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> but you could spend hours upon hours reading the rules My brothers and I bought Axis & Allies about 25 years ago. We spent a few hours trying to assimilate t
by busyant 5y ago
> but you could spend hours upon hours reading the rules
My brothers and I bought Axis & Allies about 25 years ago. We spent a few hours trying to assimilate the rules.
Then we got bored and did something less mentally taxing.
We concluded that Axis and Allies was supposed to teach you the futility of war.
- vidanay 5y agoYou're thinking of Tic-Tac-Toe. Me and my friends played Axis and Allies for probably close to 500 hours in the 80's (middle & high school)
- roofone 5y agoTic-Tac-Toe? A strange game. A&A and Supremacy were our go-tos.
- vidanay 5y agoIt was an allusion to the movie War Games. Air Superiority was also one of our favorites.
- scarecrowbob 5y agoThat was a hard enough to catch reference that I felt the need to post that I "got" it. I played a lot of A&A in the early 90s, as well as DnD.
- eesmith 5y ago"A strange game" is also an allusion to War Games. WOPR: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"
- vidanay 5y agoWell that's embarrassing.
- wombatpm 5y agoDid you ever complete a game of Supremacy without nukes?
- IIAOPSW 5y agoA&A Supremacy was alright, as was Theater-wide Bio-Chemical Warfare, but Global Thermal Nuclear War was clearly the best.
- senectus1 5y agoI'm trying to convince the wife to let me build a games room "for the kids" but really I miss the old days of Axis and Allies...
- the_af 5y agoThe rules of Axies & Allies are not particularly complex or long.