@witt

Early 1994…
Playing Risk with a guy I did know but not that good.
So playing Risk… finishing the game. Discussing it… And then… then I said: “Well, yeah, would be nice if Risk had ships to cross the seas.”

And then… then he said: "Well, Axis and Allies got little ships?"

Me: What?
He: You want to see this game? Will get it from my room?
Me: Yes.

And the rest is history…

Please do understand: this was (just) before the Internet started… so it was not easy to find new games. At that moment I did not live in a big city. So…

David,

Let me first say we all really appreciate the time and energy you spend on Axis and Allies and on this very forum.

Still, I ask: when can we expect Part Two of this interview…

@aadudecphdk1981

I am from Netherlands. And yes I can remember the Dutch translation being included in the box.

And it’s there: https://www.axisandallies.org/p/qa-with-axis-allies-zombies-game-designer-scott-van-essen-part-2/
Thanks for posting, David. Nice read!

Very pleased to just read the breaking news:
https://www.axisandallies.org/p/announcing-axis-and-allies-online/

This is very good news. Curious how some of the specific rules turn out (OOL indeed).
And yes, I hope there will be an add-on for AAZ…

But for now: looking forward to this!
Thanks for posting, David!

BTW: Brief article about AAOL at TechRatpor:
https://techraptor.net/content/axis-and-allies-online-announced

@Midnight_Reaper Thanks for the kind words. I spent so much time on that site… But got so much reward from people around the world. The internet was rather new back then. It was so nice having seen it emerging…

On Europe at War: between Axis and Allies Classic and Axis and Allies Europe no new games were released by MB/Hasbro. In that very era, say mid-80s and 2000, we were stuck with this standard Axis and Allies and… ourselves. So that is what we did: scenarios, house rules, map modifications… So many people sent me their own house rules and own scenarios.
I guess most of it can be found through archive.org (great site BTW).

Edit: fix typo

@Slip-Capone ,

Interesting ideas. So we basically got:

(1) North Africa -only map. More campaign based. This can get close to a kind of D-day game.

(2) A bigger map:
(2a) All of Eastern Med: so also battling it out for say Malta, maybe even Cyprus. Allies possibly invading Italy…
(2b) More of Africa: so maybe even including Italian East Africa (and some Vichy France / Free French areas).

Thanks for input!

Just wondering…
The Scott van Essen interview - when will part 2 be posted?

Thrasher used to have a site that was a main hub of internet information on A&A and its variants, back in the day (Thrasher himself (@thrasher1 ) is a user on this site now, but his old site is now only available on the Wayback Machine).

Thanks for the kind words.

Thrasher’s Main site

Thrasher’s A&A Expansions page

Thrasher’s World at War page

Thrasher’s World at War Maps and PBEM page (PBEM - Play By EMail, how they did it online, back in the old days)

A very large .gif of the World at War Third Edition map

Regarding the World at War maps:

I own the Second Edition map. This was the more standard map with black border lines.
Then came the Third Edition map with red border lines. I personally never saw this map. Did any of you?

Regarding the old files on my old site:

This page ( http://web.archive.org/web/20020527112145/http://www.wargamer.com/axisallies/ce/xeno/waw/maps/waw_maps_maps-pbem-help.html ) features two maps.

But I * THINK * that Micheal Roberts created this ‘third edition’ map in the style of the second edition map. As both of these maps look the same and are in the ‘second editon style’. So probably he adjusted the Second Edition map to create this version of the Third Edition map As it * IS * not the real third edition map as that one had red lines…

Anyone around in 1990s/2000s can help us out?

@Panther

Thanks for moving this message/discussion to the right place.
I really did not know where to post it.

As many of us are looking for additional playing pieces (and this message is about playing pieces) I deceided to post it in the Marktplace subofrum.

But thanks again.

Well, yeah… when you are young an Axis and Allies (or Shogun or other Gamemaster game) is actually pretty expensive…

@aadudecphdk1981

Again: I do not know if the ‘supplement’ to the Axis and Allies Europe (original) rules was ever included in print in the box of AAE.

If someone has this document in paper: a photo would be nice

EDIT: Just fixed a typo

@kaleu said in My Axis & Allies collection:

I have a separate ‘Rules Clarifications’ leaflet that was issued some time after the Milton Bradley version itself. It is signed “General M. Bradley, Supeme GameMaster”. I’m not sure how rare it is.

This was included in my Axis and Allies Classic game box.
As for as I know these rules clarifications were NOT included in the Dutch rules.

BTW: Axis and Allies Europe (original one) also had such a document. You can see it here:

https://www.axisandallies.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Axis-Allies-Europe-1999-Update.pdf

I never saw this included in an Axis and Allies Europe (original version) game box. Did any of you?

@imperious-leader

I would surely by an ‘Axis and Allies in Space’ game. And many here I guess.

If you have any ideas for this: please share (if you want).

Also: if someone ever finds a game that can be described as ‘A&A in Outerspace’ please share here.

@aadudecphdk1981

I am from Netherlands. And yes I can remember the Dutch translation being included in the box.

@aadudecphdk1981

I think I can vaguely remember there was a rules translation in German.
But I am not sure.

@imperious-leader said in Axis and Allies MB edition: inquiry form included in the box:

@thrasher1 I got that game, not a fan. It needs to be just like AA…but in SPACE

Would more people be willing to play a kind of Axis and Allies in Space?
Any games that qualify? Apart from the Buck Rogers game I mentioned.

@aadudecphdk1981

Where there any other ‘foreign language’ versions of Axis and Allies?

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/assets/uploads/files/1628780635839-01.jpg

Wow, I did not know this French version existed:

https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/assets/uploads/files/1623432330073-a-amp-a-mbg-fransk.jpg

Regarding a Dutch version.

There were Axis and Allies (Classic) games that included a Dutch version of the rule.
But as far as I know the box was the same.
A sticker? Maybe…

Regarding the French/Chinese expansion for ‘Nova Games Axis and Allies’:

My Nova Games game came with this counter sheet.
No setup though…

See: http://web.archive.org/web/20020104163044/http://www.wargamer.com/axisallies/original/nova/nova_description.html

Image of FR/CH counter sheet: http://web.archive.org/web/20020906125332im_/http://wargamer.com/axisallies/images/nova_aa_counters.gif

EDIT:

Just adding this:

This is from my defunct Axis and Allies website (see link in this very message):

“Nova planned to release a expansion set for the game. This set would introduce France and China to the game (sounds familiar to World at War players!). The counters were produced, but the actual package was never released! This was because MB took over the game. The counter sheet as pictured on this page actually is a never released French/Chinese counter sheet (both having only halve the amount of units the original powers have).”

If anyone every finds a kind of draft (or demo, whatever) for this French/Chinese expansion… please post info here.