Product Description

Roll Across the Battlefield and onto Victory!

Get you and your friends into the all-new Axis & AlliesTM 1939-1945 expansion.

With 60 authentically detailed miniatures, gamers, collectors, and history buffs will be able to do battle in World War II.

Fast-paced and action-packed, this exciting miniatures game will let players recreate historical battles or go head-to-head in competitive warfare that rages across massive 20"x 30" battle maps.

Each Axis & Allies 1939-1945 Booster Pack contains 5 prepainted plastic miniatures with stat cards.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84484 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-22
• Released on: 2008-01-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Cards
• 1 pages

Customer Reviews

A Warning...
I have been a long time collector of Axis and Allies Miniatures and was looking for a less expensive alternative to fill gaps in my collection. 1939-1945 booster packs were NOT the solution, although less expensive the armored fighting vehicles are of a different scale. The tanks, and wheeled vehicles are quite detailed and the frequency of finding what you need are improved, but you can NOT use these miniatures with the minatures from the other expansions. For example a U.S. M4 Sherman from 1939-1945 booster is almost the same size as a German King Tiger from earlier expansion sets. Quite a disappointment, and I hope that Hasbro/Wizards does not continue with this in future expansions.

Great change!
At first I was upset that they changed scale with these newer sets in the Axis and Allies game. I had bought some of the previous packs and the new vehicles are much bigger. However, I discovered that the new vehicles are full 15mm scale. The previous vehicles were smaller than 15mm, though the soldiers were 15mm. Now that I've gotten over the change, I love the new sets. They are much more compatible with other standard 15mm mini games, like "Flames of War" or Two Hour Wargames' "Nuts!". The quality is pretty good for prepainted miniatures. I will be buying a lot of these. Do be advised though that the airplanes are still a smaller scale than 15mm.

Miniatures ok, rules are lame!
The varied sizes of the armored vehicles means that some vehicles fit in just fine with traditional HO scale armor, others are way too tiny alongside another. The infantry are just too small to notice any detail. You need to either read what's on the bottom of the base (not always easy) or keep the card handy to figure out just what infantry figure you have. There are 6mm figures that are easier to differentiate! Lastly, the rules are lame. You want playable rules, try mine (Bloody Tarawa/Bocage) in The Games of War. There are 39 sets of rules covering every period, and all more playable than these!The Games of War: A Treasury of Rules for Battles with Toy Soldiers, Ships and Planes