Year: 2004
Players: 2–5
Play time: 240min
Min age: 12+
Weight: 3.22
BGG rating: 6.69
BGG rank: #2078
Best with: 2, 5

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Best with 2, 5 players according to player poll data.
BoardGameGeek average rating 6.69 and BGG rank #2078.
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Recommended player counts include 3, 4.

Axis & Allies (2004) aka Axis & Allies Revised Edition is the first Avalon Hill version of the classic light weight war game Axis & Allies. The game simulates the entire scope of World War II. The game is nominally designed for five players, representing the Allies: United States of America, United Kingdom and Russia vs. the Axis: Germany and Japan. However, it is most often played as a two-player game. Axis & Allies features a simple dice-based combat system; a small number of types of naval, air and land units; territory control; and technology research to improve unit capabilities. Major new features of Axis & Allies (2004) include new units (e.g. destroyers, artillery), revised unit capabilities (e.g. armor defend at 3, fighters cost 10 IPCs), directed technology research, and totally new victory conditions (key territories must be controlled to win the game).

Mechanics

Area MovementDice RollingTeam-Based Game

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Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Some necessary text - easily memorized(27 of 37 votes)

Sub-rankings

War Game Rank#580

Videos

Video language

YouTube5

Instructional5

BoardGameGeek9

Review5

Instructional4

External data

Wikidata enrichment: 5 links · 4 facts · latest game data 08/18/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/12/2026.

Facts

Publication date: 1981
Country: USA
Publisher: Avalon Hill
Publisher: Milton Bradley Company

Axis & Allies