Superpowers Game is now available for purchase. this game is awesome! A modern day version of A&A. Includes new pieces like nuclear missiles, generals, national leaders and super battleships.
they had a few other bigbox wargames, but NIE is definetly the best, it is the perfect balance between diplomacy and A&A, very good quality except for ship peices, which are just paper chips, if you get it you will be amazed by all the crap that they fit into the box
one prob though, apparently they dont beleave in editing at eagle games, so the rules dont make sense al lot of the time
dont worry though, becasue the fourteen people who still own and play this game have a rule set free to download called charge the guns, just google search those three words to find it.
it is eighty pages long so it takes awhile to read, but i would read that first before you deside if you want it
The rules part is why I never got into it. You’re right, didn’t always make sense and when in those situations, it sorta wanted to make you knock your head into a wall rather than play. Alas, there is an expansion set with the rest of the world (Asia/Pacific) and comes with ships. These can also be used for AA games, pretty much the same size–close but not exact. don’t get me wrong. Want to add more types of units to China in AA50? now you can.
Might be a stretch for what you were looking but there is a game called Twilight Imperium that is suprising A&A-like:
The theme is space, picture Star Wars, the galactic senate and all.
It uses the A&A battle mechanic, except with a d10 instead of a d6.
Intsead of ferrying troops around on ocean-going transports, you ferry them around on space-going transports. In fact, the game uses a lot of the A&A naval mechanics, from fighters on carriers, transporting troops, bombardment, etc.
You have planetary defense systems that act like AA Guns and can upgraded to act like A&A-style rockets.
You have a couple of tech tracks you can advance on by spending on R&D like in most A&A games.
The game add a deplomacy phase and action cards.
I have the original 1st and 2nd editions of the game. They reworked it in the 3rd edition, but I haven’t tried that one yet.
Its from Fantasy Flight Games, IIRC.
3rd Edition is a great game for six players. The random maps placed by the players in setup is also a big plus. :wink:
