Anybody here like playing Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition?

[Castout]

[Axis and Allies the Board game]

I'm thinking to buy it

The prices have gone crazy. Amazon listing it more than 400 dollars.
But some people are selling it in new unopened condition at 300 dollars.
Of course there are people trying to sell it at 500 bucks or even 1,100.

I would like to ask your opinion about the game.
Is it a kids collection game?

I'm 31 years old and does that make the game too simple or uninteresting to me?

My gaming group might be willing to play this as it's a team Vs team game. They love co-op game than purely competitive ones.

My interest on the game is because it's strategic with the map of the world as its playing stage and because it includes in it naval warfare!

And add to the fact I can get the game at about 140 bucks instead the crazy prices selling in most Europe or US or Australia.

In fact I can get 2 copies at that kind of price tag and try to sell one for profit or both.....but shipping the big box is expensive and most local people are not that interested in the game and wouldn't spend much for it largely because we had very little to do with WWII. Didn't even study it during school years that much except from the local perspective and local WWII events.

[Dowly]

$300-400 for a tabletop game? Are you nuts?!

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by Dowly

$300-400 for a tabletop game? Are you nuts?!

Well, it is the most ridiculously large and expensive version of the game that I know of...

I've never played Axis & Allies, so I don't know how much it's worth, but I suppose for that price (Even the lower one) you can get a whole bunch of other very good games.

BTW, what does age have to do with enjoying a game like that?

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Dowly

$300-400 for a tabletop game? Are you nuts?!

yeah but I can get it for a little less than 140 bucks pretty much the price when it first came out.

And that's not the most expensive tabletop game.

There are other more expensive tabletop games.

The most recent is this


I have the non collector edition and it's a GREAT game! It really is. Gameplay is top notch it really is LotR on the table...by the soul I mean.

Older rarer tabletop games may even sell for more!

Originally Posted by Raptor1

BTW, what does age have to do with enjoying a game like that?

Umm for one I no longer cheer at playing monopoly or snakes & ladders
Never played risk but I assume likewise too.
read a comment that it's a kids collection game umm but so far I've seen more older people playing it than teenagers or younger.

Even at the standard price I could get two very good board games with the money . . . so thus my doubt and cautious approach to buying it.
Tempted to buy it and try to sell it on ebay to make bucks but I've seen people selling it for 300 bucks or less and no one's bidding. I must assume at the current crazy prices that Avalon Hill is going to have another reprint. It's just too tempting not to and there's the expensive shipping from here to Europe or US or even just Australia as most who would want the game at that kind of price must not be local.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Dowly

$300-400 for a tabletop game? Are you nuts?!

Jeez. Too much for my tastes.

[Dowly]

You could always try what Raptor1 is writing AAR from, Command Ops: Battles from the Bulge. Think it's 70€ or so, but if it's anything like Highway to the Reich I tried some years back it's pretty cool.

Tho, it's not a tabletop game.

[Raptor1]

If you're looking for a more complicated strategic level board wargame, you could try GMT Games' A World at War, if it's still in print. We ran a game of it a while ago on these very boards and it was quite awesome (It should still be around somewhere too).

[the_tyrant]

Just play the computer game already

[SteamWake]

Holy cow I think I paid like 20 bucks for a copy of A&A many years ago and thought that was alot.

[MH]

Originally Posted by the_tyrant

Just play the computer game already

True.
Try civilization 3 or 4 exellent turn based games for PC.
You can also play them on line or via email or even hot seat with friends.

[raymond6751]

The price of board wargames today is a result of the dwindling supply and the fact that many are out of print.

They have become collectors items. I object to the prices asked for pseudo war games like Risk and Axis and Allies today.

The world is turning away from the physical games and towards the video game 'imaginary' experience.

Personally, I turned away from the video gaming and went back to a genre that made sense to me. I invested some writing time, folks invest some reading time, and it costs nothing.

[nikimcbee]

I have the Guadalcanal one, but I don't have anyone to play with.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I have a university diploma in clinical psychology, and we also needed to do some stuff on psychophysiology and neurology and brain. It's the first time I heared that neurological activity patterns that have not be run before should cause a headache, and brain neurons themselves also cannot feel or cause sensations of pain. Also, neurological "rewiring" does not take place from one instance to the next, but just repeated and repetitive practice, again this is a painless process.

If you have headaches during playing, this can have many origins, from stress, over your body'S position while sitting (especially neck and back), to bloodpressure, environmental factors (light, bad air, noise), and other things like that. Headaches are mostly caused by sensory input by the nervous system being interpreted as "pain" in the brain, or the blood vessels in the brain changing their volume and swelling, increasing brainvolume and implying pressure on the whole thing (making pressure sensors ringing the - painful - alarm bell). Swelling brains also are likely to influence your cognitive functions and the activity of the effected brain areas sooner or later. Brain neurons have no pain or pressure sensors, that'S why during brain surgery you get an anestesia for cutting through thre skin, flesh and bone, but not the brain matter itself - certain types of brain surgeries even are done with the patient being conscious, he does not feel the cutting of neurons, but must report any change in his general body perceptions or cognitive functions.

Find some less exotic explanation for why you have headaches when playing certain games. Neural re-construction of your brain network are not the cause, I promise you.

Umm I always assumed that way because the headache would diminish after more play though the tensions would not. It's most obvious when playing euro game the first time that put thinking first and foremost. In fact I had only this headache on my first and second time playing Shogun and not other games.
Umm maybe the headache was caused by mental drain or tiredness but the rewiring is definitely there as I found playing to be easier and progressively easier the more I play which is signified by the lack of headache unlike in the first or second game.

And I never said that brain wiring happening from one instance to the next . You missed the point that a board gaming session could last 3-4 or even 6 hours and much of that time is spent on certain certain type of thinking so it is a repetitive process lasting for several hours.

It might not be the brain rewiring that caused the headache perhaps simply mental drain but the brain does indeed form new pathways made evidence by the getting easier to play the same game with much the same tensions. I simply took a liberal conclusion if it was so tiring and a challenge to think evidenced by the slight headache then the brain will rewire itself much like muscle ache. What is surprising is that the challenge and the headache diminishes after every play, most notably after the first play so somehow it does an indication of the brain being more efficient in its thinking processing.

It's similar to the condition of studying something new for extended period of time where the difficulty gets diminish as I become used to reading the book for some pages. No headache in this instance though. But I found it easier to read and understand the book or concept after some time( some substantial minutes put in from 30- 60 minutes).

Heck even just listening to certain type of music or sound could cause activation of certain part of brain. It's easy to stimulate the brain. Mid brain activation is popular here nowadays. The children after being exposed to certain type of sound that's supposed to activate their mid brain could read while being blindfolded, smell colors, see blindfolded, and solve cubic puzzle blindfolded within a very very short time and riding bicycle while being blindfolded.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by raymond6751

The world is turning away from the physical games and towards the video game 'imaginary' experience.

Actually board gaming has never been so popular now at least that's how I perceive it. People are coming back to social gaming than electronic gaming.

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

I have the Guadalcanal one, but I don't have anyone to play with.

Aye I would probably just play the game once or twice too . People just have fewer friends as we get older and older. My best friend is the one from my primary school time. It's just harder for me to make best friends with new people nowadays. People are just more reserved as they get older.

[Skybird]

I put it short, Castout:

Learning does not hurt. Never. Not physically, and not in a transferred sense.

You will not find any neurologist or brain physiologist in support of that theory of yours. Neurons can establish new connections in neural networks, and in side the brain. But it is not as such a simplified process and not to be accompanied by physical sensations. That olyu are sitting at the table for 6-8 hours, has more to do with it. I occasionally needed to sit at a cashdesk for 6 and 8 and 10 hours, years ago. And although I did not learn anything there and my brain slowed down into coma mode - I also had headaches and felt a drain of concentration and focus after some while and could not multiply 2 and 3 for a correct result of 6 at the end of my shift. The headache could be helped by getting a better chair, and moving a bit if situation allowed, and avoiding cold wind touching my neck.

The only way neurons in the brain can produce pain themselves , is infections. Such diseases are rare, but they are from hell. There is for example an infection by amebas, that overcome the blood-brain-barrier and enter the brain, there starting to eat the isolating myelin sheath of neural axons. The reult is a pain as intense that it floods your consciousness - and cannot be avoided at all, becasue this sensation cannot be redcued by tranquilizers and painkillers, no matter which one - the whole chemical and physicological process by which painkillers become effective, is being bypassed. A disease like this must be amongst the most desparte, hopeless things that can happen to humans, or any organsim with higher brains. It's living hell. You are doomed to live through the most intense pain sensations the nedural network can produc e, all time long, and there is no way to tame it. Even when being put into sleep or artificial coma, the pain sensations still are there.

But learning does not destroy the myelin sheat of axons, thankfully.

Myelin sheats help to increase bioelectrical signal speed along the axons by making the electric potential "jump" from one rupture of these sheats to the next, instead of needing to travel through all the axon between two such points.