@panther Thank you very much panther…
Will it live up to the hype???
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I predict people will be less bored with AA50 and quickly bored with AA42.
I don’t get bored with A&A. I am not bored with the 1986 MB edition. But I did stop playing it very much after Europe and Pacific were released. I can’t see any half way decent A&A game ever getting boring.
Furthermore, I am not going to play much AA42 right away - maybe once or twice to check it out. I’ll play it a little more as AA50 becomes less new and exciting (but never boring).
The setup will be very similar to Revised so it will not be that new, as well as the map and such.
The new rules for subs and transports alone should make this a radically different game than revised. And we’ve yet to see how AA42 will handle tech and SBRs. I expect this will be almost as different from revised as revised was from Gamemaster. To be certain your tried and tested openings and strategies from revised will need a major overhaul. Hence new and exciting.
We’ll see if your “half glass full” approach holds up 6months after the game is out.
Half full or half empty - it’s a third the price of AA50! But I’ll be sure to pipe up next January and tell you what I think. :)
By the way, get ready for the cheap cardboard charts! :-)
I’m not too concerned about this. It is the cheaper version.
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what hype?
we are the only ones hyping it. WOTC wont lift a finger unless people protest them and write letters complaining: “why don’t you freeking post some information on your own game rather than leaving all information up to funagames.com”
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@Imperious:
what hype?
we are the only ones hyping it. WOTC wont lift a finger unless people protest them and write letters complaining: “why don’t you freeking post some information on your own game rather than leaving all information up to funagames.com”
LOL :lol:
You’re absolutely right- I forgot!! -
@Imperious:
what hype?
we are the only ones hyping it. WOTC wont lift a finger unless people protest them and write letters complaining: “why don’t you freeking post some information on your own game rather than leaving all information up to funagames.com”
Well, Larry hopefully will be at Gencon with the game this year. If I find anything out I’ll say so.
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@Imperious:
what hype?
we are the only ones hyping it. WOTC wont lift a finger unless people protest them and write letters complaining: “why don’t you freeking post some information on your own game rather than leaving all information up to funagames.com”
Well, Larry hopefully will be at Gencon with the game this year. If I find anything out I’ll say so.
nice… so the ‘lives in parent’s basement/works at comic shop’ demographic will be in the know. Excellent!
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Well, Larry hopefully will be at Gencon with the game this year.
if he is then like the last time with AA50, take lots of pictures and PLEASE write down details that you learned. Bring a notebook and take notes. The game will likely get wisked away as usual by a group of men in dark suits like AA50.
WE need details of everything. make sure pictures of the pieces are made and the camera is good quality and has good lighting.
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LOL Imperius,
I am as much a fan as you are, but AA42 Isn’t some endangered animal, or thr last dinosaur or something!
It’s going to be out within 3 months! :p
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Alas: We are TMZ news hounds and get paid top dollar for the first snapshot of famous games. If WOTC is busy eating bananas normal folk have to carry the load. Products like this need some fanfare to get new people to play and its up to us to get the word out.
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“Will it live up to the hype?”
No, it will not… I am a hard core fan and no doubt it will be in my collection, BUT how can it hope to follow-up on the heals off AA50!?
To those unlucky folks who didn’t get AA50 in time and now CANT it will be something new and exciting… To those of us who have been exposed to AA50, it will be a watered down version.
This is just my personal opinion (Veiws expressed here are not those of FMG or its affiliates blah blah blah :-D)
I hope and wish that I am wrong on this one. Some advice for WOTC… JUST PRINT MORE AA50.
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@Imperious:
The game will likely get wisked away as usual by a group of men in dark suits like AA50.
MIB > Men In Black > Our first, last and only line of defence against information.
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I think everyone needs to relax and wait and see what this game is all about, after all has Larry Harris ever made a bad AA game?. I don’t think so. I agree with the more positive thinkers in that this is another AA game that will add to the many different ways to play our favorite game. Of course it will never be as good as AA 50, but what game ever will ?
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so i’m looking at the AH page to see if there is any new updates and such and thinking of this thread as to what real hype is there about the game. We’ve gone round a couple times now and we really haven’t looked at what hype there really is. IL said there wasn’t and I was inclined to agree until i really looked close today…
“Newly sculpted playing pieces and all new packaging will position this game as the cornerstone of the Axis & Allies game line for years to come.”
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- Newly sculpted pieces
- All new packaging
- Cornerstone of AA for years
deductions…. (in humor mind you)
a. newly made pieces, granted, this sounds wonderful and confirmed by LH himself.b. all new packaging. “Reeally?! Well shut my mouth!!!” isn’t that like advertising ‘clean rooms’ at hotels?
c. cornerstone of AA–i.e.–no aa50 reprint, and Larry’s taking a 2-year sabbatical.
i’m gonna stick with my original comment.
@LuckyDay:yes… and no…
I think everyone needs to relax and wait and see what this game is all about, …
Of course it will never be as good as AA 50, but what game ever will ?it’s like you almost kept a straight face while typing, almost to the end…
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- Newly sculpted pieces
- All new packaging
- Cornerstone of AA for years
If the game can’t live up to that then we’re in trouble!
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We are in trouble :cry:
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I can’t see how the pieces will be better than AA50 if the price is lower. I was a tad disappointed with the aa50 pieces and that game cost a lot more than 42 will. The Japanese curly bayonet was especially well done :wink:
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They will be this game will be produced in huge quantities allowing for a low price point.
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AH didn’t said they would be better, just new and refreshed sculpts…
however, on the optimistic side: when you don’t have to pay for as big of a board or box, only 5/6ths of the nations, no fancy boxes, less dice, chips and such, you can put some of that money into better quality pieces…hopefully…
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Larry said they are much more refined and detailed. They are less prone to flashing and defects and ‘mutations’.
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I believe him too, I just hope that he gets final say on quality control, but given the company he’s dealing with, I won’t hold my breath on that one… optimistically yes, realistically, i wanna see it first, or at least hear about when you see it.
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The answer is “NO”- it doesn’t live up to any hype- it lives WAY below the hype, below any of the company’s products.
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