fine whine

Today I played Axis & Allies for the first time. I'd heard of it before but always mentally lumped it in with the hexagonal-mapped scenario stuff that took weeks to properly play, and was a little surprised to see the board that largely reminded me of Risk. There was a bit more to learn and no Roman numerals (but little planes and human beings instead), but I think I got the hang of it. I was lucky to be playing the US of A, and as we had in the actual WWII, I sat around until the Japanese came and hit me in Hawaii. Sure, they took my holdings in China almost immediately, but I'm not sure what I was doing there in the first place. I watched as Russia fell, but with a strong ally in the UK (he was bombing Germany almost from the get-go, and plundering the Fatherland's cash every turn to build more bombers) we eventually drove out the Axis powers and saved the day.

Well, Japan conceded, but after eight hours you'd do the same. I'll play it again, if they'll take me.