Axis and Allies board game survey

Question

1. Did somebody teach you how to play Axis and Allies, or did you have to teach yourself.

2. Describe your most unusual Axis and Allies Expierience. Did something happen in the game that almost never happens.

I had to teach myself how to play because I couldnt find anyone who knew how to play or who were patient enough to teach.

And my strangest Axis and Allies game expierience would have to be when the Soviet player was able to defeat Germany by themselves. This happened as a result of the American Player being taken over by Japan. So the strange thing was that the Soviet Union ended up performing an intercontinental invasion and Liberate washington D.C.

Answer 1

1. a friend showed me how to play it

2. as far as "Did something happen in the game that almost never happens", i finally won for once in many many plays!!

of course it's the same friend who always beats me

Answer 2

I first saw Axis and Allies while on a trip and showed it my parents as something that interested me.  That was in 1987.  That Christmas it was under the tree.  It sort of overwhelmed me, I had all of these pieces that you had to punch out just to get ready to play and then setting up the board took what seemed like forever.  The only person I knew who wanted to play such a game was my younger brother, so the next day we started playing,  It took us forever, and I think we had to eat supper before we finished playing it.  I have been a player ever since and have bought the new version even though I still have the old one.  After my neighbors found out that I had the game they would often borrow it from me.  Then I went to college and Axis and Allies came with me.  At New Mexico Tech, it was the only copy on the campus that I knew about.  We would play all weekend long and it turned into a cold war.  Pennies were used in addition the chips and we had to go to the store to buy pennies.  It was insane and awfully boring at the same time.  Eventually they would roll dice and resolve it all.  As a result of that experience, I became an agressive attacker who took many chances to get a quick win.  

One time because of bad rolls and strategy, I was able to get an economic victory with Germany after taking over North America and  controlling all of Africa while keeping Germay free of the commies.  

Answer 3

A little of both--a friend taught me, but it had been so long since he played that we read the book together and figured it out.  

The weirdest experience for me was when someone was sleeping at the wheel for the US (he actually told me he saw it, but didn't think I'd be dumb enough to try it).  I had a pair of infantry in Libya with a battleship and transport, so I invaded East US with two men, a battleship shot, and all the aircraft that could make the trip (two bombers, if I remember right) to go against the two infantry he left there.  It worked out, but losing that battle would have cost me the game.  It wasn't quite the game-winner I thought it would be either--I did win the game, but the 'capital cash' just replaced the aircraft I wasted.  I basically made the US lose a turn and got some control over the Atlantic, so I may have gambled too much to gain too little.

Answer 4

1. my brother taught me the game. but then i read the rule book for myslef and found a bunch of rules he missed like when you take over someones capital you take their money and he told me if you have artilary all of your infantry attack at a two instead of matching them one for one, and i think there were a few more.

2.i've only played it a few times but the last time germany and japan where pounding russia. russia had only 3 territories and the next turn russia would have been gone, i was the allies and i really didn't care because america had the top of africa and took territories away from japan and the united kingdom had territory in germany and parts of japan, so if russia fell the allies were still making more money then the axis.so japan left their back door open and i took the victory cities and won. but russia only had one peice one the board, a submarine. the UK was holding down 2 of russias territories and an american fighter was in moscow.