HELP !!!! Need 50th anniversary japan setup chart, or a picture to reference.

@taamvan said in Anniversary 2017 Reprint - rule changes?:

The reprint could have re-organized the setup charts, which are not very rationally laid out and appear to just wander around the area and put the units in a different order in each list. In the better organized versions, the lists are alphabetical, or some snake around the land then the sea–but it would be more rational to have some uniformity to that, rather than just a messy list without any rhyme or reason.

As to the tournament rules, the game is VASTLY different in that setting than OOB. The NOs add a ton of money, the tech adds a lot of randomness. I think the tech favors the allies because they are well-positioned to invest in that starting on turn 1, and would probably make better use of most of the random outcomes than the Axis.

I find both games to be quite imbalanced, towards the Allies. There are no other maps where fighters can fly in one move from US to London, then from London unblockably to Moscow (over the top, 4 moves). There are more layers of buffer territories for moscow–almost as many territories in the “maze” as global. In the 42 scenario, the Germans just punch themselves out really quickly trying to fight in the russian maze. And the 5$ tanks are a big boon for Russia because it can fight Germany on even terms. You might argue that goes both ways, but in most of our 41 and 42 games, Germany has to buy DEFENSIVELY, all game–not just $5 tanks. The Allies have easy choices of what to buy–tanks for russia and fighters for the other two powers, until Russia is absolutely untakable. India without a factory is a lost cause. Both setups are an easy 5-turn KGF, OOB.

In the tourney, its a 6 turn game with less than a 6 bid for either side. The Allies won 1-2 more games than the Axis did, in 2018, under these parameters. I think the only way this is possible is for the Axis to grab Sydney, India, Karelia, and then hold those, plus the original Axis cities. They can lose 1 and still win a tie, I believe.

Not having watched the invitational games in detail, that’s the only conclusion I can draw from the available data.

This is an odd reply to a question about the rules being reprinted…

In China that CHANGED the map by adding a Chinese control symbol on a Japanese controlled area, to indicate that its Chinese influence

Hello Everybody,

Sorry i am a french speaker and i am not so ggod in english.

Some yaers ago i find a thread explaining when there is a battle how rapidly make a stat for knowing whos going (normaly) to win.

I can’t find it back

Could any body help me please?

Many thanks

Phielstar

There was an early “development” version available via the forum at tripleadev.org

Tripleadev has now moved to

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki/Forum

A new alpha is announced but not yet available.

While waiting why not give ABattlemap a try? See first post in

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=12873.0

tin,

I don’t know if you can still find them, but back in the day when I was an uncouth savage still using a physical board and playing pieces, there were companies that sold plastic unit sets similar to Axis and Allies. (The color was slightly off, the models unperceptively different, just enough so they did not violate copywrite or something, maybe they were inept but had license to do it.)

Anyway, that’s how I got “half-battleship” pieces. (What you would call Cruisers today.)  Also got some destroyers this way too, though, it was hard to tell them apart from submarines, so we had to use control markers to help differentiate. (Hey, a bottle of vodka will skew anyone’s perspective of the board!)

cant wait for thursday night then. :-D

@Crazy:

:-)
Can’t wait to see it.

Do you mean you haven’t seen ‘This is Spinal tap’ ? :-o

Or you can’t wait to see the game ? :-D

Personally I hope they keep the same rules… randomizing casualties will take a lot of tactics away from the game.

i can see italy being scared at that point since the americans/ british would love an industrial complex near germany to get so they can make men.  This will make most likely a turn of tanks/men going to russia. Instead they willb doing a battle of the bulge.