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I was thinking of doing this myself.  I was going to place a magnet under the carriers in the void space and then superglue a ferrous metal wire to the underside of the planes.  Has anyone tried this.  Is it not enough to make the planes stick?

I painted a bunch of pieces for my son’s set of AAP40 and AAE40.  I never finished a whole set.  My work isn’t crazy good or anything but I think they are nice.  Send me a pm if you would like to discuss it.  Remember, I’ll have to charge something reasonable to make it worth the hours it takes to undertake this.

… showing your age!!  I’ll show you some AGE! …

Paul McCartney … Bass
Billy Joel … Keyboards
Paul Simon … Guitar
Phil Collins … Precussion

Four lead singers that’ll never get along, but I’d have a tough time finding more talent in four musicians. - Dino

Yea, I remember those days too.  The best game out there was a text based Star Trek game called Space Wars because of possible copyright infringement.  It took about one minute to make a single move or fire a torpeedo.  If you warped into a sector with more than two Klingon ships, you’d better use phasers and knock them out in a single salvo or you may not get a second chance.

When I went off to collage I got my first taste of computer-to-computer stuff with a 1200 Baud modem connection on a teletype machine.

A few years later I bought my first PC with a 386SX processor (16MHz), 1 Meg of RAM and a 56k baud modem.  I thought I was in heaven compared to the 2MHz machines I was running a year earlier.  I remember that machine cost me over $1000, & I wouldn’t need to spend more than that now for a contemporary machine.  Heck, I wonder how powerful my cell phone is?

OK Jerm, I’m coming to the party real late.  My son received this game about January and I never paid any attentiion to it.  My home PC went Ka-Blewy right before Thanksgiving and I needed some electronic entertainment outlet.  I sat down to his game box thingy and now I’m hooked on the darn game.  It really does get you immersed.

My first question is, what in the heck is up with Smithing?  I got the first bonus in the Smith Tree but it doesn’t seem to have changed my Smithing.  Weapons are still Smithed up only one level even though the bonus says “twice as much.”

This is the one area of the game I can’t seem to crack with my online research.  What I read doesn’t explain why I’m having this problem.

Thanks for your help.  A Really Awesome Game.  I’m sure I’ll play a couple characters.

Doesn’t that seem out of proportion?  Measure that against damaging and repairing a Major Industrial Complex.

Sean Connery was a great bond, but I like Daniel Craig too.  But, I like the ladies even more.

Mr Crunch,

In the middle of the second page, for example, you said the way around one of the problems with China was …

"I said it before and will say it again, instead of gutting US environmental laws (and labour laws), enforce them on Chinese companies and products. "

This is the sort of thing I shared when I observed that your solutions sound like the Bullying that folks complain about when they talk about the power and influence of the US.  You asked (on page 5) that I provide an example, so there you are.

Mr. Crunch,

You’re a hard one to figure out.  You mention the “bullying of the US” against other nations while at the same time advocate the US, not the world or a coalition or something, enforcing environmental, labor and human rights rules upon China.  I would like to see human rights recognized for everyone, but isn’t that just the sort of thing other nations would call bullying, when the US attempts to use its strength in one arena or another to force a policy on another nation?

I still believe the relatively benign policies of the US toward other nations given their relative strength is commendable.  We’re not perfect but we do a pretty fair job.

Yes, I played the game on a PC system.  It was awesome.  Nothing else like it.  They tried to make a ground warefare game but it was not the same, or even close.

Once I figured out how to use aircraft most effectively I would beat the computer like an old rug.  I don’t know how I would have fared against humans.

I would get a figher screen up quick and beat back his first missile attack which was coming early.  Then I would respond with my own air-to-ground strike designed to demolish the nearest airbase.  I would locate surface groups with passive sensors or E2s and knock them out.  My biggest nemesis was the ultra long range torpedeos the soviets used.  I would usually try and knock out as many targets with air assets because they had unlimited re-arm capabilities.  The ships had a max loadout.

I bought two expansions too.  There was an Atlantic version and a Mediterranian version.  By the time the second came out, Russia was falling apart and they were talking about Middle East and Africa scenarios.

I always enjoyed the game.  I only played the second release with the expansion made into the game.  I don’t know about the first one.

If I recall the game ends when the ring gets to Mt Doom.  Then you count up the territories and the completed mission and declare a winner.

I also seem to recall the “build a huge stack and fight to an objective” being a frequent strategy.  I believe this was used to accomplish another mission.

I never played enough to just play straight up Risk but it seems it would be as good or better than the original game because of the territories connections.

I may play again during Christmas.

Hands down the first two new units would have to be a US Carrier aircraft (I vote for the Corsair) and a US Marine sculpt.

After that, the Russians should get some units to replace the generic Allied units such as the arty piece.  After that, I’d like the same for the UK; replacements for generic Allied pieces.  Only the Germans and Japan have full sets of unique pieces.

I’d have to be a spectator at Waterloo.

Wow!  7 years is a lot these days.  You were here when it was Revised - Pacific - Europe and you have seen the addition of BOTB, D-Day, Guadalcanal, AA50, AA42, AAP40 & AAE40 (AAG40 by inclusion).  I expect before it is over we will get a Battle of Kursk or Stalingrad, and the Fall of Berlin, but the global conflict is what the game is all about.  If I had a big chunk of money, I might set up a AA club with display cases all around the walls of the room with models of the WWII hardware.  It could even become a sort of museum.  In the main area there would be tables and chairs, a bit bigger than needed to play AAG40, with coasters for beverages and a dice tower at each table.  In a large side room you could just sit and order food like the 19th hole on a golf course, an another small side room would be used by a tournament organizer.  In the lobby I would have manaquins dressed in the various uniform of the officers and enlisted men including both theatres for the US and UK troops, and a couple pilots and seamen.

What a dream that would be …

I think the US is a Capitolist Oligarchy moving toward a Socialist Oligarchy very quickly.

Wow, I wish I had time to catch up on every word of every post.  This is one of the most thoughtful discussions by folks that don’t agree that I have come across on the Internet.

I’m going to simply start by saying that I think I am the most conservative fellow that has waded into this so far.  Regrettably I won’t be providing a full response due to time.

Concerning the admonition early on that we not throw politics into this, I don’t think that is possible.  From my vantage point, the larger business intrests have to be involved in the political process behind the scenes so the two are inseperable.  For this reason, and because I don’t have time to down it in a round about way, I can’t provide a real response to several points above.

MrCrunch … It pains me to see you write that the US is holding up the Keystone deal for political reasons.  There is one party that is doing that, not the US playing international political games.

I really can’t go on because the politics are too intertwined in the subject.

The Japanese planes are painted either “sand” or “IJN green”.  The Japanese infantry are painted either “sand” or “IJA green.”  I use the sand infantry on the island campaign and I use the green infantry on the mainland.  The sand color planes are my fighters, and the IJN planes are my TAC bombers.  Note the bombers also have two meatballs but the fighters have only one.  The Beatys are the strategic bombers still.  I didn’t like the oversized planes for TAC bombers, especially when they slipped off the carriers so much.

Painted pieces are awesome.  You will spend some time doing it but you’ll love what you get.

OK, here is a link to another site where I posted several photos of my painted pieces.  Please remember I am not finished painting all of them yet.  It is a lot of work  but I think it is worth it.

http://www.harrisgamedesign.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=2190

Enjoy  -  Dinosaur

Y’all have some very nice pieces there, Wow!

The games you are describing are beginning to remind me of Squad Leader, a game I played almost 30 years ago.  Yours sounds like the same sort of thing on a bit higher level (maybe company level instead of squad level) and plastic pieces instead of cardboard chits.  Developing games like that takes a lot of work.  Good luck.

I was looking for a submarine in the set to; something with good detail in the conn tower and a deck gun.