@saburo:
The beauty of Mapview is that you don’t have to write out your turns because you will have a visual representation of all your moves.
What do you mean by this? It actually shows you where you attacked or non-com’ed? Shows results of combat? Shows where you placed units? Please expand.
Thanks.
Rob
Ok, I’ll download Mapview tonight, and playing the US sounds fine with me.
Can you speak more on the inverse IPC bid, or point me to an existing article concerning it? I trust your decision on it, but feel I should get more info on the subject.
I suppose I need a link for the ROI roller as well. I’ll check the tools thread started by DarthMaximus to see if it’s listed there.
@saburo:
The beauty of Mapview is that you don’t have to write out your turns because you will have a visual representation of all your moves.
What do you mean by this? It actually shows you where you attacked or non-com’ed? Shows results of combat? Shows where you placed units? Please expand.
Thanks.
Rob
Rob,
Mapview allows you to see a map of each phase of every round played. There are colored arrows included which can be placed on the maps to indicate combat and non-combat movements, notes can be left directly on the map for your opponent to indicate OOLs and such, units are placed or moved with a drag and drop. Each phase map is stored and can be easily referred back to simply by clicking on the proper tab. It’s an excellent utility. I couldn’t see playing A&A PBEM without it.
Interesting. I’ll have to experiment with this. Sounds much better the ABattlemap.
If I did this right, here is an example of a Mapview map.
Jermofoot,
I wrote an article on the Art of Bidding. That will describe the inverse bid.
Basically, both sides bid a number of IPCs. The “winner” is the team that bids higher. That team plays Japan. The other team gets the amount of the bid in IPCs to be distributed among the three Allied nations. The VP target is 24.
In our game, we will get 12 extra IPCs to distribute among India, Aus and US. This is in addition to the convoy money. Fletcher will play Japan and have a VP target of 24.
I hope that helps.
SS
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@saburo:
If I did this right, here is an example of a Mapview map.
Jermofoot,
I wrote an article on the Art of Bidding. That will describe the inverse bid.
Basically, both sides bid a number of IPCs. The “winner” is the team that bids higher. That team plays Japan. The other team gets the amount of the bid in IPCs to be distributed among the three Allied nations. The VP target is 24.
In our game, we will get 12 extra IPCs to distribute among India, Aus and US. This is in addition to the convoy money. Fletcher will play Japan and have a VP target of 24.
I hope that helps.
SS
Ah…well I know about bidding, but not exactly in this sense. I’ll check the article. And your map posted fine, but I’ll have to check it later.
If anyone is going to do this again please let me know I will probably be willing to play. I have the game but do not get to play that often FTF so I would like to play. Even if its 1 vs. 1.
I’m always up for a game of AAP!
ajgundam,
Go ahead and play Fletcher. He’ll give you a good game. After you’re done with that, I’d be happy to play you too. I’m just a tad too busy for the next couple of weeks to take on any more games.
SS
OK sounds like a plan. After the tournament though.
