+Karma for a great pic :-D
If I may say one positive about having a three piece board and that is if you ever need to move the game (for whatever reason) it is a lot easier move the board one piece at a time rather than trying to juggle a fully connected three piece board.
I do wish there was some way to better connect them during game play.
Great Review TG!
It’s awesome to know someone got as excited about the unboxing ritual. I third the motion that the german transports are lame, but hey, kudos for trying to make unique units (sans the italian navy and air force).
All i all, I don’t think i can ever really get excited about a game of Classic now that theres so much more to be had in AA50.
Lastly, great Spandau reference.
If I may say one positive about having a three piece board and that is if you ever need to move the game (for whatever reason) it is a lot easier move the board one piece at a time rather than trying to juggle a fully connected three piece board.
I do wish there was some way to better connect them during game play.
Some type of interlocking mechanism would’ve worked wonders for the board. They could of even cut the board like three big jigsaw puzzle pieces – that, wouldn’t have been difficult at all to do.
TG, Jumping back to con about the unit compartments.
With my brother-in-law in Iraq my 8 year old niece has been doing a little acting out. I broke out my old copy of Risk for her to try out.
I really never gave risk much credit after I moved onto A&A but those plastic boxes that came for each nation were genius. I mean they wouldn’t do for A&A to small yada, yada, yada but to think thet a durable, rigid-plastic container came with my “ye olde” copy of Risk I think goes to show that WOTC could have done a little better with the unit storage.
LT
We also have difficulty identifying naval unit. they should have used some sort of subtle convention to easily identify them, such as a flat stern for CAs, rounded for DDs, and whatever.
Every game someone weeps because they either misidentified a naval unit for a transport or accidentally used one ship for another during purchases, causing grief later. We would have been happy with the same models for each nations ships.
seems like japanese, us and uk cruisers look very similar to destroyer, where-as all the other nations cruisers are as big as a battleship (just a little shorter with the squared off stern). if you look closely then you can tell the difference, but when just glancing at them it’s easy to make the mistakes :|
The squared off stern is the best way to tell Destroyers and Cruisers apart – though not always.
I wish they had just made the battleships BIGGER to avoid any confusion.
^^ agreed. the BB should be the biggest ship by far
^^ agreed. the BB should be the biggest ship by far
Did you have all your BB? I was shorted one! Atleast it was the Soviets…i dont see them building them but still…
yeah, all my pieces were there thankfully :-D
after some thoughts, i kind of wished they had of done AA50 like a monopoly limited edition, as in metal pieces, wooden storage boxes, and so forth. if only there was an AA50 deluxe-ultra-mega-edition like that haha
