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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 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.
Four of his Axis & Allies games won Origins Awards, including the induction of the original game into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design's Hall of Fame in 1996. [5] Harris has lived extensively in Europe and three years in Iran. [4] He speaks fluent French, is an Army veteran with five years' service, and has been known to pilot an ...
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 is a real-time strategy World War II video game developed by TimeGate Studios and published by Atari for Microsoft Windows. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The game was released on November 2, 2004. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] It is based on the board game series Axis & Allies from Milton Bradley and also on TimeGate's Kohan series .
Operation Gertrud (projected German-Bulgarian-Armenian invasion of Turkey in case it joined the Allies in the beginning of the summer of 1942) [47] Planned Axis partition of Turkey (according to Treaty of Sèvres borders, in order to seizure Axis control of Anatolia) between Bulgaria (East Thrace), Greece (Turkish aegean islands and maybe ...
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 .
A two-player operational/strategic simulation of the Western Front between June and September, 1944, the game simulates the invasion by the Allies of France while it was occupied by the Axis Powers. The title references the Normandy Landings in France on 6 June 1944, but the game covers the entire campaign to liberate France in World War II ...