In 1996, Axis & Allies: Classic was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame. This edition has been retroactively named Axis & Allies: Classic to differentiate it from later revisions.
The game was republished by the Milton Bradley Company in 1984 as part of the Gamemaster Series of board games. Harris partnered with a local Connecticut hobby shop, Citadel Game Store, to publish Axis & Allies in 1981 under the company name of Nova Game Designs, with the name originating from Pat Flory, the owner of the shop. Some of these editions are revised versions of the classic game, while others depict a specific theater, campaign or battle of World War II.Īxis & Allies was designed by Larry Harris under the prototype name 1942 in the late 1970's. More than ten spinoff games have since been produced. Turn rotates among these belligerents, who control armies of playing pieces with which they attempt to capture enemy territories, with results determined by dice rolls. Played on a board depicting a Spring 1942 political map of Earth divided by territories, players take the role of one or more of the five major belligerents of World War II: the Axis powers of Germany and Japan and the Allied powers of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The first version was first published in 1981 and a second edition known colloquially as Axis & Allies: Classic was published in 1984.
Tactics, strategy, economics, teamwork, logisticsĪxis & Allies is a series of World War II strategy board games.
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