Talk Elections

Brought about from the discussion in this thread: https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=121253.0

To make sure the game isn't tilted heavily in one side's favor, please only join if you are already familiar with the rules of the game.

Also, I'd rather play than GM, would anyone want to do that? Though if nobody else wants to, I suppose I can.

I'm in.  If we're playing classic rules, I'd like Japan.  If we're doing Anniversary edition, Italy.

I've sent out PM's to everyone who expressed any interest in the game in the other thread.

I'm in. In theory I'd be willing to GM, but with two caveats: in terms of screenshots etc it wouldn't be fancy because I'm not good with tech stuff and I don't have a camera. Secondly, is there a good way to do it online, because while I do have access to the game I lack a good area to keep it for what I presume would be a long, long time.

Oh, and I would much prefer to play if someone else wants to GM, but having piggy-backed on the selfless GM efforts of others for too long I'm not going to let Bacon King take the fall.

I loved Axis and Allies.  The Europe edition is gathering dust in a closet somewhere.  I hope you guys can get this off the ground.  It will be cool to watch.

I have no physical board, so my GMing would be exclusively through screenshots; stuff like this:
http://molarity.mirror.waffleimages.com/sa/c8/c8789e8073bd2da9b49ed5f3d6b3b5b6cff8bad4.jpg

Will we be giving our orders from here or playing online? I have the game online but the PC it's on is now rather "old"ish so it doesn't really play anymore.

Gustaf: there's a freeware version called TripleA that has numerous different maps and scenarios.  It's pretty awful-looking, but it gets the job done.

What the hell, I guess I will be GM then. Tell your friends so we can get a game underway. Bacon King has first pick of countries, Mikado second.

If we do vanilla I can use my board game, otherwise I'll use the software linked to here (hint, link to it please!)

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki

Damn you Mikado. Never raise a kid. I just lost many, many hours of my precious life on that abomination.

Anyway, it's perfectly doable using that setup. Unless I download tweaks China is included in that version of the game (but obviously isn't much of a player) and there are no national benefits .

What version? Anniversary? China's controlled by the US player still, they're just on the map as different units because there's special rules for their units and such. They technically take their turn immediately after USA.

Please, let's make this work.

I'm not sufficiently geeky that I can tell which versions are which. The computer version did seem to list China as its own power with their turn in between Britain and Japan. One could still let the Americans play them I suppose.

The computer one is definitely not the one I've played, anyway. It has weirdo stuff like Germany's capital being Eastern Germany, a territory not even existing in my game and lots of neutral countries having their own little armies that one can attack for unclear gains.

That sounds like an unofficial version to me, unless someone's already made a scenario for the combined Europe 1940 + Pacific 1940 game somehow before the European half was even released! 

It is unofficial, however, you can download maps that match the official version.

my favorite game.  If you have room, I would be interested.

Sure.  In fact, if you're interested in any of the four s**tty default modes in Axis and Allies (like the one Gustaf was complaining about), we could just set up a game online.  There's a poorly-done World War II (you can download a one that's truer to the game), a World War I that's bizarrely complex, a two-player World War II that's drastically simplified, and a capture the flag mode.

The WWII one is workable, imo, even if it has weird components.

I'm open to downloading the real map though, obviously. 

Can someone send me a link to the map we're doing?

If you follow Mikado's link above you can simply download the game and see the map. Mikado, if you have a link to the real map would you mind linking that?

Oh, also, I'm really just waiting for more people to sign up and I'm ready to do this.

I have 4 now:

Bacon King
Mikado
Junkie
A-Bob

Could we do teams :D

Don't forget the Junkie fellow above.

What do you mean? It's a team game, so obviously. Or do you mean one player having a team for himself? If we don't get enough people and someone is willing I suppose we could let some take more than one team.

Dang! How did I do that...

My sincere apologies to Junkie, you're very welcome to participate. Well, then, we actually need only one more.

Nevermind my comment. I'm saying two man teams for each country if we have a lot of players, but it doesn't seem it will be that way

Don't worry about it.  Totally in.  Followed the link above and saw the maps.  Trying to figure out how playing the game would work?

I'm play TripleA right now, it's really good for a download

Well, basically, I think you would send in orders to me and I would execute them. You would have to do contingency plans I suppose, for various possible outcomes. At least, I think that is the simplest and most manageable way of doing it.

http://www.rogercooper.com/AxisAlliesTriple-AComputerVersion.htm

The classic Axis and Allies map is "World War II Revised."  The Anniversary Edition is "WW II v3."

If you download it, there's about 7 ways to play the game. We could actually all play on e-mail I believe and then you wouldn't even have to post maps

I actually have a computer version of the game.  So if we either e-mail or post our moves, it would be very easy to follow.  whenever you want to start I am in.

Hm, here is the reason why I was sceptical to hosting - my tech disabilities. I'm not getting it to work. I can download all right, but then I can't run it in the game. I get error messages when I try.

I think sending PMs to me might be the best way to execute orders, since you might not want to make your contingency plans public.

But I only count 4 players so far, so either we get one more or someone has to take two powers (depending on version we pick).

And I need to get this ing download to work! Grr...*


*I'm pretty sure it is something stupid missing as well. There usually is.

And yet again I'm proven right. Do not ask me what was wrong, for I will never tell.

Maps are up and running. I propose classic (World War II revised) simply because it is only 5 players. But if anyone thinks differently I don't really mind though.

So, anyone willing to take two nations? If we do classic, I believe US and UK traditionally go together.

In revised US would control China (duh) and Germany Italy I suppose. Then I guess US would be UK too. Likewise for the standard TripleA.

Any takers? You will get to pick teams in order of registering in the thread, so I have:

Bacon King
Mikado
A-Bob
Junkie

Why don't you guys vote on what version we're doing?

1. TripleA
2. Classic
3. Anniversary

I prefer the classic version.  If you need someone to play two countries I would be willing to, but would prefer to just play one. 

TipleA, it's more realistic

classic just because we don't have that many people

also, gustaf, if you want to play the fifth country I personally don't doubt your integrity at all.

Classic.  I'll be Japan.

I'll be Germany!

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to bow out. I'll be too busy this fall and the game will take awhile. Should be fun :)

Sorry guys

I would be interested in Russia.

Well, unless someone objects I want to get this show on the road, so I will do US and UK until someone else steps in. Is everyone ok with that? Junkie, you can go ahead and send in Soviet's orders. I can probably enlist someone else to as well. Bob would you be interested in playing for a little while at least?

Sure. I can do the US for the time being I guess

As Gustaf wrote in the other A&A thread, I am willing to play UK and US, but if there is a fifth person who likes to be the US, I would be glad to hand them over and only play the UK.