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.
End Game
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I agree with CC. Why continue to beat a dead horse?
I like dead horses! You don’t have to feed them, walk them, water them :P , clean nor curry(groom)them. You just gotta cut off and bury their heads. The glue factory or dog food company will take care of the rest!
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Be sure to get the horse out of the stall before rigor mortis sets in. Otherwise you’ll have to cut it’s legs off, too! - Xi :o :cry: -
When I’m axis the other players always give up as soon as moscow falls :(
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Usually it happens when one capital falls either side.
However, I have seen times of the Allies surviving after Russia has fallen (given a buildup along WE) or the Axis going on to win after Germany has fallen (depends on how powerful Japan is).If worse comes to worse, break out the tech rolls! :wink:
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i fight to the last man, however if someone wants to quit I’m ok with it, I play the person who is gonna die gets to choose whether or not to surrender.
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last man! :D
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I hate last man when trying to invade USA, Japan, or Uk. It takes forever for those countries to be conquered. :x
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espeshaly if you can move capitals
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Move capitals?
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although i have not played in a while we have not tottaly finished a game cept for a couple world games. but the last free for all we had i as winning and one day my friends broke into my house and as a joke tookdown the game and took all the peices to there house :(
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that was me btw :)
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heh, sucker. :P
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@TG:
Move capitals?
house rule, good for russia thay can invade chily or somthing and move there capital there
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:lol:
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I don’t know, I had some pretty heated games between Germany and Russia, seeing who would fall first. :)
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i think most end games “move capitals” would just frustrate your opponant and result in a win by default
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Hahaha, can you move the British and Japanese Capitals? :)
“My Capital is now in the North Sea!” :wink: -
what if both axis moved their capitals to the same country . . . i guess you couldn’t do that, but it would be interesting.
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Could each side produce in the same country? :)
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i think this would be the most boring game ever after a while.
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a better idea is for the us to give russia brazil so russia can make an infantry a turn and with us transports become the power in africa! :)
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