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.
Good source for more game pieces?
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Hi guys. I’ve been lurkin’ here a long time, soakin’ up all the good info. Figured the time has come to get into the mix, so here’s my first question:
Where can I find more game pieces to purchase? I’d like to be able to get piece sets from all three A&A variants, if possible. My buddies and I have got a plan for an entire room setup kinda like a “war room” straight outta the war movies of old. The idea is to have all three games boards set up permanently, one on each of three 4’ x 8’ sheets of plywood, one on each wall. I’ve seen several pics of other guy’s setups, and our idea seems quite do-able. We’ve gotten everything pretty much the way we like it, but it would really make things more enjoyable if we could have more pcs instead of chips. Is there any source that’ll sell just the pcs, without gameboards and charts and so on? I checked out Avalon Hill’s website, but came up empty handed, so I dropped them an email, but still await a reply. I know I could check out garage sales, flea markets, etc, and have on occassion, but I really don’t want to go the E-bay route.Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, guys.
Rob.
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Check out this post for thrasher’s forum:
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Thanks, Mista Biggs. :D
Rob.
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Try www.gamepart.com
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