Just How Old Are We Axis and Allies Players?


  • @koffiekroft:

    Thank you Gamerman, for your kind words. I will try to find people on these forums to play with. I am also quite experienced and I am really looking forward to a good game.  :-)

    I could be that person (to play with).

    Start by looking at the thread just above this one (modules for ABattlemap).  There are short instructions for it and everything.


  • Well I just downloaded the Battlemap etc, but I couldnt find AA50 map. Do you know whether I am missing something. Perhaps we can do a game indeed, I look forward to it.


  • Koffie, I will start PM’g you so we’re not spamming the thread.

    Forgot to tell you, the AA50 module is separate.  I will PM you when I find it.


  • I started playing in 1986 while in the air force,  I lived off base because i had a family.  so friends would come over some weekends and we would play from friday night to sunday night with very little sleep  I just started playing again and love it…… cant believe i didnt play for some 8 years  glad to be back war gaming and dropping the dice, oh ya  I am new to the site and find it very useful


  • I got started back in high school about 8 years ago.  I didn’t start with any of the actual board games but the video game version of the original for the PC.  My uncle lent it to me and I thought it was tons of fun.  After playing it for a couple of months I forgot all about it until about 3 or four years later in college when I was in a game store and saw revised edition on the shelves.  I thought, “holy crap I loved that game!” and bought it right then and there.  I’ve been playing it on and off since then but have really picked up my play since AA50 came out.  Now I play it all the time and have been starting to play AAP40 alot too.  Can’t wait to play it combined with AAE40!  My friends and I have been joking about making a massive game of A&A by integrating all of the other forms of the game into one giant game.  AAP40 and AAE50 together will deliver just that!  Might toss in the D-Day, Guadalcanal, and Battle of the Bulge games to make it as epic as possible.

  • '10

    Guess it was 1984 when I started playing this game with my two boys. Wasn’t long till I built a game room in the attic for them (for me to) Then we made a home made AA board on a 4x8 sheet of plywood. Shortly after that I picked another copy of the game so that we could have extra units. We did not need chips with such a big board. I played some different versions through the years including the computer versions. When the AA50 version came out then I really got interested again. It is amazing that after all these years there will be a decent size board to play this game on. (AAP1940 + AAE 1940) As to my age, well when I was born the DEAD SEA was only sick. Fishmoto


  • My first game was on Thanksgiving 2009 actually.  A friend brought it over and I watched half a game and demanded to be part of the next one.  Ever since then I’ve been hooked and have bought AA42, AAP40 and AA Revised.  What an awesome game!


  • Been playing since 2006…haven’t looked back, even got into a lot of the mini’s games.


  • i played my first game earlier  this year, at the age of 12 years old. It was axis and allies D-day

  • TripleA '12

    Good demographic we got going here. Any chance this topic could be stickied?

  • '12

    I had just turned 14 (1981), first year in high school.  There was a dungeons and dragons club, many of the guys played other board games.  Our city is too small to have a proper games store so we would travel to the next city over which was 3 times the size.  An office supply store had a games store in the basement and the old dental offices upstairs had been turned into a ‘games club’ where you could sign out various games.  Our Friday nights consisted of car pooling to the next city, spending our money in the basement then going upstairs to play games.  15-25 kids would be there every friday night, diplomacy in that environment was great lots of new kids, you didn’t always want to back stab your buddy whose mother happened to be the one taking you all home!  Somebody introduced us to the original Nova version, paper map, cardboard pieces with the atom bomb as a tech!  After just 1-2 games I was hooked and purchased the game.  Flipper and I must have played 100 times!  Dang I wish I still had that version!


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    My Dad, a World War 2 veteran, is now 87 and he still plays Axis & Allies with my brother(63) and I (53).  We all started back in the 1960’s (when I was a little kid) playing RISK, and then in the early 1980’s started playing the original A&A.  I must say,…the 1940-Global version is a MUCH IMPROVED game, even though it still has some flaws.

    By the way, that’s a pic of my Dad on the left just before his outpost was overan in the Battle of the Bulge.  He’s a BIG man.  I’m about 6’-4" and I’m the shortest in my family.  He’s got a ton of fascinating stories,…Wow!

    “Tall Paul”


  • Great anecdotes and stories - keep 'em coming, guys!

  • '16 '15 '10

    My first time playing A&A was Classic (or 3rd edition).  I was 14.  One of my youth group leaders was a major A&A geek, and he organized a late night game.  He had worked us up to the task via Risk and then Castle Risk–now it was time for the big whammy.  I was Russia, and I somehow lucked out in my first game and demolished Germany.  This new game was awesome; it was like chess and poker rolled into one game!  I was having so much fun I forgot to call my parents and tell them where i was, and they were furious when I got back home.

    Our group of friends played occasionally for a few years, but then I forgot about it when I went away to college.  I discovered the GTO Revised version about 3 years ago, and was instantly hooked :-P


  • Chess and poker combined - exactly.

    And with one more element - cool plastic army men, planes, and boats!!

    The enjoyment of intellectual stimulation and unpredictability all rolled into one package.  No wonder I’ve been hooked.


  • 1985 in collage, Oklahoma State. The 6th floor of the student union Bldg went to find D&D players and found them there, and some other games as well I’ve been playing ever since then. I’ve lived in 4 other states during that time and have found players everywhere I have been. I’m 49 yrs young

  • TripleA

    I think I was 13 or fourteen when I first played. I am now 18 and I still love it.


  • This is an intresting thread and seems to be the right place for everyones anecdotal orgin story.  :-D
    So heres mine:
        I started playing Axis&Allies at age 11, few years after my father died in 1994. He was a big history buff and my fascination for history came from wandering around his house and looking at all the pictures in his book collection. The one book I remember most was a big red glossy book that had WORLD WAR II written on the front of it in big gold print. After he passed I kept the book and I would casually flip through its big pages whenever I got bored, occasionally stoping to read what the pictures were about. While on a day trip to a mall a few towns away I looked in the window of what looked like a toy store (turned out to be a wizards of the coast store) and saw this big huge box with art on it that looked like it had come from starit from my big red WW2 book called Axis&Allies(old gamemaster version). I went in and stared at it for hours looking over the box art and the pictures on the back. I was, however, from a working class family and knew that my mother wouldnt (or correctly couldnt) buy it for me. So when we got home a checked how much money was in the ol’ piggy bank and bent myself towards buying that game. A few weeks later after saving every penny and mowing every neighbors lawn I returned and bought the game. Im 26 now and since then I have bought and played every single version of this game that has come out, much to my freinds annoyance.  :-D
        On another note, to all the older players of Axis&Allies, do you have trouble finding players equal to your level and experiance? In my small part of the world(Connecticut) I havent met other players who are as fimilar with the game and its rules and mechanicas as I am. I think having the perspective to look back at the game as a whole, through its many incarnations, gives us a unique perspective on it and perhapse a more in-depth understanding of the game itself. I wonder if we havent completely alienated ourselves from the new players to this game who dont have the background we do in A&A. I’m bring this up because in my small town there was one ONE other player who was my equal and who it was actually fun to play against. When he beat me I knew it was from a superior understanding of the game and its mechanics unlike when I lose to other new players who, in all cases, just got better dice rolls. It cheapins the win in my eyes and makes it a lot less fun to play. Just my idle musings on a slow day at work, that and it has been just over a year since my friend (my gaming equal I mentioned before) met with his tragic accident leaving him crippled and blind. It makes me look at how I got into this hobby, looking for some escapism in the wake of a tragedy, to where it is now, my playing having largely dropped off in the wake of another tragedy. something to think about I guess  :wink:


  • Enjoyed your story, Clyde.  Have you looked into playing by forum on this website?  You will find many experienced and formidable opponents who can provide you with many good times playing different versions of A&A.

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