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.
Favourite version of the game?
-
Hi,
Im thinking of buying an axis and allies game, but im not sure which one I want to get. Im leaning towards the original.
Whats is your favourite version: the original, europe, or pacific?
Thanks
-
To start out, i would pick the Axis and Allies. If you like the European theater or the Pacific better than the whole wolrd than pick your fav theater.
-
I’ve played all of them and they all rule. But I like the Original better simply because it’s a 2 on 3 as opposed to the one vs all as the others. The theater versions focus greatly on one aspect or the other, but the world does both.
I also just wanna say for the record that the naval battle in the original is usally quite good despite the feelings of most. The pacific battles are long and interesting, especially if the UK goes island hopping. Island hopping (IC in Australia) helps! It can cut Japan’s income down by about 8 and causes Japan to use resourses on the naval battle, taking away from their land push. I think it helps and makes the Pacific interesting.
-
to start out you should get the origanal, then get A&AE or A&AP
Suggested Topics
