Long-time a&a classic 2e player looking to play again
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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.
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Hi aamc2112
You could play live in the lobby. I think that's a popular game still. Just hit "Play Online" when you first start up triplea.
Say hello I'm new. Looking for a 2nd Edition game. Revised is still popular too I think.
Someone will help you out. In the mean time you should practice on the "Tutorial" map to get used to how triplea operates.
I'm not sure if it's automatically included, if not, you can download it from "Download Maps" also when you first fire up triplea.
You could ask at the other site https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/ I think there's some people that play using "Steam" that might be similar to what you're looking for.
I've never used it but I'd definitely give the lobby a try. You can always pop in and watch games too. Just say hello, I'm new, is it ok if I watch ?
Anyway, most people are pretty cool.
GL and HF Gaming
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@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.
