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@The-Captain

Nice. Very ambitious. I wish you the best of luck.

@jim010 Looking forward to adding some IPC chips to my collection in June, and of course for North Africa in August! Great stuff!

@midnight_reaper

Thanks for the information.

Next week, I’ll check with the shops in Denmark, in which we by our games, to figure out their supply situation.

Captain

@zooooma I see no indication of anything even remotely about AA games, but more fantasy titles being worked on which is typical of WOTC. they choked the life out of Avalon Hill until it was dead. They could care less about anything remotely Historical and only deal in FANTASY. Nothing but a bunch of fat slobs with pimples rolling for hobgoblins, etc.

More news has been released about Larry’s new game. Nightingale Games have posted a video about it online which I have linked below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Tp3ndePZk

It will be called “Imperial Borders” in which players will use both diplomacy and might to conquer Europe after the Napoleonic Wars have ended.

c’mon guys, several players weren’t present at game start, they started as early as possible and then got grumpy around dinner time, and someone thought it would be a good idea to commence the day drinking before Moscow fell–-that’s the classic Axis and Allies game at home.

US military has been rich with nerds and gamers for a long time.  We play with a teacher from the Gen. Staff College from Leavenworth, who plays games for a living and who teaches a class on how wargames and their play can inform the conduct of actual battle.

Modern wargames are connected to the first Kriegspiele developed for the Prussian General Staff, which may or may not have inspired similar efforts by HG Wells and other 20th century innovators.

The first wargames were WAR SIMS to prepare for real war, which is pretty sweet because while Chess (and go and other Asian and Scandinavian variants) imitates the grand themes of war and battle, those are not really wargames

Its a rare example of a type of game that began as an extremely serious and formal exercise that has developed into a hobby or part-time pastime rather than the other way around.  Many other non-game exercises like horse riding were once deadly serious but are now for amusement and exercise however, D&D was not created as a way of training actors or politicians,  Chainmail was not created to train gladiators to fight or figure out which fighters to bet on, Monopoly is not a business school case study or capitalist training exercise that later became a board game…

But AxA has its roots in real war!

It has been over a year since the last stable (1.2.5.5) was released, and a new stable version has been released: 1.3.2.2

You can go download it here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/triplea/files/

direct link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/triplea/files/TripleA/1_3_2_2/

Maps were updated on July 9th, so please redownload your maps if you haven’t already (especially any ww2v3 style maps)  (repairing and some techs won’t work unless you redownload your maps)

This version fixes all known bugs in past unstable versions.

Major Changes since 1.2.5.5:

4 new maps come included with triplea, so now you get 11 games by default (about a 100 more available for download of course) Major improvements to the Moore AI, and a new land-only AI added Significant improvements in options to customize maps and create new mods Support for Global 1940 40%, Pacific 1940 80% done New lobby features, and usability features like tooltips, helpful links, etc.

Most of the improvements to triplea have been behind the scenes, in making the engine more flexible and capable of handling new rules and new types of games.

If you are looking to play Axis and Allies on TripleA, bear in mind you have download the maps for each A&A version,
they are named:
World War II Classic  =  A&A Classic
World War II Revised  =  A&A Revised
World War II v3  =  A&A 50th Anniversary
World War II v4  =  A&A Spring 1942
World War II Pacific  =  A&A Pacific 1940

To download maps, just start up triplea, and click the “Download Maps” button.
Then add this link to the box and hit “List Games”
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tripleamaps/triplea_maps.xml

(do not click the above link.  instead, copy and paste it into the text box inside triplea, then click ‘list games’)
click here to see a picture tutorial of how to download maps

Enjoy!

Veqryn

This is awesome news!

Will AAE40 & AAP40 have the same rules as AA50 in terms of:

transports

submarines

prices

Between A&A (MB), AAE, AAP and Revised, we had four different sets of rules for transports and likewise for submarines.  :?   
It was okay when I owned all four and used to play all the time.  But for people who don’t play that often or who won’t own all of AA50, AA42, AAP40, and AAE40, it would really help to comfortably go from one game to the next if the basic rules are standardized.

Here’s hoping.