The Cold War scenario shows what can be done with the game editor. These add new scenarios, new balancing, and new challenges that will keep players coming back to fight the computer (and other people) over and over again. Where Iron Blitz really takes off, however, is with its seven new scenarios and its editor. The computer players retain the same strengths and weakness (and strategies) from the original Axis and Allies board game. Iron Blitz adds new units and some new rules to the original game, but it does not significantly change how the original, classic game is played. This process repeats each turn until one of the victory conditions agreed upon at the start of the game have been met (either the conquest of two enemy capitals, or the attainment of a majority of the income-producing territories on the board).

It will then place the new units it built at its factories, and collect its income. It will then move, fight and conduct post-battle moves. Each country, in fixed order, will spend money on weapons research and new units. There are five countries in two alliances (the United States, United Kingdom and USSR are the Allied, and Germany and Japan are the Axis). France has been conquered, Russia has been invaded and Pearl Harbor has been bombed. The classic Axis and Allies (now version 1.33) is a very solid, easy-to-play computer version of the board game. Their attention to detail, ease of operation and knowledge of the fine points that have made Axis and Allies a great board game are evident on every level of play. Bill Levay and the rest of the design team at Hasbro's MicroProse division kept the 'play' in 'player' in mind when they put this project together. 'Finally, a computer game that captures the look, feel, tension and fun of the classic board game it is designed to emulate! Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz Edition is not merely a computer version of the classic Axis and Allies board game it IS the game - and a lot more. says it all about what makes this game a must-have for every wargamer:

The Iron Blitz Edition is THE proper computer version that does justice to the classic board wargame, released years after the disappointing (and very buggy) first release by MicroProse.

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