I was also looking forward to it because I’ve never played but I’ve always been interested. Not a huge loss for me personally, but it does seem like the kid of game Dire Wolf could have done very well.
Well, here’s some good news …
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Heck yes! I haven’t had a platform to play it on yet so this will do it for me. But I really want it on mobile. I think it will be perfect there too.
I just had a Hex-gasm.
It’s cool if I mention that, right … ?
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Very cool.
I usually prefer to be more cynical and negative … but that was a really good video.
You go, Portal!
but he hasn’t mentioned async gameplay, and in the shown menu it’s not presented either.
and Portal hasn’t published a single async game yet.
i’m not sure they can handle it.
i wish they are willing to try.
This just makes me even more frustrated that 1775 and 1812 exist and fail to deliver. A&A is inferior by far as a light dudes on a map war game, but it looks like it gets the better treatment, here.
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This is pure speculation, but Beamdog/Overhaul are responsible for all the Baldur’s Gate-style games coming to mobile. As far as I remember, all of those games started as iPad-only and later moved to phones. Maybe Axis & Allies will, too…
I could not agree more. Those are brilliant, light games given crap implementation by HexWar. GMT got taken by them, too. I don’t understand that company at all.
I’ve not kept up with axis and allies since I played it when I was a kid. It seems this app is the 1942 variant which is probably why everything felt so similar but also different. I surely would have remained confused if I hadn’t noticed research is entirely missing and then went looking for the answer. Losing technology is probably a good thing as I remember abusing the system to get over powered advancements.
Just thought I’d mention to expect some changes to the game from what you might remember, it’s not just your brain getting old and addled (although I’m sure that’s the case as well)
I think the axis and allies 1942 app is a couple of patches away from being easy to recommend. The app obviously has polish in a number of places, but I’m having what I suspect are issues specific to the port to iOS. It doesn’t consistently minimise well and has other issues with buttons not working for a few seconds while I assume the iPad is thinking. Sometimes it gets stuck and I tap the home button twice to go to task manager then tap on the app and that seems to get it unstuck without gambling by minimising the app.
I’m in an async multiplayer game and email notifications work but iOS notifications don’t seem to. The log is….ok? It’s there, it’s thorough, it works. It could be better, but it’s serviceable for what we need.
If anyone feels like sinking each other’s battleships, let me know as I’m up for a game
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Finally got around to doing my first impressions post for the Brass: Birmingham app on Steam.
Hopefully our 2nd async game won’t crap out like the first did!
On iOS, at least, Cublo is close to hitting the mark, but just off a bit. I absolutely cannot stand that they use your e-mail as your online name instead of letting you actually pick a name. And notifications can be inconsistent, or sometimes completely inoperable. Among the Stars could have been amazing but online was rather buggy at first and from what I hear there are still issues, though our test game here never got started. I don’t know if this Birmingham is coming to iOS but I’d love if Cublo ironed out their little wrinkles because the Steam version sounds pretty good.
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I was so disappointed by Among the Stars. It really played like a great game, but the bugs that made it unplayable were just sad.
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“Banners of Ruin” looks very interesting.
check out the launch trailer.
just one tap/click to start it. and sound must be activated.
on Steam, GOG and in the Epic Game Store, and on Switch.
should appeal to all who like Slay the Spire, Darkest Dungeon or/and Steamworld Quest.
will it come to mobile? no idea.
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That looks mighty intriguing.
agreed on this. it’s not the best solution.
but easy to overcome. just use one of the many (normally unused) i-adresses, like @icloud.com or @me.com for registering at Brass with your preferred online name.
so i managed to be JammaTal in Brass too.
Yeah, Banners of Ruin has been on my wish list for a while, and I probably would have picked it up on sale last week for this trip I am on, if I did not have the Slay the Spire tournament we are doing.