Italy wasnt going to be a stand alone nation in the early concept stages - hence the cover not having any Italian represtation.
Bonus - Bull Halsey appears twice - but most of you prolly observed this.
News flash: AXIS & ALLIES ANNIVERSARY EDITION due out oct 23 08
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I find it intersting it’s still for 2 to 5 players even though Italy is a new Axis nation.
Perhaps that’s just a typo on the web page -
Yea AH is known for not marketing,not putting enough pieces to get the starting set up, and not proofreading their own reports what else is new?
I am just wondering the odds of another free unit exchange because they gave Germany the P-38’s or something else stupid.
I can only say the same things a million times to them, and they still don’t get it.
If it was up to me Id pay you to play them heads up AA game… for their JOBS. Just you against the entire company -winner takes all. You win and you get to fire them all, they win and they get to avoid getting black balled for gross incompetence.
oh well i got 4 prepaid for pre-order and another on Oct 23 ill pick up from local store.
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I wonder if that is a photo of the actual box? If it is as wide and shallow as it looks it could be a single fold board which would be awesome.
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I find it intersting it’s still for 2 to 5 players even though Italy is a new Axis nation.
Perhaps that’s just a typo on the web pageYeah, and I found another typo… The title text said “Spring 1942…”, but on the picture the box said “Spring 1941…”. I hope these are the unique mistakes of this version! ;)
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He, China get some attention also :-). It’s for 6 players, sure, and maybe with a small patch a 7th player can join as China (believe or not, sometimes is needed, I remember a day when we were 8 for playing a game for 5 … we had to play 2 guys for each country :-D )
Anyway, the more interesting thing is the cruiser stuff. I know it was in Guadalcanal game, but still I wonder how it will be. I hope not a 3/3 for 10 ipcs, it would be too powerful…
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I find it intersting it’s still for 2 to 5 players even though Italy is a new Axis nation.
Perhaps that’s just a typo on the web pageYeah, and I found another typo… The title text said “Spring 1942…”, but on the picture the box said “Spring 1941…”. I hope these are the unique mistakes of this version! ;)
It looks as though you can choose between two starting points for the game: Spring 1941 or Spring 1942! Awesome!
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I guess the two starting periods would be to serve as a handicap for the weeker team for what ever side they played on.
I am guessing it would be used to eliminate the bid system.
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@LT04:
I guess the two starting periods would be to serve as a handicap for the weeker team for what ever side they played on.
I am guessing it would be used to eliminate the bid system.
Do you think it might be just to give you two games in one? I imagine the starting points will create very different ‘feels.’
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I agree with frimmel. And I wish they would include also a summer, 1940 scenario, when UK and China resisted alone against the three axis powers. A pity, maybe next time :-)
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ether way I can’t wait to buy it.
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@LT04:
I guess the two starting periods would be to serve as a handicap for the weeker team for what ever side they played on.
I am guessing it would be used to eliminate the bid system.
Do you think it might be just to give you two games in one? I imagine the starting points will create very different ‘feels.’
That’s the impression I got as well.
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As it stands now, I’ll be at GenCon (Friday and Saturday). I’ll be spending some time in the A&A tournament play area and present (for the first time) Anniversary A&A. Anyone up for a game or two?
Larry confirms the new game will be shown to the public at Gen Con ( source: harrisgamedesign.com)
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I have heard that the new cruiser can move 3 spaces. That would make navy battles more interesting. Can any one confirm that?
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That would be interesting… Man, I can’t wait for this game! :-D
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Thats not true. It was considered by Larry’s admission, but dropped. The cruiser DOES have some unique ability but i dont know what it is.
Id like to give it a AA roll hitting at 1 against air targets before first round, but thats just me.
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Wow, only 14 weeks left to go. Where are the days going? :roll:
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@LT04:
Wow, only 14 weeks left to go. Where are the days going? :roll:
Not sure, but 6 hours of my Wednesday went to playing Axis on Gleemax, including one game in a live 1x1 - - fun up until my Allies opponent “surrendered” - disconnect counts as that - and then the mighty AI shredded any chance the Allies had! Still took a couple hours total to make 10 VC!
It would be very nice if AH/Gleemax gets around to updating its version of Revised to LHTR standards, say by the time Anniversary comes out. Then we can yell at them to upgrade again!
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Only 12 weeks and 6 days left! :roll:
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I remember a day when we were 8 for playing a game for 5 … we had to play 2 guys for each country :-D )
They should make it three players for each country… Army ,Navy and Airforce, each with one third the IPC’s… and you have to argue among yourselves over what units to buy and whether to give your money to the other guy… wouldn’t want to be playing the Russian Navy… still, you’d start with enough money to buy a sub or a transport LOL :-o
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@Mr:
They should make it three players for each country…
I’ll tell you what they should do. They should incompletely playtest the game so that it requires at least 1 or more bid units and also create a flawed ruleset that requires multiple revisions after extensive playing by the masses.
I figure it’s worked in the past so we shouldn’t mess with a good thing.
Could you imagine if the rules and the force deployment were spot on? There’d be tumbleweeds blowing through the discussion section.
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