Its impossible to win with the Allies!
So, tomorrow is "Turkey Day".
Ive been protesting the festivities for years due to its inherent relation to the treatment of this countries original people.
Aside from that, I wouldnt eat anything anyhow, to ensure myself a "positive" Black Friday experience.
One thing I have been doing for years, is playing a board game called "Axis and Allies" with my dad. Weve done this, probably the last 10 years, every year, but last year, when my sister had some company for Thanksgiving, and it messed it all up.
Some times my sis will join, shes usually a good sport about almost anything. My brother would play years ago, but he hasnt played in an extremely long time.
Axis and Allies is basically a board game made in the mid 1980's which simulates WW2 on a global scale in the most basic of terms. That said, it is probably, to this day, one of the greatest board games ever created.
You begin the game taking a side, the Allies, consisting of Russia, USA, and Britain, or the Axis, Japan and Germany. If there is more then 2 players, the third will take a country, and play on that respective persons team. The manual, I believe, suggests with 3 players, that 2 and 3 take Germany and Japan, but we normally will put the two players on the Allies side, with one person taking the whole Axis.
Its amazing that it took us so long to figure it out, but its basically impossible to win with the Allies without incredible dice rolling.
As anyone who has played the game with standard rules knows, the whole game completely hinges on Japan putting a factory on Indochina or Kwangtong on turn 1. If they are allowed to do that, Russia will be destroyed within 5-7 turns, guaranteed.
There is only 1 sure fire way to deal with that, and since my Dad occasionally reads this, to hide the strategy if he doesnt already know, it should suffice to say that any avid players already probably know what Im referring to.
Outside of that strategy, you are pretty much leaving the game up to an uphill battle of lucky rolls.
I dont know if we will play this year, but Im going to be bringing it over just in case.
Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow.
Ive been protesting the festivities for years due to its inherent relation to the treatment of this countries original people.
Aside from that, I wouldnt eat anything anyhow, to ensure myself a "positive" Black Friday experience.
One thing I have been doing for years, is playing a board game called "Axis and Allies" with my dad. Weve done this, probably the last 10 years, every year, but last year, when my sister had some company for Thanksgiving, and it messed it all up.
Some times my sis will join, shes usually a good sport about almost anything. My brother would play years ago, but he hasnt played in an extremely long time.
Axis and Allies is basically a board game made in the mid 1980's which simulates WW2 on a global scale in the most basic of terms. That said, it is probably, to this day, one of the greatest board games ever created.
You begin the game taking a side, the Allies, consisting of Russia, USA, and Britain, or the Axis, Japan and Germany. If there is more then 2 players, the third will take a country, and play on that respective persons team. The manual, I believe, suggests with 3 players, that 2 and 3 take Germany and Japan, but we normally will put the two players on the Allies side, with one person taking the whole Axis.
Its amazing that it took us so long to figure it out, but its basically impossible to win with the Allies without incredible dice rolling.
As anyone who has played the game with standard rules knows, the whole game completely hinges on Japan putting a factory on Indochina or Kwangtong on turn 1. If they are allowed to do that, Russia will be destroyed within 5-7 turns, guaranteed.
There is only 1 sure fire way to deal with that, and since my Dad occasionally reads this, to hide the strategy if he doesnt already know, it should suffice to say that any avid players already probably know what Im referring to.
Outside of that strategy, you are pretty much leaving the game up to an uphill battle of lucky rolls.
I dont know if we will play this year, but Im going to be bringing it over just in case.
Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow.
posted by Lethal_Poison at 10:56 AM
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