Anniversary edition reprint announced at Origins?

That is great news! I will for sure picking up a copy as I missed last time around. It will be interesting if Italy will have the Global sculpts and each country each own artillery piece.

I definitely don’t have $500 bucks to spend on anything much less a game so I for one am glad that there will be a reprint.
(But I agree with Karl7, it shouldn’t be called anniversary)

Here’s my take on it…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKHB7V8Ny80

I bought a used copy in 2012 for $225 and I found one at a garage sale in 2013 for $7. I’ll be sure to get a new copy as well.

Yes! This is great news, finally I will be able to get this edition!

@Erocco:

That is great news! I will for sure picking up a copy as I missed last time around. It will be interesting if Italy will have the Global sculpts and each country each own artillery piece.

On that subject will the game use what are now the old AAA rules and thus have generic sculpts since they can be captured?

Looking forward to get a copy!  Would be great to have some optional rules like the original MB version to provide more variety to the game

@General:

@Erocco:

That is great news! I will for sure picking up a copy as I missed last time around. It will be interesting if Italy will have the Global sculpts and each country each own artillery piece.

On that subject will the game use what are now the old AAA rules and thus have generic sculpts since they can be captured?

I would assume so, as it is announced as a reprint based on the given (as per Krieghund updated) ruleset.
We have to wait for something official about the sculpts, of course.

@Karl7:

Krieg, tell me they are not going to call it “anniversary,” since the anniversary is long past.

There’s an Anniversary for A&A every year… they can call it 33rd Anniversary Edition for all I care…

@Imperious:

I hope the game will have something new, perhaps in the optional rules. Just a reprint seems like foiling the people who sell it for $500 on ebay and not really a need. Sure a few people who cant pay $500 will be happy, but how many is that?

I’m sure a LOT more than you think… A LOT MORE.

Sometimes people with money to blow have no clue how the rest of the world works. I’m glad you have $500 bucks to blow on a board game… I can assure you, that you sir, are in the minority, not the majority.

There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG with reprinting a popular game that is currently out of print… if that ruins someone’s special snowflake status for already owning one, I’m sorry.

Wolfshanze said it all.

@P@nther:

@General:

@Erocco:

That is great news! I will for sure picking up a copy as I missed last time around. It will be interesting if Italy will have the Global sculpts and each country each own artillery piece.

On that subject will the game use what are now the old AAA rules and thus have generic sculpts since they can be captured?

I would assume so, as it is announced as a reprint based on the given (as per Krieghund updated) ruleset.
We have to wait for something official about the sculpts, of course.

Another fairly significant change I just thought of is tanks cost 6 IPC now. AA50 was the last version to have tanks at 5 IPC. Would you guys prefer 5 or 6 IPC’s for AA50?

I Hated Tanks defending at two, because you would lose the To territory uou
Just conquered! I would rather pay 6 for a 3/3 unit.

@Erocco:

Another fairly significant change I just thought of is tanks cost 6 IPC now. AA50 was the last version to have tanks at 5 IPC. Would you guys prefer 5 or 6 IPC’s for AA50?

Personally, I’d love to see 2nd Edition rules applied to Anniversary… though I’m not sure what they’re planning/doing… a reprint with errata alone doesn’t sound like they’re changing anything, but I dunno. We need more info from AH as to what their plans are with Anniversary.

P.S.
Anniversary would be “my Global”… I can’t see myself ever stepping up to 1940-level time/rules/commitment… but I consider Anniversary to be the end-all-be-all to the 1942-style of A&A gamestyle.

After poo-pooing the possibility, I am looking forward to the rerelease.  I will buy it.

I hope they do something special… commander units?  That would be awesome!

@Wolfshanze:

@Erocco:

Another fairly significant change I just thought of is tanks cost 6 IPC now. AA50 was the last version to have tanks at 5 IPC. Would you guys prefer 5 or 6 IPC’s for AA50?

Personally, I’d love to see 2nd Edition rules applied to Anniversary… though I’m not sure what they’re planning/doing… a reprint with errata alone doesn’t sound like they’re changing anything, but I dunno. We need more info from AH as to what their plans are with Anniversary.

P.S.
Anniversary would be “my Global”… I can’t see myself ever stepping up to 1940-level time/rules/commitment… but I consider Anniversary to be the end-all-be-all to the 1942-style of A&A gamestyle.

Come on Wolf, grow yourself a pair and step up to a real game. You’ll never go back to the kid’s table once you make the commitment to sit with the adults.

I bet the only things that change is what that Shelly lady said… the rulebook layout, and a few new sculpts.

Just caught up on reading this thread and saw the video.  I still can’t find my jaw, it must be rolling around here somewhere……

The lady kept saying how big the map was.  How big is it?  I have never seen this edition in person before.  I usually play A&A G40 2nd Ed. or GW 1936.

Andy, if you play G40 and GW36, you already use the biggest maps. AA50 is smaller than Global. It is the largest of the “'42 style” games though.

@GeneralHandGrenade:

Come on Wolf, grow yourself a pair and step up to a real game. You’ll never go back to the kid’s table once you make the commitment to sit with the adults.

I’m a single father working full time and raising young kids… I don’t really have the time to commit to something like Global… as it is, I have a hard enough time finding anyone that wants to spend a few hours on 1941 or 1942… I have exactly ZERO volunteers to spend MORE time than they do on 1941/1942.

I have nothing against Global at all… if I had no kids to take care of and people that wanted to play Global, and I dug out a basement out of my Florida sand, I would have a bunker and play Global… the reality is, I have neither the time to commit to Global, nor anyone in the Florida Panhandle who will commit to anything beyond 1942.

I’ll be lucky if after I pick up Anniversary if I can find anyone to spend an extra 10 minutes playing that over 1942.