News flash: AXIS & ALLIES ANNIVERSARY EDITION due out oct 23 08

Guess all good things do come on a friday. :-D

@Krupp:

Guess all good things do come on a friday. :-D

Let’s hope. IL will have a stroke  :wink: if we don’t have something by the end of the day.  :-)

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Stay tuned!!! Someone will surely post something.

Wait.  :? Maybe I’m the one who is going to have a stroke.  :?  :-o  :-o

BGG finally approved my submission of the MB A&A 1st Edition rules.  It can be found here.  Sorry it took so long.

There are more differences than just that.  For instance, in the 1st Edition rules, production in new and captured ICs was unlimited.  Use the Rules Update section on page 3 of the 2nd Edition rules as a guide to finding the changes.

@Krieghund:

BGG finally approved my submission of the MB A&A 1st Edition rules.  It can be found here.  Sorry it took so long.

Thank YOU! I’ve being wondering about what the original rules were FOREVER!!! This is a big help.

Gents

A curiosity question here.

There is a whole discussion group for A&A Deluxe.  Is this new Anniversary Edition basically considered the Deluxe version?  A lot of what was discussed there seem to be incorporated into the new Anniversary version.

Also, there has also been a lot of discussion about creating a new A&A game based off a 10 or 12 sided dice.  What is this version referred to as?

Thanks

@Black:

Gents

A curiosity question here.

There is a whole discussion group for A&A Deluxe.  Is this new Anniversary Edition basically considered the Deluxe version?  A lot of what was discussed there seem to be incorporated into the new Anniversary version.

The original Deluxe concept was basically a redo of Revised with premium components (unique sculpts for each country/unit type, poker chips for IPCs, etc.) and a 2nd edition set of rules.  Anniversary is probably as close to Deluxe as you’ll ever actually see.

@Black:

Also, there has also been a lot of discussion about creating a new A&A game based off a 10 or 12 sided dice.  What is this version referred to as?

That would be Advanced A&A.  Some of the concepts from it actually made it into Anniversary, such as the new SBR rules.

@Imperious:

I want to see a Axis and Allies: Korea game by June 2010 because it will be 60th anniversary of that war.

Axis of Evil & Allies… ? lol

@Imperious:

NO this is not the same thing, but if it does not do well enough, we may not get a deluxe game. I suspect a delux game would be limited production to be sure.

Advanced AA is another topic entirely and wont be appearing anytime soon until at least 1-2 more “campaign” style games arrive: Stalingrad/Afrika Corps.

I want to see a Axis and Allies: Korea game by June 2010 because it will be 60th anniversary of that war.

AAA is D12. Alot of the energy from that dissipated and may have been used to create AA50 as a testing ground for further ideas.

Lastly everything here is my opinion only.

Ugh, an Axis and Allies game not in WWII… WOULD BE AWESOME!

I would really like an Axis and Allies Vietnam, but idk if we’ll ever see it.  It would obviously need a new name, as well.  Commies & Capitalists:  Vietnam?  lol

IL Krieg

Thanks for your reply.

It seems the Anniversary Edition will satisfy most of the changes that I wanted to see.  The only thing I really want at this point are the unique sculpts for each country/unit type.  Maybe they can make something similar to the A&A miniatures but on a scale more suitable for the A&A board games.  However, if they do make something like this I will only buy them as a set of the same units for each country.  Something similar to the way GHQ sells their Micro Armor http://www.ghqmodels.com/ I have refused to buy the A&A miniatures because because you have no control on what you are buying.

Yes these are good changes the onlything i would like to see is that russia can have a small democracy spot were the allies may make men for them wouldnt it be cool?

ok my explanation is that russia has a small spot were the democratics may take power unhistorical like but look at the game a lot of it doenst deal with historical happenings

@italiansarecoming:

small democracy spot

One of the most bizarre requests for game changes I have seen amongst these posts… I agree with IL, Stalin would NEVER relinquish any sort of territory or military command to foreigners to help fight the Germans- especially foreigners of the filthy capitalist lot! haha. The most that the Western Allies could do to help the Russians was by sending war materials and foodstuffs into the Soviet Union up through Iran. Sorry italiansarecoming, ‘small democracy spot’ isn’t going to happen.

No doubt that is a rather unusual request. It is quite ironic that one of the “objectives” of the Soviet Union in A&A AE is to have no allied soldiers on your territory, in which case you are rewarded an extra 5 IPCs. So I can hardly believe they would even consider doing such things, the Russians were far to proud for that.

It is a good rule to reward the Soviets, because real players would have British units attacking Germans in the Soviet Union.  This happens all of the time in Revised games.