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Expansions

Several commercial expansions were released for Axis and Allies. On this page I present some info about these expansions. If you want to review a variant please let me know.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)Xeno Games Expansions

Xeno Games released several A&A expansions. The two most well-known are Europe at War and World at War.

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This company has released 3 expansions for A&A and one for Risk: New World Order, Central Powers, Axis and Allies Accessories and Risk 2042. I have some info about the WWI and WWIII expansions. All four contain plastic playing pieces in the original colors.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)Guild of Blades Expansions

Guild of Blades released several A&A expansions. The War to End All Wars deals about WWI in Europe and the the rest of the world. This package comes with a new map and new rules. The game You need two sets of playing pieces to play this one. An expansion for this game - Great War in Africa - was also released. This subpage offers a review, official errata by Guild of Blades and some rules proposals for the WWI game.
Another expansion is called Axis and Allies 1483. It deals about the struggle of several medieval countries. The A&A game system is used for this game. The map is black and white printed on red (!) paper. Two add-ons for this game is released: Asia 1483 and Africa 1483.
The Guild of Blades also released A&A-like games about the Spanish Civil War and about the Falkland War.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)GP A&A expansions

GP has released three A&A expansions. These packages include a rule book and a sheet of counters. The third expansion also included a new map (though the territories on this new map are exactly the same as the ones on the original MB map!)

d1.gif (1040 bytes)Middle East Combat

This expansions deals about a hypothetical conflict in the Middle East in the late 1980s. The packages includes a new map and a new rulebook.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)Dateline: WWII

This expansion is released by Peak Games. It consists of a rules book and a sheet of counters.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)Skips huge A&A map: WWII - the complete game

This expansions was commercially available (datamatic.com/skip/skip_pg1.htm). But now Skip is giving it way for free!! Download the map here (skip_map_final.cdr). You need CorelDraw 8 to print this map.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)World War II in the West (by Eric Grenier)

This Axis and Allies expansion features a hex based map.

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IMP Games has released an expansion about a post-WWII conflict between the Western countries and Communist states: East&West.
At this moment the World War I game The Great War only exists as MapView module.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)Bells of War (SillySpace)

This is an area based WWII game. One to seven players, set in Europe. Strictly speaking this is not an A&A expansion. It is a stand-alone game.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)ConquestGaming Expansions

ConquestGaming released two expansions for Axis and Allies: Operation Barbarossa and Conquest of the Pacific. Both are area based. Operation Barbarossa is a two to four player game it deals about the German attack on the USSR in 1941. Conquest of the Pacific covers the war between the United States and Japan.
Strictly speaking both are not A&A expansions, but stand-alone games.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)A&A: Enemy at the Horizon (BBG)

This expansion features a 12 pages rulebook and 40 new plastic playing pieces. It adds new units - destroyers, commandos and artillery. It also includes new rules for existing units. This is a link to a review by thrasher.

d1.gif (1040 bytes)Ralp Bourkes A&A expansions

Ralph has released several expansions: two sets of cards for use with the game (GeoPolitics and Weather) and Supply Tokens. He also released three new A&A maps: a new 1942 map, a NATO vs. Warsaw Pact map and a 'Barbarossa' map; and one A&A Europe map (Large 1941 Map).

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Stratamax has released two books with new rules. Volume one includes alternate victory conditions and 20 optional rules including paratroopers, Kamikazes, additional technological breakthroughs, etc. Volume two includes some other additional rules that haven't been playtested very well

d1.gif (1040 bytes)Other Expansions

On this page you can find a list of all other A&A expansions.

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