Many a college student (and grad) knows the dangers of Axis and Allies . Only Risk can compare as an easy-to-understand war game that can kill off enormous amounts of time, but even it doesn't come close. For the uninitiated, Axis and Allies is a relatively abstract game that attempts to simulate World War II from 1942 onward. The entire conflict is played out on a sprawling mpa of the world with hundreds of miniature soldiers, airplanes, submarines, tanks, aircraft carriers, and other instruments of war. Though the original computer release of the game was riddled with bugs, this updated Axis and Allies: Iron Blitz Edition finally gets it right. Players act as commander in chief of the United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, Germany, or Japan and can play an entire game according to the rules of the original board game. The Iron Blitz Edition expands game options by letting play begin as early as 1939 and spices up gameplay by adding a few new units (such as the Marine and the Destroyer) a
