j.o.jalonen
2/12/2009 12:35:00 PM
On Feb 11, 10:31 pm, "Bisquik" <kdev...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> It is from a game, Axis and Allies... this guy is joking around and it looks
> like he is just baiting people.
Yeah, I did get that much, actually, and I decided to do some baiting
myself.
But what does the acronym IPC stand for in the game? And even if it's
just a game, do they really give that much credit to Karelia?
I'm not familiar with boardgames, but I did play the Second World War-
scenario on Civilization II. Lots of fun. The best part was when you
could capture all those Allied airbases in Iceland, Greenland and
Newfoundland by simply _landing_ on them with your airplanes,
paratroopers or cruise missiles (and you'd have cruise missiles right
away, because Germany is researching rocketry at the beginning of the
scenario).
After that, you could bomb the crap out of New York with V-1s, and
drop your Fallschirmsjägers on Wall Street. Yee-haa! Finis Americae!
I also played it through as Franco, which was even more fun.
Basically, first you build railroads and factories everywhere in Spain
until 1945 or so (and while at it, it might be a good idea to grab the
French colonies and invade Turkey, if there's a good diplomatic
opportunity - but at the same time, try to retain Vichy France as a
neutral buffer against Germany). After that, you can build an invasion
army (tanks, mostly; throw in a couple of diplomats, so you can steal
some technology during the campaign), invade Italy and attack Germany
from the south. The Germans will have nukes at that point, but that
doesn't matter, because they will only nuke your cities if you
maintain garrison troops in them. Besides, at worst, they'll nuke
Barcelona, and well, if I'm really supposed to play the scenario as
Franco, why should I care about how many Catalans get killed?
Anyhow. I'm thinking that people should probably base their ASB
scenarios on Civilization II, rather than some obscure boardgames.
Cheers,
J. J.