You see, Axis has a bone to pick with me.
1) He feels slighted because his only critique of the game was that there were too many “new” rules. There are no “new” rules in Anniversary Enhanced, there is only a blending of AARe rules to work within the rules of Anniversary. Had he given us a specific example of rules HE had a problem with, then HIS issues would have been taken under advisement and the game may or may not be even better than it is now. (We will never know, he stubbornly refused to work with anyone but chose to sit on the side lines yelling and screaming unhelpful profanities until he was ignored by the entire development team.)
2) Cousin Joe has been informed, he was emailed with copies of every set of rules for his approval. We only received one response from him early on in the development phase where he expressed interest that the rules were being adapted to run in Anniversary Edition. He seems to have gone to great length to keep himself out of the development process, one might suspect because he didn’t like dealing with people who acted exactly as Axis_Roll has been where everything turns into a slanderous attack and flames in an effort to kill something good.
3) Seeings as AARe rules have been put into Anniversary Rules with very minor changes, and I mean very VERY minor changes, this is really AARe Version 2.0 more than Anniversary:Enhanced. The team decided to go with Anniversary:Enhanced because Anniversary, not Revised, is the foundation of the game. Had Axis_Roll but even downloaded and read the rules even once, he would see his entire argument is bunk since there is virtually no significant changes between the two rule sets.
4) As team leader or the rule set, and the first group to publish the rules, we get first dibs on names out there anyway. Just because you publish a book called “The Life Story of Anne Frank” does not mean someone else cannot publish a similar story called “The Biography of Anne Frank”. They’re different titles, different authors, working on the same subject.
5) As I mentioned in the forward (first post) dozens upon dozens of players have worked hard over the past couple of months trying to get AARe rules to work on the Anniversary Board with the Anniversary Rules. Obviously with most of the NAs being turned into Technologies and new territories placed on the map, there had to be some adjustment of the rules. Things like changing the name of Western Europe to France in the section about D-Day Invasion. It’s an uber miniature change, semantics to be exact, France is still Western Europe, they just named it France this time. That change is indicative of the changes made from AARe to AA50e.
6) If Axis_Roll would like to put together his own rule set (and I highly doubt he has the patience, stamina, fortitude or creativity to do so, which is not a flame, just a statement that I don’t think he has the personality to do it, even if he is a “good guy”) he may call his rule set AA50:HP or whatever he wants. Obviously, I’d take umbrage as well as the entire development staff and maybe even Cousin Joe, if he attempted to steal the name or any of the currently published rules for AA50:Enhanced since it is now a working, functioning and published rule set. (Copies have been sent to the US Copywrite Office dated Jan 18, 2009)
7) Now, if Imperial Leader would be so kind, it would be great if axis_roll’s comments were deleted from the thread. It is painfully obvious that he is attempting to stir up discontent in an effort to kill the hard work of dozens upon dozens of individuals for his own personal gain by slinging mud. Right now there are 3 major clubs that are looking to this board for their copies of AA50:Enhanced and the users who do not know better, might think axis_roll has some influence or say over the matters instead of him just being some discontented user with a bone to pick with me personally.
