Axis & Allies Global Confict - 3rd Edition Released

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

Craig,

Supply tokens should be collected during place units phase.  (the title saying to do this in phase 1 was a typo.  However it is important to note that the convoy rule has been changed slightly.  you now must begin and end your turn with a transport in it to collect income from convoys.)

I’ve updated the rule book to take away the loop hole of being able to produce as many blockhouses in a territory as you like. you are now limited to the ipc value of the territory. (this was always my intention. thanks for noticing the loop hole)

land units cannot cross from western turkey to turkey as the dardanelles is not a canal.

Your cruiser rule is a good point. It is a bit confusing.  I will change the rule for cruisers to always get a 4 on the first round.  Simple is better.  It does seem that $15 instead of $14 would be a more reasonable price for such a unit. do you agree or disagree?

I was very impressed with your graphical additions to the game.  would you be willing to make a National Production Chart and technology chart for the game to replace the generic ones i produced?

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

Craig,
I went ahead and designed the rest of the charts needed for the game.  I also reworked a few of the graphics.  The new file also includes control and supply markers.  I fixed the typos in the rule and added your name as a contributor to the project.

I just released Axis & Allies Global Conflict 3.2.   It mainly fixes typos in the rulebook and closes some unintended loopholes that crept into the book. 3.2 big addition is the graphics.  The game is now comes with new professional looking setup, tech, & national Production charts ect.  The goal in creating these charts was to make the game feel real like something you would buy in the store. I looks great. Here’s a sample picture of the board set up, compliments of craigbee. http://www.craig-bartell.com/images/map.jpg

Version 3.2 Complete Packet with New Graphics (graphics require Power Point 2007)
http://www.mediafire.com/?scnjytnzhnd

Version 3.1 can still be downloaded here
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ehbczz4au54

[CraigBee]

I very much like the upgrades to the graphics!

Version 3.2 Blockhouse Purchase:  Step 3 of Phase 1 on page 5 says “Blockhouses are units so you may never build more blockhouses (and other units) in a territory than that territory’s income value in any single turn.”  I think a sentence needs to be added to the end of this section to allow a Blockhouse to be built in zero income locations such as Malta, Gibraltar, and many of the Pacific Islands.  This might work “One blockhouse per turn may be built on territories with zero income value.”

Sorry for the slow response, I’ve been traveling.  Our game has been delayed until May 27th, so I have one more week to study the map before playing.

[Imperious Leader]

where are the files for all these player aids like those fancy factory cards? I see many little scraps of paper that are not found in the map files or rule files. My setup file looks nothing like that player aid set up sheet you got in the picture. Where are these?

[CraigBee]

There is a Microsoft Power Point file included in the version 3.2 files that supplements the map and rules.

Craig

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

Good Point Craig,
I will add your sentence for blockhouses.  I will also apply a similar sentence for the naval production tech rule.

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

Craig Ive been thinking we should lower battleship cost to 20.  I tried to edit it on the nice setup charts, but couldn’t do it without messing up you nice format.  could you make that change for me?  Also could you place the Japanese komakazi under air units rather than sea units?

[Imperious Leader]

can you just make the file on a format like PNG, JMP, or at best PDF? I cant open “power point”

[Imperious Leader]

Ok i dl the viewer so its fine.

[Imperious Leader]

I want to print a copy but i cant because the colors are too ugly. I cant deal with Grey British, Blue Germans, Red Russians and red Japanese.

I want medium Grey Germans, Burnt Orange Japanese, Red Chinese, Brown Soviets, and Khaki British…

can you just make the colors like revised or provide an editable file so i can do it myself?

.AI, .EPS, .AIT extension would be nice

[Bob_A_Mickelson]

Imperious the world does not revolve around you and your taste.

I like the colors.  If you want to edit them to your personal prefrence of a color scheme go ahead, provided you make it free and downloadable to others on this form. As for providing you with an editable file for the changes, I already mailed you my photoshop file in january. I dont own illistrator and dont plan on buying solely to spend weeks recreating my map so you can have your prefered nation colors.  If it is so important to you to have different colors, buy photoshop yourself open my previous file i sent you and make the necessary color changes your self.

[Deaths Head 420]

@Bob_A_Mickelson:

Imperious the world does not revolve around you and your taste.

:-o  :-D :-P

[Imperious Leader]

My avatar says it does.

Besides, You can easily make a version that you just spend 2 minutes changing the color so its coordinated with Revised axis and allies pieces. You just click the color and add the different color from the color palette. It cant be too hard. The versions you sent don’t allow them to be editable. PNG, JMP, JPEG are basically the same file format but in each case they are locked formats allowing no ability to alter something like color.

I am thinking about not only myself but the other people who think its crazy to have blue Germans and stuff like that.

[Hobbes]

@Imperious:

PNG, JMP, JPEG are basically the same file format but in each case they are locked formats allowing no ability to alter something like color.

Hm?  :?

What editor are you using? Have you tried GIMP? http://www.gimp.org/

[Imperious Leader]

Illustrator CS2 by adobe.

[Hobbes]

Well try GIMP. Its a open source project and it probably isn’t as advanced as Adobe Illustrator but you can edit PNG/JPG files pretty easy.

[Imperious Leader]

If it was open source we would have the file in its original form. PNG is not a program file extension…just a format to save a file in like PDF or whatever.

Illustrator is a basic program probably the easiest to use.

[Hobbes]

Hm? I mean that GIMP is a image editor program and it is free. You can download it for free, use it for free, etc.

[Imperious Leader]

ILL take a look

[CraigBee]

We will be playing Axis & Allies Global Conflict over the next 4 Tuesdays.  Playing similar sized Axis & Allies games in the past took us two nights, so we’ll probably get two games in.  I am really looking forward to this one.

German Wolf Pack - Say the Germans attack with 3 submarines, getting the Wolf Pack bonus so they all attack with 3.  The Germans lose one sub in the first round of battle.  The Germans enter the second round of battle with only 2 submarines.  I think the German submarines still get to fight at 3 with the bonus.  I’m not sure if this is explicit in the rules or not.

Airplane only attacks at sea - If a player attacks with a bunch of fighters and a destroyer, the fighters hit subs on 3 or less.  In the destroyer is lost in the first round of combat, in the second round of combat the attacker is now air only.  I think the fighters now only hit submarines on a 1.  Unlike Wolf Pack, this is re-computed each round.  I’m not sure this is explicit in the rules or not.

Starting 12 dollars - The rules say you may only place units where you already have units when spending the initial 12 dollars.  As written, this prevents the British from putting an infantry on Gibraltar because there are no units there.  I think that is fine, I just want to make sure that is the intent.

Craig