Posts made by inverted

My bad, Western Europe.

Thank you for your unsympathetic troll post  :roll:

Note that we were both up at 6am for work and this occured around 2am, bug eyed and fighting fatigue.

I built an IC in India early on to put pressure on the Japs but eventually lost it, which is the only reason Japan was really able to help Germany. It paid off for the Allies, as the Japanese were forced to divide their efforts and keep the UK in check. I suppose that is an important detail because it enabled USA to easily land and flow tanks into West Germany. I also controlled all of the mediterranean and atlantic. I held ALL of Europe except for Germany.

Fail yes, but victory was mine, absolutely!

10 hour 2nd ed game, myself as Allies and friend as Axis. Germany takes Russia around T3 or 4 but leaves Europe relatively open. I took Germany twice as UK, the third time I tried to take it back he survived by a single tank. Germany builds mass infantry and is supported by Japanese fighters, so the Allies are unable to build transports and decide to reclaim some of mother Russia to get feet on the ground.

By this point our brains are fried, ready for bed… and catastrophe ensues.

Germany and Japan pushes back to reclaim Europe, except for one thing… THIS WAS DONE ILLEGALLY, BOTH COUNTRIES ATTACKED ON JAPAN’S TURN.

Neither of us noticed until it was too late, and there was no way we were going to try guessing which countries had which units!

GAME OVER.

42 views and nobody knows? =(

Reposted, sorry I put it in the wrong category before:

I would like to play a condensed (1942 style) version on the old 2nd edition(~1986) board but with 1940 pieces and units… Similar to what the latest 1942 version offers.

Does anyone have any thoughts or suggestions? Has this been done?

Is the map laid out differently in 2nd vs 1942, or are they identical?

@FieldMarshalGames:

Our project here is not to COPY, but to replace and SURPASS

Surpass my budget!!

@FieldMarshalGames:

The German infantry unit with the Great Coat is not abandoned.  But it will not be part of this set.

We are saving that for something SPECIAL and TOP SECRET in the future. I accidentally posted it out of excitement.

I WILL NO LONGER COMMENT ON THIS SO DON’T ASK!

Let me guess… pieces for the GIANT HEADS variant?

@FieldMarshalGames:

What about heckling your enemy?  Making him second guess his moves, or make his Allies think he is acting jealously and only for his own benefit rather than the team?

Table talk both positive and negative is one of my favorite aspects of playing a board game rather then a video game… IMHO.

• over 9000!

Wow!! 5 minutes!? That would be a DREAM!

We’re pretty new at this but we average 15-20 minutes!!!

@valthonis:

You know you guys could always build one for far less.  :)

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/maximum_pc_builds_a_multitouch_surface_computer

Compatible with the Surface OS? That’s the key, nobody is going to write their own SDK’s lol.

@kcdzim:

@inverted:

@fanofbond:

maybe a camera looking down at the board with soft ware that can recognize all the pieces and on a tv display all the current game options, battle senerios, and move capabilities.

Surface has a built-in scanner, no need for overhead camera.

Would probably still need a top down camera.  And the screen itself would need to be pretty massive (even AA42 needs chips sometimes).  A computer would not be able to handle chip stacks very easily from ONLY below.  There’s an I/1 problem here that will need a sophisticated recognition program, not just a simple touch screen that can possibly differentiate one piece from another.

Like you said, the software/hardware compatibility would be a nightmare.  The human brain can quickly make these connections, a touch screen….  not so much.  That’s a pretty sophisticated program we’re talking about here, unless there’s quite a bit of input from the user at each phase, and then it’s no longer as simple as moving pieces around on a gameboard.

The ENTIRE SCREEN is a scanner. Who needs chips? You could simply have a counter tab sticking out from the side of your units (someone will just have to find a solution for tracking unit stacks and splits). Watch the CES videos.

They already have infrared sensors and fibre optic projection. Watch the CES videos.

Watch the CES videos.

My Italians always know how to spell ITALIAN. CRAZY I KNOW!!

@fanofbond:

maybe a camera looking down at the board with soft ware that can recognize all the pieces and on a tv display all the current game options, battle senerios, and move capabilities.

Surface has a built-in scanner, no need for overhead camera.

My Production Level/Tech/NO chart fit on Legal size. May have been slightly auto-resized a bit smaller to fit but all adjacent roundels fit just fine.

What would be amazing is auto battleboard setup scanning the IR pieces then displaying an overlay of the battle in 3d over the entire surface. Also automatic dice rolling per round of combat thumbs up

Though one thing I enjoy about boardgaming is that I can bring my board anywhere… whereas with Surface that won’t be possible for some time. Not to mention software+hardware compatibility and other headaches. My board games will never go obsolete due to software.

I could be wrong, but I believe he is referring to Murphy’s Law.

http://www.fieldmarshalgames.com/field-marshal-games-accesories/field-marshal-connect-hex/fmg-pcs-project-italy-aaa-org-project-support-pre-order.html

There ya go. Someone might as well buy 'em because I sure can’t afford to spend $90 on shipping for $200 of plastic bling. Lost my business, that’s for sure =/

Here’s the AAA.org France/ANZAC dice pre-order if you’re looking for that:

http://www.fieldmarshalgames.com/fmg-pcs-project-italy-aaa-org-project-support-pre-order-1.html

Oh yeah forgot about the printable maps! Thanks!

Apologies if this has already been answered. Is the subject line possible or is the 1942 board incompatible with the 2nd edition (1986) board. Just wondering if they are identical or not.

Thanks!

@Gargantua:

ANZ 1 save 10 take java, end with 24

ANZ 2 build a carrier, dst,  go to war, take DGU collect 24 with NO’s. (Unless Japan has attacked and taken certain territories)

ANZ 3 build a bat

So you could have the starting cru, dst, and aircraft, + dst, acc, bat you built.

1 bat
2 fgt
1 cru
1 acc
2 dst

Not bad by Anzac 3…  Need a transport though.

I approve.