My name is Reed and I’m from the Seattle area of Washington State. I’m 59 years old and just bought my first edition of A&A, 1942 2nd ed. I’ve practiced setting the game up a half dozen times and played one game with my son and another player. Great fun already and we are total newbs! Look forward to many games and we might even upgrade to Global40 at some time in the next year if the game sticks with our little group and we can find a few other players. Would love to find fellow players in our area to learn and play with. I’m sure that there are many but finding them is problematic.
My family are big board game people. I grew up playing all the traditional board games and got my kids into them as soon as they were able to play. Two of my favorites were always Stratego and Risk. Many games of two board house rules Risk were fought over as kids! Unfortunately A&A classic came out to late for me to get into as I was just starting to work in the field of heavy mechanics. Then came marriage and kids. Now that I have the time I decided to finally learn this great game.
As Young Grasshopper says: may all your rolls be ones!
Reed

Just got here, didn’t go we’re yet! Still here.

Just got here, didn’t go we’re yet! Still here.

@GEN-MANSTEIN I wish I’d rolled all ones last Sunday!

My son got me last Sunday it was him rolling a lot of ones that game. Well there’s always next time :hand_with_index_and_middle_fingers_crossed:
Reed.

@Chris_Henry I pray I’m wrong!

Well see how this rolls out. My wife talked to some of Her friends on the inside and they say that the A&A franchise is strong and still popular with buyers so let’s hope the profits are such that Hasbro will support the line and not let it whither away. I’ve got my fingers crossed that A&A rolls all ones!
Reed.

I’m not sure that the piggyback theory plays true for the entire company. My wife didn’t know anybody at the company when she went to work there. But you might be right about a lot of the developers and artists I just don’t know. Bottom line is it would seem that WotC didn’t support Avalon Hill group much except to take any profits the group realized and put them into their coffers.

Well not all are fat lazy gamers but it would seem that some are:blush: I have to say that as far as talent goes the folks at WotC that work with the Magic line and other fantasy products are top notch albeit a LOT strange for sure. About Avalon Hill and A&A being a side line that would seem to be the case. I just hope I’m wrong in my speculation and would love to see Hasbro have The Avalon Hill people work some fresh air into the A&A group. But how far can the product go without Larry? The last product was childish and stupid in my opinion, I mean Zombies, REALLY??? By the way it was the “pet” project of the President of WotC. Just tells you how much he was in touch with reality.

My wife was an executive for Hasbro/WotC for years so I have some insight into the working of the organization. I can tell you that this change doesn’t look good for the A&A franchise. Hasbro will only keep the game lines that make them money on a BIG scale. Any game lines they keep will be cheapened, reissued, and beat to death for profit. That’s just Hasbro’s business model. Don’t expect any new developments for Axis and Allies unless you think Axis and Allies and Zombies is a big new game, just expect more of that kind of thing from the people at Hasbro. I just hope I’m wrong and if I am I’ll be the first to admit so.

My name is Reed and I’m from the Seattle area of Washington State. I’m 59 years old and just bought my first edition of A&A, 1942 2nd ed. I’ve practiced setting the game up a half dozen times and played one game with my son and another player. Great fun already and we are total newbs! Look forward to many games and we might even upgrade to Global40 at some time in the next year if the game sticks with our little group and we can find a few other players. Would love to find fellow players in our area to learn and play with. I’m sure that there are many but finding them is problematic.
My family are big board game people. I grew up playing all the traditional board games and got my kids into them as soon as they were able to play. Two of my favorites were always Stratego and Risk. Many games of two board house rules Risk were fought over as kids! Unfortunately A&A classic came out to late for me to get into as I was just starting to work in the field of heavy mechanics. Then came marriage and kids. Now that I have the time I decided to finally learn this great game.
As Young Grasshopper says: may all your rolls be ones!
Reed

Looking for players in Seattle area