It was 1990, I was 18 years old… I moved to the big city of Toronto and my new friends were gamers who played Risk all the time. I quickly got bored of it and was looking for an alternative game I could introduce to them and I saw on the store shelf Axis & Allies from Milton Bradley “a game of high adventure” and “decide the fate of the world in just a few short hours” (lol). Unfortunately we were all pretty hammered by the end of the night and the only thing I remember of my first game was punching out all the plastic pieces from the plastic stencil racks and all the roundels from the cardboard sheets. it was an instant hit with the whole group and I played it with them religiously for up to 2 years until I moved back home to Peterborough. I brought my game with me and it wasn’t long before I hooked some old high school friends to it, and over the next 8 years I played Classic edition even more than I did before. After that in 2000, I moved back to Toronto where I discovered Spring 1942, then A&A Anniversary edition and finally Global 1940… ironically, I met someone from that first group from the early 90’s almost 20 years later, we accidentally bumped into each other online and we have been playing 1 on 1 1940 Global games every month for the past 5 years.
Length of games
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Wow, teaching the game while you’re learning it, must be tough. :smile:
Well, again, this depends. Or we talking about the 1st round or the 50th round? In the first few rounds of the game, it’s typical to see the game clock running over an hour if not more so. But once you hit mid to late game, the time for game rounds just decrease dramatically to maybe 10-20 minutes. I too like long drawn out games (it just seems like a waste to set up the game board and then quit after the 10th turn) and the best way to make sure of this is to balance the sides as much as possible. The key is to make sure each side thinks that they are at a disadvantage.
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i also found that as people get to know the game better and the moves, etc, then the turns go a little quicker. People get to thinking ahead a little more, rather than reacting, and they stop asking “hold on, can i do this . . . ?”.
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Hey Mike, do you use anything to balance the game more in favour of the axis, or have you not found any problems with this?
Russia restricted, bids, 2-hit battleships, and a lot of other things can be used. (I’m sure you can find info on these on a lot of previous threads)
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I use a bid personally.
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No, we haven’t started using any balancing options yet. I’ve been playing in two different groups. The first group are the people I learned with about 6 years ago, but we don’t play regularly enough to see this domination of the Allies that is discussed. (Which I do believe, but until we actually see it in play no one will want to change the balance of the game)And my other group are the friends that I’m teaching(I’m not teaching and learning at the same time, but I came here to brush up on the game before playing again), and everyone is still so new that we have yet to really play enough good games to find the balance of our game and group.
-mike
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I see!
Why don’t you register, Mike?
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Because I’m difficult
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Hahaha :smile:
Time will tell. Sooner or later time will tell.
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Please sign up if you could, it makes our Forums look more professional.
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I guess some people are just different that way. Way to stand out of the crowd. :smile:
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