Memory lane: Those carefree newbie days…


  • Your story made me smile Perry. I remember my first time playing A&A, all my friends except for myself thought the game was to complex and wanted to play Risk.


  • The Russian player gaining a confused look on his face and then asking “Where’s Russia?” was a hilarious moment…  :-o


  • I was eight when I played my first game aganist my dad, who had always beaten me at risk. I had carefully read the rule book, so when we played I was the axis and he was the allies. In risk he had always spread his forces out evenly, which had worked to his advantage, so he attempted the same with the allies, which is a fairly good strategy. I formulated my plan of invading the u.s.s.r. from the west with germany and the east with japan. I conquered Russia in only 4 turns, as well as took most of Africa and with japan I managed to take australia. I easily won an economic victory for the axis. My father had concentrated too much on strategic bombing and had prematurely landed in western europe; which failed. He was both shocked and impressed that I had won.
    I would be knocked a few notches down at my first tournament, though…. :-D

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    @Rakeman:

    The Russian player gaining a confused look on his face and then asking “Where’s Russia?” was a hilarious moment…  :-o

    ROFL, that’s a beauty!!!  :-D :-D :-D


  • i remember one of the first games i played as germany, i took a beating. as it looked like i was going to lose, i moved a transport with two infantry down through suez (as i had taken a large part of africa at least), and proceeded to move to australia over the next few turns and capture it!

    i may have lost germany, but australia became the new fascist capital! (i’m from australia, so there were many lol’s around the board)


  • My first game of A&A was with a college buddy who owned the game.  He hadn’t played it much himself, and I was learning the game from him, so you can imagine the mess we made of the rules.  He took the Axis once, and the Allies once.  In each game, he bought IC’s, then proceeded to capture territories and place them in the newly won areas THE SAME TURN.  Also, when he took over a territory with an IC, he IMMEDIATELY placed all the units he’d bought on it.  We also didn’t know there was supposed to be something called “limited production” at any IC. . .

    Imagine Germany buying 7 tanks and 4 men, storming Karelia, then plunking down all the new hardware in Karelia that very turn.  Yep, our games didn’t last very long  :-P


  • My first game was 23 years ago when I was just 7 and was used to my family punishing me at risk.  Then one night my older brother (15 at the time) and his friends come home with this new game called Axis and Allies and they needed a 5th player so I was conscripted into the red army and thrown to the German tigers in what was to become Russia’s most pathetic moment.  I’m sure Stalin would have had me shot after the first turn, but he was not around so it was left to the Germans to get rid of me which they did in three short and painfull turns.  I was then cast from the room with much laughter from the Axis and grumbles from the Allies.

    I did not play another game of A&A with my brother for 6 years during which time I played with my friends as often as possible awaiting my chance for revenge.  Then one day I challenged him and he actually accepted, 24 hours of playing time over three days later I was victorious.  Since then our games together have always been highly competetive and even ugly, its all worth it though when I beat him even now.


  • @Danger:

    My first game was 23 years ago when I was just 7 and was used to my family punishing me at risk.  Then one night my older brother (15 at the time) and his friends come home with this new game called Axis and Allies and they needed a 5th player so I was conscripted into the red army and thrown to the German tigers in what was to become Russia’s most pathetic moment.  I’m sure Stalin would have had me shot after the first turn, but he was not around so it was left to the Germans to get rid of me which they did in three short and painfull turns.  I was then cast from the room with much laughter from the Axis and grumbles from the Allies.

    I did not play another game of A&A with my brother for 6 years during which time I played with my friends as often as possible awaiting my chance for revenge.  Then one day I challenged him and he actually accepted, 24 hours of playing time over three days later I was victorious.  Since then our games together have always been highly competetive and even ugly, its all worth it though when I beat him even now.

    That is AWESOME!  :-D


  • My first games were also guilty of butchering the rules. Instead of reading the rules carefully, I saw that the battle-board told you the values at which the pieces rolled for hits. What I missed was they were attack values, not defense values! So basically when we played our first games attacking infantry were killed only if you rolled a 1 (defending infantry were if you rolled 2 or less, lol!!). Lets say that after a week I was thinking this game was crap because subs could own battleships and infantry attacking could bitch-slap tanks, planes, anything actually. I then actually read the rules the whole way through and you would have thought that I had just won the lottery, it all made sense after that.


  • That is funny - +1 for the laugh

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