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.
Killer game start by UK
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I’ve played for the first time A&A 1 month ago, and since ,we’ve been playing 2-3 times a week (on game board), we are recruiting new player each week… Whatever (this intro was simply to state that I’m not a vet, thats why i play VS newbies (I, and the guy who gots the game, are the best in the gang…)
I had a killer game w/ UK , but how ???
First turn, i did something i could not do VS people who TRULY knows how to play , made my IC on South Africa, sent backups from India.
2 Inf /turn on South Africa (with proper USA help, i managed to keep Africa with no trouble)
I took my Australians off to kick the Japaneese in East Indies (to keep my back eventually on Japs coast), reinforced IndiaThen I built my India IC (3 tanks/turn)
Next, I just blew up Japs on the Asia coast (w/ lucky dices AND the incompetance of the Japs! =) )
Afterward, i made 46 IPC / turn (and more… and more)
This is something i will maybe never do again (people are getting better and better -so i do!), but, to everyone who sees the UK as a poor guy, i did something I’m proud… dont bash me please, sure you did something more impressive than me…
Whatever, that was just a killing game by UK
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But have you rhought out what you would do as Germany or Japan to counter this move?
Any ideas?Keep thinking! New ideas keep a lotta new players and regulars who get in a rut guessing! :)