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.
Box game question
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Thankyou for the forum, very pleased to join.
I am trying to create a hard copy game (similar to A&A) and was casting about for the dimensions of the 2nd ed map board. I found the revised board dimensions (20in x 33in) on the internet very quickly even though I was not looking for that one, but the old board dimensions are not too be found by my meager googling skills, and I no longer have access to an old copy of the game. Can anyone who does still have a copy glance at the back of the box and tell me how big the 2nd ed map is?Thankyou in advance
Do335-Pfeil
aka Paul -
33"X19.5"
hope that helps you out -
Gracias Senor, forever in your debt. :-D