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.
Which Game to Buy, Pacific or Europe… Please rank
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My son and I have the original World Axis and Allies game (which we love) and we bought the D-Day game which we were disappointed in.  We would like to buy the Pacific game or the Europe game but not sure which one.  Could someone please rate the games from 1-10, with the original game being an 8.  Also if you have time, which of those two (Europe and Pacific) plays closest to the world.
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Original = 8
D-Day =3
Revised = 9
Pacific = 10
Europe = 9
Miniatures = 7 -
I am a vet of Classic, only recently obtaining Revised.
Classic 8
Revised 9Scale of 1-10
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Original = 8
D-Day =4
Revised = 9
Pacific = 7
Europe = 11
Miniatures = -13
Zeno pacific= 5
Zeno europe=6
TSR Europe Aflame=10
Neppa Games ETO= 14
Advanced Axis and Allies second world war=11
Advanced Axis and Allies Europe 1942=13
Advanced Axis and Allies Delux second world war=19
Advanced Axis and Allies War in the Pacific=15
Advanced Axis and Allies World War 1=17
Advanced Axis and Allies Battle of the Bulge=20
Advanced Axis and Allies War in the East= 18 -
A wee bit partial to your proprietary products there IL? LOL
And I love the NEGATIVE 13 for Minatures :-P
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Choo got it! :mrgreen: I gotta call them as i see them. I cant make games that are actually inferior, because thats the whole reason why i made it in the first place… to be better.
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@Imperious:
Choo got it! :mrgreen: I gotta call them as i see them. I cant make games that are actually inferior, because thats the whole reason why i made it in the first place… to be better.
I’ll go with that.
But I’m surprised you ranked Battle of the Bulge above Axis and Allies Deluxe Second World War. Or is this only temporary before you do the new map and any revisions for it?Â
Speaking of your new map layouts. What about oil fields. Will they be designated on the map the same way as originally owned territory markers? Or were you leaning on using the oil drum pieces only as to designate the supplied areas.
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I prefer to play shorter games. Delux SWW takes like 10 hours to finish a 1939 scenario, while Bulge is a quick fun 3-4 hour adventure. However, if you got like 6 people … their is nothing better that playing a long game like that. When delux war in the pacific and war in europe comes out i think they will be in the 25 range to be sure. Another reason why i downgraded it a bit, is the map quality isnt the best i can do anymore, it represents old technique and old philosophy… so in a small way it looks dated when compared to other projects.
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Classic 8
Europe 8
Pacific 6
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