👋 Introduce or Re-Introduce Yourself (Current)

Hello all,

I am 48 years old, married, have a 9 year old daugther and we live in Germany, Bavaria, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm (near Munich). I have been a gamer from my childhood on and bought and played all the “Spiel des Jahres” every year and more and we made some games (we could not buy) on our own too.
As a teenager/early twen I started also playing computer games and was looking for something more exciting and challenging than this eurogames and the good old “Risk”… would have something to play with more depth when it is about history, tacticts and strategy… and there it was - 1998 -

Axis&Allies from Hasbro Interactive for PC in the next computer shop… well… not so challenging with the weak AI after some games anymore…
… internet was to expensive to play multiplayer online these days… but hey… read then somewhere this PC game was an adaption of a famous boardgame… Milton Bradleys Gamemaster Series Axis&Allies!! What a boardgame for me and my friends,
these days not very common in our environment and our region… but finally we found and bought it… we played it day and night and after a while we started
to look for more boardgames for geeks and grognards. We have lots of games in the meanwhile!

With Internet becoming more popular and affordable I saw the DAAK, Deutscher Axis and Allies Klub, a great community and we organized a lot
of A&A tournaments and so on from year 2000 on… as well as buying everything we could get from A&A and playing it. (World at War, Accessories, Enhanced Rules,
Strafing Run Games Battle Cards and all the upcoming editions and varaints from AH, WotC, Hasbro, …).
Besides that I play also a lot of GMT and Compass Games boardgames, Larry Harris War Room of course too…
and besides WW2 mostly Napoleonic era, so I do also looking really forward to Larrys Imperial Borders which should be in the mail the next days!

Via the “A&A 1942 online” community and discord channel I saw than that Renegade Game Studios is licensing A&A Franchise few years ago, got the newsletter and facebook group, voted for A&A North Africa Campaign and voila… was trying to come into the playtesting group and was in the playtesting for North Africa and Stalingrad since then!!

Besides working as a product manager/technical trainer/instructional designer in machine techniques and playing a lot of boardgames
I do also taking care about my hometowns game library and weekly game days of the youth organization there as well as being part
of the team for running the yearly board game days here every November.

Was reading some articles and posts from time to time here, but never registered… dont know why…
… but as I do more online games, even of A&A Classic now, and want to join and post here, I decided to register finally now! :-)
It is a great pleasure to be in this community and to discuss and play with you ladies and gentlemen… looking forward learning more about you and about the game and having some fantastic hours togehter!!

Kind Regards
Primigenius / Rainer

@Primigenius Welcome to the forum :-)

@Primigenius

WELCOME fellow North Africa and Stalingrad play tester!

@Primigenius

Hi

Glad you decided to share :)

Is the Deutsche Klub still active ? and if so can you link to it ?

Are you guys aware of the Danish Axis and Allies Association ?

They can be contacted here g40expansionrules@gmail.com

The Captain’s House Rules are here https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/36945/axis-allies-global-1940-house-rules-expansion

You can also play online using triplea https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/topic/17147/gargantua-s-k-i-s-s-triplea-instructions some is dated but mostly still relevant

Nice introduction and welcome to the site. Hope you and your gruppe will play some games here.

Have Fun Gaming

@Panther
Thanky you very much! :-)

@AndrewAAGamer
Thank you very much! :-)

@barnee

Hi and thank you very much! :-)
No, as far as I know the DAAK is not active anymore. Lost contact over the years when not playing so much. Also www.daak.de is not available anymore and I have no information what happened through the years…

Have not heard about the Danish A&A Association yet, so thank you very much!
As I am also on BGNs Discord and also here now, maybe there is a chance to have some more activities in CET/CEST time zone. Especially online tourneys (24h turns) with mostly Americas players are hard to handle besides my bread and butter job…

See you soon in a game online then at least! :-)

Kind regards
Primigenius / Rainer

Commando Brado here. Live in OC, CA. Play pretty much all versions of A&A. Play online quite a bit but in person, mostly the LA GameCons.

@Commando-Brado

WELCOME!

@Primigenius

Herzlich willkommen,

We have one of our Axis & Allies Veteran Members who lives in Flensburg an der Grenze zu Dänemark.

If you are looking for ultimate Fun & Challenge, you are welcome to contact us anytime.

Best regards,

Danish Axis & Allies Association
Captain

@The-Captain
Thank you so much for being welcome like this! :-)

@Commando-Brado Greetings, fellow commando!