CarrierCon in Alameda, CA on March 23, 2019

BBR-CHI 2024 has concluded!

Here are your medal winners…

GOLD: Legion of Doom wins over Team Bruiser

SILVER: Twin Linked defeats Midwest Joey Giardiniera

BRONZE: Mad Hammers defeat Phoenix Rising

IRON: The Krakens defeat General’s Fortress

COPPER: The Leftovers defeat Prussian Grenadiers

Congrats to all the medal winners and thank you all for coming and competing. I would like to think this was a very successful event, and I hope we can do it again next year!

Again 6 hardy souls braved the pandemic! We decided to play a game of 1914 so we could all participate in the same game.

1. 1914

Used 2 house rules: max 4 builds in India; land units move 2 if every territory is friendly. Powers were allocated at random:

CPs - Mike (Aftertaste) as AH & T; Adam (Private-Panic) as G
Entente - Andrew (h0lym0nk) as Italy & USA; Mark (Credulous) as F; Jon (jon1988) as R; Dave as GB.

R was able to consolidate virtually all it’s units into Poland and so put the fear of God into AH & G, who countered with almost equal stacks in Silesia (G) and Galicia (AH and some G). The Entente decided to pursue a G first strategy and R advanced it’s stack into E Prussia. The CPs rubbed their hands with glee! While this might create a possibility of the Entente capturing Berlin it certainly gave the CPs an easy route to Moscow. G put everything it could into E Prussia to fight a battle in which it might have had a slight advantage, so as to prevent the R stack retreating. In order to do this G accepted the need to fall back on the Western Front.

The battle in E Prussia resulted in quite a few more losses for R than G. The dwindling R stack was stuck there without reinforcements while G could add units easily if it wished.

Meanwhile F pressed forward against G’s western borders, reaching the Ruhr. Perhaps F had a slight advantage in that territory and it also had a sizeable stack in Munich to follow up. Unfortunately F lost badly in the Ruhr, effectively ensuring that G would recapture with sufficient force to stall the F attack.

G took out the GB North Sea fleet for the loss of only 2 subs.

Turkey kicked GB out of Mesopotamia and captured Egypt.

All of this in just 2 turns.

The Entente abjectly surrendered!

2. 1941

With some hours of the day left to play we decided to follow with a game of 1941. Dave had to leave so we now had 5 players. Only house rule was an additional GB destroyer off Canada to balance the game. Sides allocated at random.

Allies - Mike (Aftertaste) as GB; Andrew (h0lym0nk) as R; Mark (Credulous) as US
Axis - Adam (Private-Panic) as G; Jon (jon1988) as J.

The Axis decided on a strategy of jointly pressing hard on Moscow, probably linking up in the Caucasus. And this is what they did!

However, a GB & US fleet was established off the coast of Western Europe by the end of turn 1. Normally this takes longer so G was not happy! By the end of turn 2 the Allies had 7 units in Western Europe, including a US and a R fighter, with a combined defensive power of 19. G decided to attack this with the 8 units it had available, with an attacking power of 21. I have just used triple a to discover an attacking success probability of 70%. Risky. But absolute disaster!

Clearly it still hurts!

In the meantime J captured China, the Spice Islands and the Phillipines.

Aware that G would be unable to afford units for the Caucasus given Allied Pressure on Berlin the Axis decided that their chances on Moscow were not going to improve. G’s sacrificial attack was another dice disaster, doing far less damage to R than J needed if its follow-up was to have any chance of success.

After J duly undertook its kamikaze assault, the Axis tearfully surrendered.

Its our second year running! We will be playing the Bloodbath ruleset! Catered food, alcohol, and lots of fun! Event is in Laguna Hills, about 7 min south from the John Wayne airport.

Price is 50 per person, this is to mainly cover the food and drinks which is provided Sat/sun… Monday you are on your own for food.

Unfortunately this event sold out super fast via youtube, if you would like to be on standby or I can possibly put you on a 3 player team (we have a few already)… just message me before hand and ill ask around for ya.

Lots of folks coming this year! Some of us will also be attending Disneyland on the 24th and 25th … BOOM!

Young Grasshopper
Iron Stitch
Wartorn
Gijoe
Gargantua
VK Cowboy
Hambone
Dtroy
Corpo 24
Matt Todd
Warpig
Albert
Teflon
zencube
Leatherneck
Cesar’s Gual
Jose Pascual
Edward Pascual
Jason Hagarty
Ross Pimentel
Big Jim
Jelso and his brother
Dominic - MoFo Brothers
Jay
and Myself

@Imperious-Leader - sounds good brother! I’ll forward you the data.

Coming up next weekend. Always a great time, with lots of gaming, not limited to Axis and Allies. Lately have had Scythe and Supremecy on the table, and there’s talk of giving Twilight Imperium 4 a go.

Axis and Allies titles typically played include: Global, 1914, and 42.2. Most other titles are in someone’s car, so that isn’t necessarily everything we’ll play.

Gaming takes place in a neighborhood clubhouse that has lots of comfortable seating, a full kitchen, and huge bathroom facilities. It’s close to many different restaurants, and delivery routes of the local pizza joints.

We’ll start Friday morning, and play all day, so come prepared to play long games, and be ready for lots of fun! After hours gaming normally includes a few rounds of Secret Hitler, which is hilarious. Seriously. We’ll knock off late, and do it all again all day Saturday.

Looking forward to seeing lots of new faces, so if you’re in the Nashville, TN area, swing by and have a look!

https://www.meetup.com/Nashville-Axis-Allies-Meetup/events/2…

Funny thing is that this event seems to have networked three different groups of players through individuals attending TripleA Xrays event. I’m confident this will result in more games with a broader group of players.

For me definitely an eye opener that there are more die hard AA fans closes then I expected  :-D

@GeneralHandGrenade:

I was thinking about maybe making a trip for this or perhaps for the FMG con in Oshawa if that’s happening again this year. Which one would be better for a dedicated A&A player like myself?

Yeah, as YG said, definitely FMGCon. September 23/24 this year (just waiting on confirmation of the hall booking)

Axis and Allies fans, I wanted to let everyone know that our gaming group, Atlanta Axis and Allies, will be having its next gaming session on Sunday September 23rd.

Our group, as the name implies, is devoted Axis and Allies,  and we always welcome new players. Whether you are a long time Axis and Allies veteran or are completely new to the series, if you enjoy strategy gaming then this group is for you! As always our group is free to join and there is no cost to come to any game . Check out our website:

http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Axis-and-Allies/

Our next meet up will include two separate Global 1940 games (Alpha 3 rule set) along with at least one of the earlier versions of Axis and Allies. If you live in the Atlanta area and want to take part in some epic strategy gaming, feel free to stop by on September 23rd:

2001 Westside Parkway
Alpharetta, GA