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Where Did You Get Your Board Game?
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Where did everyone get their A&A:R game? Intrenet, local Game store? Or did you get it at all? (and just play via the intrenet maps etc.)
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I ordered my Pacific, Revised and D-Day sets thru my Local Comic/Game shop. I picked up a Europe set that had been on the shelf awhile on a recent excursion for a ccg tourney. Not the cheapest way put the shop does provide a place to play when we want it, a way to meet players, is a local business and other intangibles that have values you can’t put dollar signs on. Well, that are worth the 10 or 15% you save after what are starting to become huge shipping costs. Rock bottom prices are not always the best determiner of value in my opinion.
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I bought my AAR at Toys R Us. It cost around $40 (about a year ago).
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I don’t think I could afford all of the different A&A games… I hear A&A Revised is the best tho… and now that I know I have a place to play people, I might go buy it.
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Bought AAR from Tory-R-Us around Christmas, after joining this site in November. My Classic board I bought when I was in college, no longer remember where.
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I downloaded a Map program that I use for 2nd Edition but I am very curious to play Revised. Is there a map tool for it as well that I could download along with a rulebook so I could start playing Revised online? I don’t want to spend the money on the actual board if I’m never gonna play face to face. My friends say my dice rolls are too lucky, even tho I always bring more than enough pieces into battle to win… oh well.
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You can download Abattlemap at
http://www.flames-of-europe.de/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=viewdownload&cid=2
When you first launch the program it will display the original, select New from the pull down menu and select Axis & Allies Revised it will switch you to the revised game (it also contains the maps for AA: Europe & AA: Pacific plus a bunch of others.
Larry Harris Tournament Rules (LHTR) can be downloaded at
http://daak.de/regeln/eng/lhtr.pdf
It requires the Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader.
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thanks for the info jsp.
revised looks WAY more in depth than classic. i think i’ll play a game after DM and I are done my game of classic
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Revised is a great improvement over the original. If you’re use to playing classic be aware there are a lot of rule changes (things you couldn’t do in classic but can in revised and vise-versa) plus new units and technology. I found that I had to throw everything I knew from classic out the window and start from scratch. If you’re interested, the guy who was in charge of redisgning the game wrote a series of articles explaining some of the changes and the reasons behind them. You can find them at (they’re at the bottom of the page):
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great little online store called funagain games…
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wow jsp, thanks for the link… good stuff!
i downloaded ABattlemap and its way better than what I was using. the revised map looks sweet and i can’t wait to play. since most of my games are gonna be played over the intrenet, ill probably save some money and have more fun playing you guys on here.
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Oneshot-
When you’re done with your current game of classic, let me know & I’ll play you a game or Revised.
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Toys-R-Us for me too.
IMHO, you lose alot while playing online.
I admit online play is still fun. But it is just not the same feeling as a FTF game. One can take hours to return a PBEM turn. One has to make more “split-second” decisions FTF.
Additionally, tournaments are really fun and you get to meet alot of nice people.
Squirecam
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do they still hold tournaments? a thread I was looking at had a tournament in Sterling, VA (about 1.5 hrs from where I live) but that was some time ago and I hadn’t joined this site yet. I love FTF games but no one ever wants to play me.
im thinkin about lookin around for the actual board game tho, just so i have it.
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I got mine at my local game store. The owner gives good deals.
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do they still hold tournaments? a thread I was looking at had a tournament in Sterling, VA (about 1.5 hrs from where I live) but that was some time ago and I hadn’t joined this site yet. I love FTF games but no one ever wants to play me.
im thinkin about lookin around for the actual board game tho, just so i have it.
You should go to Origins next week (June 29-July ) in Columbus, Ohio. Or Gencon in Indianapolis in August.
Go here for details
http://www.geocities.com/headlesshorseman2/smoreyswamp.html
Squirecam
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wow, that’s this weekend. can’t make that one, its technically july 4th weekend and i have a disc golf tournament. but i did finally go to toys b us and got the last axis and allies board game and opened it up last night. i was amazed! but there were no trays to keep the peices separated. i guess i will just use ziplock baggies?
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Now that you have the Revised game you’re probably going to want to toss the Operating Manual (or at least bury it at the bottom of the box :wink: ). Replace it with the latest LHTR (v1.3 i think) here’s the link to a pdf version:
http://www.geocities.com/headlesshorseman2/LHTRupdatedmay2006.pdf
Have fun!
p.s. looking forward to our first game
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