<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27802382</id><updated>2011-09-05T12:38:01.486+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Axis &amp; Allies Sturmpioniere's Forum</title><subtitle type='html'>Proposals, discussions and chats</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://axisalliesspforum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27802382/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://axisalliesspforum.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Umberto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12042113977032762309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27802382.post-115352248628822159</id><published>2006-07-22T00:52:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-07-22T00:54:46.290+02:00</updated><title type='text'>DATING</title><content type='html'>A first step to improve realism of the game can be the introduction of a correct time dating in each turn. How much time is long a turn? Many people consider a turn as a year. But it’s a too long period for an A&amp;A turn. In Second World War, Axis had is max expansion in the end of 1942/beginning of 1943 and Allies won in spring/summer of 1945. The game starts in spring 1942, considering first turn as 1942, Allies must win in their 04 turn, corresponding at 1945. And it is not easy for Allies to win in four turns. Usually 03 - 04 turn is the period when Axis obtains his max expansion and when Allies start to oppose strongly.&lt;br /&gt;It’s more correct considering a turn long as 4 months. So turn 03 is at the beginning of 1943 (Jan-Apr), when Axis was at the top of expansion and Allies started to stop it. In this way, year 1945 comes at 09 turn, when usually Allies can reach military victory in a normal well-played game.&lt;br /&gt;So dating can be:&lt;br /&gt;Turn 01     May-Aug 1942&lt;br /&gt;Turn 02    Sep-Dec 1942&lt;br /&gt;Turn 03    Jan-Apr 1943&lt;br /&gt;Turn 04    May-Aug 1943&lt;br /&gt;Turn 05    Sep-Dec 1943&lt;br /&gt;Turn 06    Jan-Apr 1944&lt;br /&gt;....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27802382-115352248628822159?l=axisalliesspforum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://axisalliesspforum.blogspot.com/feeds/115352248628822159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27802382&amp;postID=115352248628822159' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27802382/posts/default/115352248628822159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27802382/posts/default/115352248628822159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://axisalliesspforum.blogspot.com/2006/07/dating.html' title='DATING'/><author><name>Umberto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12042113977032762309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27802382.post-114716885012642618</id><published>2006-05-09T11:58:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2006-05-09T12:00:50.136+02:00</updated><title type='text'>THE GAME  -  IL GIOCO</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/521/2934/1600/logo%20A&amp;A.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/521/2934/320/logo%20A%26A.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE GAME – IL GIOCO&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is Axis &amp; Allies? Only few people associates this name to a game, it’s not known as other more famous war strategy games. But when you know rules and play a match, it’s easy to be captured by the charm of this exiting game.&lt;br /&gt;“It is the Spring of 1942. The world is at war. Five world powers are struggling for supremacy. You and your opponents control the military and economic destiny of one or more of these countries. The Axis powers are Germany and Japan. Challenging their expansionism are the Allied powers of the United Kingdom, the U.R.R.S. and the Unites States. You must work as a team with the country or countries in your alliance. Tabletalk is encouraged. In this game, you’ll discover that cooperation and negotiation are just as important as tactical maneuvering.”&lt;br /&gt;It’s not a simple strategy game like Risiko: the variety of units you can move makes it like the game of chess played on a world map. You can express all your strategical qualities, mixing units in attacks and defense, combining air, land and sea forces to maximize their peculiar powers in battle. Furthermore you must be also a good logistic organizer, to foresee next opponent’s moves, to plan your purchases of new units and to carry them to the battle fronts. So a good player must have some experience in game, clever inventions and a little bit of luck.&lt;br /&gt;There are a lot of sites on the net where you can meet other players and play on-line or on-mail. For example, my favourite one is DAAK (link on the right).&lt;br /&gt;For players fond of history, like me, the game can be improved, for my opinion, introducing more historic details, to make it more ”realistic” and proper with the 2nd World War.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Che cos’è Axis &amp;amp; Allies? Non sono molte le persone che associano questo nome ad un gioco, non essendo forse conosciuto come altri giochi di strategia. Ma se capita di conoscerlo e giocarci qualche partita, non è difficile rimanere catturati dal fascino di questo appassionante gioco.&lt;br /&gt;“E’ la primavera del 1942. Il mondo è in Guerra. Cinque potenze sono in lotta per la supremazia. Voi e i vostri avversari controllate il destino militare ed economico di uno o più di questi paesi. Le potenze dell’Asse sono la Germania e il Giappone. A frenare il loro espansionismo vi sono le potenze Alleate del Regno Unito, la Russia e gli Stati Uniti. Voi e i paesi della vostra alleanza dovete agire collettivamente come se foste una squadra. Una buona diplomazia è utile. In questo gioco scoprirete che cooperare e negoziare sono un’importante manovra tattica.”&lt;br /&gt;Non è un semplice gioco di strategia come Risiko: la varietà e le differenti unità che sono a disposizione rendono il tutto come giocare una partita di scacchi sulla mappa del mondo. Si può esprimere tutte le proprie qualità strategiche, disponendo le unità in attacchi e difese, combinandole per massimizzare le loro singole caratteristiche offensive e difensive in battaglia. Inoltre occorre anche essere dei bravi organizzatori in logistica, per prevedere quail possano essere le mosse dell’avversario, per pianificare gli acquisti delle nuove unità per future strategie e per portare tali nuove unità dai luoghi di produzione ai vari fronti di battaglia. Perciò un buon giocatore deve avere un minimo di esperienza nel gioco, quel tocco di genio dei grandi strateghi e un pizzico di fortuna.&lt;br /&gt;Ci sono molti siti dove poter incontrare altri giocatori e giocare partite on-line e via mail. Il mio preferito è DAAK (vedi link a fianco).&lt;br /&gt;Per giocatori appassionati di storia come me, il gioco può essere migliorato, secondo me, introducendo altri particolari storici, per renderlo più “realistico” e aderente alla vera 2° Guerra Mondiale.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27802382-114716885012642618?l=axisalliesspforum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://axisalliesspforum.blogspot.com/feeds/114716885012642618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=27802382&amp;postID=114716885012642618' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27802382/posts/default/114716885012642618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/27802382/posts/default/114716885012642618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://axisalliesspforum.blogspot.com/2006/05/game-il-gioco.html' title='THE GAME  -  IL GIOCO'/><author><name>Umberto</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12042113977032762309</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
