I’ve never played Axis & Allies, but had your video recommended to me by the TH-cam algorithm. Very entertaining and thoughtful production. I’d watch a game breakdown weekly!
Another great video. Loved the part 1. I have tried to watch people go play-by-play before and the pictures really helped keep me following along. More of a great thing will always be great so more commentary more thoughts on the meta is always great.
Great coverage. I like your Japan FIrst Strategy, this seems very strong (at least in Tournament play). I hear you talking a lot about chances and (bad) luck. Over course overall the better palyer will win most of the times, but especially in tournaments it might be beneficial to have a meassurement of overall luck. I would be very interested in discussing how you can meaning full aggregate all those little and large battles, with some being meaningless, some being decisive, while even super small battles might have a strategic swing to them.
Thanks for sharing this! There's really a lack of good 42 videos! These are entertaining and a good stone for me to sharpen on between battles. I'd watch a video of a round ever week for sure!
A loved watching this I'm a big fan of the game. Me and my brother played for years. And winning from the axis point of view was always our favorite and somewhat challenging as compared to playing with the Allies in my opinion.
I watched the Game 1 video. Was well edited and I thought the commentary was pretty spot on. For a few battles I would have liked to see the order of losses chosen. Because say in SZ 45 you guys had some solid dice, but am wondering if the Japan player saw the danger coming and lost the Carrier in an attempt to save the fleet? Or even in Round 1, did your German opponent lose the Bomber first in an attempt to save the Ukraine??? Only seeing the final results of the battle doesnt tell us that, though you could have even just said it too and that’d work.
I had that thought as well, but that wasn't a detail I was able to capture table side. I was scrambling to take pictures and play at the same time. A tricky task, especially as the games got more complex. If we do this again, I'll definitely try to get more information regarding the battles themselves. (Maybe a camera over the dice box? Not sure. ) Either way, thanks for the feedback!
I watched the Game 1 game play and am fascinated by the rest of the tournament. I played the og1981 version and then the 2nd edition (I guess called Classic now) a lot in high school. I still have my personal copy of Classic box. I thought the video was great. It covered both your plans and thoughts about why the moves were made, and the results of various combats. It was also just a great length. Long enough to cover each turn in detail, but not so long that I got bored. Keep it up!
When I checked out the Renegade website I saw the Global map you all referred to, but I did not see the Anniversary edition. Can you point me to where it can be found? Great videos guys, keep em coming. Thx
At the moment, the Anniversary Edition is out of print. However, it is rumored that Renegade is working on reprinting it. In the meantime, you can likely find a second-hand copy. Thanks for watching!
Love the content; would love to see more gaming live streams even if it is not a tournament and also with the 1940 version; would def watch and subscribe
Gary - great comment on 42's duration being a better fit for the WC time. If the tournament grows like we hope, Greg will run out of spots for the tournament and have to limit the participation. I would love to see a return to participation levels of the late 90s, when Greg had around 60 teams participating in 6 games over 2 days. It was draining, but a blast! Even AA50 would be challenging with that many teams....
Great content! As to the question about 49 minutes in about whether a long form live stream of the game recap would be good, one option that may work would be to use TH-cam's "Premiere" option - if I understand right, that allows the creator to essentially watch the cleaned up version of the recap, with the audience, and answer questions, etc during the "Premiere". If I'm understanding that capability correctly, that may be cool.
Once again, I may have missed this before but at Gen Con, how many players entered? How many games were played in round 1? 2?3? (How many open rounds were there?) And what were the average bids and which side won with the various bids? It sounds like +6 to Allies was common you said? How many games were played with that bid and what were their results? Just gives new players coming into the Gen Con tourney an insight for bidding which can obviously change the game dramatically.
I believe the tournament organizer (Greg Smorey) has the information but hasn't complied it yet. I have the information about our bids in all of our games. In 2023, it was a 16-team bracket. Great questions! Thanks!
I like your suggestion to have qualifiers to attract more international players to this "world" championship. For me as a European it always feels kid of funny to see world championships being played out just between Americans (and the few internationals which want to afford the travel). Same goes for baseball and football ;-)
Good game, i really liked the double carrier buy. Your strategy was really good, i am not really sure if it works out, if the german runs more aggressiv against russia. The axis player was maybe in online bronze or silver player. He made not a great job. The carrier buy was really nasty. The german alone against russia and russia makes the soldier move against japan. This should be a no brainer for the germans to get rid of russia. It would have been a really interesting game against a good player with more luck. Greeting from Germany
I am glad you enjoyed it! We will be revisiting the Thorpe Thumb in future videos. In our next game, we will be playing the Axis. Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts!
Any chance of getting your money back? They are available for pre-order now for $130. If not, silver lining... you will be playing months before most other folks and you will have an OG copy. Thanks for watching!
@@BoardGameNation I can try to dupe someone else on eBay or I can let it sit in cellophane for someone to discover one day or I can give it to my son for his bday and call it a loss. But one day? After I weighed buying it for two weeks? And what made me wake up one day and want AA right before your announcement?
I understood the concept. Could understand why USSR was fighting Japan. That shouldn't be allowed. Why there was no Italy. As Italy wasn't knocked out until July 42. Made it an extreme one sided game.
There are other versions of Axis and Allies that include more powers (like Italy, China, and ANZAC) and the Soviet-Japanese Non-Agression Pact. However, in the interest of play time and accessibility, the scale of the 1942.2 version was paired down. For more detailed game play, I suggest you check out Europe and/or Pacific 1940. You can find a like in the video's description that will take you there. Thanks for watching! Round 2 is coming soon! We play the Axis!
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I’ve never played Axis & Allies, but had your video recommended to me by the TH-cam algorithm. Very entertaining and thoughtful production. I’d watch a game breakdown weekly!
Good news! Round 2 came out today and next week is the semifinals!
Thanks for watching!
Another great video. Loved the part 1. I have tried to watch people go play-by-play before and the pictures really helped keep me following along. More of a great thing will always be great so more commentary more thoughts on the meta is always great.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback! More coming soon!
Great coverage. I like your Japan FIrst Strategy, this seems very strong (at least in Tournament play). I hear you talking a lot about chances and (bad) luck. Over course overall the better palyer will win most of the times, but especially in tournaments it might be beneficial to have a meassurement of overall luck.
I would be very interested in discussing how you can meaning full aggregate all those little and large battles, with some being meaningless, some being decisive, while even super small battles might have a strategic swing to them.
I missed the live stream, but my input is that you did a damn fine job with the game review and commentary and having Doug's input is invaluable.
You're very kind. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing this! There's really a lack of good 42 videos! These are entertaining and a good stone for me to sharpen on between battles. I'd watch a video of a round ever week for sure!
I enjoyed the commentary, got me back into Axis and Allies 🎉
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching! Welcome back!
A loved watching this I'm a big fan of the game. Me and my brother played for years. And winning from the axis point of view was always our favorite and somewhat challenging as compared to playing with the Allies in my opinion.
It can be tricky. Thanks for watching!
Thanks Gents.
I watched the Game 1 video. Was well edited and I thought the commentary was pretty spot on. For a few battles I would have liked to see the order of losses chosen. Because say in SZ 45 you guys had some solid dice, but am wondering if the Japan player saw the danger coming and lost the Carrier in an attempt to save the fleet? Or even in Round 1, did your German opponent lose the Bomber first in an attempt to save the Ukraine??? Only seeing the final results of the battle doesnt tell us that, though you could have even just said it too and that’d work.
I had that thought as well, but that wasn't a detail I was able to capture table side. I was scrambling to take pictures and play at the same time. A tricky task, especially as the games got more complex.
If we do this again, I'll definitely try to get more information regarding the battles themselves. (Maybe a camera over the dice box? Not sure. )
Either way, thanks for the feedback!
Liked the combination of play by play with overall strategy commentary.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and subscribing! More coming soon!
I watched the Game 1 game play and am fascinated by the rest of the tournament. I played the og1981 version and then the 2nd edition (I guess called Classic now) a lot in high school. I still have my personal copy of Classic box. I thought the video was great. It covered both your plans and thoughts about why the moves were made, and the results of various combats. It was also just a great length. Long enough to cover each turn in detail, but not so long that I got bored. Keep it up!
Great to hear that! Round 2 is now available for your viewing pleasure. :)
Thanks for watching!
Congrats from Brazil!! Great work you both are doing! Keep up with those vids! Really learning with you!
Great to hear! Obrigado!
When I checked out the Renegade website I saw the Global map you all referred to, but I did not see the Anniversary edition. Can you point me to where it can be found? Great videos guys, keep em coming. Thx
At the moment, the Anniversary Edition is out of print. However, it is rumored that Renegade is working on reprinting it. In the meantime, you can likely find a second-hand copy.
Thanks for watching!
Love the content; would love to see more gaming live streams even if it is not a tournament and also with the 1940 version; would def watch and subscribe
Thank you! Are you hoping to see a walk through of a game like we did in the Round 1 video in a live stream or actual live game play?
@@BoardGameNation either one but I really enjoyed the walkthrough! Like hearing y’all’s through process in the decision making for strategy
Great! Thanks for the feedback! Hope to see you next week for Round 2!
Gary - great comment on 42's duration being a better fit for the WC time. If the tournament grows like we hope, Greg will run out of spots for the tournament and have to limit the participation. I would love to see a return to participation levels of the late 90s, when Greg had around 60 teams participating in 6 games over 2 days. It was draining, but a blast!
Even AA50 would be challenging with that many teams....
I'd love to see that! Thanks for watching!
When is game 2 coming? The suspense is killing me!
I'm working on it now. I am hoping to have it out Thursday night.
Thanks for watching!
Great content! As to the question about 49 minutes in about whether a long form live stream of the game recap would be good, one option that may work would be to use TH-cam's "Premiere" option - if I understand right, that allows the creator to essentially watch the cleaned up version of the recap, with the audience, and answer questions, etc during the "Premiere". If I'm understanding that capability correctly, that may be cool.
I have tried the "Premiere" option in the past, but to be honest, I am not sure I did it right. I will look into it again. Thanks for watching!
saw the entire game 1 vidio. Also bbr is fantastic best alt version around
I'll definitely have to give it a try!
Thanks for watching! Make sure the come by next week for Round 2! We play the Axis!
Once again, I may have missed this before but at Gen Con, how many players entered? How many games were played in round 1? 2?3? (How many open rounds were there?) And what were the average bids and which side won with the various bids? It sounds like +6 to Allies was common you said? How many games were played with that bid and what were their results? Just gives new players coming into the Gen Con tourney an insight for bidding which can obviously change the game dramatically.
I believe the tournament organizer (Greg Smorey) has the information but hasn't complied it yet. I have the information about our bids in all of our games.
In 2023, it was a 16-team bracket.
Great questions! Thanks!
Gary - bombers or fighters? Which benefits each side more? All things being equal.
Each has a role for each side depending on the strategy in play, but fighters are the best unit in the game. Thanks for watching!
I like your suggestion to have qualifiers to attract more international players to this "world" championship. For me as a European it always feels kid of funny to see world championships being played out just between Americans (and the few internationals which want to afford the travel). Same goes for baseball and football ;-)
Did either of you gentlemen ever play at WBC or PrezCon? Perhaps WBC might be persuaded to re-add A&A as a tourney?
I've never played at WBC, but I know they used to have an A&A event a while back. I've never been to PrezCon. Where is it?
I have not played at either.
Good game, i really liked the double carrier buy. Your strategy was really good, i am not really sure if it works out, if the german runs more aggressiv against russia. The axis player was maybe in online bronze or silver player. He made not a great job. The carrier buy was really nasty. The german alone against russia and russia makes the soldier move against japan. This should be a no brainer for the germans to get rid of russia. It would have been a really interesting game against a good player with more luck. Greeting from Germany
I am glad you enjoyed it! We will be revisiting the Thorpe Thumb in future videos. In our next game, we will be playing the Axis.
Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts!
What is BBR? And where can I buy it lol.
BBR stands for Blood Bath Reborn and it is available here:
combatminiatures.org/products/axis-allies-global-1940-bbr-v-addition
Thanks for watching!
Of course I don’t see this video until the day after I shell out $250 for anniversary edition.
Any chance of getting your money back? They are available for pre-order now for $130. If not, silver lining... you will be playing months before most other folks and you will have an OG copy.
Thanks for watching!
@@BoardGameNation I can try to dupe someone else on eBay or I can let it sit in cellophane for someone to discover one day or I can give it to my son for his bday and call it a loss. But one day? After I weighed buying it for two weeks? And what made me wake up one day and want AA right before your announcement?
@@aaronishii5874 - Definitely tough timing. Would you the to hear about when I bought and sold my Bitcoin? Hahaha!
I understood the concept. Could understand why USSR was fighting Japan. That shouldn't be allowed. Why there was no Italy. As Italy wasn't knocked out until July 42. Made it an extreme one sided game.
There are other versions of Axis and Allies that include more powers (like Italy, China, and ANZAC) and the Soviet-Japanese Non-Agression Pact. However, in the interest of play time and accessibility, the scale of the 1942.2 version was paired down.
For more detailed game play, I suggest you check out Europe and/or Pacific 1940. You can find a like in the video's description that will take you there.
Thanks for watching! Round 2 is coming soon! We play the Axis!
@@BoardGameNation cheers 🥂 understand now.
Great! Thanks for watching!
I couldn’t see comment section on my live stream. I would have dropped one.
I am not sure why. Where you on your phone, computer, or TV?
Phone
I'm not sure. Thanks for trying. 🤩
I'm not sure. Thanks for trying. 🤩
Imagine a con just for AnA
It's easy if you try. 😉
Thanks for watching!