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Axis & Allies: Europe 1940

Game ID: GID0034791
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2010
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Axis & Allies Europe 1940, a deluxe edition of Axis & Allies: Europe, includes neutral countries which can be invaded. There are true neutrals as well as pro-axis and pro-allied neutrals. Mechanized infantry and tactical bombers are included. Mechanized infantry is represented by half-tracks. France (blue) and Italy (brown) have national tokens and dedicated units of their own. The board measures 35 inches wide by 32 inches high (89 x 81 cm).

This game is designed to be joined with Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940 to create a six-player game on a map measuring 70 inches wide by 32 inches high (178 x 81 cm). This variant of the game is described in the Europe 1940 manual as Axis & Allies Global 1940.

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Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940

Description

Axis & Allies Europe 1940, a deluxe edition of Axis & Allies: Europe, includes neutral countries which can be invaded. There are true neutrals as well as pro-axis and pro-allied neutrals. Mechanized infantry and tactical bombers are included. Mechanized infantry is represented by half-tracks. France (blue) and Italy (brown) have national tokens and dedicated units of their own. The board measures 35 inches wide by 32 inches high (89 x 81 cm).

This game is designed to be joined with Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940 to create a six-player game on a map measuring 70 inches wide by 32 inches high (178 x 81 cm). This variant of the game is described in the Europe 1940 manual as Axis & Allies Global 1940.

Integrates with:

Axis & Allies: Pacific 1940

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Video zK8xijLyadU The Discriminating Gamer Top List at 10:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Really enjoy it
  • A lot of fun
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • European theater of World War II
  • Europe, Atlantic, North and South America, Africa
Comparison games
  • Pacific 1940
  • Global game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Strategic Movement — I like the spaces in Russia that Germany has to go through to get there and the Russians desperately trying to trade space for time uh waiting for the Western Allies to come in and save its bacon.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • I really like this game because you got the the the Germans are really strong and tough at the beginning and the allies are scattered and they're weaker.
  • And again, this does an absolute great job with uh supply and managing supply because that was such an important part of the Battle of the Bulge.
  • But I like too combat here's a little different. you have these combat strips you pull out and you roll the dieice and you you kind of put the um dice in the appropriate places on the combat strips.
  • Axis and Allies Guad Canal. Guad Canal is a great primarily navalbased game, although you are taking the islands with with infantry, what have you.
  • Artillery on the islands can fire in the naval battles. It's just a lot of fun.
  • I love the naval focus. Some of my favorite battles are naval battles. I love it when you're bringing in the carriers and the battleships and the cruisers and the subs and the destroyers.
  • But here in the Pacific, you feel like the whole board is being used and and and potentially threatened and an avenue to victory.
  • Axis and Allies Anniversary Edition is awesome.
  • It's got Italy as its own player. This is the first one that introduced uh Italy as its own player. So, it's a sixplayer game.
  • To me, this is the best the definitive edition certainly of kind of a global game.
  • I never go back to the paper money or the regular dice again. I love such a quality life of improvement.
  • If you really enjoy access and allies, you should really look into acquiring uh the the poker chips and the hit dice because they're just fantastic for any game of access and allies.
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Video nREwzfWIfMY The Dice Tower Analysis at 7:30 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • brought me back into the hobby
Cons
  • less nuanced than Axis & Allies Pacific
  • throwing huge amounts of troops at each other
Thematic elements
  • World War II, land war, submarine warfare
  • Europe
Comparison games
  • Axis & Allies Pacific
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Quotes (from this video)
  • This is a pile of mid games as I take a look at board games on boardgamegeek.com, a repository of all things about board games.
  • These are games that don't get talked about as much.
  • it really is a very simple game from Prospero Hall.
  • This is kind of one of those games I wish I had played back in the day.
  • This is one of the best fillers out there where you have a bunch of swimmers out there.
  • I think A Fell is a fine game. I just think it's sort of broken.
  • It's a classic for a reason.
  • what a fantastic party game.
  • Phoenicia Tom Lehmann killed his own game. He eventually came out with Race for the Galaxy, which was a much, much better Phoenicia, which is why this game has kind of disappeared.
  • one of the longest rule books in history.
  • It is so complex.
  • Of all the games I talked about today, I actually I think Lynx City I like Asking for Trouble's a lot, but Lynx City is my favorite.
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