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.
Not really a good game to others
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Compared with other games this game is not very good in my opnion.
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please explain why and what other games are better? AaA IMO is one of the better Wargames invented due to it’s variability with different ages and its ruleset which allows for strategies and variants… Of course if you play Monopoly and Scrabble I completely understand… or are you referring to games inside the AaA series? That I can agree on…
GG
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Can’t please everyone :-D
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You came onto an Axis and Allies sight, started an Axis and Allies based login, started up an Axis and Allies based topic… just to say that you dont like the game?
You must REALLY not like it :wink: -
relax, he’s just got multiple personality disorder or something.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=5432.msg80739;topicseen#msg80739
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Maybe he means 2nd edition is no good. Oh well, I’m sure it was worth posting a forum topic about.
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What others, of a similar type, are better? Seriously I want to know because I would buy them.
If I had to rate the top games on a big map (besides deeply complex wargames), I would place them like this:1. Diplomacy
2. A&A
3. An offshoot of either of these, like the unofficial A&A upgrades or Game of Thrones. -
This thread and the one called “risk sucks” (see other games) should be combined so that we get 7 pages with either “axis and allies sucks” and “risk sucks”
I think chutes and ladders “sucks” what do you think???… I mean i hate it when i slide back a number of spaces if i land on that dreaded “chute”
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sorry Imp… I can only split threads into 2 threads, can’t combine… but good idea :wink:
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