This makes no sense. Japan controls Philippines at start. The only US forces are in Hawaii. This is Milton Bradley Edition, not global
How about World War 1?
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Sorry, can’t help you with that. But eight countries!? (Assuming each color represents a different power) Wow, I like to see that.
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The Triple Entente (plus the United States): France, Great Britain, russia, and United States
and the Triple Alliance (plus Turkey): Austria-Hungary, Germany, Italy and the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
I’ve decided to make Italy neutral at first so it can watch the game unfold and decide who to join. That way, it makes the game more interesting. I guess pieces could be borrowed from other Axis and Allies games .like AA and AAP, but I could still use some help figuring these out. I also want to use AA Batteries for poison gas units but the problem is that there arent that many. Any suggestions?
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Should I post the rules and such of the scenario here as I make it or should i wait until I finish it and get someone to test it, wink wink.
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I let IC represent “heavy guns” since if you turn them sideways, their smokestacks look like huge gun barrels
As any special rules for USA getting into the war? If I remember correctly, one of the reasons why USA joined the war was because Wilson wanted to fight for democracy (meaning USSR had to go).
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Yeah, there are but the US also has to join eventually. The US didnt join the wat because the Jews living there were against it because many had fled the Tsar’s opression and didnt want to fight with russia but when the Lusitania sank, that helped ocnvince the US to join. I’ve been researching!
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Also the Czar aristocracy wasn’t exactly pro-democracy (ie leading up to the Lenin Revolution of 1917)
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@TG:
Sorry, can’t help you with that. But eight countries!? (Assuming each color represents a different power) Wow, I like to see that.
Italy and the United States are optional powers. They dont have to be played but make the game better. Since Italy controlled Libya, imagine its importance in joining the war. If it joins the Central Powers, then a hole is created in Allied North Africa and a new threat. If it joins the Allied Powers, then it can be invaluable to knocking out Turkey.
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The only problem is that A&A: Europe’s Africa front is pitful compared to the original A&A map. And from what I heard, the African front was much more hotly contested (and not just parts of North Africa, all of it) in WWI than WWII
BTW: I like you idea of optional countries. Did you work out the rules on how they can become part of the war?
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Mostly. I simply need to finish re-designing the map, I’m mostly dividing large areas and adding territories like East Prussia and I need to write it all down. Then I need some testers. but I do have the rules for Italy and America joining the war ready.
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I see… you’re doing all of this on computer? If so, what program are you using?
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@TG:
I see… you’re doing all of this on computer? If so, what program are you using?
Good old Paint for the map.
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Are you going to use the map link mod posted in the A&A: Europe forums?
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@TG:
The only problem is that A&A: Europe’s Africa front is pitful compared to the original A&A map. And from what I heard, the African front was much more hotly contested (and not just parts of North Africa, all of it) in WWI than WWII
quote]Was it?
I thought all german colonies fell after not much more than a month of fightign? (i remember one was doing better, can’t remember which one though)
I mean if you have a look at the map, the only border therebetween the entente and the central powers was Egypt.
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“Was it?”
Yes, it was :roll: In 1914 the German colonies in Africa consisted of Togoland, the Cameroons, German Southwest Africa, and German East Africa. The combined British and French took possession of Togoland in August 1914 (which might be what you are refering to). In September of that year a British force invaded the Cameroons from Nigeria, and a French force invaded from French Equatorial Africa to the east and south of the Cameroons. After many campaigns in which the Germans several times defeated the Allied Forces, German resistance was finally overcome in February 1916 (meaning that the African battle lasted much longer than ‘one month’). German Southwest Africa was conquered, between September 1914 and July 1915, by troops from the Union of South Africa (like I said, the war stretched stretched all across Africa). The most important of the German possessions, German East Africa, displayed the strongest resistance to the attacks of the Allies. Early assaults by British and Indian troops (November 1914) were repulsed by the Germans under General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. In November 1915, British naval units gained control of Lake Tanganyika, and the following year the Allied forces (British, South Africans, and Portuguese) intended for the invasion of German East Africa were placed under the command of General Jan Christiaan Smuts. In 1916 the Allies captured the principal towns of German East Africa, including Tanga, Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam, and Tabora, and Lettow-Vorbeck’s troops then retreated into the southeast section of the colony. Late in 1917, however, the German forces took the offensive, invading Portuguese East Africa; and in November 1918 they began an invasion of Rhodesia. When the armistice was signed in Europe in 1918, the troops in German East Africa were still fighting, even though most of the colony was in the hands of the Allies (so this ‘one month’ war lasted the entire war). Lettow-Vorbeck surrendered three days after the European armistice was declared.
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I think I’ll use the modified map and I actually have a map of Africa in 1914 so that’s helpful.
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Too bad you can’t swap. Combine the A&A: World At War Africa Map with the A&A: Europe Map to get the best of both worlds.
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Any word on lake and river combat? Both played an important factor on how the African Front was faught.
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Interesting. I’ll see what I can think of. too bad you dont have AAE Moses. you seem to be the most interested person.
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i play a&ae but dont really have enough time to be interested :( but hey its me :wink:
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Well I’m not totally inept since I’ve seen the gameboard and know the rules. I can’t playtest it, but if you can post the final map online, I’ll see what I can do.
Feel free to contact me, any time. Our A&A Forums game is on hiatus for the moment, so I really have nothing better to do…
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