TripleA: Axis & Allies For Free

December 21, 2008 3:36 am Sir Haxington Games for Fun, Gaming

Some guys at work started up a game of Axis & Allies. I had never played it before but have heard a lot about it. The game plays about how you’d imagine: you control one (or more) of five nations during World War 2. The basic game is is to attack and defend various territories with pieces representing various military units. Axis & Allies is easy enough to understand, but there are a lot of rules, and it’s not a beginners board game by any stretch of the imagination.

So, I watched the guys at work play and I really wanted to get into a game. However, they played over the course of three days and never finished the game properly. Part of the reason they never finished is because I went off and searched for online versions of the game, and ran across “TripleA“, an open source, video game version of Axis & Allies. It’s free, and it’s an exact replica of the board game version. They were hooked.

All the rules are the same as far as I can tell. You can play across a network or online. You can even play against “Easy AI” (the AI plays pretty well though) if you want to practice on your own. There is no sound (just like the board game!) which is fine by me. I usually listen to music when I play the game anyway. TripleA comes with many different rule sets ad boards as well, including the newly released version (revised), the “classic” board, and about 15 others. I imagine if you wanted to, you could probably create your own board and rules as well.

They creators did an amazing job reproducing the feel of the board game, including all the various rules, graphics of the pieces and so on. Now, I’m off to find a open source version of “The Tallisman,” one of the best boardgames of all time.

Anyway, in case you missed it, you can find TripleA here.