Atlas Axis and Allies Game! Who's interested?

[Bacon King]

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.

[The Mikado]

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

[Bacon King]

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

[Gustaf]

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.

[patrick1]

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.

[Bacon King]

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

[California8429]

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.

[The Mikado]

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.

[Gustaf]

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!)

[The Mikado]

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

[Gustaf]

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 .

[Bacon King]

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.

[California8429]

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.

[The Mikado]

Please, let's make this work.

[Gustaf]

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.

[Bacon King]

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! 

[The Mikado]

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

[Junkie]

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

[The Mikado]

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.

[Gustaf]

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

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

[California8429]

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

[Gustaf]

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?

[Gustaf]

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

[California8429]

Could we do teams

[Bacon King]

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

I have 3 now:

Bacon King
Mikado
A-Bob

Don't forget the Junkie fellow above.