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Hey everyone, sorry this is a little late.  The dicetower is a website that produces some of the top reviews (video) and podcasts in the boardgaming world.  They have a partnership with coolstuff.inc (top online retailer of boardgames) so that should tell you something.  They give excellent reviews.  For the last couple of years the show’s host Tom Vasel has allowed the people to choose the top 100 boardgames for that particular year (usually Sept.).

Tom has reviewed many many great games and is a pretty good reviewer in my opinion.  However, he has not reviewed the lastest Axis and Allies lineup.  He doesn’t really care for the game, so it gets no publicity or love- at least from him.  This is our chance to voice our opinion about AA.  900+ people have voted already and the poll can be compared to boardgamegeek.com poll.  What’s nice about the dicetower poll though is that people can only vote their games positively not vote down or negatively like boardgamegeek.com.  This give this particular poll some better credibility IMHO.

Anyway, go vote, it will take 2 minutes.

1. Go to this site: http://www.dicetower.com/

2. On the top bar click “Top 100”, then “People’s Choice Voting”

3. Register- Name and email only (emails are not shared).

4. You may be returned to the homepage after registering so then just repeat step 2, log in and vote.

Ranking your top 20 games DOES matter as games near the top will get more points.  Collectively it would help if we all could rank AAE40, AAP40 and AA1914 in the top 3 spots with maybe AA42 and AA42 after if you like.  You don’t have to fill out the rest of the spots unless you want to.  There is an automatic search engine that looks for the game as you type it in and press “search” with the corresponding BBG number (boardgamegeek.com listing).  You should always check this to ensure you have the right version as there are over 30,000 games in the BBG database.

Voting will close sometime Wednesday or Thursday Tom said so don’t delay!

Vote:

1. Axis and Allies Europe 1940 (bbg id: 61692)
2. Axis and Allies Pacific 1940 (bbg id: 55829)
3. Axis and Allies: WWI 1914 (bbg id: 133956)
4. Axis and Allies: 1942 (bbg id: 41863)
5. Axis and Allies 1941 (bbg id: 123158)   :-D :-D :-D

I agree with you 100%

They have announced now that a ‘mystery war game’ will be added if enough money is raised
That along with the fact that 50th remains out of the 5 new code able games leads me to believe 50th is what they are referring too

I could be wrong of course
And the kick started is only aimed at bringing the new games/upgrades faster
They will most likely still be added, at some point in the near or distant future, if the kick starter were to fail

Mad Dog,

You were 20min from my house. I grew up in this area. The ship use to dock in a city called Cheboygan, were my wife is from, on the Black River.

I still live in the area to this day.

I own probably most all tof he stragetic WWI Games produced,even the SPI WWI Varient to it’s War in Europe
(we played it for 4 days straight back in the day( & then the Game Group broke up :roll: )

I always wanted to see a stragetic minatures game on the Great War so I’m excited.
Looking forward to the release of more information but will probably Home Rule this thing
to death  :evil:  or at least paint figs to represent the Bavarian Army & Saxon Corps.

OD

Quick game summary for anyone interested:

This was definitely one of the better G40 games I’ve played in awhile. Germany did a standard opening, clearing out the British fleets in 110 and 111 with ease and building a couple ships itself.  The allies responded by sending the British in against the Italians with success, knocking out most of their fleet.  The US built up a major fleet off the east coats to warn off any attempt by the Germans to slide down to Gibraltar and control the Atlantic and Med.  I’ve seen this happen where Germany can block any allied approach to west coast of Europe and the slowly wear down the USSR for the win.

Anyhow, the US pushed the German fleet back into the Baltic where it stayed more or less the rest of the game.  The German air force did manage to sink the remnant UK fleet in the Med, resulting a more or less stalemate in that arena with the UK firmly in control of Cairo.  The Axis invasion of Russia never got very far given the allied pressure from the Atlantic, and by turn 5 the European Axis were fairly well contained.

In the Pacific however things went much differently.  Japan went J1, taking out Hon, Phi, and Bor.  As a result India never got going and got pushed out of Ind rather easily.  The US and Anzac spent time building up ground forces to defend the VC’s but otherwise provided only annoying, small counter attacks for the first few rounds.  Once Japan had completed its conquest of India and the DEI, Japan pulled a surprise move and went for Sydney for the win.  Generally, Sydney is the harder in my estimation given the distance, but Japan effectively began moving its units into position.

The US responded to the situation with a desperate attack against the main Japanese fleet in the Carolines.  The battle was a success in as much as the US didn’t get killed and managed to trade fleets with Japan.  This worked to the US advantage in as much as the US started spending 100% of its income now in the Pacific and would eventually wear out Japan, as Japan, even at its heightened income, could not fend off everybody.  Indeed, just as Japan lurched toward Sydney the UK had a resurgence and was pushing a major force across the Middle East to threaten India.  So the game came down to a question of timing.  Could Japan take Sydney before the Allies came crashing in from all sides?  (Even the Chinese were coming back with Russian help.)

Well, alas, despite some desperate last minute battles in Australia itself, Japan managed to crush the Anzac defenders in a remarkably dice neutral battle.  The last hope for the Allies was for the UK to storm India.  They had I think a 45% chance of victory, not great but if luck were to come to the rescue… but it did not. The UK got completely routed by the dice round 1 of the battle to the tune of 7 UK hits to 18 Japan hits.  The game was over…

I think the Allies were one turn too short in coming back to the Pacific.  Mr. Green deftly expedited Japan’s advance through the Pacific and go the jump on the poor Allies.

Well they sell Magic Cards, I’ll bet a pack of cards costs way more to produce than a package of say 5-10 minis and they could charge more for a mini pack.

but….um…they’re cardboard.  :-(
Doubt they’ll take the years of abuse most on here would dole out.

Due to be released June 19th 2012

SKU 396870000

Game board, play components, rulebook, 370 game pieces

MSRP $30.00

Size:
11.62” x9.12”
x2”

This year, I’m trying to push out new articles once a week. Here’s one by Zhukov44 to start the new year:

How to Play Axis & Allies.org Forum Games with TripleA
http://www.axisandallies.org/p/how-to-play-axis-allies-org-forum-games-with-triplea/

Click here to sign up for the tourny:
http://www.biscon.com.au/tourny/dice/index.html

This is a tournament using NEW WORLD ORDER Small’s mod,

Tournament money donated by ‘Railroad’, a big fan of the map.

Completely Free Entry, free to join and play

$200 USD in prizes.
1st gets $125
2nd gets $50
3rd gets $25

Games must be played using TripleA game engine

The tournament is scheduled to begin 1 September. The STRICT deadline for each game being the end of the month, preferably finish way sooner. Any player that has not submitted a result in time or atleast emailed Smalls to explain why unable to finish in time, will DEFINITELY get a loss for that game. Rounds will overlap, once first 2 games complete Smalls will assign them round 2 opponents.

NWO Smalls map, again games must be played using DICE not LL, and railroad wants Smalls to compete in it too. Eliminated from the tournament after 2 losses. No bonus game vs Smalls at the end like last tournament. Games to be played with the lobby. PBEM/Forum is ONLY ok if both players agree to it. Most know when they should concede, but you get auto win if get both double opponents production and have more than 1000 TUV higher than opponent. Smalls has already taken into account that production and TUV values are not always entirely accurate.

If game isn’t finished by the timelimit, the judges panel will look over the saved file and decide the winner, with consideration given to availability of the players. Anyone not wanting to play in the tournament, and Smalls has played vs before, please advise Smalls if you willing to be on the panel.

I believe the map is balanced, but there will be a bid regardless. Normal bidding process used in other nwo tourny. Highest bid gets axis, negative bids fine. 1 unit per territory, can only place if same nation already has units there and if on land owned by that same nation. Person on left of draw page bids first. Bids can be in .5 increments ie elite costs 3.5. But 2.5 or 1.5 or 0.5 is not allowed. Players may withdraw from the tournament after any game, just email Smalls, their names will appear in red in the draw.

Winnings preferably sent with paypal, but will send bank cheque etc if you prefer. Use the join link to join, and until the tournament starts you can see the current entrants on the draw page.

Small’s Website

(sry for post in play by forum section, i didn’t realize it was only for play by forum games, and wasn’t sure where this should be posted…)

For an introduction to this map, see here:
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=24349.0

It has been over a year since the last stable (1.2.5.5) was released, and a new stable version has been released: 1.3.2.2

You can go download it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/triplea/files/

direct link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/triplea/files/TripleA/1_3_2_2/

Maps were updated on July 9th, so please redownload your maps if you haven’t already (especially any ww2v3 style maps)  (repairing and some techs won’t work unless you redownload your maps)

This version fixes all known bugs in past unstable versions.

Major Changes since 1.2.5.5:

4 new maps come included with triplea, so now you get 11 games by default (about a 100 more available for download of course) Major improvements to the Moore AI, and a new land-only AI added Significant improvements in options to customize maps and create new mods Support for Global 1940 40%, Pacific 1940 80% done New lobby features, and usability features like tooltips, helpful links, etc.

Most of the improvements to triplea have been behind the scenes, in making the engine more flexible and capable of handling new rules and new types of games.

If you are looking to play Axis and Allies on TripleA, bear in mind you have download the maps for each A&A version,
they are named:
World War II Classic  =  A&A Classic
World War II Revised  =  A&A Revised
World War II v3  =  A&A 50th Anniversary
World War II v4  =  A&A Spring 1942
World War II Pacific  =  A&A Pacific 1940

To download maps, just start up triplea, and click the “Download Maps” button.
Then add this link to the box and hit “List Games”
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tripleamaps/triplea_maps.xml

(do not click the above link.  instead, copy and paste it into the text box inside triplea, then click ‘list games’)
click here to see a picture tutorial of how to download maps

Enjoy!

Veqryn

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The Axis and Allies Wiki has reached 800 articles. Please contribute.

Most of the material is TripleA-oriented, but some also applies to the boardgame series.

I am particularly looking for strategy articles involving individual scenarios. Put your scenario design tips in the Scenario Design article. Finishing the rules comparison would be useful.

Please write your articles.

I thought I was already at an Axis and Allies Wiki.  :wink:

This is awesome news!

Will AAE40 & AAP40 have the same rules as AA50 in terms of:

transports

submarines

prices

Between A&A (MB), AAE, AAP and Revised, we had four different sets of rules for transports and likewise for submarines.  :?   
It was okay when I owned all four and used to play all the time.  But for people who don’t play that often or who won’t own all of AA50, AA42, AAP40, and AAE40, it would really help to comfortably go from one game to the next if the basic rules are standardized.

Here’s hoping.

@Adlertag:

A new edition of A&A is to be released in August 2009.

There is a box to the right on this forum, showing it will sell for $39.95 and the Anniversary Edition for $97.99, however, when you click on it, it sends you to Amazon, where the regular edition is $125.99 and the Anniversary edition is $399.99. I doubt they will sell very many.