News flash: AXIS & ALLIES ANNIVERSARY EDITION due out oct 23 08


  • @Imperious:

    They don’t deserve two hits, as the Hood amply demonstrates.

    That ship got a lucky hit in the wrong place, besides the hood was one of a kind.

    A true Heavy Cruiser can take more punishment, its supposed to fight anything up to battleships and if it faded with one salvo, it would have no use relative to its cost/value.

    The hood was a battle cruiser and this means a fast moving hybrid battleship class guns but with light armor plating to get the high speeds.

    Then should there be perhaps two cruiser classes, a battlecruiser at 3/3/12, one hit, bombard, and heavy cruiser at 3/3/18, two hits, bombard?


  • Well you know these are going to show up right after Deluxe shows up.

    But id place all these units on D12 at that point so that each nation has different values for its ships anyway.

    Also light and heavy cruisers are more accurate, because only really Uk and Germany had Battlecruisers, while the Alaska class battleship was a battlecruiser, and most of the British design japanese battleships were in fact battlecruisers. However  this class is far less in numbers than either light or heavy cruisers.

    Id give the battlecruisers a 3 attack and 2 defence, but moves 3 and takes 2 hits cost 15-16

    Heavy cruisers at 3/3/2 take 2 hits cost 12-14

    Light cruisers 2/3/2/ take one hit cost  10-12

    Destroyers 2/2/2 one hit cost 8-10


  • No naval unit except the carrier should defend better than it attacks.


  • yes admittedly, problem with overload on D6 system. Thats why its only good for few pieces


  • Why should the carrier defend better than it attacks?


  • carrier should be a 1/1/$14/1 hit. they sucked in battle, there strenght was and is not in it’s guns (how few it has) but in it’s air power.

    Cruser should be better then a destroyer, but i don’t think it warants 2 hits, i think it should be more like 3/3/$15/1 hit/ Bambard on a 2/ move 3.

    DD 3/3/$12/1 hit/ negate subs. no extra stuff.

    BB all the same as normal just $20.

    subs stay the same.

    it’s not big changes but makes the navy work better IMHO. now short of play testing no idea can be said to work best. i realy need that job, play tester for games  :-)


  • http://www.cosimshop.de/blog/

    this is a picture of the front cover of the game

  • Customizer

    Nice finding…but is this for real?

    I have to say this cover looks a little strange to me…looks more like the Milton Bradley cover than the recent Axis & Allies covers… Would like to read Larry’s comments on this one…

  • '11

    The cover is a lot of fun and covers quite an extensive array of people. However, I agree with Dagon81 and that it looks out of place with all of the current box covers for A&A. It does harken back to the MB edition and maybe they are trying to capture some anniversary nostalgia.


  • @Pervavita:

    carrier should be a 1/1/$14/1 hit. they sucked in battle, there strenght was and is not in it’s guns (how few it has) but in it’s air power.

    This.

    I believe that cover could be real, I would think that for an anniversary edition they would try to make it look more like the old game.


  • Cobert i think your quoting the wrong person as my statment had nothing to do with the cover (it was before he posted the link  :wink:)


  • No, I was agreeing with your 1/1 carrier and the other statement was in response to something different, I was just too lazy to quote the person talking about the cover.


  • ok i see, it just looked to me as you were on one thought.


  • Carriers should be revised to 0/1/12. They are basically transports for airplanes, after all.


  • Thread is moving off topic.

    Continuation of the matter of changing AC values should be moved to House Rules area.


  • Not really, since the new version would provide for the changing of such values.


  • Since the new version rules are unknown and not yet in existence (at least publicly), then this discussion would also potentially apply to the Variants area.

    Regardless, it is off topic for the current subject header.


  • @Imperious:

    http://www.cosimshop.de/blog/

    this is a picture of the front cover of the game

    I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that is not the final version of the cover. It is probably close if legit but the World at War blurb will not be more out front than the game’s title. IMO.


  • so it might be for the old look, being an anniversay edition
    but I worry the box design is not appealing and hence affect sales
    like, its not bright and colour


  • @tekkyy:

    so it might be for the old look, being an anniversay edition
    but I worry the box design is not appealing and hence affect sales
    like, its not bright and colour

    Teletubbies can fix anything.

    They can even fix . . . YOU!  :evil:

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