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Old 02-16-2003, 02:57 AM   #1
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I think there was a compurter game named this as well, but I am not sure. But anyway..Its also a board game maid by Avalon Hill. It looks pretty cool, from what I can tell its a much more complex risk type game, but more WW 2 themed. Was wondering if anyone here ever played and what they thought of it?
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Old 02-16-2003, 04:49 AM   #2
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I've played it, although its been a long time. Its a fun game, easpecially if you have a lot of people playing
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Old 02-16-2003, 05:08 AM   #3
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Awesome game. Have litteraly had games that lasted days ..... In addittion to the core rules, there are many expansions out there that add to realism/complexity immensely. Absolutely FANTABULOUS!
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Old 02-16-2003, 10:59 AM   #4
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I started playing the board game in the late 80's. It's a fun way to kill an entire weekend. It's a very loooooooong game, and there are hundreds of pieces to set up on the card-table size map. There have been a couple of other board game spin offs which focus on either Europe, the Pacific, or a specific time frame, but the original is the best. As mentioned above, there are some cool rule variants you can purchase or you can make up your own. We always let German tanks hit on a 4 or less, when they were accompanied by infantry, instead of on a 3 or less like all the others in order to represent the blitz.

When the computer version came out, I jumped right on that band wagon, too. There is another computer version called Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz that adds some neat scenarios and value editing capabilities, but Hasblo never offered a patch for it to correct errors. In fact they shipped IB with bugs that had been fixed with patches for the original A&A.

There are several ladder clubs that play on MSN's game zone, the one I used to be a member of was Spring1942.com . I'm not sure that they still use the same name, but it keeps up with wins and losses and has a status system with ranks.

Great fun, but very time consuming. I never played an online game that lasted less than 6 hours. Most were 12 or more and had to be played over the period of several days.

One final note. Under Windows XP the music doesn't play correctly. Each country had it's own tune that playing during it's turn, but now it skips and repeats, so the only way to play it without going insane is to play it without the music on.
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Old 02-16-2003, 11:33 AM   #5
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I have the Board Game and the computer version as well as the Iron Blitz computer version [img]smile.gif[/img] I like the game and so do my kids!
 
Old 02-16-2003, 11:40 AM   #6
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I first played the board game in Lakeland Florida with VulcanRider and his brother. We would spend so much time building up our resources that we would actually run out of men and tanks and have to use poker chips. And the board was far too small....

So we bought a second game and V.R.'s brother built and painted an 4'x8' game board on plywood from Home Depot. Now THAT was a game board.

I wasn't able to play any more after moving back to NC....then I came across a copy of the computer version on eBay. It's just the standard edition but plays very well.

One of the best strategy games I've ever played.
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Old 02-16-2003, 11:50 AM   #7
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You know Cerek, I tried and tried and tried to find some miniature poker chips for that game, just because we would run out of the ones supplied with the game [img]smile.gif[/img] I never did find any.
 
Old 02-16-2003, 05:07 PM   #8
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ahh the weekends spent playing the board game, I've never heard of the online game before
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Old 02-16-2003, 05:08 PM   #9
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I have to be contreary to the other posters.

As a very expirienced board-gamer I think it is one of the simpler (and not better) games out there. But that it my personal opinion, ofcourse. Don't let that stop you from enjoying it. [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Old 02-16-2003, 05:12 PM   #10
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I have to be contreary to the other posters.

As a very expirienced board-gamer I think it is one of the simpler (and not better) games out there. But that it my personal opinion, ofcourse. Don't let that stop you from enjoying it. [img]smile.gif[/img]
IMHO Diplomacy was and is a better game. Too bad the computer version stunk so bad. Speaking of board/computergames I always thought Kingmaker was one of the best! [img]smile.gif[/img]

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