/id22.html

Problem is matching any set of cards to all the axis and allies varients out there.  Say for example Typhoons in the pacific…what ocean terris are effected by this?  Any ideas how to solve this or should we let individual players solve this on their own?

Yeah but I am having issues printing the thing out…I have an edited versian with Italy and China…but have yet to find a way to print it out on a nice board.

bung!!! we agree on something!!!

I agree FEAR is good…better single player campaign

But I must disagree…there is nothing like sticking someone on the face with a sticky grenade…perhaps you just aren’t that good at it?

Does anyone know of any cards that can be played in conjunction with AA?

I am looking for something like the cards that Attack has…political action and trade route and whatnot.

Specifically I would like to see some political/diplomatic cards which could permit overflights, money from the back as a “loan from neutral nations” like what switzerland traded with Germany, or you could even have neutrals join your side.

Also weather cards, you could have bad weather in certain spots on the map that restrict movement or combat.  Germany and a snow storm could cause movement in and out of that an extra point.  Or aerial operations could be limited to one round of combat to symbolize prevelant cloud cover.  Stormy seas could take place in certain places in the pacific such as the Typhoon which hit US fleets and damaged them.  This could actually cause the loss of a naval unit.

These cards could either be drawn at random at the begining of each turn for weather or collected by players…perhaps purchased.  or whatnot

I play World at War and I have edited that game so that Italy is also included.  I see lots of people scoff at France in particular and Italy less so.  Yes they were inept in history but isn’t that part of the reason we play?  France and Italy were hampered by poor leadership.  Part of the reason why I like to include them is to see what good leadership could change.  IPC values could change but each nation could have had major effects on history had key events within their command had gone differently.  I understand that many people want to get into the heat of the battle, but given a start in '38 or '39 would allow for drastically different situations to develop.

anyone play the beta version that was on the game crackdown….

it was freaking awesome

I try to implement a scale when it comes to Russia and the US.  Russia whenever it takes occupied nations back from the Germans can either add it to her territory and recieve IPs for it or she can liberate it without gaining any IPs.  The more territories she takes for her own the closer she goes to war with the US and Britian.  Eventually aid is suspended and after a while war is declared.  After that my friends and I have many rules about what happens afterward.  Also the scale to which these consequences occur varies, but it works.

all i really play is WAW I don’t play on the old axis and allies world maps.  I do still play the Europe and Pacfic and battle specific games tho.

Industrialization was bound to kill slavery.  however there were enough radicals in both parties to make it a major issue in the conventions.  so much so in the Charlestown convention that democrats were willing to lose the election rather than nominate stephan douglas who was THE states rights candidate.

what other issues did the south site as to proof of the fed overstepping the bounds…or did they say were going to overstep their bounds.

funny how slaverly was explicity cited and protected in the confed constitution if it had little to do with the reason they split.