Thinking about picking up

@allboxcars:

It is 3 double-folding gameboards. Been some complaints of warping owing to this design and someone suggested those plastic slip-on bindings kids used to use for school reports before the whole world went digital. (you know the kind that look sort of like a C if viewed from one end)

As you can see from your pic, Egyptian infantry seems to have a bit of a faultline to straddle!

It’s not technically “folding”.  It’s 3 seperate game boards that you align together, and the board can slip apart.  The binding clips hold the boards together.

@kcdzim:

It’s not technically “folding”.  It’s 3 seperate game boards that you align together, and the board can slip apart.  The binding clips hold the boards together.

My bad. You’re right. I could’ve sworn mine folded in half latitudinally around the middle somewhere… Lord, I need more coffee

@allboxcars:

@kcdzim:

It’s not technically “folding”.  It’s 3 seperate game boards that you align together, and the board can slip apart.  The binding clips hold the boards together.

My bad. You’re right. I could’ve sworn mine folded in half latitudinally around the middle somewhere… Lord, I need more coffee

Or another beer to forget about the matter ;)

@Hobbes:

@allboxcars:

@kcdzim:

It’s not technically “folding”.  It’s 3 seperate game boards that you align together, and the board can slip apart.  The binding clips hold the boards together.

My bad. You’re right. I could’ve sworn mine folded in half latitudinally around the middle somewhere… Lord, I need more coffee

Or another beer to forget about the matter ;)

hmmm enough beer and I’ll be folding in half latitudinally around the middle somewhere… and probably never unfolding

@allboxcars:

@Hobbes:

@allboxcars:

@kcdzim:

It’s not technically “folding”.  It’s 3 seperate game boards that you align together, and the board can slip apart.  The binding clips hold the boards together.

My bad. You’re right. I could’ve sworn mine folded in half latitudinally around the middle somewhere… Lord, I need more coffee

Or another beer to forget about the matter ;)

hmmm enough beer and I’ll be folding in half latitudinally around the middle somewhere… and probably never unfolding

But on the other hand coffee stains on the board are harder to remove than spilled beer…

So the AE boards dont fold at all? They just like up next to each other?
What are the dimensions of the boards?
And of the box?

I went ahead and tried those black and sliver binding clips on the P1940 board. Yes, they did create a very minor impression, but it’s very slight.

Edit: Hmm, nevermind. I just checked out pricing on the AE. It looks like if I parted with only $250 I would be lucky. Game came out less than 2 years ago too! And this is why I’m buying P1940 and E1940 immediately. If the games are going to cost $70 or $80 when they’re brand new and in print, just imagine what they’ll cost when they’re out of print! Which btw seems to always happen 1 yr after release.

I remember when I bought Civilization, Adv Civ and Western Expansion at a game shop for $80, I felt a bit ripped off. That must have been 15 or 20 years ago. Now I look that stuff up and you’d have to part with $400 for them. I pretty much figured out then that I’d have to buy Avalon Hill games upon release or suffer the consequences. It absolutely blew my mind that Adv Civ is that good and AH never put it back into print. WTH?

@Xayd74:

WTH?

It was a limited edition/printing.  There’s a constant petition for a rerelease.  Any copy you find now is either used or mint and either way, it’s a collectors item.  I got lucky in that I started playing a couple weeks before anni was released, so when I got it it wasn’t any big thing at the time, but now I’m very happy I got in when I did.

There was a PC game for the original that was released about 15 years ago. It was cool but the AI was really shoddy and easy to beat. Also the program has numerous bugs and crashed quite a bit. As far as playing here on the web, I believe that there is an actual program that you download, and it has a map that you email back and forth to the person you are playing. It also uses a dice generator for rolling, or you can do manual rolls I think too. I have never used this site’s game forum myself, but have used another and that is what it did.

http://triplea.sourceforge.net/mywiki/Forum

go there for games “like” Axis and Allies.