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.
Shortest game
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hey haven’t posted in a while.I was just wondering what he shortest game you guys have played
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Shortest game ever was when germany tried to take Karelia 1st turn, but lost all their firepower(planes, tanks), and thus were unable to proceed since they were repelled and had no chance of ever doing a good game.
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I took this one guy out in two rounds.
Needless to say he made a FATAL mistake.
I was the Axis
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I remember once we were playing with Paratroopers. Germany took Russia first turn, and Britain 3rd turn. Very fun game.
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I was able to take Russia on turn 2 because of some lucky rolling. because he paniced, i took britain with the baltic tranny turn 3, and then had a mediteranian force take usa when he sqandered the us navy in a failed attack on britain.
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Shortest Game I read about on the net.
In a online community playing with bidding rules where you bid actual pieces, germany where offered 2 transports in the baltic. Game over in germanys turn, with england invaded and allies resigning.
Jondifool
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@jondifool:
Shortest Game I read about on the net.
In a online community playing with bidding rules where you bid actual pieces, germany where offered 2 transports in the baltic. Game over in germanys turn, with england invaded and allies resigning.
Jondifool
Many, many years ago I performed this same feat without additional transports. I don’t think it was even a rule back then.
It was a tournament game with double elimination, where you had to play once as Axis and once as Allies. I’d already lost my Allied game, so knowing the Axis are less likely to win, I took a chance on a very unorthodox move. I had another game (Warhammer 40K) scheduled for later that day, so I was going to either win fast of lose fast.
So here is what I did…
I took 1 chance at technology, got Heavy Bombers, and sent everything afloat, and that could reach England by air into the attack. My rolls continued to be stunningly good, and my opponent’s were horrid. I took England with a single infantry, but I owned the sea zone, so no reinforcements were possible. He resigned before the 2nd turn was over, and was not too happy about it.
I later figured out the odds of success in this attack at around 2%, with anything but complete success pretty much ensuring a very quick Axis defeat. In our local gaming club it’s a near-legendary accomplishment.
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I remember reading how someone did the HB takeover of GBR on Ger 1 at another site a few years ago.
They spent $30 on tech and got the HB and another tech.
Tech wise, LRA also helps, LRA + HB will give Germany about a 50+% chance of taking over GBR. If you start spending that much on tech from the get-go…
I think that was why tournament rules apply tech gains at the end of your turn rather than the beginning.
The odds of winning without either tech dropped to <10%.
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No bid means you got to have the dice roll your way.