On February 21, 2012 Wizards of the Coast will release their next major Axis & Allies miniatures game. It’s a brand new air-power based game, called Axis & Allies Air Force Miniatures, and the first set will be called Angels 20.
When Axis & Allies was first released it was a part of the Milton-Bradley Gamemaster Series, which also included a game called Shogun. Ikusa, released in July 2011, is the second reprinting of Shogun.
Every year the three major Axis & Allies tournament events take place at Origins, GenCon Indy, and Spring Gathering X. Greg Smorey, the official organizer, recently sent out an email with the latest information for these events.
Playing Axis & Allies online forum games via TripleA is easy, especially if you’re already familiar with TripleA. The process of playing-by-forum is nearly identical to playing by email.
TripleA is a great way piece of software to play war games including Axis & Allies. It includes a great feature for play-by-email games and in this article, Zhukov4 goes over why you should try it and helps you get started.
The holidays are right around the corner and we have some great suggestions for you this year for great Axis & Allies gifts.
We’ve been working hard over the past few weeks, huddled over a … computer. The transition was a lot of work but we’ve finally launched the redesigned website.
This preview goes over the National Objectives and bonus income for both the Europe only game as well as the Global game. The bonus income for the National Objectives is collected during the Collect Income phase.
Axis & Allies Europe 1940 and Pacific 1940 were designed to work together to form one giant global game of Axis & Allies 1940. The rules for this global game are included in the Europe 1940 rulebook. This preview will cover the rules of the global game.
There are few new details about the rules in Axis & Allies Europe 1940 as compared to Axis & Allies Pacific 1940. Particularly interesting are the rule regarding neutrality. In this preview I will list out the pertinent rules that will give you a flavor of the new game. When the rules are the same I will reference the preview article for Pacific 1940.
The new upcoming Axis & Allies Europe 1940 board game features two new countries: French and Italy. While the fate of France might be sealed in the first few round or two of play, Italy has a real chance to expand it’s power over the Mediterranean. This preview has several photos of all of the new French units, which are blue and the Italian units, which are brown.
The latest installment of the Axis & Allies board games is Axis & Allies Europe 1940 and will be released on August 24, 2010. It will also be “available” during the GenCon gaming conference in Indianapolis, Indiana from August 5-8. This first preview of Europe 1940 game is a few photos of everything pulled directly out of the box. There are no paper IPCs.
In the last rules article, we reviewed some of the new rules for Axis & Allies Pacific 1940 and this article will conclude going over the new rules. This article will cover the following topics: the rules for the declaration of war, China, Convoys, strategic bombing with escorts, and national objectives.
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Axis & Allies Conference Updates for January 2012
Every year the three major Axis & Allies tournament events take place at Origins, GenCon Indy, and Spring Gathering X. Greg Smorey, the official organizer, recently sent out an email with the latest information for these events.
The holidays are right around the corner and we have some great suggestions for you this year for great Axis & Allies gifts.
