BATTLE IN VANCOUVER! IT'S ON! Nov. 23-25. Who will survive?

@barnee Yes he did fortunately.

@colt45554 Thx for that Colt. I have done battle reports for all the previous events but not any more. Sorry!

This event will be going ahead via Zoom - remote play with a shared screen - rather than face to face.

In my experience this by far the best way to play wittmann!!! :grin:

With continuing Covid 19 restrictions some of us decided to play via Zoom using triple a. Of course this was not as much fun as playing face to face, but the four of us who joined in very much enjoyed the day.

Mark (@Credulous) kindly hosted the Zoom session.

We decided to play Anniversary (1942 set up). Mark played Japan and Adam (@Private-Panic) Germany / Italy. Leo (@Wittmann) took USA & Russia and Andrew (@h0lym0nk) GB. The Allies had a bid of 12 which they placed as a GB destroyer off Canada and a R artillery.

The opening moves on the R front favoured R, as G counter attacks all suffered more casualties than they inflicted. GB attempted its Taranto moment and lost heavily, leaving Italy able to capture Egypt. Japan suffered no mishaps, killing the GB fleet of India, the US flotilla at Pearl Harbour and the Chinese fighter.

GB considered its choice of factory locations and decided to opt for South Africa. Fortunately Hirohito spotted the possibility of capturing this and under Japanese orders the Italian navy navigated the Suez Canal and dropped 2 ground units in south east Africa, and these were able to capture the factory the following turn.

The US landed in north Africa, but then lost its 2 transports, defended by a single destroyer, to a G Luftwaffe attack. The US decided to allocate a considerable proportion of its resources towards an Atlantic navy sufficient to allow further landings in north Africa. These pushed towards Egypt.

This allowed J some freedom in the Pacific. J captured India and built a factory there. Briefly this appeared threatened by US pressure on Egypt and a R threat south from the Caucasus, but the prudent deployment of J fighters to India and Egypt stymied any Allied ambitions. Later Australia also had the honour of joining the J empire!

Meanwhile G managed to keep R in check while also combining with I units to deny the Allies the opportunity of gaining the French national objective. As a result the Axis were gaining most of their national objectives, but the Allies few of theirs. This and the collapse of the British Empire gave the Axis an income advantage of around 30 ipcs per turn.

The Allies surrendered, with a G stack before the walls of Moscow and a growing J threat on Caucasus. The US Pacific fleet had captured a couple of islands (while J replaced the naval fighters it had sent to India) but had no opportunity to effect further advances. The US Atlantic fleet had sailed south to defend Brazil from Italy’s South African fleet, robbing north Africa of reinforcements. Perhaps the only bright point for the Allies was GB’s capture of Norway.

The four of us had a chat and decided that the autumn and winter BoB dates should be arranged with the intention of falling back on a virtual event should Coronavirus continue to preclude face to face play.

I’ve missed the deadline, but wanted to let you know that I’m from the Netherlands as well and we have a nation wide whatsapp group of AA players. Send me a PM if you’re interested.

HI All
      This is our third Battle of Long Island held in Whitestone Queens at Grace Episcopal Church. We hope to start around 10 and go until 10pm or later. You can come in earlier and start setting up. All are welcome and we have an undefeated team in Global 40 2nd edition rules bid for allies and WBC champions as well as beginners welcome. Its about a good time. If you play as a team and know the game you can play in 2 games at once. So far we have 17 definite and 7 more possible. In the past we have had between 16 and 26 players. Easy parking in church or directly across street in mall, light refreshments served including doughnuts, cheese, bread, drinks, and a refrigerator. We have a guy selling old games. We hope to get 10 per person for the Church.
So far we have:
-4 games of Global we want to set up could be more. (one blown up map)
-2 guys want to play 1914
-1 guy with a 4 by 6 map for the latest 1942 2nd edition

Let me know all welcome. I can send more information as needed
                                        Mustang440

Double elimination tournament for both 41 and 42 to start at release of A&A anniversary rerelease. November 1st 2017!

Signs up here on the forum.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=40246.0

You may ask, “what the hell double elimination and even after I win I still have to play Cow to get the $25 gift card?” Yep, I would like to know that you earned my money. :) Gift card will be sent to your email or I buy something then send it to you as a gift packaging, either way.

I drove 9 hours to go to DragonCon 2011 in Atlanta with the sole purpose of getting into an Axis & Allies tournament, but no one else showed up…including the organizer of the scheduled Axis event.

My point with this post is not to complain (well maybe a little bit), but to hopefully generate enough interest in DragonCon 2012 that I can get into a game there.  I’ve been to GenCon a number of times and there was always a good group there.  I would just like to see the same at DragonCon.