News flash: AXIS & ALLIES ANNIVERSARY EDITION due out oct 23 08

may i ask a question IL?Why 4 copies?gifts,or just a big fan 8-)

i ordered 2 for the extra pieces,and heck,having 2 is just better imo. :wink:

@Imperious:

I will buy a 5th copy the day it comes out.

This game will be used to replace my other piece sets as a full upgrade for all my global variants sake the metal and painted metal piece sets. I am the type of person who has to have the best equipment to do the job because aesthetics is very important to my gaming experience.

This game will be sold out and will go on ebay for big bucks eventually. I will only open 3 out of my 5 copies and keep 2 sealed forever.

very interesting thanks.Is there only a limited number being sold?For a limited amount of time?And will the pieces be more personalized?Will we seedifferent tank,infantry,air and naval units,has there been any news of this?

german tank replaced by the bulge tank,what does it look like,do you have a picture of this,would be most grateful :lol:

if my eyes do not decieve me,it looks like a panther for their tank,and an 88 for their artillery correct?

Would be nice to also see 105’s for their arty,as well as King Tigers for their tank pieces imo,or stug’s.

@Imperious:

goto Boardgame geek.com and look for axis and allies bulge.

Wonderful! I like very much the BotB panzers!

@LT04:

:-D I just ordered my copy.  :-D I also bought A&A Pacific so I wouldn’t have to pay for shipping.  (I hope that will hold me over till the big dog comes out in October.)

I used the link provided by Imperious Leader.  It was the cheapest place I have found it for.

LT

Where do i go to pre order for the anniversary edition?  I have the pacific and european theaters plus 2nd edition and classic.

Is 2nd edition the same as classic? i cant remember.

I prefer to think of it this way:

Nova version
Milton Bradley version - editions 1 through 3
Avalon Hill version - Revised and Anniversary editions

Nova isn’t a “zero edition”.  It’s simply the first version of the game that was printed.

Yes, the Milton Bradley version says “2nd Edition” - now.  Before 1986, it didn’t.  The original MB version was quite a bit different.  Among other things, it included Commander-in-Chief rules that allowed you to combine armies of different nationalities so one nation could control them and attack together with them.  This was quite broken, as the Axis didn’t have much of a chance.  It was the major impetus for the publication of the 2nd Edition rules.

I have to agree with IL here. Nova edition is usually known as 1st edition, while MB is the second or “Classic” edition.
Revised is notoriously known as 4th edition so the CD ROM one have to be the 3rd!!!

Since I’ve got married a hundred dollars is much more difficult justify for a game. If only i had people the play the game with!

@Imperious:

it included Commander-in-Chief rules that allowed you to combine armies of different nationalities

your talking about that 4 page supplement from General M. Bradley? That was not in the original game. That showed up latter.

No, I am talking about the 1st Edition of the Milton Bradley A&A rules that was first printed in 1984, which is currently on my desk in front of me.  I can’t seem to find a copy on-line anywhere, though.  Everyplace I can find only has the 2nd Edition rules, which I can only assume is because no one has played by the 1st Edition rules since 1986.

If you look at the Avalon Hill Rules Download page, you will see that it lists the 2nd Edition rules as “Axis & Allies, 1991 edition”.  This is because the 2nd Edition rules were first published in 1986, and a supplement to them was added in 1991.  The 1st Edition MB rules were first published when the game was in 1984.

@Romulus:

I have to agree with IL here. Nova edition is usually known as 1st edition, while MB is the second or “Classic” edition.
Revised is notoriously known as 4th edition so the CD ROM one have to be the 3rd!!!

I understand that people tend to think of this as the case, but there are two problems with this approach.

Firstly, there are three distinct editions of the MB version of the game - 1984, 1986 and 1997 (CD Edition).  Given that, in order to call Revised “4th Edition” and remain consistent with “edition numbers”, the Nova version would need to be called (as Imperious alluded to earlier) “Edition Zero”.  If you’re going to acknowledge the 1997 MB 3rd Edition, ignoring the existence of the 1984 MB 1st Edition is simply inconsistent and inaccurate.

Secondly, the Milton Bradley editions were all changes to the rules only, not to any of the game components (except for a small map change in 3rd Edition).  This makes all three MB editions basically tweaks to the rules of the same game.  However, it can be argued that the Nova and AH versions of A&A are completely different games from the MB version, since the maps and the rules themselves are significantly different.  I have heard this argument made many times.

Given all that, it just makes sense (at least to me) that the different publishers’ incarnations of A&A should be called “versions” and the separate releases of the games within each publisher be called “editions”, as I outlined above.  This precendent has, in effect, already been established by Milton Bradley.  Of course, everyone is free to draw his or her own conclusion from the facts at hand.