Thats just sad :har: Its okay thought it happens. Thats what I love about the game, its always dynamic. Its not like risk where the set strategy is amass enough troops and control the same exact continents and or chokepoints to keep the opponent from doing the same. Its simple but has enough depth that you can really expand your strategy your way.

Funny enough I actually won one game as Germany by strangling Britain and the US with U-boats. Japan fended off the US while mine and his Land units steamrolled RU and then helped me take Africa and by that time my IPC count was so high I had masses of U-boats surrounding the UK and USA Atlantic Coast. It was awesome to say the least.

Axis and Allies...best board game ever! :yeah:
I even painted the units. They look awesome on the board.

The units are already colored. How did you manage to paint them again?

I need to play another game with my friend. We were going to this weekend but we ended up doing something else. :shifty:

Played a couple of times with some other Silent Hunter team members.

Its great fun - of course it will irk you in details if you're a realism freak, at least the first time you play. But then if you focus on bigger attack forces it starts to make more sense, and being so simple means you can get more people to play :)

The best boardgame? Probably Twilight Imperium :) :) :)

Welcome aboard!
A&A is a great game, never tried the '42 version but I've played the original, the revised remake, and now I own the massive 1940 edition that I believe was a Limited Edition thing and which takes up our entire pool table :huh: .

I like more advanced games, too, such as Hearts of Iron III for the PC, but I still love A&A to death even if it isn't the deepest game out there (it's basically Risk with a money economy and a specter of unit types :03: ).
It's been adapted for online play. I don't remember the web site, but you'll probably find it if you go to Avalonhill.com and browse through the forums. It's on some web site that hosts various board games that have been "ported" into browser games.