Thanks. I guess he missed it.
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guys these airstrips are found in the other picture on BBG. look closely…its cardboard.
AH doesn’t make anything made of plastic if they can avoid it unless its Avalon Hills Nexus Woops ( where money is no object for mediocrity)… it was hard enough just to get a new plastic cruiser unit. And i bet some bloke probably considered telling Larry Harris… " do you think we can just get away from it and use one of the other battleship pieces from revised as the new cruiser piece?"
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I have real problems with some of those airstrip locations, especially on Choisel and Santa Isabel. I HAVE flown over those islands, and they are volcanic mountain tops above water. There are NO FLAT AREAS for airstrips, unless you are planning of moving a couple of cubic miles of rock. The airstrip for Choisel that I landed on was located on a small coral island off of the southern tip, and the island was just wide enough for the airstrip and some coconut palms. It was surrounded by coral reefs, and was reached only by small boats. Santa Isabel does not even have that. You could set up a small floatplane base on the coast, but that is it. The Segi area strip is another problem. It never stops raining there. The strip we built in WW2 has been abandoned as unusable. An airstrip on Malaitia! What have the map makers been drinking, smoking, injecting, or snorting. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ATROCIOUS, AND BEARS NO REMOTE ACCURACY TO THE CAMPAIGN. IF LARRY PUTS HIS NAME ON THE RULES OR GAME, HE SHOULD BE EMBRASSED BEYOND BELIEF.
Do some reading and research on the Japanese side of the campaign for goodness sake. They had MAJOR problems building airfields. Malatia is still malarial infested, which keep the Japanese out to begin with.
If the game comes out this way, I will still get if for the maps and ships, but do a major rewrite on the rules for airstrip location, and maybe a lot else.
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Where did you find this? I would like to repost it.
Have you guys seen this picture from Gen Con!
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I found it at boardgamegeek.com
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What I want to know is why no one at AH could say on the boards there that the game didn’t get demoed because it isn’t ready? That there is no news about it because it isn’t done and that it was moved to Nov. because it wasn’t going to be ready in September. I guess they’d rather we complain about no news than why it is late. :|
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Delays can be good or bad news.
On the one hand at least it suggests that they’re taking the trouble to get everything right rather than bunging out a flawed product - something very common in the videogames industry.
Or it might mean that the game is fatally flawed and needs a major re-write to make it marketable.
The solution is obvious - open up the development process to message boards so that the likes of us can input ideas and point out flaws BEFORE the game goes into the production process.
Instead of which we get a wall of silence as though we’re all going to steal the idea and market it ourselves. Now who here would do that…?
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The strip WE built in WW2
HUH??? WTF
Timeover51…. how old are you?
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@Imperious:
The strip WE built in WW2
HUH??? WTF
Timeover51…. how old are you?
you got to be like 85 years old?The “we” was used to indicate that the strip was built by the US, not that I worked on it. I have flown over in during the 15 day period that I was in the Solomon Islands in May of 2002. I am 55 years old, and have been fascinated by the Solomons Campaign since 1962. If you wish to know what I was doing in the Solomons in May of 2002, watch the National Geographic TV special, The Search for PT-109, and look for the guy who talks about the Tokyo Express and identifies the wreck. One of my other activities while out there was explaining to the Solomon Islands government as to how to safely dispose of a unexploded US 2,000 pound bomb dropped near the Vila airstrip on Kolumbangara that had be dug up and was 300 yards away from a boarding school.
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I belive they put playability before historicall correctnes, but I sure appreciate some link to the real world too.
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Link to simplified Solomons map:
http://www.maps-pacific.com/graphics/solomon-islands.gif
So, how does the board compare with this?
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looks all good to me. western province looks a tad bit too south. but not noteworthy. I like the board.
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Haven’t heard much lately about Guadalcanal. November 16th is only 55 Days or less than 2 months away…
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you will get some press release from funagain games soon. Avalon hill will tell us about it a few months after its already out.
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Just in case anyone has missed it here is a link to the an article that larry wrote at Avalon Hill’s website.
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Here is a cool ad for guadalcanal.
![pic261634_md[1].jpg](/uploads/_imported_attachments/migrated/11515_pic261634_md%5B1%5D.jpg)
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it should have read at the bottom: Caution: Cruisers may not be colored correctly because we have no quality control personnel available at this time.
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@Imperious:
it should have read at the bottom: Caution: Cruisers may not be colored correctly because we have no quality control personnel available at this time.
In any game AH made they put a “bug”!
I am wondering if they make so intentionally!
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last three games: 2 inf short, 2 inf short, and lastly cruisers colored incorrectly.
I bet its the same guy in all three events and he is a union worker and can’t be fired. He probably hates military games, has no clue about history and plays D & D et al.
Next game will have yet another gaff and as usual we will laugh about it. He will never be fired and that makes it worth buying the game to see only what he has screwed and gotten away with. :mrgreen:
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You know as well as I do that the pieces are made in China and therein lies the problem. Don’t get me wrong, China does produce a few great quality products, for instance Lenovo ThinkPads are rock solid. But they also produce a lot of poor quality products too. Lead in the paint is tasty, mmmm.
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yea that China thingy…
I like lead painted toys for babies to eat like any good mother would… but….
Avalon Hill must certainly have somebody who checks to make sure that the first print runs are of the correct molds and colors.
Remember when they had German Infantry colored green and American Infantry colored Grey?Always it seems something is remiss. We cant blame
CanadaChina for all of Avalon Hills incredulous mistakes.It only proves that people who game only fantasy are being placed in charge of Historical games and they have no clue about History. They should only employ people who have a basic knowledge of military history dealing with games. Even the most basic guy would catch such a thing before they printed 100,000 sets. I guess the fantasy people are cheap labor or something?
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