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.
Duration of the game
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hi everybody,
i wonder why every time we play this game we’re never finished after 10 hours of gameplay…
so, how long do your ‘normal’ games last?or is this just because we’re dutch…? :wink:
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Games can be over by the end of round 3 or they can last up to 40 rounds. How long that takes depends on how fast you play. The longest game I have played was 34 rounds.
SS
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my Cousin and I are better then average at the game and we played two guy from my college that ALSO were better then average and our game went 37 rounds when the Axis finally won. we played the whole game over the course of Fall break and it spanned 4 days (we werent playing the whole time obviously) but total game time was easily 15+ hours.
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my Cousin and I are better then average at the game and we played two guy from my college that ALSO were better then average and our game went 37 rounds when the Axis finally won.Â
Did the axis finally take washington dc?? The game was probably over 25 rounds prior to that. We are talking classic edition aren’t we?
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Long duration game cases can call for stalemate breaking… often in the form of tech dice.
But just to get a little more out of the dice, I would want to have some (3+) bombers before starting… -
@Scarface:
my Cousin and I are better then average at the game and we played two guy from my college that ALSO were better then average and our game went 37 rounds when the Axis finally won.Â
Did the axis finally take washington dc?? The game was probably over 25 rounds prior to that. We are talking classic edition aren’t we?
yeah, germany took washington. USA held out for 5-6 rounds actually as they had a rediculous amount of infantry (they saw they were going to get invaded and just started building about 7-8 rounds before) and they had heavy bombers and were taking chunks out of my invasion force, so it made it tough.
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It’s because you’re dutch :-P
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@AJGundam:
It’s because you’re dutch :-P
yeah - it’s harder when you’re ESL :-P