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The single player campaign is a series of famous battles. When playing the Allied campaign, you will jump from nation to nation's battles'. One mission that stood out in its difficulty was Operation Overlord, or D-Day. In this famous battle, you will have to take the beach and set up your base of operations before moving inland to overtake the enemy positions. With little room to set up your operations, and the enemy presence overwhelming, the level of challenge in this level was truly enjoyable.

For the most part, though the introduction to each mission is a little bit sparse and the historical significance of each battle seems somewhat diluted.

Unlike a game like Soldiers: Heroes of WWII, where each mission tells a story of how something happened, with a little artistic license, or some of the true simulators of WWII where historical accuracy is paramount, Axis and Allies falls a little bit flat in this regard by being somewhere in between with not quite enough of either to be interesting. While a small blurb is given about the events leading up to the battle, for the most part, each battle feels just like any other battle. The actual management of units and the gameplay is virtually the same as Kohan 2 with things modernized to reflect the WWII era.

Like in Kohan 2 there are three basic building types; building that generate units, buildings where you perform research and allow the creation of better units, and buildings that generate a resource. The buildings you create generate your resources for you, and the units you recruit require a certain amount of resources as upkeep. There are a maximum number of buildings you can create though, and when reaching the cap, you must be careful to manage what you have carefully at the risk of using more than you make.

If you use more resources than you are generating, your monetary income will decrease and can go into a negative creation. Money is what is needed to build any buildings, to research any technologies and to create any units. To generate more money, you will need to create more Division HQs; buildings where you create units. To ensure that you are generating as much money as you can, you will need to build more resource generating buildings.

All buildings generated by the Corp HQ are first created as trucks and can be unpacked to create a fixed location. Likewise, they can be packed back into a truck in case you need to move it to a new location.

Another interesting design decision was the supply flow for troops. Troops in Axis and Allies are not created individually but as a regiment consisting of a group of individual troops or vehicles. As long as there is one troop from that regiment left alive, and the regiment is in supply, the regiment will resupply back to full strength and to a full number of units. This is important because regiments can gain experience and become tougher. To be in supply though, your units must not only be within the bordered area created by your buildings, but they must also be attached to a Division HQ.

Each Division HQ has a certain number of slots and attaching regiments to them simply means clicking an attach button. The regiment will fill an empty slot for that HQ, and will be able to be automatically resupplied if they are within the borders of your area. This can be an interesting point of strategy as when attacking the enemy, if you take out one of their Division HQ's, then units that were attached to that building will no longer be able to regenerate.

However, regiments can be automatically reattached to any available open slots in any Division HQ, including moving Division HQ's that are packed and in truck form. While in practice, this concept seems quite interesting and unique, in practice I never really found that it made much of a difference. Without these unique points, the game would have played virtually identically to Kohan 2 which is perhaps why they were implemented.

However, if this was not implemented, this may have made the game more streamlined. There are quite a variety of regiments, but each falls into either the category of a tank, infantry, or halftrack regiment.

The two games are similar in that both use world domination as their basic theme. Both are turn-based, and use dice rolls to determine the outcome of combat. That's really where the similarities end.

Virtually any way that the Risk idea could be made more complex, has been done here. 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.

Controlling one nation allows you access only to that nation's armies. However, you can move your infantry, tanks, and aircraft freely through allied territories. Each turn, you can attempt to develop special weapons and purchase new units. You can then conduct combat by moving units into enemy countries or sending naval units into areas patrolled by enemy ships.

After combat is resolved, an additional movement phase to place units into position for the next turn is allowed. After this, the units purchased at the start of the turn can be placed. There is a nice series of tutorials included in the game. These also contain example moves for each of the five nations. The tutorials are quite helpful, but don't go nearly far enough to explain the way combat is resolved. The turns of the other nations are slow, even with the fast AI option.

You can wait a good five minutes between turns. With the fast option turned off, you have enough time to eat dinner between your turns. If you have played and enjoyed the board game version, you will find this to be an accurate representation. If you haven't, you'll be confused until you've gone through the game a few dozen times. And when you have done this, all you have to show for your efforts is a very advanced Risk. Enjoyment: Unfortunately, the learning curve keeps this game from being enjoyable for a very long time.

Wargames tend to run on a sliding scale. There are simple kids games like Risk or Stratego on the one hand and complex, cardboard unit-stackers like Squad Leader on the other. And never shall the twain meet. Called a 'bridge' game between mass market simplicity and grognard intricacy, it offers a game of World War II that can be played in only a few hours with a couple of friends.

The game begins in , when the sides were roughly equal, and ends, depending on which victory conditions are chosen, with the capitulation of two opposing capitals.

The CD-ROM version brings the exact rules and gameplay of the boardgame to the computer, with some extra options. A dozen or so rule variants can be toggled on or off prior to a game--things like paratroops in bombers; scorched earth; deploying new naval units in an occupied sea zone. There is also a unit editor, allowing you to adjust the cost, attack, and defense values for any unit, either globally or per side.

The graphics look exactly like the boardgame the more attractive second edition, at least , which is a plus, and they do their job just fine. Installing this without ever owning the orginal CD-ROM may constitute a violation of Hasbro's copyrights and should not be done. Wiki Content. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk 0.