Nerd Out With Me reviews a Rare Axis & Allies ORIGINAL board game!!!

That’s awesome!  I have the Nova Games edition.  I arranged a play through once, but it fell through. 
There are a couple notable rules changes:

• Factories have unlimited production - including factories you build or capture.

• There are no chips.  Each player is limited to the components - eg, 20 infantry max!

Combat was a little different, but I forget how exactly.  I’d really like to play it sometime - if only just the once.

Great throwback!  Now I want to dig out my Nova edition and read the rules again!!

Nova Edition… no 3D pieces… cardboard chits… we left 70s wargaming for a reason people!

Far out! I won a nice copy of the Nova edition at a game convention in an auction for $30 a few years back. Like dude said, I am more stoked to have it in my AA collection than to actually ever play it.

Nova games has a flaw. USA can build a factory in China and produce enough units to break the game.

@Imperious:

Nova games has a flaw. USA can build a factory in China and produce enough units to break the game.

I think that was a problem in Classic A&A, but I can’t recall if the territory income was a limit in classic.

It was not limited in nova, those Chinese areas were USA green and the rules say in your “original territory” you can build a factory

My memory could be wrong…

But I seem to recall that the problem with the Nova games version was a turn order issue.  The allies all went at once and could attack at once.  giving a significant imbalance.

And it was first edition axis and allies that had the unlimited chinese factory, which wasn’t corrected until 2nd edition.

No that’s not true at all. I played it many times. Larry never did that style of turn order

@Gargantua:

My memory could be wrong…Â

But I seem to recall that the problem with the Nova games version was a turn order issue.  The allies all went at once and could attack at once.  giving a significant imbalance.

I think you’re confusing turn order with the Commander-in-Chief rule, which was in 1st Edition classic (and removed in 2nd edition)…

There was a rule for placing all the Allied units in a zone under a commander in chief, which allowed them to move and attack as one… it was meant to be sorta like a D-Day setup, but it was a game breaker and removed in 2nd Edition Classic.

I still live in the 80s… I never left.

Ahh yes, the CIC rule is what I meant.  Thanks for clarifying.

Nice, thanks for sharing!