@aamc2112 said in Long-time a&a classic 2e player looking to play again:
I played a ton of online/pbem game under the handle 2112 at aamc.net. I was disappointed when it went away and didn't move on to a new place. I just kind of stoppe playing. It was simple: write your buys and combat movement, dicey server generated results, non combat movement was done on the shared map, and voila it's on to the next turn. I'm really missing those game. Can someone point me to an active place to find and play axis & allies 2e games in a way similar to described above? Maybe that's here, but nothing seems obvious to me kicking around the site so far.
Weren't the games at aamc. net played with 'ABattlemap' in those days? I seem to remember that, as that was the software we used on A&A. org, too - before TripleA became more popular. It was exactly like you described: A forum topic where the moves were written out, the forum dicebot was used to resolve the battles.
Now with TripleA you can play by forum too, it works quite similar, except that you don't write moves - and you can't arbitrarily move pieces like on a real gameboard. TripleA ususally restricts your movement to only rules compliant moves. Every move and battle is recorded and you will be able to post a complete turn summary to the forum together with a savegame. A dice-server from outside the forum is used for rolling the battles. TripleA handles that, too.
Just take a look at the play-by-forum - Category here or over at A&A .org.
Have fun.
