For this weeks task, I played a board game called Axis and Allies. I had never played (nor heard) of this game before until this week when a friend told me about it. Myself and 4 of my friends (also in the same course as me) sat down and played this game at about 9pm, and didn't finish until 3am!!!!
In the game, there are 2 teams, the Axis and Allies (duh). There are 2 players on the Axis team, one plays as Germany and the other Japan, and there are 3 players on the Allies team, playing as Russia, United Kingdom and United States. The game is set in and around 1941 where World War 2 is in full swing. The objective of the game is for one team to annihilate the other team, by taking their capitals and killing all of their units. Of course, a country or alliance can surrender as well.
There are a number of units in the game, such as soldiers, tanks, fighter planes, bombers, battleships, anti-aircraft, all of which are available to each country to buy. To buy these units though, you must have money. You get money by controlling areas of the map. At the each of your go/round, you total you receive money based on what you control. Each of these units can only move so certain number of spaces at a time (soldiers can move 1, while tanks can move 2). The game is turn based. Russia goes first, then Germany, then the UK, Japan and finally United States.
When it is your go, you can buy units, try to research new weapons/vechiles, make a combat move (attack an enemy or move in enemy territory), make a non combat move (move into space that is not controlled by your enemy) and finally deploy any new units that you brought at the start of the round. When taking your round, you must follow the above order (i.e. you can't make a non-combat move and then a combat move). Battles are fought by rolling dice. The more units you have in the battle, the more dice you can throw. Each combat unit has a number between 1 and 5 for attack and defense. If you roll a number below that, you take out one of the opponents units.
I played as England and was forced to surrender as it was so late. Never the less, I was at Germany's mercy, and it was only a matter of time before I was defeated. The Axis ended up winning the war, with Russia falling first. This wasn't really a surprise as my friend playing as the Axis had played this game several times before, when us on the allies had never played the game before.
I enjoyed this game. I had never played a board game like it before, and it was interesting to be in control of a country in the war, making tactics to try and defeat our opponents. We all had a good time playing game, having a good laugh throughout.
There is alot of concentration required to play this game I found. You always need to be aware of what your opponents are doing as well as your allies (do they need back-up), while at the time trying to form tactics of your own so that you can defeat your opponents.
I think this game if for people you like strategy games, and also people interested in WW2 will enjoy this game as well.
This game is very immersive. You get sucked into forming tactics and keeping a watchful eye on your opponents.
To win the game, the teams need to work together and form tactics. As a result, there is a high level of social interaction involved in the game
All in all, this is a great game that I recommend you play.
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