Just done Round 2 (before dinner, planning on round 3 after), and found out the IC tracker on top of the boards goes all the way to 80 (not 40 for Europe and 40 for Pacific).

We just finish round 2:

1. I attack Normandy with Germany and South of France with Italy
2. my oldest son (China, US and USSR), is placing his units to prepare for a major attack from me on the Europe front and Pacific Front.
3. My youngest took back Alexandria from Italy (I won that territory on round 1) and start moving his ANZAC troops to the Dutch territory in the Pacific

I know these strategies are probably not what veterans do (I saw some on YG videos) but we are having fun attacking each others with no specific goal so far (I do not think we can see the long term objectives at the moment).

Also  I just found out that you can use the IC markers on the top of the board, I thought the went from 1 to 40 and 1 to 40 but you can see that they go to 1 to 80 (see picture attached).

Next round (3) after dinner.

Thierry

It looks very nice, good job on the memorabilia.

Thierry

@WILD:

Ok now that we got “thru” the language thing how is your game going Thierry? Give us an update and some details of rounds 2……3…

Only Round 1 was done so far.  Working on round 2 for this weekend.  I made sure on round 1 that each of us had only 1 attack per country (if needed).  On round 2 I will introduce airplane scramble and round 3 probably “convoy”.

I know I probably upset some veterans out there for not having all the rules set from the get go, but I’m trying to explain the rules as I go so I probably will forget some (trying not to).  Also I need to read again about convoy.

I use some of the customizations that are recommended by the people on the forum and YG videos:

1. Got some paper money from HBG
2. Got nice printouts from this site that show each country objectives/military setup and some political facts that the boys were able to read before we played
3. Got some black chips to help us identify damages in boats and IC
4. finally an income tracker and couple of other printouts that help us in order of turns and sequences.

Fun game but a lot of rules to remember/understand.

I will keep you posted to see where we are in after round 2 and 3 over the weekend.

Cheers
Thierry

@teslas:

@Thierry:

@teslas:

Stuff I said.

Teslas,

I will plead the fact that English is my second language (and French being my native), I do appreciate correction from my peers, it is true that “thru” and “through” has been a struggle for me.

Looking forward to learn more.
Thierry

I must be ashamed for my countrymen (Americans), as it is their fault that the abomination “thru” has been spread.

Hopefully I can teach you something about A&A at some point, and not just English pedantry  :p

No harm done, I always appreciate some help.  I will always appreciate A&A help as well.

Thanks
Thierry

@teslas:

Welcome to the board! Judging by the flood of responses (I’ll pile mine on), we’ll all be happy to help in any way we can.

While I am overjoyed you’re teaching your sons about A&A, I am terrified that you might also teach them “thru” is an acceptable form of “through”. It is not. Ever.

Teslas,

I will plead the fact that English is my second language (and French being my native), I do appreciate correction from my peers, it is true that “thru” and “through” has been a struggle for me.

Looking forward to learn more.
Thierry

My boys are 15 and 12.  Going to school in the portland area.

We just started, it is a family thing right now, My older son might invite his friends for a play someday, have not figure that one out yet.

Thierry

Hello everyone,

I’m new here (new to this forum and very new to A&A).

I’m almost 45 and father of a 15 and a 12 year old boys who decided to get A&A for Christmas.

So far we had a blast (and we played only 1 turn).

In the last month I studied both rule books, watched almost all YoungGrasshopper videos on YouTube (thanks so much for this), browse this forum heavily, printed additional materials (from this forum mostly) and even purchased additional materials from Historical Board Gaming.

I’m playing Axis (as player 1), my older son is playing USSR, USA and China, my youngest is playing UK, ANZAC and France.  They do really like it so far, I’m explaining rules as we go (purposely omitting some at the beginning) and so far our 1st turn was long (almost 2 hours) but enjoyable.

I’m glad I was able to stir them from their xBox and computer game a little.

I have no particular question (so far), wanted to thanks this forum and the creator of the game as well as YG who has been a great help with his videos (and also helped me register to this forum).

I have however one comment: I noticed (thru my browsing of this forum) a lot of dead links: sometime to pictures or even materials but considering some of these posts are over 5 years old it is not surprising.  However I found very helpful the fact that a lot of prints are still available thru mediafire download website and for this thank you.

My first impression of the game is great and can’t wait for this weekend for round 2.

Thierry
A fan from Portland OR, USA

@Private:

I was able to contact D. Jensen and he set me up, I’m now a new member.
Thanks

@Young Grasshopper:

Thanks for helping me and thanks again for the great tutorials you provide on YouTube, really enjoy it.

Thierry