I own a copy of the game. As with a lot of games, I bought it for the pieces. The troop pieces are disappointing because their plastic isn’t very compatible with A&A: the plastic has a glossy, semi-translucent appearance, and the colour shades don’t work well in my opinion. The British-looking pieces with pith helmets have some usefulness as colonial troops. One unexpected bonus, however, is that the little grey triumphal arches work nicely as markers for A&A victory cities.
History of the World by ZMan Games
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My usual gaming group only plays Axis & Allies once or twice a year so the rest of the time we’re playing other games. The first game we played today was History of the World by Zman. It’s a light-moderate war game with similarities to Risk and Small world. It’s played in 6 Epochs and each Epoch you pick a new civilization card (essentially territories) and a new event card (special abilities or more territories). It supports 6 players but is a lot faster with 4-5. If you ignore AP (analysis paralysis), it plays fairly quickly.
Anybody else played this game?
Dave Jensen, Founder of Axis & Allies .org
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@djensen I’m fairly certain that’s a remake of the original History of the World: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/224/history-world
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@redrum Sounds about right. I’ve never played the original though.
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