@tobiasandersen:
I already have Axis & Allies: Europe (1999) and i want to get into Axis & Allies again. Can i combine it with the Axis & Allies: Pacific (2001) version to make some kind of Axis & Allies: Global or do my game group have to get Axis & Allies Europe 1940 (2010) and Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 (2009) to do that. Thanks in advance
There are unfortunately several problems with the idea of combining the old Pacific and Europe games in this way. First, if you only have Europe (as your post suggests, though I may be misreading it), you’d need to find the Pacific game, which is out of print. Second, the two games were never designed to be combined, map-wise or otherwise. I once saw, long ago, a graphic for some sort of “connector strip” that could supposedly be used to join the two map boards together; it was a clever idea, but it was also clumsy and it still left large parts of the world off the map. Third, you’d have to devise some home-made global rules for a paired set of maps whose layout, territory values and game objectives were never intended for a global game. Fourth, you’d be missing a lot of sculpts (both in terms of units types and of countries) relative to the “real” Global game, A&A 1940, and especially the Global 1940 Second Edition version.
There have been various other threads on this forum that, in one way or another, have all been variants of the basic question, “Instead of buying the real current version of such-and-such an A&A game, can I hotwire an earlier version to produce the same thing?” I generally think that it’s inadvisable to try this sort of thing: partly because it’s often difficult or even impossible to accomplish this fully, and partly because it’s potentially faster and less trouble and sometimes even cheaper to simply buy the current version.
