Attacking from two hexes

So the axis almost pulled it off. Lost Verviers last turn. Allies just stayed in the other 2 stacks. Could roll them out to see if they get control for the heck of it.

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Regarding question 1, as Frimmel said, it’s important to not bring any baggage from other A&A games into the “battle” games, as their mechanics are very different. It would be inadvisable to point out those differences in the Rulebook, though, as that would simply confuse readers who have never played a strategic-level A&A game. It’s best for experienced A&A players to simply look at these games with a fresh eye, and it probably would have been good for the Rulebook’s author to note this in the introduction.

Regarding question 2, the reason why there is only one box on the Supplies combat strip is that, unlike with the combat units, there is no fixed stacking limit for Supplies. The combat units’ combat strips can have a fixed number of boxes due to their stacking limits, but the number of Supply tokens that can be in a hex is theoretically unlimited. Perhaps having an image of multiple tokens on the strip would reinforce the idea that multiple tokens may be hit, but the rules do clearly state so.

@Eisenhower said in Easy game?:

Re: Axis & Allies Battle of the Bulge FAQ

i heard that axis and allies d day is the easist game. Is battle of the bulge also a very easy game for beginners?

Well it will be easier in the sense of not having rules baggage from other Axis and Allies games to foul up the reading of the rules. It is not easier if you have no wargame experience as it uses several concepts from more traditional hex and chit games.

The Allies have a non-traditional objective in this game in that they are managing a retreat instead of trying to take and conquer ground. This has always seemed to be difficult for players to get their heads around.

It is a very good game though and hits a nice middle ground between beer & pretzels sorts of things and the previously mentioned hex and chit games.

Well you aren’t the first player to arrive here having made mistakes with the rules by reading ‘regular’ A&A stuff into them. It is really important in BOTB and GCNL not to read any ‘regular’ A&A rules into the games. Most of the non strategy questions start by correcting a false premise. We had one player moving his attacking units into the hexes he wanted to attack for instance.

Here is a link to the FAQ.

@frimmel:

OOB rules. For the greater part house rules do not exist in my dojo.

Thats too bad! ILs map really expands on the game. Besides the larger map and the greater scope of the game, he has added the mech. infantry for both sides and tiger tanks for the Germs.

Welcome, surgeukr!

1. The Supplies may be moved.

2. The Tanks may retreat into the city hex, assuming that no adjacent hexes contain Allied combat units.

The old “Lords of Midnight” (anyone remember the venerable Sinclair ZX Spectrum ?) used a square grid with diagonal movement allowed at 1.5x cost. This made the “circle” (locus of points at equal distance) an octagon with lower distance, area and shape errors than

a hex grid (where the ‘circle’ is itself a big hexagon) square grid with diagonal moves prohibited (‘circle’ = tilted square) square grid with diagonal moves allowed at same cost as straight moves (‘circle’ =square. This is the most UGH !)

Also congratulations Jen, you’re the first lady I ever read to prefer hex map wargames !! Now, you mentioned Avalon Hill… ;-) maybe you would like Gamers OCS more ? ;-)

An example of great games on same topic (Pacific WW2): Victory in the Pacific (areas) and Fire in the Sky (big hexes). At heart they are surprisingly similar, but the second is really deeper and more accurate, allowing less aberrant “strategies” really unfeasible because of logistics. A&A has it even worse.

Now, I don’t know any fast-enough-playable game of whole WW2 outside A&A ;-) I don’t talk of World in Flames or other such monstrosities…