I think 42 is pretty well balanced.
Allied are a bit more difficult to play IMO, since it requires more coordination and forthsight to play especially the US effectively. Therefore axis may have a slight advantage.
Deciding who's who
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In a two player game, what’s your way of deciding who will be the Axis and who will be the Allies?
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It’s usually not an issue, otherwise high roll picks.
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I let the other guy choose, unless I want to try something new with a specific faction.
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one of us calls… allies are Even, axis are Odd, or vice versa… and the other rolls the di, and gets what he rolls
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I take all the chips from each respective country put them face down and mix them up. Then randomly pick em. If you got 2 players then the first to get axis or allied power plays that power. However, when you got 5 people you keep going till all tokens are done and you have your random teams.
Of course if 2 of you want to switch really bad and others don’t care then it .
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If it’s a 1 vs 1, we can usually just decide between the two of us. For a 5 player game, I’ll mix up the cards with the country unit setup on it, turn them face down, and everyone picks one.
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start a new topic for each of the players (if they’re a&a.org members) and ask them to post what they want and don’t want in a country, and that can determine what nations you should play as
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