For the first time in over two decades, players of the classic World War II military strategy game Axis & Allies will be able to experience a revised edition of their favourite game.
The revised Axis & Allies, created under the direction of Larry Harris, the game's original designer, will feature more detailed game pieces, a beautifully charted, full-colour world map, and updated rules that promise to make play more exciting than ever. First produced in the early 1980s by Milton Bradley, an affiliate of Wizards of the Coast, Axis & Allies is a classic game of war, economics, and strategy.
Victory goes not only to the team that conquers its opponents on the field of battle but also to the individual player who seizes the most enemy territory.
The game begins in spring 1942, as five world powers struggle for supremacy: Germany and Japan are aligned against England, the Soviet Union, and the USA. Players control the military and economic destiny of