Posts made by Midnight_Reaper

@ipoulin My one piece of advice for playing World at War has to do with the fact that some special units (e.g. US Mech. Infantry, German Panzers) are only allowed to be had in limited numbers.

I would figure out how many of what and then set aside a reserve of pieces just for those roles. I would then mark those units in a distinctive way: many people use paint or a marker pen to add a bit of color, you could also set aside appropriate WaW pieces just for those roles.

If you do that, you won’t have “too many” of a certain unit and it’s easier to tell them apart from regular units.

Once, when I was playing a game, a few turn in:
German player: “How many US Mech Inf have you bought?”
US Player “All of the infantry I’ve bought have been Mech Inf…”

Good luck telling that apart!

-Midnight_Reaper

The closest you will likely find to the rules for The World at War, Second Edition. will be to find a copy on eBay. They come up once or twice a month for 5 or 10 dollars (or more if someone “knows what they have”.)

The next closest would be to download the rules for the Third Edition from bgg.com. You can find them here: (https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/1639/world-at-war-rules-31pdf).

The rules from 2005, sometimes called the Fourth Edition rules, are further away from what you would have had in the Second Edition. But not by much, I don’t think the rules for this game changed much after the original was printed.

I hope that helps you out.

-Midnight_Reaper

@Witt said in Meet your new Axis & Allies Game, now with ... fantastic factions of finned fighters?:

@Midnight_Reaper thanks for finding and posting that.
I won’t be buying it though.

I don’t plan to buy it, either. I just wanted to let people know about it. What everyone does with it is up to them.

-M_R

Renegade games announced today (11 October 2024) that they are releasing a new game, where the action is set under the ocean, and using: “the Axis & Allies gameplay engine”.

So, new “Axis & Allies” type game - but Renegade has very carefully stated that this is not a new A&A game, but a new game from a new IP. Just a game that will play out similarly to A&A.

It seems a little odd to me, but I’m glad they are moving in different directions. This will help keep the IP fresh, which will encourage Renegade to keep bring out new A&A games.

https://renegadegamestudios.com/battle-for-the-deep-powered-by-axis-allies/

-Midnight_Reaper

@barnee said in Problems accessing the website:

@djensen

nice :)

What did you do to create more memory ?

He spent money. He is hosting the website on a cloud system (probably Amazon). You can have all of the memory and CPU you are willing to pay for.

So, if you like the new and improved performance, please donate. Dave said this new performance level is more than twice as expensive as what he was paying for previously.

-Midnight_Reaper

@crsluggo I think you are right about those carriers being Russian. If I were in their shoes, I’d reuse sculpts as well. They already have them, no need to re-invent the wheel.

-M_R

@Lydian said in Meet your new Axis & Allies Game, now with G.I. Joe:

a few pictures can be found here
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/events/gexpo24-2/?fbclid=IwAR0Fh0hf4yZcHddXiv2Q_T9pxVpJDz-xKzKZJ4QIjSahpfo9U0KlYqIJ-Xo

I think I spy, with my little eye, a re-used US Cruiser sculpt, in Red, White, and Blue, serving as a game piece in the G.I. Joe arctic attack game.

Plus, I think having a map of the high arctic can make for an interesting new map to play variant A&A games. I think I will be picking this up.

-M_R

@HankScorpio I send you a private message with my email address.

-M_R

@AndrewAAGamer said in Where did Dave go?:

I hope I am not breaking a confidence. I saw he posted on the North Africa Play Testers website just this morning.

That tells me that he’s all right. That’s the more important half of what I was asking. If he’s too busy for here, then I hope whatever is keeping him from here dissipates before too long.

-M_R

I’ve been trying to reach @djensen for a bit now. His profile says he hasn’t been online in 29 days. Does anybody know where he is and if he’s doing okay?

-Midnight_Reaper

@djensen I just attempted to support at the Gold level. Do please let me know if you don’t receive it.

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@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Meet your new Axis & Allies Game, now with G.I. Joe:

@djensen

I feel like you’re on the wrong thread.

@SuperbattleshipYamato No, I rather suspect he’s just where he wants to be. He apparently thinks he would be of more use helping to playtest this “A&A meets G.I. Joe” game than the A&A North Africa game he is currently playtesting.

I don’t know if that’s true, but a man is always entitled to his own opinion.

-Midnight_Reaper

Renegade games announced last Friday that they are releasing a new G.I. Joe game, set in the Arctic and using, “the Axis & Allies gameplay engine”.

So, new “Axis & Allies” type game - but Renegade has very carefully stated that this is not a new A&A game, but a game from a different IP. Just a game that will play out similarly to A&A.

I think this could be interesting, especially with the new map (the High Arctic) and modern-ish pieces. But I can see people complaining already.

https://renegadegamestudios.com/blog/renegade-game-studios-unveils-transformers-robo-rally-and-a-gi-joe-game-powered-by-the-axis-allies-game-engine/

-Midnight_Reaper

@SuperbattleshipYamato said in Underpowered Axis?:

@Midnight_Reaper

I think Japan shouldn’t have attacked the US in real life. Declaring war only increased American public morale and support for the war (massively).
(snip)

I think you are confusing a specific example with general principles. For the Axis, it is important to give serious thought into when and where to strike that hard, (hopefully) decisive blow.

Yes, Japan attacking the US was a poor decision. It was rationalized as necessary to prevent the US from using the Philippines as a base to strangle their supply lines from the oil fields in the Dutch East Indies to the Home Islands.

But rationalization does not a good idea make. In A&A, the player is given the chance to rewrite history. If you think that attacking the US is a poor idea, then don’t attack the US. Wait for them to come to you. Build up your forces in the mean time. And hopefully your strategy prevails. The other side gets to rewrite history as well.

-M_R

@SuperbattleshipYamato Sorry for the late reply. Whether it is better to attack first or wait for a later time to attack depends on the circumstances - in war there are no absolutes.

In WWII, the Axis had to attack first - if for no other reason than the war wasn’t going to start until someone kicked it off, and the Allies (for the most part) weren’t attacking anyone. As in A&A, in the real WWII the Axis had more military force and the will to use it. The Allies could trade space for time, but only for so long. They needed to use this time to train and equip their new forces for the fight against the Axis.

And so, for the Axis (in both A&A and in real life) it is better to attack first - hitting hard and fast and not letting up. After all: “You come at the king, you best not miss.”

-Midnight_Reaper

@iwillnevergrowup I’m sorry to hear that you are leaving. You’ve been a great supportor of A&A and a good person. I’ll miss you and your shop.

-Midnight_Reaper

@kwaspek104 The Internet Archive gets you almost all of the way there. If this is helpful, you should drop a dollar or five in their tip cup. Preserving the whole internet is not cheap.

At the following link is the 15th and last article Mike Selinker wrote about the upcoming A&A Revised:

https://web.archive.org/web/20040319145911/https://www.avalonhill.com/default.asp?x=articles/gen/aapreview15

So, where are the other 14? Well, 13 of them are linked at the bottom of the page. There is a link to preview 6 (Research and Development) but that link doesn’t work (nobody ever saved it to the Archive).

That should be all that you need. IF you really have a pressing need for that R&D article, I can try harder to dig it up.

-Midnight_Reaper

@barnee said in Does anybody have the Mike Selinker articles for Revised?:

@kwaspek104 you might ask @Midnight_Reaper He’s quite knowledgeable about stuff.

I feel seen. I remember those articles. They were up on the Avalon Hill site for quite a while. Let me see what I can dig out of the back corner of the Internet.

-Midnight_Reaper

@daviousthebad said in Buy A&A Jedko Edition:

@birthofiron Hi there. I don’t have any expansion pieces. Just the original game.

He was talking to me. I will take care of this.

@birthofiron said in Buy A&A Jedko Edition:

@midnight_reaper

I am looking for a France/China expansion piece sheet for the Nova/Jedko version of Axis and Allies. Thought I would reach out in the hopes that you might still have one available.

~BirthOfIron

I sent you a private message, we can talk there.

-Midnight_Reaper

@kaleu said in On this day during W.W. 2:

March 5, 1943: first flight of the Gloster Meteor, the Allies’ only operational jet plane during WW2, from RAF Cranwell.

While the Meteor was in much greater use during WW2, the P-80 Shooting Star had: “two pre-production models … see very limited service in Italy just before the end of World War II”
Wiki P-80 Shooting Star

-Midnight_Reaper