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.
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Let the players speak for themselfs.
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I prefer dday. Its a lot quicker, and needs less people, plus it involves alot more strategy since your troop numbers are limited.
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- Nova Axis and Allies
I like territory layout and the fact that Japan can’t march into China any further. The free french territories are also off limits. The smaller IPC count helps prevent the board from being too cluttered. The original A-bomb tech rules!
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lol…. who thinks this poll isn’t skewed at all?
do you think you might get different results if you posted this in the d-day, pacific or europe forums too?
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