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February 22, 2006 - 18:15 Axis & Allies Battle of the Bulge Announced

Submitted by David Jensen
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"Larry Harris, creator of the celebrated Axis & Allies franchise, debuts his first new title in two years with the November release of Axis & Allies Battle of the Bulge. This elaborate, campaign-level board game features over three-hundred individual components, allowing players to recreate Germany’s last major European offensive in monumental detail.

March 23, 2008 - 13:25 Avalon Hill Announces 50th Anniversary Line-Up

Submitted by David Jensen
A&A Boardgame News February 27, 2008 (Renton, Wash.) – Wizards of the Coast is celebrating Avalon Hill’s 50 years of great conquests in strategy gaming with a line-up that has fans excited like never before. Avalon Hill is bringing back two classic titles in DIPLOMACY and ACQUIRE to start off the year, and the season will wrap-up with an Anniversary Edition of AXIS & ALLIES® that every fan will want to have.

January 10, 2008 - 00:24 Axis & Allies Guadalcanal Strategy at Avalon Hill

Submitted by David Jensen
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Avalon Hill has started a series of strategy guides for Axis & Allies Guadalcanal. Part 1 of this series was released a few weeks ago and goes over some of the basic mechanics of the game and some of the obvious options that you have in the game. It's a quick read so take a look and discuss it in the forums.

December 9, 2007 - 15:17 Axis & Allies Guadalcanal FAQ

Submitted by David Jensen
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Shortly after the recent release of Axis & Allies Guadalcanal [Amazon] Avalon Hill published an Gudalcanal FAQ for the game based on questions from the designers and various players, including players from this site. Before the FAQ there were mote articles about the game that were published. First was Developer's Notes Part 2: The Guadalcanal Battle System and the second was Developer's Notes Part 3: The Economy of Guadalcanal.

November 11, 2007 - 22:30 Guadacanal Developer's Notes and Rules Errata

Submitted by David Jensen
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Last week Avalon Hill published two stories by Nate Heiss, a developer of the Axis & Allies Guadalcanal. The first article, Guadalcanal Developer's Notes Part 1, is an introduction of the Guadalcanal game. The second article, Guadalcanal Developer's Notes part 2, goes over the details of the battle box (which we reported about a few weeks earlier). Finally, it is important to at least read the end of both stories because there are rules errata for the game. For your convenience the rules errata is listed below.

October 27, 2007 - 16:41 First Guadalcanal Article at Avalon Hill

Submitted by David Jensen
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Avalon Hill recently published to their website their first article leading up to the upcoming release of Axis & Allies Guadalcanal. The article is titled Guadalcanal Designer's Notes
A Guadalcanal Diary by Larry Harris
. As the intro the the article states the article itself are Larry's designer notes, which are included in Appendix 3 in the Guadalcanal rule book. It's a decent read so check it out. Also available on the AH website are the specs and marketing for Axis & Allies Guadalcanal.

October 27, 2007 - 15:06 Axis & Allies Guadalcanal Preview 3: Combat and the Battle Box

Submitted by David Jensen
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One of the new features of the Axis & Allies Guadalcanal game is the combat system and the battle box. This preview of the upcoming Guadalcanal game will cover how combat is resolved using the battle box. The box comes with the game pre-assembled and ready to use with the 12 dice included with the game. The back of the box (see photo with full story) contains a convenient reference chart with the attack power of each unit of the game.

October 18, 2007 - 10:40 Axis & Allies Guadalcanal Preview 2: Tokens, Markers, and Counters

Submitted by David Jensen
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For today's preview of Axis & Allies Guadalcanal, you
will learn more about the marker and counter pieces that come with the game. The markers included are as follows: 2 island cards, 10 Japanese supply tokens, 10 US supply tokens, 1 first player marker, 2 point counters, 9 airtstrip markers, 6 doubled-sided control markers, 8 Axis advantage tokens, and 8 Allied advantage tokens. Finally, today's preview will also outline the vicotry conditions of the game.

The pictures provided in this article are front and back of the punch out card that contains all of the counters.

October 14, 2007 - 17:45 Axis & Allies Guadalcanal Preview 1: Units

Submitted by David Jensen
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Before the preview, I would like to thank the folks at Avalon Hill and
Wizards for sending a review copy of Axis & Allies Guadacanal.

This first preview will be a series of images of the units included with the game. Future previews will give a peek at the rule book (3-4 pages), the map, and a review of the first few games played. After playing the game only once, I can tell you only that it maintains the spirit of the Axis & Allies WWII games while introducing new game mechanics to keep the game fresh. The box claims that game play is 2-3 hours. My first game took 3.5 hours.

A close-up photo of an Axis & Allies Guadacanal game played on October 14, 2007.

July 22, 2007 - 21:22 More Details for Axis & Allies Guadalcanal

Submitted by David Jensen
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I just received more details and a couple of images from Avalon Hill for the upcoming Axis & Allies Guadalcanal game. One of the images is the complete box design and the other shows a game in progress. This new game will include a new cruiser unit, airstrip construction, supplies, and will involve land, sea, and air battles. Like Battle of the Bulge, it appears that casualties will be chosen randomly but the mechanism in the picture looks differnt than Bulge. Read the rest of the article for more details. Axis & Allies Guadalcanal Game Setup