And when you have done this, all you have to show for your efforts is a very advanced Risk. If you haven't, you'll be confused until you've gone through the game a few dozen times.

If you have played and enjoyed the board game version, you will find this to be an accurate representation. In short, playing Axis & Allies is sitting around waiting interspersed with short periods of being confused about what is going on. With the fast option turned off, you have enough time to eat dinner between your turns. You can wait a good five minutes between turns. The turns of the other nations are slow, even with the fast AI option. The tutorials are quite helpful, but don't go nearly far enough to explain the way combat is resolved. These also contain example moves for each of the five nations. There is a nice series of tutorials included in the game. The biggest problem with Axis & Allies is the learning curve. After this, the units purchased at the start of the turn can be placed. After combat is resolved, an additional movement phase to place units into position for the next turn is allowed. You can then conduct combat by moving units into enemy countries or sending naval units into areas patrolled by enemy ships. However, you can move your infantry, tanks, and aircraft freely through allied territories.Įach turn, you can attempt to develop special weapons and purchase new units. Controlling one nation allows you access only to that nation's armies. One of the main differences is that while there are five nations-Russia, Germany, England, Japan, and the United States-there are only two sides, the eponymous Axis and Allies.

And, where Risk uses simple world domination as its basis, Axis & Allies focuses on World War II.

Virtually any way that the Risk idea could be made more complex, has been done here. That's really where the similarities end. Both are turn-based, and use dice rolls to determine the outcome of combat. The two games are similar in that both use world domination as their basic theme. Axis & Allies is like nothing so much as an extremely advanced and complicated game of Risk.

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