Getting started

[Vinius]

I’m also in the “foot the bill” category.  But, I’m going to by my buddies starter kits for their next birthdays or whatnot.  Once they have a couple of pieces of their own, the desire to get more will likely kick in.

Keep in mind, with that dice roller that it’s set up for regular A&A.  So, you can’t really use the number of hits accurately.  You can still register the die rolls though.

Let me see what my tank will do:

Rolls: 17@4; Total Hits: 1417@4: (5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 5, 1, 2, 5, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)

[dezrtfish]

and… Bam! just like that something dies…

Do you feel a little bit deified?  The power of life and death in your grasp?

lol have fun…

[Vinius]

Well, I disrupted an infantry unit!  If you look at my actual rolls, only 4 hits.  But, look at the 1’s!!!

That’s a pretty cool tool.

[dezrtfish]

Wel lit could have been a Russian Partisan or a fortress defender…

[Vinius]

An excellent point.  I ROCK!  Ha ha…thanks for the ego boost.

[losttribe04]

NOOB question,

Subject: Attack and defense

Attack Successes                  Hits       Against Vehicles                             Soldiers
less then enemy’s defense     0          nothing                                         nothing
= to      "                     "     1           disrupted counter (down)               < same

•          "                     "     2           disrupt & damage (down)                disrupt & destroy (down)
  x2          "                     "    3           disrupt, damage, destroyed (down)  disrupt & destroy (down)

what the hell does this mean? I took this off the back cover quick start guide. Can some one tell me how to kill bad guys?

Subject: Movement

Does a tank turning 180 degrees count as 3 spaces? Do INF move in the same manner?

Subject: Map

what side is up?
                                      1
                –----------------------------------------------------
        2      l                                                     l      3
                l                                                    l
               l                                                      l
              --------------------------------------------------------
                                       4

(Bad map I know but you get the idea)

-LT04

[Motdc]

@Vinius:

Keep in mind, with that dice roller that it’s set up for regular A&A.  So, you can’t really use the number of hits accurately.  You can still register the die rolls though.

Can’t you just reverse it to see how man successes you get?  @3 would give you the 3 out of 6 (or 50%) chance of hitting.

So here is an attack score of 9, with the rollers “hits” being successes in AAM:

Rolls: 9@3; Total Hits: 69@3: (3, 2, 6, 1, 1, 5, 4, 1, 1)

Mot

[Motdc]

Easy one first, turning doesn’t cost any movement pts.  You just have to make sure you are facing the way you want after each time you move.  If you are disrupted you can’t change your facing at all.

Mot

[dezrtfish]

I just requested a Mini’s routine that hits on higher numbers, we’ll see if that can happen.

LT:

If you roll a number of success equal to the defence of the unit you are shooting at it’s a disrupted.

If you roll one success more than the defence it’s a hit and disrupted for vehicles for soldiers it’s a kill.

To get a one shot kill on a vehicle you have to get double the defence.

When a vehicle is hit it’s permanent so if you hit a unit that has already been hit it’s a kill.

Of course there are exceptions for some units that are printed on the cards of those units.

Clear as mud?

[Motdc]

Combat:

Ignore the chart for a minute. Â

As the attacker, you roll how ever many dice you are supposed to (based on the type of target and the range, but this is on each card so it’s pretty easy to figure out).  Every 4, 5, or 6 you get is a “success” (so you get a 50/50 chance on each die of rolling a success).

Now you just compare your success against the target’s defense value.  If you are equal or greater then you did something to that unit.

If you TIED the defense score, you place a DISRUPTED marker. Â

If your successes are GREATER than the defense score you:

–- place a DAMAGED marker if it is a vehicle (damn that armour!)

— place a DESTROYED marker if itis a soldier (just use common sense, people aren’t machines so “damaged” doesn’t make the most sense in the world anyway)

Now if you roll really well and your successes are DOUBLE than the defense score you place a DESTROYED marker no matter what it is.

Mot

[losttribe04]

1 ) So why does it make a big deal about putting markes face down or up?

2 ) where do you place units to start? In position A or B? ( I did some work on the map maybe that will explain things better)

Axis (A)
                          –-----------------------------------------------
      Axis (B)          l  map 1              l        map 2          l      Allied (B)
                          l ------------------------l-----------------------    l
                          l    map 3            l      map 4            l
                          ---------------------------------------------------
                                      Allied (A)

3 ) Are units able to co-exist in hex’s like in A&A D-Day? (If you haven’t played the game) Axis and Allied units can both be in the same location Axis attack Allies defend, then Allies attack and Axis defend and the turn can end unresloved.

-LT04

[Vinius]

Ok, I think I can field these.

1)  Markers go face down so that you can remove distruption counters from previous turns before resolving disruption counters for the current turn.  During the casualty faze, you’ll remove any currently face up distruption counters (unless a card tells you otherwise) and then turn over all face down counters.

2)  Generally speaking, you’ll place units on opposing ‘short’ sides of the maps.  Units may deploy within 5 full hexes of the near edge of the map.  That being said, different scenarios may call for special deployments and different units (paratroopers and heros) may deploy differently per their cards.

3)  All 5 current versions of the minis work together.  You may have up to 4 total units in a hex.  Only two from any given side and only one total vehicle per hex.  Thus, you could have one allied tank and one allied soldier as well as two axis soldiers.

[Vinius]

@Motdc:

Rolls: 9@3; Total Hits: 69@3: (3, 2, 6, 1, 1, 5, 4, 1, 1)

As long as your recognize that you actually get 9-6 or 3 total hits.

[Motdc]

@Vinius:

1)  Markers go face down so that you can remove distruption counters from previous turns before resolving disruption counters for the current turn.  During the casualty faze, you’ll remove any currently face up distruption counters (unless a card tells you otherwise) and then turn over all face down counters.

2)  Generally speaking, you’ll place units on opposing ‘short’ sides of the maps.  Units may deploy within 5 full hexes of the near edge of the map.  That being said, different scenarios may call for special deployments and different units (paratroopers and heros) may deploy differently per their cards.

To further elaborate:

The reason you put the counters face-down (meaning that they haven’t taken effect yet) is because combat is supposed to be simultaneous.  So if Infantry A gets a kill against B, Infantry B can still roll his attack and possible get a kill against Infantry A.  It’s not until the end of the turn that you flip the counters over, thereby applying their effects.

As for the map, it would be the “B” sides of your diagram.

Mot

[Motdc]

@Vinius:

As long as your recognize that you actually get 9-6 or 3 total hits.

I actually didn’t declare what defense value I was attacking.  I was just trying to get the roller to give me my raw Successes.

Mot

[Vinius]

@Motdc:

I actually didn’t declare what defense value I was attacking.  I was just trying to get the roller to give me my raw Successes.

I always mess up what to call those.  I meant 3 total successes.  You’re getting the opposite of what you’re asking for.  That’s ok, as long as you’re aware of it.  In your post, the system told you that you had 6 hits.  What you actually got was 3 successes or:

9 dice - the 6 that the system registered.

[Motdc]

Oh, I get what you are saying now.

Actually, when I said we could just reverse it I was thinking that you’d just have successes scored on 1, 2, 3 (instead of 4,5,6) by using the @3.  The odds are the same and it removes any math :-D

But all in all, some mods to the built-in roller will be SO helpful and the best choice if it can be done.

Mot

[losttribe04]

Dezrtfish,

RE: “I just requested a Mini’s routine that hits on higher numbers, we’ll see if that can happen.”

Any luck with that so far?

-LT04

[Motdc]

Good question!  I’d like to put my vote behind AAM support as the next dice roller feature!

Mot

[Vinius]

Whoot Whoot!!!

…I mean, Me too!!!