War Room
Axis & Allies creator Larry Harris is returning to WWII with his latest wartime simulation: the imposing, impressive War Room
MAN O’ WAR
Words by Matt Jarvis
Players issue and reveal their unit orders at the same time, simulating the fog of war
“It’s my belief that a game should take you on an adventure, tell you a story,” muses Larry Harris. “It should place you in a situation that you may never experience in real life but would like to.”
Harris knows better than the most the power that gaming has to immerse players. In 1981, he created Axis & Allies, the sweeping World War II wargame that depicts the conflict on a global scale akin to an advanced successor to Risk, with two teams controlling the production and military strategy of the opposing sides over the course of several hours. It went on to sell more than one million copies and spawn a series of sequels examining specific theatres of the war, as well as time zones different from the original’s 1942 start point.