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In 2001, Axis & Allies:Europe won the Origins Award for Best Historical Board Game of 2000. [1] Axis & Allies: Europe is set in the spring of 1941 and covers the conflicts between Germany and the Soviet Union, Great Britain (U.K.), and the United States (U.S.) across Europe, the Atlantic, North Africa, and the Middle East. [2]
Axis & Allies was designed by Larry Harris under the prototype name 1942 in the late 1970s. [1] 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.
Axis & Allies: Europe 1940 may be combined with Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940, with some changes in the setup, rules, starting income, and national objectives, to form a single game with a game board roughly 180 centimetres (5.9 ft) by 80 centimetres (2.6 ft) in area.
Axis & Allies was later chosen as one of three board games re-released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Avalon Hill in 2008, with that anniversary version of Axis & Allies featuring board set-up options to start the game in 1941 instead of 1942.
The initial setup of the British, American, ANZAC, Chinese, and Japanese forces for Pacific 1940 half of the combined game is also used for Pacific 1940 itself, so as to consolidate all the setup of the combined game into the Europe 1940 rulebook. New features in Pacific 1940 to the Axis & Allies series are the following:
Axis & Allies Miniatures is a miniature wargaming system including both a rule set and a line of 1/100 scale miniature armor (15 mm figure scale) collectible miniatures. The game is set in the World War II era with units representing individual vehicles and artillery or squads of infantry .
Axis & Allies: Pacific is a strategy board game produced by Hasbro under the Avalon Hill name brand. Released on July 31, 2001 and designed by Larry Harris , the designer of the original Axis & Allies game, Axis & Allies: Pacific allows its players to recreate the Pacific Theater of World War II .
TripleA has been compared to Axis & Allies and also Risk. [3] [6] A Chip.de review called TripleA a "well done copy of Axis&Allies" [7] and ranked it 30 of 238 in their strategy game ranking list. Chip.de named TripleA also among the "Best free 30 strategy games" in 2011. [8]