Round Five: Red moves C & 1 trooper from 1VP island, to undefended Blue 2 VP Island. Had built 6 troopers for NP Base. Still has 10 troopers at Red base gathering dust.
Blue moves 8 troopers from Apogee Base towards NP base, Blue Jet attacks Red C off Red 2 VP island hex, C is destroyed. Jet lands on ice hex. Still has 7 Troopers at Blue Base, never seen any combat. Had built a C at Blue Base, seven Troopers at Apogee Base.
Black moves 7 troopers to ice hex( that already has two troopers) and flies in Rattler from Black base. Also retreats trooper back into NP base. Builds 6 troopers for NP base.
White moves 6 Troopers from White 1 VP hex, and, another 3 Troopers are following those Troopers(using special ability). Cannot wait for more infantry, 9 Troopers attack NP Base. Versus 10 defending troopers(1 is Black) and Red Rattler. Losses all White and 1 Black & 4 Red troopers.
Meanwhile 3 more Troopers arrive at ice hex and another 3 arrive from Blue 1 VP hex, from N. Greenland.
Finally at White Base C fail to destroy ice hex, so it lands 2 Troopers on it, along with 7 more Troopers attacking(using special movement ability) & fighter from White Base. Versus 9 Black troopers and a Rattler. The ice hex is captured, all Black wiped out, for a lost of 6 White Troopers. Had built for White Base 4 Troopers and 5 troopers for Apogee Base.
Back to the 80s/90s: Why no OFFICIAL expansion pack for Axis and Allies Classic?
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What I never understood of this expansion: why include the very same map? Granted. It is bigger. But why not also include some new areas/seazones?
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I have that map also - we never used it since we made our own game board - so even though it is almost 30 years old now - it is still folded in the Midway Expansion box from GP.
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@imperious-leader and @the-captain
On my To Do List:
Play Axis and Allies Classic both with Gamers Paradise Expansions and with the Enemy at the Horizon…
With all these newer official Axis and Allies games we got the units! :)
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@thrasher1 People wanted more space, not a new map or different map. Its the first version of a larger map. Actually it did have a change in regard to the Midway area to simulate the problems the Japanese had with their advantage. I will have to locate my stash and take a picture. The whole module that included the map was some treatment of the Midway scenario since the game starts in spring 1942
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@imperious-leader said in Back to the 80s/90s: Why no OFFICIAL expansion pack for Axis and Allies Classic?:
I will have to locate my stash and take a picture. The whole module that included the map was some treatment of the Midway scenario since the game starts in spring 1942
Please do. Looking forward to see your ‘fix’.
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@Imperious-Leader Hope you will find the time to check this one out.
General remark:
Are there any players here who played all Gamers’ Paradise expansions together? How did this mega-expaned Classic Axis and Allies play (out)?
On my bucket list: finally play at least some of these expansions with pieces from later games :)
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Yes - I’ve played them all together. We used them from 1993-1996 - so it is something close to 175 games in total with all 3 expansions.
I still have the “Midway” map - completely intact and never used (since we already had made an enlarged game board for Classic).
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Any specific rules you liked or disliked?
Personally I like the concept of IPC values of these island being doubled after they changed hand. This make them more important.
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I think the best answer I can give is, that you read the Axis & Allies Global 1940 House Rules Expansion.
You’ll see that most of the rules from Gamers Paradise are included, though modified in most cases in order to be compatible with Global 1940.
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@thrasher1 I played it Way back then when it first came out, it had to be in the hundreds of how many games my brother and I played it- We played with the Gamer’s Paradise map whenever we played classic, in fact we played it’s Sonar contact rules well into the New century with escorts and such instead of the later A&A official version rules concerning submarines until 3 years ago!!!
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@nolimit Really looking forward to play Classic Axis and Allies game with these expansions. Keep you updated.
And to all:
What would you have liked to be included in such an official expansion back then? (Had Hasbro/MB released one.)
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