War Room by Larry Harris - Initial thoughts - about 10 games played so far. Overall a fun game.

[@chadvader974]

Those ridiculous car noises at high volume, then your voice at low volume >-

[@wartable]

You are not the 1st to compliment me my exceptional editing skills..😁

[@robertaustin6302]

Dude. That screech. Damn near blew my eardrums out. WTF was that?? Why??

[@wartable]

Yeah...sorry about that

[@NeoDemocedes]

Just ordered a copy of War Room. My three children (ages 11, 11, 12) loved playing A&A world edition. I think we'll have fun playing this too.

[@wartable]

Nice...worth the $...enjoy!

[@mdt260]

Thanks for your thoughts on this Moffett Field! I'm looking forward to playing my copy - I actually have a couple extras if someone wants one at a little better better price than retail.

[@wartable]

If anyone asks for a copy I will send them your way. Looking forward to seeing some strategies from others.

[@georgefitzhugh5408]

They solved the map crowding problem, but little else that makes A&A a slow, tedious, unrealistic resource application game. "Triumph and Tragedy" far superior.

[@wartable]

I have T and T but yet to play

[@axisandallies-legends9534]

I think the units in the English Channel should have been able to land, they only get pinned if the German naval units outnumbered the Allied Naval units. Could be completely wrong about that though, and it looks like there was a naval battle of course.

[@wartable]

I think you are correct, good catch. Even worse news for the Axis😂

[@axisandallies-legends9534]

@@wartable Good review, I have only played 3 games, 2 Russia vs Germany and one 3 player Europe Scenario so I have not experienced the trading aspect. As far as Africa went Italy got lucky and won Egypt in the first turn in our first game, and then proceeded to destroy Britain in the stress levels. Even though there was little resources, there was a lot of stress to apply. Britain did get lucky on hitting as an undefended territory, taking out three Italian troops in separate occasions! A little disappointed to hear that the game may get stale, but it makes sense as to why it would.

[@wartable]

Axis and Allies- Legends Will try a turn 1 attack on Egypt. It is probably better to strike early before reinforcements show up

[@axisandallies-legends9534]

@@wartable The only reason I won Egypt last time because it was a first time player as the UK and he forgot to move the Middle East troops into Egypt!

[@wartable]

Axis and Allies- Legends I see...that is kinda what I am saying. The Axis win via Allied mistakes.

[@J-DOUBLE-A]

Holy cow the cut through sound of a car is like 1000000000000x the regular sound. Horrible. Got to the second loud ass car sound and was done. Probably is a good video but my ears are bleeding so hard pass. Jesus christ

[@wartable]

Yeah..fire the sound guy

[@im2yz4u17]

Oh lord; first time I heard the car noise I wrote this and determined never to watch your stuff again.

[@wartable]

Not the 1st to complain abt that...ooops..

[@sgtshultzie5717]

Ahhhh...the intro to The World at War....amazing documentary with Sir Laurence Olivier....don't have this game yet...may have to add it to my collection

[@wartable]

Pretty darn good game..would recommend. Dont need the big map..

[@x666x34b]

A warning to all; remove headphones at 4:04 to preserve your hearing. My ears are bleeding. Otherwise, good video. But $240 USD? Sheeesh, that money could buy a LOT of beer! Just sayin'.

[@wartable]

x666x34b fire the audio engineer!....beer is another good option👍

[@LuckyLoot777]

Agreed the audio between clips is very loud good video though other than that

[@varovaro1967]

Just bought thank you. Dont print it, the game is beautiful like it is.

[@wartable]

How is it going?..playing?

[@varovaro1967]

Moffett Field great! Highly recommended!

[@pjpaella]

We also had difficulty understanding the Convoy Raid rules. It's the only part of the rules that are not clear, especially when they refer to the "Loss Limit" rule for strategic bombing. It doesn't make any sense to refer to SB for Convoy Raids because the limit is the number of colored transports for each resource. Quit confusing.

[@randyvandyke1]

Good thoughts. The variety of this game will initially be the different scenarios and the optional rules in the back. They are real games and interesting in their own right. Love the Eastern Front. Very cat and mouse. The Europe scenario is great too. My current game was an attempt to dominate Asia and the Middle East. It was going well until I took my eye off the ball in Berlin and gave up force advantage. Hope is not quite lost. I can get it back I think.

[@wartable]

It could get formulaic like all games but it should have good run. It is fun trying dominating areas and seeing if advantageous.

[@thegorb2653]

Looks really good just wondering whether it is balanced, it seems that the soviets aren't getting sandwiched every game and can hold off the Germans fairly well. Also how do china do? do they actually stay in the game. AA40 player so wanting to know if it is balanced knowing the balance issues with that game without house rules and bbr.

[@wartable]

1) The Soviets can attack out on Turn 1 and do some damage. Alternatively, they can put a decent defense for, I would say, a good 4 turns. The Japanese can fairly easily take the Eastern provinces, acquiring a factory in the process. 2) The Chinese play a fairly signficiant role. They can punch down into Indo-China, help defend India, try for Peiping or even help the Soviets by heading West. 3) Is the game balanced? Only is as much as WW2 was. So far for us, it is a good challenge playing the Axis. I suspect War Room is less adaptable to house rules but who knows until there are many more games played. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@PMMagro]

All are new players to this game, once one learns then house really might come in handy. But so far probably tactics and priorities will change a lot. My IMPRESSION is airpower is to strong and attacking is generally better than defending (attacking from the sea or 1 vs 1 is no disdvantage at all, on the contrary if you win the area you gain morale and the enemy lose it but if you fail the defender get no morale benefit). It has many of the Axis & Allies features but the hidden movement and pinning is really neat and fun. Map and units are great looking.

[@wartable]

Peter Magro it is a pretty great game so far. There might be some tweaking to be done

[@pizzabutterjellytime]

10 games in, very amazing! In my less than 10 game experience, which of course take it how you will based off player base, is the real key to beating Russia and England (when you can) is stressing them out. Which just means going where you can to get the easy hits. USA will be USA always, but if you can reduce Russia and England down to less orders and no income (losing the middle east England has very little oil). Its not going to be a great time for the Axis, but if you can end up making it a 3 on 1 (Italy has to be the one to take out a lot of England's territories, as they're the only ones that can stomach the counter-stress loss of losing them back), USA will only be able to do so much.

[@wartable]

Yes, England typically incurs the most stress from what we have seen. We are getting more skilled as the Axis as time goes on.

[@HamboneHQ]

That's a nice map. Victory conditions sound like a problem, but I'm not familiar with the game. Interesting battle board.

[@wartable]

We just finished game 11 or so. Ended in 4 turns, Axis loss. Push to Moscow failed again.

[@nolimit7959]

The game looks very High quality for the price, probably won't buy it at least until the cost goes drastically down- even then I might house rule it to fit my favorite mechanics of A&A, very entertaining video regardless!!!

[@wartable]

I might do a video on how to "BYOWR"...build your own war room. Getting the map digitally might be the problem. Most of the tracking could probably be accomplished in a spreadsheet. Not as sexy but could work.

[@jamesdjordan]

I turned the video off after the 2nd unnecessary tire screech . . .

[@wartable]

Understand...thanks for the feedback..

[@jlav9594]

Where did you get the Warroom sticks? That seems really handy for global40

[@wartable]

They came with War Room. They really aren’t that useful and make a better back scratcher.

[@PMMagro]

In my book, far from having played 10 games though, airpower is way to strong. Especially vs China as she can not even build aniti-air units (even less so planes). It is jet age air power in a no terrain always clear weather daylight fighting settning with WW1 anti-air. All but China can midigate it somewhat. As bombed areas can not be repaired you can remove factories, ports and railways by one lucky bombrun early on. If you enemy has only one local factory (Japan in China, UK in India etc) just bomb it non stop. The new units are hit and PERMANENT damage to that one available factory... I like the garrisson rule where an empty area rolls dice tro risk some damage, should be the same vs air (and for the defender 2 dice like a port controlling the fought over area in general I think). China say gets 2 dice and if lucky they damage a plane or even bring one down. Yes it is max ONE plane shot down by garrisson/port/defender +2 dice. Its should be a risk bombing.

[@wartable]

The no repair of facilities seemed strange at first, but now it just seems normal. China is limited,yes but all they really had was masses of troops and little else.

[@PMMagro]

@@wartable I played yesterday. Won the game by killing the USSR airforce turn 1. USSR never could rebuild it and the Germans mashed Soviet with airpower every battle after that. This was due to extreme luck, I moved all air to Eastern front and the Soviest attacked with her air and lost it. Still...

[@wartable]

Peter Magro Luck always plays a part👍

[@PMMagro]

@@wartable As it should, chess is more fair but imagine the time needed to write perfect orders...

[@wartable]

@@PMMagro that is what makes it fun...the errors are part of the game

[@wartable]

Poor editing, fire the editor

[@Coyotehello]

Honestly, the video after the 3 or 4th 'interruptions' at like 3x the dB of the talk-over voice (that woke up my wife on he couch!) I gave-up, these surprise speaker destroying interludes were just too much to take. Cheers,

[@wartable]

I know..have had comments...thanks though for the feedback. Won't do again

[@Coyotehello]

@@wartable It was meant as a positive/learning comment! Re-reading it I am not sure that came through clearly !! :-) Cheers,

[@sdallas68]

It's a great game but I couldn't watch whole video because of the $#@# car noises interspersing your monotone ramble.

[@wartable]

Yep...others complained too...I fired the sound engineer 🤣

[@YoriSch5179]

Those car sounds are really annoying, I just subscribed but quickly unsubscibed.

[@wartable]

Yeah...I know..was a failed experiment

[@wartable]

@@YoriSch5179 nah..just that one..

[@YoriSch5179]

@@wartable OH OK, I'll watch another 1 of your vids then. Thanks for the response.