Greetings, Earth Creatures!

I’m from upstate New York.

edit: In addition to adding paragraph breaks for ease of reading, I adjusted some of the content.

Many moons ago, I played Tactics II, Blitzkrieg, Midway, Richthofen’s War and Outdoor Survival (and maybe others) all by Avalon Hill I believe. I also remember watching my dad and brothers and their friends playing Rise and Decline of the Third Reich (when it was still a new game on the market) as well as other AH games from that period. I was a little too young to play with them at the time as they were all older and more sophisticated than me.

At some point in recent personal history, I found myself in possession of an original A&A Spring 1942 game from 1984. Probably from a local yard sale. It sat on a shelf for years until I opened it up a few weeks ago and started reading the rules and game play. I was intrigued and expanded my research.

I wanted a larger, more in depth experience starting with more game pieces and was initially disappointed with what I found for what it would cost. I finally decided to obtain the A&A Global 1940 version for the expanded game play, map and units variety.

I wanted to further expand game play options for the future to explore more in-depth alternate historical outcomes with no particular outcomes in mind but based on the actual historical situation. I decided on using a hybrid system of counters from T2, BK and R&D/3rd R as well as blanks purchased separately to customize and fill gaps in the other games counters. These would be used on the A&A G40 map with major tactical battles worked out using the A&A pieces on the T2 and BK maps with custom rules to include weather and an amalgam of systems from the aforementioned games and other sources as well as my own ideas.

The T2 map would be primarily for island battles and the BK map for larger land battles including peninsulas since that’s how its map is designed. I’m also considering making a simple, custom board for sea battles. It’s likely I’ll only be able to do this solitaire (someday) given the info above as well as a rather restricted schedule and available space at this time.

I’m currently watching YT videos of others as part of my research and making notes to develop the game play. One of those videos directed me here in search of Oztea’s A&A G40 1939 house rules which that person was using for his video. I found it interesting and thought it might assist my research.

I am a huge history nerd and I am following current geopolitical events very closely. We live in great and terrible historical times indeed!

Peace, +Pfc

@barnee Thank you!

My original post was unplanned. My intent was to look up the aforementioned content and so I registered and then posted my introduction as suggested by the introductory information once I was registered. I thought it would be more succinct and then forgot to make it more reader friendly when I finished.

I suppose I could go back and edit it. I already did to correct a date so why not?

I’ve seen much discussion about the online version. I’ve been playing PC RPGs for ~25yrs and have become increasingly frustrated with technical issues that I am ill-equipped to navigate even with copious amounts of research and attempts to follow very “simple” directions that “even a caveman could follow”. It’s nothing against the content creators, mind you. I am the one who is ill-equipped. :^)

That’s partly why I’ve returned to “older technology” to scratch my itch and who knows what the future holds for our current technology.

I’ll take a look at some of the other House Rules as you suggest.

Peace, +Pfc

@barnee Thank you!

My original post was unplanned. My intent was to look up the aforementioned content and so I registered and then posted my introduction as suggested by the introductory information once I was registered. I thought it would be more succinct and then forgot to make it more reader friendly when I finished.

I suppose I could go back and edit it. I already did to correct a date so why not?

I’ve seen much discussion about the online version. I’ve been playing PC RPGs for ~25yrs and have become increasingly frustrated with technical issues that I am ill-equipped to navigate even with copious amounts of research and attempts to follow very “simple” directions that “even a caveman could follow”. It’s nothing against the content creators, mind you. I am the one who is ill-equipped. :^)

That’s partly why I’ve returned to “older technology” to scratch my itch and who knows what the future holds for our current technology.

I’ll take a look at some of the other House Rules as you suggest.

Peace, +Pfc

Greetings, Earth Creatures!

I’m from upstate New York.

edit: In addition to adding paragraph breaks for ease of reading, I adjusted some of the content.

Many moons ago, I played Tactics II, Blitzkrieg, Midway, Richthofen’s War and Outdoor Survival (and maybe others) all by Avalon Hill I believe. I also remember watching my dad and brothers and their friends playing Rise and Decline of the Third Reich (when it was still a new game on the market) as well as other AH games from that period. I was a little too young to play with them at the time as they were all older and more sophisticated than me.

At some point in recent personal history, I found myself in possession of an original A&A Spring 1942 game from 1984. Probably from a local yard sale. It sat on a shelf for years until I opened it up a few weeks ago and started reading the rules and game play. I was intrigued and expanded my research.

I wanted a larger, more in depth experience starting with more game pieces and was initially disappointed with what I found for what it would cost. I finally decided to obtain the A&A Global 1940 version for the expanded game play, map and units variety.

I wanted to further expand game play options for the future to explore more in-depth alternate historical outcomes with no particular outcomes in mind but based on the actual historical situation. I decided on using a hybrid system of counters from T2, BK and R&D/3rd R as well as blanks purchased separately to customize and fill gaps in the other games counters. These would be used on the A&A G40 map with major tactical battles worked out using the A&A pieces on the T2 and BK maps with custom rules to include weather and an amalgam of systems from the aforementioned games and other sources as well as my own ideas.

The T2 map would be primarily for island battles and the BK map for larger land battles including peninsulas since that’s how its map is designed. I’m also considering making a simple, custom board for sea battles. It’s likely I’ll only be able to do this solitaire (someday) given the info above as well as a rather restricted schedule and available space at this time.

I’m currently watching YT videos of others as part of my research and making notes to develop the game play. One of those videos directed me here in search of Oztea’s A&A G40 1939 house rules which that person was using for his video. I found it interesting and thought it might assist my research.

I am a huge history nerd and I am following current geopolitical events very closely. We live in great and terrible historical times indeed!

Peace, +Pfc