Axis & Allies Download (2004 Strategy Game) While the classic Avalon Hill board game 'Axis & Allies' has enjoyed a number of computer game conversions throughout the years, this 2004 version from Kohan developer TimeGate Studios is the first to translate the World War II turn-based strategy for real-time play.
By Pauline Clay |
It's no secret that TimeGate's Kohan series is one of our favorites. So when we heard that TimeGate has secured the Axis and Allies license (another of our favorite games), we were understandably anxious. We also admit that we were more than a little dubious about the prospects of the game working as an RTS. Luckily, TimeGate's Axis and Allies RTS stands on its own merits as a great strategy game, even if it isn't the same old Avalon Hill game we know and love.
Gamers have three options to choose from here. First up is the game's Campaign mode. There are two campaigns here, one for the Allies (Britain, America, Russia) and one for the Axis (Germany, Japan). The missions are drawn from the War's historical battles and they're pretty faithful in concept if not necessarily in the details. The Custom Battle mode lets you set up random battles with various opponents on a variety of terrains. Finally, the strategic game, called World War II, lets players move and fight in a turn-based format across a map of the world, engaging in real time battles when your armies meet those of your enemy. Multiplayer is limited to custom battles fought on random maps or maps from the campaign.
Rather than building full towns, you'll erect headquarters for the overall Corps and for the four broad types of companies you want to build: infantry, airborne, mechanized, armor. Other buildings, like motor pools and artillery ranges grant access to cooler units and buildings as well as a number of unit-specific technologies you can research.
All buildings in Axis and Allies are designed to be mobile so you can pack them up and move them across the battlefield. In some cases, you'll want them to advance behind your army; in others you'll need to pack up your various buildings and move them back out of the enemy's reach. It makes for a very fluid game when you have mobile base. It can be a huge pain in the ass to have to move everything around like this but using the feature is more a choice than a requirement.
If you do choose to move your HQs, you should remember that each Corps HQ generates a zone of supply within which damaged friendly units are automatically reinforced. This zone can be extended by building additional ammo and oil depots. (Captured cities also provide supply.) A long chain of depots allows you to reach deep into enemy territory while still being able to enjoy the benefits of constant reinforcements. This supply chain also makes a tempting target of your enemy. Once an assaulting army is split from its supply chain, it loses a significant advantage on the attack. Since units gain experience through battle, you'll want to keep your veterans alive as long as possible.
In order to be resupplied, each of the companies in the game has to be attached to a specific headquarters of the appropriate type. An armor HQ can support four separate companies, for instance, while an infantry HQ can support five companies of nine units each. Once built, units are conveniently attached to the HQ where they were created but you can detach or reattach units as you wish. Neatest of all, each HQ has a historical badge associated with it that's also present on the unit itself. In all, it's a practical system that helps you organize and lead your armies.
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Though the nine infantrymen in a company are led as a single unit, the company has its own AI to determine how the individual men attack. The same is true of armored and mechanized units. Each HQ building allows access to a button which automatically groups all attached companies together. This means that fourteen or fifteen companies (each composed of up to over a dozen vehicles or up to 40 or 50 infantry) can be led in a handful of groups. Sadly, while there are individual formation controls for each company, there's no overall formation control for groups of formations. There are times when it would be darned useful to be able to put your five infantry companies in a line.
Money, ammunition and oil are the only three resources you'll need to collect in Axis and Allies. Like Kohan, Axis and Allies has an economy focused on unit support, rather than unit purchase. Rather than stockpiling ammunition or oil, you'll have a minute-by-minute surplus or deficit that's either paid out or bought off with money. Money also comes from the ownership of towns and is the only resource you'll stockpile. You'll need buildings to produce the other resources; there are no resource nodes like you'd have in Kohan 2.
It's a good system that allows gamers a freer hand to focus on managing the battles rather than the economy. Since each building produces resources and since the collection is automatic, you won't have to worry about how you're bringing it in. This means you can spend a lot more time worrying about how much you're bringing in and how you're using it. Since you can't stockpile oil or ammunition, you'll need to experiment with your army's composition to get the most out of the resources you generate.
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Description of Axis & Allies
1998, the year Axis & Allies was released on Windows. Made by Meyer Glass Interactive Ltd. and published by Hasbro Interactive Ltd., this strategy game is available for free on this page. Wondershare dr fone full version free download torrent.
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Comments and reviews
Why2021-03-060 point
It's asking for a CD, Please post some instruction on this shit.
StarTrek2020-09-240 point
I love this game, and have it running on WIndows 10..problem is, it cannot save the game. At the end of every round it gives an error saying it was unable to save the game, and if I manually go to Preferences - Load/Save, I get an error when trying to save. Anyone have a fix for that?
khmerbleu2020-09-072 points
To everyone who is having trouble running the game- I have had no problem running this in Windows 10 Pro 64-bit by using the program DAEMON Tools Lite, which is freeware. You are downloading an .iso file, so just mount it on a virtual drive in DAEMON Tools and it will load the program onto the hard drive and when you go to play it just mount the .iso file again. It won't ask for a disk since the .iso file suffices and it also ran, for me, without having to mess with any compatibility settings or screen resolution settings, which I admit was a surprise. Maybe this is helpful?
AtomicA2020-05-160 point
When i try to launch the game, no matter what compatible mode i use, or what setting, i always get the following:
LIB_initvideo: ERROR 0x80004001
Setdisplaymode Failed!
Jeet2020-05-030 point
anyone able to get this running via DosBox on a Mac OS X?
Nooms2020-04-200 point
I got this running on Windows 10 by doing the following.
Right click on the axis & Allies application file.
Go to the compatibility sub tab.
Click 'Run this program in compatibility mode for:' box
On the drop down I used Windows 98 / Windows ME.
Underneath it in the settings section, I ticked 'Run in 640 x 480 screen resolution'
I also ticked 'Diable full-screen optiminsations'
That seemed to work for me.
Onion2020-01-192 points
Game works great for a few weeks, then it opens the myabandonware webpage and says it can't run the game because it can't find the disk. after uninstalling and redownloading the process repeats itself.
TallMo2019-12-242 points
I was able to patch it, but when the game loads the menu buttons are not visible so I can't play it :-(
777charlemagne2019-09-170 point
The best Axis & Allies ever .. until Xeno Games make world at war online.
RexJayden2019-03-20-7 points
The game ran fine once but now it is asking for a disk..I did not get one since I am only using this abandonware version. https://ninsir.netlify.app/mercedes-w211-workshop-manual-download.html. Help, please. Thank you!
Trasd2018-01-231 point
On Windows 10, Windows 98 compatibility mode worked fine on my system.
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install a virtual machine with win98 or 95 on it.
andrew2017-04-021 point
I love theis game but this downloaded version is unplayable you cant see the cursor and you cant see the menu items . if any one knows a fix let me know
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