Posts made by IMS

Are you in the US?

Yes, Pennsylvania

I paid $67 u.s dollars

got it yesterday(12/14) from coolstuff.  USA PA

I received mine yesterday - December 14th. I pre-ordered the end of november.  The funny thing is, I got the email last night at 11pm that it was shipped, and already had it out of the box. coolstuff seems like a great place to order from.

So the only “real” advantage to sneak attack would be to have more subs than the defending ships, possibly taking out the defender without the defender getting to counter at all.

Thanks

IMS

Another question on subs, when sneak attacking, does the sub act like the AA gun in which it gets to take a shot for every ship defending in the first round?

So basically if the defender had 1 battleship and 2 cruisers, and they were sneak attacked by 1  sub, would the sub roll for each ship? or does it just get to roll once and then the defender gets to roll?

thanks

IMS

makes sense. thanks for the replies

IMS

Hey IL, I must say, nice job on the map. I was going to redo the board myself because the 1942 board is just too small. I just haven’t been able to find the time.
(UK and Germany is extremely crowded. getting hard to tell who belongs to what. Been storing reserves in neutral territories)
Your version will do nicely.

Thanks for the time you put into this.

IMS

Forgive me if these have been asked before.

In the 1984 version, which was the only version I have ever played, sumbarines could “sneak attack” which meant you would use one move, attack and then one move back with the deffender not firing. any hits were removed from the board. (as long as a destroyer is not present)

In the 1942 rules, subs can sneak attack, which means they get to roll first, which they would anyway. any hits would be put on the casualty board. It appears if I understand correctly that the casualties do not fire back, but it says nothing of the sub leaving, so does the attacking sub get “attacked” by any defending ships left in the battle?

Also, Say I have a battleship and a cruiser, I am sneak attacked by a sub.  Does the attacker have to declare what he is attacking?  Basically, I took a hit, and of course gave it to my battleship, then I took him out with my cruiser. being the battleship only took one hit, I got to place it back on the board having no casualties.  which kind of sucks for the attacker.

my old board from 1985 is 18 1/2 by 32 inches. . it then has 2.5 x 2 inch squares along the top for
west indies : Gibralter : United Kingdom : Germany : japan : Phillipine Islands : Okinawa : Wake Island : Midway : Hawaiian Islands.   They were used for overflow.

Just to give an idea of how much smaller the area is:

1985 Western US dimensions are 3.5 x 3. for the new version it is 2 x 1.5   I don’t know how you are supposed to fit anything on there.  Eastern US added Central on the new board, so eastern is even smaller. The board looks real nice, but not too sure about playability.  They should have made a seperate board for IPC and not included it on the playing board. it would have given approx 32 x 3 inches more to play area.  I’m thinking of trying to take some nice photos of the board and going to my local print shop and having it enlarged.

I just recently bought a house and As I was going through my parents attic, I found my original version of axis and allies. probably from around 1985. It is missing some pieces so I decided to look on google to aquire maybe a used set on ebay or something. I had no idea how big this game is. I was quite amazed. Then I noticed that they were releasing a “new” version in august 09, My local target had it and I just had to buy it.  Now I havent played this game in probably 10 to 15 years, but this is what I noticed.  The actual playing area compared to my old version is a lot smaller. I have heard people complaining about the money. I don’t believe the original version had money either so I wasn’t disappointed about that. The peices look great, Germany looks black to me, no longer grey. The Development card is no longer in the set(weapon research) The set up cards and the attack board are smaller. The ipc’s are located on the board. The board is really nice but it does not have extra areas to store battalions like the old version for places such as germany, the UK, and Japan.  Overall I am quite excited for tis version, it was a game I played a lot as a kid and know I will enjoy as an adult. maybe if I new about the other versions in years past, I might not appreciate this one as much.  I just ordered Battle of the buldge and D-day. anyway

Enjoy it for what it is, Probably one of the best board war games I have ever played

IMS