@Ichabod Look again. There are two views: the zoomed out view and the zoomed in view.

The zoomed out view has the chits and the zoomed in view has the 3D pieces.

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog That’s similar enough to what was done in AAC, the “Russia can’t attack on their first turn” rule. Basically, it gave Germany a turn to get their valuable Tanks and their irreplaceable FTR out of their indefensible positions in Russia. This change gives Germany a stronger initial force, which snowballs, as it takes Russia/UK longer to kill Germany, which in turn gives Japan more time to gobble up IPCs on their side of the map.

For 42SE, giving the Allies a turn to not die saves:

The USSR IC in Karelia, which means it could be a feasible point to hold for a few rounds.

The entire UK Fleet, which speeds up the UK/US’s deployment to Europe/Russia/Africa.

The US Atlantic Fleet, as some German openings favor sending a sub or two after the US East Coast on G1.

The US Pacific Fleet, as no J1 attack on it is possible.

The US FTR in China, which can be redeployed to either help the Soviets or link up with the Pacific Fleet.

Great idea. Hope to see it implemented in-game.

Tons of great questions and answers in there. Thanks @JuliusBorisovBeamdog!

Yeah it looks clean. I like it

@Gargantua said in My Body Is Ready:
I would encourage the dev team to code a general profile setting AND an option during NCM to custom set OOL (order of loss) for any given territory, outside of the basic parameters.

quoting myself for Djensen’s benefit :)

And my intent was as others have noted. NOT a mandatory prompt, a right click on a territory or SZ during NCM, OR it could a prompt just AFTER placement which could have a SKIP option. And the information will be SECRET. The attacker will not know their opponents OOL intentions.

Another thing regarding balance, unless you have three turns off really bad rolls, Japan can take India on turn 3 and there’s not much UK and US can do about it. Scenario was in a tournament, using LHTR setup, a bid of 11 or 12 to Allies, and sunk or severely damaged the fleet in SZ 37. I was even warned almost exactly how it would go down and I still couldn’t stop it.

It’s hard to stop roughly 12 ground units, 2-3 fighters, 4 bombers, and a battleship bombardment. (I think those numbers are about right, might be more).

Sorry, the post Panther alluded to is the one I was thinking of. I can’t believe so much time has gone by since then. My bad.

Agreed, @djensen , it looks like the decision for what they call “asynchronous play” dominates the development of the software, causing some “side effects”.

That is cool, thank you,

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog
:smiley:

Thank you for your answers,

@JuliusBorisovBeamdog

:+1:

Very pleased to just read the breaking news:
https://www.axisandallies.org/p/announcing-axis-and-allies-online/

This is very good news. Curious how some of the specific rules turn out (OOL indeed).
And yes, I hope there will be an add-on for AAZ…

But for now: looking forward to this!
Thanks for posting, David!

BTW: Brief article about AAOL at TechRatpor:
https://techraptor.net/content/axis-and-allies-online-announced