@jim010 Looking forward to adding some IPC chips to my collection in June, and of course for North Africa in August! Great stuff!
Important Announcement: Larry Harris confirms existence of 2 new AA games!!
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@Cmdr:
Fuggles, why not just combine them and set them in 1939 with a really HUGE board with LOTS of territories. I’m talkin France as 12 zones so every piddly little nation can be it’s on territory and a board that, unfolded, is 5 X 3?
Now that would be a fun game! Set a rule that america cannot be attacked until 1941 (each turn being 1 season) and America cannot enter the war until 1942 or when they are attacked. :) (50% income until they go to war.)
Bring in all the AARe/AA50e submarine rules including CRD (Convoy Raid Damage = which counts as an attack on America) etc, etc.
Amen!
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Awesome!!!
My full response is on the thread given above on Larry site.
Read this also- kinda funny I think. :-)
http://www.harrisgamedesign.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1652&start=80:-D
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you should have posted this:
(from HGD)
Discussed with IL and Larry so far:
per their conversation:
1940…. battle of Britain, Sealion, alternative axis movements. yes
I hope you have historical victory conditions this time and that these games can be linked into one huge game ( with optional mid section of map) They can
I hope the map is large enough so people don’t have to draw their own. It is
I hope the divebomber is a 3-2 unit costing 8 and you have new pieces for the factory and AA gun its 3/3- cost 11, Combined arms
( my interpretation of this is if you have 1 art, 1 tank, 1 inf, you may get one extra die to roll or a modifier)
I hope you include a score sheet on the back of the rules so players can copy it and write down officially the IPC Score sheet?
I hope the dice have symbols on them They don’t
I hope you change out some of the artillery sculpts Not happening
I hope that japan gets a new battleship It won’t
I hope you include escort carriers (jeep carriers) Nope
I hope you have mechanized infantry and these are no longer considered “technology” Done
I hope the A-bomb can be developed in the game I don’t think so
I hope that neutrals have military forces and be swayed to align with one side or the other They do
This is HUGE!
I hope that Japan and Russia can not be forced into war for either of them to win “forced”?
I think this means no-
I hope that you include a deck of cards? No cards
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IL- time for you to make separate threads for these and compile the facts. :-)
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done for the most part.
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I’ve created a news story for it too.
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This is what we have been waiting for!!! Thank you Larry!
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This is just a rumor. Larry dont make this games, WOTC does. When Greg Leeds confirm this, then I will belive it.
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sorry to be a party pooper :-(
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I think you should believe it.
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I think you should believe it.
I think Larry has some non-disclosure agreement, or other kind of condition with WOTC, that prevent him from telling about future games. He never told anything about BotB, Guad nor AA50 Ann nor this new 1942 edition before they was released, so why do he tell about this new Europe/Pacific game ? HUH ? Beats me.
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I think Larry tell this just to tease IL
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Things change. Maybe all that noise you guys have been making about getting advance information is having an effect.
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Christmas for AAP40
Summer 2010 for AAE40
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updated. and yes i also think that something has happened as a result of our ‘noise’.
WOTC may be waking up.
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Christmas for AAP40
Summer 2010 for AAE40
Why dont they release both games in the same time ? I got a heart condition and might not be around next summer, for christ sake. I also do mountain climbing without a rope.
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Well, I guess we could hold Pacific until next summer also, if you really want. :wink:
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I got a heart condition and might not be around next summer, for christ sake.
You working that again? Last time you did it it was with deluxe AA. :mrgreen:
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The two new games announced will be the updated/ re-done versions of A&A Europe and A&A Pacific. The older versions of these games are not being produced anymore, even Revised will be a collectible now since A&A1942 will be replacing it. Sadly, I never got to play Pacific, and was thinking about buying a copy today, but I can’t find the game for a reasonable price anywhere. Just as the Anniversary Edition is going for top dollar, Pacific, Europe, and Revised are following suit since these three new A&A games will be coming out in the next year. Exciting!, but I am a bit nostalgic when the older board games get replaced. *sigh
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The Italians will pretty much be the same as found in Anniversary.
But a different colour, please…
Mechanized infantry (1/2/2 – cost 4) will be represented with half-tracks. Allies M-3’s and Axis powers will use the SdKfz 251. Oh, and Russia has its own half track as well (if I remember correctly).
This is a bit strange considering the Soviets reliance on American built transport.
You can invade Sweden or any neutral country frankly. There will be three types of neutrals… True neutrals, Pro-Axis and Pro-Allies. Their standing armies will be listed on the map and appear should they be attacked. Invade Sweden, a true neutral, and perhaps all the other True neutrals become pro-something else. Get my drift?
This is very promising. But remember that some (like Spain) have several territories. But I hardly think Switzerland is going to declare war on Germany because it invaded Turkey…
Yes there will be an ANZAC power – It will/can be, controlled by a dedicated player.
Potty. A & NZ were under UK direction until spring '42, then under US control.
There are no specific neutral pieces. Neutral territories will be represented on the map in one of 3 possible colors. The specific color depends on their neutrality status.
Three more colours? Turquoise? Indigo? Cerise?
It seems more sensible to have just one neutral set, and replace the pieces with those of whoever takes over the country when violated by the other alliance.France gets its national tokens… it gets its colonies that are all over Africa in AAE and a couple of places in the AAP game (French Indo-China and New Hebrides) It has its own dedicated colored units. If captured by the initial German blitzkrieg its surviving units are controlled by one of the allied players – probably the British player. If France is liberated it recovers its liberated factories and goes back to war against the axis as any major power would.
What about Vichy? After the fall Vichy controlled southern France and large areas of North Africa; this has to be included.
By the way… AAE40 begins shortly after Dunkirk. Germany, on its first turn will probably be launching the Battle of France. Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Norway have just been successfully invaded and are occupied. AAP40 will also begin at around that same period (19 months before Pear Harbor). The Japanese can attack any time, but are they really ready? As the controlling Japanese player you decide when and how."
Eh? After Dunkirk the war in France was as good as over.
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